Intercom, Inc.

APRIL 20, 2021

The challenges facing customer support leaders are more complex than ever. They need to be able to balance efficiency with a great customer experience , meet rising customer expectations , and keep team morale high , all while ensuring that they don’t blow through their budget or burn out their team. The results?

Data Visualization 156

Data Visualization User Friction Customer Experience User Testing 156

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.

Research Software 97

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The Product Coalition

MARCH 11, 2020

NAVIGATING THE NATURAL TENSION AMONG STAKEHOLDERS This is the first in a series on product roadmaps. The first post describes why roadmaps matter and who relies upon them. The roadmap is much more than a directive document that tells teams what to do by when. Battleground The product roadmap. These include: Engineering?—?What

Roadmap 78

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People-First Product Leadership

DECEMBER 20, 2023

Part 3 brings together the Product specific Vision, Roadmap and Goals. Product Vision puts a company’s Vision and Mission into action The Product Vision ensures the Roadmap reflects the priorities which matter the most to the company’s customers and to the company. You’ve met the people.

Vision 52

Vision Roadmap Onboarding KPIs Customer Experience 52

Ronke PM

MARCH 26, 2024

At the heart of an organization that creates product magic is a product leader who is an expert at leadership and coalition building. Leaders must ensure their teams understand how their work impacts customers and the organization. We walked them through our vision, product roadmap, customer value, business value, and KPIs.

Weak Development Team 59

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Ronke PM

OCTOBER 5, 2023

Table of Contents What is customer-centricity? Essential customer experiences to consider. Final thoughts Those products that have changed us and made our lives easier, or even enhanced humanity, have that impact and reach because the people who built those products emphasize customer-centricity above all else.

User Testing 52

User Testing User Friction Customer Feedback Customer Experience 52

Userpilot

NOVEMBER 23, 2023

Soft skills, like communication or leadership , are more general and can be used in different contexts. Product management involves analyzing user experience , so a product manager needs to be able to use a range of techniques to do it effectively. They enable PMs to apply their hard skills effectively.

Analytic Tools 100

Analytic Tools Research Software Data Visualization Product Research 100

Agile Velocity

MAY 3, 2024

Agile has been shown to shorten time-to-market, increase quality, instill predictability, improve customer satisfaction, and create an overall happier working culture. Business agility encompasses aspects such as product innovation, customer-centricity, cross-functional collaboration, and adaptive strategy execution.

Agile 89

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Folding Burritos

DECEMBER 7, 2017

As Product Managers, we perfectly understand the need to generate and use customer feedback. This led me to reach out to 14 leading Product Managers and talk with them about how they use customer feedback in their own companies and teams. Feedback is only relevant vs. a goal and user context. Understand where it’s coming from.

User Testing 249

User Testing Customer Feedback Feedback Software Customer Experience 249

Intercom, Inc.

SEPTEMBER 1, 2021

As Intercom has grown and evolved over the years, so has the way we work – under the leadership of Ali Biggs and alongside colleagues like Christine Sotelo , we have carefully expanded the size of the team and our remit. This means better outcomes for everyone: from the teams we work with to, more importantly, our customers.

Marketing 138

Marketing Product Marketing User Friction Customer Feedback 138

People-First Product Leadership

MARCH 10, 2024

Subscribe now What is product sense At a high level, product sense is understanding what makes for a high-quality product for your customers (empathy) and having strong, validated opinions about what solutions will be successful (creativity). What features should be prioritized in a new product to effectively solve key user pain points?

User Testing 59

User Testing Product Research Customer Feedback Research Software 59

ProductPlan

AUGUST 10, 2023

It’s not sexy and won’t land the leadership team any TED Talks. Yet the customer experience continually improves while KPI targets come into view. Alternatively, how can we let our current customers suffer and miss out on easy wins just to chase after something that might not even work and won’t generate meaningful revenue for years?

Reporting Tools 98

Reporting Tools Feedback Software Product Research User Testing 98

Folding Burritos

DECEMBER 7, 2017

As Product Managers, we perfectly understand the need to generate and use customer feedback. This led me to reach out to 14 leading Product Managers and talk with them about how they use customer feedback in their own companies and teams. Feedback is only relevant vs. a goal and user context. Understand where it’s coming from.

User Testing 170

User Testing Customer Feedback Feedback Software Customer Experience 170

Userpilot

AUGUST 29, 2023

Product management delivers value in many ways: it aligns teams with organizational goals, focuses on customer needs , and drives product success by delivering products that make the lives of users easier. Champions a customer-centric approach. Plus, when you satisfy customer needs and wants, you get rewarded with their loyalty.

Data Visualization 103

Data Visualization Analytic Tools Feedback Software Research Software 103

ProductPlan

JULY 16, 2021

For example, let’s say you have a disgruntled customer bugging you to add a new feature. directing them to write up user stories based on sales team and customer services notes. (2.) To achieve this, you can tell the associate PM that a particular customer may need more attention than a returning customer.

Reporting Tools 108

Reporting Tools Onboarding KPIs Research Software User Friction 108

Userpilot

AUGUST 11, 2022

Since customer success roles are relatively new, companies don’t always have a clear idea of what responsibilities are appropriate for a customer success manager (CSM). Customer success ensures customers get their desired outcome when using your product. Which involves: Managing churn and increasing customer retention.

Feedback Software 98

Feedback Software Research Software Analytic Tools User Testing 98

Userpilot

AUGUST 21, 2023

TL;DR Product managers need to have good problem-solving, communication, and leadership skills. Product managers need to put themselves in the shoes of company executives, other team members, and of course end users so a strong affinity for empathy will go a long way. Leadership. How do you choose which one to implement?

User Testing 93

User Testing Research Software Feedback Software Product Research 93

Alchemer Mobile

OCTOBER 9, 2018

Customer experience strategies shouldn’t be created in a vacuum, but it’s hard to know how to create a CX strategy that exceeds customers’ expectations without first understanding them. We hosted a CX-focused panel at this year’s Customer Love Summit. How do you gather customer feedback today? Christy: Yeah.

User Testing 150

User Testing Customer Feedback Customer Experience Feedback Software 150

Userpilot

NOVEMBER 21, 2023

TL;DR Product managers often don’t get the due recognition for their work and their role is often marginalized by frustrated leadership or other teams. Allocating time for a specific research stage is often a no-go for leadership, so make the habit of interviewing customers continuously. Let’s dive in!

Technical Review 96

Technical Review User Testing Product Management Product Manager 96

Userpilot

AUGUST 30, 2023

It’s 2023, and customers have options. This includes product managers , marketing managers , customer success managers , and anyone else who wants to learn how to attract more users, improve the user experience, and increase product adoption. Product management and leadership speakers. But how do you do that?

Customer Experience 105

Customer Experience User Testing Customer Feedback Research Software 105

Userpilot

OCTOBER 26, 2022

Impact mapping is a collaborative strategic planning technique used by product managers, product owners , and senior technical leadership, who work mostly in Agile software delivery. An impact map is a visual representation of the connections between the goals you want to achieve, the customers, and solutions. Strategic planning.

Onboarding KPIs 98

Onboarding KPIs Customer Experience Product Research User Testing 98

Bain Public

JANUARY 11, 2022

Let’s face it, most organizations have poor habits around roadmap completion — this is why getting leadership (or stakeholders) to develop consistent, stable and familiar routines reinforced through repetition and communication is valuable. Do you validate the pain point and place it in a parking lot for triage?

Onboarding KPIs 52

Onboarding KPIs Weak Development Team User Friction Customer Experience 52

Ronke PM

MAY 26, 2023

10 Benefits of Quarterly Business Reviews for Product Leaders Regardless of industry or an organization’s size, as product leaders traverse their leadership role, their ultimate goal is to build world-class products and to impact and empower the people around them. Table of Contents What are Quarterly Business Reviews (QBR)?

Customer Feedback 52

Customer Feedback User Friction Product Management Product Manager 52

Userpilot

SEPTEMBER 14, 2023

Their responsibilities include product discovery, developing product vision, prioritization , roadmapping , analyzing product performance and its iterative development, and leading the product team. Its main goal is to bring the product to the market and ensure it’s well-received by the target customers.

Product Research 96

Product Research User Testing Research Software Feedback Software 96

Userpilot

AUGUST 13, 2023

A product prioritization framework helps you maximize customer value and deliver the best ROI by encouraging methodical examination of data before making decisions. Customer requests aren’t enough to make product decisions. Validate them with data from other sources, like analytics or insights from customer-facing teams.

Data Visualization 97

Data Visualization User Testing Customer Experience Feedback Software 97

Userpilot

JULY 31, 2023

Chances are you already know their broad responsibility is to develop and implement a marketing strategy roadmap for a specific product. A PMM needs to be aware of several key metrics and KPIs , including acquisition cost, activation , conversion , NPS , adoption , and customer lifetime value. But what exactly does this entail?

Product Marketing 95

Product Marketing Onboarding KPIs User Testing Marketing 95

Ronke PM

JUNE 21, 2023

Table of Contents Sales meetings with potential customers. Customer Success/Relationship Management meeting with an existing customer. Internal Sales and Customer Success/Relationship Management Quarterly Business Reviews (QBR) meetings. Customer Quarterly Business Reviews (QBR) meetings.

Technical Review 52

Technical Review Product Management Product Manager Customer Feedback 52

ProductPlan

AUGUST 10, 2023

It’s not sexy and won’t land the leadership team any TED Talks. Yet the customer experience continually improves while KPI targets come into view. Alternatively, how can we let our current customers suffer and miss out on easy wins just to chase after something that might not even work and won’t generate meaningful revenue for years?

Reporting Tools 52

Reporting Tools Feedback Software Product Research User Testing 52

Pragmatic Marketing

NOVEMBER 16, 2019

Laura Jones is head of product marketing at Uber and recently participated in an AMA on influencing the product roadmap via Sharebird , a place to see how people at top companies do product marketing. PMMs need to take the time to understand PMs’ needs and pain points. Influencing the Roadmap.

Reporting Tools 70

Reporting Tools Product Marketing Marketing Research Software 70

Pragmatic Marketing

NOVEMBER 16, 2019

Laura Jones is head of product marketing at Uber and recently participated in an AMA on influencing the product roadmap via Sharebird , a place to see how people at top companies do product marketing. PMMs need to take the time to understand PMs’ needs and pain points. Influencing the Roadmap.

Reporting Tools 70

Reporting Tools Product Marketing Marketing Research Software 70

Mind the Product

MARCH 12, 2020

Product managers often use skills like strategic thinking, user research, product prioritization / backlog grooming, data analysis, and communication. Most importantly, effective product managers spend time doing product discovery , the process in which new ideas are iterated and validated with actual customers. Supporting onboarding.

Product Research 193

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The Product Cafe

NOVEMBER 23, 2022

Here are four ways you can focus on delivering products that yield value to your customers: 1. Understanding the “a” to “z” of your customer’s problems Product Managers are the ones to decide which feature to build while developers are the ones who know how to build it. Credit: [link] 4.

Customer Experience 52

Customer Experience User Friction Product Research Data Visualization 52

Product Talk

FEBRUARY 12, 2020

We then jammed those models into our platform so that customers could access the outputs in many ways.” We’ve onboarded many customers onto our predictive suite and every time we get the same question: ‘How can I test that it works?’ Asking the customer to use a service that makes decisions for them means asking them to trust you.

Product Research 175

Product Research Data Visualization User Testing Research Software 175

Userpilot

JULY 17, 2023

The responsibilities of product teams include facilitating product discovery , launches and releases , customer onboarding , feature adoption, and account expansion. Another way to structure teams is by customer journey stage , where a different team is responsible for one stage, like adoption.

Analytic Tools 94

Analytic Tools Feedback Software Research Software Product Research 94

Bain Public

FEBRUARY 3, 2022

Their investment tool helps customers grow and manage funds effortlessly. His job is to not only create and maintain a product roadmap according to the business ROI, but also lead the quarterly roadmap prioritization and help with development and go to market efforts. Talent Acquisition at Bain Public.

Feedback Software 52

Feedback Software Research Software Product Research User Testing 52

The Product Coalition

NOVEMBER 1, 2020

A powerful experiment roadmap with a large idea backlog prioritized for value. A powerful experiment roadmap with a large idea backlog prioritized for value. It is otherwise very easy to fall into a trap of coming up with ideas that are based on personal preferences and likely not relevant to our customers. Test everything!

Research Software 174

Research Software Feedback Software Systems Review Product Research 174

Gainsight

SEPTEMBER 8, 2021

Organizations create Customer Success teams to increase Net Revenue Retention, and we’ve recently published research showing that NRR drives valuation. Organizations create dedicated roles to continuously improve CS functions to improve NRR or reduce costs by scaling up your customer base with the same CS headcount. Your VP of CS?

Reporting Tools 105

Reporting Tools Data Visualization Marketing Analytic Tools 105