The Product Guy

AUGUST 13, 2020

A lot of them worked in other positions before moving to product management, like engineers, analysts, marketers and project managers, and learned by taking on extra responsibilities. How to learn by doing it and lead a new team at the same time? How to plan for future growth for oneself, the product team and the products overall?

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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. The skill of running effective user interviews is key to defining your target users, finding product-market fit , growing your product, figuring out what to build next — or just simply understanding how users perceive your product.

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User Testing Customer Feedback Customer Experience Data Visualization 124

UX Planet

JANUARY 16, 2024

By Mary Moore, copywriter at Shakuro Branding holds the promise of propelling your venture to new heights, capturing hearts, and securing your place in the market. The last thing you need is to stumble into the abyss of bad branding, a place where countless others have lost their way. Yet, it’s a double-edged sword.

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Userpilot

JULY 14, 2021

They are not helping you – the potential user; they are not helping our smaller competitors, who find themselves juxtaposed with enterprise software for a completely different user persona, and it’s not helping us – when we get leads that want something we can’t offer anyway. Best for large enterprises. There are two.

Analytic Tools 105

Analytic Tools Feedback Software Data Visualization Onboarding KPIs 105

The Product Coalition

MARCH 23, 2022

I apply this lens to a startup that develops solutions in the health-tech market. While this article focuses on startups in B2B markets, we can extend it to B2C and B2B2C, while some considerations might be different. The startup hacks a PoC to determine the viability of the solution.

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Intercom, Inc.

JULY 28, 2022

Sanj started working at Salesforce back in 2005, when the company had around 1,000 employees and a few hundred million in revenue, and he was a part of its growth for 14 years, holding several leadership positions in multiple markets in EMEA. Since leaving college, I knew I wanted to work in technology, in a sales or go-to-market position.

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Userpilot

AUGUST 31, 2023

Google Analytics is a web analytics tool for analyzing website and mobile app traffic and marketing data. Both Heap and GA4 come with a free plan and premium options for large businesses and enterprises. sessions from a marketing campaign), and these sessions can include multiple sessions from the same user. respectively.

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ProductPlan

FEBRUARY 22, 2023

The internal pressure to deliver faster and more frequently often leaves product teams feeling like they have to slim down the scope of a feature, change the architecture, or make design decisions, all in the name of expediency. Thankfully, the product development lifecycle doesn’t always have to exist in a pressure cooker.

Customer Experience 59

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Mironov Consulting

OCTOBER 7, 2020

I talk with lots of executives from the go-to-market side of the house who think that building serious software is as easy – and easily estimatable – as building a fence. As the leadership team gets tired of interim progress reports and longer-than-expected delivery dates, they lose heart and lose trust in the “maker” side of the company.

Reporting Tools 137

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Intercom, Inc.

JULY 29, 2021

And so, Mark Rudden and his team had to figure it all out by themselves. Fortunately, Mark had quite a bit of experience working and scaling teams in demanding, hypergrowth environments. Building a great sales team: How Intercom fosters and maintains its sales culture. Onboarding, but make it remote.

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Ask Benny

JANUARY 25, 2020

They see it totally as the domain of the development. Most of the developers also do not want product managers involved in technical debt decisions because they feel that product managers care only about features. Technical debt is not necessarily a bad thing. The later you pay the more expansive it is to close the debt.

Product Management 109

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Ask Benny

DECEMBER 4, 2019

They see it totally as the domain of the development. Most of the developers also do not want product managers involved in technical debt decisions because they feel that product managers care only about features. Technical debt is not necessarily a bad thing. The later you pay the more expansive it is to close the debt.

Product Management 109

Product Management Product Manager Weak Development Team Management 109

The Product Coalition

JANUARY 16, 2022

As a product leader who is creating this roadmap, you need to treat it as a compass and plan not only for your team and the technology team but rather as the direction that the entire company needs to go in. So, having a great platform but poor content won’t really help them. if you fail, what would you have done wrong?

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Mixpanel

JANUARY 3, 2022

Engineers are always looking for ways to differentiate themselves. As data-driven product development continues to balloon in popularity, so does the need for accurate and sophisticated implementation of analytics tracking in software products. One of those niches that’s become more valuable in recent years: product analytics.

Analytic Tools 59

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Userpilot

AUGUST 31, 2023

Google Analytics is a web analytics tool for analyzing website and mobile app traffic and marketing data. Both Heap and GA4 come with a free plan and premium options for large businesses and enterprises. sessions from a marketing campaign), and these sessions can include multiple sessions from the same user. respectively.

Data Visualization 59

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Ask Benny

JANUARY 25, 2020

They see it totally as the domain of the development. Most of the developers also do not want product managers involved in technical debt decisions because they feel that product managers care only about features. Technical debt is not necessarily a bad thing. The later you pay the more expansive it is to close the debt.

Product Management 78

Product Management Product Manager Weak Development Team Management 78

Ask Benny

JANUARY 25, 2020

They see it totally as the domain of the development. Most of the developers also do not want product managers involved in technical debt decisions because they feel that product managers care only about features. Technical debt is not necessarily a bad thing. The later you pay the more expansive it is to close the debt.

Product Management 78

Product Management Product Manager Weak Development Team Management 78

The Product Coalition

DECEMBER 5, 2019

They see it totally as the domain of the development. Most of the developers also do not want product managers involved in technical debt decisions because they feel that product managers care only about features. Technical debt is not necessarily a bad thing. The later you pay the more expansive it is to close the debt.

Product Management 78

Product Management Product Manager Weak Development Team Management 78

Ask Benny

DECEMBER 4, 2019

They see it totally as the domain of the development. Most of the developers also do not want product managers involved in technical debt decisions because they feel that product managers care only about features. Technical debt is not necessarily a bad thing. The later you pay the more expansive it is to close the debt.

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Product Management Product Manager Weak Development Team Management 78

Mind the Product

APRIL 27, 2017

Some product teams are moving away from written PRDs to visual artifacts like mockups and prototypes. This, I think, is a better way to begin to understand a user or market need and its associated pain points. Eric Ries, in his post “What is customer development? They become more effective when used together. Written Methods.

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The Secret PM Handbook

MARCH 9, 2018

There’s the monetary cost – usually substantial for an enterprise application or system. After all, a known bad (the current situation) is sometimes better than an unknown bad (a new application that doesn’t work). How do you prepare the sales team for these kinds of objections? They might postpone the decision.

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Intercom, Inc.

NOVEMBER 21, 2019

No one knows this better than Sprout Social’s Director of Marketing Strategy, Tara Robertson. Tara joined the company in 2017 and has been instrumental in helping the company scale and retain more customers through a unique customer-centric approach to marketing. . A different approach is the Jobs-to-be-Done framework.

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BrainMates

DECEMBER 12, 2019

The gap between rich and poor is widening, and this is causing an increasing disenchantment with the model which has been so successful. In my portfolio lifestyle, I work with both big organisations that want to develop more innovative products and startups that are innovating from the ground up.

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BrainMates

MARCH 6, 2018

In March 2018, Rich Mironov visited Australia and presented to the Product Talks Sydney Meetup Group on building and scaling Product teams. Why do we need a Product Management team? My recent experience is more with startups, and I tend toward enterprise rather than consumer. As in “Do we actually have market fit?

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Mironov Consulting

MAY 2, 2019

But product management and development processes that work well for long-lived hardware can handicap software organizations. 1] For industrial hardware, the development/design cycle is separate from the manufacturing cycle. For software products, the development and design process *is* the manufacturing process.

Reporting Tools 91

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Reveal

OCTOBER 14, 2021

We call one application a modern application when it is built with a combination of modular architecture patterns, DevOps, DevSecOps, serverless operational models, and agile development processes that allow businesses to reduce risk and accelerate time to market. You are also guaranteed maximum security as well as fast time to market.

Analytic Tools 59

Analytic Tools Data Visualization Research Software Reporting Tools 59

The Product Guy

SEPTEMBER 12, 2017

A marketer or market researcher may view patterns in terms of demographics and buying activity. Whether you consider your user base in light of market research or user research, both of these kinds of researchers use the patterns they discover to form personas. Sad but true. MailChimp and Drip both provide this. Landing pages.

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Department of Product

MAY 22, 2020

Marketing – how will you tell people that you’ve built something? And the product team responsible got some pretty brutal reviews in the process. Pricing, packaging and anchoring As many product marketeers know, anchoring plays a big part in how the value of a product is perceived. They’re addictive. And stimulating.

Feedback Software 52

Feedback Software Customer Experience User Testing Customer Feedback 52

Userpilot

APRIL 8, 2021

Allow us to walk you through the best solutions on the market at the moment, and the criteria by which you should choose between them. Userpilot is the best customer analytics software on the market. But there are so many different options on the market. What is Customer Analytics Software? What is Customer Analytics Software?

Analytic Tools 52

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Userpilot

FEBRUARY 12, 2021

We will then go over the marketing strategies for a freemium product and finally a decision guide to see if a free trial is more appropriate for your business. These benefits almost exclusively apply to easy-to-use products with large markets, network effects, and self-service. Table of Contents. What Is Freemium? What Is Freemium?

User Testing 98

User Testing Reporting Tools B2C Onboarding KPIs 98

Gainsight

JULY 16, 2019

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. The result? One big mess.

Analytic Tools 45

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BrainMates

NOVEMBER 1, 2021

Developing and launching a product only to have it fail is the complete antithesis of the “Fail Fast” innovation motto. You have just invested 1000s of work hours and millions of dollars in developing & launching this product. In other words, this is a target market equalling “everyone who moves”.

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Andrew Chen

SEPTEMBER 4, 2018

In the podcast, we cover a broad overview of growth/marketing topics, including: The natural “gravity” that slows down high-growth businesses. Organic, paid marketing, and LTV/CAC. Sonal: How do you determine what’s what when you don’t have product-market fit? Why blended CAC numbers are misleading.

User Testing 75

User Testing Marketing Analytic Tools Customer Experience 75

Roadmunk

SEPTEMBER 21, 2017

Some sit outside the product domain, but still directly pushed me as a product manager to connect and empathize with other team members. But in part 4 of a 9-part series on startups by Marc Andreessen (co-founder of Andreessen Horowitz), there are three factors to startup success identified: your team, product and market.

Article 81

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Userpilot

JANUARY 18, 2021

The time tracking feature doesn’t differentiate between billable and non-billable time. His company actually has the funds to become an enterprise customer. If you recall the story of Simon and his project management tool, the tool failed because his first experience with the product was so bad. Simon is bitterly disappointed.

Analytic Tools 92

Analytic Tools Feedback Software Data Visualization Customer Experience 92

Intercom, Inc.

JULY 26, 2018

Remarkably, the team stuck around with few exceptions. He craved thoughtful feedback from real customers (instead of free beta users) and rushed to market. Or you had to go to the other extreme of spending hundreds of thousands of dollars on some massive analytics software with this enterprise-y sales thing.

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Business of Software Conference

FEBRUARY 16, 2021

So, this was focused on software developers, specifically, for dotnet software developers, this very small ad network, I ran those ad networks for a couple years, and realized that that was a terrible business. And I was a software developer before. And then we, we started to sell like big enterprises. 2:43 Mark: Yeah.

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