Productside

MARCH 24, 2025

Productside | Product Management Courses & Training Refining Product-Market Fit and Scaling B2B SaaS Products Most startups dont stall because of bad ideasthey stall because they stop refining their product-market fit and what works. Everyones chasing the next AI feature or untapped market. Theyre problem-solvers. Zero In on the Problem.

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Product Innovation Educators

DECEMBER 3, 2018

She was named a Top 100 Leadership Speaker for 2018 and is here to tell us how we can have a happier workplace. I was asked to lead a moving company, where the culture was really bad. There’s also a litmus test to help someone get a sense of where a team is. If you give your team permission to say those things, they will.

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Intercom, Inc.

FEBRUARY 15, 2018

When it comes to designing digital systems, there is always a risk of forgetting there will be humans involved and, as a result, making things more robotic than realistic. Here are five quick takeaways: Conversational design as a concept is about looking at human conversation as a model for all interactions with digital systems.

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Mironov Consulting

JANUARY 17, 2021

Half of the calls I get from CEOs include requests for Product Management to boost productivity in Engineering (aka Development aka Makers). This reflects confusion about what product managers do (and how we really add value), and often poor role definition where product managers are also project/program managers or engineering leads.

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The Product Coalition

AUGUST 4, 2022

In developing live streaming digital solutions for years, we’ve collected quite a massive of valuable insights, industry challenges, app feature trends, and development key points that will help you pave the way to building a demanded high-quality streaming platform. Its market share is projected to reach $534.37

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Product Innovation Educators

OCTOBER 26, 2020

His name is Steve Glaveski and we discuss his system for getting more accomplished in less time. He also has written about the system in his recent book, Time Rich. . 2:17] How did you create your system to get twice as much done in half the time? 6:10] How does your Time Rich system contrast with The 4-Hour Work Week

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Customer Experience Weak Development Team User Testing Product Research 222

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. I did classic web development before there were frameworks back in the ’90s. I hate definition wars.

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Intercom, Inc.

JANUARY 21, 2020

Text introduces us to each app, starting with its name, and text guides us to how apps work and what value they provide, from instructions and inputs to settings and disclaimers. If it’s one of the most common elements in our designs, why is it so often the last thing most teams focus on – if they focus on it at all? of the screen.

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Research Software User Testing Data Visualization Customer Experience 291

Userpilot

NOVEMBER 7, 2024

Let’s review everything your customer success team has to do in the absence of any customer success tools. Ensure that your data is clean and easily accessible, as poor data quality undermines the value of even the best customer success tool. This will allow teams to identify at-risk accounts and prioritize proactive outreach.

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The Product Guy

SEPTEMBER 12, 2017

Or “We saw that you look at a lot of [Metro stations] when you use [Our App Name Here]. Now, you can get directions to [these Metro stations] faster in [Our App Name Here] because we’ve added directions from [Maps App X]. Which message is more effective? Our app is now integrated with [Maps App X]”? What other options do you have?

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Intercom, Inc.

DECEMBER 4, 2019

That clarity is one of the main reasons I was so excited to join Intercom earlier this year – the company entered an industry dominated by impersonal and disconnected tools like ticketing systems and email with a vision to “make internet business personal.”. 1 Poor definition of value proposition and feature focus.

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Branding Weak Development Team Technical Review Airlines 210

Product Innovation Educators

JULY 17, 2023

Our guest is Dr. Robert Cooper, who discovered the now famous Stage-Gate process and was named the “World’s Top Innovation Management Scholar” by the prestigious Journal of Product Innovation Management. Show the customer something in the first three weeks of development and repeat every four weeks. Have a good data system.

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Product Innovation Educators

NOVEMBER 19, 2018

His name is Roger Warburton and he is a co-author, along with Steve Kay, of the recent book titled, Dynamic Portfolio Management: The Bargery Fabrics Case. The state of the art in portfolio management is very poor, but there are some simple things you can do quickly to improve. This includes things like development and user testing.

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UX Studio: Product Management

JANUARY 11, 2021

At UX Studio , while we develop our products, uxfol.io and copyfol.io , we are mainly focused on agency work, meaning that we cooperate with several clients as external teams. This post was written from the perspective of designers, mainly intended for external teams and entrepreneurs. Five challenges and solutions.

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Userpilot

OCTOBER 19, 2024

Satisfaction in SaaS, therefore, isn’t simply about developing a nice product and launching it in the market. Integration : The product works well with other tools and systems. For instance, you can launch a CSAT survey after a customer interacts with your support team. If this seems like a lot, that’s probably because it is.

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Mironov Consulting

MAY 16, 2020

A topic that’s come up several times recently in my product leader coaching sessions: how much to delegate to the (individual contributor) product managers on our teams – including different ways of building product skills and balancing personal empowerment against good results.

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The Product Coalition

DECEMBER 21, 2021

Here’s our story how we’re developing a product using machine learning and neural networks to boost translation and localization Artificial intelligence and its applications are one of the most sensational topics in the IT field. If so, what is the value of the solution you’re developing? Often people confuse it with automation.

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Product Innovation Educators

OCTOBER 24, 2022

Andrew and his co-founder and team have created a way for their customers to design engagement rings, experience their design in their home with a mock-up ring, tweak what they want, and then receive their one-of-a-kind custom ring. My co-founder and I love building systems. 13:35] Tell us more about your customer experience.

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Intercom, Inc.

AUGUST 13, 2019

In a recent talk at UX London , I discussed some lessons learned while growing the design team at Intercom, reflecting on the technology industry’s obsession with tools, and pointed out how our sense of tools as objects or apps blinds us to the reality that the processes we adopt and develop are also, in effect, tools.

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Product Innovation Educators

JUNE 7, 2021

Her name is Christina Wodtke, and she is a lecturer at Stanford, sharing insight into human innovation and high-performing teams. 13:27] What are the steps for putting OKRs into practice in a product team? Start using OKRs with a high-performing product team. She has designed products with LinkedIn, Zynga, Yahoo!

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Books User Testing Magazine Weak Development Team 220

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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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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Alchemer Mobile

FEBRUARY 2, 2021

According to an InMobi survey , the number one challenge facing app developers today isn’t design or development. The bad news? You don’t need a big budget or a dedicated marketing team to market your app. Are there any bloggers or journalists whose names keep coming up? It’s marketing. The good news?

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Product Innovation Educators

MARCH 4, 2025

How AI captures customer needs that human product managers miss Watch on YouTube TLDR In my recent conversation with Carmel Dibner from Applied Marketing Science, we explored how artificial intelligence is transforming Voice of the Customer (VOC) research for product teams. However, these early efforts faced significant limitations.

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UX Planet

DECEMBER 27, 2023

So we’ve prepared an article featuring a collection of memes for designers and developers that we found funny this year. The design system sometimes really does look like a spider web. The ability to speak often saves designers and developers, especially when nothing is ready. This is how poor time management looks like.

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Tyner Blain

MARCH 20, 2025

Just as you change collaboration patterns through changing how you develop roadmaps, you change the conversation with leaders through how you orient towards supporting them. First, the scope of work has already been defined and the team is being asked to deliver it. This is an order-giver / order-taker pattern. This is clearly insane.

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Research Software Weak Development Team Systems Review Product Research 59

Intercom, Inc.

DECEMBER 12, 2018

Stacks can be developed at the project, team, or functional level and are regularly used to improve internal collaboration, measure the impact of marketing activities and reach customers in new ways. Without this foundation, your marketing stack can become a set of siloed tools that will bog your team down in complexity.

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Melissa Perri

APRIL 20, 2017

What does an effective sales team look like at a product-led organization? “Sales already promised it.” My team was responsible for building a feature that I quickly realized did not align with our strategic initiative for the product. The sales team. The results? So what happened here? How did we get here?

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Mind the Product

JUNE 28, 2018

Is there a difference between developing an enterprise and a consumer product? The key thing here is that Slack is a simple product solving a simple, well-defined, and well-understood problem for a user who has needs which are very similar to the personal needs of the design and development team. Value vs User Experience.

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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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User Testing Weak Development Team Customer Experience Customer Feedback 201

Johanna Rothman

MARCH 5, 2020

This series is about helping a team create a less brittle environment—more resilience. Brief description of the problem at a recent client: Person A checked in code that broke an “unrelated” part of the system. Yes, I changed the names of the functionality because the names don't matter.).

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UX Studio

MAY 15, 2018

By definition, design handoff takes place when the finished design has reached the stage for the developers to implement it. Let’s look at the basics and some suggestions to get the best out of the designer-developer collaboration. Illustration from Intercom’s article about the values of designer-developer collab.

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Product Management University

NOVEMBER 17, 2022

Getting product teams to “consistently” operate with this mentality…still a challenge! Next move…sprinkle in industry specific features (20%) on a cross-industry (80%) platform to form out-of-the-box solutions for the named vertical segments. The Importance of Strong Market-Facing Feeder Systems.

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Reporting Tools Weak Development Team Marketing Product Management 130

The Product Coalition

NOVEMBER 2, 2021

My take on it: while I love ex-developer PMs, and find that their teams often execute better, this is by no means a requirement. However, if a non-techy PM meets a non-businessy team lead, things can go sideways pretty quickly. while the user name does have a unique id, the team and content do not.

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Mironov Consulting

SEPTEMBER 14, 2020

Over the last three decades, across 10 full-time jobs and 150 consulting clients, I’ve headed up product teams 18 times (mostly as interim VP ) and helped another dozen companies choose their Head of Product. They don’t value experience running product management teams , instead overweighting narrow technical or market segment familiarity.

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Amplitude

NOVEMBER 26, 2019

People in non-technical roles rely on data every day to make decisions, develop ideas or measure success. When tools and systems are not created with them in mind, they lose trust and understanding. With a bit of human-centric thinking, teams can build shared understanding of why, what and how to measure their work.

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Data Visualization UX Analytic Tools Reporting Tools 137

Mind the Product

DECEMBER 5, 2019

In fact, some methods are pretty poor. Some product managers make poor decisions because they don’t have the right skills. My name is Jacob. It’s from another team, so you can be completely honest with me. However, not all methods are equally effective when deciding what is valuable. I think it is a very good idea.

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