Product Innovation Educators

OCTOBER 16, 2023

It’s an organizational issue—moving quickly to beat competitors and keep up with changing customer preferences. When companies take the time to design products that match what the customer needs, profits soar, customer satisfaction (and retention) soars, and employee satisfaction gets a nice uptick too.

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Userpilot

NOVEMBER 10, 2022

Customer pain points are important to reveal when you want to improve product engagement and grow fast. If you can fix customers’ pain points, you’ll be well on your way to improving their overall customer experience. In this article, we’ll cover: What are customer pain points?

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Product Talk

JUNE 5, 2024

Product trios are cross-functional product teams who are responsible for both deciding what to build and then building it. How can product trios work with user researchers? What about the other people on the team who aren’t part of the product trio? How should you run your product trio meetings?

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Product Talk

APRIL 9, 2025

Last week, I shared that we often get asked, Do API teams need to do discovery ? Today, Ill be covering the most common usability issues that arise when developers start working with a new API. Customer-facing APIs are products. You want customers to get value from your product as quickly as possible.

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Folding Burritos

DECEMBER 7, 2017

As Product Managers, we perfectly understand the need to generate and use customer feedback. What isn’t so often clear is how to do this on a day-to-day basis, when we’re not as experienced or when we deal with “less than ideal” products and organizations. Feedback is only relevant vs. a goal and user context.

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The Product Guy

MAY 7, 2020

Hence it is critical that one is aware of the best practises of the role and develops his own philosophy which results into maximum positive leverage for the organization. As I strive towards becoming a product leader, I wanted to understand the best practises in product management and in the process develop my own product philosophy. .

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Product Talk

DECEMBER 18, 2024

We covered how to manage messy opportunity solution trees , the most common challenges teams face when getting started with the discovery habits, what Im working on next, and so much more. Discovery is a team sport. I did classic web development before there were frameworks back in the ’90s. Week over week.

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Product Talk

MARCH 1, 2023

I realize that many product people have never worked in a product trio , don’t have access to customers, aren’t given time to test their ideas, and are working in what Marty Cagan calls “features teams” or “delivery teams.” If you missed the first one on product success and team satisfaction , be sure to start there.

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Alchemer Mobile

NOVEMBER 9, 2022

My team is too small. Rather than simply responding to the top challenges, we want to share tips on how to approach them all. Speaking up might spur a conversation around how to adjust your role to better fit your needs, or better yet, to bring in another team member to share your workload. Limited team bandwidth.

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Product Talk

JUNE 19, 2024

But when we use generative AI to replace customer interviews , to generate opportunity solution trees , or to do our thinking for us, we fundamentally misunderstand the purpose of discovery. Discovering unmet customer needs, pain points, and desires—AKA opportunities. The opportunities represent customer value.

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The Product Guy

AUGUST 10, 2017

A software product could overemphasize a feature that its own team just wanted to build. According to Jeff Gothelf , Lean Startup emphasizes making assumptions about your target market, testing them with rapid prototypes, and iterating based on customer feedback. 5 pitfalls and how to fix them. 5 pitfalls and how to fix them.

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Userpilot

FEBRUARY 25, 2025

Imagine a product team celebrating a 200% spike in sign-ups after a promotional campaign. But without deeper context, they might overlook that these users are churning within weeks, not due to problems with the product, but rather because of bad user onboarding. To optimize UX, teams must bridge these data silos.

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Mind the Product

OCTOBER 27, 2016

It wasn’t too long ago that designers and developers were disciples of strictly separate crafts – but today, someone who can do both well is quickly labelled a “unicorn”, and sought after by many a unicorn-thirsty start-up. It’s becoming a less and less reliable model for how customers actually engage with brands and businesses.

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Product Talk

SEPTEMBER 20, 2023

Instead of relying on someone else (like a coach or leader) to tell them what to do next, product teams can use an opportunity solution tree to keep track of their desired outcome , the opportunities they’ve identified to chip away at that outcome, and the solutions they’re considering to address those opportunities.

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Mind the Product

FEBRUARY 12, 2020

It’s also essential to creating a team where great people want to work. In a perfect product development world, communications are seamless, specifications are clear, and product and engineering teams work together without friction. These are team goals that get shared across the company.

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The Product Guy

SEPTEMBER 12, 2017

Whether you consider your user base in light of market research or user research, both of these kinds of researchers use the patterns they discover to form personas. User personas stand in for users throughout the design of your product. Each one has at least one goal and at least one pain point.

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Product Talk

APRIL 3, 2024

Customer interviews are one of the most impactful activities a product team can do. Customer interviews are one of the most impactful activities a product team can do. Tweet This An early customer interviewing mistake is to spend your interview time exploring your solution ideas. Let’s dive into why.

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Userpilot

AUGUST 30, 2024

Customer insights enable SaaS teams to understand them better and build products that satisfy their genuine needs. From the article, you’ll learn about different kinds of customer insights (from product analytics and only) and the benefits of gathering them. Book the demo to find out how! Let’s dive right in!

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The Product Coalition

MARCH 5, 2023

Not only does this help them develop their skills and expertise, but it also ensures that your team is constantly improving and growing. I do know this — I believe each person has a unique personality, and we should approach mentoring and managing based on the understanding that there’s no universal truth on how to do it.

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UX Planet

MARCH 29, 2025

There may be times when you question yourself, or someone on your team wonders, Why are we doing it this way? In any case, hang around because well go over why UX design strategy is crucial, how to create one, and what the problems arefor you, your team, and, most importantly, your customers. Heres the thingyoudo.

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The Product Coalition

SEPTEMBER 21, 2020

Good product teams understand that their customers’ needs and behaviours are ever changing and the way to truly predict what impact any update will have is to try it on a small set of real customers. This article tackles the principles that successful teams use to maximize their outcomes.

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Mind the Product

MARCH 12, 2020

It defines, communicates, supports, and improves important operations which can be standardized, such as communication, planning processes, team gatherings, and training. How it’s become a critical function for scaling effective product teams. Maintaining templates, guidelines, how-to references and resources. (The

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Folding Burritos

DECEMBER 7, 2017

As Product Managers, we perfectly understand the need to generate and use customer feedback. What isn’t so often clear is how to do this on a day-to-day basis, when we’re not as experienced or when we deal with “less than ideal” products and organizations. Feedback is only relevant vs. a goal and user context.

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The Product Manager Coach Blog

MARCH 4, 2025

Building trust with stakeholders isnt just a nice-to-haveits essential to preventing failed product launches due to poor stakeholder management. But when you build strong relationships, you create alignment, accelerate decision-making, and drive better results for your users and your business.

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Product Innovation Educators

JANUARY 10, 2022

I learned from these product diseases and developed an intuition after really hard lessons. Building products is how you create change. Your title is irrelevant—if you’re building products and thinking about how to engineer change, you’re applying product thinking. [9:05] How are we going to bring about the change?

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Mind the Product

OCTOBER 8, 2018

Padman’s work has been literally life-changing, but it’s worth noting that his mindset and product development steps were as well-honed and effective as anything you’d see from the likes of Netflix, Amazon, or Google. Develop Customer Empathy With MVPs. User Feedback is Essential. Product Management Takeaway.

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Intercom, Inc.

NOVEMBER 21, 2019

One of our mantras here at Intercom is that customer retention is the new conversion. In an era when more and more businesses adopt a subscription model, strong customer retention is the key to sustainable long-term growth and requires a laser-like focus. . How Jobs-to-be-Done unlocks customer empathy.

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Product Talk

JANUARY 31, 2024

Because discovery involves changing the way you work on an individual, team, and even company level, it’s all too easy to make mistakes and missteps. If you’ve already begun to develop continuous discovery habits, maybe one of these stories will remind you of something you’ve experienced somewhere in your journey.

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Userpilot

MARCH 23, 2025

The competition for customer attention in app stores is intense , to say the least. million apps on Google Play for Android users to choose from and 2 million on the Apple App Store for iOS users, user engagement is being pulled in a million directions (literally). What matters now is how you act on this data.

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Usersnap

MAY 14, 2025

“If you have 10 teams decorating the hood of a car with rhinestones, the hood gets so heavy you can’t lift it to fix the engine anymore. Thats what product development feels like in most organizations.” This ensures that the product not only addresses real user problems but also aligns with business goals.

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Product Talk

APRIL 21, 2021

Welcome to JEDI Training for Continuous Discovery Teams. I’ve had the luxury of working with teams all over the world, and I teach them a structured and sustainable approach to continuous discovery. And I like to set the tone that this framework was developed and co-created with dozens of teams from all over the world.

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Userzoom

DECEMBER 4, 2019

According to our recent State of UX in the Enterprise survey , ‘including research within the product development process’ is now the #1 challenge faced by UX teams in 2019. But how can you get research into this early stage? For me it is crucial to be part of the roadmap creation when developing the UX strategy.

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The Product Coalition

MARCH 7, 2023

How to prepare for a user interview, all the way to sharing the results with your team. 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.

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Alchemer Mobile

JUNE 9, 2020

In this presentation originally delivered at Mobile Growth Summit, Apptentive’s CEO and Co-founder, Robi Ganguly, dives into exactly how companies can use feedback to predict churn and extend customer lifetime value. Like when we talk about leads, we’re ultimately talking about another person or a team on the other end.

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The Product Coalition

AUGUST 3, 2023

How to Achieve Success in Your Product Strategy In today’s rapidly evolving market, having a clear product vision and a well-defined strategy is essential for the success of any tech product. A compelling product vision is a guiding light, providing direction and purpose to the development process.

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Intercom, Inc.

FEBRUARY 6, 2019

Given our cadence of launches and updates, we’ve developed a pretty well-oiled launch machine over the past few years. Our go-to-market teams have grown immensely, meaning more specialists and larger cross-collaborative teams for each launch. Nor did it align with how we’d started to think about our target audiences and goals.

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Userpilot

APRIL 22, 2024

It’s often done to guide product planning , enhance account expansion , and optimize self-serve customer support channels. Increase user retention. How to effectively analyze product features: Define your objective. How to effectively analyze product features: Define your objective. Improve product road mapping.

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