The Product Guy

OCTOBER 1, 2018

All of this while guiding the development team, maintaining constant communication with stakeholders and potential customers, and optimizing for the product’s ultimate impact on its users. Feature Definition. A great way to develop the set of features is though a User Story Map. What change will it bring to the world?

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The Product Guy

JUNE 25, 2018

This article highlights a few ways to increase clarity and provide better role definition between a manager and a direct report as it pertains to daily situations involving escalations, blockers, and air cover. Definitions : First let’s go through some quick definitions to make sure we’re speaking the same language.

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Melissa Perri

JULY 23, 2024

I review strategies and roadmaps. At the end of this review, I do a Product Leadership workshop with C-Suite and Product leaders, where I show them what good looks like, and they have a chance to reflect on where they are. Other Times, it's due to a lack of skill set in product leaders. Lots of data goes into pinpointing.

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UX Planet

MARCH 9, 2025

No matter how good your original product is, you will likely decide to redesign it at some point in time. It recommended to focus on two important points: Purpose: Clearly state the purpose of the redesignwhy the business should invest time and money in it and what it will help the business achieve. UX audit checklist prepared by Maze.

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Lenny Rachitsky

JANUARY 14, 2025

Laura and her team spend every working hour researching, designing, and experimenting with ways to measure and improve team velocity (while avoiding burnout). Her background is in developer tools and distributed systems. Engineering leaders might zero in on development speed metrics like deployment frequency or application build times.

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Product Talk

JUNE 19, 2024

But when we use generative AI to replace customer interviews , to generate opportunity solution trees , or to do our thinking for us, we fundamentally misunderstand the purpose of discovery. Tweet This So I want to take some time to review why we do discovery. Tweet This So I want to take some time to review why we do discovery.

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UX Planet

DECEMBER 6, 2024

If there is one thing thats altering the way we create user experience (UX) designs and conduct research in 2024, it is definitely artificial intelligence (AI). Its time to find out how you can improve UX without compromising the humanelement. No one can denythat. If so, read on!

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Product Talk

DECEMBER 7, 2022

Customer interviewing is one of the most valuable activities a product team can do. It’s simply the easiest, most sustainable way of learning about your customers and what they need. This knowledge gives teams a competitive advantage that compounds over time. What doesn’t count as a customer interview? Tweet This.

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UX Planet

JANUARY 22, 2025

Problem Brief Over a span of 4 weeks, we tested Civians platform and created design solutions to improve the overall user experience of the dashboard. Drafting an interview protocol While drafting our script, we created a scenario for users where in they had to perform and answer a mix of tasks and questions.

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Product Innovation Educators

JUNE 5, 2023

Peter is an experienced speaker, educator, and consultant with over 40 years of experience leading teams and organizations to deliver value through projects. Peter’s latest book is Gen P: New Generation of Product Owners who Care about Customers. One project I worked on was the installation of telephone billing systems.

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Intercom, Inc.

MAY 22, 2019

If you wanted to know your customers’ gripes and praises in the past, you had to assemble a series of questions anticipating their possible answer. It’s all part of a customer-centric philosophy that emphasizes empathy and self-awareness over a staid corporate vision. Short on time? But there’s a better way now.

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Intercom, Inc.

DECEMBER 9, 2022

And this is why we decided to bring you a special episode about these latest developments in the world of AI, what they mean, and whether it’s time to apply it in real-life scenarios such as customer support. OpenAI released their most recent machine learning system, AI system, and they released it very publicly, and it was ChatGPT.

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Userpilot

JULY 10, 2024

Alongside usability testing, user experience interface guidelines allow you to build more intuitive and user-friendly solutions. In this blog, we explain eleven user experience and interaction design guidelines supported by real-life examples to improve product engagement. System status visibility.

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Intercom, Inc.

JANUARY 5, 2023

Delayed orders, faulty services, missing information, you name it – every time a customer reaches out, it tells you something about the friction they’ve experienced. Customer service teams are all too often drowning in angry, repetitive tickets, and yet, we don’t seem to focus enough resources on tackling the reasons behind it.

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Alchemer Mobile

JULY 16, 2021

While customer acquisition, ratings and reviews, and social proof are the most externally visible success indicators for your brand, customer retention is an integral part of the health of your organization. Customer retention definition. The importance of customer retention. Let’s dive into it.

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UX Planet

NOVEMBER 4, 2024

Introduction If you’re responsible in some way for a digital product or system, you should be doing usability testing — whatever your sector, industry or role. It doesn't matter whether we’re talking about a website, mobile app, AI assistant, AR/VR or other wearable technology; you need to test with users. But what is usability?

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The Product Coalition

APRIL 24, 2023

A customer feedback repository is the place you keep all your feedback data. What is a customer feedback repository? A feedback repository is a central location where product teams can collect and organize customer feedback. Gathering customer feedback is crucial for creating successful products.

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Mind the Product

AUGUST 19, 2019

I’d like to share five lessons from my experience that can help you start your own journey. From my experience, the problems that ML can help to solve usually fall into one of these buckets below: Could we make the user experience more tailored and personalised? Could we make the user experience safer?

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Folding Burritos

DECEMBER 7, 2017

As Product Managers, we perfectly understand the need to generate and use customer feedback. This led me to reach out to 14 leading Product Managers and talk with them about how they use customer feedback in their own companies and teams. Feedback is only relevant vs. a goal and user context. Understand where it’s coming from.

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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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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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Userpilot

MARCH 30, 2025

According to a 2024 analysis , on average, over 95% of users who download a new mobile Android app abandon it within the first 30 days. A successful mobile app must consistently transform fleeting interactions into lasting customer relationships. To properly define it, ask yourself: What key actions do you want users to take regularly?

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Sachin Rekhi

JANUARY 26, 2020

Great key results are specific, time-bound, measurable, and verifiable. Key result examples: Increase weekly active users by 20% Achieve 20M activated users Launch the new feature by 7/31 Conduct 50 customer interviews. How do you expect this feature will impact users? Measure Outcomes, Not Output.

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Agile Velocity

AUGUST 15, 2022

In a previous post in our Scrum Assessment Series , we shared some ideas to help catalyze engaging sprint reviews. Here, we take a deeper dive into the topic of awesome Sprint Reviews. The Sprint Review, just like the Retrospective , is an important feedback loop in a Scrum team’s toolbox. Why is the Review so important?

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Alchemer Mobile

APRIL 14, 2020

How do you manage executive expectations, customer expectations, and technical resources? I run the Customer Success team at Apptentive, and I’m gonna be here today just as a moderator for this panel. I guarantee my dog will bark at least once during this because she barks all the time. Christy: All right.

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The Product Guy

MAY 21, 2018

The learning experience in the past few months with my mentor Andy Wadhwa has been profound. At the time, our product team was in a process of envisioning our ideal product. At the time, our product team was in a process of envisioning our ideal product. We receive feature requests all the time. We were stuck.

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Agile Velocity

AUGUST 19, 2020

STATIK (Systems Thinking Approach To Implementing Kanban 1 2 ) can be a great technique to help teams get up and running quickly, even teams that are using Scrum. . As a long time practitioner and coach of Scrum, I’ve observed many teams struggle getting started with the framework. How does work flow through the team/system? .

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Intercom, Inc.

JULY 16, 2022

A customer data platform is software that pulls in multiple data streams into one consistent database that helps to organize and manage customer data. . What is the purpose of a customer data platform? To understand the purpose of a customer data platform, it helps to look at some third-party definitions. .

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The Product Coalition

FEBRUARY 20, 2023

A lot of startups think they have PMF and try to enter the growth phase prematurely — usually due in part due to VC pressure to grow or simply not having a way to measure and validate how strong your PMF is — which can be disastrous. On top of that, no one seems to have a quantitative definition for how to measure it.

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Usersnap

APRIL 12, 2019

Google’s tech alone didn’t build them into a top company, User Research matters too! Such insight, and their acquisition of such continues broadening, then helps informs competitive user engagement strategies. User loyalty is the natural result. Definitely not! How To Attract User Research Prospects.

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Userpilot

JANUARY 28, 2022

As a SaaS owner or product marketer, you definitely know that success is highly dependent on good customer experience optimization. After all, customer success is directly tied to customer lifetime value and feature adoption which makes it even more important to keep the customer’s experience positive.

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Userpilot

JULY 22, 2024

Gather data through focus groups, surveys , interviews, and experiments to build accurate, data-driven user personas. Key elements include definition, target audience, key benefit, category, competitive advantage, and differentiation. It attracted a diverse user base and achieved significant market penetration.

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Intercom, Inc.

FEBRUARY 18, 2019

If you have followed us over at Sherlock , you will likely have heard us say many times that product engagement is the lifeblood of any SaaS business. This is because the entire SaaS business model is dependent on people using (and getting value from) your product consistently over time. Active vs engaged users.

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Mind the Product

NOVEMBER 21, 2019

A value proposition helps us to focus on users and to check that our product solves a real problem. It’s often up to product leaders to help an organisation stay connected with reality, so an honest, user-centred value proposition must remain the bedrock of our product strategy when we become product leaders. Value Proposition.

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The Product Coalition

FEBRUARY 1, 2021

Most of us have been through the results of poor management of bugs: hair-on-fire, last-minute late nights to madly scrambling to critical fix bugs blocking a release, or stopping a customer from using a product. Countless startups attribute early success in taking feedback from customers, fixing it fast and releasing.

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Alchemer Mobile

NOVEMBER 25, 2019

How do you know what your customers need and want? In this webinar, Robi Ganguly, CEO and Co-Founder, Apptentive and Ben Johnson, VP Mobile Strategy, Rightpoint will cover the essentials to have in place both pre- and post-launch in order to provide the best customer experience possible.

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Mind the Product

DECEMBER 5, 2019

How do you decide what to prioritize or whether to believe what customers and prospects are telling you about your product? At the heart of your prioritization skills should lie value and effort. Take this experiment[1], where college students completed questionnaires about their mood and other data points every day for five weeks.

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