Mind the Product

MAY 25, 2018

In 2012, when I was working as part of the JustGiving team responsible for innovative products and disruptive business models, we decided to test how people could raise money for non-charitable good causes. Initially we worked with a team from ThoughtWorks for 12 weeks. 2014 – Testing and Growing the Team.

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Atlassian

FEBRUARY 28, 2022

Creating a strong, cohesive team takes intention and planning. Researchers have been studying team dynamics for decades. There’s a significant body of knowledge about which organizational structures provide the best results given the circumstances, goals, and personalities involved in a team. 5-second summary.

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People-First Product Leadership

DECEMBER 4, 2023

Throughout the post, I provide practical tips and steps for developing these strategic elements, setting the foundation for further strategic planning. Looking ahead, Part 3 brings together the Product specific Vision, Roadmap and Goals. Often referred to as “ideal customer profile” or ICP for short.

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Userpilot

JANUARY 8, 2021

Before we get into what is considered a good NPS score, we have some good news and some bad news. What Is Considered Good NPS Score, and What Is a Bad NPS Score? The metric was developed by Bain and Company in 2003 and has since been adopted by millions of businesses. Some industries like SaaS will have an average NPS of 30.

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Userpilot

JANUARY 29, 2023

Product experience (PX) refers to the entire customer journey within a product and how it shapes the customer’s perception of the product. Poor SaaS product experience like this dissuades customers from the product, driving them to your customer support team or your competitors. What is product experience in SaaS?

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Userpilot

APRIL 19, 2024

Applying insights from market research to product development and marketing strategies can significantly enhance business growth. Understanding your consumers’ behavior and needs well through methodical market research is vital for informed decision-making when it comes to your product roadmap. Why should you do market research?

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Userpilot

FEBRUARY 3, 2021

Then, when you finally put together your user journey map and want to optimize your touchpoints and eliminate bad experiences, you can face two barriers: The Analytics Black Hole – Can’t see the forest before the trees. The Bottleneck -Your software developer who is too busy to take on every experiment you want to run.

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Folding Burritos

FEBRUARY 22, 2016

You want the stakeholders’ input, but you need it to be (and need them to think) in terms of problems for you and your team to solve. People in the organization start to realize there should be reasons behind product decisions, avoiding an ad-hoc development culture. We’ll keep working on this on our next development cycle.”.

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ProductPlan

FEBRUARY 24, 2021

Why Do You Need Roadmapping Software? Roadmapping software has emerged as a core need for the modern product manager. While some software may try to cover the entire gamut of what a product manager might do on any given day, there are those tools that focus solely on roadmapping. Roadmap template designed for your use case.

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ProductPlan

FEBRUARY 24, 2021

Why Do You Need Roadmapping Software? Roadmapping software has emerged as a core need for the modern product manager. While some software may try to cover the entire gamut of what a product manager might do on any given day, there are those tools that focus solely on roadmapping. Roadmap template designed for your use case.

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PMLesson's Ace the PM Interview

OCTOBER 6, 2021

This is especially true if you're looking to join the technical program management team. The names are rather self-explanatory. Those TPM candidates with a much deeper technical acumen will probably be better suited for the Infrastructure team. The questions are both challenging and Facebook-specific.

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Userpilot

OCTOBER 29, 2020

In a sense, this brings the Product Marketer a lot closer to the Product Team than a ‘regular marketer’- so we can say that the product marketer acts as a bridge between the product and the marketing team. Even though Natalia works as a part of the Marketing Team, she is very close to the Product Team.

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The Product Coalition

MARCH 15, 2020

Note: Many people go from some desired growth metric (which is not a strategy) to define outputs (features) and then build a roadmap (vanity tactics as they are void of discovery efforts/evidence/data) and head straight for delivery to build those solutions using expensive resources/occupying the attention of precious talent.

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ProductPlan

JULY 11, 2019

Product teams must not only create an amazing product, they also need to set the stage for the product getting the awareness it requires for trial and user adoption. To avoid an unsuccessful launch and weak usage, product teams and their product marketing counterparts must be in lockstep. Timing is everything. Rinse and repeat.

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ProductPlan

MAY 25, 2021

The strategy, by way of a roadmap, is the document that drives team alignment. When a group of people adopts a strategy, it transforms the product strategy from just a piece of paper to something that drives team success. Consistent strategic results are essential because as teams scale, wasting time and resources gets easier.

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PMLesson's Ace the PM Interview

JANUARY 12, 2022

These kinds of questions evaluate your ability to think and work through technical dependencies, product context, execution strategy, and impact on a team. Cross-functional Partnership : As we mentioned, technical program managers sit at a crossroads between many different teams and departments. Let's take a look!

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Roman Pichler

FEBRUARY 14, 2023

Listen to the audio version of this article: [link] 1 Complement Scrum with a Product Discovery and Strategy Process Scrum is a simple framework that helps teams develop successful products. Continue the discovery and strategy work while the product is being developed. But don’t stop there.

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Product Management University

OCTOBER 19, 2023

You’ve got customer references with success metrics to make your value story real. company name] expands its AI coach language to 96, the most in the industry. company name] introduces fully integrated video that expands the power of the [company name] technology platform. All good, right?

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Roman Pichler

MAY 5, 2020

The term product owner is commonly used to refer to six different product roles in my experience. As its name suggests, a product owner in Scrum is in charge of a product. Note that the choice of the name is intentional. Scrum Product Owner. But the ability to save the document is a feature, a part of the overall product.

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Product Club

DECEMBER 20, 2016

The first presentation was an overview what goes on ‘behind the roadmap at Busuu’ and how the team create a well informed product roadmap. We’re not going to lie, when we saw the name of the presentation we kind of thought, “oh, not another talk about why persona’s are awesome”. Antoine Sakho – Busuu. Presentation.

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Andrew Chen

NOVEMBER 15, 2021

These frameworks are targeted at teams building new products, first and foremost. Everywhere you looked, there were reminders of the global scale of Uber’s business as well as the international heritage of the team driving it. How to get them started, how to scale them, and what it’s like to compete.

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The Product Coalition

JULY 24, 2020

Identifying and answering the most important questions Launching a socially responsible investing product was something the Nutmeg team wanted to do for a long time. It took a few years until the team felt the market for this product was mature enough. Additional information is never a bad thing at this point. guess what?

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Userpilot

DECEMBER 8, 2022

Product failure is often attributed to poor UI/UX. Use customer feedback and requests to inform product development but not before you validate them. When launching a product , teams face a number of obstacles. Lots of big-name companies have had products in their portfolios that never failed big time.

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The Product Coalition

FEBRUARY 26, 2022

I’ve asked friends who do the job at social events and got the same answer, and frequently asked members of my own teams, who struggled to find the time to do it. To compensate, I’ve seen UX researchers & designers pick up the mantle a lot more, and the design teams have really leaned into this space.

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Intercom, Inc.

OCTOBER 5, 2022

Not just in product reviews, roadmap meetings, or design critiques from product people, but across the company. When anyone new joins Intercom, their onboarding pack contains their first “Intermission”– our name for a problem statement. Good product teams keep going, keep asking why. “The problem we’re trying to solve is…”.

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Userpilot

JULY 27, 2022

A product’s life cycle refers to all the stages it goes through before it enters the market and until it exits. There are five stages of the product life cycle: development, introduction, growth , maturity, and decline. These include the development, introduction, growth, maturity, and decline stages.

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Intercom, Inc.

JANUARY 20, 2022

We surveyed and interviewed key people in our teams to understand how they worked and how they saw Intercom’s internal operations. Honest feedback can be hard to take, but it’s essential to develop the type of culture that encourages people to constructively criticize processes, leadership styles, or approaches. Paul: Yeah.

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Userpilot

AUGUST 22, 2022

Having a customer feedback strategy enables you to continuously collect and analyze user responses and develop an action plan for improving your product and driving engagement. Customer feedback refers to information provided by customers about their particular experiences with a brand and product. What is customer feedback?

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Roman Pichler

DECEMBER 5, 2016

Note that in the picture, I use the term product manager to refer to the person in charge of the product. The drawback of this approach is that it can take a comparatively long time to reach consensus within a group, as it requires developing a mutual understanding and evaluating competing ideas.

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Intercom, Inc.

DECEMBER 9, 2022

And this is why we decided to bring you a special episode about these latest developments in the world of AI, what they mean, and whether it’s time to apply it in real-life scenarios such as customer support. Des Traynor: But does that name mean anything? ” Computers were bad at that historically. It would be great.”

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Userpilot

OCTOBER 6, 2022

According to research conducted by PWC, one in three consumers would walk away from a brand they love after just one bad customer service experience. Customer communication refers to how a business interacts with its customers across channels and at different touchpoints. Develop solid internal communication systems.

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ProductPlan

JULY 1, 2021

But small teams also have less to lose. But when left to their own devices, early adopters can create some bad precedents. This can both create bad habits and turn people off to the tool before it’s spun up. Executives frequently don’t have much insight into the day-to-day operations of various teams.

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Userpilot

NOVEMBER 29, 2022

In the hands of customer service personnel, a customer satisfaction survey is a roadmap to creating a customer-focused product. Surveys reveal important details about your customers, beyond surface information like their name or occupation. Assess how well your team is performing in terms of delivering on customer expectations.

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PMLesson's Ace the PM Interview

MARCH 25, 2021

As the name suggests, cross-functional partnerships are the working relationships that TPMs form with various team members involved in implementing their program. These are engineering, product management, data, and design teams, among others. Engineering Teams Photo by Charles Deluvio / Unsplash ?It Let's get to it!

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Andrew Chen

SEPTEMBER 4, 2018

Sonal: I love that you said that because one of the complaints I’ve heard about “growth hacking” is that it’s just marketing by a different name, and what I’m really hearing you guys say is that there’s a systemic point of view, there’s rigor to it, there’s stages, there’s a program you build out.

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Modus Create

OCTOBER 6, 2021

According to Stripe’s The Developer Coefficient , engineers spend 33% of their time dealing with technical debt. For example, a popular way to reduce technical debt is using micro frontends, which divide the application front-end into autonomous groups (micro-apps) to streamline development. Loss of engineering time and resources.

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svpg

MAY 2, 2016

Exactly a year ago I was invited to give a keynote at the Craft Conference in Budapest and I discussed the 10 biggest reasons why product teams fail. So it inspired me to think hard about the most important characteristics of very strong product teams, and I forced myself to pick what I consider the ten most important.

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