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.

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The Product Guy

AUGUST 10, 2017

A software product could overemphasize a feature that its own team just wanted to build. However, the pressure to jump from customer research straight into a solution can lead you down the wrong path. User research can show you whether solving a problem using technology is worth pursuing. 5 pitfalls and how to fix them.

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Userpilot

OCTOBER 31, 2024

Which product feedback software should you choose for your SaaS? The choice is tough because there’s no single tool that covers all use cases. What’s worse, you will find multiple tools in each category, making it incredibly difficult to pick the tool that satisfies your needs and offers the best value for money.

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The Product Coalition

APRIL 25, 2022

No product tool or template can save you if you’re not killing it in these three areas. That’s why we’ve listed 12 tools that the best product managers use to do their jobs better? and not the best product management tools. Product managers (PMs) are ninjas of aligning people, management, and processes.

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The Product Guy

OCTOBER 11, 2019

That happens because they are not include on the day-to-day routines of each squad that manages that product (obviously), so in many cases the most important channel they have to access that kind of information is through direct or indirect communication with the team, usually docs and presentations written by the PM. The Problem.

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Mironov Consulting

OCTOBER 19, 2022

But there are some engineering team configurations that I see as problematic.  So 1] Dedicated Bug Fixing Teams Sometimes there’s a push to create development teams specifically to close out bugs and defects, especially after frequent outages or to address long-term system neglect.  This

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Userpilot

MARCH 5, 2025

That’s where customer engagement software comes in. The right platform will equip you with the tools to interact effectively, gather valuable feedback, and build lasting customer relationships. Integrations with other tools: Does it integrate with CRM, marketing automation, and other essential business applications?

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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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Alchemer Mobile

DECEMBER 7, 2022

“Should we buy this software or should we build it?” Juggling your company’s immediate needs with long-term goals is always tricky, but when it comes to purchasing a tool to make your team’s lives easier, managers tasked with the decision to build or buy often struggle in what seems to be a comparison of apples to oranges.

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Alchemer Mobile

DECEMBER 7, 2022

“Should we buy this software or should we build it?” Juggling your company’s immediate needs with long-term goals is always tricky, but when it comes to purchasing a tool to make your team’s lives easier, managers tasked with the decision to build or buy often struggle in what seems to be a comparison of apples to oranges.

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The Product Coalition

JULY 13, 2022

Learn how the other solutions compare. If you’re shopping around for a mobile app analytics platform before biting the bullet with Fullstory, you’ve landed in the right place. FullStory is a robust web and analytics tool but there are platforms out there that may specialize in one of the features you want.

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Userpilot

MARCH 24, 2025

Want to advance your career in mobile product management or find top talent for your team? Salesforce Field Service is a market leader with customers including many Fortune 500 companies. Through millions of appointments on billions of pieces of equipment, Salesforce Field Service powers the worlds mobile workforce.

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Userpilot

DECEMBER 6, 2021

Is your customer success platform up to scratch for 2022? If your customer engagement levels are not where they need to be, maybe it’s time to look at the customer success software you’re using again? When choosing customer success software, consider: (i) ease of adoption, (ii) is it no-code?, (iii)

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Mind the Product

JUNE 28, 2018

Is there a difference between developing an enterprise and a consumer product? In both cases your software product is used by humans, but an enterprise is a legal entity, while a consumer is a person. And the fact that an enterprise is a legal entity makes product management for enterprise products a little different.

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Intercom, Inc.

JULY 15, 2021

With a Master’s degree in human-computer interaction and over two decades of experience in user research and user experience in companies like Oracle, he now leads the design team across all product offerings at IBM. The design team at IBM likes to employ a “make to learn” method. Prototype it til you make it.

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Mind the Product

NOVEMBER 27, 2017

Observations of a B2C startup product manager working in enterprise. A startup, finding its feet and learning how to stand, should by certain logic be less wise, less capable and less developed than its older, wiser counterparts. I once heard an anecdote about a very young child being told a story about a very old man.

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Reveal

FEBRUARY 20, 2025

They track everything from user behavior to system performance. If you’re a Product Manager or a CTO, you may already know how challenging it can be to select the right tools to build these dashboards. You have to choose the components and tools that fit your needs. Thats what dashboards are for.

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Mironov Consulting

DECEMBER 29, 2022

Almost every week, I have a conversation with executives at B2B software companies who don’t see a bright-line distinction between software license revenue and customization/implementation revenue.  Or What do I mean by software product vs software services ?  A billable).  Building

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Userpilot

AUGUST 30, 2024

What are its strengths and weaknesses? TL;DR WalkMe is a digital adoption platform designed to facilitate customer and employee onboarding through in-app experiences, like interactive walkthroughs , on-screen guidance, and self-service support resources. The WalkMe Insights platform forms the core of WalkMe analytics.

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UX Planet

FEBRUARY 5, 2025

For example, the more technical the product, the larger the designers technology gap that must be filled by an engineer. Im looking at you, in-house enterprise solutions. As a result, it often becomes easier to defend a solution whose benefits are visible in the short term but may prove less suitable in the longterm.

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Reveal

OCTOBER 14, 2021

In today’s digitalized and technology-oriented world, customers require much more than static data visualization or simple reporting. Continue reading to find out what a modern embedded analytics solution is and how it can replace your legacy system by decreasing operational costs and increasing annual revenue.

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Userpilot

SEPTEMBER 2, 2022

When it comes to choosing a customer education platform, there are so many options to pick from. Self-service , intuitive design, and customization used to be key requirements but today most tools have these, so it’s easy to get lost in the ocean of options. What is a customer education platform?

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UserVoice

JULY 28, 2017

Product management intuition is still a great thing to develop, but statistics and analytics will help you hone your product sense and justify your decisions to stakeholders. Plus, there’s no shortage of tools to help us quantify seemingly everything. You Are Not in Sales, So Stop Reporting Metrics Like You Are.

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Mironov Consulting

SEPTEMBER 14, 2020

Over the last three decades, across 10 full-time jobs and 150 consulting clients, I’ve headed up product teams 18 times (mostly as interim VP ) and helped another dozen companies choose their Head of Product. They don’t value experience running product management teams , instead overweighting narrow technical or market segment familiarity.

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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. You’ve generated interest in your software. Value Proposition.

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Userpilot

AUGUST 31, 2023

Heap and Google Analytics are popular product analytics tools that help businesses pursue product growth with data-driven insights. In this article, we’ll go through the main differences between both tools to help you understand which one is better for you. On G2, Heap and Google Analytics have ratings of 4.3 respectively.

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Reveal

JULY 28, 2022

Embedded analytics is everywhere around us – in our cars, in our homes, in our security systems, in the digital advertising that we see while surfing the web, and even in the healthcare services we are being treated with. Embedded analytics is no longer ‘’nice to have’’, but a definite ‘’must-have’’ solution.

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Mironov Consulting

JULY 28, 2022

Apologizing in advance: I’m intentionally exaggerating the differences between two broad corporate groups: wildly oversimplified roles and attitudes and reward systems.  Each Especially in B2B/enterprise software companies, I see two dramatically divergent ( incompatible ) worldviews that IMO explain a lot of corporate behavior.

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Userpilot

NOVEMBER 15, 2021

In this blog post, we’re going to break down the pros and cons of using UserGuiding as an onboarding and engagement tool for SaaS and give you the best alternatives that may fit your specific needs and use cases. UserGuiding is a no-code tool for user onboarding. The tool can get a bit buggy. Let's get started!

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Usersnap

SEPTEMBER 1, 2022

One of the best ways to drive better customer experience than using sentiment analysis tools. Below, we describe what an online sentiment analysis tool is and how businesses can benefit from using them. Tools like this can also help if you struggle to find how to respond to positive reviews effectively.

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Intercom, Inc.

JANUARY 5, 2022

In today’s data-driven SaaS scene, these can affect hundreds of millions of users and cause damage in the billions of dollars, and as compliance frameworks become requirements to do business, businesses are turning to third-party services that can help expedite and facilitate the process. And that’s where people like Adam Markowitz come in.

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The Product Coalition

JANUARY 5, 2019

It’s always there, and it follows you around like a bad penny. It’s the stuff that your engineering team has since learned could have been done a lot better. It’s the outdated software versions and overly-monolithic stacks that comprise our software. How scalable does your solution need to be moving forward?

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The Product Coalition

MARCH 18, 2022

Around that time, a healthy startup should have established: A solid team A great product/service with at least one core value proposition A base of loyal and highly satisfied customers Once the founder sees good traction with 50+ enterprise customers and/or thousands of users, they face a dilemma.

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Userpilot

JULY 11, 2022

What are the golden rules of great customer service and why should you utilize them? The reputation of your company depends on the quality of service you provide to your customers. It doesn’t matter how great your product is, if your customer support is bad, your customers will leave! What is customer service?

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Usersnap

AUGUST 4, 2020

Especially when looking at the tool-side of project management. I see new tools popping up every other day. With Jira and Trello – we looked at two major project management tools, their benefits and drawbacks and most importantly their main differences. Project management tools. The basics of Jira.

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Intercom, Inc.

FEBRUARY 4, 2021

The group of businesses works across industries from agri-tech to motor to SaaS, with the shared goal of finding environmentally positive solutions that deliver on both purpose and profit. We were fairly poor. So I started to develop a hankering for making money at an early age. I always loved software and developing software.

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ProductPlan

MAY 22, 2020

It’s not necessarily bad when product management adapts to each company’s specific needs. Below is the discussion Melissa Perri had with John Cutler and Jim Semick on why teams that are scaling need product ops. Processes & Practices: The more product teams grow and multiply, the less homogenous they get.

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