Roman Pichler

MARCH 9, 2022

Listen to this article: [link]. Inspiring. An inspiring vision creates a meaningful purpose for everyone involved in making the product a success including the stakeholders and development team members. It helps people understand how their work relates to a bigger whole and how their efforts create a positive change. It also allows you, as the person in charge of the product, to understand if dedicating your time and energy to the offering is worthwhile and sustainable.

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Alchemer Mobile

MARCH 9, 2022

We all know that retaining customers costs less than acquiring new ones. So, why does it often get deprioritized in favor of customer acquisition and app downloads? Frankly, the answer to that question is this: For most brands, customer retention is a nut they still haven’t cracked. What many don’t realize is that customer retention can be largely managed with a few simple improvements to their app’s customer experience.

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Mind the Product

MARCH 10, 2022

In this article, we’ll explore the product management best practices that turn into pitfalls in our culture of burnout, plus how we can better engage these skills to sustain our careers. [.] Read more » The post Burnout in product teams appeared first on Mind the Product.

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Intercom, Inc.

MARCH 10, 2022

The e-commerce landscape has grown exponentially since 2020, with experts predicting that the pandemic accelerated transformation of the digital space by up to five years. With lockdowns preventing in-store experiences, shoppers have gravitated towards brands that can provide the best online experience possible. And, as society reopens, it is vital to maintain ease of movement between in-store and online channels – not just for your customers, but for your teams.

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Speaker: Johanna Rothman - Management Consultant, Rothman Consulting Group

Senior leaders often want to see months - or years - long product roadmaps. But these predictions often do not create products your customers will love. While customers aren’t fickle, they often do not know what they want until you give them something to try. That means product leaders need to integrate experiments and options into their roadmaps. In this presentation, Johanna Rothman will explain: How to limit the duration of a roadmap and show possible options.

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The Product Coalition

MARCH 9, 2022

A well-thought restaurant branding helps to create an emotional connection with distinguished customers and makes your restaurant distinctive from others. Recently, millions of restaurants, pubs, and coffees from small-scale properties to large ones are doing their business in the world. Regarding the hospitality industry, the number of restaurants may cross your imagination.

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Mind the Product

MARCH 8, 2022

As a product manager when you put so much effort into creating a product roadmap, seeing it fail due to common mistakes can be heartbreaking. Let’s go through the common pitfalls which you can avoid while creating a product roadmap to ensure it is going to serve the intended purpose. [.] Read more » The post Mistakes to avoid while creating a product roadmap appeared first on Mind the Product.

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Intercom, Inc.

MARCH 9, 2022

At Intercom, shipping is just the beginning. We iterate, fight for adoption, and keep pushing for maximum impact for our customers and our business. We strive to deliver outcomes as well as outputs to drive real results for our customers. In an episode of our Intercom on Product podcast , our co-founder Des summed up the output vs outcomes relationship in this way: “it’s what you ship versus what happens because of the thing you ship.

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The Product Coalition

MARCH 9, 2022

When I speak with people about new products, the term I consistently use is an undeniable value. Continue reading on Product Coalition ».

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First Round Review

MARCH 8, 2022

Ravi Mehta, former CPO at Tinder & Product Exec at TripAdvisor, shares his framework for crafting a crisp product strategy for startups — a 5-step system called the "Product Strategy Stack." He also makes the case for setting "non-goals" and using an alternative to OKRs.

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Advertiser: Aggregage

The objective of this research is to dispel misunderstandings about crucial project management terms and their definitions. It aims to accurately place these terms and facilitate a comprehensive global understanding of their meanings.

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Mind the Product

MARCH 7, 2022

In this #mtpcon Digital Americas session, Cinthia Assali, Head of Product Development at Gympass reveals how the Gympass Product team tackled the pandemic challenge and quickly pivoted to digitally deliver physical activity and mental health solutions in less than a month. [.] Read more » The post Accelerated product pivot—a pandemic lesson by Cinthia Assali appeared first on Mind the Product.

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Intercom, Inc.

MARCH 8, 2022

The crisis in Ukraine is weighing heavily on us at Intercom. There is a tragedy unfolding and it is especially difficult for those worried about the safety of their loved ones in the region. There’s a quote I think of in difficult times: “Look for the helpers. You will always find people who are helping.” I’ve been inspired by everyone at Intercom who is doing something to help those impacted by this crisis.

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Userpilot

MARCH 8, 2022

What is an MLP product? We’ve all heard of MVPs. With its build fast and fail fast approach, it helped many adapt to constant feedback loops and quick iterations. The idea of minimum viable products started out with good intentions – but its main focus was (unfortunately) putting stuff out quickly and with little to no cost to the team, which then resulted in crappy products.

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The Accidental Product Manager

MARCH 7, 2022

Amazon wants to be the place where people go for luxury Image Credit: Ron Mader. There is no question that Amazon is a successful company. If you were a product manager who worked at Amazon you would be under a great deal of pressure to find ways for the company to make more money. One way that they would like to bring in more revenue is to start to sell high end products.

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Mind the Product

MARCH 6, 2022

In this Sunday Rewind episode, we cast our minds way back to 2013, where Simon Cast, Co-founder of ProdPad and Mind the Product, explains everything that product managers need to know about analytics. [.] Read more » The post SUNDAY REWIND: Everything a product manager needs to know about analytics appeared first on Mind the Product.

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Intercom, Inc.

MARCH 8, 2022

The very first International Women’s Day was held on March 19th, 1911. Meetings, protests, and demonstrations erupted all over Europe, where more than one million women marched for women’s equal rights under the law. We stand on the shoulders of the greatest women not just in our generation, but in the generation of our mothers, grandmothers, and great grandmothers.

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Userpilot

MARCH 7, 2022

To take us through the topic of growing a SaaS business and the bumpy road to success, we interviewed Micha? Sadowski, the Founder, and CEO of Brand24, in one of our Product Heroes episodes. You can watch the full interview here, or read this article for a summary of the key points. Watch all Product Heroes episodes here. TL;DR. Micha? Sadowski is the founder and CEO of Brand24 , a social media monitoring solution that provides instant access to brand mentions across social, news, blogs, and mor

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Nir Eyal

MARCH 7, 2022

It seems counterintuitive, but spontaneity can’t happen without a bit of advanced planning. Only people with spare time can be spontaneous. The post Planning Ahead Is the Key to Living With More Spontaneity appeared first on Nir and Far.

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Mind the Product

MARCH 8, 2022

Roisi Proven's last episode was one of our most popular, so we had to have her back for a return chat! She updates us on what she's learned about data ethics and unbiased data [.] Read more » The post Overcoming data bias – Roisi Proven on The Product Experience appeared first on Mind the Product.

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Intercom, Inc.

MARCH 7, 2022

We’re not big believers in a one-size-fits all approach to online business. That’s why we’re continuing to create customizable features that will allow your marketing, sales, and support departments to flourish. Last month’s shiny new updates will not only allow us to improve the efficiency of your teams, but your customers can also enjoy the most personalized engagement on the market.

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Johanna Rothman

MARCH 8, 2022

Integrated System Program. The larger your product, the more likely you have components teams. I often see component teams because of the architecture of the product. In this first image, the Integrated System Program, the rest of the product uses the Platform of Common Services as components. Also, the teams find it tempting to think of the common GUI and API as components.

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Userpilot

MARCH 8, 2022

Women are still underrepresented in the Product Profession – with only 33.3% of US Product Managers being female in 2021, according to a metastudy of 30 million profiles conducted by Zippia : Source: [link]. So to celebrate International Women’s Day – as usual – we’re casting the spotlight on some of the most prominent influencers and thought-leaders in Product – who also happen to be ladies.

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Speaker: Anne Steiner and David Laribee

As a concept, Developer Experience (DX) has gained significant attention in the tech industry. It emphasizes engineers’ efficiency and satisfaction during the product development process. As product managers, we need to understand how a good DX can contribute not only to the well-being of our development teams but also to the broader objectives of product success and customer satisfaction.

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Mind the Product

MARCH 11, 2022

In this #mtpcon London+EMEA session, Petra Wille, Product Leadership Coach and author of STRONG product people, provides some tips and frameworks for product managers to improve their storytelling capabilities and silence their inner critics. [.] Read more » The post Don’t convince. Inspire! – Lessons on storytelling by Petra Wille appeared first on Mind the Product.

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Atlassian

MARCH 9, 2022

Subscribe to Work Life Get stories about tech and teams in your inbox Subscribe. Over the last few years, we’ve witnessed and been a part of the SaaS transformation that has changed the way teams work and how we communicate and collaborate with each other. Atlassian announced that we’ll be simplifying our server and Data Center offerings to focus on delivering a world-class cloud experience and support for our Server products will end in February 2024.

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Gainsight

MARCH 9, 2022

In the world of Customer Success, metrics often tell the story. Whether it’s Lifetime Value (LTV), customer acquisition cost (CAC), or the champion of them all, net revenue retention (NRR), companies rely on metrics to tell them how effectively they are serving their customers, and by extension, how well their businesses are doing. And based on those metrics— and their intimate knowledge of their customers’ businesses—Customer Success Managers (CSMs) are able to craft strategies that improve the

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Product Innovation Educators

MARCH 7, 2022

Trends influencing the future of leadership – for product managers. Today we are talking about what product managers should know about the future of leadership. By the nature of the role, product managers are leaders, as they must influence others, and many product managers will be in senior leadership roles in the future. Consequently, we should be looking at what it takes to be an effective leader now and in the future.

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Traditional PM struggles with the complexities of platform ecosystems. B-MAP framework tackles this challenge. B-MAP goes beyond features, focusing on building, managing, adapting, and partnering to foster a thriving platform ecosystem.

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eG Innovations

MARCH 11, 2022

Why Java Garbage Collection is So Important. For many, the world of Java is shrouded in mystery and endeavor. One such endeavor is garbage collection. There is many a viewpoint on garbage collection – whether it is good or bad, when is it needed, how often should it run, how to tune garbage collection operation, how to know when it is not operating as expected, and so on.

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ProductBoard

MARCH 8, 2022

March 8 marks International Women’s Day. It’s an opportunity to celebrate women’s achievements and increase their visibility in social, economic, political, cultural, and of course, professional spheres. The theme for 2022, #BreakTheBias, is especially meaningful for those of us in the product world. When building products, every decision we make has the potential to impact hundreds, thousands.

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Gainsight

MARCH 7, 2022

Over the past few years, we’ve been keeping our eye on an incredibly positive trend in the most successful companies: closer, more collaborative relationships between Customer Success and Product teams. . At Gainsight, we believe it’s vital for these teams to partner— we always have, always will. And now, we’re seeing more and more companies recognize that neither team can drive success by themselves.

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