Sat.Oct 20, 2018 - Fri.Oct 26, 2018

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The Nuance of Better

The Product Coalition

If you want better products from your teams, define what better means and what needs to be better. Here’s a ritual that will help your team do this more effectively. This article is co-written by Mary Sherwin. Illustration by Megan Lynch / frog What we’ve created isn’t good enough. The people on your team never really want to hear this. Yet it happens all the time when working on products of all shapes and sizes.

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Escape From the Feature Roadmap to Outcome-driven Development

Mind the Product

I’ve made a lot of roadmaps in my time. In fact, in the first three years I was at WorldRemit, I counted that I represented our company roadmap in 10 different ways. This reformatting was always an attempt to make the roadmap work harder: to bring more focus, communicate more effectively with stakeholders, keep a growing team joined up. One of many, many roadmaps.

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Product Management Interview Tips

The Product Bistro

So you want a product management job? How should you prepare for the interview? Especially if you are junior or looking for your first step on the product management ladder. I will share my experiences of several hops, and over 20 years of experience, on both sides of the interviewing process. Or you have been […].

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How to retain more users with value-based onboarding

Intercom, Inc.

Brand new users aren’t committed to your product when they first sign up. They’re just trying it out. A great first use experience has to prove to these new and uncertain customers that your product will actually make their lives better. It’s not surprising that onboarding flows focused on demonstrating all the features of a product become leaky buckets as new customers quickly lose interest.

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B2B eCommerce, Self-Service Portals, and PIM Trends for 2024

In 2024, B2B customers expect better quality and service with streamlined experiences that match consumer-grade simplicity—no long calls or meetings required. Our B2B eCommerce Trends Report, surveying 400+ B2B professionals in the US and Europe, reveals how eCommerce has become vital to top companies’ strategies. The report shows how leaders are leveraging eCommerce to break data silos, unify channels, and deliver the personalized experiences that customers demand.

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In Product Management, it’s Not About the Big Idea. It’s About the Problem You Need to Solve.

Product Management Unpacked

In reality, there are already too many ideas. Maybe even too many big ideas. That’s the bad news. Here’s the good news: as consumers and businesses, we have an endless number of problems. Some are big problems. And usually big problems need ideas of all sizes in order to find the right solution. A key to success in a startup: focus on getting out of the building (thanks, Steve Blank!

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Product Management Rockstars

The Product Bistro

I read a post today by Tom Leung on his blog, “Always be Shipping” that got me thinking. The premise of the posting was that only superstars need to apply. As someone in my earlier days who viewed himself with many of the qualities that are being sought, and to a large degree still lives […].

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Key strategies to successfully scale your customer support

Intercom, Inc.

How do you scale a support organization without breaking the budget or killing the quality of the customer experience? It’s an age old question for anyone leading a customer support organization, the sort of challenge that requires continuous innovation as a company and its customer base expands. With more than 30,000 customers and 100 people on the Customer Support team, we’ve come a long way from the team of just nine when we first shared a blog post on using Intercom to support our customers.

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Video: The Art of Being Compelling as a Product Manager

Sachin Rekhi

Video: The Art of Being Compelling as a Product Manager. Slides: The Art of Being Compelling as a Product Manager. Essay: The Art of Being Compelling as a Product Manager. At the beginning of October, I got the chance to present my talk, The Art of Being Compelling, at INDUSTRY: The Product Conference , a premier product management conference that took place in Cleveland, Ohio.

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Hiten Shah on how to avoid common pitfalls of product development

Miro

Hiten Shah on how to avoid common pitfalls of product development In today’s fast-changing business environment, it’s critical to consistently come up with valid product ideas, scale them and move forward to create the future for your customers. That’s a tough goal, but San Francisco-based entrepreneur Hiten Shah has mastered the art, even with a team that’s distributed […].

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Usage-Based Monetization Musts: A Roadmap For Sustainable Revenue Growth

Speaker: David Warren

Transitioning to a usage-based business model offers powerful growth opportunities but comes with unique challenges. How do you validate strategies, reduce risks, and ensure alignment with customer value? Join us for a deep dive into designing effective pilots that test the waters and drive success in usage-based revenue. Discover how to develop a pilot that captures real customer feedback, aligns internal teams with usage metrics, and rethinks sales incentives to prioritize lasting customer eng

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On Product Advisory Boards

The Product Guy

Great feedback can come from all places that can directly lead to amazing product decisions. Have you created your product advisory board yet? Join us as we learn the why, what and how from product management expert, Jordan Bergtraum.

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How to balance customer success and revenue in sales

Intercom, Inc.

Customer success means wildly different things to different companies in the SaaS industry. Many organizations create customer success teams but there’s no clear definition as to how these teams develop long-term value for both the customer and the business. At some companies, customer success managers create resources for thousands of self-serve customers, while at others they work with a select few.

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Product Thinking vs. Project Thinking

The Product Coalition

One of the biggest challenges a product manager will face (or an organization for that matter) is trying to elevate thinking and culture from a project level to a product level. Project Thinking Project thinking is fairly pervasive. Many folks, especially in software development, have spent a lot of their careers focused on projects and project management.

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How Can Product Managers Help Tiffany Once Again Become “Cool”?

The Accidental Product Manager

Tiffany wants to sell more jewelry Image Credit: StevieWu. What makes a jewelry store cool? The 183 year-old Tiffany’s jewelry store has been cool for a very long time. They’ve been associated with very, very cool people like the actress Audrey Hepburn and that has made them very successful. However, as of late they seem to have lost their cool factor.

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Prepare Now: 2025s Must-Know Trends For Product And Data Leaders

Speaker: Jay Allardyce, Deepak Vittal, and Terrence Sheflin

As we look ahead to 2025, business intelligence and data analytics are set to play pivotal roles in shaping success. Organizations are already starting to face a host of transformative trends as the year comes to a close, including the integration of AI in data analytics, an increased emphasis on real-time data insights, and the growing importance of user experience in BI solutions.

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The decline of American democracy is rooted in poor UX

TryMyUI

UX principles applied in the digital world can be just as effective in the real world, and the U.S. voting system—from registration to the polls— is in desperate need of a UX makeover. The post The decline of American democracy is rooted in poor UX appeared first on TryMyUI Blog.

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3 ways Answer Bot saves your support team time

Intercom, Inc.

Answer Bot is a big part of our vision for the future – a world where Messengers, Bots and Apps provide radical efficiencies for your business. At its core, it is designed to save time – especially for support teams. Cleo, one of our early adopter customers, found that Answer Bot resolved one in five of all of their inbound conversations. Imagine what your team could be doing with all of that extra time… but before you get too distracted, let’s dive into how Answer Bot saves time for your suppor

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‘CSM & Product’ Is the New ‘Sales & Marketing’

Gainsight

If you take a look at my LinkedIn page (and scroll way, way down), you’ll see exactly where my career took a left turn. (No, not Chipshot.com—you scrolled too far!). I started my professional career as a product manager. Well, I tried to start my career by doing a Master’s in Computer Science in college, which taught me I wasn’t smart enough to be a developer, but maybe I could hang with them.

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Where Does the Growth Role Fit?

ProductCraft Debates

Everywhere you look these days, there seems to be a growth marketer or growth product manager (or growth hacker, as much as that title makes us cringe). But does anyone have a good sense of what these growth roles actually mean? Last week we published a piece that tries to explain at least what growth. The post Where Does the Growth Role Fit? appeared first on ProductCraft by Pendo.

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The 25 Types of Innovation Dominating R&D Today

Innovation varies widely across sectors and organizations, creating value in diverse forms. Understanding different types is crucial for R&D teams to foster creativity and uncover missed opportunities. This guide explores 25 key types of innovation in management frameworks.

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Management Signals

Johanna Rothman

I’m catching up on my podcasts and just listened to Seth Godin’s Akimbo episode about honest signals. (Do listen.) It’s about the signals we send that are honest or dishonest and why we might choose one, the other, or both. I started to think about the management signals we send, especially in an agile transformation. In From Chaos to Successful Distributed Agile Teams , Mark and I developed this chart to show how agile approaches change the culture.

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How to Increase Your App’s Success with Strategic Marketing Tactics

The Product Coalition

Most companies understand the value of integrating a strategic marketing plan into their app development process and see it as one of mobile app success factors. It is essential to create a planned marketing strategy in order to ensure app success. Still, although your company wants to implement the best marketing campaigns, it can be difficult to know how to start.

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TEI 199: A panel discussion with women product VPs and Directors – moderated by Shaughnessy Speirs

Product Innovation Educators

Female product leaders on grit, grace, and everything in between. There are several thousand product managers on LinkedIn and many of them are women. However, I noticed that few product VPs are women. About the same time, I attended a “Women in Product Management” panel at Rocky Mountain Product Camp, moderated by Shaughnessy Speirs. Afterward we discussed how few product VPs are women and how it would be valuable to have a panel discussion focused on women in senior product roles.

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Engineering Burnout: What it is and how Experimentation and Continuous Delivery can help

Split

Recently I had the pleasure of speaking with a panel of talented technology leaders on the topic of burnout within engineering organizations. I have worked with startups and led engineering teams large and small. I’ve been through burnout first hand and have also helped teammates come out the other side, and it was incredibly valuable to have a dialogue on the subject and learn from people’s first-hand experience how to address this problem with the greatest success.

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Launching LLM-Based Products: From Concept to Cash in 90 Days

Speaker: Christophe Louvion, Chief Product & Technology Officer of NRC Health and Tony Karrer, CTO at Aggregage

Christophe Louvion, Chief Product & Technology Officer of NRC Health, is here to take us through how he guided his company's recent experience of getting from concept to launch and sales of products within 90 days. In this exclusive webinar, Christophe will cover key aspects of his journey, including: LLM Development & Quick Wins 🤖 Understand how LLMs differ from traditional software, identifying opportunities for rapid development and deployment.

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How to Find Opportunities in Design Flaws

ProductPlan

There are lots of ways to define a product manager’s job , but here’s one viable way you could succinctly describe the product management role: identify flaws and design solutions for them. You can find design flaws everywhere, if you’re looking. They’re in your competitors’ products, in the standard processes your customers use today to get things done, and even in your own products.

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F Customer Feedback

The Product Coalition

My talk from this year’s SaaStock conference in Dublin We had a great time as Silver sponsors at SaaStock 18 over in Dublin this year. Brilliant meeting so many new people and catching up with so many Receptive customers too. On the first day, I was lucky enough to be one of the speakers. Here’s the write up & slides from it. It was called: F Customer Feedback Video will be available soon too.

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3 Ways Customer Reviews Can Grow Your Sales

AB Tasty

While we live in an era of digital marketing, the significance of word of mouth can never be denied or overlooked. But how can digital marketing be linked to word of mouth? Well, have you ever heard of the term ‘online reviews’? I'm sure you have, thus showing how word of mouth and online reviews are already intertwined. This article was originally posted on AB Tasty as 3 Ways Customer Reviews Can Grow Your Sales.

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Why an SRE should be among your first 15 hires

Split

As a follow-up to Why Quality Automation Should Be Among Your 10 First Hires , I’d like to discuss why an SRE (Software Reliability Engineer) should be among your first 15 engineering hires. With the evolution of cloud computing and SaaS technologies, combined with the practice treating infrastructure as code (See Chef, Puppet, Salt, Ansible), the term DevOps has emerged as a way to view many aspects of operations as a software problem.

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An Architect’s Guide for Selecting Scalable, Data-Layer Technologies

There’s no getting around it: selecting the right foundational data-layer components is crucial for long-term application success. That’s why we developed this white paper to give you insights into four key open-source technologies – Apache Cassandra®, Apache Kafka®, Apache Spark™, and OpenSearch® – and how to leverage them for lasting success. Discover everything you’ll want to know about scalable, data-layer technologies: Learn when to choose these technologies and when to avoid them Explore h

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How to make your remote product team more efficient with RealtimeBoard

Miro

With the growing trend of remote work, especially in digital industries, product managers are faced with the challenges of managing distributed teams while accommodating visual thinking (Scrum or Agile), maintaining team alignment and comfort and delivering expected outcomes faster. To help you succeed in this challenging environment, we created RealtimeBoard, which over the past few years […].

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Demonstrating the purpose of Product Management

The Product Coalition

I’ve had the pleasure of working with extremely thoughtful people in my career. At Trulia and Zillow Group , I had peers with decades of experience in Design and Engineering across many types of companies and interacted with many types of Product Managers. At Shopkick and now Brilliant , I have worked with a lot of the same engineering team for the past few years.

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How Cohort Analysis Can Increase Your Conversions

AB Tasty

This is a guest post by Charlie Carpenter, co-founder and CEO of Kite. Anyone running an eCommerce site – or, indeed, Read more. This article was originally posted on AB Tasty as How Cohort Analysis Can Increase Your Conversions.

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