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How to Use Product Analytics Tools to Reduce User Friction

Userpilot

High churn rates and dissatisfied customers. Product analytics tools can provide key growth insights that help you solve user problems and provide killer user experiences at the same time. Table of Contents What Are Product Analytics Tools? What Is the Hierarchy of User Friction?

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Can a Technical Support Agent Become a Product Manager?

The Product Coalition

Product management is an attractive career path, and getting into the field is harder than ever. Why is product management an attractive career? For starters, product Managers generally have attractive salaries. Built In lists the average Product Manager salary at $128,820.

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Challenges of Product Management and How to Overcome Them

Alchemer Mobile

Product management is a challenging role, no matter what industry you work in. But with great challenges come great opportunities, and most product managers thrive on taking on new tasks and solving difficult problems. Product managers must live and breathe their product. My team is too small.

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16 Product Manager Skills For SaaS Product Management

Userpilot

To be a kick-ass product manager , you need a very diverse skill set. This article explores both hard and soft skills that product managers need in their everyday work, so if you’re curious to learn more, dive right in. PMs need to know how to use product analytics tools to gain actionable insights.

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Roadmaps Are Dead! Long Live Roadmaps!

Speaker: Bruce McCarthy, Co-Author of Product Roadmaps Relaunched and Founder of Product Culture

There are various frameworks and tools that are designed to help product management teams understand what to build, but somehow teams are still shipping products that don’t gain traction. Many times, when companies are building their product roadmaps, they are not properly accounting for customer validation.

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How AI will impact product management

Lenny Rachitsky

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. Here’s the day-to-day product-shaping work of a PM, and how I believe AI will impact it: 1.

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Solving the right problem — The importance of design thinking in product management.

Product Management Unpacked

“The manager who comes up with the right solution to the wrong problem is more dangerous than the manager who comes up with the wrong solution to the right problem” – Peter Drucker. Nobody wants their product to be received as a source of frustration. Many products simply don’t cater to their users’ needs.

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Feedback: The Secret to Innovating Your Product Development Process

Speaker: Liz Love, Chief Commercial Officer at ProdPad

As product managers, we all seem to experience similar pain points in our day to day lives. We all struggle with stakeholder conflict, constant feature requests, failed launches, unexpected outcomes, unhappy users, and complexity. In this session, you will learn: The reasons behind product management pain points.

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Run a Business, Not a Backlog

Speaker: John Mecke, Managing Director of DevelopmentCorporate, Jon Gatrell, Principal Partner at Market Driven Business

The role of a product manager has evolved significantly over the past 20 years. In today’s Agile world, product managers are expected to be leaders in market knowledge, strategy, organizational enablement, etc. Numerical literacy is a key skill for effective product managers.

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The 5 Product Discovery Secrets Every PM Should Know

Speaker: Jim Morris, Founder, Product Discovery Group

It turns out that even ordinary product teams can discover extraordinary ideas. By using the Product Discovery Cycle, teams can find new ideas, understand customer pain points, and test solutions quickly and cheaply. Developing multiple solutions to address your customers' major pain points.

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The Ultimate Guide to Creating a Strong and Effective Value Proposition

Speaker: Robin Zaragoza, Product Coach and CEO of The Product Refinery

Every product manager has heard, “Keep the customer at the heart of everything you do". But what strategy do managers use to keep the customer and their key problems at the center of the product development process? Execute your product strategy with a “customer-first” mindset.

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The Magic of Intent: Start Knowing The Goals of Your Users

Speaker: Terhi Hanninen, Senior Product Manager, Zalando, and Dr. Franziska Roth, Senior User Researcher, Zalando

It's important to know your users - what are their preferences, pain points, ultimate goals? With user research and usage data, you can get a great idea of how your users act. The tricky part is, very few users reliably act the same way every time they use your product.