People-First Product Leadership

DECEMBER 20, 2023

Part 1, we covered the “why” behind creating a strategy stack, with a focus on establishing the organization’s Mission, North Star, and Vision. Part 3 brings together the Product specific Vision, Roadmap and Goals. What is the vision for the future you want to create? What ground has been covered?

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Alchemer Mobile

JULY 13, 2021

What is product experience? Product experience refers to the customer journey that takes place within the product itself, from a person’s first login to their last time using the application. It is a broader, more end-to-end view of user experience, which refers to specific interactions a person has within a product.

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The Product Coalition

JUNE 14, 2020

Photo by Wynand van Poortvliet on Unsplash In this article, I’ll share some lessons learned by adapting an existing digital product for new customer segments. I’ll keep this article not attached to the product itself but in the process of building it and it’s the current process up until now.

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BrainMates

OCTOBER 14, 2021

An Interview with Phil Koziol, Product Manager at Good Pair Days. What is the longest onboarding process you have experienced when starting a new role? More often than not, a Product Manager starts a new role and is immediately bombarded with tasks and responsibilities. And what is the Product culture like at Good Pair Days?

Onboarding KPIs 98

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Mixpanel

FEBRUARY 23, 2024

Onboarding new users is one of the biggest challenges a technical product faces. If you want to boost product activation and retention, a one-and-done, low-touch onboarding flow simply won’t cut it. Both the Mixpanel team and our partners over at Segment know how crunchy user onboarding can be.

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Userpilot

MAY 21, 2023

Delivering a successful feature release is no easy task. In our guide, we discuss; The importance of features releases The stages of a successful release Best practices for each of these stages We also mention how Userpilot can help your product team orchestrate your feature releases. Let’s get right to it!

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Userpilot

MAY 7, 2024

Using no-code tools for product managers allows you to build, iterate, and deploy software products without any coding knowledge. But what is the best tech stack for product management? Let’s review the top five no-code tools tailored for product teams, including their key features and usage in product management.

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The Product Guy

JUNE 4, 2024

As a product management veteran with over 20 years of leadership experience, I’ve worked with numerous organizations looking to transform their approach to building and delivering products. These product leaders come from various roles – from CPOs and product managers to designers, engineers and sales people.

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Userpilot

JANUARY 14, 2023

What is product success? What can product managers do to improve their chances of building successful products? How can they measure that their product is on a path to success? Successful SaaS products satisfy user needs and realize organizational business goals. What is product success in SaaS?

Feedback Software 89

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Userpilot

JANUARY 16, 2024

From analyzing market trends to churning user needs and technical feasibility into golden product ideas, there are many benefits of ChatGPT for product managers. A potent tool, ChatGPT has proven to be a strategic addition to the product management toolkit, churning out ideas in even the most unlikely scenarios.

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Product Management University

OCTOBER 23, 2023

In most B2B organizations, it’s more the exception than the rule that customer success managers inherit accounts where they’re in a position to play offense because the customer is thrilled with your products. That’s the beauty of a portfolio management approach that begins in product management. Let’s dream for just a minute.

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The Product Coalition

DECEMBER 13, 2021

Many startups with an ordinary product make the way to growth and scalability whereas others with great products fail to survive. Both product and product strategy should fall in place to make the startup sustainable and help them to grow. Vision: It should be inspirational and the guiding post. What is S.M.A.R.T?

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Userpilot

JULY 27, 2023

In this article, we’ve outlined the major roles that move the needle in terms of product growth alongside their KPIs and current salary ranges. Product Manager : In charge of creating product strategy and overseeing the design process, among other things. Average salary: $196,172/yr. Average salary: $191,286/yr.

Research Software 91

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Userpilot

MARCH 2, 2022

Much of product success depends on your marketing team but business decision-making and progress evaluation are crucial to keeping your company focused on the right path towards sustainable growth. So, let’s see how you can implement SaaS OKRs successfully to track progress towards these goals and drive product growth.

Feedback Software 99

Feedback Software Onboarding KPIs Reporting Tools Product Research 99

Userpilot

MARCH 24, 2021

Defining your product strategy is the most important aspect of deciding to build something new. It helps your entire team rally around a vision and a set of outcomes, making sure everyone is aligned in reaching those product growth goals. What is a product strategy? How do you set a product vision?

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Userpilot

JULY 23, 2023

With the right go-to-market team, your new launches won’t suffer unnecessary delays and you can increase adoption but focusing on the right things. TL;DR A go-to-market strategy is a comprehensive plan for taking your product or service to target customers. What’s a go-to-market strategy?

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Userpilot

SEPTEMBER 5, 2021

Are you looking for the best strategies on how to market software products? Marketing software products can be challenging with the abundance of tools out there saying they do everything for everyone. How is marketing for software products different? You might be wondering, how to compete.

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Melissa Perri

JULY 14, 2016

“What is your Product Strategy? When I replay this scene in my head, I can hear the CTO very audibly yelling (slash pleading) with our product team. This is the way we were taught to think about Product Strategy. To create a front of the funnel website that markets to our target users and converts them.” He was on edge.

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Mind the Product

NOVEMBER 16, 2018

Summary: Product managers always find themselves trying to make disparate groups of people happy. It starts by defining the core value of a product, in a way that everybody can understand, and then maps user journeys, at varying points of the user’s lifecycle. Finally, it creates a scorecard from a variety of KPIs.

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ProductPlan

AUGUST 17, 2020

Much has been written over the last few years on the idea of the featureless roadmap , which challenges product teams to present their plans grounded more in strategic vision – or by themes – rather than a laundry list of specific features. The Benefits of Defining Product Themes by Customer Journey Phases.

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Userpilot

MARCH 27, 2023

How can product analytics help product managers create better digital products and more satisfying user experiences? We start by looking at different kinds of analyses and the metrics to track and then explore some practical ways of using each of them to drive various product goals. What is product analytics?

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Userpilot

MAY 20, 2024

TL;DR Customer retention is your ability to keep users using the product. Offer personalized onboarding experiences to help users quickly realize product value. Use interactive product tours to guide new users through the core functionality. Provide exclusive access to new features and beta programs for loyal customers.

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The Product Guy

FEBRUARY 13, 2020

Guest Post by: Carlos Ruiz (Mentee, Session 11, The Product Mentor) [Paired with Mentor, Nis Frome]. For product leaders, that means taking a step back to build a team that can be customer-centric and deliver ongoing innovation to the market. Low accountability Limited visions of the product by PMs.

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Ronke PM

APRIL 11, 2024

Types of Customer Feedback Final Thoughts Customer feedback provides cross-functional teams with confirmation that they are on the right path, which leads to the development of products that bring value to customers. Products that impact their lives for the better. What makes a product great? Why is Customer Feedback Important?

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Sachin Rekhi

AUGUST 4, 2021

For years now loyal readers have been asking me to package up my learnings on product management into a cohesive course on the subject. So in 2020, I took a survey of all the available product management courses out there. There were plenty of courses introducing product management to those new to the role.

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Userpilot

AUGUST 16, 2023

A user retention playbook will keep your customers happy and continue using your product for longer. You can use user retention metrics to identify if there’s a product-market fit problem rather than a retention problem. When developing your product , address app performance issues to improve user retention.

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Userpilot

AUGUST 29, 2023

Product management is equal parts art and science – and it’s vital to the success of your SaaS. TL;DR Product management describes the continual process of overseeing the development of a product across its entire lifecycle. The main difference between product management and project management is the focus.

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Userpilot

OCTOBER 29, 2020

Product Marketing is a fairly new domain and the role of ‘Product Marketing Manager’ differs greatly from organization to organization. You may want to jump to a relevant section: Who’s a Product Marketing Manager? Product Marketing Manager’s Role and Responsibilities (depending on the company).

Analytic Tools 95

Analytic Tools Feedback Software Onboarding KPIs Product Marketing 95

Mironov Consulting

JANUARY 24, 2024

Expanding on a recent post ( Revenue Goals are Not Company Strategies ), I’ve been seeing lots of maker teams (product, engineering, design) struggling to form product strategies without a company strategy to hang them on.  Why is this so critical to Product Management and the larger maker organization? 

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Userpilot

NOVEMBER 14, 2022

What’s product planning? How do you apply your product management skills and knowledge to build a robust product plan? Product planning is the iterative process that prepares every stage of the product development life cycle, from the initial idea through launch and further development. Why is it important?

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Userpilot

DECEMBER 13, 2023

A robust UX strategy is also a valuable differentiator helping you stand out in competitive markets. UX vision is a clear and inspiring statement that guides the long-term design strategy and keeps teams and stakeholders on the same page. A UX strategy is a plan that guides product design and development. What is a UX strategy?

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Intercom, Inc.

DECEMBER 16, 2019

Over the last two decades, account-based marketing (ABM) has been both hailed as a surefire win for B2B businesses and written off as little more than an industry buzzword. Just two years ago, only 29% of marketers reported ABM to be an effective strategy. What is account-based marketing (ABM)?

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Userpilot

SEPTEMBER 30, 2022

Is there such a thing as analytics for product managers? This article explicitly explains what metrics are essential to product management teams and how to collect the data. Product analytics is about collecting and analyzing user interactions across the product to understand what drives product adoption and long-term retention.

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Userpilot

JULY 17, 2023

How to choose the right product team structure for your SaaS? We also look at: Responsibilities of product teams Key roles you may want to include Different ways to structure your team Examples of different structures Let’s get right to it! In structure by metrics, different teams work to improve different KPIs.

Analytic Tools 80

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Userpilot

SEPTEMBER 29, 2023

The product development process is part art, part science, and all important to the success of your SaaS. In this article, we've got a comprehensive review of the entire product development process. While product development describes the process of creating the product itself (i.e. Ready to get started?

User Testing 90

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Userpilot

MAY 26, 2021

Love it or hate it, one thing is clear: product onboarding is an important driver of activation and retention in SaaS businesses. If you see onboarding in the broader sense as customer education , there are few things more essential than educating your customer about how to derive value from your product. Conclusion.

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Gainsight

SEPTEMBER 8, 2021

It helps that Sales and Marketing figured this out long ago. Who else can interpret strategy from Product, Marketing, and elsewhere into the CS team’s role? They already own a vision, a revenue number, a team to inspire and coach, day-to-day execution, and every last individual customer. Effective CSM Onboarding.

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