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. Without trust, even the most well-thought-out product strategies can face pushback, leading to misalignment, delays, and increased risks.

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Userpilot

DECEMBER 31, 2024

While your product managers use our analytics reports to track product usage, your engineering teams can use our session replays to uncover bugs, and your customer support team may use our in-app help center feature to offer self-service and reduce support tickets. Userpilot is perfect for non-technical teams.

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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. Its not the exclusive domain of product managers. By the team that’s building the product.

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BrainMates

OCTOBER 20, 2024

It’s not just about creating a great product—it’s about ensuring the entire customer journey, from initial interaction to post-purchase support, exceeds expectations. At Brainmates you’ll often hear us say; “The Experience is The Product” How the Service Quality Gap Model Applies to Product Management 1.

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People-First Product Leadership

APRIL 30, 2025

Are you a Product Manager at a crossroads - stay or go? This proactive approach can spark valuable conversations and align your team's efforts. Which is truly too bad as research shows organizations encouraging authentic self-expression see 28% lower turnover rates and 16% higher engagement. You're not alone.

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Userpilot

MARCH 24, 2025

Want to advance your career in mobile product management or find top talent for your team? This article shares exciting mobile product manager roles and showcases standout candidates in the field. Recommended product manager job openings in data-driven companies Looking for a job in mobile product management?

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Centercode

JULY 25, 2025

Learn about delta testing Resources By Type  Blog  Ebooks & Guides  Events & Webinars  Case Studies  Podcast Featured Content The Definitive Guide to Delta Testing What is delta testing and how are tech leaders using it to deliver customer insights throughout agile development? What Is Persona Development?

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Userpilot

JANUARY 20, 2025

If you fail to perform these usability bug fixes on time, they lose trust in your product. I faced a functional bug when I recently tried purchasing a new project management tool. However, an error message kept popping up when I tried to input my details. When issues arise, customer support teams receive a surge in tickets.

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BrainMates

JULY 2, 2025

Cross-Functional Collaboration: The Product Leader's Hidden Superpower By Erica Wass At a Glance Cross-Functional Collaboration: The Product Leader’s Hidden Superpower Great products aren’t built in silos. In today’s fast-paced product environment, success doesn’t happen in silos. The challenge?

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People-First Product Leadership

NOVEMBER 5, 2024

Building on my previous post on Product Sense , at my Reforge workshop on Sharpening Product Sense , I revealed how top product minds transform market whispers into winning decisions. It’s like developing a sixth sense for product success. But even the ‘art’ parts of product sense are teachable.

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Userpilot

MARCH 17, 2025

There are two main types of user guides: full product tours (which tend to be more detailed and time-consuming) and interactive walkthroughs (which use tooltips and real-time guidance to provide more contextual help to customers). All product managers want to delight and engage their customers. – Gustavo M.

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Userpilot

MARCH 21, 2025

As a product manager, I know that even small friction points cause users to drop off. My team at Userpilot has helped countless product teams enhance their mobile UX without compromising performance. Small inefficiencies, whether a slow startup time, unclear navigation, or poor caching, can lead to user drop-off.

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Userpilot

OCTOBER 31, 2024

Feedback management tools : Apps for organizing, categorizing, and analyzing feedback from multiple sources to guide decision-making and product development. 21 product feedback tools for feedback collection and analysis We’ve analyzed the 21 best product feedback tools in the market. Maze Type : User testing tool.

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Userpilot

JULY 14, 2025

Not only is it a real headache to import, check, and tweak user data every time you want to design a personalized message for a new channel. Behavior-triggered messaging: Generic blast campaigns don't work. With Userpilot's funnel and path reports, I can trigger contextual messages that guide them forward.

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Tyner Blain

MAY 26, 2025

Value escapes the team because of how they treat the request. ” This architect would suggest that you could enable order status updates via text message, or a mobile app, or a website, or a call center, etc. ” Others on the team would likely describe the mobile app as “the thing.” Sound familiar?

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Userpilot

JUNE 29, 2025

Throughout my career as a product manager, I’ve seen too many promising mobile apps fail; oftentimes not because they lacked great features, but because the user experience fell short. With 88% of users considering leaving after a single bad experience , every usability flaw costs you lost revenue.

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Userpilot

MARCH 5, 2025

You can use this platform to create customer segments, personalize onboarding flows, deliver targeted in-app messages, collect direct customer feedback , and track in-app analytics to make iterative changes. Some engagement features in Userpilot. Criterion Does It Deliver? Customer support with Intercom. per resolution.

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Product Innovation Educators

FEBRUARY 3, 2025

How product managers use Jobs-To-Be-Done to create products customers love Watch on YouTube TLDR In this episode, I explain the Jobs-To-Be-Done (JTBD) framework, a powerful approach to understanding customer needs and developing successful products.

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Userpilot

FEBRUARY 12, 2025

This guide breaks down a simple, step-by-step RCA process designed for SaaS teams. If youre ready to move beyond quick fixes and build a sustainable product management framework, this is exactly what well show you from our first-hand experience! After all, we designed it for product management in SaaS based on core principles.

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Amplitude

OCTOBER 25, 2017

This is a guest post in our Product Innovator Series from Jennelle Nystrom, product manager at Farmstead. . Today, it’s common to hear people talk about testing early-stage products like it’s a bad thing. Instead, you should be testing many different ideas of what your product is and who it’s for.

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Roadmunk

NOVEMBER 9, 2017

Welcome to our third episode of Product to Product —a podcast for / by product people. Listen below: In this episode we have Evan Michner , Principal Product Manager at Atlassian —specifically for their chat tools, Stride and HipChat. Going from writing into product, however, not so much.

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Roman Pichler

NOVEMBER 2, 2021

What is Bad Performance? Before I discuss how you can help an underachieving team, let’s briefly explore what good performance looks like, assuming that an agile, Scrum-based process is used. Second, the team participates in continuous discovery and strategizing , and its members regularly help refine the product backlog.

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Crafty CTO

JUNE 18, 2025

He compares today’s state of AI today to early days in physics where the Standard Model was developed and ended up serving physics almost unchanged through today. Sharma shows us some significant new capabilities arriving in Copilot, and with her team presents a couple different agentic app solutions.

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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. To quote Adaptive Path co-founder Peter Merholz from this blog: “The experience is the product.”.

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Userpilot

APRIL 2, 2025

It’s built for product people who need clear insights without drowning in data. In this article, I’ll show you how Userpilot helps product teams cut through the noise and understand what really matters in mobile user behavior: no data science degree required. Why choose Userpilot for mobile analytics?

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Mind the Product

JANUARY 10, 2017

As a product manager it’s not uncommon to feel pulled in a million different directions as you work to meet the needs of your customers, developers and company stakeholders. But they are good examples of what my team and I have developed together over the last four years at Zalora. Retrospectives. Release Notes.

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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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The Product Guy

APRIL 9, 2019

Guest Post by: Eric Wang (Mentee, Session 8, The Product Mentor) [Paired with Mentor, Chris Butler]. The notion of a strategy in product management seems like something that only high-level stakeholders at the executive level should care about. Make a list of the scope and the challenges to your product. First Attempt.

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Roman Pichler

APRIL 5, 2022

For product strategy and roadmap meetings, I recommend involving the key stakeholders , for example, someone from sales, marketing, support, and finance, as well as development team representatives—ideally members who know about the user experience (UX), architecture, and technologies. State objective and agenda. Stay present.

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The Product Guy

APRIL 9, 2020

What about stepping up to lead a team while a coworker is out on leave or joining a new team and having to earn their trust in less than a month? . Using existing behavioral and habit formation research, I developed and employed a simple and effective framework. Or work with a difficult person, period? Existing model.

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The Product Guy

JUNE 18, 2020

Guest Post by: Marvin Mathew (Mentee, Session 11, The Product Mentor) [Paired with Mentor, Jordan Bergtraum]. Ruthless prioritization translates to product teams spending time building the right thing at the right time. Product management comes down to discipline and process.

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The Product Guy

JANUARY 8, 2019

We refined the message and added features important for our partners and users. We became a so-lala product: So-Lala [zo la la] – German word for so-so or meh. The So-Lala Product epidemic. Similar stories have inspired new product and business development frameworks , thousands of articles, and numerous books.

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Mind the Product

FEBRUARY 12, 2020

A healthy relationship between product management and engineering is critical to building successful products. It’s also essential to creating a team where great people want to work. Here are some of the ways I’ve found for product managers to ensure they have a great relationship with the engineering team.

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Alchemer Mobile

JULY 13, 2021

A good product experience is the primary driver behind product differentiation and ultimately, lasting customer satisfaction (measured through CSAT and NPS ) and loyalty. Beforehand, make sure your team is aligned on: Their definition of product experience. The goals you hope to achieve by investing in product experience.

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Product Management Unpacked

APRIL 3, 2020

Stereotypes about what kind of work can or cannot be done remotely lead to unrealistic expectations and underperforming programs. The job of a product manager has many elements, but at its core is a responsibility to build relationships, especially with development, engineering, sales and sales leadership, as well as executive management.

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Product Innovation Educators

SEPTEMBER 18, 2023

How to stand out as an applicant for a product management position We are talking with Erika Klics. Erika is a former Head of Talent for tech companies who became a Job Search Strategist for startup and scaleup Directors, VPs, and department Heads for Product Management and other functions in tech. Why is that happening?

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Userpilot

SEPTEMBER 30, 2024

What is a messaging strategy? A messaging strategy is a marketing framework /plan that outlines how your brand communicates its key messages and unique selling proposition to its target audience. Why should you have a solid messaging strategy? This helps you stand out and connect more deeply with your target market.

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