The Product Coalition

JANUARY 3, 2023

If we were truly lean and agile, shouldn’t we be way below the 153,000 layoffs mark? The Fall of Icarus — Jacob Peter Gowy 2022 was a dark year for the technology industry. Back in May, I wrote about the layoff trend for 2022 , but I honestly didn’t expect the situation to get this bleak. When I wrote that piece, we were around 25,000 impacted. Fast forward to December of the same year, we were more then 153,000 people chopped according to layoffs.fyi.

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Product Management University

JANUARY 5, 2023

The 5 Ws and 1 H represent a clever technique for developing a holistic story about a particular subject and can be especially useful for product managers. This technique can not only help product managers develop detailed product roadmaps but also help them create thorough customer personas, set up relevant KPIs, and more. In this post, we’ll look at what the 5 Ws and 1 H are, how they relate to product management, and share examples of these questions in the product management world.

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Mind the Product

JANUARY 6, 2023

In this ProductTank Oslo talk, product consultant and coach Janet Bumpas explains the key aspect of a product hero: building a product that customers love. What are products exactly? Are they a blend of features unified in a central theme? Are they tools to complete certain jobs or enhance users’ living standards? Or are products simply [.] Read more » The post How to find out what your customers want by Janet Bumpas appeared first on Mind the Product.

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Product Talk

JANUARY 4, 2023

Happy New Year! For the past several years, I’ve published a state of the business report as my initial blog post of the year. And this year will be no different. In this post, I’ll reflect on the past year and look at the year ahead. Let’s dive in. Reflecting on 2022: Measuring the Impact of Our Course Business. Switching to a course-first business has had a major impact on the number of people we can reach.

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The Product Coalition

JANUARY 5, 2023

Credit: Alex Padurariu Early-stage Product Managers, you’ve been lied to. You were told to do a bit of everything. But doing the splits hurts your company. You can regain focus with the Product Management Yin and Yang. If you’re a product manager (PM) you’re maybe juggling with 10 things. Trying to push that boulder up that hill. This may sound like the right thing to do.

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Product Management University

JANUARY 3, 2023

Sales demos are one of the easiest ways to boost your credibility with prospects and customers. A good sales demo creates that critical moment of differentiation that makes your product the obvious choice in a sea of competitors. Writing a solid demo script ensures you stay on message and articulate why your product is better than the rest. In this post, we’ll explain how to create a sales demo script, cover some of the questions we frequently hear, and provide an example demo script.

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Product Culture

JANUARY 4, 2023

My friends, let’s make 2023 the year of impact. We all work hard (often too hard). We all deliver a lot to customers and stakeholders. I know I sometimes forget to step back and examine which things are making an impact, and which things — even if they seemed like good ideas — don’t measure up in terms of ROI. Subscribe to my weekly Nano-letter: Sign Up.

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ProductPlan

JANUARY 5, 2023

Achieving great things takes planning. These exercises build consensus around strategic imperatives. Moreover, they identify dependencies and synergies, as well as dictate the future work of numerous colleagues. Furthermore, they create alignment and accountability. And, inevitably, those plans will change. How frequently those plans change, however, is a delicate balance.

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The Product Coalition

JANUARY 3, 2023

Continue reading on Product Coalition ».

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Mind the Product

JANUARY 5, 2023

Welcome back to The Product Experience podcast! For our first podcast episode to kick off 2023, we speak to Andy Polaine, Design Leadership Coach, about the ever-so-sweet language of product. The perfect topic to start the new year. [.] Read more » The post The language of product – Andy Polaine on The Product Experience appeared first on Mind the Product.

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Alchemer Mobile

JANUARY 4, 2023

By David Roberts, Alchemer CEO. Today we announce Alchemer’s acquisition of Apptentive to customers and employees. It’s an exciting time for us and for our industry. Our industry is incredibly important and yet not well defined. People call it customer experience (CX), employee experience (EX), voice of the customer (VoC), feedback management (EFM), survey software (SS), or experience management (XM).

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Intercom, Inc.

JANUARY 5, 2023

Delayed orders, faulty services, missing information, you name it – every time a customer reaches out, it tells you something about the friction they’ve experienced. Customer service teams are all too often drowning in angry, repetitive tickets, and yet, we don’t seem to focus enough resources on tackling the reasons behind it. Could all of this extra work, unhappy customers, and lost revenue be avoidable?

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The Product Coalition

JANUARY 3, 2023

Usability testing is an important part of the app development process because it helps to ensure that the app is easy and enjoyable to use. This is particularly important for mobile apps, as users have high expectations for the apps they use and are quick to uninstall those that are difficult or frustrating to use. By conducting usability testing, you can identify and fix any issues before the app is released, increasing the chances of its success in the market.

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Mind the Product

JANUARY 3, 2023

Karen Velasquez is a product manager who has been working at electronic signature provider Signable for the last 18 months. Here’s how she got her job in product. How did you find out about the job and why did the role appeal to you? I saw it advertised on LinkedIn. It was local, I felt [.] Read more » The post How I got my job in product – Karen Velasquez, Product Manager Signable appeared first on Mind the Product.

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Alchemer Mobile

JANUARY 4, 2023

Acquisition expands Alchemer’s ability to help brands close the loop with their customers. LOUISVILLE, Colo. – January 4, 2023 – Alchemer – a global leader in experience management and enterprise feedback technology – announced today the acquisition of Apptentive, the industry leader in mobile feedback technology. This acquisition provides Alchemer customers with a more in-depth method of collecting feedback from mobile customers and gives Apptentive customers access to survey and workflow funct

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Mixpanel

JANUARY 4, 2023

Customer Focus is one of our core cultural values at Mixpanel. We respect our customers’ time and strive to make buying software as seamless and frictionless as subscribing to your favorite music streaming service. That’s why we’ve made all of Mixpanel’s plans available for purchase online with our pricing clearly listed on our website. This removes the friction of customers having to schedule a call with a sales rep, negotiating on price, and the many other steps that completing a B2B software

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The Product Coalition

JANUARY 6, 2023

If you’re reading this, you’re here because you need to get a better understanding of how users interact with your app. This article will take you through the mobile app tracking process from start to finish, the best practices for mobile application tracking, and the best mobile app tracking tools to do so. What is Mobile App Tracking? Mobile app tracking is the process of capturing data points across user activities in a mobile application with the aim to uncover the insight needed to improve

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Speaker: John Mansour - President, Product Management University

You know that sinking feeling. You’ve come up with a winning product strategy, everyone’s on board and energized, and you’re halfway down the path to execution only to have it submarined by something someone convinced your leadership was more strategic! It’s a scenario that’s all too familiar, and it exemplifies one of the biggest struggles with individual product strategies.

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The Product Guy

JANUARY 1, 2023

Greatness starts with talking to users, talking to prospects, talking to someone who has direct outside access to your product. Watch and learn more from product management expert, Meghan Nesta.

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Johanna Rothman

JANUARY 6, 2023

Random Feature Roadmap for One Program. Several people on social media have denigrated the terms “project manager” and “program manager.” These people claim there is no need for either role in an effective team, especially an agile team because the team can manage its own deliverables. While some agile teams can manage their own deliverables, that's not the only role for a project or program manager.

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First Round Review

JANUARY 4, 2023

The best company-building advice is timeless, with a focus on the fundamentals. We rounded up 30 essential insights for startups to lean on in the coming year, no matter the climate.

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The Product Coalition

JANUARY 5, 2023

Every product has a dark period and sometimes several. Dark periods are when a product team knows what to design and develop and go about doing it, but the work has yet to be exposed to users in any significant way. The dark periods are challenging. Product dark periods are when a product team’s commitment and culture are tested. The dark periods are a grind.

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Product Innovation Educators

JANUARY 2, 2023

A process for improving product roadmapping using Objectives and Key Results – for product managers. Today we are talking about roadmaps. Some product people love roadmaps, while a lot hate them. What can make them better? Our guest has had good experience creating roadmaps from objectives and key results (OKRs), and he is going to tell us how.

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Userpilot

JANUARY 6, 2023

Feature velocity is one of the product management buzzwords but what exactly does it mean? This is one of the questions we answer in the article, so if you’re after the answer, you’re in the right place. We also discuss why velocity matters, and look at ways to improve your team’s velocity. Are you ready to jump in? TL;DR. Velocity is a metric that describes how much work a team can deliver during a sprint.

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Dragonboat

JANUARY 2, 2023

People often associate the word “roadmap” with “product”, but the reality is that everybody needs to create roadmaps. At the end of the day, a roadmap is a plan of action that defines what are the goals that we are trying to achieve, and how to achieve them. A roadmap tool helps users create, manage […]. The post How to Choose a Roadmap Tool appeared first on Dragonboat.

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The Product Coalition

JANUARY 3, 2023

How Product Managers Use Data to Make Informed Choices Continue reading on Product Coalition ».

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Gocious Blog

JANUARY 4, 2023

Communication is essential in all aspects of the manufacturing business, from communicating with buyers, negotiating with suppliers, and leading your internal product teams. Irish playwright, Bernard Shaw, said: "The single biggest problem in communication is the illusion that it has taken place." His point is highly relevant when it comes to managing your product roadmaps and your teams.

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Userpilot

JANUARY 3, 2023

If you’ve been conducting user sentiment surveys recently, there’s a good chance you faced a negative NPS score. Or else, why would you be here? In this article, we go over why you got a negative NPS and what you can do to prevent it from stunting your product growth. Let’s start with the basics: TL;DR. The Net Promoter Score (NPS) is a metric that asks users how likely they are to recommend your product or service to others on a scale from 1 to 10.

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Agile Velocity

JANUARY 6, 2023

Planning is indispensable for all agile teams to visualize, align, adjust, and implement. No matter how well-documented the plan is, it often requires pivoting and adjusting. Adopting Iterative Planning at various levels helps teams stay focused and address impediments in a timely manner. We created this easy infographic to outline the different levels of Iterative Planning, their objectives, and the tools and techniques to use. .

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