Roman Pichler

SEPTEMBER 4, 2018

For advise on when to carry out product backlog grooming, please see my article “ When should Product Backlog Grooming Take Place? ”. An example of the former would be “Find out if users are willing to share personal data as part of the initial registration process” to address a user-interaction risk. Focus on the Sprint Goal.

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The Product Coalition

MAY 27, 2020

And it’s also become the epitome of user-friendliness. usually within the user interface?—?and For example, the code for certain areas of text doesn’t take into consideration the space needed for some languages, meaning more working hours must to go into fixing this. Translatable texts?—?usually

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Usersnap

JUNE 15, 2023

Having a well-thought-out product management process can help you build a high-impact product roadmap, smartly collect customer feedback, know which initiatives or requests to prioritize, get executive buy-ins, etc. Conduct user testing and gather feedback. Monitor market trends and feedback. Questioning them.

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Intercom, Inc.

JANUARY 5, 2023

Delayed orders, faulty services, missing information, you name it – every time a customer reaches out, it tells you something about the friction they’ve experienced. Customer service teams are all too often drowning in angry, repetitive tickets, and yet, we don’t seem to focus enough resources on tackling the reasons behind it.

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The Product Coalition

FEBRUARY 5, 2021

Then she decided to acquire technical skills in web development to get closer to the product development process. In this role, she led a small marketing team and worked with them to develop customer personas to further improve the effectiveness of the organization’s marketing campaigns.

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Userpilot

AUGUST 18, 2020

The choice of user retention tools available to SaaS businesses is completely overwhelming. This blog will explain the types of user retention tools so that you can take control. Well, maybe it’s due a revival – this time as an unofficial mantra for the SaaS sector. The best user retention tools…for you?

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Userpilot

JULY 9, 2021

Product-Led Onboarding by Ramli John and Wes Bush is a new book about how to implement user onboarding for the ultimate customer retention. The Making of Product Managers by Lena Sesardic gives you eight actionable insights from 20 stories of real product managers who broke into product management from different fields.

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Gainsight

NOVEMBER 23, 2020

As the Customer Success function matures, it’s increasingly clear that Customer Success Operations (CS Ops) plays a critical role in driving effectiveness and efficiency just as Sales Ops does for the Sales function. Jeff is the Senior Manager of Customer Success Operations. . Operationalizing Customer Success Journeys.

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Intercom, Inc.

MAY 19, 2022

For the last couple of years, the pandemic has forced organizations to adapt and make changes in how they grow, provide support, and retain customers around the world. With the 2022 Customer Service Quality Benchmark Report , we wanted to look deeper than individual metrics. Declan Ivory , VP of Customer Support at Intercom.

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The Product Guy

APRIL 9, 2019

In my company, we review a living document with our management chain on a quarterly basis to align business direction for the short-term (immediate one to two quarters) to the long-term (two to five years). No formal stakeholder review as this is meant to be the first version that will undergo many iterations and refinements.

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Gainsight

AUGUST 6, 2021

How involved is your Customer Success team in product launches? Customer Success brings a deep understanding of customers’ needs and pain points. Within your organization, customer feedback is likely being funneled across different functions—product, marketing, sales, customer success, etc.

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Userpilot

MARCH 3, 2022

This includes market research (potential employers), understanding product strengths (your value to the customer), iterative development (subsequent drafts), or refining the UI (formatting). Careers in programming are a good springboard as are those in sales, customer service, or marketing.

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Userpilot

SEPTEMBER 8, 2021

Product tours are an essential way to onboard users in your app. Yet, all too often, SaaS businesses see their customers not completing the product tour, or even churning during the onboarding stage. Product tours are a way of showing users the product features they need to learn in order to activate. Let's get into it.

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Userpilot

MAY 1, 2021

Are you just starting to put together a Voice of the Customer (VoC) program? There are a lot of both in-app tools and outside the app methods of collecting user sentiment data to understand what your users really want, we’re going to show you the best practices and which common mistakes to avoid. You’re in the right place.

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Userpilot

JULY 13, 2021

Too often, they are conflated with product tours , leaving the customer confused as to why they are being shown features they don’t need. In this article, we’ve put all our insights from building walkthroughs with thousands of SaaS companies in one place. The best walkthrough software on the market is Userpilot.

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The Product Coalition

JANUARY 5, 2021

A good starting point would be working with the “Manifesto of Agile Software Development,” particularly ensuring that stakeholders understand that adapting to change over following a plan is paramount for the organization’s future success. Proven examples are user story mapping or product roadmap planning workshops. (It

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Department of Product

MARCH 28, 2022

Or how about telling the execs at Microsoft Office that their model of selling physical boxes of Office software is a one way ticket to death by Google Workspace? It is extremely difficult (and probably not advisable) to attempt to stay on top of all trends. It’s impossible for one person to do. And not all trends matter.

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Gainsight

AUGUST 5, 2022

Imagine you are a Customer Success Manager (CSM), and you wonder what the future holds for you. Let’s begin with what makes you unique as a customer success professional. Over the past ten years, the role of Customer Success Manager has evolved and changed as much as the field of SaaS has. Building and using Health scores.

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The Product Coalition

OCTOBER 21, 2019

Here I aim to show how experience, respect for discipline, and an insistence on following good project management practices can go a long way to help to develop successful software projects in spite of many challenges. To be clear, we will not discuss how to start a software development project or which steps you should take to kick it off.

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The Product Guy

AUGUST 30, 2017

The team had been working for almost a year and had a huge amount of code under their belts. We would regularly meet to discuss the features required, what the customers expected. But just because it was a lot of code doesn’t mean it worked. We’d made great code. We were testing our code. How did I get here?

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The Product Coalition

MARCH 11, 2020

Finally, the term Development Team seems to limit the role to technical people, for example, software engineers. Ignoring technical debt: The Development Team is not demanding adequate capacity to tackle technical debt and bugs during the Sprint. Read more on technical debt and Scrum.) Team leads?

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Intercom, Inc.

JANUARY 14, 2021

With a background in computer science and an MBA, he soon realized that understanding the markets and customers is as important as building the products. And so, in 2014, he founded Productboard , a product management system that incorporates customer feedback and insights to help product teams build better products.

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Gainsight

JUNE 18, 2020

Today I’m speaking with Janine Snead , IBM’s Chief Digital Officer, Vice President of Customer Success IBM Cloud and Cognitive Software. IBM has one of the largest product portfolios in the world, and I’m proud of how they’ve found a way to drive customer success across so many business units and products.

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PMLesson's Ace the PM Interview

MARCH 1, 2020

I studied mathematics at UCLA, worked 2 summers as a software engineering intern at a Series E AdTech startup, and advised Metta World Peace (Ron Artest) as the product manager for his social basketball app, Gradelo. Due to the number of applicants, making it past the resume screen may rely on a bit of luck.

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Business of Software Conference

JULY 7, 2021

In this guest post Paul Kenny (founder of Ocean Learning and long time BoS participant and speaker) argues that software and SaaS “proven sales playbooks” are BS. Alex A may have little patience to deal with awkward technical queries, and may be willing to make unrealistic promises to get deals to cross the line.

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UX Studio: Product Management

JULY 14, 2021

As a design thinking consulting firm , we advise on product strategy, lead workshops, and offer customized training to equip your business with the best UX practices. On a call, we will discuss your challenges and motivations to craft a customized solution for your organization. . What if something fails?

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ProductPlan

MARCH 4, 2022

Unfortunately, we can’t advise you on specifics here. The product, customer persona, industry, company size, and other variables of the business interviewing you will all influence the types of tests and data analysis you might use. Product roadmapping software. BS or another technical degree. And the least useful?

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PMLesson's Ace the PM Interview

APRIL 19, 2020

If you have advised any of these people with tasks like product growth, pricing strategy, or market sizing, be sure to note that on your resume! Technical Skills While not always needed, technical skills are very much desired for most PM roles. Many companies have a bias towards PMs coming from a technical background.

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PMLesson's Ace the PM Interview

APRIL 19, 2020

If you have advised any of these people with tasks like product growth, pricing strategy, or market sizing, be sure to note that on your resume! Technical Skills While not always needed, technical skills are very much desired for most PM roles. Many companies have a bias towards PMs coming from a technical background.

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Usersnap

FEBRUARY 19, 2019

The customer finding it could damage your reputation. Negative online feedback is just a finger’s swipe away. It’s nice to have your customers testing the application. Crowdtesting is simply user testing through broader groups of people. Due to this disruption, traditional ways of innovation are insufficient.

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Gainsight

AUGUST 31, 2020

It is a stationary bike system built with a large screen at the front, enabling users to live stream or follow on-demand workouts at home. I liked being that interface between what the company was building and what the customer needs.” Some of you may have heard of the Peloton Cycle. Amy started as a hardware engineer.

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Bain Public

MAY 29, 2020

Due to the constant evolution of the product manager’s role, in the startup world, often people become product managers by default, and they don’t quite understand how to take on this responsibility. This means deciding what features to develop, when to improve them and how to get users involved. Startup founder? Blaise Transit.

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Business of Software Conference

NOVEMBER 26, 2018

Video, Slides, Transcript and Rahul’s blog about this follow… Understanding Customers. One of the themes that emerged over the course of the conference was the importance of understanding the needs of customers and the metrics you can use to better understand and act on their real, rather than stated, needs.

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Mixpanel

MAY 26, 2020

Rohit Gossain: I started off my career in 2010 as a technical analyst working with a product manager. At the time, product analytics software didn’t really exist—we were very much relying on Google Analytics. 2015 was when I saw a distinction emerge between real-time customer data and BI/analytics data. I never trust my gut.

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eG Innovations

JULY 2, 2021

John Worthington (Director – Customer Success, eG Innovations) and Richard Faulkner (Enterprise Solutions Architect, Conversant Group) presented on the topic: “ End-to-End monitoring for your Citrix infrastructures with a single pane of glass “. The concurrent user model works well for organizations with shift patterns, e.g. call centers.

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Userpilot

APRIL 30, 2021

Rather than drain yourself by doing too many things at once, it’s strongly advisable to focus on one channel and find an agency that specializes in that. Look for an agency with expertise in your chosen channel, a solid productized services model, excellent customer service and reasonable prices. Customer service. Broken links.

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Mixpanel

MAY 26, 2020

Rohit Gossain: I started off my career in 2010 as a technical analyst working with a product manager. At the time, product analytics software didn’t really exist—we were very much relying on Google Analytics. 2015 was when I saw a distinction emerge between real-time customer data and BI/analytics data. I never trust my gut.

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