Mind the Product

DECEMBER 12, 2019

At a time when so much of today’s B2B ecosystem is built around software products, I believe it has become incumbent on the people responsible for designing, developing, and building these products to take back leadership of how our companies are run, and lead us all back to a culture of responsible growth.

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Userpilot

JUNE 9, 2021

Are you thinking about a career in product, but you’re not sure whether you should pursue Product Marketing or Product Management? To explain the difference in the simplest of terms: Product Managers build product features and Product Marketers promote them to their audience and users.

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Roman Pichler

JULY 6, 2021

Consequently, your focus shifts from managing a product to looking after the product people on your team and empowering them to do a great job. For instance, you might show the individuals how they can make effective strategic product decisions, create an actionable product roadmap, and effectively use the right KPIs.

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The Product HQ

MAY 10, 2024

Startup Product managers are in charge of setting up the foundation for product management at a new company. Since product development is such a lucrative field, this is a crucial role for the company. According to Airfocus , an optimized product manager boosts profitability and sales, by 34.2

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The Product Coalition

FEBRUARY 12, 2024

Early in the pandemic, this led me to resent virtual meetings, especially virtual product review meetings. This particular product review meeting was a breaking point. I struggled to figure out how to run the product review meeting effectively. As a result, the team struggled with how to prepare. Why was this prioritized?”

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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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Userpilot

MAY 19, 2022

Product excellence is a framework that relies on user feedback to inform product strategy and roadmap for faster delivery of products. Successful products satisfy user needs. A successful product manages to deliver value to customers. Kano model helps you prioritize feature development.

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Userpilot

MAY 5, 2022

Product managers lead interdisciplinary product teams to deliver products that bring value to customers. The product management process is a set of steps taking the project from the initial concept to the final product. The product development process is one aspect of the product management process.

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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. one of our developers asked.

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Mind the Product

MAY 25, 2018

In 2012, when I was working as part of the JustGiving team responsible for innovative products and disruptive business models, we decided to test how people could raise money for non-charitable good causes. Initially we worked with a team from ThoughtWorks for 12 weeks. This is what we did. 2012 – the Inception.

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ProductPlan

OCTOBER 6, 2022

Start with your company and product mission and vision. ProductPlan is the product management platform that operationalizes product strategy and execution best practices and drives innovation, trust, and accountability. Understand your customer outside of why they use your product. and says, “Sorry that I’m late.

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Userpilot

JULY 9, 2021

Product Mastery by Geoff Watts teaches you how to be a successful product owner within agile software development practices with the use of case studies. Inspired by Marty Cagan contains a little about everything in product management and is based on how the most successful tech companies in the world build products.

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The Product Coalition

DECEMBER 11, 2023

To test yourself, see where are you making compromises that are based on the assumption of one or more such constraints. In one of my early career roles, I was brought into the company as a development team leader with a very specific task they wanted me to lead. To sum things up, this post is not about good and bad decisions.

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Under 10 Consulting

JUNE 6, 2019

Only three things happen naturally in organizations: friction, confusion, and underperformance. In my first job in product management, I was based in DC and my developers were based in California. Instead, I flew to LA once a month and stayed for a week of development team meetings. Product management in Marketing.

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Mind the Product

JULY 6, 2018

Failing is an eventuality in software development. And yet, the job of the product manager comes with a level of accountability and scrutiny that is unique. Product managers are asked to look after all facets of a product’s development, from conception to launch. Let’s do it over and over again! Join Forces.

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ProductPlan

JANUARY 5, 2023

This trend has supported the emergence of the Data Product Manager as a role on the product team dedicated to the process of collecting, organizing, storing, and sharing data within an organization. They focus on the results that the team is looking for. Delegated Product Leader Model. with this focus.

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The Product Coalition

JANUARY 13, 2021

By the way, it wasn’t like I was thinking to myself: “I feel bad, let’s try Facebook because they are supposedly the solution”. When they tested it and proved it to be true, they could then focus on optimizing that metric to drive retention and eventually growth. Now, what about your product? It was the deeper problem?—?the

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The Product Coalition

MARCH 15, 2020

If you are “doing prioritization”, that simply means you have too much you are trying to tackle, you are wasting time trimming down those ideas, and you are probably doing this in a series of internal discussions, i.e., you are not leveraging user testing to make evidence-based decisions to drive toward more innovative solutions.

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UX Studio: Product Management

SEPTEMBER 16, 2021

As a design studio that often works with international companies, we’ve developed a remote collaboration process that lets us work effectively with our clients. Apart from designing impactful digital solutions for our clients, we develop our products at UX studio — UX folio and Copyfolio.

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Roadmunk

SEPTEMBER 21, 2017

Some sit outside the product domain, but still directly pushed me as a product manager to connect and empathize with other team members. Here’s my list of favorite online posts for product managers. 12 things about product-market fit. Let’s get to it. The only thing that matters. Author: Marc Andreessen.

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ProductPlan

MARCH 3, 2022

Creating happy customers and keeping them happy is the entire focus for the product team and the company. This requires customer-centric organizations to prioritize customer delight and value over profits, which is another example of the differences between product-centric vs. customer-centric organizations.

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Andrew Chen

OCTOBER 31, 2016

Growth is an emerging field, and there’s hardly a playbook on how to ace your growth interview (whichever side of the table you’re on), and yet hiring and team could be the most important “growth hack” of all. The B t Test. If none of your experiments are failures, then you’re probably not testing the right things.

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Department of Product

MAY 22, 2020

Why Product Features Matter Product strategy, features and the value chain What outcomes are you trying to achieve? How does what we’re building align with the wider strategy of the business? And the product team responsible got some pretty brutal reviews in the process. They’re addictive. And stimulating.

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Mind the Product

JULY 16, 2018

When looking at the different methodologies, if there is one commonality between them, it is the ask that product managers (and ideally product marketers, designers, and engineers) get real face time with real customers/prospects to identify market problems and opportunities (here’s a great post on this from Rich Mironov).

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The Product Coalition

MAY 15, 2019

have they stood the test of time? Scrum came about even earlier than the agile manifesto almost a whole decade to be exact (although you can traces origins earlier back to 1986 with the article The New New Product Development Game ). this was the creation of the Product Owner role. The answer is often unclear.

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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

MARCH 9, 2020

A pattern I’ve seen 4 or 5 times seems worth describing, since other folks may be experiencing it: a very early-stage B2B/enterprise company brings on a full sales team before finding product/market fit. First, let’s recapping the basics of why we hire enterprise sales teams and what they do.

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Userpilot

DECEMBER 8, 2022

To avoid product failure, don’t launch without achieving product-market fit first. Good product positioning helps achieve customer fit and avoid customer dissatisfaction. Market research and customer discovery help validate ideas and make sure the market is ready for the product.

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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. Choose specific and relevant marketing platforms to help you reach your target market.

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ProductPlan

JUNE 1, 2023

When your product can do more than it could do before, that sounds like a good thing. Added functionality, new capabilities, a more robust feature set…these are the talking points product marketers salivate over and executives search for on product roadmaps. Where are product teams getting their feature ideas?

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The Product Coalition

MARCH 11, 2021

We’ve expanded our principles to reflect Brian Balfour’s better-defined “New Age Growth”, and adopted Product Thinking to unlock huge A/B tested conversion, retention and AOV uplifts. We had to stop all our tests indefinitely until we could release more capacity in our factory. Life had other plans.

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Mind the Product

MARCH 20, 2018

The Product Lifecycle. We all know the product lifecycle chart. While many of us are familiar with the uphill battle and the grind involved in getting traction and any growth towards product/market fit, the launch and growth phases represent a small fraction of the overall life of a product. Product Lifecycle.

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Userpilot

JULY 14, 2023

What is a product analytics framework and why is it important? We also look at: Different types of analyses to include in your framework How to develop a product analytics framework And, the best product analytics tools. Solid product analytics tools include Amplitude , Google Analytics 4 (GA4) , and Hotjar.

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The Product Coalition

OCTOBER 18, 2020

A good product strategy helps you to acquire happy customers and retain them over time. On your way there, there are many potential weak links that can prevent it from happening. Here is how product strategy helps you overcome them. would ask why it is important to continue refining even the finest details.

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Mironov Consulting

JULY 28, 2022

Enterprise Sales and Solutions Teams… Are paid/rewarded/promoted for working with individual prospects or customers one at a time.  Sales  Sales teams get quota relief from closing individual deals, not market segments.  Integration  Where else can we make this product fit?

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Department of Product

AUGUST 22, 2022

With that, we had a little discussion about what the best places for a product leader to focus on might be in the early days after joining a company – and how a leader in product might be able to conduct a ‘Product Health Check’. A consumer social media app is more likely to have more mobile users.

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The Product Coalition

MAY 30, 2021

It brings product practices into the sales funnel and calls for your involvement in each and every step (as you should be doing regardless). It gives you the visibility you always wanted and requires real cross-team collaboration. The general process of product-led growth starts with mapping the customer journey?

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