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Cross-Functional Collaboration: A Real-World Guide

The Product Coalition

Building effective teams with people from different disciplines can be challenging due to various circumstances. In the product management discipline, cross-functional collaboration is more than a buzzword — it’s a critical strategy. Teams with multiple functions are instrumental towards staying competitive and succeed.

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Product Success and the User Experience: Three Reasons Why UX Must be a Priority

ProductPlan

The pressure doesn’t let up even after you decide on your product strategy and communicate your vision on your roadmaps. Thankfully, the product development lifecycle doesn’t always have to exist in a pressure cooker. A successful product never sacrifices the user experience. Still not convinced UX should be a priority?

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UX Debt in SaaS – The Band-Aid You Need to Mitigate It Without Coding

Userpilot

We’re not going to pretend here you can prevent UX debt. Let’s face it: UX debt, just like technical debt, is unavoidable. Talking about UX debt, under such circumstances, may feel a lot like this: “When your city is getting bombed and someone comes over and tells you you have an ugly bathroom”. Why does UX debt happen?

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Feature Death, Next Feature Fallacy & The Build Trap – Why Nobody is Using Your Product & What to Do About It

Userpilot

The myth of the ‘killer feature’ and believing that all your product problems can be fixed with more features (or the ‘one big thing’) leads to the so-called ‘Build Trap’. The Build Trap leads to spending more and more of your development resources on building and maintaining new features, rather than improving UX and feature adoption.

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Product Failure: Why New SaaS Products Fail and How to Avoid it

Userpilot

Market research and customer discovery help validate ideas and make sure the market is ready for the product. Product failure is often attributed to poor UI/UX. Make your UI easy to navigate so that customers can easily learn how to use it and can experience product value quickly. 34% or so fail because of that.

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Overengineering 101: What Is It and How Can Product Managers Avoid It?

Userpilot

Developing and releasing sophisticated products with all the bells and whistles imaginable might seem like a great idea. After all, you want your newly released software to be as good as it gets when it’s finally launched, right? Poor prioritization and external pressure are also common causes. Book the demo!

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Top 6 Product Positioning Examples to Inspire Your SaaS in 2022

Userpilot

In the competitive world of SaaS products, product positioning is definitely something your product marketing team can’t afford to ignore. Product positioning allows you to identify your market niche. It helps the customer understand your product and how it can satisfy their needs.