Product Talk

FEBRUARY 12, 2020

Her exposure to the product team —and the departure of a previous product manager—sparked Lisa’s interest and led to her stepping into the product manager role right around the time that Teresa began working with the product team as a discovery coach. Widening the Scope from Solutions to Opportunities.

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Alchemer Mobile

MARCH 26, 2021

When we were writing this post, we did a little research to see what other brands were saying about mobile customer experience. Typically, when brands claim this, it’s more of a marketing technique and less of an actual pillar in their product strategy. Or maybe a few days after they update their app?

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Userpilot

MARCH 6, 2020

As a team supporting diversity and women in tech – we decided to use the International Women’s Day as an opportunity to showcase some of the best talent in the industry – and interviewed the top female Product Managers, Product Owners and SaaS founders and CEOs. Women in SaaS. Women in Product.

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The Product Coalition

MARCH 1, 2024

Decode A Job Posting from Spotify: Senior Product Manager — Playlist Platform Spotify is an innovative business that changes the surrounding reality: almost everyone you see on the street or in a café wearing headphones listens to music on Spotify. Here’s the general description: Delivering the best Spotify experience possible.

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The Product Coalition

JANUARY 8, 2023

A solid product strategy takes time to build. Here is the method I use for creating a product strategy that makes sense. When I talk to the startups I consult to , or with the CPO Bootcamp participants, I always say that building a solid product strategy isn’t like solving a math equation.

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Intercom, Inc.

MARCH 3, 2020

We’re confident this won’t help people game our system, but it will give you the best chance to show us your strengths. For example, we might really admire your visual design work, but we’ll also want to see how you influence product strategy, define the problem, understand the system, collaborate with others, and more.

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Product Talk

APRIL 17, 2024

We’re a 14-year-old company that started off as an ads business, and we’re transitioning into a SaaS business. We have five product managers, one UX researcher , five designers—one of them director of design, leading the design team. All product managers report to me, and we have five product teams up and running.

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Roman Pichler

MAY 8, 2018

The cross-functional development team makes the design and technology decisions; and the Scrum Master guides process and organisational change, as the following picture shows. Lead the Product. That’s the job of the development team.

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The Product Coalition

SEPTEMBER 2, 2022

The Eight Core Elements of a Winning Product Strategy “The essence of strategy is choosing what not to do.”?—?Michael After what seemed like months of work, our product was emerging from stealth mode. No choices = no product strategy. The series of choices following a framework = the product strategy.

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The Product Coalition

JANUARY 26, 2024

Twenty five mini-research ideas for finding something meaningful to work on. In the perfect world, product managers have all the time, resources, and skills to do impeccable, in-depth market and user research. In the real world, product managers may have to start from scratch and quickly find something meaningful to work on.

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UX Planet

JUNE 9, 2025

From Raw Data to Clarity — Cleaning, Sorting, and Synthesising Insights Part 4 (of 5) of the UX Research Playbook series Synthesising qualitative data is similar to reaping the harvest after the diligent effort poured into research — it’s the step where hard work blossoms into meaningful insights. Mural , Miro , etc.) is recommended.

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The Product Coalition

APRIL 22, 2021

On top of that, there are now huge volumes of research from academic circles, as well as popular journals like Harvard Business Review , INC.com , and Forbes ?—?all Instead, we audition product managers (and Designers too for that matter) in the same way actors are auditioned for a movie. all pointing to a simple fact.

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The Product Guy

MAY 3, 2018

Listening to the users voice is also critical, from the research provided by the UX team to the pain points illuminated by Client Services teams to the features being requested by the Sales team– all of these inputs are providing insight into the user’s needs and can flesh out the conversations that are being had with the users themselves.

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Product Talk

SEPTEMBER 6, 2023

Just to give us a bit more of an idea of what we’re working with here today, I thought it’d be nice if we did a quick exercise. You heard Teresa’s definition of product discovery. Then how do we do the work to discover what are the right solutions that actually address those needs in a way that drives that outcome?

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The Product Coalition

JANUARY 26, 2021

Often described as the ‘North Star’ or ‘flag in the sand’ from which strategy and tactics flow from and build towards, Product Vision keeps leadership in sync with the front-line who in turn look to the vision for motivation and decision-making. Research-based?—? Enter, the Product Vision Sprint ? It’s super powerful.

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Roadmunk

AUGUST 10, 2017

The rise of the SaaS model in the product space has been swift, to say the least. So as product managers, knowing how to manage only traditional, on-premises software no longer cuts it. Here’s who we spoke with: Evan Michner , Principal Product Manager at Atlassian. Jill Renwick , Product Manager at ScribbleLive.

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Mind the Product

JUNE 19, 2018

This second post on the methods we use at Onfido to help us think commercially and strategically looks at State of Product meetings. This meeting is an exercise in strategy, an opportunity to take stock of where your product is, where it fits within the wider market, and where it should go. Product Strategy.

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Mironov Consulting

JANUARY 24, 2024

Expanding on a recent post ( Revenue Goals are Not Company Strategies ), I’ve been seeing lots of maker teams (product, engineering, design) struggling to form product strategies without a company strategy to hang them on.    Product management malpractice.   So What Might We Do?

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Intercom, Inc.

JULY 25, 2019

Maybe it’s useful to actually to share some examples instead of talking about this in the abstract, but it’s basically about us having a predictable system. Obviously our goal, like any product and engineering team, is to ship great software that customers, love, value use, etc. What are our principles for how we build product?

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Sachin Rekhi

FEBRUARY 16, 2020

Much of the literature that defines the role as the intersection of business, technology, and user experience isn't particularly helpful for practitioners who are left wondering what skills they need to learn versus the fine people they work closely with in actual business, technology, and user experience roles.

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Amplitude

MARCH 11, 2020

Roadmapping is at the core of product strategy and product management. As a product person, and the VP of Product at Yesware , I’ve never come to fully embrace the discussion of what each team would deliver, in what sequence and within a long timeframe. Align on opportunities before diving into solutions.

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The Product Coalition

MAY 19, 2022

Conduct market and buyer/user research to validate/uncover new needs. Have your product strategy team lead an exercise to prioritize those opportunities based on the value both from the buyer/user perspective and revenue potential. This could include new flavors chosen by your community, line extensions (e.g.

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UX Planet

DECEMBER 19, 2023

As usual, hopefully this article sparks some interesting conversations on the role of design, the contribution of designers, and how we can continuously improve product design lifecycles. I’ve also witnessed the sunsetting of a few solutions and how those situations came about. I’ll share a few examples on this particular topic.

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Userpilot

JULY 9, 2021

Continuous Discovery Habits by Teresa Torres teaches you how to set up a continuous discovery system within your organization with actionable exercises. Product-Led Onboarding by Ramli John and Wes Bush is a new book about how to implement user onboarding for the ultimate customer retention. Key learnings. 5 out of 5.

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The Product Coalition

JUNE 11, 2022

Early in my career, I led the implementation of a supply chain analytics module from SAP (enterprise resource planning software). The analytics module sat on top of a software platform we already used. I was young and naïve, but still, we could dream up and launch products faster in our multinational consumer health business.

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Userpilot

JULY 23, 2024

The Product Tree is a visualization tool that presents the hierarchy of features, from core systems to future enhancements. The Opportunity Solution Tree (OST) visualizes the connections between business goals, user pain points , and features, aiding strategic decision-making. Weighted scoring system template.

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ProductPlan

MARCH 2, 2022

In product management , an idea backlog is a list of ideas that need more discussion or vetting before the company can decide whether to move forward with them. If you see a product feature or other type of item on an idea backlog, you can assume the following. The product team has not rejected the idea.

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Userpilot

NOVEMBER 14, 2022

What’s product planning? How do you apply your product management skills and knowledge to build a robust product plan? What tools do you have at your disposal? Product planning focuses on the customer and business outcomes that the product should achieve. What is NOT product planning.

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The Product Coalition

JUNE 14, 2020

Defining and documenting a product vision will help you and the people around you understand how to move closer to the product and company vision. This research was based on areas that are either directly or indirectly related to my product. After that, I spent a few weeks writing down how this future could be.

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Modus Create

SEPTEMBER 22, 2020

The good news is that we can come close to recreating this environment remotely, we just need a little planning time and the right tools. This can include goal setting, mapping out the user journey after a round of user research, and even doing scrum ceremonies in a more interactive and engaging way. The Tool(s).

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PMLesson's Ace the PM Interview

MARCH 17, 2025

IBM is most widely known for its software and hardware products, but it also offers consulting services, data analytics, AI, and hybrid cloud solutions. If this is your interview, you’ll likely participate in several group exercises, and you may also have a 1-on-1 in-person interview there. Design WhatsApp.

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Intercom, Inc.

AUGUST 22, 2019

Here are five quick takeaways: Content design is a young discipline , and the ways in which it’s practiced change so often that people are inventing new rules, tools and approaches all the time. Improv gave me those tools I needed to get along in daily life. Short on time? I was never a great improviser.

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Userpilot

JULY 20, 2024

Product trainers can leverage various tools to create impactful training experiences. Looking into tools for product trainers? Userpilot is an all-in-one product platform with engagement features and powerful analytics capabilities. onboarding new employees and customers on product usage).

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The Product Coalition

FEBRUARY 12, 2024

This particular product review meeting was a breaking point. I struggled to figure out how to run the product review meeting effectively. I worked in healthcare technology at the time. Does it align with how your product will win in the market? Pull your data, research, and slides into a story.

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Userpilot

JULY 8, 2021

Best product manager courses for mid-career PMs in 2021. Best product manager courses for advanced/pro PMs in 2021. Product management guides the development of a product at the intersection of technology, UX, and business. What is product management? Using relevant tools as a product manager.

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ProductPlan

MARCH 4, 2022

Creating a user persona is not a set-it-and-forget-it exercise. The ways and places they interact with your product won’t stay the same forever, either. You need to regularly revisit the persona details you’ve drafted and make sure they still represent your product’s users and what they care about. Users’ needs change.

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ProductPlan

JANUARY 27, 2022

Here are some areas to consider when making your 2022 requests: Product Stack Tools for 2022 Budgets. Investing in tools for the product team commanded the most significant share of product team budgets in our 2021 survey. Tools in the product stack increase productivity and efficiency.

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