The Product HQ

MAY 10, 2024

Startup Product managers are in charge of setting up the foundation for product management at a new company. Since product development is such a lucrative field, this is a crucial role for the company. According to Airfocus , an optimized product manager boosts profitability and sales, by 34.2

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The Product Coalition

JULY 8, 2022

Christensen’s words in mind, how can one use this theory to build magnificent products and onboard users that might otherwise never consider buying your product? The Jobs-to-be-done (JTBD) framework is a requirements definition activity that empowers startups and other businesses to build products customers truly want.

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The Product Coalition

JULY 9, 2023

.” — Satya Nadella Throughout my career, as a leader of product for both startups and Fortune 500 companies, I’ve had the opportunity to interview hundreds of product managers. This experience has given me a deep understanding of what differentiates an amazing product manager from an average one.

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Userpilot

APRIL 6, 2023

After all, you want your newly released software to be as good as it gets when it’s finally launched, right? Overengineered products are difficult to use, filled with bugs, and instead of improving your users’ lives, they make them unnecessarily complicated. How to identify an overengineered solution? But worry not!

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Userpilot

JANUARY 23, 2024

Conduct deep market research through surveys and interviews to understand customer preferences and market trends. Define your product’s unique selling point (USP) that addresses target market needs. Coda employs competitor-based positioning by comparing itself against tools like Google Docs and Notion.

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The Product Coalition

FEBRUARY 23, 2024

This article is tailored for product managers eager to excel in interviews focusing on product sense and execution. In product management , it’s crucial to discern genuine expertise from merely holding a job title. I am not in favor of assigning home exercises. I am not in favor of assigning home exercises.

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The Product HQ

MAY 10, 2024

Want to become a machine learning product manager? As artificial intelligence technologies continue to evolve and become more mainstream, so too does the demand for machine learning product managers grow among startups and Fortune 500 companies alike. Keep on reading then.

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The Product Coalition

JULY 16, 2022

Can The ‘Jobs-to-be-Done’ (JTBD) Framework Help With User Onboarding? User Onboarding is the process of radically increasing the likelihood that new users become successful when adopting your product. The Gartner Group studied that most of the SAAS platforms today lose 75–80% of customers while Onboarding.

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Userpilot

JANUARY 31, 2022

Product management specializations have trended upwards in recent months. These “specializations” often place focus around a specific set of skills or needs a company has, somewhat creating a division within the product manager role. Are we breaking apart the product manager role a bit too much?

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Userpilot

FEBRUARY 17, 2022

If you’ve read Teresa’s Torres book, Continuous Discovery Habits , you’re probably familiar with her continuous discovery framework for building better products that are actually guided by user feedback. What is actually the “product role” in a startup? Product-led growth.

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Intercom, Inc.

JANUARY 14, 2021

With a background in computer science and an MBA, he soon realized that understanding the markets and customers is as important as building the products. And so, in 2014, he founded Productboard , a product management system that incorporates customer feedback and insights to help product teams build better products.

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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. Incremental innovation is a process of gradually modifying a company’s existing products or services through small improvements.

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Userpilot

JULY 13, 2022

Do you follow any product manager blogs? Would you like to discover new ones that will give you valuable insights into product management ? In our article, we introduce 20 of our favorite product manager blogs that every product pro should follow, regardless of their experience.

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Roman Pichler

FEBRUARY 2, 2021

Before the advent of agile frameworks like Scrum , a product person—the product manager—would typically carry out the market research, compile a market requirements specification, create a business case, put together product roadmap, write a requirements specification, and then hand it off to a project manager.

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Userpilot

JULY 9, 2021

What are the best product management books to add to your 2021 reading list? We’ve put together a list for you with a few staples from every product manager’s bookshelf and some new releases too. New in – Best New Product Management Books in 2021.

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Usersnap

OCTOBER 3, 2023

In the competitive landscape of product management, prioritizing user satisfaction and engagement is pivotal. Quantifying user interactions and analyzing engagement provide insights necessary for informed decisions, enhanced competitiveness, and superior product development. What is Google’s HEART Framework ? Happiness 2.

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Userpilot

JULY 17, 2023

How to choose the right product team structure for your SaaS? We also look at: Responsibilities of product teams Key roles you may want to include Different ways to structure your team Examples of different structures Let’s get right to it! Userpilot is a growth platform with advanced feedback and analytics functionality.

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The Product Coalition

FEBRUARY 8, 2022

Let’s see how we approach this topic with a simplified, four-step framework. Usually, we start with user interviews and other generative research methods. We can synthesise and visualise our problem discovery using various tools such as: User Persona Customer Profile Empathy Map Problem Statement Canvas Step 2. Ask yourself?—?how

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Melissa Perri

JUNE 29, 2017

“What is the difference between a Product Owner and a Product Manager?”. Let’s look at where these terms and disciplines originated from and how some common frameworks explain them. Honestly, I did very little of what I teach as Product Management now either. I liked this name. I’m confused.”

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Roman Pichler

FEBRUARY 2, 2021

Before the advent of agile frameworks like Scrum , a product person—the product manager—would typically carry out the market research, compile a market requirements specification, create a business case, put together product roadmap, write a requirements specification, and then hand it off to a project manager.

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Department of Product

OCTOBER 23, 2022

Product Principles – Examples for Product Managers Make decision making easier with inspiration from top product companies Product principles are used by product teams to help guide decision making. Strategic decisions are fundamental questions of what value your product delivers, to who and why.

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Userpilot

DECEMBER 12, 2023

Product roadmaps provide a high-level view of all product development motions, including UX ones. A field roadmap gives a general overview of all UX efforts across all areas and products. A specialty roadmap focuses exclusively on one area, for example, UX design or research , but across multiple products.

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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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Usersnap

JUNE 30, 2022

What Is Meant By Product Led Growth And How It Can Help in SaaS Product Management? The 8 main points to product-led growth How is Product-Led Growth The Right Strategy For Your SaaS Business? What Is Meant By Product Led Growth And How It Can Help in SaaS Product Management?

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Userpilot

MARCH 8, 2022

Women are still underrepresented in the Product Profession – with only 33.3% of US Product Managers being female in 2021, according to a metastudy of 30 million profiles conducted by Zippia : Source: [link]. Melissa Perri – Speaker, consultant, and teacher in Product Management. CEO of Product Labs.

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Usersnap

SEPTEMBER 29, 2022

Competitive analysis of current market offerings absolutely helps your SaaS company. However it isn’t the only thing, and perhaps a quite overrated approach to achieving SaaS growth. Not only is tracking the competition daunting, it doesn’t ensure the product chiseled and shaped will be used by YOUR user base. Let’s g(r)o(w)! ?

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The Product Coalition

JANUARY 12, 2023

And What You Can Do to Avoid Them Disclaimer: I don’t really believe you can ‘teach’ Product Management. That’s what I did in 2022 and doing so, I also got to dig into a lot of clients’ products. Product Managers I work with often tell me that “the purpose” has been decided by top management “a while ago”.

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The Secret PM Handbook

SEPTEMBER 16, 2016

In this part we dive into what you really came here for – product management-specific mental models. Why are product management-related mental models different? The mental models I’m going to talk about share two key characteristics: They are about about products. Categorization tools.

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Userpilot

MAY 19, 2022

Have you ever wondered what makes a successful product and how a product manager can build one? If yes, you’re in the right place as we’re just about to explore the 12 must-have characteristics of successful digital products. To be successful, your SaaS product needs to provide the right mix of features.

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Userpilot

AUGUST 30, 2023

Get ready to dive into insightful discussions, practical strategies, and real-world examples that will empower you to create and manage products that meet user needs and leave them truly satisfied. Product Drive is Userpilot’s FREE online event where experts from top companies come to share growth and marketing insights.

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The Product Coalition

SEPTEMBER 15, 2019

For new product managers or in startups with newly formed product teams, the building roadmap is their first kick at having the influence of the company direction. You might be super excited to go away for 2–3 weeks, conduct market research and come back with a colourful looking roadmap. So what can you do?

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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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Intercom, Inc.

JANUARY 12, 2022

And so, many business leaders find themselves not quite sure how to start, how to leverage it, or what to do when all the dashboards and tools seem to be pointing at different solutions. I started in the policy world as an economics researcher at a think tank. Every startup is going to be a challenge, and Mode is no different.

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Ask Benny

JANUARY 25, 2020

The rest of the company (product management, project management, sales, executive team, marketing) might be left behind or only be partly included. Agile Product Discovery Agile culture should start with the executive team and product management, while agile process should be initiated by product management and engineering.

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Product Innovation Educators

MAY 13, 2024

How product managers can master product portfolio management Watch on YouTube TLDR Portfolio management is a crucial aspect of product development that helps organizations strategically allocate resources, balance projects, and align their product innovation efforts with overall business goals.

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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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Userpilot

JULY 20, 2022

Would you like to know when product managers should use it and how? Quality Function Deployment (QDF) is a framework that helps teams translate customer requirements into technical requirements, and design the product and processes needed for its development. House of Quality is a common tool used for that.

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