The Product Coalition

OCTOBER 13, 2022

Here are 10 great product books on pre-product market fit (pre-PMF)! ?? Learn who to listen to: “The Mum test” (Rob Fitzpatrick) This book will teach you that they’re some people you should never listen to, like your mum. It also teaches you the importance to talk to the right niche for your product. ??

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Userpilot

NOVEMBER 5, 2022

Why should you use customer discovery? How can product managers use it to test assumptions and uncover opportunities? These are the key questions that Susan Stavitzki, the Senior Product Manager at CarMax, discussed during her presentation at the Product Drive Summit this year. What is customer discovery?

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The Product Coalition

DECEMBER 11, 2019

If you have that, it means you’ve managed to offer the market exactly what it needs or, in other words, achieved a product/market fit (PMF). What are the steps you need to take to identify your product/market fit? What if a business doesn’t achieve product/market fit?

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Mind the Product

FEBRUARY 27, 2018

You have to invest skillfully to test these assumptions. 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. Reduce the Costs of Failure.

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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 7, 2023

What are the different types of B2B customer insights for SaaS businesses? When your product is catering to other businesses, it can be difficult for sales reps and other teams to understand the needs and experiences of the clients, especially if the client company sells multiple products. What are B2B customer insights?

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Roman Pichler

AUGUST 11, 2020

This article assumes that you are familiar with the product vision board or the key elements of a product strategy : market, value proposition, standout features, and business goals. Examples : “Everyone who owns a smartphone”, “Business users and consumers”. Target Group is (too) Big and Heterogenous.

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Usersnap

MAY 19, 2022

Think of product-market fit (PMF) as sailing: the product is the sail and demand is the wind. For the boat to work or to make your dreams come true, you need to build a sail (product) and find the wind to power it (or satisfy the needs of the market, and its potential customers). Let’s get started!

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Userpilot

JANUARY 22, 2024

A product marketing framework is like a compass that guides you through the complex, fast-paced world of SaaS. From initial launch to ongoing product management , this framework acts as a map towards sustainable growth. In this article, we dive deep into what a product marketing framework is and explore its essential components.

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Userpilot

SEPTEMBER 21, 2022

What makes a product feedback form work? It’s the ability to collect customers’ feedback and insights , which gives you a better understanding of how to make a better product. A product feedback form lets you gather user feedback about your product.

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Userpilot

JUNE 20, 2023

As a product manager, how can you effectively validate ideas and build a successful product that delights users? TL;DR Product idea validation is a process during which product teams test and tweak the product concept to ensure it satisfies a real market need.

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Mind the Product

FEBRUARY 13, 2020

As a result, the team at Uniregistry decided to take a new approach to product validation in an attempt to avoid the same fate. Here’s how they used smoke tests to explore a new opportunity. The company’s products are used by 30,000 customers with over a million domains under our management.

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Userpilot

NOVEMBER 8, 2022

What are feedback loops? How can product managers use them to build better products that your customers will love? That’s exactly what Peep Laja, the Founder and CEO of CXL and Wynter , talked about in his presentation at the 2022 Product Drive Summit ! How to Speed Up Your Feedback Loops by Peep Laja.

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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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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

We’re also looking at what product managers do to increase the survival chances of their products. We talk about product failure when the product doesn’t meet its objectives or goals. SaaS companies often struggle to identify user problems worth solving, differentiate their products, and get the pricing right.

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Split

AUGUST 18, 2022

However, there are simple testing ideas you can try to make the most of a difficult situation. A second axis to consider is that your customers themselves have less interest in spending. When decisions become difficult to make, A/B tests offer an accurate and reliable estimate. The best approach is to run an A/B test.

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The Product Coalition

JUNE 24, 2022

Apparently, what I don’t see is many articles aimed at helping people understand what the product manager position is actually like, and whether it is a good fit for them?—?personally. Understanding whether the product manager role fits your personality is the most important starting point. personally.

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Roman Pichler

MAY 11, 2021

But the value a product creates is ultimately determined by its users: No product will be successful in the long run if it does not solve a specific user problem, create a tangible benefit, or help the users achieve a specific goal. The strategic work is taken on by another role, the SAFe product manager.

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Userpilot

JANUARY 29, 2023

TL;DR Product managers need a new feature validation framework to ensure that they meet user needs or drive organizational goals and avert product failure. Without validating features, it’s easy to create products that aren’t aligned with their vision or are difficult to differentiate.

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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. Overengineered products are difficult to use, filled with bugs, and instead of improving your users’ lives, they make them unnecessarily complicated. Why do developers overengineer software products?

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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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Userpilot

MAY 1, 2024

He also hosts a job board for product professionals and has created a GPT-4 chatbot, Lennybot, that is programmed to answer questions from Lenny’s newsletter and podcast. Before starting his own venture, Lenny worked in the product and engineering teams of companies like Airbnb and Neustar.

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Mironov Consulting

MARCH 4, 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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The Product Coalition

FEBRUARY 2, 2023

As product managers, it’s our job to develop solutions that solve real problems for our customers and create value for the business. One effective approach is to use a hypothesis-driven product validation framework to ensure that your efforts are focused on the most important questions at the right time.

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Userpilot

NOVEMBER 23, 2023

TL;DR Regular roadmaps kill outcomes by forcing teams to think in the categories of features and timelines. The outcome-based roadmap focuses on delivering value to customers instead of obsessing about building specific features. Many companies lack differentiation strategies and drive product development by copying competitors.

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Usersnap

AUGUST 26, 2021

There are two reactions to receiving customer feedback: “yippie!” or “ouch…” And while we can’t guarantee you 100% positive feedback, we do have some proven strategies and tactics to help you join those 84% of digital companies that prioritized working on customer experience and recorded an increase in revenue.

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Userpilot

NOVEMBER 21, 2023

Product launch checklists help align the efforts of all team members, enhance quality assurance, help mitigate risks, enable the evaluation of the launch, and help you deliver a better customer experience. Brainstorm ideas on how to solve customer problems in an innovative way and validate them.

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Userpilot

APRIL 30, 2024

Marty Cagan is a popular name in the product management world. In many ways, he has shaped how successful products are built and how teams can be organized to work toward excellence. Marty Cagan is a well-known figure in the product management and technology industry. Who is Marty Cagan?

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Userpilot

OCTOBER 1, 2022

Software adoption is crucial to the success of SaaS companies because it secures users to be long-term customers. A SaaS business model relies on recurring revenue from retained users, so if adoption fails, the whole business model fails as well. In SaaS, the median user growth is 4%, while the median activation rate is 17%.

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BrainMates

NOVEMBER 1, 2021

Now hold on a minute you might say, isn’t product failure just the inevitable cost of product innovation ? Developing and launching a product only to have it fail is the complete antithesis of the “Fail Fast” innovation motto. Failure Point #1 – A lack of customer benefit. To that, I say unequivocally NO !

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Userpilot

MARCH 28, 2024

User analytics play an essential part in the product development and management process. It also explores different kinds of user data analysis, shows you how to conduct it, and introduces a few product analytics tools with the necessary functionality. TL;DR User analytics is a user research methodology.

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Userpilot

JULY 5, 2022

Small but regular improvements are a more reliable way to achieve product-market fit. Incremental innovation gives you time to listen to user feedback. As a result, it helps you develop only the features that they need and avoid falling into the feature fallacy trap and creating the consumption gap.

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Userpilot

SEPTEMBER 10, 2022

Do you know which user experience survey questions to ask? The right ones can give you data that uncover insights such as user sentiment and the like. This post lists the different questions to ask users on your survey concerning their experience with your software. What are user experience surveys? Let's begin!

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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. What makes a successful product?

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Userpilot

OCTOBER 27, 2022

Looking for the best customer feedback tool for your SaaS company? There are plenty of solutions for customer feedback on review sites, but they don’t make the choice any easier. Customer feedback is any information provided by customers about their experience with a product or service.

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The Product Coalition

FEBRUARY 26, 2022

Why have Product Managers stopped speaking to customers? Very sadly, most product managers I meet today no longer talk directly to customers regularly. If you ask; “How many customers did you speak to this week?” Most product managers efforts today seem focused towards their own company , no longer the customer.

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