The Product HQ

JUNE 1, 2024

On the other hand, it also involves knowing the kinds of difficulties that product teams experience when developing finance products. Depending on the type of product, these difficulties are either technical or conceptual. Put all that together and a product manager faces inconsistencies that affect overall productivity.

Finance 52

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Product Management University

OCTOBER 29, 2019

If the target markets for each product are mutually exclusive, product revenue and profitability goals don’t present any issues in B2B. The trouble starts when you have multiple products that target the same exact markets and customers. It’s a product centric view versus a customer centric view.

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Mironov Consulting

MAY 20, 2019

What skills are required to develop a great team of Product Managers?”. Growing others, strategy, air cover? What is it that you would actually do, now that you won’t be responsible for one product, but a portfolio of them?”. This parallels the outcomes-versus-busyness challenge for individual product managers.

Leadership 106

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Roman Pichler

SEPTEMBER 11, 2023

This includes a sound understanding of the market, the user and customer needs, and the competition as well as solid product management skills such as the ability to develop an effective product strategy and an actionable product roadmap (as I explain in more detail in the article The T-Shaped Product Professional ).

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Roman Pichler

JUNE 7, 2021

In practical terms, involve stakeholders and dev teams in decisions that affect the product strategy and the product roadmap —be it that you create the plans or that you make bigger changes to them. I find it useful to have UX design, architecture, programming, and testing skills present to make the right decision.

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Userpilot

AUGUST 13, 2023

Alignment with product/business goals Using a feature prioritization matrix helps the team stay true to the product vision and strategy. It also helps them to avoid falling into the build trap and building bloated products with a diluted value proposition. Feedback request modal built in Userpilot.

Data Visualization 85

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Bain Public

FEBRUARY 3, 2022

This helps him outline their challenges and present them to the leadership team so the product can continue to improve. Mario pays close attention to Timechain’s competitors and industry trends, assesses the value, develops cases, and prioritizes feature mixes, ensuring everything aligns with the product strategy.

Feedback Software 52

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The Product Guy

MARCH 30, 2018

This article is dedicated to how I go about including these activities in my routine, and some tools and strategies that work for me. Competitive analysis is fun as long as you are curious and open to learning the good and bad of your product. I suggest that you do not constantly compare your product to the ones you’re researching.

User Testing 119

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Userpilot

DECEMBER 6, 2022

Whether positive or negative, user insights should be presented in simple ways that teams can act on for better decision-making. Why are user research insights important for the product design process? User research lays the foundation for good product design. Go ahead and implement the strategies discussed.

Data Visualization 89

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The Product Coalition

JANUARY 24, 2021

Goals Beyond background context, you’ll almost always want to provide clarity on the goals of the feature being built?—?for A good product goal, like any other, should be specific & well-defined, measurable, achievable/realistic, and timeboxed for success. for the user, for your business, and/or both.

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Bain Public

FEBRUARY 26, 2020

This helps her outline their challenges and present them to the leadership team so the product can continue to improve. She pays close attention to Livescale’s competitors and industry trends, assesses value, develops cases, and prioritizes feature mixes, ensuring everything aligns with the product strategy.

Research Software 52

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The Product Coalition

MARCH 11, 2020

Are you aligned to the goals of the company strategy? Defining the Product Roadmap This roadmap is a document which defines your concrete product goals, usually on a feature or outcome basis, for a defined future time period. How does this work and can they learn it quickly? Executives?—?Are Marketing?—?Do

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Mind the Product

APRIL 6, 2020

Our goal was to define how we would set and communicate the company strategy, and how that strategy would lead OKRs and backlog definition. Product (and company) strategy is the backbone that guides product goal-setting and roadmap definition, although it’s sometimes overlooked or confused with having a vision.

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Userpilot

NOVEMBER 8, 2022

Your product go-to-market strategy is the final ingredient for any successful product launch. It is a small but prominent element that drives every other component of your marketing strategy. This article covers all you need to know to create a solid GTM strategy for your SaaS startup or B2B business model.

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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.

User Testing 70

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Bain Public

MAY 24, 2019

Finding market opportunities, choosing a revenue model and delivering value to customers are all fundamental steps to reaching your product goals. For instance, you can propose 5 different product initiatives to the executive and the team and present why each option is valuable. Find Market Opportunities.

User Testing 40

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Bain Public

MAY 24, 2019

Well, luckily we have outlined the different ways you can build momentum and succeed as a product leader. Embracing a growth mindset, communicating a product vision and strategy and striving for early-market success are all steps toward growth and prosperity. As a product manager, you can only build momentum by getting started.

Leadership 40

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Userpilot

JUNE 28, 2023

To make the onboarding flow feel less daunting to new users, Sked Social only has four tasks present on the checklist. Since introducing the cue for chat widget customization, 86% of people have completed this product goal, which led to a 3% increase in feature usage overall, driving a proportional 3% increase in revenue.

Onboarding KPIs 73

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Alty

FEBRUARY 16, 2017

Heads up, the hardest parts of launching a product is initially explaining its concept to the people who will work on it. Or do you have a mobile-first business strategy? By using those during the design stage, you can make sure that the final product will immediately appeal to them. Your Product Goals.

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ProductPlan

DECEMBER 20, 2018

Think of it as a loan (in effort saved, not money borrowed) that you take out today to help you achieve your product goals more quickly. You can plan and budget for repaying your product’s technical debt, in the form of corrective coding called refactoring. The longer you wait, the more dangerous technical debt becomes.

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Userpilot

SEPTEMBER 23, 2022

Then, we’ll consider 10 customer churn reduction strategies and how to implement them. Customer churn measures the number of customers that have abandoned your product over time. 10 Strategies to reduce customer churn and boost retention. Use churn surveys to identify churned customers and implement a win-back strategy.

Analytic Tools 52

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The Product Coalition

MAY 31, 2021

Part 2 of Becoming a Product Leader Product Leaders drive impact for the business by taking on complex initiatives and defining strategy across multiple teams. This is Part 2 of the “ Becoming a Product Leader ” series. I learned a lot about our products and the customer and business needs driving this initiative.

Customer Experience 123

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Alty

FEBRUARY 10, 2017

In this guide, we’d like to show how you can minimize your spending without jeopardizing the success of your app product. Set Clear Product Goals First. Mobile app development on a tight budget remains budget as along as you have clearly defined product goals. Your app/product monetization strategy.

Feedback Software 40

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ProductPlan

MARCH 5, 2021

In terms of day-to-day work, associate product managers do everything a product manager does, but on a smaller scale. In other words, you may not set the product strategy or own the product roadmap , but you will set priorities for your projects. They can lead other, more junior product managers.

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The Product Coalition

MAY 11, 2022

To not try to please everyone, Ben and Blair advise “staying the course, given your strategy is sound”. Product Management is about solving customer problems.” To make sure your strategy is sound you need to continuously “figure out who you are building for”, Ben and Blair point out. strategy?—? How are we doing?

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ProductPlan

MARCH 5, 2021

In terms of day-to-day work, associate product managers do everything a product manager does, but on a smaller scale. In other words, you may not set the product strategy or own the product roadmap , but you will set priorities for your projects. They can lead other, more junior product managers.

User Testing 98

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The Product HQ

APRIL 20, 2024

That gives you the experience and expertise to get to the next level, where you start managing other product managers. Over time, potential product directors need to show an ability to lead the entire product team. On top of that, they need to show success in every product strategy they own.

User Testing 52

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Product Management University

AUGUST 5, 2019

Furthermore, it dilutes the strategic value of your portfolio to the three common markets that use all products together the way you intended. In B2B, you’re usually better off to build your growth strategy on the three common markets until you reach critical mass in terms of market share, wallet share and customer success.

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ProductPlan

APRIL 7, 2022

Maximizing the internal impact of a product launch requires some advanced planning before your product appears on shelves. Read on to learn how to make the most of product launch momentum. Product goals must be defined before launch—and likely much earlier in the product ideation and development process.

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Mind the Product

JUNE 19, 2018

This second post on the methods we use at Onfido to help us think commercially and strategically looks at State of Product meetings. This meeting is an exercise in strategy, an opportunity to take stock of where your product is, where it fits within the wider market, and where it should go. State of Product.

Data Visualization 90

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The Product Coalition

AUGUST 24, 2021

Throughout his experience, Blank had noticed that there are common patterns that many successful companies have followed when building products. They use operational artifacts to analyze their business strategy and operations. It indicates all major steps a company needs to achieve its desired goals from its current stage.

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The Product Coalition

FEBRUARY 1, 2021

The Product Owner is also accountable for effective Product Backlog management, which includes: a) Developing and explicitly communicating the Product Goal; b) Creating and clearly communicating Product Backlog items; c) Ordering Product Backlog items; and, d) Ensuring that the Product Backlog is transparent, visible and understood.

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Userpilot

APRIL 23, 2023

The GAME framework helps you choose the right Metrics by aligning them with Goals and user Actions, and by providing ways to Evaluate their effectiveness. Impact Mapping is a visual way of presenting the connections between product goals , user persona , and different solutions. GAME product metrics framework.

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Userpilot

JUNE 14, 2023

Observe how users progress in your product from different starting points By matching the starting points of your product with different segments’ JTBDs and performing path analysis , you can understand how customers move through your product. You can also identify any areas that go unnoticed or present challenges.

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ProductPlan

APRIL 25, 2023

Product managers own the vision, strategy, and roadmap for the product(s) they manage. This entails customer and market research, internal prioritization exercises, and tying back product goals and metrics to organizational targets and KPIs. This includes freeing up product managers for other tasks.

Customer Experience 52

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Userpilot

JULY 14, 2023

Implementing a product analytics framework enables data-driven decision-making, leading to higher customer satisfaction, loyalty, and retention. Segment analysis helps identify patterns in the behaviors of distinct user groups, enabling targeted marketing strategies and personalized experiences.

Analytic Tools 71

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Userpilot

JANUARY 23, 2023

It identifies and stirs you towards the most important things you need to achieve sustainable product growth. This article discusses the best growth marketing strategies within the AAARRR funnel. Then, create a strategy, track key metrics , and iterate. Test different approaches to your strategy to determine what works best.

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