Intercom, Inc.

OCTOBER 1, 2020

On this episode of Intercom on Product myself and Paul Adams, our SVP of Product, take a look at roadmapping. Knowing how and when to define a roadmap, who to include and how long to plan for are key elements to finding the balanced approach that you need. As you grow functions, the audience for your roadmap widens.

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Intercom, Inc.

OCTOBER 1, 2020

On this episode of Intercom on Product myself and Paul Adams, our SVP of Product, take a look at roadmapping. Knowing how and when to define a roadmap, who to include and how long to plan for are key elements to finding the balanced approach that you need. As you grow functions, the audience for your roadmap widens.

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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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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. This is the main focus of the article.

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Product Warrior

DECEMBER 7, 2022

To do this, we need to understand which decisions underperform rapidly and then course correct. If the product strategy is only articulated as a list of features against a schedule, then we have provided no method to evaluate the performance of strategic product development. The full series is listed below.

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ProductPlan

OCTOBER 3, 2019

But for every success story, there’s a graveyard of failed products laid low by bad product strategies. A bad strategy is hard to overcome. What Does a Bad Product Strategy Look Like? What Does a Bad Product Strategy Look Like? If there was a simple test for bad product strategy most companies would happily use it.

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People-First Product Leadership

DECEMBER 20, 2023

Part 3 brings together the Product specific Vision, Roadmap and Goals. Product Vision puts a company’s Vision and Mission into action The Product Vision ensures the Roadmap reflects the priorities which matter the most to the company’s customers and to the company. Not every Product team in every company has a vision.

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Product Warrior

MARCH 9, 2023

Unfortunately, without anything better, many product leaders rely on the product roadmap to demonstrate their strategy. What happens when you show a senior leader a roadmap? Product leaders need to create confidence by using the value drivers of their product strategy to frame the roadmap - or in some cases replace it.

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Product Warrior

MARCH 9, 2023

Unfortunately, without anything better, many product leaders rely on the product roadmap to demonstrate their strategy. What happens when you show a senior leader a roadmap? Product leaders need to create confidence by using the value drivers of their product strategy to frame the roadmap - or in some cases replace it.

Product Strategy 52

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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.

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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. How do you create a roadmap? It helps you find product-market fit and gives your team direction. Strategy is made up of three elements: your vision, objectives and roadmap.

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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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The Product Coalition

MARCH 18, 2022

Around that time, a healthy startup should have established: A solid team A great product/service with at least one core value proposition A base of loyal and highly satisfied customers Once the founder sees good traction with 50+ enterprise customers and/or thousands of users, they face a dilemma. Are there capacity or incentive issues?

Customer Experience 191

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DISQO

JUNE 30, 2017

When you look at your roadmap, how confident are you that the products and features on it will be successful? 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? Below are four lessons I learned from them.

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ProductPlan

AUGUST 10, 2023

It’s not sexy and won’t land the leadership team any TED Talks. The team can still make minor changes and improvements that boost adoption, revenue, and retention while still pursuing big bets. A clear product vision Every business and product needs a vision to guide everything that follows, from strategy to staffing to roadmaps.

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The Product Guy

AUGUST 13, 2020

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? It was a mind expanding exercise and set a clear structure for me to rethink what is really the differentiation factor in our product. .

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ProductPlan

FEBRUARY 22, 2023

The pressure doesn’t let up even after you decide on your product strategy and communicate your vision on your roadmaps. Thankfully, the product development lifecycle doesn’t always have to exist in a pressure cooker. Thankfully, the product development lifecycle doesn’t always have to exist in a pressure cooker.

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Intercom, Inc.

NOVEMBER 3, 2022

Scaling a support team is challenging enough as it is. Maybe you’ve just extended support hours and it’s becoming harder to plan shifts for different time zones; maybe you’re spending hours figuring out schedules for the week ahead; maybe the inflow prediction was a bit off and now your team is under or overstaffed.

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DISQO

JUNE 30, 2017

When you look at your roadmap, how confident are you that the products and features on it will be successful? 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? Below are four lessons I learned from them.

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DISQO

JUNE 30, 2017

When you look at your roadmap, how confident are you that the products and features on it will be successful? 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? Below are four lessons I learned from them.

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Weak Development Team Product Research User Testing Customer Feedback 40

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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The Product Coalition

MAY 10, 2021

This line of thinking is where success at achieving the First Opportunity and the BigVision begins to get derailed before you and your team have even started working. BigVision’s Product Research & Development teams begin researching customers, the business model and the industry. We’ll come back to these.

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Intercom, Inc.

JULY 28, 2022

Sanj has plenty of experience scaling sales teams at growing businesses, and that’s precisely why, as of November of last year, he‘s overseeing EMEA sales at Intercom. In today’s episode, we sat down with Sanj to talk about scaling sales teams, what makes a great salesperson, and strategies to deliver the best outcomes for your customers.

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ProductPlan

AUGUST 10, 2023

It’s not sexy and won’t land the leadership team any TED Talks. The team can still make minor changes and improvements that boost adoption, revenue, and retention while still pursuing big bets. A clear product vision Every business and product needs a vision to guide everything that follows, from strategy to staffing to roadmaps.

Reporting Tools 52

Reporting Tools Feedback Software Product Research User Testing 52

Mind the Product

APRIL 18, 2019

The rollercoaster ride that is product development is inherently chaotic and ever-changing. Sure, there are semi-quantitative ways of estimating uncertainty for each assumption (for example, the RICE framework for prioritization), but as with many things in product development, these are guess-based models that help us to compare options.

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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. Looking ahead, Part 3 brings together the Product specific Vision, Roadmap and Goals. Identify their strengths, weaknesses, opportunities and threats (SWOT).

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Mironov Consulting

DECEMBER 5, 2023

Pure revenue may be helpful for the Sales organization, since they probably need to hire 35% more account teams each year.  ”  “Once product/engineering give us hard dates tied to exact feature definitions and use cases and Ideal Customer Profiles, Sales can form the right account-based selling teams.” 

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Userpilot

JANUARY 21, 2021

In this post – we will make it clear how Product Owner vs. Product Manager’s roles differ, what skills each need to have to excel in their roles, why you need both in your product team and when is a good time to hire for those roles! Product Manager’s roles is the stage in the product development process where each is involved.

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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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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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Mind the Product

OCTOBER 24, 2019

Product managers can make better decisions if they’ve built transparency and trust with their team. Strategic decisions provide direction and focus for your product, guide product development action, and ensure alignment within your product ecosystem. You may also reduce trust in your team. A culture of trust develops.

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Product Innovation Educators

JANUARY 13, 2020

Also, we talk in the beginning about Jill’s experience developing the Adobe Creative Cloud; lots to learn just from that. 0:38] What was your experience developing Adobe Creative Cloud? It failed because we weren’t all-in, not because the product was bad, but because the go-to-market model was completely wrong.

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Userpilot

MARCH 13, 2024

TL;DR Feature ideation is a process through which product teams brainstorm ideas for new features to introduce to their product. A SWOT analysis helps discover gaps and opportunities in your product for new feature development. It informs the creative process for product roadmapping and helps focus on impactful feature enhancements.

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Gainsight

JUNE 29, 2021

The need for a team to manage customer relationships and needs became clear as companies started losing customers. SaaS companies have pioneered Customer Success as a function, building dedicated teams to manage relationships and make sure customers are happy and seeing value from a product or service they purchased.

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Userpilot

NOVEMBER 3, 2022

Results in higher team productivity. The main differentiator is the target audience. It’s a great way to save time for your HR team while ensuring new employees don’t get stranded. Company and team structure. Product roadmaps. Such disjointed communication can result in a bad customer experience.

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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. This helped me develop intuitions about our users, their needs, and our product’s strengths and weaknesses.

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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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