ProductPlan

APRIL 25, 2024

The product management function in higher education is in a unique spot in its industry. At first glance, higher education may not seem like an industry that needs a product team filled with product managers. However, universities and colleges are the perfect places to employ product management principles.

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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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Product Talk

NOVEMBER 22, 2023

Opportunity solution trees are a simple way of visually representing the paths you might take to reach a desired outcome. Below the opportunity space is the solution space. This is where we’ll visually depict the solutions we are exploring. Below the solution space are assumption tests. Next is the opportunity space.

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Roman Pichler

FEBRUARY 19, 2024

Listen to the audio version of this article: [link] Introduction To discuss empowerment in product management, I find it helpful to distinguish three main levels of decision-making authority, product delivery, product discovery, and product strategy, as the model in Figure 1 shows. [1]

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Roman Pichler

AUGUST 15, 2023

Listen to the audio version of this article: [link] 1 No Strategy The first and most crucial mistake is to have no product strategy at all. When that’s the case, a product is usually progressed based on the features requested by the users and stakeholders. The strategy is therefore either too big or too narrow.

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Userpilot

NOVEMBER 30, 2023

What is the UX research process? It also outlines a 9-step guide on how to conduct UX research for product managers and UX designers. TL;DR The UX research process is a sequence of steps to collect and analyze data on user interactions with the product to better understand their needs and preferences.

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Intercom, Inc.

FEBRUARY 26, 2018

It’s even harder if you don’t know all of the armies on the field, their strategies and weapons, or even who’s a friend and who’s a foe. The same is true in software. We are all in a battle, multiple battles in fact, with a lot at stake: whether it’s the fate of the company we work for or for the product that we build.

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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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UX Planet

JANUARY 4, 2024

This metamorphosis was not just a change in title; it was a profound realization of the impact that research and strategy can have on the very foundation of the products we create. When I later transitioned into a Product Manager role, this customer-centric approach became invaluable.

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Userpilot

JULY 6, 2021

Is a SaaS product growth strategy essential to a modern business’s survival? What SaaS product growth strategies can you implement to get there? That's exactly what we'll cover in this article: what is a SaaS product growth strategy and what are the main growth strategy types.

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Usersnap

FEBRUARY 23, 2022

Every SaaS company, whether B2B or not, looks to get more intimately connected with their customers’ needs and pains to grow. In order to understand customer needs, get more customer feedback , and use it actionably, the rise and importance of SaaS product management within digital companies are “mooning” ??.

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Userpilot

MAY 1, 2024

The product management team is primarily responsible for owning the product experience but is supported by the engineering, marketing, and customer success departments. In most SaaS companies, the product management team includes product managers, product marketers , and UX designers.

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Userpilot

MARCH 28, 2024

It also explores different kinds of user data analysis, shows you how to conduct it, and introduces a few product analytics tools with the necessary functionality. TL;DR User analytics is a user research methodology. It involves collecting data about user interactions with the product and analyzing it for patterns.

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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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Userpilot

JANUARY 20, 2024

How do you conduct root cause analysis in product management? We also explain why it’s important for product managers and share useful tips. Next, conduct further research, run experiments , and dig deeper into issues to validate or refute the hypotheses. What is root cause analysis in product management?

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Alchemer Mobile

SEPTEMBER 3, 2020

This summer, our team looked at how COVID-19 has impacted mobile app usage patterns by industry. Key findings from our research include: Looking at DAU over time is the best way to understand drastic changes in app usage. For apps in the hardest-hit industries, DAU is down 60-75%. Higher frequency of app usage.

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The Product Coalition

DECEMBER 13, 2021

Both product and product strategy should fall in place to make the startup sustainable and help them to grow. The importance of measuring the small outcomes associated with their product goals or visions is the key to churn expected benefits throughout the product life cycle. Goals: Goals should be S.M.A.R.T.

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Lenny Rachitsky

APRIL 9, 2024

As I often do when thinking about a question, I ran a poll on Twitter and LinkedIn asking which core skills of product management folks think are most likely to be impacted/replaced by AI. That sounds a lot like a tool that would be incredibly good at identifying a clever strategy. Think about it—what is AI best at?

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The Product Coalition

OCTOBER 19, 2023

In product management, prioritization is the compass that guides teams towards their ultimate goal: delivering a product that pays off and truly resonates with their audience. It’s the practical tool that helps managers navigate the complex path of development. What is a framework? What is a backlog?

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Product Management University

AUGUST 15, 2023

The biggest difference between product management and portfolio management is product management focuses specifically on the success of each product whereas portfolio management focuses on the success of the company (the portfolio) in chosen market segments.

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UX Studio

FEBRUARY 2, 2022

You can easily get lost and puzzled when you start looking at all the infinite UX research tools that have become available lately. That’s why I decided to compile the most common UX research tools for you and hopefully, you will be able to find the proper ones for your needs. Let’s have a look at them.

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Intercom, Inc.

JUNE 2, 2021

But not every problem is created equal, and their solutions shouldn’t be either. Aligning on three things before diving into a solution can help ensure teams spend the right amount of time and energy solving every problem. Some problems need a straightforward solution, while others require more innovation. Investment .

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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. Consistency between the strategy and execution phases is crucial.

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The Secret PM Handbook

AUGUST 22, 2016

Tools For What We Do. As a product manager, I’d like to find some tools that help me do my job. I deal with: Customers – finding their problems and listening to their product feedback. Revenue and profit – how my solution will generate top and bottom line dollars. Practically nonexistent.

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Userpilot

JULY 23, 2023

TL;DR A go-to-market strategy is a comprehensive plan for taking your product or service to target customers. Key members of the GTM team: Go-to-Market Manager: Responsible for overseeing and coordinating the entire GTM process , ensuring alignment across go-to-market teams and successful product launches.

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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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Product Innovation Educators

APRIL 22, 2024

The essential knowledge areas that give product managers more influence and success Today we’re talking about the seven knowledge areas for product mastery. These are the knowledge areas that make us successful as product masters who know how to create new value for our customers. 1:14] Who is Chad McAllister?

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Userpilot

OCTOBER 26, 2023

How can you implement them in the SaaS context? TL;DR Growth initiatives are strategies aimed at expanding a company’s customer base, market share, revenue, or profitability. Market Development involves selling existing products to new markets. To see how Userpilot helps SaaS companies grow, book the demo!

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Userpilot

JULY 15, 2021

Despite its growing popularity, many people are still unfamiliar with SaaS product marketing. A common question is: what is SaaS product marketing? Most importantly, how does it benefit your SaaS business? In this post, I will give you an overview of what SaaS product marketing is and what it entails.

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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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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

OCTOBER 21, 2022

What product management best practices can help you build valuable and delightful products for your customers? Whether you’re an aspiring product manager or an already established product professional, our list will help you reflect on your processes and hopefully improve them. Check out our list!

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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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UX Planet

FEBRUARY 2, 2024

The fundraiser together with the person in charge creates a campaign on a platform aimed at potential donors and then the potential donor will determine their choice to donate or not, then the results of the donation are distributed by the fundraiser and the person in charge/platform. Gamification ?

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The Product Coalition

JULY 6, 2022

Nowadays, digital products are becoming more and more prominent in our lives, and it’s already part of our daily activities. The majority of such apps have undergone iterative and incremental development to enhance and improve their features. Most of our readers would have heard of Agile product management.

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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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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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