The Product Guy

APRIL 9, 2019

We perceive strategy from the management as the gospel – Usually the opposite, a good leadership team usually expects the individual contributors to provide iterative feedback. The idea is to treat the strategy as a prototype that will undergo many iterations and testing. Some of the challenges from my personal experience has been.

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Mind the Product

JANUARY 10, 2017

As a product manager it’s not uncommon to feel pulled in a million different directions as you work to meet the needs of your customers, developers and company stakeholders. This is particularly important in large-scale organisations or when you build a customer-facing product. This should not be confused with technical documentation.

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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. Product/Market fit Cannot be Planned.

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The Product Guy

AUGUST 30, 2017

We would regularly meet to discuss the features required, what the customers expected. In fact, our tests regularly failed. We were testing our code. I’m not a technical Product Manager. I felt I had to wait until a feature built out before I could give my feedback. We were making great progress. What did we lack?

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Product Talk

APRIL 7, 2021

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. I am a former chief product officer and now coach and advise product leaders and teams. Teresa Torres : Hi, everyone. Tweet This.

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Lenny Rachitsky

SEPTEMBER 3, 2024

If you’re building a consumer subscription app, this post is your new bible. Over the past year, Phil Carter has been developing a framework for growing consumer subscription businesses, called the Subscription Value Loop. A massive thank-you to Phil for doing the work to put a piece like this together.

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The Product Coalition

MAY 25, 2021

The value of a test kitchen when creating a product is immense. The ability to test and iterate based on real usage with real users is invaluable to getting to the root of a problem, understanding a user’s existence, and removing friction. So, what does a product test kitchen look like?

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Roman Pichler

JANUARY 9, 2018

I find it helpful to form a product discovery team that consists of: Development team members: user experience (UX) designer, developer, tester; Key stakeholders , for example, people from marketing, sales, and support; A ScrumMaster or agile coach. Talk to the Users. Do Just-Enough Product Discovery Work.

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Roman Pichler

SEPTEMBER 4, 2018

For advise on when to carry out product backlog grooming, please see my article “ When should Product Backlog Grooming Take Place? ”. An example of the former would be “Find out if users are willing to share personal data as part of the initial registration process” to address a user-interaction risk. Focus on the Sprint Goal.

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Product Innovation Educators

OCTOBER 29, 2018

Empowering product teams to create an agile culture with a customer focus. We actively look for problems and unmet needs, recognizing that those are opportunities to create value for customers. Our mental wheels are constantly spinning, thinking about how we can make existing products better and create new products that wow customers.

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The Product Coalition

DECEMBER 13, 2021

In due course, the startups need to invest a good amount of time in organizing the strategy and roadmap to track the product performance to get an early product-market fit and scalability. Goal: On average new customer base should be increased by x% QoQ. Strategy: Deliver compelling stories of existing customers weight loss journey.

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The Product Coalition

MAY 11, 2022

As argued in the intro of the book, even though enterprise software makes up a big share of the total software market, most Product Management books still focus on consumer products only as well as ignore that enterprise software products are built and distributed very differently. Product Management is about solving customer problems.”

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The Product Coalition

MARCH 1, 2024

That implies a lot of traffic, internal customers, ultra-optimization of customer experience, and, as a result, the need to build a platform and not just a one-time feature. Know what our users want? What technical knowledge does Spotify expect from a candidate? No one needs smarty-pants throwing technical terms around.

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Product Talk

AUGUST 10, 2016

It’s easy for teams to work along both dimensions of product discovery—working to understand their customer’s context and iteratively testing their ideas—but that doesn’t mean they know how to connect the two sets of activities. We ignore the advice of Chip and Dan Heath where they advise us to avoid “whether or not” decisions (i.e.

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The Product Coalition

MAY 27, 2020

And it’s also become the epitome of user-friendliness. Many companies try to fit in new languages without proper planning, which can be a costly misstep. usually within the user interface? The most helpful vendors are those that advise on the right processes and best translation management tools for the task at hand.

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Userpilot

SEPTEMBER 7, 2023

Customer analytics is the cornerstone for making informed decisions, enhancing the user experience, and, ultimately, fostering growth. It’s crucial to stay updated with the latest trends in customer analytics to better understand customers and make the most out of collected data!

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Userzoom

SEPTEMBER 5, 2019

Technically there are an infinite number of ways you could attempt to recruit participants for your user research. The obvious requirement here is that your organization has a database of users that you can contact (and if you don’t, remember that it’s never too late to start thinking about creating one).

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Userpilot

AUGUST 12, 2024

According to him, there are three critical dimensions to ensuring agile, customer-centric product operations: Product development : Frequent releases and updates allow for responsiveness to customer feedback , proactive problem detection, and maintaining high user satisfaction.

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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. Whatever problem you have, there’s a bit of software that does it for you or your users. User retention tools – CX.

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The Product Coalition

MARCH 11, 2020

Scaled products are past the stages of early access, or pre-launch and have grown to have plenty of customers, and regular users. Product discovery encompasses all the research and decisions on the product, whether that’s planning your next feature, or testing your latest product proposition.

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Roy Madden

JUNE 29, 2021

You will own our Hubspot environment across the Marketing, Sales and Customer Success teams, and be responsible for educating the broader organization on data hygiene and digital marketing best practices. Continuously research relevant keywords opportunities and keep the content team up to date on these findings. About Feedly.

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Userpilot

MARCH 8, 2022

She advises executives around the world regarding product management. The book described the common tendency for organizations to focus on features instead of delivering true value for the users, and discussed: How not to turn into a feature factory. Your users will thank you one day. Author of “ Continuous Discovery Habits ”.

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Mind the Product

JULY 10, 2017

Do your own research. Shortlist to about 1-3 remainders by kicking people who aren’t a fit. Do a small, paid test project with all of them. After the test project your choice should come very naturally. I would recommend this model if you have no technical or product management background. Who was on time?

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Userpilot

AUGUST 18, 2020

The choice of user retention tools available to SaaS businesses is completely overwhelming. This blog will explain the types of user retention tools so that you can take control. Whatever problem you have, there’s a bit of software that does it for you or your users. The best user retention tools…for you?

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Userpilot

OCTOBER 1, 2021

For SaaS companies who want to make sure their customers hit the ground running, it's difficult to avoid the subject of new user onboarding tools. The best onboarding software for new users is Userpilot. Technically speaking, this is known as "primary onboarding." " Onboarding milestones.

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The Product Coalition

JANUARY 5, 2021

Team up with the user experience people and run, for example, user journey or user story mapping workshops. Or invite stakeholders to Product Backlog refinement sessions to explain a user story’s value to the rest of the Scrum Team. Proven examples are user story mapping or product roadmap planning workshops. (It

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Intercom, Inc.

JUNE 21, 2018

That means your focus should be on building the right customer profile and developing precise messaging to reach them. Max is a proponent of combining old-school techniques with new tools like using messengers to catch potential customers when they visit your site looking for a specific answer. Starting sales from scratch.

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Userpilot

AUGUST 23, 2023

Product analysts research to find market trends, collect and analyze data, track and assess product performance , understand product requirements, and report insights to stakeholders. A product analyst needs to have the following skillsets: Technical skills: data analysis , data visualization, statistical analysis, and technical tools.

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Userpilot

DECEMBER 6, 2021

Is your customer success platform up to scratch for 2022? SaaS is evolving and users today expect more value, more quickly, with less effort than ever before. 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?

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Userpilot

AUGUST 18, 2024

To create a successful product strategy, you’ll need to research your market , identify your target audience, and define your unique value proposition. Perform market research and define your target audience A successful product strategy is built on a solid foundation of customer understanding.

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UX Studio

OCTOBER 16, 2017

Hierarchy of User Needs. In his book Designing for Emotion , Aarron Walter adapts the Maslow pyramid for user needs. As a consequence, the functional and reliable features still have some technical hiccups which would need more work. Users download it with this basic expectation and it manages this requirement well.

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Userpilot

JULY 9, 2021

Product-Led Onboarding by Ramli John and Wes Bush is a new book about how to implement user onboarding for the ultimate customer retention. The Mom Test by Rob Fitzpatrick is the ultimate guide to talking to customers as a product manager and includes sample scripts and questions you can directly use in your customer interviews.

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Userpilot

MARCH 3, 2022

This includes market research (potential employers), understanding product strengths (your value to the customer), iterative development (subsequent drafts), or refining the UI (formatting). Careers in programming are a good springboard as are those in sales, customer service, or marketing.

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UX Studio: Product Management

JULY 14, 2021

UX studio is one of the global innovation design consulting firms focusing on UX design, research, and strategic consulting. We researched the top design consulting firms’ competency level, experience, and portfolio to define the most reliable design thinking companies you can trust and partner with in 2021.

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UX Studio: Product Management

MARCH 28, 2022

Is it technical details, customer insights or revenue and money? It’s great for the designer to get feedback and it ensures everyone sees the new designs as they evolve and not just the final version. Many times it happens together with the design walk-through, so we can discuss the design and the user feedback at once.

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BrainStation Product Management

FEBRUARY 28, 2019

In BrainStation’s survey, Product Managers ranked communication (71 percent), leadership (65 percent), and empathy (58 percent) as the most important skills for a Product Manager, ahead of research and project management, and far ahead of design (selected by only 20 percent of respondents). Technical Skills for Product Management.

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Userpilot

OCTOBER 7, 2021

In fact, we would encourage you to have a good look at all the user onboarding software products on the market to see how they compare to each other. Guides are built in Pendo's proprietary design tool, despite the fact that numerous Pendo users preferred to keep using their old Chrome extension (which was grandfathered in 2019).

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