Product Management Unpacked

NOVEMBER 2, 2021

CMU Master of Science in Product Management program student Erick Valencia landed a PM experience of a lifetime as part of a student team developing a driverless race car system to race in the Indy Autonomous Challenge. This race has been, indeed, a very technical and special project,” he says.

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Product Innovation Educators

SEPTEMBER 9, 2024

The Business Model Canvas: A Tool for Product Innovation The Business Model Canvas is a valuable tool for product managers involved in innovation.

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Lenny Rachitsky

FEBRUARY 25, 2025

For more: Lennybot | Podcast | Courses | Hiring | Swag Subscribe now Annual subscribers get a free year of Perplexity Pro, Notion, Superhuman, Linear, and Granola , along with access to the entire 5-year back catalog and a thriving members-only Slack community. product marketing, user research, content design, etc.).

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Product Talk

JANUARY 24, 2024

These touchpoints will allow you to collect stories that help you identify opportunities and build out your opportunity solution tree. For this Tools of the Trade , I spoke with several members of the CDH community to learn how they have approached recruiting customers or users in the very early stages of a product or company.

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Product Talk

OCTOBER 20, 2021

And this is why it can be helpful to consider the tools that will best support you in building your continuous discovery practice. Let’s be clear: The tools alone won’t automatically make you better at discovery. Like many aspects of continuous discovery, there’s no single right way to build your tech stack. Tweet This.

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Intercom, Inc.

JULY 25, 2022

New research from Harvard Business Review Analytic Services reveals that businesses of all sizes – from small businesses to enterprises – are realizing the business value of personal, efficient customer engagement. Businesses lack the connected tools needed to provide personal, in-context communications.

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UX Planet

MARCH 9, 2025

What parts of the system design will be addressed? This is especially valuable for large systems that contain many different parts. This can include user research and discovery, heuristic evaluation, and results of usability testing. is another common question asked by stakeholders when they review the proposal.

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Lenny Rachitsky

JANUARY 14, 2025

For more: Lennybot | Podcast | Hire your next product leader | My favorite Maven courses | Swag Subscribe now I talk a lot on my podcast and in this newsletter about the correlation between successful companies and an obsession with velocity. Her background is in developer tools and distributed systems.

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Intercom, Inc.

JUNE 1, 2021

Over the course of the past year, the customer support landscape has changed for good. According to recent research, however, many teams aren’t sufficiently equipped to meet these new challenges. The solution: Optimize your resources with the Conversational Support Funnel.

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Intercom, Inc.

AUGUST 21, 2019

Some 84% of people trust online reviews as much as a personal recommendations, reason enough why every business should be concerned with who reviews their product and what they have to say about it. What do we mean by the term “review sites”? Not all review sites are made equal. Peer review sites.

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Intercom, Inc.

APRIL 22, 2021

For those who don’t know him, Will has over 10 years of experience in the likes of Yahoo, Digg, Uber, and Stripe, and he’s currently the CTO of Calm , the mindfulness app that helps millions of people to lower their stress levels and sleep better. Or does this whole tech career thing support the writing? What is a staff engineer?

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Userpilot

MARCH 5, 2025

That’s where customer engagement software comes in. The right platform will equip you with the tools to interact effectively, gather valuable feedback, and build lasting customer relationships. Integrations with other tools: Does it integrate with CRM, marketing automation, and other essential business applications?

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Lenny Rachitsky

NOVEMBER 12, 2024

For more: Hire your next product leader | Favorite Maven courses | Lennybot | Podcast | Swag Subscribe now I believe the future of product management looks like Tal Raviv. He’s an individual contributor (IC) PM who leverages AI tools and a suite of productivity systems to get more done with fewer resources (and management layers).

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Arkenea

FEBRUARY 23, 2025

Want to get your app development project off the ground? Arkenea is a trusted, app development firm with 13+ years of experience. This is a problem I see not just with tech entrepreneurs but also on a regular basis with product managers at the B2B companies we work with at SiriusDecisions. We, at Bond.ai We, at Bond.ai

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Product Innovation Educators

MARCH 4, 2025

How AI captures customer needs that human product managers miss Watch on YouTube TLDR In my recent conversation with Carmel Dibner from Applied Marketing Science, we explored how artificial intelligence is transforming Voice of the Customer (VOC) research for product teams.

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Userpilot

AUGUST 18, 2024

SaaS tools are the industry's biggest open secret. Wondering what type of tools you should have in your stack? Then read on to discover the top 20 cloud-based apps that will help streamline different parts of your business. TL;DR SaaS tools are applications that users can access through an internet connection.

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Roman Pichler

APRIL 13, 2021

This, of course, assumes that you have a validated product strategy and a realistic product roadmap in place. I am not a big fan of “standard” KPIs, for example, customer acquisition cost (CAC), churn, and number of active users for SaaS products. Finally, choose further indicators to assess the health of your product and team.

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The Product Coalition

NOVEMBER 2, 2022

Is it worth developing an Instagram-like app? Read this article to learn how to build an Instagram-like app in five steps. Instagram is a unique photo-sharing platform that has no comparable clone app in terms of popularity. The main thing is to implement unique features in your software product. How do you do it?

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Product Management University

APRIL 25, 2023

Here we are in the early part of 2023 and so many of my talented friends, former colleagues and customers have fallen victim to the mass layoffs in high tech. For example, if you’re looking for a product marketing role, your H1 headline might be something like “ Making Technical Products Easier to Market, Sell & Buy.”

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The Product Coalition

APRIL 25, 2022

No product tool or template can save you if you’re not killing it in these three areas. That’s why we’ve listed 12 tools that the best product managers use to do their jobs better? and not the best product management tools. Product managers (PMs) are ninjas of aligning people, management, and processes.

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Product Talk

OCTOBER 18, 2023

What tools should you use to test your assumptions? When we hear about an unmet customer need, pain point, or desire, we often jump to our first solution. We intuitively know not to only look at one apartment or house or interview at only one company, but in the workplace we’re often tempted to jump to our first solution.

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Mind the Product

MARCH 29, 2020

Since #mtpcon Singapore 2019 Mind the Product has been on a mission to support the continuing growth of the AsiaPac tech community. Super apps like Gojek and Grab combine multiple services such as food delivery and ride-hailing (Photo: Shutterstock). Cultural Differences and Conflict Avoidance. You need to respect the culture.

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Userpilot

JULY 12, 2021

Data is the engine for SaaS, but without data analytics tools , your SaaS team will not be able to make sense of the data. The right set of SaaS analytics tools can help you generate actionable insights that fuel strategic decisions. But how do you ensure you’re picking the right tools?

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The Product Coalition

JULY 1, 2021

Tech Spikes are a useful activity for your product development team to perform when you need to explore how you are going to solve a challenging problem. This practical guide to Tech Spikes covers why you would do a tech spike, what they are, when to use them and how to run one. This work on the actual solution?—?usually

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Product Talk

AUGUST 10, 2016

We would jump from reviewing interview guides one week to discussing experiment results the next. Over time, I started to reframe the two dimensions as discovering opportunities and discovering solutions. Good product discovery requires discovering opportunities as well as discovering solutions. – Tweet This.

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Intercom, Inc.

APRIL 7, 2020

Our new research reveals the impact it’s had on these teams. ” To find out, we surveyed 400 support managers, directors, and executives across both B2B and B2C and affected industries like media, healthcare, and technology. We also spoke directly to support leaders to understand how they’ve responded to the effects of COVID-19.

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Alchemer Mobile

DECEMBER 7, 2022

“Should we buy this software or should we build it?” Juggling your company’s immediate needs with long-term goals is always tricky, but when it comes to purchasing a tool to make your team’s lives easier, managers tasked with the decision to build or buy often struggle in what seems to be a comparison of apples to oranges.

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Alchemer Mobile

DECEMBER 7, 2022

“Should we buy this software or should we build it?” Juggling your company’s immediate needs with long-term goals is always tricky, but when it comes to purchasing a tool to make your team’s lives easier, managers tasked with the decision to build or buy often struggle in what seems to be a comparison of apples to oranges.

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The Product Coalition

OCTOBER 16, 2024

We had debated the options — building a new app in parallel, refactoring it piece by piece, abstracting all the features into a configuration layer, and many more. We were now reviewing the features to be sunset, and the teams to work on them. Of course, my suggestion is to delete, delete, delete. But it had to be done.

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The Product Coalition

OCTOBER 19, 2020

Of course, the lesson here is: innovate or die. This is a well known mantra among tech CEOs, especially Facebook’s Mark Zuckerberg. To help illustrate the process, let’s say we’re an established B2B software company that makes vehicle inventory and sales products for the US automotive industry. congratulations!

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Intercom, Inc.

MAY 22, 2019

Deepa Subramanian (a graduate of Harvard Law School and a veteran of Salesforce) set out to improve businesses’ understanding of the customer voice by co-founding Wootric , a platform that offers a range of feedback collection and analysis tools to help teams gain deeper, more relevant insights into their users’ desires and complaints.

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The Product Coalition

JANUARY 17, 2021

Later it helps the business, or the individual identifies potential threats to their system. Before starting the task, the ethical hacker must inform software developers or hardware manufacturers. This is to understand whether there are any security vulnerabilities present in their software or hardware.

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Userpilot

JULY 20, 2021

The best SaaS teams in the world are using one simple and proven process as a guiding light : customer research. Before we start, I should probably mention that for the last 3 years I have focused on customer research. I also worked with numerous tech startups and even built and run companies myself. online reviews.

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Mind the Product

APRIL 21, 2020

Follow Teresa on Twitter and LinkedIn , keep up to date with her at ProductTalk and her courses. Lily has spent 13 years in the tech industry working mainly with startups in the SaaS and mobile space. Follow Teresa on Twitter and LinkedIn , keep up to date with her at ProductTalk and her courses. Remote Working.

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Intercom, Inc.

APRIL 24, 2019

Preparing for interview questions in software engineering is almost a full-time job. If you are a graduate software engineer and getting ready for your first job interviews, here are the different areas you should focus on. This involves both understanding the product space and being somewhat familiar with the technology stack.

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Alchemer Mobile

APRIL 14, 2020

How deep does your understanding of the technology go as a PM? And how much do you try to be, like, a subject matter expert from a technological standpoint compared to your engineering team? How do you manage executive expectations, customer expectations, and technical resources? So that’s me. Christy : Awesome.

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Userpilot

SEPTEMBER 5, 2022

Wondering how to ask for customer reviews effectively and get them to respond immediately? Customer reviews play an integral role in any SaaS company’s marketing and customer service efforts. These reviews can directly influence consumer sentiments , attract new customers, and help your product grow. Let’s dive in!

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