The Product Guy

MAY 3, 2018

Moving from product concepts to execution requires the steady guidance of a product manager to listen and understand the needs and wants of the organization, the teams involved, and the users for whom the product is being built. The cycle of creating a great product begins with listening. Establishing value.

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Userpilot

JULY 29, 2024

And that’s why it’s necessary to adopt the right product management frameworks (the blueprint!) to guide product teams at every stage. Top-notch products. So, which product management frameworks should your team use? It involves making your product so valuable to users that it sells itself.

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Productside

MARCH 20, 2025

Unlike in-house product teams that build and iterate on their own products, agency product managers (PMs) must quickly understand a clients business, dive deep into their challenges, and deliver high-impact solutions within tight timelines. Anne explains: Desirable: Whats the customer need? Does the technology support it?

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The Product Coalition

NOVEMBER 11, 2021

What’s the big deal in making Products? You listen to customers, get their requirements, build Products to address the requirement! You are not discovering the pain points of one entity. Every month you talk to many customers, many users. Customer A wants an On-Prem solution. Was that not easy?

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Product Innovation Educators

JUNE 24, 2024

In product management, it involves understanding the needs and pain points of customers and creating products that solve their problems. Building authentic connections is crucial for success in product management, both during the job search process and in day-to-day work.

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Product Talk

SEPTEMBER 6, 2023

I think there’s a whole bunch of stuff around trends, where we’re now saying, “If we’re going to make good decisions about what to build, let’s include the customer in the process. It’s just, how do we make better decisions about what to build, and include the customer in the process? Lots of that.

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Userpilot

JULY 14, 2023

What is a product analytics framework and why is it important? We also look at: Different types of analyses to include in your framework How to develop a product analytics framework And, the best product analytics tools. Userpilot is a product adoption platform with advanced analytics features.

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Userpilot

NOVEMBER 30, 2023

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. It’s essential to build user-friendly products that satisfy their needs and offer a positive customer experience. How do you do it efficiently?

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ProductPlan

JUNE 1, 2023

But are you solving for actual customer problems? In the never-ending race to ship out product updates to keep up with—or ideally, stay ahead of—the competition, it’s easy to get caught up in the flurry of activity and become a feature factory. Where are product teams getting their feature ideas?

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Userpilot

MAY 8, 2024

Common types of customer needs include functionality, price, usability , performance, and support. To conduct an analysis, start by first defining the objective for your user needs analysis. Then, split your audience into various customer personas so you can analyze each of them individually. Let’s take a closer look.

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The Product Coalition

MARCH 11, 2021

Gousto’s approach to solving customer problems to create massive business value has radically changed in the last two years. We’ve expanded our principles to reflect Brian Balfour’s better-defined “New Age Growth”, and adopted Product Thinking to unlock huge A/B tested conversion, retention and AOV uplifts.

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Userpilot

AUGUST 18, 2024

According to Ant Murphy, the reason is simple, you don’t have a prioritization problem, you have a strategy problem. We explain how to create a successful product strategy, the role of product strategy in prioritization, and how to align your prioritization efforts with your strategy.

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Sachin Rekhi

FEBRUARY 16, 2020

I wanted to share what I believe are the top ten most important deliverables for product managers across each of the four dimensions of product management. Sometimes these visions of the future are also shared with existing and potential customers to help portray your company's ambitions. Design: Customer Discovery Insights.

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Userpilot

JULY 23, 2024

It helps organizations focus on the Determining which features to include in a product roadmap can be challenging with constantly evolving customer needs and several opportunities chasing scarce resources. They represent the customer’s voice and collaborate with product teams and stakeholders.

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Userpilot

JULY 20, 2022

It also outlines its stages, looks at the House of Quality, and how to make sure the Voice of your Customers is heard. 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.

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Intercom, Inc.

JULY 15, 2021

Every designer should ask themselves – how can I apply the tenets of good design to drive better customer and business outcomes? User research is a vital part of the design process. By constantly observing the customer, you find out how they define success in their organization, and therefore, how you can help them achieve it.

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ProductPlan

JULY 16, 2021

Product Manager’s Control of Employee Expectations. As a product manager, implementing an effective product strategy should remain a priority. For example, let’s say you have a disgruntled customer bugging you to add a new feature. The request falls within the domain of an associate product manager.

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The Product Coalition

OCTOBER 5, 2020

Create frameworks for aligning company, org, team, and individual goals. Create prioritization frameworks based on set criteria that aligns with the organization’s strategy. Product Specialists (PS). This role is focused on surfacing, investigating, and recommending solutions for user issues. Measures of success.

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Userpilot

FEBRUARY 20, 2024

A product roadmap is a general term for a plan that highlights the direction, vision , priorities, and progress of a product’s development over time. Here, the product manager mainly makes decisions based on intuition, customer feedback or (requests), and market trends. How is a data product roadmap different?

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Userpilot

JULY 17, 2024

The right persona examples can help you guide effective product strategies, ensuring that your offerings meet the needs and expectations of your users. Let’s explore: What a persona is and its importance in product management. Customer persona : Reflects the profile of existing customers to improve retention.

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Userpilot

MAY 1, 2024

A user needs analysis conducted with product analytics data lets you build products that address user pain points and exceed their expectations. In this article, we dig deeper into what user needs analysis is and how you can get started with it. Let’s take a look at its key benefits.

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Userpilot

DECEMBER 13, 2023

TL;DR UX strategy provides guidance to the UX design team on how to create and improve experiences that satisfy user needs. Such a strategy helps the team put themselves in the shoes of the users, better understand their needs and pain points , and make the user experience consistently good at all stages of the user journey.

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Userpilot

JULY 17, 2024

They ensure that your product abides by its basic values. But, they are different from the product vision. You must know your customers extremely well. Leverage user research , conduct interviews, and track reviews for this. Use the JTBD framework and develop a product-thinking mindset for it.

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Userpilot

NOVEMBER 23, 2023

The outcome-based roadmap focuses on delivering value to customers instead of obsessing about building specific features. It’s difficult to implement outcome-based roadmaps because stakeholders don’t trust product teams to deliver on business goals. As companies scale, they often cannot satisfy customer needs equally well.

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Usersnap

OCTOBER 3, 2023

Various UX measurement frameworks exist, including HEART, SUS, NPS, and CES. This article delves into demystifying and detailing the HEART framework’s implementation for UX evaluation. What is Google’s HEART Framework ? Happiness Engagement Adoption Retention Task Success When should we use the HEART framework?

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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. So what strategies can help you elevate the user experience? What is a product experience strategy?

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Userpilot

NOVEMBER 5, 2022

The build trap is a situation when the team focuses on shipping features that don’t drive value for the customer and for the business. Teams fall into the build trap when there’s no alignment between the product vision and the work of the development team. To choose the right options, you need to conduct user research and experiments.

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The Product Coalition

MARCH 7, 2023

The skill of running effective user interviews is key to defining your target users, finding product-market fit , growing your product, figuring out what to build next — or just simply understanding how users perceive your product. Being good at user interviews is not equal to simply listening to your users.

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Userpilot

NOVEMBER 8, 2022

Unlike a go-to-market strategy, which focuses on the product launch phase alone, a marketing strategy refers to a longer-term approach toward achieving success with your brand. A product strategy , on the other hand, focuses only on the product (answering the who, what, and why of the product).

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Userpilot

MAY 28, 2024

Teresa Torres is a renowned author, speaker, and product discovery coach. She promotes a structured, sustainable approach to continuous discovery, enabling product teams to integrate customer feedback into their daily decision-making processes. You can buy the book here.

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Userpilot

NOVEMBER 23, 2023

Product management involves analyzing user experience , so a product manager needs to be able to use a range of techniques to do it effectively. Identifying the key touchpoints and mapping out the user journey at all stages of the customer lifecycle is another essential skill. This comes with a lot of experience.

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Userpilot

AUGUST 29, 2023

A project manager is focused on the completion of a specific project, whereas product managers focus primarily on the long-term vision and evolving a product to deliver value over time. Product teams are staffed with various skilled professionals. Champions a customer-centric approach. Drives product success.

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Userpilot

SEPTEMBER 12, 2022

A product manager's role is to coordinate the work of various teams across the organization with the shared goal of developing products. The Product Owner is a Scrum role and they act as the representative of the customer on the team, while the responsibilities of the product manager are much wider.

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Userpilot

MARCH 8, 2022

The book described the common tendency for organizations to focus on features instead of delivering true value for the users, and discussed: How not to turn into a feature factory. How to create a scalable product organization. How product strategy uses a company's vision to fuel profitability.

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Userpilot

AUGUST 13, 2023

Examples of different prioritization frameworks. TL;DR A feature prioritization matrix helps product teams decide which features to develop next, focusing on high-impact features and resource optimization. They also help PMs ensure that the new features are aligned with product and business goals.

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Lenny Rachitsky

APRIL 9, 2024

I once defined the job of a product manager as to “ deliver business impact by marshaling the resources of your team to identify and solve the most impactful customer problems. Here’s the day-to-day product-shaping work of a PM, and how I believe AI will impact it: 1. Please tell me!

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Userpilot

OCTOBER 4, 2021

At a high level, the job a product manager is responsible for entails: Aligning the product vision to the company's vision and strategy. Help define product team objective and key results. Help define the product roadmap to set direction and intention. How does a product manager do this?

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