ProductPlan

JUNE 1, 2023

Added functionality, new capabilities, a more robust feature set…these are the talking points product marketers salivate over and executives search for on product roadmaps. But are you solving for actual customer problems? These all point to internal deficiencies in planning rather than problematic execution.

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Intercom, Inc.

AUGUST 24, 2021

But at these pivotal moments, it’s just as important to prioritize your customer support strategy as it is to plan your product roadmap or your next big marketing campaign. With that in mind, here are three questions to ask when you want your customer support to grow with you – and some best practices to ensure it does.

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Intercom, Inc.

MARCH 18, 2021

In previous episodes, we’ve talked about how customer feedback and cross-team collaboration play a crucial role in the features and updates we build here at Intercom. Or rather, two – conversation topics and custom reports. I mentioned at the start our company values: obsessesing over our customer success. Thomas: Awesome.

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Userpilot

MAY 30, 2023

Whether you work in product management, customer success, or marketing, you need creative survey ideas to collect feedback that’s relevant, honest, and useful for your job. Asking users to rate from 1 to 5 how easy it is to use your product and measure your customer effort score. Let’s go over them.

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Folding Burritos

DECEMBER 7, 2017

As Product Managers, we perfectly understand the need to generate and use customer feedback. This led me to reach out to 14 leading Product Managers and talk with them about how they use customer feedback in their own companies and teams. Feedback is only relevant vs. a goal and user context. Understand where it’s coming from.

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The Product Coalition

MARCH 11, 2020

NAVIGATING THE NATURAL TENSION AMONG STAKEHOLDERS This is the first in a series on product roadmaps. The first post describes why roadmaps matter and who relies upon them. The roadmap is much more than a directive document that tells teams what to do by when. Battleground The product roadmap. These include: Engineering?—?What

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People-First Product Leadership

DECEMBER 20, 2023

Part 3 brings together the Product specific Vision, Roadmap and Goals. Product Vision puts a company’s Vision and Mission into action The Product Vision ensures the Roadmap reflects the priorities which matter the most to the company’s customers and to the company. You’ve met the people.

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Alchemer Mobile

NOVEMBER 9, 2022

Customer expectations shift dramatically depending on device. The more you know about customer usability expectations, the quicker you can make data-driven product decisions. PMs have diverse backgrounds, ambiguous responsibilities, and varied definitions of what their role includes. Become an expert in mobile usability.

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Gainsight

MARCH 22, 2022

Sales and Marketing is to new customer bookings as Product Management and Customer Success (CS) is to the customer experience. Customers that achieve their business outcomes are more likely to continue to renew and expand. Product teams should communicate roadmap and customer updates regularly.

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Folding Burritos

DECEMBER 7, 2017

As Product Managers, we perfectly understand the need to generate and use customer feedback. This led me to reach out to 14 leading Product Managers and talk with them about how they use customer feedback in their own companies and teams. Feedback is only relevant vs. a goal and user context. Understand where it’s coming from.

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Lenny Rachitsky

APRIL 9, 2024

I once defined the job of a product manager as to “ deliver business impact by marshaling the resources of your team to identify and solve the most impactful customer problems. However, customers will still want to talk to real people to share their honest challenges, ideas, and experiences. Tools to explore: Productroadmap.ai

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Mind the Product

APRIL 6, 2020

Our goal was to define how we would set and communicate the company strategy, and how that strategy would lead OKRs and backlog definition. Product (and company) strategy is the backbone that guides product goal-setting and roadmap definition, although it’s sometimes overlooked or confused with having a vision. How will you win?

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Userpilot

JUNE 7, 2022

Product-centric vs customer-centric: which approach do you use for your SaaS business? By understanding the difference between a product-centric and a customer-centric approach, you can create a strategy that’s aligned with your SaaS growth goals. Have a pricing strategy that encourages users to engage with your product.

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ProductPlan

SEPTEMBER 10, 2021

Are your roadmapping habits holding you back? But while breaking a habit isn’t easy, sometimes it’s definitely worth it. Clear’s advice proves useful for product managers to implement his philosophy into their own atomic roadmapping habits. External factors affecting our atomic roadmapping habits.

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Product Innovation Educators

JUNE 12, 2023

Second is setting up the right funnels for access to users. I strongly believe that as a PdM, the biggest value you bring on your team is speaking to users and having a pulse of what your customers need. Planning includes the product vision, strategy, and roadmap. How do you set the vision, strategy, and roadmap?

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ProductPlan

AUGUST 30, 2021

The definition of a concept review is the initial idea for a new product or feature and its implementation. Concepts that get the green light from stakeholders advance to the roadmap for development. 4 Steps to a Prioritized Roadmap. For instance, product managers can identify customer pain points.

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Userpilot

SEPTEMBER 29, 2023

You can do that with innovations like 'fake door tests' Once you know you've got something valuable, you need to test your concept and plan your roadmap so you and your team have a clear strategic plan. Tools like Google Trends and other industry publications can help point you in the right direction.

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ProductPlan

MARCH 7, 2019

One of the few times a product manager really gets to take center stage and show the fruits of their labor is when they’re presenting the product roadmap. Roadmap presentations are the culmination of weeks, months, or possibly years of work. A compelling roadmap can inspire the company and set a positive tone for the future.

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The Product Guy

MAY 7, 2020

Primarily there are 3 major aspects to understanding and performing well as a Product Manager, which are as listed below: Understanding the Role Definition Hard Skills required for the Role Soft Skills required for the Role. Understanding the Role Definition. Definition of PM role.

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Userpilot

JULY 8, 2022

Ever wondered what your users think about your product’s features, UI design, and quality? Product experience insights help you understand how customers feel about your product, and how they react and interact with it. Product experience (PX) is the customer’s overall experience and interaction with the product.

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Intercom, Inc.

AUGUST 18, 2021

There’s a good reason that the seemingly simple Net Promoter Score (NPS) has become a ubiquitous, revered statistic in modern business – this single number is viewed as a measure of customer loyalty, a way to benchmark competitive performance, and has been proven to correlate with revenue growth (hence the popularity).

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Sachin Rekhi

FEBRUARY 16, 2020

Sometimes these visions of the future are also shared with existing and potential customers to help portray your company's ambitions. As you progress, you'll refine or pivot each of them as you get direct customer and market feedback on what's working or what's not. Design: Customer Discovery Insights.

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ProductPlan

FEBRUARY 8, 2022

Product management owns the product roadmap, and their most important stakeholder is the product’s users/customers. The bread and butter product management tasks are prioritizing , evolving product strategy , and managing the product roadmap. How does the use of the product solve their pain point?

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Usersnap

OCTOBER 31, 2023

I → Identify the Customer R → Report the customer’s needs C → Cut, through prioritization L → List solutions E → Evaluate tradeoffs S → Summarize recommendation Let’s decode these steps in detail in the following section. – Increase engagement Is there any specific geography to be targeted?

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People-First Product Leadership

MARCH 10, 2024

Subscribe now What is product sense At a high level, product sense is understanding what makes for a high-quality product for your customers (empathy) and having strong, validated opinions about what solutions will be successful (creativity). What features should be prioritized in a new product to effectively solve key user pain points?

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Alchemer Mobile

OCTOBER 9, 2018

Customer experience strategies shouldn’t be created in a vacuum, but it’s hard to know how to create a CX strategy that exceeds customers’ expectations without first understanding them. We hosted a CX-focused panel at this year’s Customer Love Summit. How do you gather customer feedback today? Christy: Yeah.

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Userpilot

NOVEMBER 21, 2023

If so, you should definitely watch the talk that Jason Knight , a product consultant and advisor, gave at this year’s Product Drive hosted by Userpilot. Allocating time for a specific research stage is often a no-go for leadership, so make the habit of interviewing customers continuously. Do the same sideways, across departments.

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Usersnap

JULY 27, 2020

Tracking feature requests from customers is a blessing, and also a nightmare for Product Managers. You want to know the needs and new ideas from your customers. We at Usersnap believe the voice of customers should be the driver of product development. allows you to track customer requests timely in a streamlined fashion.

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The Product Coalition

NOVEMBER 1, 2020

A powerful experiment roadmap with a large idea backlog prioritized for value. A powerful experiment roadmap with a large idea backlog prioritized for value. It is otherwise very easy to fall into a trap of coming up with ideas that are based on personal preferences and likely not relevant to our customers. Test everything!

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The Product Coalition

FEBRUARY 8, 2021

I am certain that you found enough textbook definitions out there. They create new recipes based on customer feedback, past experiences, and iterative testing. And most importantly they make sure that scrumptious dishes are being served to the customer as quickly as possible. So, let me instead take an analogy.

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The Product Coalition

DECEMBER 21, 2018

The Customer is NOT Always Right A transcript of my talk at SaaS North, Ottawa, 2018 Hi everyone, I’m Hannah Chaplin, the CEO at Receptive. In all the years I’ve been involved in producing software and SaaS products, customer feedback is still a really hot topic and one on which you still see lot of conflicting advice?

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Product Talk

APRIL 21, 2021

Design with your customers, design with your constituents, not for them. Why are we continuously engaging with our customers? Why are we continuously engaging with our customers? He said, “If I had asked customers what they wanted, they would’ve said faster horse.” Tweet This. Did we get it right?

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The Product Cafe

MARCH 24, 2024

As companies grow, the clarity of their messaging often fades, leading to confusion among potential customers about the product's offerings and its relevance to their needs. However, several common pitfalls can disrupt this harmony, leading to messages that fail to engage or confuse potential customers.

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Intercom, Inc.

DECEMBER 16, 2020

They weren’t excited about the deals we closed or the customers who were singing our praises. Our customers are getting more value out of Intercom, and our product team is getting more value out of those customer conversations, so they know exactly what to prioritize and what to build next.”. Focus on the customer.

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Gainsight

SEPTEMBER 20, 2019

We recently had the opportunity to join Gainsight for a webinar about Finding Friction in Your User Journey and How to Fix It. One of the key aspects of fixing user friction is understanding how to prioritize that work along with things like new feature development. And by how much ? And by how much? Not at all!

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The Product Cafe

NOVEMBER 23, 2022

Here are four ways you can focus on delivering products that yield value to your customers: 1. Understanding the “a” to “z” of your customer’s problems Product Managers are the ones to decide which feature to build while developers are the ones who know how to build it. Credit: [link] 4.

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Product Talk

SEPTEMBER 6, 2023

I think that’s definitely an important contribution. We like it when podcast hosts do that, so that’s what I will be doing first because definitions are key. It’s just, how do we make better decisions about what to build, and include the customer in the process? I think that’s really amazing.

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