Product Management Lessons from the Trenches

JULY 10, 2018

Two years ago this week, I started work as the first VP of Product Management at NTENT - a company with huge, rapidly growing market, world-famous CTO, seasoned executives and engineering team, and core technology that only a handful of companies in the world possess. Review company documents and presentations.

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ProductPlan

FEBRUARY 15, 2022

Is the role of product operations about building and documenting processes—guided by the needs and requirements of product? Or is it about refining, documenting, and shepherding the ongoing use of established processes? What do the sales or marketing teams need to know about a product? Data is important. Product Data Analyst.

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The Product Coalition

FEBRUARY 15, 2024

Sustainable competitive advantage In today’s dynamic market, maintaining a competitive edge is crucial. Generative AI enables companies to innovate rapidly, adapt to market changes efficiently, and establish a leading position in their industries. This agility provides a significant advantage in staying ahead of competitors.

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UX Planet

JANUARY 18, 2024

Competitive Edge: Companies that prioritize UX research, especially top UX research companies, tend to stand out in the market by offering user-centric products that cater to specific user requirements. Analytical Reviews: Data analysis is a key part of UX research, helping B2B companies understand how users interact with their products.

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Usersnap

FEBRUARY 23, 2022

How is SaaS Product Management the Central Nervous System to Product-Led Growth? SaaS product management is the integral process and execution of bringing a company’s digital product line to market (e.g. “Go-To-Market”), Go-To-Market”), from start to finish. What is SaaS Product Management? What does this mean?

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UX Studio

DECEMBER 14, 2023

The following lines are written with full bias due to nostalgia and my gratitude towards all the people who made UX studio a special community, a hub for our professional passion, and a source of inspiration. From there, we started thinking seriously about building our product, reviewing the pain points of our community.

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UX Studio

MARCH 1, 2024

But with so many options flooding the market, it’s easy to feel overwhelmed. The tool let us edit the output easily , but this situation highlighted the need to carefully review automatically generated insights. They also tend to say positive things about the product and features.

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UX Planet

FEBRUARY 1, 2024

Why this Industry The finance industry presents a compelling opportunity for designing applications due to the significant and widespread challenges outlined in the problem statement. Developing applications that cater to this large market can have a widespread positive impact.

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The Product Coalition

JULY 29, 2019

How to not screw up your product launch:spend some time thinking about the go to market plan in advance Every product team aspires to ship awesome products. A tool that has been helpful as I think about this with my team is a specific product process (diagram above) with various documents depending on the stage of the product.

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The Product Coalition

FEBRUARY 11, 2024

I knew it not because I looked at our behavioral tracking (we couldn’t have one, as our systems were installed on-prem and disconnected from the internet). I never had the opportunity to keep that promise, and the feature kept living: poorly written and unused, but providing a positive answer to RFIs and RFPs until I left 3 years later.

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Userpilot

OCTOBER 4, 2022

It’s a linear, top-down approach, whereas growth loops are closed-loop systems where the process generates new inputs by design. Viral loops promote word-of-mouth marketing by getting existing users to refer your product to their network. Loops also come in three types of common designs: viral, content-led, and product-led.

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Intercom, Inc.

JANUARY 28, 2020

Enter GetAccept , the all-in-one platform for B2B sales teams that brings video, live chat, proposal design, document tracking and e-signatures together to simplify the life of a sales team. And to keep track of everything, GetAccept has been using Intercom across its support, sales, and marketing teams to drive faster growth.

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Userpilot

OCTOBER 17, 2023

There are nine types of customer insights you can collect, and they include: Market research data to identify gaps, competitive advantages, growth areas , and, most importantly, the needs of your customers. Competitor reviews to identify where your competitors are delighting or disappointing their audience.

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The Product Guy

OCTOBER 9, 2018

We are rapidly approaching a company size where not all strategy can originate with the founder; we need to diversify markets, enter new markets, and have at least points-of-view on emerging markets and how we will address them. What systems/metrics/processes do we need to measure and track winning?

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The Product Coalition

JUNE 21, 2021

Many worked from home on tasks ranging from organising team activities via Slack, analysing data and collaborating on documents via Google Docs, to discussing strategies via Microsoft Teams and coaching clients via Zoom. Adopting the recommended processes will improve the quality of businesses and the markets they participate in.

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Pragmatic Marketing

NOVEMBER 21, 2018

In last week’s webinar with Pragmatic Marketing , Centercode CEO Luke Freiler shared Beta Testing tips for product managers so they can, even with limited time and resources, leverage turnkey Customer Validation assets. According to Pragmatic Marketing’s research, Product teams spend 73% of their time on tactical activities.

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Userpilot

AUGUST 20, 2022

It drives customer loyalty, positive word of mouth, and user engagement. Although customer success (CS) leads to a positive experience (which benefits customer love). Customer love improves word of mouth, positive reviews, customer retention , customer loyalty, and customer stickiness. Positive reviews.

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Imaginary Cloud - Design

APRIL 29, 2021

Moreover, job positions for web designers may also include UX , UI , and Graphic Design responsibilities. And to be fair, it is also very valued in the job market. Due to that, a web designer can be a demanding and versatile job position, requiring very specific technical and soft skills. HTML and CSS. Conclusion.

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The Product Coalition

MARCH 18, 2021

A Cision PR Newswire report projects the SaaS market to grow from $158.2 Decide on the core features to offer, and document the requirements. Non-functional requirements (NFRs): These describe how well the system should perform and not what it does. Test it in the market. billion in 2020 to $307.3 billion by 2026.

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UX Studio: Product Management

MARCH 19, 2021

Speed to market. Goal : Develop your idea to a level where it can be first introduced to the market. There’s a good chance that the team might have already piled up market research reports, but they still have a lot of assumptions – you want signals that support your decision in a cost-effective way. Well-documented framework.

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Usersnap

DECEMBER 19, 2023

Versatility in Product Management Understanding User Satisfaction Assessing Usability Determining Feature Preferences Aligning with Market Trends Gathering Targeted Feedback for Iterations 5. Star Rating Ubiquitous in e-commerce and review sites, the star rating system is a visually engaging way to capture user opinions.

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Under 10 Consulting

DECEMBER 28, 2019

Before the demands of others overwhelm you, you need to prepare yourself to be the business and market liaison to the product team. Review the corporate pitch. Perhaps the fastest way to get up to speed on your company and its role in the industry is to review the product and corporate slide decks. Review them all.

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Userpilot

JANUARY 9, 2024

Review and analyze to identify improvement opportunities. Here are the 10 usability best practices about key user flows to keep in mind: Communicate system status so users know what is going on. Lastly, make sure help documentation is easily searchable. Study behavior trends to highlight any UX designs users avoid.

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Modus Create

APRIL 27, 2020

You should never be in this position. This, of course, affects the company’s ability to capture new revenue (new features = new value to the market) and hurts the company’s bottom line (wasted time = wasted money). Allow yourself time to vet and review references. Minor code increments allow faster reviews and quick fixes.

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BrainMates

MAY 28, 2019

SnapComms is a medium-sized New Zealand software company who wanted to evolve its sales-led culture into a market-led culture. Facilitating a market-driven way of thinking. customer service, engineering, marketing and sales, etc). customer service, engineering, marketing and sales, etc). Where do you start?

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Mind the Product

APRIL 27, 2017

There’s a lot of variation in how companies document product requirements. 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. Personally, I get positive results from detailed written requirements.

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Userpilot

JANUARY 11, 2024

Flagging missing documentation before submission. Offer multichannel support to improve customer experience Creating a multichannel support system helps ensure a seamless and consistent customer journey across a variety of channels and devices. The higher your CSAT score, the higher the positive perception of your onboarding strategy.

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bpma ProductHub

OCTOBER 16, 2016

For more than a decade people, departments and entire companies (including his own) have asked Paul Young, currently Vice President of Products at Pragmatic Marketing , to deliver successful and continuously improving products. Understanding your strategy and placement in your market is key.

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Intercom, Inc.

NOVEMBER 4, 2021

Previously on the show, we’ve taken you on a tour to meet everyone from our product management and marketing teams to our Sydney office down under. You can see a lot of the changes and updates on intercom.com, and all of those brand changes are kept in our brand guidelines document. We are that from an identity system standpoint.

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Userpilot

JANUARY 31, 2023

Winning new business is critical for any savvy product manager: a new client onboarding checklist template can help you systemize your path to a successful customer onboarding process. That starts with clear product positioning and unambiguous messaging. Al Ries Positioning is a powerful strategic tool.

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Mironov Consulting

SEPTEMBER 15, 2019

So when we’re framing market problems or opportunities for data science to improve our products, we need to be aggressive about providing context: Walk the DS team through detailed use cases. Before we promise our Board that we can outthink markets and competitors, it would be great to prove the theory.

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ProductPlan

JANUARY 5, 2023

At the time of writing this post, there were 525 postings on LinkedIn for positions in the U.S. When broadening the scope to include data scientists and data analysts, who often work closely with product managers to answer questions with data, the open positions swell to almost 7,000. due to regulatory restrictions.

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Modus Create

JANUARY 12, 2021

In a free market, successful companies that become complacent or comfortable with their share of the market, who don’t carefully consider the needs of the customer, become less competitive over time. There has never been a greater rate of change for customer expectations, the landscape of the market, and what is technically possible.

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Userpilot

SEPTEMBER 29, 2023

In this article, we've got a comprehensive review of the entire product development process. We'll take you through idea generation, market research, defining a minimum viable product, building new features, managing the launch, and beyond. Product development is the method of bringing a new product or service to market.

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ProductPlan

FEBRUARY 3, 2022

A product ops manager (or team) exists to support the product team by: Facilitating user interviews and other market research. Product ops provide critical support by building systems to capture, review, and analyze data. Product Operations’ Job Responsibilities. Overseeing quality assurance checks on new features.

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PMLesson's Ace the PM Interview

MAY 4, 2020

Next in the pre-release stage, you are helping to prepare marketing materials and user-facing documentation so your product is successful upon release. This may include building demo videos or working with marketing to get press about the upcoming launch. Gartner Peer Insights).

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Userpilot

APRIL 9, 2024

What are the best onboarding platforms available on the market in 2024? Renowned for its robust analytics and mobile app support, Pendo provides interactive in-app guides and retroactive analytics, positioning itself as a top choice for enterprises looking for comprehensive mobile onboarding solutions. This depends on your use case.

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