Lenny Rachitsky

NOVEMBER 24, 2024

Simplify security • Paragon —Ship every SaaS integration your customers want — Jen Abel is the co-founder of JJELLYFISH, where she and her team have worked with over 300 early-stage founders to learn how to sell, do early customer discovery, and set up a repeatable sales motion on the way to their first $1M ARR.

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The Product Coalition

AUGUST 3, 2023

How to Achieve Success in Your Product Strategy In today’s rapidly evolving market, having a clear product vision and a well-defined strategy is essential for the success of any tech product. A compelling product vision is a guiding light, providing direction and purpose to the development process.

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UX Planet

FEBRUARY 10, 2024

Systemic Thinking: The Key to an Impactful UX Strategy Systems Thinking is a holistic approach to problem analysis and solving that emphasizes viewing systems as a whole, rather than focusing only on individual parts. What is Systems Thinking? Interrelationship: all parts affect each other within a system.

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The Product Coalition

SEPTEMBER 4, 2023

And yet, useful improvements do not always add up to the desired results , especially when growth is a problem and the market is saturated with similar solutions. In this article, I talk about spotlight vision, when and how to switch focus, and provide six research ideas to consider when ready to broaden the view.

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Product Innovation Educators

APRIL 1, 2024

How product managers can design their customer experience journey We all want to create products that customers find valuable and even delightful. But accomplishing that is complicated, and some teams lose focus on the real objective or start without a clear vision for what they need to accomplish.

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Product Talk

FEBRUARY 12, 2020

We then jammed those models into our platform so that customers could access the outputs in many ways.” We’ve onboarded many customers onto our predictive suite and every time we get the same question: ‘How can I test that it works?’ You also have a mobile app that sends similar messages via push notifications.

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Product Innovation Educators

AUGUST 21, 2023

He has established a system allowing the team to focus on understanding customer needs more deeply, creating Outcomes through hypothesis-based testing, and measuring progress through Velocity, Win Rate and impact towards their North Star Metric. Summary of some concepts discussed for product managers [2:17] What is Thrive Market?

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Intercom, Inc.

JULY 15, 2021

With a Master’s degree in human-computer interaction and over two decades of experience in user research and user experience in companies like Oracle, he now leads the design team across all product offerings at IBM. User research is a vital part of the design process. Since Thomas Watson Jr.

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The Product Coalition

MARCH 24, 2021

Narrowing Down the Battlefield Figure 1 shows the ‘Technology Adoption Life Cycle’ for discontinuous innovations. Innovators have to build first reference customers in the mainstream market to prove having a promising business model and a compelling offering. As we do not have yet data available from live customers?—?or

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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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Product Innovation Educators

JUNE 12, 2023

Tools for planning and executing product projects Today we are talking about the skills product managers need to grow their careers. Second is setting up the right funnels for access to users. I strongly believe that as a PdM, the biggest value you bring on your team is speaking to users and having a pulse of what your customers need.

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The Product Guy

MAY 3, 2018

Moving from product concepts to execution requires the steady guidance of a product manager to listen and understand the needs and wants of the organization, the teams involved, and the users for whom the product is being built. Imagine building software that supports sales teams manage their client relationships. Establishing value.

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Userpilot

AUGUST 8, 2024

Crafting a winning product strategy is crucial for SaaS success, and finding the right product strategy example can provide all the inspiration you need. This article provides concrete examples of different product strategies employed by SaaS companies. There are 11 main product strategy examples in SaaS today.

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Userpilot

MAY 29, 2024

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. Design a product in 7 steps: Carry out market research and generate ideas to help you stand out.

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Userpilot

JULY 16, 2024

As a SaaS professional, you’ve probably asked yourself, “What’s tech product management?” A traditional product manager prioritizes understanding customer needs and market trends. Technical product manager responsibilities include: Conduct user and market research to understand user pain points.

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UX Planet

FEBRUARY 6, 2025

Traditional banking often struggles to capture and maintain customer engagement. This gap in engagement and recognition highlights the customers expectations for a more dynamic and modern digital banking experience. It ultimately changes how we think about financial services.

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Userpilot

JULY 16, 2024

While your SaaS company’s success depends on several elements, the most crucial ingredient will always be your product experience. Providing a great product experience helps SaaS companies reduce churn and improve product management metrics like customer satisfaction and customer lifetime value.

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Userpilot

DECEMBER 13, 2023

Such a strategy helps the team put themselves in the shoes of the users, better understand their needs and pain points , and make the user experience consistently good at all stages of the user journey. To make the vision actionable, break it down into specific objectives and select corresponding success metrics.

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Product Talk

SEPTEMBER 7, 2022

Through a combination of leadership buy-in, reading, and coaching, they committed to mapping opportunities and testing assumptions before jumping to solutions and found new ways to truly put their users first. The product trio collaborating on the opportunity solution tree using Mural.

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Sachin Rekhi

FEBRUARY 16, 2020

Much of the literature that defines the role as the intersection of business, technology, and user experience isn't particularly helpful for practitioners who are left wondering what skills they need to learn versus the fine people they work closely with in actual business, technology, and user experience roles.

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Mind the Product

JANUARY 4, 2018

But when it comes to customer loyalty, millennials are different. Research has shown that they are less influenced by advertising than other generations, so companies have been struggling to engage with them. Find the user’s pain points with existing solutions, and figure out the deep root of the problems.

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Usersnap

FEBRUARY 24, 2025

The key isnt just understanding users but unlocking insights that lead to solutions they cant live without. Product discovery is critical in identifying workflows, pain points, and user goals that shape successful products. Common Pitfalls Rushing into solutions without exploring user needs derails discovery.

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Product Talk

APRIL 7, 2021

And then, for those of you who don’t know me, I’ve been working as a product discovery coach for the last seven years, teaching cross-functional product teams how to do continuous interviewing , discover opportunities , and run rapid experiments and rapid prototyping to evaluate solutions, and I blog at Product Talk. Tweet This.

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Userpilot

SEPTEMBER 14, 2023

We also look at the levels of seniority among product managers as well as the skills they need to lead successful teams and build products that delight customers. TL;DR A product manager oversees the entire software product development cycle, from discovery to launch and beyond. Conducting market research and competitor analysis.

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Intercom, Inc.

NOVEMBER 21, 2019

One of our mantras here at Intercom is that customer retention is the new conversion. In an era when more and more businesses adopt a subscription model, strong customer retention is the key to sustainable long-term growth and requires a laser-like focus. . How Jobs-to-be-Done unlocks customer empathy.

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Mind the Product

AUGUST 10, 2017

Brian Crofts , VP of Product at Pendo, believes uncovering and understanding client pain points allows him to build products that truly resonate. He worked on new businesses for TurboTax and later led global expansion for QuickBooks, Intuit’s suite of accounting and payroll SaaS solutions for small businesses with 1.5M

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UX Planet

MARCH 29, 2025

However, having a good approach provides you with confidence and solutions. In any case, hang around because well go over why UX design strategy is crucial, how to create one, and what the problems arefor you, your team, and, most importantly, your customers. Yes, that happens more frequently than youd expect.)

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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? What does a software marketing strategy for SaaS looks like?

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Userpilot

OCTOBER 24, 2022

Gathering meaningful insight from your customers is a challenge for any product manager: what you need is a handy user persona survey template to help you capture it… We’re here to help! In this article, we’re going to explore how user personas can help you gather and utilize customer insight more effectively.

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Mind the Product

FEBRUARY 12, 2020

We assign them to the person who contributes the most towards their success, whether it’s an engineer, PM, designer, user researcher, or data scientist. With this system, more people get to take on leadership roles and everyone gets recognition for their work. This means don’t specify the solution or explain how to do it.

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Product Talk

MARCH 3, 2021

In this second conversation in the series, we discussed two core principles of continuous discovery : encouraging teams to discover opportunities through continuous touch points and prioritizing in the opportunity space rather than in the solution space. Here’s an opportunity solution tree. What are your customers’ needs?

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Userpilot

AUGUST 29, 2023

Product management is equal parts art and science – and it’s vital to the success of your SaaS. A project manager is focused on the completion of a specific project, whereas product managers focus primarily on the long-term vision and evolving a product to deliver value over time. Champions a customer-centric approach.

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Userpilot

JULY 20, 2024

TL;DR An experience strategist designs and optimizes user experiences across different touchpoints to enhance customer satisfaction and engagement. They combine insights from user research , data analytics, and design thinking to create cohesive and compelling experiences that align with business goals.

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Mind the Product

JUNE 20, 2019

Even with very short cycles between discovery and delivery, it can take up to several months from identifying a user problem to the release of a potential solution to real users. At Xing the technology we use is predefined so I will focus business and user needs and how they are connected.

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Userpilot

JANUARY 17, 2024

Scaling SaaS is not for the faint of heart. If you do not scale, you will be unable to reach a new pool of customers and your competitors will leave you in the dust. If you scale prematurely, you may struggle to satisfy customer expectations. Constantly perform market research to identify expansion opportunities.

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The Product Coalition

JANUARY 26, 2024

Twenty five mini-research ideas for finding something meaningful to work on. In the perfect world, product managers have all the time, resources, and skills to do impeccable, in-depth market and user research. So let’s talk about mini-research. Think of research as digging for gold. There is only the real world.

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Intercom, Inc.

DECEMBER 16, 2019

In this guide, we explain how you can turn ABM into a win for your business – by putting the right team, tools, and processes in place. Sales and marketing leaders select a list of accounts that best align to your ideal customer profile, or your company’s most valuable buyers. Customer-centric approach to growing revenue.

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