Department of Product

SEPTEMBER 14, 2023

The Department of Product Briefing ←All newsletter briefings Thanks to Height for supporting today’s Briefing. Height is a new project management tool for product teams and they’ve just launched 2.0 which gives product teams AI super powers. Subscribed Hi product people ?, You can find out more here.

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Modus Create

MAY 28, 2024

In our 2023 research, 39% of enterprises cited AI as a top initiative in the coming year, more than any other initiative. Larry Fitzpatrick, Executive Vice President and CTO of OneMain Financial, the leading nonprime lender in the United States, provides insight into how the world’s top executives plan to leverage AI technology.

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Intercom, Inc.

JANUARY 14, 2021

With a background in computer science and an MBA, he soon realized that understanding the markets and customers is as important as building the products. And so, in 2014, he founded Productboard , a product management system that incorporates customer feedback and insights to help product teams build better products.

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UX Studio

MAY 23, 2024

A vast array of AI tools are emerging in various sectors, slowly impacting most areas of our everyday lives. In this blog post, we’ll provide an overview of the latest trends, challenges, and most popular AI tools in education. And when I say student, that encompasses the learners in formal education and school systems.

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Usersnap

JUNE 2, 2022

Customers want good products and services, of course, but do you know what else they want? Recognizing and improving upon this customer feedback is where a CES survey comes in handy! Recognizing and improving upon this customer feedback is where a CES survey comes in handy! What you can expect ????

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Userpilot

MARCH 23, 2022

If there’s a phrase people in the SaaS industry don’t want to hear, it’s user offboarding. But dealing with customer churn is part and parcel of the SaaS world. Sometimes your user onboarding fails, other times, your product is not a good match for the user. A user churn survey built with Userpilot.

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Department of Product

FEBRUARY 18, 2022

SaaS Pricing Models for Product Managers 6 ways to price your SaaS product using leading SaaS businesses as inspiration Pricing a product is a critical part of product management; it’s rarely something product teams will or should do themselves and will typically involve a blend of product, marketing and sales.

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The Product Coalition

MAY 9, 2020

Emerging Product Strategy Product Management in the Time of COVID Part I: Stopgaps & Scaled Retention Strategies This first article in the series highlights customer retention strategies for products adapting to changes in customer behavior. This one came from a VP of Product in the US. What are we going to do next?

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UX Studio: Product Management

JANUARY 11, 2022

As a professional user experience design agency, we help companies worldwide choose the most suitable design partners to create impactful digital products. If you are looking for a web design agency in Vienna —Webdesign Wien Agentur in German — chances are you need help with product design, usability research, training, or consulting.

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The Product Coalition

JUNE 21, 2021

A practical look at how and why software designers can ensure digital services can be used by everyone. People who need medicine use apps and websites to order perscriptions and have them delivered to their homes. Thanks to the coronavirus pandemic, making software accessible is arguably a common struggle around the globe.

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UX Studio

MAY 30, 2023

Unless your company is bringing great innovation to the market, there are likely to be multiple competitors offering similar products or services. Mobile payment systems are a good example of this. When it comes to digital products, people form their first impression within 0.05 How do they get to your product?

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The Product Coalition

JANUARY 12, 2023

"Digital transformation" is the process of using technology to redefine processes, products, and services to create more value for customers and organizations. Digital transformation touches every corner of an organization—from the way they interact with customers to the way they design products and services.

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The Product Coalition

MARCH 8, 2023

It also strengthens regulatory compliance and supports research and advancement. To better convey the impact of IT, they should present the story of how IT has positively impacted critical business outcomes through meaningful metrics. Furthermore, a good reputation for data quality boosts patient trust and attracts new business.

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Product Innovation Educators

APRIL 15, 2024

The habits that set apart transformational product leaders Today we are talking about why organizations are increasingly facing the need to transform and how to navigate those changes. Big Bets typically happen at the enterprise level but can happen at the team or product level. John Legere set up a system for Big Bets.

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The Product Coalition

OCTOBER 19, 2020

The upstart positioned itself to capitalize off of these forces, while Blockbuster ignored them at its peril. As an intelligence officer, I used this technique to help policymakers consider how situations would unfold over time so they could shape US national security policy. Of course, the lesson here is: innovate or die.

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The Product Coalition

MARCH 23, 2018

Where SaaS companies get prioritization wrong and a new approach to get it right There are many ways to prioritize what makes it onto your SaaS product roadmap and most of them are incredibly time-consuming and only done by your product teams. We all found the same thing? We all found the same thing?—?prioritization

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The Product Coalition

SEPTEMBER 2, 2019

It was launched in 2011 and went broke in 2013 because people didn’t buy the product. And Google Wave is a universal communication platform that appeared in 2010 and was closed in 2012, as nobody could understand what it was or how to use it. It’s obvious that these tools were developed with little or no customer participation.

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Intercom, Inc.

JANUARY 12, 2022

And so, many business leaders find themselves not quite sure how to start, how to leverage it, or what to do when all the dashboards and tools seem to be pointing at different solutions. When in doubt, start poking around with some basic product assumptions and go from there. That was my first job in tech.

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The Product Coalition

OCTOBER 22, 2018

What you think the title might be sums how a lot of customers feel about their experience with SaaS organizations big and small when it comes to giving you their ideas, feedback & feature requests. However, customer feedback is actually a huge opportunity for your business. Think about where your product feedback comes from.

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UX Studio: Product Management

SEPTEMBER 16, 2021

UX studio is an expert design company that helps businesses worldwide design impactful digital products. Imagine you would like to design a new mobile app interface in Berlin. Perhaps, you’ll start looking for Berlin design freelancers or product design studios in Berlin. . It’s a common request we often get from our clients.

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PMLesson's Ace the PM Interview

APRIL 6, 2020

Product marketing is one of the newest and most impactful roles within an organization. As a product marketing manager (PMM), you influence most areas of the organization including product, design, sales, support, and, of course, marketing. What skills do I need as a product marketing manager? Should I get an MBA?

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Modus Create

MAY 26, 2021

Furthermore, software developers and DevOps engineers will likely have come across semantic versioning (semver.org), which aims to provide meaning to application version numbers. One example is the British Columbia Policy Framework for GitHub Document Naming Repos . Perhaps we can use a semantic approach to repository naming?

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ProductPlan

OCTOBER 1, 2020

Product managers, product leaders, and product executives have no shortage of educational opportunities. From books , podcasts , and blogs to earning certificates and joining online communities , there is truly an abundance of options (read the short Guide to Product Management Resources to learn even more).

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Mind the Product

JANUARY 20, 2017

Jason Fleitz is Director of Web Operations at LivePerson, where they develop products such as LiveEngage- a platform that gives companies the ability to engage with their customers anytime on web sites, mobile and social networks. Establish Understanding of the Product Vision. Get to Know Your Users. Uncover Motivation.

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Product Management Unpacked

JULY 19, 2018

I never aspired to be a researcher. I have led or been a major contributor to two of the most successful software companies in the world. I have worked in 14 startups, founded four, and have held executive positions for better than two-thirds of my career. In all of these roles I was a product manager or led product management.

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Product Bookshelf

MARCH 17, 2017

Lean UX: Designing Great Products with Agile Teams by Jeff Gothelf. Lean UX teams work “collaboratively, iteratively, and in parallel, with few handoffs, minimal deliverables, and a focus on working software and market feedback.” The problem statement includes the current goals of the product or system.

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The Product HQ

MAY 10, 2024

Do you want to become a data product manager? With more digital and data-driven products, the demand for traditional product managers is now shifting from sales teams to data product managers. If you want to become a data product manager, this guide is for you. This guide covers everything you need to know.

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BrainMates

FEBRUARY 12, 2020

As a Product Manager I love the words “market-driven” They have purpose and connotations of real market intelligence (“customer-centric” sits in the same bucket). These words describe not only the end-product but also how we got there. What is a “market-driven” Product? Updated February, 2020.

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Tyner Blain

OCTOBER 23, 2023

Doing this, however, cascades into multiple positive consequences. Using Problem Statements to Make Choices I talk about using problem statements to “shape” a product strategy. Using problem statements is an operational approach to shaping and expressing a product strategy which makes it actionable.

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Intercom, Inc.

APRIL 1, 2021

Janeen is the Chief Operating Officer at the Wikimedia Foundation, the organization behind Wikipedia and its sister products. By creating a universal code of conduct , Janeen hopes to eradicate toxic behavior in their platforms and create a safe and inclusive space for anyone who wishes to be a part of the Wikipedia community.

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freshtrax

JUNE 28, 2022

As you probably know, many of the apps out there implement similar or identical UI/UX. It is often difficult to differentiate between apps at a glance due to their large, bold headlines in rounded sans serif typefaces and minimal black-and-white interfaces with lots of negative space. Popular UI/UX are all alike. owns this patent.

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Product Bookshelf

NOVEMBER 22, 2020

Product management takeaways : If you’re responsible for developing a strategy for your company, product, or feature, this book will help you create a good strategy rather than a mashup of vision, goals, and mission. With a good strategy, you can overcome the critical issues your product faces. Strategy is about focus.

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UX Studio: Product Management

MARCH 24, 2021

And we always came up with a general solution we could use in the future any time the same problem occurs. As we grew even bigger we appointed a full-time leader to lead this group of 20 designers and researchers who work for our clients. We named this new position the Studio Lead. And the solution? Everybody was flat.

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Modus Create

JANUARY 12, 2021

The speed at which the economic landscape shifts has been increasing since the industrial revolution and the emergence of consumer technology. Customers are savvy, informed, and ready to jump ship if a better product or service comes along. How can we be more profitable? Waterfall breaks a project down into clear, predefined phases.

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The Product Coalition

APRIL 2, 2022

Every time I navigate the ocean of Product Management frameworks, we are not tackling one essential part of our role: People and Ourselves. There is a framework for almost every stage of our Product development lifecycle, but one of the only transversal things is that we need people to make things happen. Change is the only constant.

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PMLesson's Ace the PM Interview

MAY 5, 2020

So, what’s the difference between a Product Manager (PM) and a Product Marketing Manager (PMM)? Both Product Managers and Product Marketing Managers often work very closely together and share project ownership, they generally have different sets of responsibilities that require different skill sets.

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Amplitude

AUGUST 6, 2019

Product design isn’t just about creating beautiful interfaces. Behind every intuitive product design are countless hours of strategy, research, and iterative improvements. One source of Behind every intuitive product design are countless hours of strategy, research, and iterative improvements.

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