The Product Coalition

JANUARY 27, 2024

Software development with sustainability in mind is a rising trend in digital spaces. While software is intangible and doesn’t directly consume energy or produce emissions, its environmental implications lie in its development and usage. As software builders, we are uniquely positioned to influence this environmental trajectory.

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Product Talk

APRIL 9, 2025

Remember, an API defines a pre-defined language for how code can interact with another service. Sometimes its due to documentation simply not being a priority. But more often than not, its due to the curse of knowledge. The best teams write and test their documentation before they write any code. Why does this happen?

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Product Talk

JUNE 21, 2023

Meet Ellen Brandenberger , a product coach and consultant and Director of Product at Stack Overflow. Meet Ellen Brandenberger, a product coach and consultant and Director of Product at Stack Overflow. Meet new Product Talk instructor Ellen Brandenberger! to the roster. Tell us a bit about your background.

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Userpilot

NOVEMBER 7, 2024

Let’s review everything your customer success team has to do in the absence of any customer success tools. Best customer success software for startups and small companies. Best customer success software shortlist ClientSuccess – starting from $15,000/year. Defining a customer success tool and other FAQs.

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The Product Guy

JULY 30, 2020

Looking at a start-up company maybe there is no need to do a detailed stakeholder map as the product manager usually is well connected and already has update meetings on a regular basis with all relevant stakeholders like the CEO or VP of commercial operations. Secondly, when should you spend time to identify stakeholders ?

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Roman Pichler

APRIL 13, 2021

Measuring how well your product is doing at meeting its user, business, and product goals is great. Let’s say that my new product is meeting its revenue targets, that the user feedback is excellent, and that NPS and referral rates are high. Step 3: Add Health Indicators. But it is not enough. Less is More.

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Intercom, Inc.

OCTOBER 8, 2020

Freemium’s a great way to acquire lots of customers relatively quickly and easily, but the job of converting them to using a paid product is where the rubber meets the road. Right off the bat, Kristen acknowledges that the freemium model isn’t a universal cheat code for winning sales. Meeting the needs of an enterprise buyer.

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Roman Pichler

APRIL 7, 2025

Additionally, you should review AI-generated answers rather than blindly trusting a tool, even if the results sound very convincing. Lack of Empathy While you can use sentiment analysis to uncover user emotions, AI-based tools are no replacement for meeting users and customers. Fourth, do you systematically review the product strategy?

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Lenny Rachitsky

FEBRUARY 25, 2025

Step 1: Preparation (3-5 weeks) The preparation step is a foundational effort where a lot of the groundwork and due diligence is done to inform the strategy selection process. Then iron out any adjustments as a result of these reviews. Let’s dive into detailed guidance for each step.

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Roman Pichler

FEBRUARY 14, 2023

Using a product goal addresses this issue: You only add an item to the backlog if it helps you meet the goal. Simply ask yourself, “What is the next step we have to take to move forward and meet the product goal?” Note that frequently adapting your product requires that it’s easy to modify the code. Third, form a product team.

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Roman Pichler

SEPTEMBER 11, 2023

Instead of sending status reports to stakeholders or having steering committee meetings, the individuals are now actively involved in progressing the product and they actively contribute to its success. Meeting this goal should therefore be a step towards achieving the product goal. This shows how important the role is.

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Intercom, Inc.

AUGUST 11, 2020

One day, I came into a meeting a few minutes late after another meeting had run over. But devising a process to smoothly overhaul the terminology was quite a challenge – these are the steps we ended up taking, and if you’re embarking on a similar review of your codebase, we recommend taking these into consideration.

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Product Talk

MAY 14, 2025

Meet the Continuous Discovery Champion, Chi Phan Our continuous discovery champion for this story is Chi Phan , a senior product manager. Chi started sitting in on quarterly business reviews with top vendors. Throughout this process, Chi had monthly meetings with each vendor.

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Melissa Perri

JULY 23, 2024

Some of these are Fortune 10 software-enabled companies going through digital transformations. I review strategies and roadmaps. At the end of this review, I do a Product Leadership workshop with C-Suite and Product leaders, where I show them what good looks like, and they have a chance to reflect on where they are.

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The Product Coalition

AUGUST 28, 2023

The Software Development Life Cycle provides a practical framework you can apply to your product and improve your processes. It helps us meet customers’ demands, needs, and expectations. You should be able to define the project scope and goals clearly by outlining the objectives, functionalities, and features of the software.

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The Product Coalition

MAY 18, 2022

Continuous improvement is a continual process to improve components of enterprise software?—?processes, Regardless of today’s software development aspect, increasing demand for new features in the products makes competitive advantage higher than ever. Changes can be large or small, which depends on the software projects.

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The Product Guy

MARCH 12, 2025

Companies like Canva grew by defying industry conventions around complex, professional-focused design software making powerful design tools accessible to everyday users and businesses. If your meetings are full of nodding heads and no pushback, youre not making progressyoure just circling the familiar. and pursue the answers.

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Product Talk

APRIL 16, 2025

Its written to help non-engineers understand the value of software engineering. Its chock-full of stories about how the author solved business problems by writing code. Even though it had been ten years since I had written a line of code, I decided to dive back in and I started automating my business logic. It wasnt easy.

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Intercom, Inc.

AUGUST 17, 2020

At its core, localization is the process of adapting a product or service to meet the needs and expectations of consumers in a particular country or region. The hidden costs of forgoing localization. For many companies, the reality is that hiring specialized, multilingual support agents to serve the global market isn’t a viable option.

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Roman Pichler

SEPTEMBER 4, 2018

Make sure you carry out the necessary prep work prior to the sprint planning meeting. This is necessary for the following two reasons: First, if you start sprint planning without a properly prepared product backlog, you are likely to perform backlog and planning work in a comparatively short, time-boxed meeting. Come Prepared.

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The Product Guy

AUGUST 30, 2017

The team had been working for almost a year and had a huge amount of code under their belts. We would regularly meet to discuss the features required, what the customers expected. But just because it was a lot of code doesn’t mean it worked. We’d made great code. We were testing our code. How did I get here?

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The Product Guy

APRIL 9, 2019

In my company, we review a living document with our management chain on a quarterly basis to align business direction for the short-term (immediate one to two quarters) to the long-term (two to five years). No formal stakeholder review as this is meant to be the first version that will undergo many iterations and refinements.

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The Product Coalition

NOVEMBER 2, 2024

I decided to review all the concepts of project and product management to understand what I was doing well and what I was not organizing correctly. Every meeting, milestone, line of code, and conversation became more meaningful when done with intention. This left me pondering: What exactly was I feeling, and why?

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Alchemer Mobile

FEBRUARY 24, 2022

Whether a customer completes a purchase, leaves a review, or mentions your company socially, there is always an emotional state connected to their action. NPS+ is the simple solution our team devised to meet our customers’ needs while still sticking to our beliefs about actionable customer feedback. In-app ratings prompts.

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Userpilot

MAY 22, 2024

You can access this information through the right customer lifecycle management software. To help you, we’ve listed the 10 best customer lifecycle management platforms in the market, including key features, user reviews, and pricing. The best customer lifecycle software in the market includes: Userpilot. Get a demo.

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The Product Guy

MARCH 27, 2018

The quality of the code suffered while features were delayed. And I had to explain why the team did not meet the sprint’s goals. In my situation, I was limited to lead effectively due to the physical gap. This takes time away from reviewing more stories during the hour-long session. The results were not always positive.

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Roman Pichler

MAY 11, 2021

An agile development team does a good job if the memebers can reliably meet the agreed goals and create software that offers a great user experience and exhibit the desired quality. Unlike traditional approaches to software development, Scrum does not offer the role of a project manager.

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Roman Pichler

JANUARY 22, 2024

These might be end-user-facing or internal ones like a software platform, for instance; they might directly generate revenue or support commercial offerings. Part of this process should be regular portfolio strategy reviews. 1] Product Portfolio, Product Family, and Product Line—What’s the Difference?

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Userpilot

NOVEMBER 7, 2024

Tap into existing resources : Review recordings of sales calls, customer support interactions , marketing materials, and product documentation. For example, Userpilot uses a checklist and progress bar to gamify its product tour and increase completion rates: Gamify your customer experience code-free with Userpilot.

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Roman Pichler

AUGUST 12, 2024

For instance, you would discuss the viability of the sales channels in a product team meeting. Not Enough Time and Authority : The stakeholders might not have the time to attend product team meetings and carry out the necessary work. The role might be filled by a product coach, Scrum Master , or agile coach. [5]

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Userpilot

DECEMBER 18, 2024

Unfortunately, the research backs this up, with a staggering 90% of users reporting that they stopped using an app due to poor performance. Expert review : Established design experts check your products design based on usability principles to identify potential improvements. Basically, anything that ruins the user experience.

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Intercom, Inc.

MAY 25, 2022

Today, our systems dynamically scale to serve about 50,000 web requests per second at peak, 26,000 background jobs per second, and 11,000 public API requests per second – demonstrating our ability to continuously scale to meet the requirements of modern enterprises. At Intercom, we aim to run less software.

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Roman Pichler

OCTOBER 6, 2020

For example, generate revenue or meet a profit margin, reduce cost, or develop the brand? Meeting users and customers, at least in form of a video call, not only helps you validate your assumptions and develop new ideas. What makes the product stand out? How will it differ from competing offerings? What are its business goals?

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Product Talk

NOVEMBER 11, 2020

Due to COVID-19, many of the events on our list had to shift to virtual events. Even though we may not be able to meet in person, we suspect many of these events will be worth checking out. Business of Software USA. A lot has changed in the world since we last published our 2020 conference list. UX Australia. Canvas Conference.

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Product Innovation Educators

FEBRUARY 17, 2025

Call out unreasonable expectations, such as excessive stakeholder meetings that prevent meaningful customer interaction. Customer Interaction Required frequency of customer contact Expected depth of market understanding Methods for gathering customer feedback 2.

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Alchemer Mobile

AUGUST 2, 2024

From the classics like NPS and CSAT to new innovative ways brands are measuring CX, each measurement offers a unique perspective on how well your organization currently meets customer expectations. This makes them vulnerable to switching to a competitor due to pricing, missing features, or poor customer experience.

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Userpilot

OCTOBER 19, 2024

Customer satisfaction (CSAT) is a measure of how well a company’s product, service, and overall experience meet customer expectations. As such, you must tailor your strategies to meet your target customers’ specific needs and expectations. Userpilot review on G2. As a result, sharing is easier than ever before.

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