Gainsight

JUNE 18, 2020

Today I’m speaking with Janine Snead , IBM’s Chief Digital Officer, Vice President of Customer Success IBM Cloud and Cognitive Software. Fourth, we have customers that can’t cover with dedicated CSMs due to capacity. Technical skills matter a lot. . Welcome to our Change the Game in 5 minutes Series.

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Gainsight

AUGUST 5, 2022

Preparing and presenting executive reviews. The technology and platforms both Sales and CS use often have similar capabilities. While it requires more of a technical background, as a CSM, you come with the perspective of knowing the customer’s needs and goals. You can better advise on valid customer pain points.

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PMLesson's Ace the PM Interview

APRIL 19, 2020

After working in consulting, many management consultants desire to exit into and work at a tech company. If you've already decided you want to work closer to tech and are ready to start making the transition to PM, you're on the right page! Many companies have a bias towards PMs coming from a technical background.

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PMLesson's Ace the PM Interview

APRIL 19, 2020

After working in consulting, many management consultants desire to exit into and work at a tech company. If you've already decided you want to work closer to tech and are ready to start making the transition to PM, you're on the right page! Many companies have a bias towards PMs coming from a technical background.

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Userpilot

JANUARY 17, 2023

It involves adapting your product to your customer’s ever-changing expectations through in-app surveys and review gathering, making it timeless. If NPS scores are high, it means customers are realizing your value since they are willing to advise others to use your product. Send a personalized modal to ask for reviews.

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Userpilot

SEPTEMBER 8, 2021

We generally advise against linear, top-down product tours. Using product tour software is a better decision. The best product tour software on the market is Userpilot. Using the same example, imagine that you're going through the different tooltips in this rather basic product tour for project management software.

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ProductPlan

MARCH 4, 2022

Unfortunately, we can’t advise you on specifics here. Question 2: If our company didn’t have any product tech stack when you joined, what types of tools do you think we’d need first, and why? If the hiring manager knows this, you probably won’t get questions about building a tech stack.

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Bain Public

MAY 29, 2020

FUN FACT: It is actually thanks to the coaching service for innovative and technological SMBs (PMEit) administered by MAIN that we’ve been able to work with some of our incredible clients, Wastack , LiveScale , Blaise Transit and Enkidoo , and provide them with product management, consultancy and coaching support. Julien Chosson CEO, Wastack.

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PMLesson's Ace the PM Interview

MARCH 1, 2020

I studied mathematics at UCLA, worked 2 summers as a software engineering intern at a Series E AdTech startup, and advised Metta World Peace (Ron Artest) as the product manager for his social basketball app, Gradelo. Due to the number of applicants, making it past the resume screen may rely on a bit of luck.

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PMLesson's Ace the PM Interview

APRIL 9, 2020

Software development is one of the few highly skilled occupations that doesn’t require any professional certification. CIO’s top 10 , taken from Switchup.org, a review and ranking guide which examined thousands of alumni reviews to rank coding bootcamps based on price, location, job support and instructor quality.

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Intercom, Inc.

JANUARY 5, 2023

He’s a keynote speaker, adviser, and co-author of several books on the subject, including the provocatively titled The Best Service is No Service , Your Customer Rules , and his latest The Frictionless Organization: Deliver Great Customer Experiences with Less Effort. It’s a business tax software company called Xero.

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UX Studio: Product Management

JULY 14, 2021

As a design thinking consulting firm , we advise on product strategy, lead workshops, and offer customized training to equip your business with the best UX practices. Fantasy has expertise in the healthcare industry, hospitality and leisure, entertainment and media, finance, and technology, to name a few.

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Userpilot

JULY 13, 2021

The best walkthrough software on the market is Userpilot. That’s why we often advise SaaS companies to segment users prior to their walkthrough, to make sure that customers only see features during their walkthrough that make sense for their individual use case. But the million-dollar question is: which software should you choose?

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Gainsight

AUGUST 6, 2021

This step involves enabling the CS team so they can effectively onboard, teach, or advise customers about the new feature. CS teams can then leverage these materials as part of their regular communications and meeting cadence such as QBRs, monthly progress reviews, etc. monthly progress reviews, QBRs, etc.), Step 3: Launching.

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Gainsight

NOVEMBER 23, 2020

GitLab is an open-source, code-collaboration platform for git repository management, code reviews, issue tracking, wikis, and continuous deployment tools, enabling users to create, review, and deploy codes. I transitioned to a software company focused on financial planning. Today, we’re talking to Jeff Beaumont from GitLab.

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Usersnap

FEBRUARY 19, 2019

Industries are being disrupted by digital technologies today. Due to this disruption, traditional ways of innovation are insufficient. According to the 2017-18 World Quality Report , 34% of organizations in the software industry have used crowdsourced solution as a way to increase testing bandwidth.

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Mixpanel

MAY 26, 2020

For today’s post, we spoke with Rohit Gossain , who has held multiple product management and data science roles over the last decade with technology companies such as Shutterfly, OpenTable, Adobe, and Expedia Group. . Rohit Gossain: I started off my career in 2010 as a technical analyst working with a product manager.

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Mironov Consulting

MAY 18, 2024

  Out of scope means they can advise, counsel, suggest, offer to help… but don’t own the decision/action.  Push internal recruiters hard, perhaps reviewing stacks of résumés together to clearly communicate what you’re looking for.    With lots of gray space between the two.

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Gainsight

AUGUST 31, 2020

” Amy also believes that with each job, she moved closer to software and began thinking about product management. At an annual Autodesk engineering technical conference two years ago, Amy took the stage to address this very issue wearing a Peloton shirt and told the audience the story of the Peloton subscription experience.

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Mixpanel

MAY 26, 2020

For today’s post, we spoke with Rohit Gossain , who has held multiple product management and data science roles over the last decade with technology companies such as Shutterfly, OpenTable, Adobe, and Expedia Group. . Rohit Gossain: I started off my career in 2010 as a technical analyst working with a product manager.

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Intercom, Inc.

JANUARY 14, 2021

How to use technology to create something. But the consulting experience was interesting because I realized that technology is just one part of it – to have a big impact and to build something that’s going to touch many people or solve something important, I need to understand the world and the business side.

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Pragmatic Marketing

SEPTEMBER 16, 2009

As product managers, we bear the responsibility for bridging the two worlds – technical and business, and need to influence both. Change must happen on two levels across the organization: Technical – Roles and responsibilities must be understood, accepted, and adopted. Participating in technical release planning.

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The Product Coalition

MAY 11, 2022

Finally, “ Building for Business: Product Management in Enterprise Software ” is a truly B2B-focused Product Management book, written by Blair Reeves (Salesforce) and Benjamin Gaines (Adobe) for “all the ones who aren’t part of the Silicon Valley startup bread”. But why is working in enterprise software now different?

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Department of Product

MARCH 28, 2022

Or how about telling the execs at Microsoft Office that their model of selling physical boxes of Office software is a one way ticket to death by Google Workspace? It is extremely difficult (and probably not advisable) to attempt to stay on top of all trends. It’s impossible for one person to do. And not all trends matter.

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Userpilot

MAY 1, 2021

collect VoC data outside the app with customer interviews, online surveys, social media listening, product reviews, customer website behavior. Think of how Scrum and Kanban are two of the most widely used methodologies when it comes to Agile software development. 5 Collect VoC data by analyzing online customer product reviews.

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The Product Coalition

OCTOBER 21, 2019

Here I aim to show how experience, respect for discipline, and an insistence on following good project management practices can go a long way to help to develop successful software projects in spite of many challenges. To be clear, we will not discuss how to start a software development project or which steps you should take to kick it off.

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All About Product Management

MAY 13, 2008

How Scrum was Implemented The philosophy of agile was presented, by the IS Director and Head of Web Solutions Group - Kelly Waters (author of the blog 'all about agile software development' ), over a 3 month period to various committees, steering groups and forums in order to get the by-in from Managing and Publishing Directors.

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Userpilot

AUGUST 18, 2020

The choice of user retention tools and software available to SaaS businesses is completely overwhelming. This blog will explain the types of user retention tools & software so that you can take control. Well, maybe it’s due a revival – this time as an unofficial mantra for the SaaS sector. Source: cultofmac.com.

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Mixpanel

MAY 5, 2021

Prior to this position, Neil was VP of Engineering, after working as a Software Engineer and leading Infrastructure Engineering. He was the Growth Advisor in Residence at Greylock Partners, Growth Lead at Pinterest, and first marketer at Grubhub. He advised companies like Tinder, Hipcamp, Reddit, Canva, and Pocket. Tech costs.

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Amplitude

JUNE 8, 2017

I had become pretty active as a mentor and advisor to various startups and really enjoyed it! Social Capital’s work consists of helping solve the world’s largest problems which it does by investing in technology in sectors such as healthcare and education, and companies both within and outside of the United States.

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The Product Coalition

JANUARY 5, 2021

A good starting point would be working with the “Manifesto of Agile Software Development,” particularly ensuring that stakeholders understand that adapting to change over following a plan is paramount for the organization’s future success. A new feature is overdue and has been drastically underestimated due to unexpected technical debt.

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The Product Coalition

MARCH 11, 2020

Finally, the term Development Team seems to limit the role to technical people, for example, software engineers. Ignoring technical debt: The Development Team is not demanding adequate capacity to tackle technical debt and bugs during the Sprint. Read more on technical debt and Scrum.) Team leads?

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Business of Software Conference

JULY 7, 2021

In this guest post Paul Kenny (founder of Ocean Learning and long time BoS participant and speaker) argues that software and SaaS “proven sales playbooks” are BS. Alex A may have little patience to deal with awkward technical queries, and may be willing to make unrealistic promises to get deals to cross the line.

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Intercom, Inc.

MAY 19, 2022

To give more context to these figures we’ve sent a survey out to hundreds of support professionals in the software and internet industry, consumer services industry, financial industries, and many more with company sizes ranging from 10 employees to 10,000+. That’s why you need to do these internal reviews as well.

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Userpilot

JANUARY 5, 2022

With so many options on the market, it can be difficult for SaaS executives to find the best onboarding software for their product. What you need is a rigorous analysis of the top players out there, based on an understanding of the features that quality onboarding software needs to provide to be competitive. Let’s get into it.

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Userpilot

DECEMBER 6, 2021

If your customer engagement levels are not where they need to be, maybe it’s time to look at the customer success software you’re using again? When choosing customer success software, consider: (i) ease of adoption, (ii) is it no-code?, (iii) 2 – The best customer success software will be no-code.

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Userpilot

AUGUST 18, 2020

Well, maybe it’s due a revival – this time as an unofficial mantra for the SaaS sector. Whatever problem you have, there’s a bit of software that does it for you or your users. Software is incredibly competitive and developers cope with that by zeroing in on very tight niches. Source: cultofmac.com. It makes sense.

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