Intercom, Inc.

JANUARY 21, 2020

Lots of social stuff, banking, travel, local services, fitness, cooking, more than a few games, even apps made by governments. If it’s one of the most common elements in our designs, why is it so often the last thing most teams focus on – if they focus on it at all? Fitness: (Fitbit, Strava) 35.3%. Measuring the letters.

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Roman Pichler

AUGUST 12, 2024

Listen to the audio version of this article: [link] The Core Product Team Product teams come in different shapes and sizes. But all product teams I have seen consisted of the person in charge of the product—the product manager or Scrum product owner —and development team members.

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Intercom, Inc.

JANUARY 5, 2021

” The secret to shipping successful product, then, is clearly defining for your team the problem that you’re setting out to solve. A great problem statement supercharges product development. It inspires and guides your design team, it makes evaluation simple, and it creates direction for scoping and iteration.

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Lenny Rachitsky

SEPTEMBER 3, 2024

If you’re building a consumer subscription app, this post is your new bible. Over the past year, Phil Carter has been developing a framework for growing consumer subscription businesses, called the Subscription Value Loop. A massive thank-you to Phil for doing the work to put a piece like this together.

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The Product Coalition

DECEMBER 8, 2019

Highly effective Product Managers develop themselves in 5 key areas. In some jobs, you can get by with just Competence, but in the unkempt, fuzzy, team-oriented domain of Product Management, you need both. the craft of product management, creating customer and business value) 2. Craft Competence ?? Market Competence ?????

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Alchemer Mobile

MARCH 18, 2021

The report is meant to serve as a yardstick for companies seeking to understand how their customer feedback and engagement metrics stack up against the market, and includes mobile benchmarks across 10 main categories and 20 subcategories. 63% of consumers who were proactively engaged in Q1 were still seen later in the year (Q3-Q4).

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Intercom, Inc.

JUNE 23, 2020

Meanwhile customer expectations are rising – they expect better experiences and immediate support resolutions. The internet is also driving an explosion in customer choice, allowing them to easily switch to businesses who provide better experiences. Customer support is undergoing massive, irreversible change.

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The Product Coalition

DECEMBER 21, 2020

Experimental Design For Product Testing?—?Important Take, for instance, a food scientist who believes that a new flavour enhancer could improve consumer demand, or a pharmaceutical company that have developed a medication which they believe could relieve high-blood pressure. The reason is simple.

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Userpilot

APRIL 24, 2025

Want to advance your career in product management or find top talent for your team? Stripe They’re looking for a senior Product Manager to lead a pillar within our LPM Cost Optimization team. Who would be the best fit for this job? Who would be a bad fit for this job?

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The Product Coalition

FEBRUARY 26, 2022

Why have Product Managers stopped speaking to customers? Very sadly, most product managers I meet today no longer talk directly to customers regularly. If you ask; “How many customers did you speak to this week?” My view is that this evolution is bad for product management careers and the customers who benefit from what we do.

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The Product Coalition

SEPTEMBER 28, 2022

Strategy and enabling your team to solve problems makes the difference between a boss and an impactful leader. Without well-researched facts that are based on reality for your company and customers ( insights ), you won’t make good decisions. He asked quite innocently in front of my new team, “what’s the product strategy?”

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Product Talk

SEPTEMBER 11, 2019

After sharing how I thought the business could improve based on the market situation, customer feedback , and some new ideas that leveraged our core technologies, she looked at me and said: “What are you doing? A few weeks later, she offered me a job on her team. Customers don’t just adopt. My teams move markets.

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The Product Coalition

JANUARY 27, 2022

At the beginning of any software development project, managers think of which methodology is between waterfall and agile. It’s essential to follow clearly defined processes or software development life cycle (SDLC) to ensure software development quality. Waterfall and agile: A smart method or bad solution?

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Roman Pichler

JUNE 4, 2018

Embracing new technologies like machine learning, micro services, big data, and Internet of Things (IoT) is part of that change, as is the introduction of agile practices including cross-functional and self-organising teams, DevOps, Scrum, and Kanban.

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Mironov Consulting

AUGUST 8, 2017

As a product manager, I think it’s my obligation to bring clarity and precision to discussions… so talking generically about customers or users can be exasperating. So let’s abandon the words ‘customer’ and ‘user’ entirely, and be more explicit about who/what we mean. See personas 4 and 7.”

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Mironov Consulting

JANUARY 17, 2021

Half of the calls I get from CEOs include requests for Product Management to boost productivity in Engineering (aka Development aka Makers). This reflects confusion about what product managers do (and how we really add value), and often poor role definition where product managers are also project/program managers or engineering leads.

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Userpilot

AUGUST 17, 2024

It allows gyms, yoga studios, spas, outdoor centers, and personal trainers to streamline day-to-day operations: admin, finance, and customer care. We’ve talked to Isa Olsson, UX Researcher and Designer. It also improved communication with users, who appreciated the in-app release notes and updates.

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Intercom, Inc.

NOVEMBER 7, 2019

Creating a new product category also creates a plethora of challenges – from spotting the right market niche to convincing customers that yours is a service they need. Four years later, and as the company moves decidedly upmarket with their customer base, it’s adapting its sales cycles to cater for bigger clients.

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Product Talk

AUGUST 14, 2024

They might feel anxious about taking on tasks that are new to them and outside their regular routine at work, like speaking directly with customers. Intro to Ramsey Solutions Ramsey Solutions provides common-sense education about money and personal finance. It’s no secret that engineers can be hesitant to participate in product trios.

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Sachin Rekhi

JANUARY 9, 2017

I studied computer science in the engineering school and ultimately settled on finance at Wharton. While I may have been better served studying marketing or management, I did learn some important finance principles that I still use day-to-day in my product management role. When evaluating a channel, how saturated is it?

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Modus Create

FEBRUARY 12, 2025

8 AI trends that will define product development By Greg Sterndale Posted in Digital Transformation , Product Published on: February 12, 2025 Last update: February 10, 2025 From modular architecture to agentic AI How product development will evolve in 2025 & beyond In product development, change is the only constant.

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Mind the Product

APRIL 4, 2017

Dual-Track Agile is an IT development methodology where figuring out what to build is as important as the building process. So how do you know if your product team has a good idea? While Dual-Track Agile is my recommended way to develop products, it’s not very clean. Can users use it? Now Things get Messy. Usability).

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The Product Coalition

OCTOBER 6, 2020

People today consume content through more channels than ever before, and they’re also using media channels to talk about the TV shows and movies they watch. Canvs Founder and CEO, Jared Feldman believes in the importance of understanding how people feel on social media as they consume content.

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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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Userpilot

JUNE 20, 2023

As a product manager, how can you effectively validate ideas and build a successful product that delights users? TL;DR Product idea validation is a process during which product teams test and tweak the product concept to ensure it satisfies a real market need. This is the key focus of our guide.

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Roman Pichler

JUNE 7, 2021

Be Clear on When to Involve the Stakeholders and Development Teams. Complex and high-impact decisions, however, are best made together with the stakeholders and development teams. Additionally, include the development team members in product backlog decisions , and always choose sprint goals together.

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The Product Coalition

OCTOBER 5, 2020

Many teams and organisations jump into build mode too early. Then they build something that customers reject, they miss the mark, or they need extra budget to get it there. Sidebar: Product Discovery is a process (sometimes iterative) for better understanding your customer(s) and their problems. Increase your prices.

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Userpilot

APRIL 6, 2023

Developing and releasing sophisticated products with all the bells and whistles imaginable might seem like a great idea. Overengineered products are difficult to use, filled with bugs, and instead of improving your users’ lives, they make them unnecessarily complicated. Poor prioritization and external pressure are also common causes.

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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. Test Everything. All product managers love a good test.

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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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Intercom, Inc.

JULY 11, 2019

In a company’s early days as a lean, mean, business machine, it’s fairly easy for leadership to stay in sync with their users. But as the business becomes more successful – and there are resources to build a support team – additional layers begin to separate executives from their customers. Speak the customer’s language.

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Mironov Consulting

JUNE 28, 2018

Business-to-consumer (B2C) targets individuals and families. I arbitrarily designate products under $500 as consumables or low-involvement purchases; products between $500/year and $5000/year as departmental or SMB or high involvement for single corporate purchasers. Some core assumptions: The typical B2C buyer is the user.

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The Product Coalition

FEBRUARY 15, 2021

All startups built double-sided marketplaces, serving B2C as well as B2B customers. In my experience, the challenges of becoming a learning organization can only be handled effectively by self-organizing teams. Their collaboration will lead over time to a ‘team of teams’ structure. There seems to be a belief?

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Usersnap

MARCH 19, 2019

Do you consider customer feedback? 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.

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Intercom, Inc.

OCTOBER 15, 2020

Our previous conversations with Bob have covered how to unpack customer motivations and the Jobs-To-Be-Done framework (of which he was one of the principal architects). In this episode, Bob and I chat about his new book Demand-Side Sales 101: Stop Selling and Help Your Customers Make Progress. Des: That makes a lot of sense.

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Userpilot

DECEMBER 13, 2023

The jobs-to-be-done survey is a great process to help you find out what your customers’ desired outcomes are, so you can make tangible improvements to your product that customers will find helpful. TL;DR JTBD surveys identify unmet customer needs and satisfaction, guiding product improvement and increasing customer happiness.

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Mixpanel

JUNE 10, 2020

As VP of Product at NerdWallet , I guide product decisions that drive maximum value for our brand and consumers—helping them break down complicated financial topics (e.g. No matter the industry, product experimentation should always be done with your customers top of mind. These turkey demos have surfaced key learnings for our team.

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