Gainsight

MARCH 19, 2020

Let’s start by acknowledging that Customer Success teams always have the coolest people in the company. They develop a deep understanding of the customer’s problems and how the company can offer a better overall solution. So why are Success leaders often second-class citizens on the executive team?

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Gainsight

MARCH 9, 2020

Let’s start by acknowledging that Customer Success teams always have the coolest people in the company. They develop a deep understanding of the customer’s problems and how the company can offer a better overall solution. So why are Success leaders often second-class citizens on the executive team?

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Mind the Product

MAY 9, 2019

In March last year, my colleague and Mind the Product’s Director of Training, Rosemary King, wrote about how the company departments working alongside a product team could better work together to meet their common goals and to improve working practices. In Marketing, in Product, in Operations… test, learn, test again.

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Intercom, Inc.

NOVEMBER 3, 2022

Scaling a support team is challenging enough as it is. Maybe you’ve just extended support hours and it’s becoming harder to plan shifts for different time zones; maybe you’re spending hours figuring out schedules for the week ahead; maybe the inflow prediction was a bit off and now your team is under or overstaffed.

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Usersnap

MARCH 19, 2019

Should the Voice of Customer influence product development? In Frost & Sullivan’s survey research on R&D/innovation and product development priorities, 84% of the respondents declare that they employ the voice of customers (VoC) in their product development cycle. Do you consider customer feedback?

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Mixpanel

NOVEMBER 9, 2020

However, they don’t meet everyone’s data needs—particularly product teams’ BI tools are great at visualizing any data that can be queried from a data warehouse. The relative strengths and weaknesses can be summarized as follows. Analysis depth vs. breadth. Implementation. Implementation.

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Userpilot

JANUARY 21, 2021

In this post – we will make it clear how Product Owner vs. Product Manager’s roles differ, what skills each need to have to excel in their roles, why you need both in your product team and when is a good time to hire for those roles! a Product Owner. a Product Owner. In a hurry?

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Innovatemap

MARCH 22, 2023

Why Founders are Struggling In addition to having product-market fit, founders now have to prove that they can turn their idea into a successful business. Fractional partners can be immensely valuable in: Finance HR Legal Design Marketing Product Fractional partners reduce the stress and costs of onboarding new team members.

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The Product Coalition

JUNE 4, 2018

Failure to enforce the current process and blaming the sales teams. There’s much research to be found on pricing strategies, especially for SaaS products, so I won’t write about it here. See which customer in your pipeline is likely to buy the product. Afraid to change the status quo.

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Intercom, Inc.

OCTOBER 1, 2020

Sales, marketing, finance, support, and R&D all use the roadmap for different thing. Sales want to sell it, marketing needs to plan for it, finance needs to model it, support needs to be able to explain it, and R&D needs to be excited about it. Getting this right allows your teams to work in lockstep together.

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Intercom, Inc.

OCTOBER 1, 2020

Sales, marketing, finance, support, and R&D all use the roadmap for different thing. Sales want to sell it, marketing needs to plan for it, finance needs to model it, support needs to be able to explain it, and R&D needs to be excited about it. Getting this right allows your teams to work in lockstep together.

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The Product Coalition

APRIL 2, 2018

Product Management can be an intimidating role. Traditionally Product Managers come from a design or development background, find they are good with people, and evolve their role into a Product Manager position. Good Product people can tell you important information on every aspect of the business. Team orientated.

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Split

AUGUST 18, 2022

You might discover that you’re saving time for both your team and your customers. We strongly recommend that you verify the claims of your vendors, or A/B-test on-line what your machine learning team has tested off-line. Running many tests to find the ideal price point should be a constant operation for your product marketing team.

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The Product Coalition

MARCH 9, 2020

A pattern I’ve seen 4 or 5 times seems worth describing, since other folks may be experiencing it: a very early-stage B2B/enterprise company brings on a full sales team before finding product/market fit. First, let’s recapping the basics of why we hire enterprise sales teams and what they do.

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Oren Steinberg

JULY 13, 2018

They seem to have validated initial value and growth assumptions, showing a promising product-market fit. They are torn across seeking investors, continuing bootstrap and expanding the team. An IoT B2B startup that developed a leading MVP and initial user base has raised $10M from private investors. Start with Why.

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Business of Software Conference

FEBRUARY 16, 2021

So, this was focused on software developers, specifically, for dotnet software developers, this very small ad network, I ran those ad networks for a couple years, and realized that that was a terrible business. And I was a software developer before. The Good and the Bad of Taking Money. 2:43 Mark: Yeah.

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Mironov Consulting

MARCH 4, 2020

A pattern I’ve seen 4 or 5 times seems worth describing, since other folks may be experiencing it: a very early-stage B2B/enterprise company brings on a full sales team before finding product/market fit. First, let’s recapping the basics of why we hire enterprise sales teams and what they do.

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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. Here are some patterns I’ve seen in picking successful Heads of Product.

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The Product Coalition

FEBRUARY 26, 2022

I’ve asked friends who do the job at social events and got the same answer, and frequently asked members of my own teams, who struggled to find the time to do it. To compensate, I’ve seen UX researchers & designers pick up the mantle a lot more, and the design teams have really leaned into this space.

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Mironov Consulting

JULY 27, 2023

” Product: “We’re endlessly creating and updating demos, decks, product bulletins, release dates/roadmaps, FAQs, technical docs, checklists, cheat sheets -- but Sales hardly uses any of them, and still expresses deep frustration with us.  Sales  There’s something more systematic here.

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Userpilot

DECEMBER 6, 2022

Can marketing resource management help streamline your product marketing processes and workflows? The marketing department is one of the most crucial in any company. Asana – a project management tool that helps you cut tasks into smaller sizes, assign them to relevant teams and individuals, and track progress.

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ProductPlan

MARCH 10, 2023

So much of what can go wrong with a feature release is related to poor execution of the broader feature launch process. Product teams find a never-ending opportunity to improve on what came before. However, the exception occurs at the end of the lifecycle when the team sunsets the product.

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Amplitude

AUGUST 30, 2017

At the Product Analytics Summit in Seattle this past March, we chatted with some of our customers about how they use Amplitude as part of their product development toolbox. It helps you stay in tune with user needs and helps you make product development decisions that cater to those needs.

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Intercom, Inc.

JANUARY 20, 2022

Since then, in anticipation of Intercom’s R&D plan for 2022, we started looking at our internal cadence of productivity and kicked off a project to evaluate each process from ideation to shipping. We surveyed and interviewed key people in our teams to understand how they worked and how they saw Intercom’s internal operations.

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Mironov Consulting

SEPTEMBER 23, 2023

Services companies (aka custom development, agencies, outsourcing/nearshoring, contract engineering, consultancies, any work-for-hire) primarily market/sell the time and expertise of their people.  Work  (“Our AI-based tech support lookup product will cut your support costs by 25-35%.”)

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Mironov Consulting

DECEMBER 29, 2022

IMHO, software product companies are fundamentally different from software services/outsourcing/custom development companies.  Said  but not in consulting days or developer hours or use-it-or-lose-it prepaid service agreements.  There’s B2B software services companies work the other side of the problem.  The

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Intercom, Inc.

FEBRUARY 1, 2018

In August of 2016, Rachel Hepworth embarked on a unique challenge: start a growth marketing team at one of the most successful startups of this generation – one that had long relied heavily on word of mouth. I stumbled upon Eric Ries and Steve Blank, the concept of customer development – it was a revelation. We got sales leads.

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Mironov Consulting

JUNE 28, 2018

So I see a distinct set of challenges and (therefore) required skills for enterprise product managers that are less important for B2C and low-end SMB product managers. Long Sales Cycles, Weak Attribution, Few Data Points. From social team: “4500 likes and retweets of our latest post!” Digging in: 1.

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Intercom, Inc.

OCTOBER 15, 2020

Then I worked on “Pokemon: Mac and Cheese” for Kraft” Bob: When I was part of the new product team, we would not only design things we also worked with suppliers and would fly all over the world to actually get those lines up and running and do that kind of stuff. People keep talking about product market fit.

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svpg

SEPTEMBER 30, 2016

Article: Behind Every Great Product. I titled the paper, “Behind Every Great Product” and it was inspired by the classic Good Product Manager / Bad Product Manager by Ben Horowitz. The paper proved popular and helped many teams to get a better understanding of just what product was all about.

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Usersnap

JANUARY 12, 2022

In short, the CPO oversees all aspects of a product’s vision, design, and development. They are essential in creating a robust and helpful product that fills a void in the market while addressing customer feedback. How Much Does a Chief Product Officer Earn? What Is a Chief Product Officer? .

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Mironov Consulting

FEBRUARY 6, 2020

Just as every organization needs a finance/accounting team that follows GAAP and tracks cashflow. So we should take the time to propose various metrics, review them with our teams, argue a bit, and consider our first choices as experiments rather than instant full-year commitments. But metrics aren’t generic.

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Intercom, Inc.

OCTOBER 29, 2020

Think about what you could be doing to bring more diversity into your teams and be more inclusive as a company, and go actively out of your way in order to achieve set goals. I usually do them with Paul or people from the product teams – it’s much more fun to be on a podcast with your boss. Be open-minded.

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Product Bookshelf

JANUARY 9, 2021

Strong product teams use a variety of product discovery techniques to identify and address risk. The best teams tackle the biggest risks first. What is Product Discovery. A key theme in Inspired is that strong product teams practices separate discovery and delivery activities. Inspired by Marty Cagan.

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The Product Coalition

MARCH 21, 2019

A Clear Product Strategy has Four Levels Getting lost in the maze of “strategy” can be very distracting for product managers. It’s not often clear how much time that a product manager should be spending on influencing or developing one, or at what level. Is the team delivering value every sprint?

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Pragmatic Marketing

NOVEMBER 9, 2009

While software development teams have been moving toward agile methods for years, many product managers are only now becoming aware of it. An agile approach applies collaborative and continuous improvement concepts to software development. It seems that agile teams do everything in a new way.

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Userpilot

JANUARY 15, 2021

Analytics is one of the most important ways for identifying and validating ways of improving product metrics, as we’ll discuss in the next section. Why is Product Analytics important? 51% of people will never return to a company that they’ve had a bad experience with. Product analytics is objective. Source: mixpanel.com.

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