The Product Guy

OCTOBER 9, 2018

First, I did not know how to frame, develop and present product strategy in a systematic way, and second, as a startup, my company has not historically had a good track record of strategy being developed outside of senior management (read: founder). Two major obstacles stood in my way.

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Productside

APRIL 2, 2025

When done well, storyboarding helps PMs communicate clearly, align teams faster, and influence decisionswithout needing formal authority. Not because the ideas are bad, but because the delivery misses the mark. PMs are often tasked with aligning stakeholders, guiding engineering teams, and championing the customer.

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Productside

MAY 27, 2025

Productside | Product Management Courses & Training How WellNest Rebooted Product Strategy (eBook Preview) When product teams get stuck in backlog chaos, stakeholder noise, and reactive shipping, its not a process problem. Once again, the company has posted a weak quarter, with lackluster results from its flagship product, BuildNest.

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Userpilot

DECEMBER 18, 2024

Without effective UX analytics that goes beyond collecting data, you’re losing valuable customers. Unfortunately, the research backs this up, with a staggering 90% of users reporting that they stopped using an app due to poor performance. Basically, anything that ruins the user experience.

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Product Innovation Educators

MARCH 3, 2025

How AI captures customer needs that human product managers miss Watch on YouTube TLDR In my recent conversation with Carmel Dibner from Applied Marketing Science, we explored how artificial intelligence is transforming Voice of the Customer (VOC) research for product teams.

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Product Talk

MARCH 1, 2023

I realize that many product people have never worked in a product trio , don’t have access to customers, aren’t given time to test their ideas, and are working in what Marty Cagan calls “features teams” or “delivery teams.” If you missed the first one on product success and team satisfaction , be sure to start there.

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Userpilot

OCTOBER 20, 2024

This is every product manager’s nightmare – an onboarding failure that cripples customer retention. What is customer onboarding? Customer onboarding is the process of welcoming new customers to your product or service and helping them utilize the product and maximize the value of their purchase.

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Intercom, Inc.

DECEMBER 8, 2020

Modern customers expect quick, personal, and effective service. To provide this, you must understand how your customer experience stacks up against these expectations. But with so much data to consider, how can you define the help desk metrics that matter for your team? What are help desk metrics? Help desk metrics vs. KPIs.

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Lenny Rachitsky

MAY 20, 2025

Most of us have had the experience of hearing a friend or colleague vent about their manager’s lack of support, micromanagement, missing product sense, unfair feedback, or some other reltionship problem that is as common as the day is long. If you are a new skip lead or hope to be one soon, this is for you.

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Intercom, Inc.

MAY 31, 2022

CX for Growth is a webinar series hosted by the Startups team at Intercom, a casual, interview-style monthly session featuring special guests and exploring customer experience topics that help to drive growth in your business. How to bake in a process and culture of customer feedback. What did we learn?

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The Product Guy

FEBRUARY 27, 2020

At JCDecaux, I led the development of an information kiosk for airport passengers. Passengers are also able to view hotel information and use the devices to speak to the sales team of the hotel. The kiosks help thousands of customers by providing valuable information and generate a significant portion of the revenue for the company.

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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. 4 Vanity Metrics.

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Alchemer Mobile

JUNE 16, 2022

At the end of the day, many customers feel that providing feedback is simply too cumbersome, too time-consuming, and too difficult. For mobile app customers, providing mobile feedback tends to involve navigating to a difficult-to-find support center or responding to an email buried in their spam inbox.

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Userpilot

APRIL 16, 2025

Your customer information lives in Salesforce, while your support tickets are in Zendesk, your product usage data in Mixpanel, and your marketing campaigns in HubSpot. Data fragmentation prevents you from delivering the cohesive, personalized experiences your customers expect. But that view only reflects web users.

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Userpilot

OCTOBER 31, 2024

Which product feedback software should you choose for your SaaS? In this round-up, I cover 21 of the best product feedback software solutions. In this round-up, I cover 21 of the best product feedback software solutions. The choice is tough because there’s no single tool that covers all use cases. Free trial?

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Intercom, Inc.

JULY 2, 2020

If you can maximize your team’s productivity, you can help more customers at lower costs. And it makes sense: in order to be around to support your customers well into the future, you need a solid foundation for scale. . In her own words , “When you take care of your customers, the revenue comes.”

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Product Talk

JANUARY 17, 2024

The longer they work on their idea, the more invested they become, increasing the likelihood they miss the negative feedback altogether. A lot of these potential users were product managers, which got Kranthi interested in the field of product management and potential use cases for a tool like this. It’s a vicious cycle.

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The Product Guy

JANUARY 7, 2025

The project, intended to improve customer satisfaction and reduce operational costs, was plagued by missed deadlines and escalating budgets. An in-depth review revealed that misaligned goals between IT and customer service teams, coupled with outdated processes, were the primary issues.

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Userpilot

OCTOBER 19, 2024

According to the American Customer Satisfaction Index , with an ACSI score of 78.0, overall customer satisfaction in America was the highest it has ever been in Q1 2024. However, while some companies have managed to improve their customer satisfaction levels and benefit from it, many have not. What is customer satisfaction?

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Roman Pichler

OCTOBER 5, 2021

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. Another time, I was asked to help a team of a major charity in the UK whose task was to create a new website for their fund-raising campaigns. The Product Backlog is Too Big.

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Userpilot

OCTOBER 31, 2024

Product analytics refers to the process of gathering and analyzing data on how users interact with a product. It tracks key metrics such as feature usage , user flows, and behavior patterns to explore user preferences and pain points. Enables teams to track progress toward key performance indicators (KPIs).

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Intercom, Inc.

AUGUST 13, 2019

Automated customer service isn’t a new concept. But much has changed, both in usability and customer perception. Voice recognition technology has improved, AI solutions can interpret customer feedback, and chatbots have started to answer the questions they receive, not just pass them off to a human.

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Roman Pichler

AUGUST 11, 2020

The overall example I use to illustrate the mistakes is a healthy eating app that helps its users improve their eating habits and live more healthily. Examples : “Everyone who owns a smartphone”, “Business users and consumers”. Target Group is (too) Big and Heterogenous. Instead, they require tough strategic decision and clear focus.

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Userpilot

NOVEMBER 7, 2024

Let’s review everything your customer success team has to do in the absence of any customer success tools. Collect customer data to calculate complex formulas for tracking metrics, monitor customer health scores, and resolve support tickets while continuously trying to improve retention and expansion.

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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. Myth #3: The product owner is responsible for the team performance.

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Roman Pichler

FEBRUARY 14, 2023

Listen to the audio version of this article: [link] 1 Complement Scrum with a Product Discovery and Strategy Process Scrum is a simple framework that helps teams develop successful products. Otherwise, you might ask the wrong people for feedback on the increments and hence draw the wrong conclusions. But don’t stop there.

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Userpilot

FEBRUARY 25, 2025

A high bounce rate might seem like lost interest, but what if users left because they couldnt find what they needed? Thats why you need user session analysis. Beyond the numbers: Understand why context matters Raw user behavioral data can be misleading without context. On the surface, it looks like a win.

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DevelopmentCorporate

JUNE 2, 2025

How Companies Are Funding User Research in 2025: Insights from the User Interviews Research Budget Report User Interviews 2025 Research Budget Report is a crucial resource for understanding how modern organizations are approaching the financial side of user research.

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Product Innovation Educators

NOVEMBER 6, 2023

How product managers can use AI to get more actionable insights from qualitative data Today we are talking about using qualitative data to drive our work in product and consequently improve sales. This is a very manual process, so few teams decide to do the work. [4:22] 4:22] What does that manual process typically look like?

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Intercom, Inc.

OCTOBER 12, 2021

As a support leader, you already know how important it is to take care of your customers – but it’s just as important to take care of your support team. Here’s why human support is so crucial for any customer-centric organization, and how it can have a significant impact on your team, your business, and your customers.

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Userpilot

DECEMBER 31, 2024

You get something that truly works for you, and we get to connect with people who value what we offer and have the potential to become power users (and sources of sustainable revenue!). Trying to bring in as many users as possible, only to see most of them lose interest before their free trial is even over. The alternative?

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Alchemer Mobile

AUGUST 2, 2024

Understanding customer experience (CX) isn’t just a strategy—it’s a superpower. Customer experience metrics illuminate the path to customer satisfaction, loyalty, and ultimately, success as an organization. Why should I track customer experience metrics?

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Intercom, Inc.

OCTOBER 13, 2020

We are at the start of a revolution in customer communication, powered by machine learning and artificial intelligence. Our Custom Bots and Resolution Bot already work for thousands of businesses every day. Resolution Bot is a product that automatically answers the repetitive questions faced by customer support teams.

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Usersnap

MARCH 24, 2025

The team spent months building it, yet users dont see its value. It helps teams uncover real user needs, validate assumptions, and reduce development risks before committing time and resources. It is an actual team effort involving all stakeholders to foster diverse expertise and unique perspectives.

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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. 6 ways to improve your product experience.

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Product Talk

DECEMBER 18, 2024

We covered how to manage messy opportunity solution trees , the most common challenges teams face when getting started with the discovery habits, what Im working on next, and so much more. Discovery is a team sport. I did classic web development before there were frameworks back in the ’90s. It is an absolute requirement.

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Userpilot

JUNE 29, 2024

Collecting and using product feedback to influence decisions can lead to a better customer experience (CX). To gather and analyze user feedback, follow the strategies compiled in this blog. We also include tips for closing the conversation in an effective product feedback loop.

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