The Product Guy

OCTOBER 9, 2018

Guest Post by: Julian Dunn (Mentee, Session 6, The Product Mentor) [Paired with Mentor, Vikas Batra]. I became a product manager because I wanted to take a more strategic role at my company. Thus, I arrived at the Product Mentor program with ambitions to learn strategy development from a seasoned product mentor.

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Product Warrior

DECEMBER 7, 2022

After explaining to board members we could not acquire the Internet, I quickly learned to execute product strategy fast. The end goal was clear, but committing to exactly how we might arrive at it was not. To do this, we need to understand which decisions underperform rapidly and then course correct.

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The Product Guy

AUGUST 13, 2020

Guest Post by: Candice Zhang (Mentee, Session 11, The Product Mentor) [Paired with Mentor, Tauheed Ahmed]. When I first researched about product management, I asked seasoned product managers how they started and they gave me very different kinds of answers. Some of them are good, and some of them are bad.

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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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Mind the Product

DECEMBER 18, 2019

So, it was natural that we should want to develop a talent growth plan for our people. This is how we did it. Each month we send out an NPS survey to assess whether the company is being a great place to work, but a few months ago I also sent Google’s manager feedback survey to my team of 10 product managers.

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The Product Coalition

AUGUST 3, 2023

How to Achieve Success in Your Product Strategy In today’s rapidly evolving market, having a clear product vision and a well-defined strategy is essential for the success of any tech product. A compelling product vision is a guiding light, providing direction and purpose to the development process.

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Alchemer Mobile

JULY 13, 2021

A good product experience is the primary driver behind product differentiation and ultimately, lasting customer satisfaction (measured through CSAT and NPS ) and loyalty. Beforehand, make sure your team is aligned on: Their definition of product experience. Define product experience ownership.

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Userpilot

JANUARY 29, 2023

Why do product managers need a new feature validation framework? How can you build one? TL;DR Product managers need a new feature validation framework to ensure that they meet user needs or drive organizational goals and avert product failure. The process is also necessary to maintain the product-market fit.

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The Product Coalition

MAY 1, 2023

The team stressed. The market was ripe for us to introduce a new product. Then in strolls the design team, telling us to step back. Another blocker in my path preventing me from moving the product team into action. He acknowledged that his team often slowed the momentum. We needed to deliver, not discuss.

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Userpilot

NOVEMBER 30, 2023

How do product managers identify market gaps? A market gap can be caused by missing functionality or poor user experience. Canva identified a market need for a user-friendly graphic design tool for non-designers and DocuSign for a secure solution to sign and manage digital documents and contracts.

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Roman Pichler

AUGUST 15, 2023

To avoid this mistake and ensure that your product strategy is complete, answer the following four questions: Who are the product’s users and customers? What are the benefits the product should generate for the company developing and providing it? Competition: Is your product still sufficiently differentiated ?

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Userpilot

OCTOBER 21, 2022

Does it have anything to do with the Minimum Viable Product? Why would you care about MVE as a product manager ? Minimum Viable Experience (MVE) describes how your users must feel when they interact with your product to stay with the company and keep using the product. Got your seat belt on?

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The Product Coalition

AUGUST 23, 2023

By the look on the face of the product manager asking me, she didn’t want a canned answer; she was looking for a reason to believe, to rekindle her energy. I knew why the company existed, but I never thought about the purpose behind the product other than the problem it solved for the customer and the value it delivered.

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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. How is technical debt created? Technical debt is not necessarily a bad thing.

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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. How is Technical Debt Created? Technical debt is not necessarily a bad thing.

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Userpilot

NOVEMBER 23, 2023

How is the outcome-based roadmap different from regular roadmaps? Why do product managers need them? That’s what Dave Martin , a product leadership coach, has talked about in his talk at this year’s Product Drive Summit hosted by Userpilot. Dave Martin on how product roadmaps kill outcomes.

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The Product Coalition

OCTOBER 13, 2022

If only books on product management had labels that say “pre-PMF” or “post-PMF”. Here are 10 great product books on pre-product market fit (pre-PMF)! ?? It also teaches you the importance to talk to the right niche for your product. ?? Poor questions yield little value. ?? Time goes by, runway decreases.

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The Product Coalition

JANUARY 3, 2020

So, it was natural that we should want to develop a talent growth plan for our people. This is how we did it. Each month we send out an NPS survey to assess whether the company is being a great place to work, but a few months ago I also sent Google’s manager feedback survey to my team of 10 product managers.

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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. Book the demo!

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Userpilot

APRIL 13, 2022

Click tracking is an essential method for uncovering weak spots in the product UX and the user flow by analyzing how users engage with your UI. The main idea of click tracking is watching how users interact with your product to discover friction points. Improve user engagement and product adoption.

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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. How is technical debt created? Technical debt is not necessarily a bad thing.

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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. How is technical debt created? Technical debt is not necessarily a bad thing.

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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. How is Technical Debt Created? Technical debt is not necessarily a bad thing.

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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. How is technical debt created? Technical debt is not necessarily a bad thing.

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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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Mind the Product

OCTOBER 24, 2019

Product managers can make better decisions if they’ve built transparency and trust with their team. How these decisions are made is also important, and it requires a clear and collaborative process. Product Decisions. Product decisions are either tactical or strategic. A culture of trust develops.

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Userpilot

OCTOBER 31, 2022

There are many steps involved in building your product’s negative persona: Determine the shared traits between users who fail to use your product as intended. Talk with your sales and customer service teams to better understand your customer profiles. To u nderstand what is a bad customer fit for your SaaS.

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DISQO

JUNE 30, 2017

Furthermore, how confident are you that there aren’t better opportunities that you may be missing out on as a result of focusing only on what’s on your roadmap? When we surveyed 140 product managers, 1 in 2 said that their C-suite has direct input for what goes on the roadmap. Below are four lessons I learned from them.

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Userpilot

MARCH 27, 2023

How can product analytics help product managers create better digital products and more satisfying user experiences? We start by looking at different kinds of analyses and the metrics to track and then explore some practical ways of using each of them to drive various product goals.

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The Product Coalition

SEPTEMBER 2, 2022

The Eight Core Elements of a Winning Product Strategy “The essence of strategy is choosing what not to do.”?—?Michael After what seemed like months of work, our product was emerging from stealth mode. The leadership team finally agreed on the vision. A yes with a weak how or a no receives a zero.

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Product Innovation Educators

JANUARY 13, 2020

How marketing and product management work together. That is what our guest did to investigate what people think about marketing and how it fits into the work product managers do. Our guest is Jill Soley, a Silicon Valley strategic product and marketing executive. 7:06] How do you describe marketing?

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Userpilot

JUNE 20, 2023

Why is product idea validation important? As a product manager, how can you effectively validate ideas and build a successful product that delights users? TL;DR Product idea validation is a process during which product teams test and tweak the product concept to ensure it satisfies a real market need.

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The Product Coalition

MARCH 10, 2023

Others believe that a focus on outcomes will negatively impact their ability to release features [outputs] as quickly as possible, especially since speed to market is still a winning differentiator for businesses — and back and forth the debate goes. Outcomes are a team effort so harder to take credit for. Outputs aren’t bad.

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DISQO

JUNE 30, 2017

Furthermore, how confident are you that there aren’t better opportunities that you may be missing out on as a result of focusing only on what’s on your roadmap? When we surveyed 140 product managers, 1 in 2 said that their C-suite has direct input for what goes on the roadmap. Below are four lessons I learned from them.

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DISQO

JUNE 30, 2017

Furthermore, how confident are you that there aren’t better opportunities that you may be missing out on as a result of focusing only on what’s on your roadmap? When we surveyed 140 product managers, 1 in 2 said that their C-suite has direct input for what goes on the roadmap. Below are four lessons I learned from them.

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Usersnap

DECEMBER 19, 2023

Ever wondered why the humble 1 to 5 rating point scale is the secret weapon of Product Managers (PMs)? Marty Cagan, in his book “Inspired: How To Create Products Customers Love” , mentions the use of customer surveys as a tool for understanding customer needs and preferences. Semantic Differential Scale 5.

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The Accidental Product Manager

JULY 29, 2019

Product managers learn to embrace the digital age Image Credit: Dave Dugdale. They are now faced with the age old question of how best to get their furniture noticed by their potential customers. How Create and Barrel Turned Things Around. All of this seems to be paying off for the Crate and Barrel product managers.

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