ProductPlan

AUGUST 4, 2020

In my opinion, the definition of an MVP is often misunderstood, and I’ve seen entrepreneurs and product teams misinterpret it with unfortunate results. First, a shout out to Frank Robinson , a fellow product development pro in Santa Barbara who coined the term “MVP” about 20 years ago. And what it’s not. Getting to the MVP.

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People-First Product Leadership

SEPTEMBER 4, 2023

Throughout my career I have found product politics breeds a competitive environment that makes long-term individual and product team success precarious at best. Why compete against your product triad colleagues (product, design, engineering) when you are part of the same team? They're done by a team of people.”

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Userpilot

DECEMBER 6, 2022

‘Feature factory’ is not exactly a positive term, especially if you’re aspiring to be a product-led SaaS product management team. John Cutler first used the term to describe such companies because their software development processes resemble factory assembly lines. What is a feature factory?

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Userpilot

DECEMBER 8, 2022

SaaS companies often struggle to identify user problems worth solving, differentiate their products, and get the pricing right. Product failure is often attributed to poor UI/UX. Use customer feedback and requests to inform product development but not before you validate them. Differentiation is closely related to pricing.

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Intercom, Inc.

DECEMBER 1, 2021

As a sales manager, the most impactful thing you can do is coach your team. At Intercom, we’ve developed the GEMS framework to help everyone on our teams achieve best-in-class written communication. Prospects and customers can only subscribe to that ideology if they experience it firsthand with our teams”.

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Userpilot

DECEMBER 9, 2021

In the competitive world of SaaS products, product positioning is definitely something your product marketing team can’t afford to ignore. This enables the marketing team to set clear expectations from the very beginning of the marketing campaign. Strong positioning makes the work of the marketing and sales teams easier.

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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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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. It heavily references Laura Klein’s Build Better Products , as well as learnings from my own mistakes.

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Userpilot

APRIL 15, 2024

TL;DR Customer communication pain points refer to the problems customers encounter when trying to get help through your support channels. This means customers will abandon brands with poor communication, opening up an opportunity for your business to stand out. We cover: Types of customer pain points. Six common customer pain points.

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Userpilot

OCTOBER 25, 2022

Product differentiation and positioning are important aspects of strategic product management because they allow you to build a product that meets the needs of the right customers in the right market and stand out from the crowd. They tell the product management team what they need to achieve. What is strategic product management?

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Userpilot

OCTOBER 11, 2022

How should product managers develop effective product vision statements? Product vision is the long-term objective for the product and serves as the North Star for the product team. A solid product vision increases the productivity and efficiency of the product team because they understand the goal better. Book the demo !

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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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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. Often referred to as “ideal customer profile” or ICP for short. Identify their strengths, weaknesses, opportunities and threats (SWOT). These are your key results.

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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 24, 2022

Some of them are solved quickly by customer support while others involve the development of new functionality. A customer request management system consists of tools and processes that allow the relevant teams to deal with requests efficiently. Want to see how Userpilot helps teams manage customer requests? Book the demo !

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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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ProductPlan

MARCH 10, 2023

Whereas a product release is focused on the introduction of an entirely new offering to the market, the term feature release refers to the rollout of new or updated functionalities within an existing product. So much of what can go wrong with a feature release is related to poor execution of the broader feature launch process.

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Product Management University

MARCH 15, 2017

Product usability is the new currency for differentiation. Combining both roles into one usually results in one the following: A product that has the right features with poor usability. Functional Product Designers Accelerate Product Development. That makes the role of the functional product designer, a.k.a

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Userpilot

MARCH 27, 2023

We finish with an overview of product analytics tools that your team can benefit from. Product analytics are used not only by the product team but also by the customer success and the marketing team, as well as UX designers and devs. As a result, product teams are able to make quicker decisions.

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Product Warrior

MARCH 9, 2023

Without product strategy, we have no alignment on what approaches product development will take to iterate closer to the vision and deliver commercial goals. Empowered product teams Product teams need the product strategy to guide them on which problems to solve - without dictating features. We need to avoid this.

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Product Warrior

MARCH 9, 2023

Without product strategy, we have no alignment on what approaches product development will take to iterate closer to the vision and deliver commercial goals. Empowered product teams Product teams need the product strategy to guide them on which problems to solve - without dictating features. We need to avoid this.

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Userpilot

DECEMBER 5, 2023

A product design team includes specialists in UX design, graphic design, industrial design, research, prototyping, and data analysis. Next, research the market trends and competitors to identify their strengths and weaknesses. Gradually develop more complex prototypes. Keep testing and experimenting to further refine the design.

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Userpilot

JULY 27, 2022

A product’s life cycle refers to all the stages it goes through before it enters the market and until it exits. There are five stages of the product life cycle: development, introduction, growth , maturity, and decline. These include the development, introduction, growth, maturity, and decline stages.

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Userpilot

NOVEMBER 8, 2022

Unlike a go-to-market strategy, which focuses on the product launch phase alone, a marketing strategy refers to a longer-term approach toward achieving success with your brand. A GTM strategy provides direction for all team members, reduces your product’s time to market, and helps you cut costs.

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Intercom, Inc.

FEBRUARY 6, 2019

Given our cadence of launches and updates, we’ve developed a pretty well-oiled launch machine over the past few years. Our go-to-market teams have grown immensely, meaning more specialists and larger cross-collaborative teams for each launch. Is it a differentiator for us or something innovative in the market?

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Userpilot

SEPTEMBER 4, 2023

Customer journey optimization refers to the strategic process of analyzing and enhancing a customer's entire experience with a brand. Effective journey mapping entails customer research, gathering cross-functional teams, brainstorming sessions, and refining maps based on data and feedback.

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The Product Coalition

OCTOBER 9, 2023

To assist with the practicalities of product management, I propose segmenting user needs in a way that differentiates between the expressed needs that people volunteer, the unexpressed needs they do not communicate, and the unrecognised and potential needs they cannot accurately describe themselves.

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Userpilot

AUGUST 15, 2023

Start by conducting extensive market research to understand the landscape, map out the needs of individual users to understand pain points, develop a clear value proposition, and then define key performance indicators to measure progress against. Book a demo with our team to learn more. Your sales team will be in overdrive.

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BrainMates

JULY 31, 2023

Instead, we are surrounded by products that are increasingly commoditised, with price being the only differentiator. The problem is that ‘innovation’ is a term often misused by organisations to refer to doing something new or different. Organisations with poor product management practices have misguided expectations.

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Userpilot

AUGUST 28, 2023

Then, you need to develop a consistent and personal brand voice across all channels to connect with and delight customers. Omnichannel communication (or omni-channel communication) refers to the use and integration of multiple channels of communicating and connecting with customers, including all online and offline channels.

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Userpilot

OCTOBER 31, 2022

A buyer persona refers to a potential decision-maker, perhaps someone in charge of a company’s acquisition or accounting, who decides against purchasing your product. 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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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. This can be a broken link, poor onboarding , confusing UX, etc. The product team utilizes click data for making data-driven decisions on product development.

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eG Innovations

JANUARY 19, 2023

In this guide I teamed up with eG Innovations to talk about what Citrix latency is, why it matters, and how we can improve it. If any of these devices are underperforming, they may process the ICA traffic slower and this results in increased overall latency. What is Citrix Latency?

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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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Tyner Blain

MARCH 31, 2024

Most people and teams conflate prioritizing and sequencing of work. Going to Market You will develop a go-to-market (GTM) approach which includes multiple releases of your product. Too many teams try and use reskinned project-management tools which are helpful when sequencing instead of being helpful when shaping.

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Ronke PM

APRIL 5, 2023

Design-driven leadership is product management Final thoughts The very essence of leadership is creating a space that enables our teams to dream big, imagine, and bring what was once unthinkable to life - therefore, changing humanity. Transformation can also transpire with our cross-functional team members and leaders.

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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. 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. It was clear the team needed a talent growth plan.

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