Userpilot

JANUARY 29, 2023

Without validating features, it’s easy to create products that aren’t aligned with their vision or are difficult to differentiate. Developing features without validation results in bloated products and unnecessarily drives the cost of development up. The process is also necessary to maintain the product-market fit.

User Testing 92

User Testing Product Research Framework Feedback Software 92

Userpilot

APRIL 29, 2021

In a sustainable way, without falling into the ‘build trap’ – churning out new features based on feature requests, diluting the product vision, and wasting your company’s resources. Contents: The Product Feature Death Cycle – What is It? The Product Feature Death Cycle – What is It?

Weak Development Team 105

Weak Development Team Product Research User Testing Customer Experience 105

Userpilot

JUNE 30, 2022

While everyone talks about product-market fit, finding product-customer fit is equally important when it comes to engaging the right customers and driving success. You’ve achieved product customer fit when your product and its functionality help the user get their job done in the easiest and fastest way.

User Testing 87

User Testing Feedback Software Analytic Tools Customer Experience 87

Userpilot

MARCH 24, 2021

It helps your entire team rally around a vision and a set of outcomes, making sure everyone is aligned in reaching those product growth goals. What is a product strategy? How do you set a product vision? It helps you find product-market fit and gives your team direction.

Product Research 119

Product Research Onboarding KPIs Product Strategy User Testing 119

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?

Feedback Software 89

Feedback Software Analytic Tools Research Software User Testing 89

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.

User Testing 323

User Testing Product Research Weak Development Team Customer Experience 323

The Product Coalition

MARCH 29, 2021

So while preparing for the ProductTank Rotterdam panel discussion, I decided to take the time and actually write a piece about “Killing Product Features”, sharing my learnings, since this is something that product people come across and usually feel quite stressed with handling it. Yup, you got that right, another trap.

Weak Development Team 109

Weak Development Team User Testing Customer Experience Product Research 109

Roman Pichler

MAY 11, 2021

Instead, you should engage the stakeholders, leverage their expertise, and generate as much buy-in as possible , as I explain in more detail in my article “ Stakeholder Management Tips for Product People.” ” But do not allow people to dominate and tell you what to do, and don’t agree to a weak compromise.

Weak Development Team 156

Weak Development Team Product Research User Testing Customer Experience 156

Userpilot

NOVEMBER 23, 2023

TL;DR Regular roadmaps kill outcomes by forcing teams to think in the categories of features and timelines. They lack vision and lead nowhere. It’s difficult to implement outcome-based roadmaps because stakeholders don’t trust product teams to deliver on business goals. The product momentum gap by Dave Martin.

Feedback Software 89

Feedback Software Analytic Tools Product Research User Testing 89

Userpilot

OCTOBER 29, 2020

Product Marketing is a fairly new domain and the role of ‘Product Marketing Manager’ differs greatly from organization to organization. You may want to jump to a relevant section: Who’s a Product Marketing Manager? Product Marketing Manager’s Role and Responsibilities (depending on the company).

Analytic Tools 97

Analytic Tools Feedback Software Onboarding KPIs Product Marketing 97

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.

Analytic Tools 52

Analytic Tools Research Software Feedback Software Product Research 52

Userpilot

JUNE 20, 2023

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. Apart from testing the demand for the product, idea validation helps teams assess if they have the necessary expertise and resources to build the product.

User Testing 84

User Testing Product Research Feedback Software Customer Feedback 84

The Product Coalition

MARCH 29, 2018

I realize not every product person has to navigate sales stakeholders. But if you’re working on a B2B product with a sales force, odds are you know what I mean. I try to help product and sales teams succeed under the mantra “Easy to Sell, Easy to Renew.” Where do your teams agree on low scores?

Development Team Review 113

Development Team Review Weak Development Team Feedback Software Product Research 113

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

Startups 52

Startups Customer Experience User Testing Technical Review 52

Roman Pichler

DECEMBER 4, 2018

To understand if and to what extent your product is affected by technical debt, talk to the development team, for example, in the next sprint retrospective. I find that development team members usually have a good understanding where issues in the architecture and code are.

Feedback Software 252

Feedback Software User Testing Customer Experience Weak Development Team 252

Mind the Product

JANUARY 24, 2019

Everyone believes their vision is really the Minimum Viable Product. You can simply declare “it’s not really minimum” if you want to do something less than their vision, or declare “it’s not really viable” if you want to do more! But MVP is a key concept in product management. This concept split the team.

User Testing 181

User Testing Weak Development Team Customer Experience CTO 181

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.

User Testing 156

User Testing Product Research Weak Development Team Customer Experience 156

The Product Coalition

FEBRUARY 13, 2021

This means you can save time and money developing features customers really care for and reduce risks of undesirable effects on your customers. The executive sponsor communicates the vision, strategy and process of experimentation through all levels of the organization, creating a culture of transparency and trust.

Reporting Tools 109

Reporting Tools Feedback Software Data Visualization User Testing 109

Userpilot

MARCH 27, 2023

We start by looking at different kinds of analyses and the metrics to track and then explore some practical ways of using each of them to drive various product goals. We finish with an overview of product analytics tools that your team can benefit from. Why do you need to track product analytics?

Analytic Tools 96

Analytic Tools Data Visualization Feedback Software Onboarding KPIs 96

Mind the Product

MAY 25, 2018

Initially JustGiving supported only registered charities on its website, but the founders’ vision was to support all good causes. 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.

User Testing 117

User Testing Weak Development Team Onboarding KPIs Customer Experience 117

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.

Product Research 91

Product Research User Testing Research Software Feedback Software 91

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. When the product designer and I discussed the feedback, we revisited the job of those early designs.

Product Research 88

Product Research User Testing Research Software Feedback Software 88

Mixpanel

JANUARY 12, 2023

We’ve run dozens of customer interviews, analyzed our competitors, tracked our customer lifecycle, and aligned with the company vision: now we’re finally ready to write copy. If you know a thing or two about product development, you’ve heard of the “a-ha” moment. They’re crystal clear that they speak to and for developers.

Data Visualization 115

Data Visualization User Testing Research Software Product Research 115

PMLesson's Ace the PM Interview

MARCH 3, 2022

The product management career path can be incredibly fulfilling as you build and work on products used by millions of users around the world. The success of a product, or even an entire company, rests on the product team. Building impactful products is exciting! Are you cut out for product management?

Weak Development Team 52

Weak Development Team Technical Review Data Visualization Product Management 52

Gainsight

SEPTEMBER 8, 2021

Organizations create Customer Success teams to increase Net Revenue Retention, and we’ve recently published research showing that NRR drives valuation. But, then, organizations find that the baseline impact of simply having a CS team eventually plateaus–your NRR stagnates. You may also look outside the CS team.

Reporting Tools 105

Reporting Tools Data Visualization Marketing Analytic Tools 105

The Product Coalition

JUNE 14, 2020

Prototypes and Minimum Viable Products (MVP) are a critical part of product development. Sure, you could dive right in, spend months developing an expensive product with all the bells and whistles. Not testing your ideas is a great way to fail fast. Not testing your ideas is a great way to fail fast.

User Testing 103

User Testing Feedback Software Customer Experience Data Visualization 103

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.

Books 98

Books Research Software Feedback Software Analytic Tools 98

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.

Weak Development Team 40

Weak Development Team Product Research Reporting Tools Customer Feedback 40

The Product Coalition

OCTOBER 15, 2019

Do you have a product concept in mind? Are you willing to shape it and head straight to the development process? Test the waters first and get your idea validated. With so many stages for a tech product startup, it’s hard to decide on the right workflow. Start with a prototype, follow with an MVP and get to the product.

User Testing 60

User Testing Product Research Feedback Software Customer Feedback 60

Userpilot

MARCH 13, 2024

Every seasoned product marketer knows that adding new features to your product is key to product management success. TL;DR Feature ideation is a process through which product teams brainstorm ideas for new features to introduce to their product. But not just any features will do.

Data Visualization 93

Data Visualization Weak Development Team User Testing Feedback Software 93

Userpilot

MARCH 18, 2021

Customer Retention Strategy for Your Marketing & Sales Departments How to Build Products Designed for Retention The Role of Product Marketers in Customer Retention The Customer Support Strategy Why Is The Data You Collect So Important to CS and Retention? Their job is to sell prospects on the vision of your company.

Feedback Software 52

Feedback Software Research Software User Testing Customer Experience 52

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).

Product Research 86

Product Research User Testing Data Visualization Customer Feedback 86

Intercom, Inc.

NOVEMBER 7, 2019

As Head of Sales for Spendesk, Nico was initially inspired by the vision of founder Rodolphe Ardant who had spotted a gap for ‘spend management’ in the B2B market based on personal banking trends. So they created a software that provides control, visibility, and payment methods for corporate finance teams.

Feedback Software 162

Feedback Software Marketing User Testing Finance 162

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.

Data Visualization 78

Data Visualization Analytic Tools Product Research Customer Experience 78

PMLesson's Ace the PM Interview

MARCH 2, 2022

Google Product Manager Interview Guide Google Engineering Manager Interview Guide Google Software Engineering Interview Guide Google APM Interview Guide Google Technical Program Manager Interview Guide Google Product Marketing Manager Interview Guide Does Google Ask Behavioral Interview Questions? Leadership.

Weak Development Team 52

Weak Development Team Technical Review User Testing Feedback Software 52

Userpilot

APRIL 30, 2024

Wondering what a marketing growth strategy is? From this article, you will find out how to develop a strong growth marketing strategy and learn growth marketing tactics for different customer journey stages. Market penetration is about increasing existing market share with existing products.

Analytic Tools 97

Analytic Tools Feedback Software Data Visualization Onboarding KPIs 97

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.

Product Management 92

Product Management Product Manager User Testing Product Research 92