Userpilot

JANUARY 29, 2023

Why do product managers need a new feature validation framework? TL;DR Product managers need a new feature validation framework to ensure that they meet user needs or drive organizational goals and avert product failure. Product teams should invest in validation when developing the MVP.

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The Product Coalition

JANUARY 11, 2023

Photo by Dylan Gillis on Unsplash Market research and user experience research (UXR) are often confused as being the same thing, but they are actually distinct fields with their own goals and methods. To choose the appropriate research method for the business, it’s important to clarify the problem we are trying to solve.

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Product Talk

OCTOBER 25, 2023

Stepping into your first product leadership role is a major change. You may find yourself less involved in the day-to-day work of discovery and delivery and more focused on higher-level strategy. And it might feel a bit lonelier than when you were an active member of a product trio. You can submit your story here.

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Userpilot

JANUARY 23, 2024

Product positioning strategies are not only a marketing tactic but a survival strategy. So how do you ensure that your product not only lives but actually thrives? TL;DR Product positioning is about defining your product’s place in the market to attract customers and enhance brand identity.

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Userpilot

JULY 9, 2023

If you’re a UX designer or product manager wondering how to deliver a better product in terms of usability and user experience, this is the article for you. Start improving user experience and usability with user research. Card sorting and fake door testing are useful testing methods before the product launch.

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Userpilot

MAY 1, 2024

Looking to deliver a better digital product experience? Creating outstanding product experiences is essential for boosting user engagement , enhancing core feature adoption, and improving overall retention. This article provides a step-by-step process to elevate your product experience from “good enough” to “superb”.

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Userpilot

DECEMBER 8, 2023

A mindset of product experimentation is vitally important for product success and growth. TL;DR Product experimentation is a systematic and data-driven approach, where you consistently design and run experiments that help you make better product decisions. There are many different types of product experiments.

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Userpilot

NOVEMBER 20, 2023

The articles: Defines the weighted scoring model Discusses its advantages and disadvantages Shows how product and project managers can create their own model Explains how to follow up on the results Let’s get right into it! These could come from your organization or you can use a ready framework like RICE or ICE.

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The Product Coalition

FEBRUARY 22, 2021

TL; DR: Product Discovery Anti-Patterns Scrum has proven to be an effective product delivery framework for all sorts of products. However, Scrum is equally well suited to build the wrong product efficiently as its Achilles heel has always been the product discovery part. Participation is free.)

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Roman Pichler

MAY 3, 2023

Listen to the audio version of this article: [link] Make Time to Keep up with Technology Trends As new technologies come and go, it’s important for you—the person in charge of the product—to stay on top of the developments. You talk to the development team, and the team members suggest that machine learning is likely to be the right solution.

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The Product Coalition

JULY 11, 2022

It’s time to perk up the product management industry by redoing Blackalicious’ most popular song, “Alphabet Aerobics”. Product management glossary For those finding some new Product Management terms, check my Product Management Glossary. Outro: Female Voice] (Good… can you say it faster?)

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Userpilot

JULY 5, 2022

Why is incremental innovation important for product managers ? Incremental innovation is a process of gradually modifying a company’s existing products or services through small improvements. Small but regular improvements are a more reliable way to achieve product-market fit. How is it different from other kinds of innovation?

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Userpilot

FEBRUARY 9, 2023

What is product optimization? Is it the same as product discovery? How should product managers go about optimizing their products? What are the best product optimization practices? The process of product optimization starts with goal setting , like improving usability. Let’s dive right in!

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The Product Guy

APRIL 9, 2020

Guest Post by: Niveditha Jayasekar (Mentee, Session 11, The Product Mentor) [Paired with Mentor, Patrick Hoffman]. For product managers, it’s even more important because we intersect with different people in different scenarios every day with the ultimate goal of aligning the product to the customer and the business. .

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Mind the Product

APRIL 10, 2020

In this talk from #MTP Engage Manchester consultant Itamar Gilad takes us through his GIST (goals, ideas, steps, tasks) framework. Itamar has over 20 years of product management experience working with industry leaders such as Google and Microsoft. What is the point of working so hard on products that fail to make an impact?

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The Product Coalition

FEBRUARY 11, 2024

The value assessment framework allows you to identify gaps in any of the value layers — definition, delivery, and perception. Photo by Iain Kennedy on Unsplash When I was a product lead at Imperva, there was a feature that engineering kept telling me required a rewrite. Some even need to be left untouched.

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UX Planet

MARCH 2, 2024

When I first began working on an AI project nearly a year ago, I frequently reflected on the process for developing GenAI products. Part 1: The need for Reevaluation If you have worked on the GenAI products/ features before or are just starting, you might find adopting a reverse engineering approach beneficial.

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Userpilot

JUNE 28, 2022

In the busy, competitive world of SaaS products, there’s something that can give product managers a serious advantage: prototype testing. Being able to quickly build, launch, see how something lands, and learn lessons is a fantastic way to gather meaningful user feedback. What is prototype testing?

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Userpilot

NOVEMBER 21, 2023

Do you even need a product launch checklist? More importantly, you will find here 2 different checklists: one for new products and the other for updates or feature releases. We also share some best practices for product managers on how to pull off a successful product launch. What is a product launch checklist?

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Userpilot

SEPTEMBER 10, 2022

Do you know which user experience survey questions to ask? This post lists the different questions to ask users on your survey concerning their experience with your software. We'll also discuss how to conduct UX surveys correctly to get the most out of your user feedback. What are user experience surveys?

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The Product Coalition

DECEMBER 2, 2020

Keys to A/B Testing I recently hosted a webinar on the keys to A/B testing and how to structure these components for a company. Therefore, what follows is a rough outline for how I approach A/B testing when I join a company or when I get started. Should you be doing A/B tests as a company? Do you have product-market fit?

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Userpilot

APRIL 28, 2023

Any product manager should understand the power of a product adoption framework as it can transform their ability to help users get value from their product and achieve their goals. A product adoption framework is a set of tools, tactics, rules, metrics, and more – all aimed at helping improve your adoption rate.

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Userpilot

JANUARY 9, 2024

Use qualitative data, such as user surveys, usability testing, session recordings, and heatmaps, to answer why the trends exist. A UX audit is a health check of your website or product's user interface, meant to highlight any usability issues. The UX analytics results can produce astounding discoveries.

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The Product Coalition

FEBRUARY 2, 2023

As product managers, it’s our job to develop solutions that solve real problems for our customers and create value for the business. One effective approach is to use a hypothesis-driven product validation framework to ensure that your efforts are focused on the most important questions at the right time.

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Userpilot

JANUARY 26, 2023

How does it contribute to product success? How do you embed it into your product management processes? It goes beyond positive brand experience. Product managers need empathy skills to better understand user needs , choose the right problems to solve, and find solutions that will work best in their unique circumstances.

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UX Planet

FEBRUARY 13, 2024

Prescriptive Agile frameworks make it hard for designers to add valuable contributions to the team. Without discovery practices as part of the sprint, the product is destined to fail. After delivery, we prayed to the gods that the final product would work as designed. In 2011 I was a UX Designer in a design studio.

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Userpilot

NOVEMBER 23, 2023

Why do product managers need them? That’s what Dave Martin , a product leadership coach, has talked about in his talk at this year’s Product Drive Summit hosted by Userpilot. Dave Martin on how product roadmaps kill outcomes. Build a product that users love by delivering value and a good product experience.

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Userpilot

MARCH 19, 2024

As today’s user increasingly desires swift solutions when using digital products, user experience optimization can spell the difference between the success and failure of a product. This guide takes an in-depth examination of steps you can start implementing right away to improve your product’s UX optimization.

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Userpilot

APRIL 16, 2024

In SaaS, a product experience strategy provides the building blocks for making customers stay, engage with your app, and eventually become loyal advocates for your product. That said, we’ll review how to build a strong product strategy that delights users and unlocks product growth. What is a product experience strategy?

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Userpilot

DECEMBER 13, 2023

According to Jamie Levy, the main tenets of a UX strategy are business strategy, value innovation, validated user research , and frictionless UX. Goals are the specific UX objectives the product aspires to achieve, for example, improving usability. A UX strategy is a plan that guides product design and development.

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Userpilot

MAY 22, 2023

A CX strategy should encompass every interaction and engagement layer between your customers and your SaaS product. TL; DR Customer experience (CX) strategies are the plans and practices you put in place to provide positive experiences to customers. Defining customer personas to understand their goals, pain points , and motivations.

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Userpilot

JUNE 26, 2023

Choosing the right feature request prioritization framework enables product teams to make informed decisions and deliver the maximum customer value possible, especially when resources are limited. They can also help product managers secure key stakeholder buy-in. Let’s dive in. It focuses on Impact, Confidence, and Ease.

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Userpilot

AUGUST 10, 2022

Are you wondering about the difference between the Minimum Viable Product vs Minimum Marketable Product? Would you like to know what role each of them plays in the product management process and how to build them? A Minimum Viable Product (MVP) is a version of the product with minimal features, built to validate product ideas.

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Userpilot

AUGUST 29, 2023

Product management is equal parts art and science – and it’s vital to the success of your SaaS. TL;DR Product management describes the continual process of overseeing the development of a product across its entire lifecycle. The main difference between product management and project management is the focus.

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Userpilot

NOVEMBER 21, 2022

What does the product launch manager do? Does your organization really need such a role if you already have a product manager ? The product launch manager coordinates the work of cross-functional teams and supports the product manager during product launches. Ready to dive in? Let’s get to it.

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Userpilot

MAY 7, 2024

TL;DR A software walkthrough is the process of guiding users through the main features and processes of a software product. Interactive walkthroughs guide users step-by-step through actions within a product, while product tours offer a more passive overview of features and capabilities. Collect feedback to identify friction.

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Gainsight

FEBRUARY 15, 2023

Right before our holiday break, I sat down with internationally acclaimed Speaker and Product Discovery Coach at Product Talk , Teresa Torres. As a Product Discovery Coach, Teresa helps teams gain valuable insights from customer interviews, runs effective product experiments, and drives product outcomes.

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