Arkenea

APRIL 10, 2025

In a fastmoving digital economy, many organizations leverage outsourced software product development to accelerate innovation, control costs, and tap into global expertise. Rather than building and maintaining a large inhouse team, businesses partner with specialized vendors to handle design, development, testing, and deployment.

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Userpilot

AUGUST 15, 2023

A product launch marketing plan is more than a simple press release announcing your product. It is the process that guides you to a successful product release. With several product launches occurring every day, you need something special to ensure your announcement doesn’t get lost in the noise.

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Userpilot

AUGUST 15, 2023

There’s a vast gap between a great idea and bringing that idea into reality: and there’s no better example than a product launch plan. If you get your product launch plan wrong, all the hard work and effort of building your product might be for nothing. Book a demo with our team to learn more.

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Feedback Software Research Software Analytic Tools Product launches 97

Product Innovation Educators

JUNE 12, 2023

First, how can product managers establish processes to enable their teams to succeed? Processes include forums to sync with different members of your team and other teams, forums to get leadership alignment, ensuring high quality of deliverables, and OKR planning. Third is setting goals.

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Mind the Product

APRIL 10, 2020

But how many of us can say that we launched a product or service that created a step-change in our industry? Itamar highlights three types of product launches: Positive – where a product is launched and is incrementally improved upon. Negative – where launches are so bad they get rolled back.

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Userpilot

OCTOBER 19, 2024

Satisfaction in SaaS, therefore, isn’t simply about developing a nice product and launching it in the market. Instead, it involves several key aspects, including: Product functionality : The software solves the problems it was designed to solve. Bad experiences can, thus, cause irreparable damage to your brand.

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Mind the Product

OCTOBER 8, 2018

However, his belief in his product vision drove him to solve a real problem experienced by thousands of women. 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.

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Mind the Product

APRIL 19, 2018

New product development is a risky business for companies – the failure rate for product launches hovers around 40%. A quick look at Product Hunt demonstrates there is a flourishing market for new products, all of them competing for our time and money. Why use a Gate System? What Happens Within a Step?

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Mind the Product

APRIL 3, 2019

A UK-based consultant, Joe Leech has built a reputation for managing change (for both users and stakeholders) and as the guy to call when a product launch has gone wrong. Troubleshooting a poor product launch. The post Managing Change – Joe Leech on The Product Experience appeared first on Mind the Product.

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Sachin Rekhi

FEBRUARY 1, 2016

I think one of the first challenges that new product leaders face is understanding exactly the division of labor between themselves and their team members. While you are largely given sound advice to focus on driving results through your team, it doesn't mean that when done right you are shirking all individual responsibility.

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Mind the Product

SEPTEMBER 20, 2017

Three mindsets of product development. Building a product is a lot like a combat mission. This is how product teams can align to purpose, explore uncertainty, and learn their way to achieving desired outcomes. A product wall. The good and bad of goal-based measurements. Many Mindsets, one Team.

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The Product Coalition

DECEMBER 27, 2023

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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Mind the Product

JUNE 28, 2019

Of course such things are common on any failure to launch a product as well. Shipbuilding in 1628 was not unlike the way many agile software development teams operate. Experts declared the fundamental design and architecture to be bad because there wasn’t enough ballast to ensure stability. So what did go wrong?

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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. And how can I best show up for [name other team member(s)]?

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Product Innovation Educators

FEBRUARY 28, 2022

I’ve done a ton of podcasts, and it makes me so angry when I’ve done a great podcast and it sounds so bad, it makes me sound cheap—which is why I became part of this product launch to create a microphone and get it out to the public. If I’m a team manager, my team is the hero.

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Userpilot

DECEMBER 9, 2021

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.

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Userpilot

SEPTEMBER 25, 2023

Concept testing takes place before the development phase to assess how well the idea could satisfy user needs , while usability testing focuses on how easy the product is to use and navigate and happens during the development stage. Concept testing should be an integral part of product development for a number of reasons.

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Mind the Product

OCTOBER 10, 2016

The goal for the relaunch was a complete design and code overhaul under three constraints: Time: Neither the designer nor the developer were full-time and Adam, as a board member but not employee of ICv2, also wasn’t full-time. But people’s ideas, even though they’re wrapped in poor execution, can hide brilliance.

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Mind the Product

APRIL 24, 2018

I joined Setapp as a product manager in January last year, at the same time as the company was launching its main product. Setapp provides Mac users with a way to use and discover new apps, and developers with a new way to reach customers and generate extra revenue. Problems with Customer Development.

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Userpilot

APRIL 6, 2023

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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Userpilot

MAY 27, 2025

Want to advance your career in product management or find top talent for your team? This article shares exciting product manager roles focused on Product-Led Growth (PLG) and showcases standout candidates in the field. Recommended product manager job openings in the PLG field Looking for a job in PLG companies?

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ProductPlan

MARCH 5, 2021

For a product professional guiding the work of a team, strategic alignment should be the holy grail. Including making sure that everyone involved has a shared understanding of the big goals for the product. Second, all teams agree on a definition of success. Successful product development requires many teams.

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BrainMates

NOVEMBER 3, 2022

In Product Development. Product development can be a difficult process to get right. Not all products are created equal, and an alarmingly high number of products produced will fail. In fact, around 40% of the products launched by organisations fail to meet their intended objectives.

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Userpilot

AUGUST 21, 2023

Because of the fast-paced nature of tech companies, the ability to solve problems quickly and think on your feet is a crucial skill for product managers to have. Product managers often work in cross-functional teams and bridge the gap between multiple departments. Product sense. How to set a product strategy?

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The Product Coalition

DECEMBER 21, 2020

If you let yourself get carried away, it’s really, really hard to tell the difference between a good and bad one. The result of idea validation is to develop a feasible prototype or MVP?—?both The further down the development cycle you go, the harder, costlier, and less appealing it is to claw your way back up and start over.

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BrainMates

SEPTEMBER 18, 2019

It’s heart-breaking that, after all the effort that goes into developing and launching a new Product, from so many different people, 40% of product launches fail. Markham’s landmark study showed [1] and this is what we learned about at the latest Product Talks in Sydney. lack of effective product marketing.

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The Product Coalition

JUNE 9, 2021

That approach works fine until your sales team gets on the phone to tell a customer about the Next Big Thing. When you define a roadmap as a group of project commitments, you’ve set your team up for failure. A good roadmap illustrates how your product contributes to the company. So why build a roadmap at all? Framework Step 1?—?Vision

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Good Product Manager

DECEMBER 16, 2018

Twas the Night Before Product Launch. Twas the night before product launch, when all through the team. Not a developer was coding, nor crafting a meme. And so begins my 2019 holiday-themed blog post: ’Twas the Night Before Product Launch: A SiriusDecisions Holiday Poem. prodmgmt #agile.

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Mironov Consulting

FEBRUARY 9, 2023

” GTM leaders typically ascribe this situation to lack of attention, poor work ethic, or weak understanding of customers on the part of product management – i.e. personal failures best addressed by replacing or upgrading product staff.  Or

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Userpilot

OCTOBER 25, 2022

Goals are important aspects of the product strategy. They tell the product management team what they need to achieve. Market research, differentiation, and positioning are necessary to prepare for the product launch. What is strategic product management? Activities for strategic product managers.

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Mind the Product

FEBRUARY 27, 2018

The smarter your investment in testing, the better your chances of product success. Here’s what we’ve learned based on our experience of adopting a testing mindset and seeing your way through innovative product development. Product/Market fit Cannot be Planned. Chaos Report 2015. Technical Feasibility. Scalability.

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Mind the Product

NOVEMBER 27, 2017

A startup, finding its feet and learning how to stand, should by certain logic be less wise, less capable and less developed than its older, wiser counterparts. Neither necessarily good nor bad, there are however differences between how the young child and the old man view the world. Don’t Forget to Keep Celebrating Small Wins!

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Userpilot

NOVEMBER 8, 2022

Your product go-to-market strategy is the final ingredient for any successful product launch. As a product marketer , it is your job to identify the best target audience for your product, while also finding the best pricing options, distribution channels, and unique value propositions.

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User Testing Feedback Software Product Research Strategy 98

Intercom, Inc.

APRIL 17, 2019

Getting users to discover that value from day one is what great onboarding is all about, but so many of us struggle to ensure our onboarding is as good as our core product. Poor retention. Our support team is empowered to make changes and add new tours as our platform evolves”. Teams can insert tours into conversations.

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Userpilot

MAY 30, 2024

Here are the main takeaways: Product managers focus on building the right product, while product marketing managers focus on getting the product into the right hands. PMs prioritize product development and functionality, while PMMs focus on market adoption and product desirability.

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The Product HQ

JUNE 1, 2024

The product management world relies on teams of product people who work in unison toward a central goal. For that reason, each person on the team needs to know exactly what they have to do and how. In the case of someone like a Software product manager, this may prove challenging.

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Userpilot

JANUARY 3, 2023

MQL is a potential customer fit for your business, reviewed by the marketing team. The marketing team reviews and confirms the MQL before sending it to the sales team. A sales-qualified lead (SQL) is a prospective customer with a clear and strong intent to buy your product. Let’s dive in!

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