Roman Pichler

JANUARY 22, 2024

Listen to the audio version of this article: [link] What Is a Product Portfolio Strategy and Why Does It Matter? A product portfolio strategy is a high-level plan that helps you maximise the value a group of products creates. 1] Product Portfolio, Product Family, and Product Line—What’s the Difference?

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Userpilot

MAY 29, 2024

Learning how to design a product is crucial for anyone aiming to bring an idea to life. Whether you're an aspiring entrepreneur, a seasoned product manager, a UX designer , or simply curious about the process, this guide will walk you through the essential steps, best practices, and tools you need to create successful products.

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The Product Coalition

APRIL 20, 2023

Therefore, discoveries and implementations occur frequently in this domain. An augmented reality app is a software application that blends digital visual content (and sometimes audio and other sorts) into the user’s physical environment. Then it starts to run the code from the marker and layers the right image or images.

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Userpilot

JULY 18, 2023

It takes a fair bit of effort and time to keep up with the constant innovation in the product management software space. The tools are constantly evolving and changing their pricing plans, so it may be difficult to ensure that your product team is using the right tools and getting the best value for the money.

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Userpilot

MAY 27, 2024

Product thinking is all about putting yourself in the other person’s (user) shoes. Only by adopting a product-thinking mindset and following it as a process can you get to know your users better. TL;DR Product thinking is the process of identifying problems and coming up with solutions by placing the user in the center.

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Roman Pichler

FEBRUARY 11, 2020

Be Clear on What a Software Platform Is. Different people have suggested different definitions for the term software platform. Let me briefly share mine: I view such a platform as a collection of software assets that are used by several products, as the following picture illustrates.

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Userpilot

MAY 30, 2024

Overlapping responsibilities and conflicting priorities are just a couple of the many friction points between product managers and product marketing managers – leading to inefficient workflows and potential product failures. Keep reading to discover his invaluable insights about aligning PMs and PMMs for product success.

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Roman Pichler

SEPTEMBER 11, 2023

Listen to the audio version of this article: [link] Organise the Team around a Product As the name suggests, a product team is focused on a product. A first step to form effective product teams is therefore to identify the products in your organisation. But what is a product? This sounds simple enough.

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Alchemer Mobile

FEBRUARY 2, 2021

According to an InMobi survey , the number one challenge facing app developers today isn’t design or development. Without marketing, even the best apps struggle when it comes to customer acquisition and discovery. Now it’s time to put your app and positioning to the test. It’s marketing. The bad news? The good news?

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Userpilot

APRIL 7, 2024

SaaS product management is about understanding user pain points, crafting features that solve real problems, and constantly improving the user experience. The approach to managing SaaS products is entirely different from traditional on-premise software. Develop the product roadmap. Oversee product development and design.

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Roman Pichler

MAY 3, 2023

Listen to the audio version of this article: [link] Make Time to Keep up with Technology Trends As new technologies come and go, it’s important for you—the person in charge of the product—to stay on top of the developments. Research sprints : You focus an entire sprint on technology exploration.

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Product Talk

APRIL 7, 2021

A few months ago, fellow Product Talk coach Hope Gurion and I sat down to discuss why there’s no single right way to do discovery. In this third and final conversation in the series, we discussed two core principles of continuous discovery : why it’s essential to set up compare and contrast decisions and surface and test assumptions.

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The Product Coalition

FEBRUARY 22, 2021

TL; DR: Product Discovery Anti-Patterns Scrum has proven to be an effective product delivery framework for all sorts of products. However, Scrum is equally well suited to build the wrong product efficiently as its Achilles heel has always been the product discovery part. Participation is free.)

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The Product Coalition

SEPTEMBER 7, 2022

Minimum Viable Products: Why You Should Test Before Investing In Ideas Let’s analyze the advantages of MVP-based software development. If you look into the problem carefully, you’ll see that all the relevant reasons for failure : changing requirements, weak arrangement, insufficient investment and test activities?

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Userpilot

SEPTEMBER 15, 2023

What is concept testing and how can it help accelerate your product-led growth ? In this article, we’ll go over some concept testing examples from some of the best B2B and B2C brands to help you get started with your strategy. Get feedback on different messaging and ads to find which resonates.

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Userpilot

NOVEMBER 23, 2023

Why do product managers need them? That’s what Dave Martin , a product leadership coach, has talked about in his talk at this year’s Product Drive Summit hosted by Userpilot. Dave Martin on how product roadmaps kill outcomes. They lack vision and lead nowhere. Ready to dive in to learn more?

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Userpilot

OCTOBER 15, 2022

Customer feedback is the process of gathering feedback from customers after they have used your product or service. Customer feedback surveys help you identify points of friction with the user experience and enhance the customer experience. Display an exit survey every time a customer churns to collect feedback.

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The Product Coalition

MAY 10, 2021

First, let me introduce our two products along with some context and background to set the scene. BigVision BigVision is a business (or product or department) that has a big, exciting vision. We just need to start with First Opportunity first as due to our market analysis and business modelling, this is the best one to tackle”.

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Userpilot

FEBRUARY 20, 2024

What is a data product roadmap? We also share software products you can use to create a foolproof product roadmap and drive product-led growth. TL;DR A data product roadmap is a product development strategy where the product manager and their team use insights from various data sources to inform decisions.

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Alchemer Mobile

DECEMBER 7, 2022

“Should we buy this software or should we build it?” The build vs. buy question is both one of the most common and one of the most challenging dilemmas facing product managers. In the case of software, the dilemma becomes increasingly difficult as most enterprise companies have the resources and talent in-house to build the software.

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Alchemer Mobile

DECEMBER 7, 2022

“Should we buy this software or should we build it?” The build vs. buy question is both one of the most common and one of the most challenging dilemmas facing product managers. . In the case of software, the dilemma becomes increasingly difficult as most enterprise companies have the resources and talent in-house to build the software.

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Product Talk

MARCH 3, 2021

A few months ago, fellow Product Talk coach Hope Gurion and I sat down to discuss why there’s no single right way to do discovery. Welcome to “Why There’s No Single ‘Right’ Way to Do Product Discovery.” We’re both product discovery coaches with Product Talk. Find it here.

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Roman Pichler

FEBRUARY 2, 2021

Before the advent of agile frameworks like Scrum , a product person—the product manager—would typically carry out the market research, compile a market requirements specification, create a business case, put together product roadmap, write a requirements specification, and then hand it off to a project manager.

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Lenny Rachitsky

APRIL 30, 2024

Each week I tackle reader questions about building product, driving growth, and accelerating your career. Subscribe now Founded less than two years ago, Perplexity has become a many-times-a-day-use product for me, replacing many of my Google searches—and I’m not alone. ” For more, check out Perplexity.

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The Product Coalition

JANUARY 3, 2020

Creating a Product Discovery Track: A Practical Guide In the last decade we have evolved a lot in terms of agile development, Agility has become its own concept and we have lots of books and conferences for this subject. when software engineers get their hands dirty?—?but Dual-Track Agile, by Jeff Patton.

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Userpilot

SEPTEMBER 29, 2023

The product development process is part art, part science, and all important to the success of your SaaS. In this article, we've got a comprehensive review of the entire product development process. While product development describes the process of creating the product itself (i.e. Ready to get started?

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Intercom, Inc.

OCTOBER 8, 2020

Freemium’s a great way to acquire lots of customers relatively quickly and easily, but the job of converting them to using a paid product is where the rubber meets the road. Let the product be your sales guide. Right off the bat, Kristen acknowledges that the freemium model isn’t a universal cheat code for winning sales.

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Roman Pichler

APRIL 13, 2021

Key performance indicators (KPIs) are metrics that measure how your product is doing. Effective KPIs help you understand if your product is creating the desired value for the users, the customers, and the business. Without KPIs, you end up guessing how well your product is performing. A Goal-directed Approach to Choosing KPIs.

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Userpilot

APRIL 30, 2024

Customer feedback can be a goldmine of valuable insights for SaaS companies seeking growth. But how does one actually go about collecting feedback , prioritizing it, and using it to make key product decisions? Meagan Glenn , Senior Program Manager (Success and Product) from Lavender lays it out for us in this interview.

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Roman Pichler

MAY 11, 2021

Myth #1: The product owner must ensure that the stakeholders are satisfied. 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.

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Userpilot

AUGUST 22, 2023

Have you ever been fooled into buying a product solely based on the number of features it offered? We also investigate its negative impact on product success and its symptoms. More importantly, we look at how product teams can avoid it. Users often pay more attention to product functionality than its usability.

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The Product Cafe

DECEMBER 12, 2023

Hello, all you product-loving folks! 💜 Welcome to this week's edition of Product Café, your weekly cup of coffee for everything product management, startups, AI, and more. Are You Trapped in the Product Death Cycle? If this scenario sounds familiar, you might be caught in the vicious Product Death Cycle.

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Userpilot

SEPTEMBER 21, 2022

Your engineering and product teams team have worked vigorously on making product changes. Now it’s time to tell the world about the new shiny features and product enhancements, but you’re wondering how to handle it the right way. Read on as we explore best practices for communicating product changes to drive adoption and growth.

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Userpilot

NOVEMBER 23, 2023

To be a kick-ass product manager , you need a very diverse skill set. This article explores both hard and soft skills that product managers need in their everyday work, so if you’re curious to learn more, dive right in. PMs need to know how to use product analytics tools to gain actionable insights.

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Modus Create

OCTOBER 13, 2020

According to research by QSM , the average software project takes almost a year to complete, and includes dozens of unneeded and unused, yet complex features. We had already aligned on the overall vision, goals, and high-level opportunities to explore. The Process. The Key to Confidence: Evidence!

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Userpilot

SEPTEMBER 5, 2021

Are you looking for the best strategies on how to market software products? Marketing software products can be challenging with the abundance of tools out there saying they do everything for everyone. How is marketing for software products different? You might be wondering, how to compete.

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Gainsight

OCTOBER 5, 2020

Why should you involve your customers and users in the Product feedback and ideation process? Getting customer feedback isn’t a new concept. Your users interact with your product all day to solve their challenges, achieve their goals, and execute their work. The Classic One-Way Customer Feedback Process.

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