The Product Guy

JULY 17, 2017

While it sounds simple, it is the most critical and often the most ignored part of the product development cycle. We will explore this subject in the context of Enterprise SaaS where a solution is expected to solve multiple pains and generally has a lot of moving parts and complex workflows. Why User Onboarding.

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Ask Benny

JANUARY 25, 2020

Why should product managers involve themselves with prioritizing technical debt? When it comes to technical debt many product managers do not like to get involved. They see it totally as the domain of the development. Technical debt is not necessarily a bad thing. How is technical debt created?

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Ask Benny

JANUARY 25, 2020

, Why should product managers involve themselves with prioritizing technical debt? When it comes to technical debt many product managers do not like to get involved. They see it totally as the domain of the development. Technical debt is not necessarily a bad thing. How is technical debt created?

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The Product Coalition

DECEMBER 5, 2019

Why should product managers involve themselves with prioritizing technical debt? When it comes to technical debt many product managers do not like to get involved. They see it totally as the domain of the development. Technical debt is not necessarily a bad thing. How is Technical Debt Created?

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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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Ask Benny

DECEMBER 4, 2019

Why should product managers involve themselves with prioritizing technical debt? When it comes to technical debt many product managers do not like to get involved. They see it totally as the domain of the development. Technical debt is not necessarily a bad thing. How is technical debt created?

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The Product Coalition

DECEMBER 17, 2023

It didn’t mean that there was no competition (which is usually a very bad sign), but that the traditional search engines weren’t it. But when you define your product strategy, and your differentiation from the competition, it is important to understand what your real competition is. But our real competition wasn’t there.

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Mironov Consulting

AUGUST 29, 2023

Let’s focus on a specific subset of product waste: building capabilities that are readily available from non-competing SaaS vendors – which we could rent at 1-5% of the cost of building them ourselves.  Renting  Renting (licensing) means we can put more of our own effort into market differentiators.

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The Product Coalition

FEBRUARY 26, 2022

Why have Product Managers stopped speaking to customers? Very sadly, most product managers I meet today no longer talk directly to customers regularly. I ran a survey with industry insiders and at least 50% of all product managers who responded haven’t spoken to a customer recently.

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The Product Guy

JUNE 18, 2020

Guest Post by: Marvin Mathew (Mentee, Session 11, The Product Mentor) [Paired with Mentor, Jordan Bergtraum]. Ruthless prioritization translates to product teams spending time building the right thing at the right time. Product management comes down to discipline and process.

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ProductPlan

JUNE 1, 2023

All those new features might look good on a product comparison matrix and give salespeople a new angle when pitching reluctant prospects, but none of it matters if those features aren’t solving real customer problems. Where are product teams getting their feature ideas? Why do product teams become feature factories?

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ProductPlan

FEBRUARY 22, 2023

As a product manager, one of the toughest challenges I and my fellow PMs face is prioritizing the right features amongst an ever-increasing influx of data from customer feedback, product analytics, and the never-ending list of stakeholder requests. A successful product never sacrifices the user experience.

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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. As a social entrepreneur with Full Time Lives and in my Product Management consulting work for Brainmates. How does this affect the world of Product Management?

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The Product Coalition

OCTOBER 8, 2018

Are you trying to wrap your head around the role of product management and why it is important for the venture? Still confused about the concept of product management? Keep on reading this article in order to get a better idea what a product management framework is, and why is essential for every startup?

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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. This blog is a transcript of part of that meetup, focusing on why we need Product Management. Rich Mironov presenting on why we need Product Management.

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Mironov Consulting

OCTOBER 7, 2020

One destructive side effect of this misunderstanding can be repeatedly changing the #1 top priority part-way through development, before there’s much to show the world but after spending significant discovery/design/architecture/development time on the previous #1 top priority. So something new becomes the #1 top priority.

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Andrew Chen

AUGUST 10, 2023

What starts as a slow boil – where the team has a well-planned roadmap, and a big vision – becomes a sudden crisis. The team needs a new plan. There’s a saying that no military plan survives first contact with the enemy, and similarly — no product roadmap survives first contact with stalled growth.

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Mixpanel

JANUARY 3, 2022

Engineers are always looking for ways to differentiate themselves. One of those niches that’s become more valuable in recent years: product analytics. 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.

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The Product Coalition

JANUARY 16, 2022

As such, it cannot be limited to include only the product-related parts like features and product KPIs. 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.

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Business of Software Conference

OCTOBER 11, 2023

As usual, you really had to be there but here are the Sigmacorn notes… 9:00 Mark Littlewood: Opening remarks Welcome to BoS! How will we win?

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Department of Product

AUGUST 22, 2022

Here’s some of the areas we felt could be the most impactful as part of your product health check, spanning data, devices, value proposition, business and strategy. Sure, you can dig deeper later on, but these are fundamental metrics that are important to understand when you’re assessing the overall health of your product.

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Userpilot

MAY 8, 2023

TL;DR Chameleon is a digital adoption platform with a difference: while the other tools discussed are mostly no-code, Chameleon will require some developer involvement. It enables product teams to track product usage and user behavior to guide product development and optimize the user experience.

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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. TL;DR Interactive user guides utilize diverse UX patterns to educate customers on how to use your product more efficiently. Let’s begin.

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Roadmunk

SEPTEMBER 21, 2017

Throughout my career as both a product manager and startup founder, there’s been one severely underrated skill I credit for much of my success—and that’s reading. I’m constantly consuming articles on product management, product culture, startups and entrepreneurship to bolster my career as a product person and leader.

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Userpilot

DECEMBER 6, 2021

Customer success teams don’t have time to waste. Few customer success managers are also developers. A customer success platform designed for non-technical people will help your customer success teams be more efficient. #3 interactive, branching in-app walkthroughs that guide the users on how to use your product.

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The Secret PM Handbook

MARCH 9, 2018

But if that skill is augmented with great product knowledge (provided by product managers) sales take off. Prospects may have all kinds of objections, and not all have to do with the product. There’s the monetary cost – usually substantial for an enterprise application or system. They might postpone the decision.

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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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Userpilot

MAY 30, 2023

Userpilot is a powerful product growth platform that offers a complete set of features for onboarding, adoption, and gathering feedback all in one convenient package. This tool has earned a strong reputation for its intuitive user interface and outstanding customer support team. What is Whatfix best for?

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Userpilot

MAY 30, 2023

Userpilot is a product growth platform, offering onboarding, adoption, and feedback features all in one. The tool is renowned for its easy-to-use UI and excellent customer support team. Whatfix helps your enterprise company achieve that by unlocking the full potential of user segmentation and in-app guidance.

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Userpilot

MAY 30, 2023

WalkMe is ideal for enterprise companies looking for employee onboarding software. Userpilot is an impressive product growth tool that combines onboarding, adoption, and feedback functionalities into a single platform. However, Whatfix targets mostly large enterprise companies and might not be the right choice for SMBs or startups.

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Userpilot

JUNE 27, 2023

Userpilot is a powerful product adoption and user onboarding platform. It helps product teams create personalized user experiences through product tours, onboarding checklists, and feature announcements. With its user-level segmentation, you can set up basic contextual onboarding to differentiate user experience.

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Userpilot

MAY 30, 2023

Typically, SaaS Product Managers consider Whatfix for the following reasons: they want to improve their user onboarding, they need product adoption and want to measure their user feedback. However, Whatfix targets mostly large enterprise companies and might not be the right choice for SMBs or startups.

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Userpilot

MARCH 15, 2023

To help you make a confident decision, we’ll compare each tool’s features, strengths and weaknesses, reviews, and pricing. TL;DR Interactive user guides leverage various UI patterns to educate customers on how to use your product more effectively. All product managers want to delight and engage their customers.

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Userpilot

MAY 30, 2023

Userpilot is a comprehensive product growth platform that provides onboarding, adoption, and feedback functionalities in a single package. This tool is highly regarded for its user-friendly interface and exceptional customer support team. Here is what you will get with Whatfix product adoption functionality.

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Userpilot

JUNE 27, 2023

Userpilot is a powerful product adoption and user onboarding platform. It helps product teams create personalized user experiences through product tours, onboarding checklists, and feature announcements. However, Whatfix targets mostly large enterprise companies and might not be the right choice for SMBs or startups.

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Userpilot

MARCH 1, 2023

Using tools, non-technical people such as product managers or customer success managers can collect and analyze user feedback at scale, without having to rely on developers. With that being said, Whatfix isn’t a perfect tool: it does a poor job when it comes to analytics and customization. Cons of Pendo?

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Userpilot

MAY 8, 2023

TL;DR UserGuiding is a product adoption tool that helps companies to create interactive user guides and in-app walkthroughs to onboard, engage, and retain their users. It provides a no-code solution that allows non-technical teams to design and implement in-app experiences without any coding skills. What is UserGuiding best for?

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