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The Path Beyond CSM

Gainsight

Over the past ten years, the role of Customer Success Manager has evolved and changed as much as the field of SaaS has. In Gainsight’s book, The Customer Success Professional’s Handbook, the authors shared the essential skills that every CS professional should possess. Core CSM competencies. Building and using Health scores.

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You Are Building the WRONG Things in your SaaS product

The Product Coalition

Where SaaS companies get prioritization wrong and a new approach to get it right There are many ways to prioritize what makes it onto your SaaS product roadmap and most of them are incredibly time-consuming and only done by your product teams. We all found the same thing?—?prioritization It’s as simple as that.

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6 Things I Learned About PLG and Customer Success

Gainsight

Because the product is so technical, the CS team includes the traditional CSM role as well as Technical Account Managers and Solutions Architects. Indeed, since Gitlab is so transparent, you can see their approach , including how they leverage Gainsight , in their online handbook. . Adoption Analytics Are Vital.

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The Value Inequality – The Real Meaning Of “Customer Value”

The Secret PM Handbook

How much does it cost to make your product? It’s well known that “cost plus” pricing doesn’t work for enterprise software. In fact, it doesn’t work for most high value products of any type. They are looking for a solution to that problem. Your product may provide a solution to that problem.

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Managing Product, Vision or Execution?

The Product Coalition

product management can either be vision-driven, or it can be execution-driven. but in terms of ideology, as a PM, you will either be driven by a greater good that your product aims at serving, or you will be driven by smaller, tighter, one-step-at-a-time executables that your product arms solves your customer problems with.

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10 Hacks of Customer-Centric Enterprise Product Managers

Mind the Product

Over the years I’ve worked alongside a number of enterprise product managers in many companies. I’m a product manager at Adobe, a company with a long product management tradition and which has produced some of the best products in the history of software.

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Why do product teams need to master rapid prototyping?

DISQO

With the rise of ‘lean’ methodologies and literature, product managers today understand that continuously generating user feedback throughout the product lifecycle can help mitigate the risk of wasting resources to build something no one wants. Therefore, applying “lean” principles is quite different in the enterprise.