The Product HQ

APRIL 20, 2024

Looking to become a SaaS product manager? The need for SaaS product managers is skyrocketing with each passing year. More and more businesses develop Software as a Service (SaaS) products to remain relevant in their respective markets and grow their income streams. How to Become SaaS Product Manager?

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The Product Coalition

NOVEMBER 1, 2020

The right data and experimentation tools. A well designed experimentation system allows a company to accelerate growth by creating faster feedback loops and enabling progressive delivery. To have a successful experimentation program, the product managers need 3 things: 1. The right data and experimentation tools.

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Product Talk

SEPTEMBER 7, 2022

A lot of product teams claim to be focused on their users. This is why Teresa talks about continuous discovery in terms of forming new habits. It’s not so much about becoming perfect at continuous discovery (because there really isn’t such a thing). Have a Product in Practice story you’d like to share with Product Talk readers?

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Userpilot

JANUARY 20, 2024

How do you conduct root cause analysis in product management? We also explain why it’s important for product managers and share useful tips. Next, conduct further research, run experiments , and dig deeper into issues to validate or refute the hypotheses. Finally, implement the solutions and monitor their impact.

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Userpilot

JANUARY 23, 2024

Product positioning strategies are not only a marketing tactic but a survival strategy. So how do you ensure that your product not only lives but actually thrives? TL;DR Product positioning is about defining your product’s place in the market to attract customers and enhance brand identity.

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Intercom, Inc.

AUGUST 25, 2020

There’s a lot of discussion around conversational computing these days – at Intercom, we talk about our conversational relationship platform , conversational support and conversational marketing. But what makes software conversational? In software, gaps in understanding can be relatively small (“How do I filter by location?”)

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Userpilot

JULY 17, 2023

How to choose the right product team structure for your SaaS? We also look at: Responsibilities of product teams Key roles you may want to include Different ways to structure your team Examples of different structures Let’s get right to it! They lead a team that consists of developers and designers.

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Userpilot

OCTOBER 26, 2023

How can you implement them in the SaaS context? Market Development involves selling existing products to new markets. Market Penetration focuses on selling more existing products within the current market. Product Development aims to grow within the existing market by introducing new or enhanced products.

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Userpilot

NOVEMBER 21, 2023

Do you even need a product launch checklist? More importantly, you will find here 2 different checklists: one for new products and the other for updates or feature releases. We also share some best practices for product managers on how to pull off a successful product launch. What is a product launch checklist?

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Userpilot

NOVEMBER 23, 2023

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. Build a product that users love by delivering value and a good product experience.

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Usersnap

FEBRUARY 23, 2022

Every SaaS company, whether B2B or not, looks to get more intimately connected with their customers’ needs and pains to grow. In order to understand customer needs, get more customer feedback , and use it actionably, the rise and importance of SaaS product management within digital companies are “mooning” ??.

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Userpilot

JULY 9, 2023

If you’re a UX designer or product manager wondering how to deliver a better product in terms of usability and user experience, this is the article for you. Start improving user experience and usability with user research. Card sorting and fake door testing are useful testing methods before the product launch.

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Userpilot

SEPTEMBER 29, 2023

The product development process is part art, part science, and all important to the success of your SaaS. In this article, we've got a comprehensive review of the entire product development process. While product development describes the process of creating the product itself (i.e. Ready to get started?

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UX Planet

FEBRUARY 13, 2024

Prescriptive Agile frameworks make it hard for designers to add valuable contributions to the team. Without discovery practices as part of the sprint, the product is destined to fail. After delivery, we prayed to the gods that the final product would work as designed. In 2011 I was a UX Designer in a design studio.

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The Product Coalition

FEBRUARY 29, 2024

But navigating this linguistic labyrinth to choose the right LLM for your product can feel daunting.Fear not, language adventurers! This guide equips you with the knowledge and tools to confidently select the perfect LLM companion for your project, complete with a handy scorecard and real-world examples.

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Roman Pichler

FEBRUARY 2, 2021

Before the advent of agile frameworks like Scrum , a product person—the product manager—would typically carry out the market research, compile a market requirements specification, create a business case, put together product roadmap, write a requirements specification, and then hand it off to a project manager.

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Modus Create

MAY 12, 2022

Companion apps have helped users in self-diagnosis, allowing them to seek proactive treatment. Many healthcare organizations also use companion apps to help their users fight addiction. . Why the Ishihara Test? We felt that the century-old test could use a 21st-century makeover — a mobile app. Set Expectations.

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Userpilot

DECEMBER 12, 2023

Product roadmaps provide a high-level view of all product development motions, including UX ones. A field roadmap gives a general overview of all UX efforts across all areas and products. A specialty roadmap focuses exclusively on one area, for example, UX design or research , but across multiple products.

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The Product Coalition

MARCH 15, 2021

I wrote a variation of this for the various product teams at Whispir recently and then as fate would have it, a CEO I know reached out to me on LinkedIn asking the same thing?—?so with very little effort but a huge amount of diligence and thought, and you can do it in 15 minutes if you have access to all the research already.

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UX Planet

FEBRUARY 1, 2024

Project Brief The project involves creating a comprehensive finance management app. The app will also provide news and educational content on investments, maturity details for FDs and RDs, and statistical spending insights. Designing applications that address these specific pain points can set the stage for groundbreaking solutions.

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Userpilot

JULY 20, 2022

Would you like to know when product managers should use it and how? Quality Function Deployment (QDF) is a framework that helps teams translate customer requirements into technical requirements, and design the product and processes needed for its development. House of Quality is a common tool used for that. Are you ready?

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Userpilot

MAY 19, 2022

Have you ever wondered what makes a successful product and how a product manager can build one? If yes, you’re in the right place as we’re just about to explore the 12 must-have characteristics of successful digital products. To be successful, your SaaS product needs to provide the right mix of features.

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UX Planet

JANUARY 31, 2024

In this article, I want to share tips on creating the first version of a career progression framework that fits your team and company, and how to get the most out of it. A well-crafted career progression framework can become an essential tool to overcome a significant number of challenges of design leadership.

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Intercom, Inc.

APRIL 19, 2018

Yet competition and the exponential rate of change in software are pushing against that mission. Enter our philosophy of Run Less Software. It means reducing choices amongst engineering teams and standardizing technology, so our team can spend as much time as possible delivering value to customers. Why did we choose them?

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The Product Coalition

JANUARY 27, 2022

At the beginning of any software development project, managers think of which methodology is between waterfall and agile. It’s essential to follow clearly defined processes or software development life cycle (SDLC) to ensure software development quality. Waterfall and agile: A smart method or bad solution?

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UX Planet

DECEMBER 15, 2023

This requires understanding users’ needs and desires, and then using storytelling to address those desires in a creative way that crafts a deeper connection between the users and the digital product or service. That is because users who are emotionally engaged with a digital product are more likely to become repeat visitors.

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The Product Coalition

MARCH 5, 2024

Challenging an emerging myth that Agile is dead, and providing insight on key principles & tactics to finding success with Agile-based product teams. Nowadays it seems to have an opinion of Agile product methods like Scrum. Agile methods like Scrum are not a one-size-fits-all framework.

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Userpilot

OCTOBER 11, 2023

Growth is fundamental to every SaaS business: growth experimentation is a way to turbocharge your growth prospects and drive customer success. TL;DR The growth experimentation process is a systematic approach to testing new ideas. Firstly, it boosts the velocity of data and research-driven decision-making.

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Userpilot

JULY 23, 2023

TL;DR A go-to-market strategy is a comprehensive plan for taking your product or service to target customers. Key members of the GTM team: Go-to-Market Manager: Responsible for overseeing and coordinating the entire GTM process , ensuring alignment across go-to-market teams and successful product launches. Who is part of the GTM team?

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Roman Pichler

FEBRUARY 2, 2021

Before the advent of agile frameworks like Scrum , a product person—the product manager—would typically carry out the market research, compile a market requirements specification, create a business case, put together product roadmap, write a requirements specification, and then hand it off to a project manager.

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Userpilot

MARCH 21, 2023

For any SaaS owner or product manager, understanding your customers’ daily lives and the user tasks they need to complete to achieve their goals is vital. In this article, we’re going to unpack a repeatable framework for you to analyze user tasks to create successful user experiences. a layered task diagram).

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The Product Guy

NOVEMBER 9, 2017

Guest Post by: Alex Hsu (Mentee, Session 4, The Product Mentor) [Paired with Mentor, Addi Regev]. Why do I need a framework? A research conducted by Alpha UX found that 25% of Product Manager surveyed wished for a clearer product roadmap and strategy. Research article. Quarterly Objectives.

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Userpilot

AUGUST 29, 2022

Since customer success is a relatively new career, CSMs tend to take tasks from sales, support, product marketing, and more than they can handle. Customer success (CS) ensures customers get consistent value when using your product. Create product experiences that are relevant for each user segment. What is customer success?

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The Product Coalition

JANUARY 12, 2023

And What You Can Do to Avoid Them Disclaimer: I don’t really believe you can ‘teach’ Product Management. That’s what I did in 2022 and doing so, I also got to dig into a lot of clients’ products. Product Managers I work with often tell me that “the purpose” has been decided by top management “a while ago”.

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Lenny Rachitsky

FEBRUARY 20, 2024

Each week I tackle reader questions about building product, driving growth, and accelerating your career. It’s easy to think AI tools are a fad, too complicated, or unlikely to have real impact on your job. Then I’ll share 20 examples of how people are using GPTs today to make their workplaces more productive.

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Ask Benny

JANUARY 25, 2020

How to build a roadmap while staying agile and lean, and why so many product teams do agile wrong. The rest of the company (product management, project management, sales, executive team, marketing) might be left behind or only be partly included. Sprints are internal without any release and feedback from customers.

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Usersnap

JUNE 30, 2022

Product-led growth (PLG) is a model that is user-centric and user-focused. Customer acquisition, expansion, conversion, and retention are product-driven instead of sales-driven. What we’ve seen is that a product-led growth strategy can increase business retention by improving customer experience. Luckily, you’re not alone!

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