The Product HQ

JUNE 1, 2024

The product management world relies on teams of product people who work in unison toward a central goal. For that reason, each person on the team needs to know exactly what they have to do and how. In the case of someone like a Software product manager, this may prove challenging. Let’s dive right in.

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Alchemer Mobile

NOVEMBER 9, 2022

Product management is a challenging role, no matter what industry you work in. But with great challenges come great opportunities, and most product managers thrive on taking on new tasks and solving difficult problems. Product managers must live and breathe their product. My team is too small.

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Userpilot

NOVEMBER 23, 2023

How is the outcome-based roadmap different from regular roadmaps? Why do product managers need them? That’s what Dave Martin , a product leadership coach, has talked about in his talk at this year’s Product Drive Summit hosted by Userpilot. Dave Martin on how product roadmaps kill outcomes.

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Folding Burritos

DECEMBER 7, 2017

As Product Managers, we perfectly understand the need to generate and use customer feedback. What isn’t so often clear is how to do this on a day-to-day basis, when we’re not as experienced or when we deal with “less than ideal” products and organizations. Understand where it’s coming from.

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Userpilot

APRIL 22, 2024

Product feature analysis is a powerful tool in the SaaS product manager’s arsenal. We cover: Types of product features. TL;DR Product feature analysis involves evaluating product features to understand their impact on user satisfaction and market performance. Improve product road mapping.

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The Product Coalition

AUGUST 3, 2023

How to Achieve Success in Your Product Strategy In today’s rapidly evolving market, having a clear product vision and a well-defined strategy is essential for the success of any tech product. A compelling product vision is a guiding light, providing direction and purpose to the development process.

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Userpilot

JANUARY 16, 2024

From analyzing market trends to churning user needs and technical feasibility into golden product ideas, there are many benefits of ChatGPT for product managers. A potent tool, ChatGPT has proven to be a strategic addition to the product management toolkit, churning out ideas in even the most unlikely scenarios.

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The Product Coalition

OCTOBER 30, 2023

It was another bad start to what seemed like Groundhog Day. “I This was the third conversation we were having about the product, an app that served our own company along with external customers. This was the third conversation we were having about the product, an app that served our own company along with external customers.

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Userpilot

OCTOBER 18, 2022

How can user analysis help you drive product growth and reduce churn? With user analysis, you can derive invaluable insights into user behavior and identify: Roadblocks that impair customer retention. Unmet customers’ needs to inform your product roadmap. What is user analysis?

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Userpilot

APRIL 30, 2024

Marty Cagan is a popular name in the product management world. In many ways, he has shaped how successful products are built and how teams can be organized to work toward excellence. Marty Cagan is a well-known figure in the product management and technology industry. Who is Marty Cagan?

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Roman Pichler

FEBRUARY 2, 2021

Before the advent of agile frameworks like Scrum , a product person—the product manager—would typically carry out the market research, compile a market requirements specification, create a business case, put together product roadmap, write a requirements specification, and then hand it off to a project manager.

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Roman Pichler

JUNE 7, 2022

While common sense suggests that managing a product without the right measurements is not a sensible approach, I’ve seen product teams who did not use any KPIs. Consequently, these teams relied on: Anecdotal feedback : “Customers love our product, they told me so.” 2 Wrong Product KPIs.

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Alchemer Mobile

JULY 13, 2021

Product experience refers to the customer journey that takes place within the product itself, from a person’s first login to their last time using the application. It is a broader, more end-to-end view of user experience, which refers to specific interactions a person has within a product.

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Mind the Product

JUNE 19, 2017

Having a captive audience eager to learn about the product is red meat to me. The only part of it that ever made me cringe was when a question about the product roadmap caught me flat-footed: “Why is this on the roadmap?”. “Oh, It’s been on the roadmap for a while, but I’m not sure we’ll actually get to it…”. “Oh,

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Mironov Consulting

JUNE 25, 2023

Many of my discussions with product leaders (CPOs, VPs and others who manage teams of product folks) are about the substance of product management: portfolios, competing stakeholders, pricing & packaging, tarot cards as a revenue forecasting model.  Last

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Folding Burritos

DECEMBER 7, 2017

As Product Managers, we perfectly understand the need to generate and use customer feedback. What isn’t so often clear is how to do this on a day-to-day basis, when we’re not as experienced or when we deal with “less than ideal” products and organizations. Understand where it’s coming from.

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Roman Pichler

OCTOBER 5, 2021

The Product Backlog is Too Big. A few years ago, I was asked to help a healthcare company with their agile transition and its impact on product management. One of the challenges the agile transition team was concerned about was the choice of the right product backlog tool, which at first seemed odd to me.

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Userpilot

SEPTEMBER 11, 2023

Wondering how to leverage customer analytics benefits to drive customer satisfaction? Customer analytics helps you seamlessly understand customers, predict their needs, and curate your offerings to their wants. TL;DR Customer analytics involves gathering and interpreting customer data for actionable insights.

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Ronke PM

MARCH 26, 2024

These leaders understand that bringing effective products, solutions, and services to market requires consensus building and engaging cross-functional teams in the journey. After all, the partner teams build products, not the product manager alone. Product management is inherently awe-inspiring.

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The Product Coalition

JUNE 9, 2023

If you do things that are purposeful, you’ll eventually be successful.” — Howard Schultz Several years ago, I found myself in a heated discussion about product roadmaps with a client. This exchange unfolded over weak, black coffee in your typical, bland white-walled corporate conference room. Why not, indeed?

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Alchemer Mobile

JULY 16, 2021

While customer acquisition, ratings and reviews, and social proof are the most externally visible success indicators for your brand, customer retention is an integral part of the health of your organization. Customer retention definition. The importance of customer retention. Let’s dive into it.

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The Product Coalition

MARCH 5, 2023

Once you get into a senior product manager role, one of your key responsibilities is to mentor and manage your junior product managers. Not only does this help them develop their skills and expertise, but it also ensures that your team is constantly improving and growing.

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Roman Pichler

FEBRUARY 2, 2021

Before the advent of agile frameworks like Scrum , a product person—the product manager—would typically carry out the market research, compile a market requirements specification, create a business case, put together product roadmap, write a requirements specification, and then hand it off to a project manager.

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Userpilot

OCTOBER 25, 2022

If you’re wondering what strategic product management is, you’ve come to the right place! In the article, we’re looking at the responsibilities of strategic product managers and how they can use data effectively to shape product strategy and deliver delightful experiences to users!

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Roman Pichler

JULY 11, 2016

Manage the Product, not the Team. Focus on your job as the product manager or product owner, and manage the product, not the team. Provide guidance on the product, including its market, value proposition, business goals, and key features. Treat the Team as an Equal Partner.

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Userpilot

AUGUST 21, 2023

In this ultimate list of product manager interview questions, we have tried to simplify the process of hiring great product managers. Product management encompasses the entire SaaS lifecycle from ideation to launch and everything that follows. What to look for in product managers? Leadership.

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Roman Pichler

AUGUST 15, 2023

When that’s the case, a product is usually progressed based on the features requested by the users and stakeholders. This can result in a Frankenstein product, a product that has a horrible value proposition and offers an awful user experience instead of creating real value for the users and the business.

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Roman Pichler

MAY 11, 2021

But the value a product creates is ultimately determined by its users: No product will be successful in the long run if it does not solve a specific user problem, create a tangible benefit, or help the users achieve a specific goal. The strategic work is taken on by another role, the SAFe product manager.

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UserVoice

JULY 31, 2017

The customer onboarding process is a vital stop on the path to customer happiness and product success. In This Article: Why Gather Product Feedback During New Customer Onboarding? 5 Easy Ways To Collect Feedback During Onboarding. The TL; Why Gather Product Feedback During New Customer Onboarding?

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Userpilot

APRIL 6, 2023

Developing and releasing sophisticated products with all the bells and whistles imaginable might seem like a great idea. Overengineered products are difficult to use, filled with bugs, and instead of improving your users’ lives, they make them unnecessarily complicated. But worry not!

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Roman Pichler

JULY 6, 2021

Consequently, your focus shifts from managing a product to looking after the product people on your team and empowering them to do a great job. For instance, you might show the individuals how they can make effective strategic product decisions, create an actionable product roadmap, and effectively use the right KPIs.

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The Product Coalition

JANUARY 12, 2023

And What You Can Do to Avoid Them Disclaimer: I don’t really believe you can ‘teach’ Product Management. You can only experience it, make your own mistakes and share your insights with the community. That’s what I did in 2022 and doing so, I also got to dig into a lot of clients’ products. targeted and user centric.

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Userpilot

OCTOBER 6, 2022

How can you analyze customer behavior in-app to deliver unparalleled in-app experiences? What customer data can you collect to derive valuable insights and improve retention? In this piece, we’ll cover everything you need to know about customer behavior analysis. Read on to unlock product growth opportunities!

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The Product Coalition

DECEMBER 8, 2019

Highly effective Product Managers develop themselves in 5 key areas. Highly effective Product Managers (or what I call Exponential PMs) tend to be strong in all of these areas. This is based on studying, speaking with, and coaching PMs and product leaders. Craft Competence ?? Market Competence ?????

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Usersnap

JANUARY 26, 2022

Building, designing, and improving a SaaS product is a beautiful, never-ending journey. What we’ve witnessed among our customer base is this: companies that continue to optimize their SaaS product tend to grow faster, and sustain their customer base long-term. The Ultimate In-App Feedback Strategy ??

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Product Bookshelf

APRIL 15, 2024

Martin Good Strategy, Bad Strategy by Richard Rumels Product strategy is a set of choices informed by product vision and company objectives. Strategy development requires imagination and creativity ; a good strategy is not the result of detailed analysis. Why is product strategy so hard? Playing to Win by A.G.

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ProductPlan

DECEMBER 1, 2022

There is no shortage of product ideas. Customer feedback, feature requests, and new ideas born from your interpretation of your product strategy—can all be the starting point for your company’s next great opportunity. Specifically, we want to help product teams make better decisions.

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