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How Segment avoids user onboarding drag for its technical product

Mixpanel

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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Breaking The Walls Between Business and Agile Teams

The Product Coalition

Managers and product managers are often frustrated by the apparent lack of care the development team is showing for the needs of the business. When a long-awaited product or feature finally launches, it often comes well short of the needs. For many organizations the solution is product management. The bigger context?—?users,

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Avoid ‘Product’ Ground Hog Day: Unlocking Success When Crafting an Outcome-Driven Roadmap

The Product Coalition

“I don’t care about outcomes, your objectives, or your key results; I want to know when I will get this feature!” This was the third conversation we were having about the product, an app that served our own company along with external customers. Look, we are moving away from feature commitments to outcomes. We were at odds.

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Definition Playbook

The Product Coalition

Once you have completed enough discovery on your product or feature, the next stage is to prepare for the development process?—?to Hopefully you’ve already discovered the features that are going to give you a higher return on investment, so now is the time to break them down and understand them in more detail?

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Functional Roles of Customer Success

Gainsight

They monitored product use, flagged any unhappy customers, and ran Quarterly Business Reviews (QBRs) to maintain the current customer base. Often, we think that customers with the most support tickets are the ones struggling the most to understand the product and its value. Due to the nature of support, it is a reactive role.

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The Ultimate Guide to Product Management for SaaS – SaaS Product Management explained by 10 SaaS PMs

Userpilot

You know how when you log into a SaaS product, you often notice the UI has changed or there are new options that weren't there before? That's SaaS product management hustling in the background to give you the best experience. You don't have to lift a finger and you get to access the latest updates whenever you log in.

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What Do Product Leaders Do?

Mironov Consulting

My last post briefly listed some broad responsibilities of product leaders which are distinct from the direct work of managing individual products. Defining my label carefully, a “product leader” is someone who manages a team of product managers. 1] Designing, Building, and Nurturing a Product Team.

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