The Product HQ

APRIL 20, 2024

Looking to become a SaaS product manager? The need for SaaS product managers is skyrocketing with each passing year. More and more businesses develop Software as a Service (SaaS) products to remain relevant in their respective markets and grow their income streams.

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Userpilot

NOVEMBER 23, 2023

To be a kick-ass product manager , you need a very diverse skill set. This article explores both hard and soft skills that product managers need in their everyday work, so if you’re curious to learn more, dive right in. PMs need to know how to use product analytics tools to gain actionable insights.

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Userpilot

AUGUST 29, 2023

Product management is equal parts art and science – and it’s vital to the success of your SaaS. TL;DR Product management describes the continual process of overseeing the development of a product across its entire lifecycle. Product teams are staffed with various skilled professionals.

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The Secret PM Handbook

MAY 5, 2017

One of the most challenging questions about product management has been – in my experience – “What is Product Management?”. In this post, I share a simple model or framework to answer this question. We’re called “product” managers. We’ll start with a box labeled “Product.” Product manager =?

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Userpilot

NOVEMBER 30, 2023

What is the UX research process? It also outlines a 9-step guide on how to conduct UX research for product managers and UX designers. TL;DR The UX research process is a sequence of steps to collect and analyze data on user interactions with the product to better understand their needs and preferences.

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The Product Coalition

OCTOBER 5, 2021

Guest post by Angus McDonald, Senior Product Manager at Terem Technologies, and Kayla Li, Delivery Manager at Terem Technologies Word from Scott: Over the years we’ve helped many different teams uplift in different ways. Why is a Product Development Health Check Necessary?

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Intercom, Inc.

FEBRUARY 26, 2018

The same is true in software. We are all in a battle, multiple battles in fact, with a lot at stake: whether it’s the fate of the company we work for or for the product that we build. In this battle, I’ve found a secret weapon hidden within one of our core engineering strategies, an idea called Run Less Software.

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Product Talk

SEPTEMBER 13, 2023

They’ll place more trust in you to pursue the opportunities and solutions you believe will have the most impact on your desired outcome. That’s the question we’ll explore in today’s Product in Practice. But for everyone else out there, Hemnet is Sweden’s largest property portal and one of the top five most popular apps in the country.

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Roman Pichler

FEBRUARY 19, 2024

Listen to the audio version of this article: [link] Introduction To discuss empowerment in product management, I find it helpful to distinguish three main levels of decision-making authority, product delivery, product discovery, and product strategy, as the model in Figure 1 shows. [1]

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Userpilot

JUNE 26, 2023

How to create customer feedback systems to gain insights into user needs ? TL;DR Customer feedback systems are frameworks for collecting, organizing, and analyzing customer feedback for actionable insights. It also allows them to make informed product development decisions, and improve customer satisfaction and loyalty.

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Alchemer Mobile

FEBRUARY 2, 2021

Unfortunately, “If you build it, they will come” does not hold true when it comes to the mobile app launch. This famous line from Field of Dreams is all too representative of how many app publishers face the ‘inessentiality’ of mobile marketing. They focus all of their time and resources on building a great app. It’s marketing.

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Userpilot

SEPTEMBER 29, 2023

The product development process is part art, part science, and all important to the success of your SaaS. In this article, we've got a comprehensive review of the entire product development process. While product development describes the process of creating the product itself (i.e.

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The Product Coalition

JULY 8, 2022

Christensen’s words in mind, how can one use this theory to build magnificent products and onboard users that might otherwise never consider buying your product? The Jobs-to-be-done (JTBD) framework is a requirements definition activity that empowers startups and other businesses to build products customers truly want.

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Userpilot

JANUARY 20, 2024

How do you conduct root cause analysis in product management? We also explain why it’s important for product managers and share useful tips. Next, conduct further research, run experiments , and dig deeper into issues to validate or refute the hypotheses. What is root cause analysis in product management?

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Userpilot

JUNE 30, 2022

What is the application of the jobs-to-be-done model in product management ? How can you use it to build successful products? The product management jobs-to-be-done framework relies on the idea that the customer is ready to spend money on a product only when it helps them complete a particular job.

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Userpilot

MARCH 28, 2024

User analytics play an essential part in the product development and management process. It also explores different kinds of user data analysis, shows you how to conduct it, and introduces a few product analytics tools with the necessary functionality. TL;DR User analytics is a user research methodology.

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Usersnap

FEBRUARY 23, 2022

Every SaaS company, whether B2B or not, looks to get more intimately connected with their customers’ needs and pains to grow. In order to understand customer needs, get more customer feedback , and use it actionably, the rise and importance of SaaS product management within digital companies are “mooning” ??.

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Userpilot

DECEMBER 13, 2023

How do you develop a robust UX strategy? According to Jamie Levy, the main tenets of a UX strategy are business strategy, value innovation, validated user research , and frictionless UX. Goals are the specific UX objectives the product aspires to achieve, for example, improving usability. This is the main focus of the article.

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Mind the Product

MARCH 5, 2020

People spend over two hours a day browsing the web using conventional app interfaces, and despite the rise of mobile and mobile-first design, desktop audiences are still significant. So, which platform should you adopt for a new digital service, mobile app or the web? You can spend your marketing budget to drive app downloads.

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The Product Coalition

JULY 9, 2023

.” — Satya Nadella Throughout my career, as a leader of product for both startups and Fortune 500 companies, I’ve had the opportunity to interview hundreds of product managers. This experience has given me a deep understanding of what differentiates an amazing product manager from an average one. So let’s dive in.

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The Product Coalition

FEBRUARY 24, 2021

As a result, the best product managers thrive on their ability to move quickly, minimizing time to market for feature releases. instead, carefully chosen tools and processes help PMs and their teams gain efficiency. But no one can achieve such compressed time cycles just by working harder?—?instead,

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ProductPlan

NOVEMBER 19, 2021

What is a Product Management System? As a product manager , you’ll want to answer a series of questions before you start work. And at least one dedicated software application to help you take your products from concept to launch. Studying competitive products? Customer interviews?

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Product Management University

AUGUST 15, 2023

The biggest difference between product management and portfolio management is product management focuses specifically on the success of each product whereas portfolio management focuses on the success of the company (the portfolio) in chosen market segments.

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Userpilot

APRIL 6, 2023

Developing and releasing sophisticated products with all the bells and whistles imaginable might seem like a great idea. After all, you want your newly released software to be as good as it gets when it’s finally launched, right? This means complicated UI , redundant features, and unnecessary use of complex technologies.

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The Product Coalition

OCTOBER 19, 2023

In product management, prioritization is the compass that guides teams towards their ultimate goal: delivering a product that pays off and truly resonates with their audience. It’s the practical tool that helps managers navigate the complex path of development. What is a framework? What is a backlog?

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Userpilot

DECEMBER 8, 2023

A mindset of product experimentation is vitally important for product success and growth. TL;DR Product experimentation is a systematic and data-driven approach, where you consistently design and run experiments that help you make better product decisions. There are many different types of product experiments.

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UX Studio

FEBRUARY 2, 2022

You can easily get lost and puzzled when you start looking at all the infinite UX research tools that have become available lately. That’s why I decided to compile the most common UX research tools for you and hopefully, you will be able to find the proper ones for your needs. Let’s have a look at them.

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BrainMates

JULY 23, 2023

Product Management in the Age of Generative AI By MARTIN NORTH It might be a cliché, but the one constant in product management is that nothing is ever constant. If product managers are still required in the future, the teams within which they work and the roles they play will be vastly different.

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Userpilot

APRIL 22, 2024

Product feature analysis is a powerful tool in the SaaS product manager’s arsenal. We cover: Types of product features. TL;DR Product feature analysis involves evaluating product features to understand their impact on user satisfaction and market performance. Specify the metrics to track.

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Product Talk

APRIL 19, 2023

Within the product world at large and the Continuous Discovery Habits community specifically, we’re seeing increasing interest in personal knowledge management, both in terms of the processes and tools people are using to support them on this journey. Find all of the posts in this series here.

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Userpilot

JANUARY 23, 2024

Conduct deep market research through surveys and interviews to understand customer preferences and market trends. Define your product’s unique selling point (USP) that addresses target market needs. Coda employs competitor-based positioning by comparing itself against tools like Google Docs and Notion.

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Alchemer Mobile

OCTOBER 22, 2020

If you’re in digital product management, 2020 has been a roller coaster. Going back to basics to find inspiration has been one way expert product managers adjusted their strategies to meet rapidly-shifting consumer needs. Best Product Management Books. How to Build Habit-Forming Products. by Nir Eyal.

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Usersnap

JULY 17, 2020

As a business, we’re regularly trying new products and tools to help us with our software development. Especially when building customer-centric products, the software text matters. Providing software in our customer’s native language impacts the user experience a lot.

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Userpilot

SEPTEMBER 20, 2022

Are you wondering what the customer development process is? Would you like to know how a product manager can use it to deliver products that customers love? The customer development framework helps teams validate product ideas and build products that solve customers’ problems.

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Userpilot

JUNE 29, 2023

This comprehensive guide will enable proactive product managers to figure out exactly how to craft documentation that will help users solve their problems and delight them. TL;DR User documentation describes any kind of helpful material intended for the user of a product. Hence, encouraging frequent use of your product.

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The Secret PM Handbook

MAY 5, 2017

One of the most challenging questions about product management has been – in my experience – “What is Product Management?”. In this post, I share a simple model or framework to answer this question. We’re called “product” managers. We’ll start with a box labeled “Product.” Product manager =?

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Lenny Rachitsky

APRIL 9, 2024

As I often do when thinking about a question, I ran a poll on Twitter and LinkedIn asking which core skills of product management folks think are most likely to be impacted/replaced by AI. That sounds a lot like a tool that would be incredibly good at identifying a clever strategy. Think about it—what is AI best at?

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