The Product Manager Coach Blog

SEPTEMBER 19, 2023

In the intricate world of product management, a compelling product vision isn’t just a “nice to have” – it’s a necessity. He introduced a vision – ‘an iPod, a phone, and an Internet communicator.’ ’ That vision changed the mobile industry forever. Shopify : “To make commerce better for everyone.”

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The Product Coalition

JUNE 13, 2021

In the effort to bring the company’s vision into reality, the details matter, often more than the innovation and completeness of the vision itself. Of course, in the process, the vision might be changed or refined, but it most likely wouldn’t be reinvented altogether. This should be your first step into product strategy.

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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. What is product development?

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ProductPlan

JUNE 14, 2022

For an organization to follow through and turn that idea into a viable product, the team needs both a product vision and a product strategy. This article will discuss why the best products require both vision and strategy and their codependent nature. Product vision. The product vision itself isn’t achievable in the short term.

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The Product Coalition

AUGUST 28, 2023

The Software Development Life Cycle provides a practical framework you can apply to your product and improve your processes. It helps us meet customers’ demands, needs, and expectations. With the support of the SDLC, You can track and control your calendar, and increase productivity and speed of development.

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Roman Pichler

DECEMBER 7, 2021

Second, it has to be feasible to develop it. Third, it has to generate sufficient business benefits to justify developing it. Fourth, it must not cause any harm to its users, the wider society, and the planet. Such a product is also referred to as a painkiller , as it addresses a problem or pain point.

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People-First Product Leadership

DECEMBER 20, 2023

Part 1, we covered the “why” behind creating a strategy stack, with a focus on establishing the organization’s Mission, North Star, and Vision. Part 3 brings together the Product specific Vision, Roadmap and Goals. The Vision is brought to life in the Now / Next / Later roadmap, which is supported by Product Goals.

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Userpilot

DECEMBER 13, 2023

How do you develop a robust UX strategy? TL;DR UX strategy provides guidance to the UX design team on how to create and improve experiences that satisfy user needs. TL;DR UX strategy provides guidance to the UX design team on how to create and improve experiences that satisfy user needs. This is the main focus of the article.

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Userpilot

DECEMBER 12, 2023

By prioritizing the UX team’s effort to address the most acute user problems, a UX roadmap has a significant impact on improving satisfaction and loyalty. Product roadmaps provide a high-level view of all product development motions, including UX ones. UX research aims to identify specific user pain points.

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UX Planet

JANUARY 4, 2024

Amidst the ever-shifting terrain of professional development, my journey from an Industrial Designer with a specialization in Textile to a Design Strategist has been a transformative experience. When I later transitioned into a Product Manager role, this customer-centric approach became invaluable.

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Userpilot

NOVEMBER 24, 2022

How should product managers handle customer requests to improve customer satisfaction and drive value for users and the business? Customer requests are queries about your product. Some of them are solved quickly by customer support while others involve the development of new functionality. Book the demo !

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ProductPlan

JUNE 1, 2023

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. To reframe things, only about one out of three feature ideas actually come directly from customers… you know, the people who are paying money to use your products.

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Userpilot

MARCH 29, 2023

How can it help product and marketing teams make data-driven decisions and improve the user experience at different stages of the customer journey? Utilizing digital analytics enables them to make data-driven product decisions , and identify user friction and pain points. What’s digital analytics?

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The Product Coalition

OCTOBER 15, 2022

Creating Storyboards will make product developers think step-by-step, and we won’t be able to skip some steps?—?at Storyboards create a more clear vision to show your Product Vision & Goal. Storyboards on Unsplash by Slidebean In fact, it’s no different from why we use storyboards in the film industry or product development.

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The Product Coalition

MARCH 24, 2021

Innovators have to build first reference customers in the mainstream market to prove having a promising business model and a compelling offering. Starting with a niche market ensures focusing on a very specific customer problem and probably little to no competition. As we do not have yet data available from live customers?—?or

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Ronke PM

OCTOBER 5, 2023

Table of Contents What is customer-centricity? Essential customer experiences to consider. Final thoughts Those products that have changed us and made our lives easier, or even enhanced humanity, have that impact and reach because the people who built those products emphasize customer-centricity above all else.

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The Product Coalition

OCTOBER 4, 2022

Product development is a pretty complicated process. It starts from understanding who your customers are, what are the pain points of the customers, coming up with solutions to resolve those pain points, and finally implementing those solutions. Have you or your team also faced a similar problem?

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The Product Coalition

OCTOBER 21, 2021

Which problems solve user pain points faster? Is it worth pursuing and will it actually bring value to the customer? They can go away and focus on the big picture while the development team gets to work on making the product. A well defined product vision is the cornerstone for a successful product.

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Userpilot

NOVEMBER 17, 2022

By adding delight to the product, you increase product stickiness and enhance customer satisfaction. This happens because users find interactions with the product rewarding. Delightful products are also full of personality, so users develop human-like relationships with them. First, they satisfy real user needs.

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UX Planet

FEBRUARY 10, 2024

His work led to the development of System Dynamics, a quantitative method for modeling and simulating complex systems. Applying Systems Thinking in UX Research The field of UX focuses on understanding and meeting user needs. Jay Forrester, an MIT engineer, applied these ideas to understand social and management systems.

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Userpilot

MAY 1, 2024

TL;DR Digital product experience encompasses all customer touchpoints and interactions with a digital product across its lifecycle. It’s also not the same as user experience. Product experience management helps to: Enhance the entire customer journey and deliver personalized experiences.

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PMLesson's Ace the PM Interview

JULY 1, 2020

A product manager that I hire needs to always keep in the mind the product vision and key success factors, and emphasize them through all of the discussions with company teams that seek to limit their own team's effort, expenditure, or risk, and will blindly limit the product's potential. Pain points 2. Product Vision 4.

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Userpilot

JULY 8, 2022

If you are wondering what Feature-Driven Development (FDD) is and how it can improve your product management processes, you are in the right place! Feature-Driven Development (FDD) is an Agile development framework. It revolves around developing functionality that meets the needs of the customer.

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Userpilot

JULY 4, 2022

Why should you adopt a customer-led growth strategy in your SaaS? Is it possible to increase user engagement by focusing on a customer-led growth strategy and hit the metrics you are hoping for? Specifically, we’ll consider: Three reasons why the customer-led growth approach is the best go-to-market strategy.

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Lenny Rachitsky

APRIL 9, 2024

Instead, I believe that AI will have the most profound impact on the high-level (and historically most valued) skills of product management: developing a strategy, crafting a vision, identifying new opportunities, and setting goals. I’m saying you should double down on strengthening your soft skills (e.g. Please tell me!

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UX Planet

JANUARY 16, 2024

It illuminates your target audience, their pain points, and desires. They believe so strongly in their vision that they assume it’s universally appealing. This belief makes you disregard market research because you feel you already know everything customers want. This information will guide you when branding a startup.

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Userpilot

AUGUST 6, 2023

Customers nowadays expect omnichannel customer experience when they deal with a business. That is why companies use in-product communication , email newsletters, support calls, live chats, and social media channels to ensure that customers get a seamless experience. What is omnichannel customer experience? Build loyalty.

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The Product Coalition

MAY 22, 2019

Let’s walk through the product-development lifecycle of a team both from a high-level strategy perspective as well as the per-project day-to-day development standpoint. What products do we own and what business value do we provide either to the end users or internal customers? What does working together look like?

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The Product Manager Coach Blog

JANUARY 9, 2024

Although I strongly believe the role of product managers is indispensable to the success of a company, I also agree with Brian Chesky that product managers should be more strategic and active in what is often thought of as product marketing responsibilities, such as understanding market trends, customer needs, and the competitive landscape.

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Product Innovation Educators

MAY 22, 2023

His answer intrigued me because it identified a clear pain point that isn’t getting enough attention. As the title of this episode conveys, our discussion will weave together topics for aligning customers’ needs and business strategy. 14:27] What did you do to better align customer needs and business strategy?

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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. Typically, there are two big phases in bringing a product from vision to launch: planning and execution.

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Userpilot

JANUARY 22, 2024

For your product marketing strategy, however, you’ll need to align your sales and marketing teams, create a value-based pricing strategy , collect and apply customer feedback , and map out the customer journey. This means collecting feedback data to measure customer satisfaction. A sample user persona profile.

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Userpilot

NOVEMBER 23, 2023

Extensive market research is essential to assess the competitive landscape, identify opportunities, and shape the product vision. Product management involves analyzing user experience , so a product manager needs to be able to use a range of techniques to do it effectively. They enable PMs to apply their hard skills effectively.

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Userpilot

NOVEMBER 23, 2023

They lack vision and lead nowhere. The outcome-based roadmap focuses on delivering value to customers instead of obsessing about building specific features. Many companies lack differentiation strategies and drive product development by copying competitors. Evidence-based learning is essential to satisfy customers and grow.

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Product Talk

JANUARY 31, 2024

If you’ve already begun to develop continuous discovery habits, maybe one of these stories will remind you of something you’ve experienced somewhere in your journey. The platform and web application he works on, finfire, connects Netfonds with their customers, their clients, banks, and insurers.

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Sachin Rekhi

AUGUST 1, 2016

When you start your career in product management you tend to be largely focused on the science: how to effectively do customer research, run an A/B test, manage a sprint, write a spec, and so on. Today I wanted to dive into one such critical aspect of the art behind product management, which is developing user empathy.

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Userpilot

AUGUST 29, 2023

TL;DR Product management describes the continual process of overseeing the development of a product across its entire lifecycle. A project manager is focused on the completion of a specific project, whereas product managers focus primarily on the long-term vision and evolving a product to deliver value over time.

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