The Product Guy

OCTOBER 9, 2018

Guest Post by: Julian Dunn (Mentee, Session 6, The Product Mentor) [Paired with Mentor, Vikas Batra]. I became a product manager because I wanted to take a more strategic role at my company. Thus, I arrived at the Product Mentor program with ambitions to learn strategy development from a seasoned product mentor.

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The Product Coalition

SEPTEMBER 4, 2020

My journey to product management was not what you might expect , but then again, maybe you would. Three years later I became a web application engineer at a startup that built software for military and private industries. I became director of communications, leading the development of intranets and web applications.

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Userpilot

SEPTEMBER 28, 2022

Are you tracking product management metrics to evaluate your product and monitor its progress? SaaS products are becoming increasingly data-driven which makes it critical to evaluate product growth using the right metrics. Here are the 3 best tools to improve product management metrics.

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The Product Guy

JULY 17, 2017

Nowadays, we all consume applications and platforms (software) over the web. Software installation” is quickly becoming an old concept, especially for end users. This is the world of Software-as-a-Service (SaaS). While it sounds simple, it is the most critical and often the most ignored part of the product development cycle.

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Mironov Consulting

JUNE 27, 2020

I have a narrow, somewhat puritanical view about product manager conversations with customers and prospects: we should never lie to them. That might seem obvious or naïve, but recent conversations with several B2B/enterprise clients suggest that it’s actually controversial. B2B is lumpier than B2C.). Roadmaps are shared.

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Mironov Consulting

FEBRUARY 28, 2024

An essential role of CPOs and other product leaders that’s never listed in the job description is giving organizational 'air cover' to product managers to postpone almost all new requests — so that their teams can finish work already underway.    “ How hard could it be? 

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The Product Coalition

JANUARY 5, 2019

It’s always there, and it follows you around like a bad penny. Tech debt is all of the little things that aren’t quite right about your product behind the scenes. It’s all the workarounds that you’ve found to quickly make the product look and behave the way that it does. How extensible does your product need to be?

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ProductPlan

AUGUST 25, 2022

Let’s jump in with the bad news: No organization is immune to product vulnerability. However, great product leaders protect their product teams from exploiting weaknesses and vulnerabilities. Product vulnerability, defined as an exploitable glitch or flaw in a product, can happen to any product or service.

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Mironov Consulting

MAY 16, 2020

A topic that’s come up several times recently in my product leader coaching sessions: how much to delegate to the (individual contributor) product managers on our teams – including different ways of building product skills and balancing personal empowerment against good results.

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The Product Guy

AUGUST 1, 2019

Guest Post by: Merziyah Poonawala (Mentee, Session 9, The Product Mentor) [Paired with Mentor, Joni Hoadley]. What do you do when your team is working their socks off and yet they are getting little credit for the work being done, mainly because the team isn’t able to set concrete expectations with the stakeholder? THE CAUSE.

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Mind the Product

MARCH 7, 2019

Software as a service (SaaS) has become much more attractive to customers as SaaS companies embrace the idea of offering rich integrations with other platforms. While working on a knowledge management solution aimed at custom support and sales teams, we integrated with several customer support desks and CRM. Integration Types.

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Mind the Product

NOVEMBER 21, 2019

As a product leader, you are the product manager for a leadership team, and the tricks you learned in product teams remain valuable, they just need a little tweak. Here, to help you, are five product management tricks and tools for every product leader. Value Proposition.

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Mironov Consulting

MAY 2, 2019

Product are products, yes? When we talk broadly and generically about product management, we assume that all products/services are similar enough that we can apply the same tools, techniques, financial planning models, design approaches, goals and metrics. To answer threats from software-only competitors.

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The Product Guy

APRIL 9, 2019

Guest Post by: Eric Wang (Mentee, Session 8, The Product Mentor) [Paired with Mentor, Chris Butler]. The notion of a strategy in product management seems like something that only high-level stakeholders at the executive level should care about. Journey Into the World of Strategy. Simple task, right? First Attempt.

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Userpilot

JULY 9, 2021

What are the best product management books to add to your 2021 reading list? We’ve put together a list for you with a few staples from every product manager’s bookshelf and some new releases too. New in – Best New Product Management Books in 2021. You can read her writing on ProductTalk.org.

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Mironov Consulting

DECEMBER 17, 2023

In the heat of an enterprise deal moment, it’s easy to think very short-term about the long-term costs of specials and “small requirements.”    The upside (for the sales team) is huge, and the cost (for product/engineering/support) is diffuse.    Far away.    Hard to see. 

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The Product Guy

JULY 18, 2019

Guest Post by: Sean Raftery (Mentee, Session 9, The Product Mentor) [Paired with Mentor, Jordan Bergtraum]. Product development roles and “product” as a discipline are rapidly evolving within technology companies. Product Management at scale has also evolved but at a slower pace.

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ProductPlan

JANUARY 28, 2022

But we are discussing product consolidation from a product management standpoint: turning multiple products into one. Why Would You Want to Consolidate Products? There are several reasons for a product team to consolidate its products. To reduce product cannibalization. Related Terms.

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The Product Coalition

MARCH 7, 2023

How to prepare for a user interview, all the way to sharing the results with your team. The skill of running effective user interviews is key to defining your target users, finding product-market fit , growing your product, figuring out what to build next — or just simply understanding how users perceive your product.

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Userpilot

APRIL 29, 2021

A product without customer onboarding software is a lot like attending a dinner party where you don’t know anyone and haven’t been welcomed in. Good onboarding software contains interactive walkthroughs, modals, tooltips, segmentation options, analytics, automation, in-app surveys and help centers. Table of Contents. Userpilot.

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Userpilot

APRIL 21, 2021

Put simply, good product marketing software helps your SaaS solve two fundamental problems: Build a product that users love on the basis of customer feedback Acquire and retain users of that product. But how do you choose good product marketing software? What is product marketing?

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The Product Coalition

OCTOBER 15, 2020

Product Management | Websites Best practices checklist from a Fortune 10 product manager Remember this version of yahoo? In such situations, enterprises must aim to support multiple themes?—?at Use weak clickability signifiers What’s worse than having too many call-to-actions (CTAs)? Please be mindful of 8.

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Department of Product

OCTOBER 23, 2022

Product Principles – Examples for Product Managers Make decision making easier with inspiration from top product companies Product principles are used by product teams to help guide decision making. Yes, we’re B2B but are we targeting small businesses or enterprise?

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Mind the Product

JULY 6, 2018

Failing is an eventuality in software development. And yet, the job of the product manager comes with a level of accountability and scrutiny that is unique. Product managers are asked to look after all facets of a product’s development, from conception to launch. Get your hands dirty!

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Userpilot

OCTOBER 10, 2022

In this article, we’ll cover the key metrics you need to develop an informed feature adoption strategy and discuss how you can improve them. Userpilot and Appcues are the top two feature adoption software. Feature adoption allows you to separate the successful features from the underperforming ones. We’ve got you covered!

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Mind the Product

DECEMBER 11, 2017

My journey to product management was not what you might expect, but then again, maybe you would. Three years later I became a web application engineer at a startup that built software for military and private industries. I became director of communications, leading the development of intranets and web applications.

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Userpilot

APRIL 8, 2021

Here’s a sobering truth: if you run a SaaS company and don’t use customer analytics software , you probably won’t be in business very long. If you’re looking for quality customer analytics software for your business, you’re in the right place. What is Customer Analytics Software? Best Customer Analytics Software 1.

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Mironov Consulting

AUGUST 29, 2023

Let’s focus on a specific subset of product waste: building capabilities that are readily available from non-competing SaaS vendors – which we could rent at 1-5% of the cost of building them ourselves.  Renting rent rent rent rent We’re in the HR software business rent build? " issues.  CRMs

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Department of Product

FEBRUARY 18, 2022

SaaS Pricing Models for Product Managers 6 ways to price your SaaS product using leading SaaS businesses as inspiration Pricing a product is a critical part of product management; it’s rarely something product teams will or should do themselves and will typically involve a blend of product, marketing and sales.

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Userpilot

JULY 31, 2023

TL;DR Pendo is a product growth platform for product , marketing , customer success , and UX design teams. Roadmaps are a new Pendo feature for communicating and sharing product vision. Pendo is currently developing AI features to enhance experience personalization , product discovery and accelerate product-led growth.

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ProductPlan

FEBRUARY 22, 2023

As a product manager, one of the toughest challenges I and my fellow PMs face is prioritizing the right features amongst an ever-increasing influx of data from customer feedback, product analytics, and the never-ending list of stakeholder requests. A successful product never sacrifices the user experience.

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Mixpanel

JANUARY 3, 2022

As data-driven product development continues to balloon in popularity, so does the need for accurate and sophisticated implementation of analytics tracking in software products. From the perspective of many engineering teams, product analytics is treated as a second-class citizen.

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Mironov Consulting

OCTOBER 7, 2020

I talk with lots of executives from the go-to-market side of the house who think that building serious software is as easy – and easily estimatable – as building a fence. As the leadership team gets tired of interim progress reports and longer-than-expected delivery dates, they lose heart and lose trust in the “maker” side of the company.

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BrainStation Product Management

NOVEMBER 27, 2018

Though you may not have realized it, a Product Manager was most likely involved in the creation of your favorite product. To find out more, we spoke to a number of Senior PMs for some insight on how to get a job as Product Manager. Product management as a whole is the exact opposite.

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The Product Guy

FEBRUARY 27, 2018

We had just hired a new VP of Product who was radically (and rapidly) changing our product development process, and our engineers – based remotely, in Argentina – were struggling to keep up. “To Second, and more important, it shows the demotivation and binary thinking that can result from bad or nonexistent communication.

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Userpilot

MARCH 26, 2024

Best digital analytics tools for product analytics SaaS companies looking for engagement and adoption insights for their digital products will find these digital analytics tools below to deliver the most effective results. Enterprise. The next two tiers, Growth and Enterprise, operate under a quote-based pricing model.

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Userpilot

MARCH 26, 2024

Best digital analytics tools for product analytics SaaS companies looking for engagement and adoption insights for their digital products will find these digital analytics tools below to deliver the most effective results. Enterprise. The next two tiers, Growth and Enterprise, operate under a quote-based pricing model.

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