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. But let the ScrumMaster or coach tackle people, process, and organisational issues; let the development team figure out what needs to be done to implement the user stories and other product backlog items.

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UX Studio: Product Management

JANUARY 11, 2021

At UX Studio , while we develop our products, uxfol.io and copyfol.io , we are mainly focused on agency work, meaning that we cooperate with several clients as external teams. This post was written from the perspective of designers, mainly intended for external teams and entrepreneurs. Five challenges and solutions.

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Amplitude

JANUARY 23, 2018

As VP of Product at Amplitude, I get the opportunity to work with hundreds of different products teams every year?—?ranging So in the mode of Ben Horowitz’s classic essay Good PM/Bad PM , I’ve captured my thoughts on what I believe makes a good product team vs a bad product team. are experts on the customer.

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Usersnap

DECEMBER 19, 2023

Marty Cagan, in his book “Inspired: How To Create Products Customers Love” , mentions the use of customer surveys as a tool for understanding customer needs and preferences. It covers various survey types , practical implementation strategies, crafting trigger questions, and selecting effective feedback channels.

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Business of Software Conference

DECEMBER 28, 2023

Software, to the average person, is pretty boring. How to Write Copy for Your Software Company 1. Search Amazon for customer reviews on industry-related products or books. One study tested how bottled water brands can use personality in their branding to improve consumer brand recognition and preference.

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The Product Coalition

DECEMBER 14, 2019

When one learns to code, the initial steps involve a great deal of experimentation with code writing and debugging. The learning process usually starts by writing the program and then finding all the software bugs and fixing them. It is a cyclic process consisting of two major steps: Coding and Fixing.

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Intercom, Inc.

AUGUST 18, 2022

You’re autonomous, your code is immaculate, and you have a deep understanding of building and shipping software. She creates front-end libraries, a role that perfectly suits her given her life-long passion for user experience, design, and building things. But going into staff plus roles is another beast entirely.

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Userpilot

NOVEMBER 15, 2021

In this blog post, we’re going to break down the pros and cons of using UserGuiding as an onboarding and engagement tool for SaaS and give you the best alternatives that may fit your specific needs and use cases. UserGuiding is a no-code tool for user onboarding. User onboarding. Let's get started! Feature adoption.

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The Product Guy

AUGUST 1, 2019

What do you do when your team is working their socks off and yet they are getting little credit for the work being done, mainly because the team isn’t able to set concrete expectations with the stakeholder? This obviously reflected as a failure to deliver on part of the engineering team. THE CHALLENGE. THE CAUSE.

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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

DECEMBER 9, 2021

In the competitive world of SaaS products, product positioning is definitely something your product marketing team can’t afford to ignore. It helps the customer understand your product and how it can satisfy their needs. As with all marketing efforts , positioning should be driven by the customer and their needs.

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The Product Coalition

SEPTEMBER 17, 2020

Picture this: you develop an app, then launch it worldwide. Yeah, we know, it sounds pretty much like a developer’s worst nightmare. And that’s why localization testing exists: to prevent these very situations. Localization testing is usually not the first thing that development companies consider.

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Johanna Rothman

NOVEMBER 16, 2020

One of my reviewers for the Modern Management Made Easy books asked a fascinating question: I've never seen this many women in management or in senior leadership positions. Up until the mid-80s, many of the software engineering jobs were for special-purpose machines or applications. The idea of a code review or a design review?

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PMLesson's Ace the PM Interview

JULY 6, 2020

Whether it be software engineers, data scientists, IT specialists, it now seems standard for companies to have open positions that can't be filled. Source: [link] As such, computer science and coding bootcamps have emerged as a popular choice for those seeking to enter the tech industry and obtain one of these open positions.

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Mironov Consulting

SEPTEMBER 15, 2019

Data science has traditionally been an analysis-only endeavor: using historical statistics, user interaction trends, or AI machine learning to predict the impact of deterministically coded software changes. For instance, “how do we think this change to the onboarding workflow will shift user behavior?” We versus They.

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The Product Coalition

NOVEMBER 2, 2021

Since the required skill level is not clear, it’s often also not clear what and how to test when interviewing a potential hire. My take on it: while I love ex-developer PMs, and find that their teams often execute better, this is by no means a requirement. What are the upsides and downsides? The correct answer is always C.

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The Product Coalition

JUNE 21, 2021

A practical look at how and why software designers can ensure digital services can be used by everyone. Many worked from home on tasks ranging from organising team activities via Slack, analysing data and collaborating on documents via Google Docs, to discussing strategies via Microsoft Teams and coaching clients via Zoom.

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Userpilot

APRIL 8, 2021

Here’s a sobering truth: if you run a SaaS company and don’t use customer analytics software , you probably won’t be in business very long. It therefore stands to reason that the companies that thrive are constantly collecting and analyzing data about customer behavior, and pivoting their offerings accordingly. Userpilot 2.

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Userpilot

APRIL 21, 2021

Put simply, good product marketing software helps your SaaS solve two fundamental problems: Build a product that users love on the basis of customer feedback Acquire and retain users of that product. But how do you choose good product marketing software? What is product marketing software?

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Mind the Product

NOVEMBER 21, 2019

As a product leader, you are the product manager for a leadership team, and the tricks you learned in product teams remain valuable, they just need a little tweak. A value proposition helps us to focus on users and to check that our product solves a real problem. You’ve generated interest in your software.

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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. Product Mastery by Geoff Watts teaches you how to be a successful product owner within agile software development practices with the use of case studies. Plot summary.

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Modus Create

JANUARY 12, 2021

The speed at which the economic landscape shifts has been increasing since the industrial revolution and the emergence of consumer technology. Never before has the customer been empowered with so many choices and information about those choices. They are not questions that can be answered once, or in a vacuum independent of the others.

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The Product Coalition

JULY 6, 2022

Fifteen years ago Ben Horowitz published his now famous memo, “G ood Product Manager/Bad Product Manager ” in which he posits that “A good product manager is the CEO of the product”. A bad CEO takes the credit and passes on the blame. A bad CEO assumes they have the best idea in the room.

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Product Talk

SEPTEMBER 9, 2020

While I tend to focus on helping teams, Petra’s work centers around helping product leaders—the people who manage product managers. She has a big focus on people development, helping product managers and product leaders get better at their craft. I decided to join SAP , which was great, but there was a lot of user pain to observe.

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The Product Coalition

JANUARY 26, 2022

Chris’s team worked for a logistics service that tracked the ocean containers coming in and out of the ports. Their team set up the infrastructure and prepared the environment waiting for prospective accounts, which never came. The significant advantage for Chris was a good grasp of his future users, their background and requirements.

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Nulab

AUGUST 25, 2021

Whether you’re an Olympic runner, an app developer, or a wealthy big-city bachelor, getting to know what’s going on in the world around you is a smart thing to do. A competitive landscape analysis is a structured way to research your competitors. from marketing and sales to product development and community building.

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The Product Coalition

OCTOBER 15, 2019

I never had to deal with developers on a day to day basis?—?the However, I was thrown into the deep end again when I left the comfort of marketing and joined the tech team at Hotelclub where I managed a team of developers. I had no idea what I was doing and how I could lead a dev team. As a tip?—?always

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Mind the Product

APRIL 27, 2017

Some are moving away from detailed, written product requirements documents (PRDs), while others are using shorter write-ups, user stories, or jobs-to-be-done formats. Some product teams are moving away from written PRDs to visual artifacts like mockups and prototypes. Eric Ries, in his post “What is customer development?

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Intercom, Inc.

JANUARY 5, 2022

In today’s data-driven SaaS scene, these can affect hundreds of millions of users and cause damage in the billions of dollars, and as compliance frameworks become requirements to do business, businesses are turning to third-party services that can help expedite and facilitate the process. Less than a year later, Drata was launched.

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ProductPlan

JANUARY 28, 2022

Product consolidation refers to combining several products that sell separately but have overlapping functionality or user personas into one product. Note: product consolidation has different definitions in different industries. If you research product consolidation, you will find it has different meanings according to the audience.

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Intercom, Inc.

APRIL 22, 2021

If you’re a senior engineer and want to further your career, what skills should you develop? Moving forward in your career, avoid the trap of doing work that feels high-impact, but it’s actually not , or work that makes you look good at the expense of the project and the team. How do people move into staff engineering roles?

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The Product Coalition

MARCH 22, 2021

In the startup world, making software user-friendly and easy to use has become a real trend lately. These fields include web design, mobile app development, SaaS, and even B2B products. With a relatively small team based in Omsk, southwestern Siberia, Purrweb has compiled an impressive portfolio. and Facebook.

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The Product Coalition

JULY 13, 2022

Or there are other analytics solutions that might fit your needs and budget better. Best teams on a budget who need the basics. FullStory dubs itself a “Digital Experience Intelligence (DXI) platform” using web and mobile analytics to understand user behavior. Users say their website pricing is a bit opaque.

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Modus Create

MARCH 8, 2022

” or “which features will be released to our customers and when?” In Agile, a release is a group of software features that can be developed and deployed to the users in a given period. But there is danger in constantly deploying new product features as they are developed.

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Gainsight

MARCH 21, 2019

The natural tendency of customers and vendors is to drift apart, not closer together. Let’s say it another way: The natural tendency of all your customers is to churn. We almost always see the steepest drop-off during the onboarding process, an inflection point, and then a steady decline in users over time. What happens?

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ProductPlan

OCTOBER 29, 2019

The developers will handle it. It definitely doesn’t delight users or reduce friction. Customers must trust their vendors. Requiring users to agree to a set of terms and conditions might give some product managers a false sense of security. Security is someone else’s problem. It’s up to IT. Sound familiar?

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ProductPlan

JUNE 11, 2019

We know what we want to happen, we do lots of research and planning, put in the work, and then wait to see if the results match our expectations. While this can occasionally be blamed on poor execution, it is often simply a result of poor goal setting. Assumptions —Every idea needs to be validated with actual paying customers.

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