The Product Coalition

AUGUST 23, 2023

A purpose we could share with the company’s leadership team, customers, and those working on the product. For product teams, the why and purpose behind the product comes in the form of a meaningful, inspiring, yet achievable north star. Teams may struggle to decide about the product’s features or design, potentially leading to waste.

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The Product Coalition

MARCH 7, 2023

How to prepare for a user interview, all the way to sharing the results with your team. I compiled this guide back when I was training product managers on my team to be able to run user interviews. Questions not to ask There are such things as bad questions when you’re interviewing a user.

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Userpilot

NOVEMBER 23, 2023

TL;DR Regular roadmaps kill outcomes by forcing teams to think in the categories of features and timelines. It’s difficult to implement outcome-based roadmaps because stakeholders don’t trust product teams to deliver on business goals. Many companies lack differentiation strategies and drive product development by copying competitors.

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Userpilot

MARCH 24, 2021

It helps your entire team rally around a vision and a set of outcomes, making sure everyone is aligned in reaching those product growth goals. It helps you find product-market fit and gives your team direction. The product’s key differentiators or unique selling proposition. If you want to learn more, keep reading.

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BrainMates

JULY 31, 2023

Instead, we are surrounded by products that are increasingly commoditised, with price being the only differentiator. Products logically step through a gestation or development period within the organisation and an introduction period in the marketplace, and then consequently move from growth to maturity and eventually decline.

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Usersnap

DECEMBER 19, 2023

TL;DR The article underscores the importance of 1 to 5 rating scale surveys & how it has helped me in my PM journey, exploring their simplicity, versatility, and impact on user-centric product development. Semantic Differential Scale 5. A user might rate a product they purchased online with 1 (very poor) to 5 (excellent) stars.

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UX Planet

JANUARY 16, 2024

The last thing you need is to stumble into the abyss of bad branding, a place where countless others have lost their way. Market research for startup branding can be perceived as an unnecessary expense, especially when compared to product development or marketing activities that seem more directly linked to revenue generation.

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Userpilot

NOVEMBER 21, 2023

Product launch checklists help align the efforts of all team members, enhance quality assurance, help mitigate risks, enable the evaluation of the launch, and help you deliver a better customer experience. Develop a product that meets customer needs and expectations. If you can find buyers at this stage, you’re onto something.

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Modus Create

DECEMBER 14, 2021

In this article, we will share how to differentiate between them and how they can contribute to a project’s quality. . The QA professional’s job involves systematic testing focused on the development process. This results in several mispriced orders for the sales team. What is Quality Assurance?

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People-First Product Leadership

DECEMBER 4, 2023

Throughout the post, I provide practical tips and steps for developing these strategic elements, setting the foundation for further strategic planning. Identify their strengths, weaknesses, opportunities and threats (SWOT). Use this insight to differentiate your organization from others in the space. These are your key results.

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The Product Coalition

FEBRUARY 22, 2021

But the result is often the overproduction of documents and meetings that border on “planning the plan”, not to move the needle forward, but to assuage higher-ups of their doubts. Poor articulation gets misinterpreted as incompetence. This is the wrong way to cope with uncertainty. This is the exact opposite of what ought to happen.

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Userpilot

NOVEMBER 3, 2022

Most knowledge bases contain information in different formats: knowledge base documents, how-to guides, explainer videos, glossaries, etc. Results in higher team productivity. The main differentiator is the target audience. An internal knowledge base contains the following information: Process documents. Saves time.

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Userpilot

FEBRUARY 10, 2023

Actually, there are multiple types of personas for different teams, levels of research, and use cases—which you need to understand if you want to connect with customers. So let’s cover each of them and see what you can do to improve your team’s effectiveness. What is a persona?

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Department of Product

OCTOBER 5, 2023

Designed by a small, independent product team, Reflect is a rather beautiful new way to capture your notes, thoughts and ideas. Speaking of which, Microsoft has revealed it is developing a new feature for Outlook that will allow users to keep track of any meetings they can’t attend in person. Enjoy the rest of your week!

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Mind the Product

APRIL 27, 2017

There’s a lot of variation in how companies document product requirements. 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. Eric Ries, in his post “What is customer development? Written Methods.

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Gainsight

JUNE 11, 2021

Team Up with Sales to Drive Revenue with Kristen Hayer, Founder & CEO at The Success League. But both teams should be working together to drive more revenue than attacking the customer base separately. It begins with identifying and developing outcomes. Staff it properly and invest in a proper team.

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The Product Coalition

FEBRUARY 28, 2019

What are some key features that differentiate Splitwise from other finance/billing apps? What do you use to help yourself and your team stay on track? The Splitwise mobile team uses Github quite heavily. Github’s collaboration and search features make it easy to make a decision, document it, and return to it later.

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PMLesson's Ace the PM Interview

APRIL 18, 2020

At Exponent , we've been operating as a remote team for most of the past year, with engineers, designers, and PMs spread across several time zones—not to mention thousands of users around the world who are part of our Slack community and Interview Practice forum. Product managers are translators, processors, and conduits of information.

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Gainsight

JULY 16, 2019

Product documentation. CS integration : Gainsight PX integrates seamlessly with Gainsight’s CS platform , providing a constant stream of usage analytics for your customer success team. Contrast this with Mixpanel, where customers consistently complain of bottlenecking from poor upstream implementation. Interactive community.

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Pragmatic Marketing

MAY 23, 2017

The old adage that good marketing can’t sell a bad product is true. As product professionals, we internalize this lesson and combat its occurrence by taking an outside-in approach when it comes to product development. And that bad marketing or branding could sabotage the success of your products?

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The Product Guy

JULY 17, 2017

Be it documents, photos, marketing, sales, or product, it’s all moving away from installing software on an operating system to just creating an account for a web-based service. While it sounds simple, it is the most critical and often the most ignored part of the product development cycle. People use products, people develop products.

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Business of Software Conference

MAY 29, 2019

Making that talented team work together well, now that’s even harder. In this talk from BoS Europe 2018 Alison Coward gave some great advice on how you can design the way a team communicates and works together to ensure you get the most out of everyone on the team. Hiring a group of talented people is difficult.

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Intercom, Inc.

NOVEMBER 21, 2019

Tara and her team used it to take a deep dive into the customer’s journey through the product and make a focused effort to truly understand each step along the way. I really recommend it, because the biggest differentiator we saw is that in a persona-driven world, you’re really thinking about that fictional character.

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The Product Coalition

FEBRUARY 26, 2022

I’ve asked friends who do the job at social events and got the same answer, and frequently asked members of my own teams, who struggled to find the time to do it. To compensate, I’ve seen UX researchers & designers pick up the mantle a lot more, and the design teams have really leaned into this space.

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Userpilot

FEBRUARY 22, 2024

It can also serve as a source of invaluable feedback for product development. You’ll also need to hire the right individuals for your customer support team and invest in training them and providing them with the tools for success. Competitive advantage : Customers stop doing business with an organization due to poor support.

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The Product Guy

JUNE 18, 2020

Ruthless prioritization translates to product teams spending time building the right thing at the right time. This discipline is the bread & butter for a winning product team, but building an effective product process takes a lot of trial and error. A product feedback loop keeps software teams close to their customers.

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Userpilot

AUGUST 15, 2023

TL;DR A product launch plan is typically a document outlining the steps in bringing a new product to market, typically containing three key phases: pre-launch, the launch itself, and post-launch. Book a demo with our team to learn more. Your sales team will be in overdrive. Ready to get started? What is a product launch plan?

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ProductPlan

APRIL 25, 2023

Great teams assemble individuals with differing skill sets, perspectives, and experiences. For example, Iron Man and Captain America leading the Avengers or Superman, Batman, and Wonder Woman teaming up as the Justice League. Many product teams now have their own team of super-powered individuals banding together for a common cause.

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Product Talk

SEPTEMBER 20, 2023

Instead of relying on someone else (like a coach or leader) to tell them what to do next, product teams can use an opportunity solution tree to keep track of their desired outcome , the opportunities they’ve identified to chip away at that outcome, and the solutions they’re considering to address those opportunities.

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nulab

MARCH 5, 2021

It helps with team and stakeholder alignment. Just like a regular map, your product roadmap should guide the team toward the destination: a successfully completed project. Product roadmaps are big documents, so make sure you choose a format you’re comfortable using. Also, remember that this document will be ever-evolving.

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ProductPlan

MARCH 10, 2023

So much of what can go wrong with a feature release is related to poor execution of the broader feature launch process. Product teams find a never-ending opportunity to improve on what came before. However, the exception occurs at the end of the lifecycle when the team sunsets the product.

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Userpilot

MARCH 24, 2023

This article will compare the features, strengths, weaknesses, reviews, and pricing of each tool, enabling you to confidently decide which one is the best fit for your business needs. Using a tool for interactive user guides is crucial since it reduces reliance on developers and enables you to trigger user guides contextually.

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Intercom, Inc.

JANUARY 20, 2022

We surveyed and interviewed key people in our teams to understand how they worked and how they saw Intercom’s internal operations. Honest feedback can be hard to take, but it’s essential to develop the type of culture that encourages people to constructively criticize processes, leadership styles, or approaches. Paul: Yeah.

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The Product Coalition

MAY 3, 2021

It helps you align with different team departments, better understand your customers , and find ways to step up your SaaS product. If you skip any of these phases, you risk not reaching the goals of your product release and underperforming. Are there enough people on your team to build the new product?

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UserVoice

MARCH 12, 2018

More definitely means more work, and sometimes more can actually be a bad thing, so let’s break this down. This can quickly show its face when it comes to addressing technical debt or getting around to all those things your development team said they would when they rushed the LAST important feature to market.

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Userpilot

MARCH 22, 2023

Which is the ideal tool for developing interactive user guides – Whatfix or WalkMe? A tool is necessary to create interactive user guides as it reduces dependencies on software developers. Easy to create flows, even for non-technical team members. Allows you to develop knowledge bases for self-help solutions.

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Userpilot

MARCH 15, 2023

Appcues is a no-code user onboarding platform that helps non-technical teams track and analyze product usage. A big part of that is making sure your users know how to get the most from your application (and in the modern world, that means more than creating a support documentation page). NPS Score not available in Heap integration. •

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