Roman Pichler

MAY 4, 2022

Listen to this article: [link]. Why the Scrum Team is Not Enough. Scrum is a popular agile framework. Its strength is, at least partly, based on its roles with the Scrum team being the fundamental unit. This team consists of a product owner , a Scrum Master , and several developers, which are also known as development team. Forming such a team connects the person in charge of the product—the product owner—with the people who design, architect, program, test, and document the solution—the develop

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The Product Coalition

MAY 1, 2022

Strategic thinking is hard by definition. It deals with many unknowns, as well as multiple dimensions and variables at any given time. The only way to move forward is to identify the real anchors and build around them. Here’s how to do that. Photo by Surendran MP on Unsplash Do you play Wordle? I absolutely love it! I play it every day with my daughters (or, if I’m completely honest, I let them join me when I’m playing).

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Userpilot

MAY 3, 2022

Do you wonder why users are not engaging well with your app? You’re probably making some of the common product engagement mistakes that PMs make. This article goes over the most common mistakes when it comes to driving product engagement and provides ways to avoid them. TL;DR. Product engagement measures the breadth, depth, and frequency of usage of your app.

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The Product Guy

MAY 1, 2022

Don’t forget about your qualitative data. Watch and learn more from product management expert, Amin Bashi.

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Speaker: Ben Epstein, Stealth Founder & CTO | Tony Karrer, Founder & CTO, Aggregage

When tasked with building a fundamentally new product line with deeper insights than previously achievable for a high-value client, Ben Epstein and his team faced a significant challenge: how to harness LLMs to produce consistent, high-accuracy outputs at scale. In this new session, Ben will share how he and his team engineered a system (based on proven software engineering approaches) that employs reproducible test variations (via temperature 0 and fixed seeds), and enables non-LLM evaluation m

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Product Talk

MAY 4, 2022

The beauty of continuous discovery is that there’s no single right way to do it. This is why Teresa often talks about guiding principles and core concepts , but encourages everyone to find what works best for them. For example, while Teresa recommends creating a product trio that includes a product manager, engineering lead, and a designer, she acknowledges that some product trios might be made up of slightly different members.

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Product Innovation Educators

MAY 2, 2022

How CTOs contribute to innovation and product management superiority. Today we are talking about senior roles that contribute to innovation, specifically the role of CTO (Chief Technology Officer). Product managers and leaders interact with many people in their organizations, and knowing how to leverage professional relationships is important to success.

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Mind the Product

MAY 6, 2022

In this ProductTank Zurich talk, Marty Cagan, Partner at Silicon Valley Product Group sits down for a Fireside chat to answer questions about his career and advise other product managers. [.] Read more » The post Fireside chat with Marty Cagan appeared first on Mind the Product.

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Intercom, Inc.

MAY 4, 2022

As omnichannel experiences become more important to consumers and CX becomes a key differentiating factor for businesses, our product team has made it their mission to increase those capabilities within the Intercom platform. With that in mind, our new April features focus on increased and more efficient channels of communication, access to the right data to influence the way you grow and scale your business.

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Alchemer Mobile

MAY 4, 2022

From surveys to reviews to social media, the amount of customer feedback brands collect on a daily basis can make you feel overwhelmed. It can feel daunting to sit on so much customer data when you don’t know where to start or why you should even be measuring customer sentiment in the first place. We’re here to help! Our guide, How to Measure, Analyze, and Use Mobile Customer Sentiment, will help you improve product experiences, inform marketing campaigns, and beat your competition.

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Stand out in your product management interview with guidance from Priyanka Upadhyay, an experienced product leader and Stanford Online program coach. In this guide, Upadhay dives into five key competencies interviewers will likely want to assess. She provides sample questions with detailed answers spanning: Product strategy Product design Execution Market estimation Teamwork Confidently land the product management role you want by pre-empting what interviewers are looking for and demonstrating y

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The Product Coalition

MAY 5, 2022

Products succeed in the marketplace because they solve at least one problem well enough that a significant number of people decide to pay for it. They make their users’ lives better in some way and they do it better than anyone else. As a Product Manager, I’ve built my career on building tools and experiences that not only make people’s’ lives simpler, but bring them a little joy along the way, too.

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Mind the Product

MAY 3, 2022

One of the things that’s been very useful to me over the course of my product management career so far is talking to customers. This statement seems so obvious that it should be self-evident. It should go without saying that speaking with customers is a fundamental product management activity that underpins all other aspects of [.] Read more » The post How I do continuous discovery appeared first on Mind the Product.

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Intercom, Inc.

MAY 5, 2022

Principles are a way of encoding successes, allowing teams to repeat behaviors that lead to positive outcomes and avoid behaviors that lead to mistakes. Over the last ten years, we’ve developed, refined, and iterated on our principles to ensure they each represent an important part of the way we work, collaborate, and build product. We’ve recently kicked off a blog series exploring these principles, written by the people that know them best – our R&D team.

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Nir Eyal

MAY 2, 2022

For many people, bars and booze serve as the original Tinder or Grinder, a socially acceptable way to shop for a mate. But not everyone in a bar is on the prowl. Some will tell you they go out for drinks to just unwind and have fun. That’s certainly true, but is there a deeper reason? The post Are We Really Having Fun at Bars or Just Escaping Reality?

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Effective risk management in product development balances safety, compliance, and opportunity. Risks can't be eliminated, but they can be mitigated through structured assessments, clear documentation, and expert guidance. Engaging specialists ensures efficiency, regulatory adherence, and product security while reducing costly oversights. A well-executed risk management plan includes frequent evaluations, defined assessment criteria, and a structured decision-making process.

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The Product Coalition

MAY 3, 2022

Photo by Alexander Shatov on Unsplash Over the pandemic, watch hours on the internet have taken a huge upward curve and Youtube has been a major contributor to that. Youtube has been social media’s big winner during the pandemic. The Google -owned video service saw usage grow from 73% of U.S. adults in 2019 to 81% in 2021. With this boost that Youtube has, it would be interesting to see how they set its goals for the post-pandemic phase.

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Mind the Product

MAY 5, 2022

Organizing a workshop is also a kind of journey, and we're ready to share the roadmap with you. In the previous part of this article, we covered the preparatory phase of the customer journey mapping workshop, and now it's time to delve into the actual conduct of the session and what follows. [.] Read more » The post A step-by-step guide to running a customer journey mapping workshop: part 2 appeared first on Mind the Product.

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UserInterviews

MAY 5, 2022

Every research team needs an insights repository. Here’s how to choose the right tool, ensure success, and considerations for scale.

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Userpilot

MAY 2, 2022

Vanity metrics vs actionable metrics SaaS: which ones should you choose for your SaaS business? The short answer is actionable metrics. It’s easy to get drawn to vanity metrics but they can be misleading. For your product marketing efforts to be successful, it’s crucial to understand the difference between vanity metrics and actionable metrics.

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Savvy B2B marketers know that a great account-based marketing (ABM) strategy leads to higher ROI and sustainable growth. In this guide, we’ll cover: What makes for a successful ABM strategy? What are the key elements and capabilities of ABM that can make a real difference? How is AI changing workflows and driving functionality? This Martech Intelligence Report on Enterprise Account-Based Marketing examines the state of ABM in 2024 and what to consider when implementing ABM software.

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TryMyUI

MAY 4, 2022

Image Source Technology is often heralded as both the great equalizer and the great emancipator. It opens the marketplace to would-be entrepreneurs in every corner of the globe. Also, it extends the light of education into the most remote regions of the world. It connects the historically marginalized to the community. Finally, it is a source of access, and through that access, it is also a source of power.

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Mind the Product

MAY 4, 2022

What is an OODA loop and how can it be used in product management? OODA stands for observe, orient, decide, and act. In this week's podcast, Kausambi Manjita, Co-Founder and CEO of Mason joins us to talk all about this concept and how it has been a useful asset in building products and scaling SaaS companies. [.] Read more » The post An introduction to OODA loops and SaaS scaling – Kausambi Manjita on The Product Experience appeared first on Mind the Product.

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ProductBoard

MAY 3, 2022

Only about 50% of product managers are confident that the products and features on their roadmaps reflect user needs and support their company’s long-term business strategy. If you’re part of the other 50%, it’s no surprise why. Product managers are pulled in so many different directions – you are continuously fielding questions from customer-facing teams, unblocking cross-functional partners.

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Userpilot

APRIL 30, 2022

Product-led vs sales-led growth? This is a decision you and your product team will have to make at some point in your go-to-market strategy to drive growth. Choosing the right growth strategy is important for all SaaS companies because it plays a role in how successful your company will be. It lets you shape your product, customer experiences, and sales process in the very best way.

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Speaker: Duke Heninger, Partner and Fractional CFO at Ampleo & Creator of CFO System

Are you ready to elevate your accounting processes for 2025? 🚀 Join us for an exclusive webinar led by Duke Heninger, a seasoned fractional CFO and CPA passionate about transforming back-office operations for finance teams. This session will cover critical best practices and process improvements tailored specifically for accounting professionals.

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Gainsight

MAY 3, 2022

Congratulations, you just embarked on your next endeavor as a newly minted Customer Success Manager (CSM) at a B2B SaaS company… Now what? The company will provide onboarding sessions to teach about the team operations, and how to perform your duties, but what do the company and Chief Revenue Officer (CRO) really care about? How can you prove to be a valuable employee right away?

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Mind the Product

MAY 2, 2022

What does a good strategy look like, and how exactly do you build it? In this #mtpcon Digital Americas talk, Nacho Bassino, author of Product Direction and Director of Product at Xing, deep-dives into a practical approach to creating your product strategy using a real-life case study. Many times we talk about strategy, why it’s [.] Read more » The post Anatomy of a real product strategy by Nacho Bassino appeared first on Mind the Product.

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First Round Review

MAY 3, 2022

From early employee to technical founder: Amber Feng shares essential lessons for engineers up and down the org chart, drawing from her 8-year career at Stripe and becoming a technical founder of Cocoon.

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Userpilot

MAY 6, 2022

In an increasingly competitive marketplace, video onboarding is increasingly becoming a vital tool for SaaS product managers. Why? It’s one of the most engaging ways to win the battle for user attention – whether that’s attracting new customers, or to support employee onboarding. In this article, we’re going to dig into the detail of how you can use video content to help users learn at their own pace, and ultimately build a successful onboarding experience.

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Business of Software Conference

MAY 5, 2022

8 June | Online. Jobs to be Done is not new, but it is an underrated tool every level of every business can use to get better at understanding where others are coming from as the view your product/project. On 8 June 2022 , Business of Software are bringing you a one-day conf full of amazing JTBD insights, workshops, and talks from experts such as Bob Moesta, Claire Suellentrop, Nopadon Wongpakdee, and many more.

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The Accidental Product Manager

MAY 2, 2022

The products may look like water, but they taste like something else Image Credit: Marco Verch Professional Photographer. Think about your favorite non-water drink right now. What color is it? When you pour it into a glass, it looks the way that it should – you can recognize it. In fact, when you drink it, it probably tastes the way that it looks. What if all of this could be changed.

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Centercode

MAY 6, 2022

There are countless benefits to having a successful user testing program. Being able to confidently bring new products to market and mature existing products is where the key business value lies.

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