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Are you Solving Customer Problems or Just Building Features?

ProductPlan

But are you solving for actual customer problems? The danger, however, lies in mistaking new functionality for actually adding meaningful value to the customer experience. Where are product teams getting their feature ideas? Why do product teams become feature factories?

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Algolia’s Sarah Dayan on what sets a staff plus engineer apart

Intercom, Inc.

Sarah Dayan is a staff engineer at Algolia , a “Search-as-a-Service” platform that helps developers build index and search capabilities into their own platforms through an API, and the host of two tech podcasts: Developer Experience and Entre Devs. Then, four years ago, in 2018, she got a job at Algolia as a software engineer.

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How Do You Know You’re Hiring a Good Product Team Member?

ProductPlan

Product leaders don’t often get many chances for hiring product team members. Additions to the product team must ramp up quickly. Here are some ways I vet product management candidates to weed out poor fits and spot the diamonds in the rough. Stage 1: Reviewing the applications. Are they team players?

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10 Reasons Your Product is Hurting Your Sales Team

The Product Coalition

I try to help product and sales teams succeed under the mantra “Easy to Sell, Easy to Renew.” It’s a principle that aligns the interests of product, sales and customers around value, simplicity, and competitive advantage. Your teams will realign and strengthen their partnership as they see the product through each other’s eyes.

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5 Ways Product Teams Can Drive an Exceptional Customer Experience Strategy

ProductPlan

As the Director of User Experience, our team was tightly partnered with our product management counterparts to ensure we had baked-in practices and habits that enabled all of our development teams to deliver an exceptional product experience effortlessly. And our success was evident in the feedback. Pat on back.

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The Product Market Fit Engine | Rahul Vohra, CEO, Superhuman | BoS USA 2018

Business of Software Conference

This will change the way that a lot of people think about product market fit, BS metrics, understanding the needs of the people that really matter. Video, Slides, Transcript and Rahul’s blog about this follow… Understanding Customers. So I’m going to talk about Product-Market Fit. ” Very disappointed.

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Customer Experience author Elizabeth Dixon on the CX that makes an impact

Intercom, Inc.

From the CEO and the management team to the intern fresh out of college, every employee or business owner has unique qualities that position them to bring excellent customer experiences to life. And for Elizabeth Dixon , even the smallest action can cause ripples that turn customers into loyal advocates. Very excited.