Product Talk

MARCH 1, 2023

I realize that many product people have never worked in a product trio , don’t have access to customers, aren’t given time to test their ideas, and are working in what Marty Cagan calls “features teams” or “delivery teams.” If you missed the first one on product success and team satisfaction , be sure to start there.

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Userpilot

NOVEMBER 10, 2022

Customer pain points are important to reveal when you want to improve product engagement and grow fast. If you can fix customers’ pain points, you’ll be well on your way to improving their overall customer experience. In this article, we’ll cover: What are customer pain points?

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Product Talk

SEPTEMBER 20, 2023

Instead of relying on someone else (like a coach or leader) to tell them what to do next, product teams can use an opportunity solution tree to keep track of their desired outcome , the opportunities they’ve identified to chip away at that outcome, and the solutions they’re considering to address those opportunities.

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Userpilot

JULY 22, 2024

Product positioning is crucial in product management to attract prospects and stand out in your niche. But how can you start crafting an effective positioning strategy that appeals to your target audience? TL;DR Developing a solid product positioning strategy involves several key steps. Understand your competition.

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Lenny Rachitsky

AUGUST 20, 2024

how AI is getting closer to replacing PMs , which parts of the job are most likely to be impacted ), so I wanted to take this week to share an important message: I believe that product managers are the best -positioned role in tech to thrive in a world of AI. In fact, many jobs will start to look more like product management.

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Mind the Product

FEBRUARY 12, 2020

It’s also essential to creating a team where great people want to work. In a perfect product development world, communications are seamless, specifications are clear, and product and engineering teams work together without friction. These are team goals that get shared across the company.

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UX Planet

MARCH 29, 2025

There may be times when you question yourself, or someone on your team wonders, Why are we doing it this way? In any case, hang around because well go over why UX design strategy is crucial, how to create one, and what the problems arefor you, your team, and, most importantly, your customers. Heres the thingyoudo.

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Product Talk

APRIL 3, 2024

Customer interviews are one of the most impactful activities a product team can do. Customer interviews are one of the most impactful activities a product team can do. Tweet This An early customer interviewing mistake is to spend your interview time exploring your solution ideas. Let’s dive into why.

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Intercom, Inc.

MARCH 18, 2021

In previous episodes, we’ve talked about how customer feedback and cross-team collaboration play a crucial role in the features and updates we build here at Intercom. Or rather, two – conversation topics and custom reports. I mentioned at the start our company values: obsessesing over our customer success.

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Folding Burritos

DECEMBER 7, 2017

As Product Managers, we perfectly understand the need to generate and use customer feedback. This led me to reach out to 14 leading Product Managers and talk with them about how they use customer feedback in their own companies and teams. Feedback is only relevant vs. a goal and user context.

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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. But when you build strong relationships, you create alignment, accelerate decision-making, and drive better results for your users and your business. Speak their language.

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The Product Coalition

NOVEMBER 9, 2020

It was about 12 months ago when I was challenged by our CEO to dismantle our squad and create a growth team. Not being too sure what a growth team was, we started anyway. We got access to work completed by Andrew Chen & Brian Balfour , took a few courses from the Reforge series and started developing our growth loops.

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Mind the Product

APRIL 16, 2020

Before moving to super app Gojek to lead its efforts on mass financial inclusion, Adam Darcy developed PayMe, a product that has helped to transform the way young people in Hong Kong think about HSBC. We validated the pain points using focus groups and user interviews, and we quantified them using a survey. The Results.

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The Product Coalition

AUGUST 3, 2023

A compelling product vision is a guiding light, providing direction and purpose to the development process. The Importance of a Strong Product Vision A compelling product vision is a guiding star that aligns everyone involved in the product development process.

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Product Talk

JANUARY 31, 2024

Because discovery involves changing the way you work on an individual, team, and even company level, it’s all too easy to make mistakes and missteps. If you’ve already begun to develop continuous discovery habits, maybe one of these stories will remind you of something you’ve experienced somewhere in your journey.

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Mind the Product

OCTOBER 8, 2018

Padman’s work has been literally life-changing, but it’s worth noting that his mindset and product development steps were as well-honed and effective as anything you’d see from the likes of Netflix, Amazon, or Google. Develop Customer Empathy With MVPs. User Feedback is Essential. Product Management Takeaway.

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Userpilot

SEPTEMBER 2, 2024

Now, imagine applying this level of understanding and customization to your marketing strategy. A customer-led marketing strategy is about transforming your approach to reflect the same level of personalization. It helps build customer retention and brand loyalty. Prioritize features based on what your customers need.

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The Product Coalition

SEPTEMBER 4, 2020

I became director of communications, leading the development of intranets and web applications. Challenges aside, I enjoyed the close-knit teams and easy access to upper management which enabled quick decision making. Designers vs Developers The work culture in this large organization was unlike anything I’d ever experienced.

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The Product Coalition

MARCH 5, 2023

Not only does this help them develop their skills and expertise, but it also ensures that your team is constantly improving and growing. Encourage your PM to be highly engaging and work to understand the pain points of the people he will encounter. Create a 4-week onboarding schedule.

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Mind the Product

DECEMBER 11, 2017

I became director of communications, leading the development of intranets and web applications. Challenges aside, I enjoyed the close-knit teams and easy access to upper management which enabled quick decision making. Designers vs Developers. Tension between designers and developers was palpable.

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Userpilot

AUGUST 30, 2024

Customer insights enable SaaS teams to understand them better and build products that satisfy their genuine needs. From the article, you’ll learn about different kinds of customer insights (from product analytics and only) and the benefits of gathering them. Let’s dive right in! Book the demo to find out how!

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The Product Coalition

DECEMBER 21, 2021

Unfortunately internal promotion isn’t always positive A quick disclaimer: I’m a huge advocate of career development and internal promotion. They do not set the menu, cook the food or plate it up for customers. What are the experienced chefs doing, and how does the kitchen work as a team? Customer feedback ?—?what

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Userpilot

JULY 29, 2019

When I started my first business 6 years ago (which has miraculously survived until this day) I didn’t even have a clue what “market or product positioning or product positioning strategies” were. Not because of the product itself – but how it was positioned on the market. If you’re wondering where’s SaaS?

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Product Talk

MARCH 3, 2021

In this second conversation in the series, we discussed two core principles of continuous discovery : encouraging teams to discover opportunities through continuous touch points and prioritizing in the opportunity space rather than in the solution space. I want to help more and more teams take advantage of these practices.

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Userpilot

NOVEMBER 30, 2023

TL;DR Market gaps are the disparities between what customers need and want , and what the market can deliver. A market gap can be caused by missing functionality or poor user experience. Tracking user behavior in-app enables product teams to find ways to improve product experience. Let’s get into it!

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The Product Coalition

OCTOBER 5, 2020

To unburden their teams, companies like Facebook, Google, and others have turned to product operations, whose job is to help product teams achieve better outcomes. At its core, product operations enables product teams to achieve better outcomes. Key Tasks User issues reports. What Is Product Operations?

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The Product Coalition

OCTOBER 12, 2020

Exploring 2 directions at a time, max We’re 5 people on our team, including 4 with an engineering background. At first, we would let any team member assign themselves an idea, based on their own preferences, while putting aside the ideas that we could invalidate on the fly. We might end up with 4 different ideas to work on.

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The Product Coalition

SEPTEMBER 21, 2020

Good product teams understand that their customers’ needs and behaviours are ever changing and the way to truly predict what impact any update will have is to try it on a small set of real customers. This article tackles the principles that successful teams use to maximize their outcomes.

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Userpilot

MARCH 21, 2024

How do you even know if you have no clue what your ideal customer looks like? That’s why you need a customer profile template. Read on to find out the different types that make a customer profile, how you can create a customer profile template in 5 steps, and some customer profile examples.

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Userzoom

DECEMBER 4, 2019

According to our recent State of UX in the Enterprise survey , ‘including research within the product development process’ is now the #1 challenge faced by UX teams in 2019. For me it is crucial to be part of the roadmap creation when developing the UX strategy. If not, how can you call your product user-centered ?”

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Alchemer Mobile

JUNE 15, 2024

It’s driven by tools like ChatGPT and Gemini, and nothing has captured attention quite so effectively since social media hit the scene promising free technology to get closer to their customers. It works at scale across numerous internal and external sources of customer feedback to provide powerful CX insights.

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Userpilot

MARCH 25, 2024

What will you give to reduce customer attrition rate and drive business growth? While acquiring new customers is important, it’s more expensive than customer retention. TL;DR Customer attrition or customer churn is the loss of a customer(s) by a business. Reduce churn with proactive customer service.

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Lenny Rachitsky

MAY 6, 2025

Whether you’re planning six months ahead or sitting in discussions right now, here’s the process I’ve developed through trial and error with clients over 15 years. Start demonstrating how you’ll solve their specific problems for the company/team. What’s the history behind this position?

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Userpilot

MAY 30, 2025

Ive also included the key metrics I track and recommend for every product team. Crash rate in the first session: Keep crashes under 1% of sessions to reduce uninstalls and bad reviews. Map metrics to key user journeys By hit friction points , so you can focus on fixes that boost completion rates at every critical step.

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The Product Coalition

MARCH 7, 2023

How to prepare for a user interview, all the way to sharing the results with your team. The skill of running effective user interviews is key to defining your target users, finding product-market fit , growing your product, figuring out what to build next — or just simply understanding how users perceive your product.

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Intercom, Inc.

APRIL 22, 2019

Some think customers will see the advent of AI as a welcome way to get self-help quickly and get back to their task. Others worry that AI will worsen the customer experience as more and more companies use it to save costs. He joined me for a conversation on tackling issues that come up as you scale your customer experience.

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Userpilot

MAY 8, 2024

Also, it helps you make data-driven product development decisions instead of relying on guesswork. Common types of customer needs include functionality, price, usability , performance, and support. To conduct an analysis, start by first defining the objective for your user needs analysis. Let’s take a closer look.

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