The Product Coalition

MARCH 10, 2021

c) Think like your user : An empathy exercise can help the whole team clarify their customers’ and users’ pain points. Even a short empathy exercise can help align the team on the user’s pain points and needs. The Personal Map exercise by Management 3.0.

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People-First Product Leadership

JANUARY 22, 2024

Instead bring your team together to discuss the remaining pain points. Such an exercise is called “ Elephants, Dead Fish, and Vomit ” and originates from Airbnb. an exercise I like to do is from Coda and is called “Is your team laying bricks or building a cathedral”? Build in buffer time.

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Userpilot

JUNE 3, 2022

Giving users a great first impression is critically important, so defining an effective SaaS onboarding funnel has got to be a priority for any product manager. In this article, we’re going to dig deep into the world of customer onboarding. Start with mapping the customer journey. What is a SaaS onboarding funnel?

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Userpilot

JUNE 19, 2023

User flows are typically an intricate, detailed graphical representation of the specific steps in a path or process that a user takes to complete a given task (i.e., User journeys are a much broader term, representing a holistic view of the complete customer experience (i.e., An example of a detailed user flow diagram.

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Userpilot

JANUARY 26, 2023

This can be a valuable differentiator that attracts more customers. It also removes friction , reduces churn , drives adoption , and improves customer loyalty. Test your assumptions about user needs with beta and usability testing and collect user feedback to understand their pain points better.

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Userpilot

JANUARY 20, 2024

How can message mapping support your company’s communication with customers and drive product engagement ? We also show you how to create a message map for your SaaS! Utilizing message mapping ensures all team members’ alignment in their communication across various channels. Let’s get to it! Book the demo!

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Userpilot

DECEMBER 6, 2022

A product trial is an aspect of a product-led growth strategy: using the product itself to attract and convert new customers. Customer onboarding is a broad term describing the range of activities about getting customers into and experiencing value from your product. helps customers experience value faster).

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ProductPlan

JANUARY 27, 2022

They’re also investing in activities that help them better understand their market and customers. Nothing else enables stakeholders to get a real-time, customized view of the product roadmap in an easy-to-understand visual format. Customer Surveys. 2022 Budgets Include Hiring. Workers don’t just want a paycheck.

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Userpilot

OCTOBER 30, 2022

There’s just one secret: keep the customer happy and satisfied at every point in their journey. That sounds basic, but it can get complicated as your customer base grows. Read on as we explore ways to keep users happy and retain them. Read on as we explore ways to keep users happy and retain them.

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UX Studio: Product Management

NOVEMBER 19, 2021

Thanks to it, we will develop a product that addresses real user needs and mitigates the existing pain points. Because design thinking is there to help us ask more and better questions, it guides us to assume nothing and point out where the improvement points are. Tools to analyze the exercise of empathy.

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ProductPlan

MARCH 18, 2022

Every employee, customer, prospect, or partner has ideas, even when they’re canceling their subscription. The entire product community—staff, partners, customers, prospects, and even analysts and members of the media—all might have ideas worth considering. You want to keep them coming. What Does Idea Management Look Like?

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ProductPlan

JANUARY 21, 2022

They’re also investing in activities that help them better understand their market and customers. Nothing else enables stakeholders to get a real-time, customized view of the product roadmap in an easy-to-understand visual format. Customer Surveys. 2022 Budgets Include Hiring. Workers don’t just want a paycheck.

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The Product Coalition

SEPTEMBER 3, 2019

They were an enriched, jam-packed three days so here’s my attempt of summarising 300 slides, umpteen exercises and an unhealthy amount of post-it notes. It involves 3 key aspects: deep understanding of users; exploring and ideating fast and wide; and rapid prototyping to test, learn and adapt. areas of opportunity).

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UX Studio

SEPTEMBER 20, 2018

A gamified language learning application, Xeropan helps people learn English with fun exercises such as interactive videos, chatbot conversations and weekly lessons. They realized a lot of users stopped using their product after downloading it and going through the user onboarding process. Kickoff workshop with the Xeropan team.

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Product Club

JULY 7, 2018

Faced with that challenge, one exercise can be extremely helpful: a product deep dive. Each deep dive is a little different, but this five-step framework will give you a solid starting point: Use the product. Talk to customers. communicate with driver, follow along with the map, leave a tip, write to customer support, etc).

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Gainsight

SEPTEMBER 20, 2019

We recently had the opportunity to join Gainsight for a webinar about Finding Friction in Your User Journey and How to Fix It. One of the key aspects of fixing user friction is understanding how to prioritize that work along with things like new feature development. And by how much ? And by how much?

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Nulab

SEPTEMBER 22, 2021

What does your typical customer look like? Define your customer. Getting to know your typical customer will help you tailor your marketing strategy. Are customers actively seeking out your product or service? Do customers know how your product will solve their problems? Define your market size.

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People-First Product Leadership

MAY 14, 2023

NOBL has a catchier way of conveying this message - make noise, not make do. Instead bring your team together to share pain points. Such an exercise is called “ Elephants, Dead Fish, and Vomit ” and originates from Airbnb. Be clear, the goal is to not introduce more stress or go it alone. Change is hard.

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The Product Guy

MAY 7, 2020

Also, in various organizations which have grown in product maturity, customer base etc., This role also focuses on increasing the retention rate for existing customers. A well defined product strategy provides insights into the deep customer problems that your product is trying to address. Product Roadmap.

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Brian Balfour

SEPTEMBER 26, 2017

One of the biggest mistakes I see growth candidates make is coming into the interview without a solid hypothesis of who the target customer is. Prior to your first interview, research the company and develop a point of view on who the target audience is, what their needs are, and why they use the product. Who are those people?

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PMLesson's Ace the PM Interview

MAY 5, 2020

Product management is usually at the intersection of business, design, and engineering, but can also interact with many other stakeholders as well (QA, user research, DevOps, data science, customer success, technical support… the list goes on). Take everything you’ve heard and jot down a list of the top 3 most important points.

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The Product Coalition

JUNE 4, 2016

Step 3: Exercise [link] : Codecademy is not very easy to follow (maybe just my thoughts), because it won’t teach you the higher level idea, so you couldn’t have an overall understanding and it’s easy to lose in the details. However, there are many exercises on Codecademy, and solving problems in exercises is the best way to practice.

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PMLesson's Ace the PM Interview

MAY 4, 2020

Morning Check Emails and Messages While there's always guaranteed variability in my day to day activities, the first task I handle every day is the same: checking emails and my messages. This does two things: it helps me get zoned into work, and it helps to keep my number of unread emails and messages to a manageable amount.

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Radical Product

MAY 16, 2018

Today, when youth (typically teenagers) want to communicate in a visual manner , they have to send each other picture messages or post on social media. We are bringing this world about through an app where you can share messages, pictures and a visual narrative that disappears after 24 hours. Certainly a Low Vision Fit.

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Userpilot

NOVEMBER 16, 2022

Onboarding users is an extremely tricky exercise. Any savvy product manager will tell you that an effective user adoption strategy template would be a huge asset to crafting onboarding experiences that drive adoption and growth. You can’t just throw a user adoption strategy together and expect it to work.

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Sachin Rekhi

FEBRUARY 16, 2020

Sometimes these visions of the future are also shared with existing and potential customers to help portray your company's ambitions. As you progress, you'll refine or pivot each of them as you get direct customer and market feedback on what's working or what's not. Design: Customer Discovery Insights.

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ProductPlan

JUNE 18, 2021

Founders can dream up great ideas, and product management can identify pain points and solutions , but well-grounded ROI is a must before diving into implementation. A smaller company might leave this exercise to product management, including product marketing, to bring perspective and expertise. A customer-centric strategy.

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Userzoom

JULY 3, 2019

One option is customer journey mapping. But maybe not the kind of customer journey mapping that you’re used to. And if you’re a user researcher, you’re really not gonna like the next bit because I’m gonna make you cringe. Well and first of all, it starts them empathizing with the customer.

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Userpilot

SEPTEMBER 25, 2023

Concept testing helps SaaS businesses validate ideas , make the product development process customer-centric, and detect potential issues early, reducing the risk of product failure. Validation from your target audience Concept testing allows SaaS businesses to validate early-stage ideas through the prism of customer needs and preferences.

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Sachin Rekhi

MARCH 1, 2020

I wouldn't necessarily call them unique perspectives because I'm certainly not the only one with a particular point of view, but at the same time, they rarely fall into broadly accepted conventional wisdom. The Hierarchy of User Friction. Homebrew CMS - I built SachinRekhi.com as a custom CMS. Fundamentals.

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ProductPlan

JULY 1, 2021

That includes employees across the company, as well as strategic partners and even customers. The exercise might uncover potential unintended consequences. Ideally, present tailored messaging for different audiences to connect with their pain points and address their concerns. I use the Insights method.

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Gainsight

MAY 22, 2019

In the two minutes I might have in between meetings, I flip through my inbox to see how quickly I can get back to inbox zero and how many text messages I can respond to. Today, the treadmill of technology has eliminated every autonomous moment we experience, so that we rarely exercise the muscle of reflection. Stage 2: Special.

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Modus Create

APRIL 14, 2020

So, unless you’re an expert in all of those things, slow your roll on assuming you know the exact pain points a design system can solve for your company’s employees. Everytime you release a new version of your design system or start to conceive a new feature, you should do user research. Collaborative journey line exercises.

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Userzoom

DECEMBER 4, 2019

What research finds as the biggest pain points for the user should have an impact in prioritization. If not, how can you call your product user-centered ?” User research should define the product roadmap – otherwise the finished product won’t be truly user-centred. Samantha Alaimo , Sr.

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Userzoom

MAY 9, 2019

But obviously, we have customers as well. Because if there’s going to be an impact on the customer, we really do want to know because they’re paying the bills. Yes, we need to understand that consumer, our customers, we need to understand their motives. So our main focus, yes, is the consumer.

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