Product Innovation Educators

FEBRUARY 3, 2025

How product managers use Jobs-To-Be-Done to create products customers love Watch on YouTube TLDR In this episode, I explain the Jobs-To-Be-Done (JTBD) framework, a powerful approach to understanding customer needs and developing successful products.

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The Product Guy

AUGUST 1, 2019

What do you do when your team is working their socks off and yet they are getting little credit for the work being done, mainly because the team isn’t able to set concrete expectations with the stakeholder? This obviously reflected as a failure to deliver on part of the engineering team. THE CHALLENGE. THE CAUSE.

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The Product Guy

OCTOBER 9, 2018

I became a product manager because I wanted to take a more strategic role at my company. First, I did not know how to frame, develop and present product strategy in a systematic way, and second, as a startup, my company has not historically had a good track record of strategy being developed outside of senior management (read: founder).

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Product Talk

MARCH 13, 2024

When an organization shifts from delivery or feature teams to product teams , the first step is often a change to team structure. Delivery and feature teams are often structured by function—front-end teams, back-end teams, mobile teams, etc. These teams can rarely deliver value on their own.

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The Product Guy

AUGUST 13, 2020

When I first researched about product management, I asked seasoned product managers how they started and they gave me very different kinds of answers. A lot of them worked in other positions before moving to product management, like engineers, analysts, marketers and project managers, and learned by taking on extra responsibilities.

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Product Innovation Educators

MAY 31, 2021

How to align your organization and product management team with the voice of your customer. In this discussion we address what it means to properly incorporate UX (user experience) into your product work. Mark has 20+ years experience implementing human-centered design to solve difficult problems.

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Alchemer Mobile

JULY 13, 2021

What is product experience? Product experience refers to the customer journey that takes place within the product itself, from a person’s first login to their last time using the application. It is a broader, more end-to-end view of user experience, which refers to specific interactions a person has within a product.

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Roman Pichler

JUNE 7, 2021

Be Clear on When to Involve the Stakeholders and Development Teams. Complex and high-impact decisions, however, are best made together with the stakeholders and development teams. Additionally, include the development team members in product backlog decisions , and always choose sprint goals together.

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Product Innovation Educators

MARCH 3, 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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The Product Guy

FEBRUARY 27, 2020

At JCDecaux, I led the development of an information kiosk for airport passengers. Passengers are also able to view hotel information and use the devices to speak to the sales team of the hotel. The kiosks help thousands of customers by providing valuable information and generate a significant portion of the revenue for the company.

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Userpilot

OCTOBER 20, 2024

This is every product manager’s nightmare – an onboarding failure that cripples customer retention. What is customer onboarding? Customer onboarding is the process of welcoming new customers to your product or service and helping them utilize the product and maximize the value of their purchase.

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Roman Pichler

JUNE 1, 2020

The first one carries the risk of being a feature broker and offering a product that has a weak value proposition, gives rise to a poor user experience, and consists of a loose collection of features. A handy stakeholder analysis tool is the power-interest grid developed by Ackermann and Eden. Build Trust.

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Roman Pichler

MAY 11, 2021

But the value a product creates is ultimately determined by its users: No product will be successful in the long run if it does not solve a specific user problem, create a tangible benefit, or help the users achieve a specific goal. Myth #2: The product owner is a tactical role focused on managing the product backlog.

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Roman Pichler

NOVEMBER 1, 2022

This can be reassuring for customers and stakeholders. This makes the roadmap harder to understand, and it increases the effort to keep it up to date. It will also limit your ability to experiment and learn, to run sprints and discover the best way to address the user and customer needs and create value for the business.

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Userpilot

OCTOBER 19, 2024

According to the American Customer Satisfaction Index , with an ACSI score of 78.0, overall customer satisfaction in America was the highest it has ever been in Q1 2024. However, while some companies have managed to improve their customer satisfaction levels and benefit from it, many have not.

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Roman Pichler

OCTOBER 5, 2021

A few years ago, I was asked to help a healthcare company with their agile transition and its impact on product management. One of the challenges the agile transition team was concerned about was the choice of the right product backlog tool, which at first seemed odd to me. The Product Backlog is Too Big.

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The Product Guy

JUNE 18, 2020

Ruthless prioritization translates to product teams spending time building the right thing at the right time. This discipline is the bread & butter for a winning product team, but building an effective product process takes a lot of trial and error. Our objective is to understand customer needs and adjusting. .

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The Product Guy

APRIL 9, 2019

The notion of a strategy in product management seems like something that only high-level stakeholders at the executive level should care about. After all, many product managers tend to treat a strategy as something that’s scared and driven top-down from the executive management level. Journey Into the World of Strategy.

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Intercom, Inc.

OCTOBER 13, 2020

We are at the start of a revolution in customer communication, powered by machine learning and artificial intelligence. Our Custom Bots and Resolution Bot already work for thousands of businesses every day. These bots help businesses deliver both radical efficiencies and better, faster support experiences.

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Userpilot

DECEMBER 18, 2024

Without effective UX analytics that goes beyond collecting data, you’re losing valuable customers. Unfortunately, the research backs this up, with a staggering 90% of users reporting that they stopped using an app due to poor performance. Basically, anything that ruins the user experience.

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The Product Guy

JANUARY 7, 2025

Product managers live and breathe this approach, diving beyond symptoms to address root causes. A Story to Start During my time consulting with a Fortune 500 financial services company, I encountered a significant challenge they faced with the rollout of a digital platform aimed at streamlining client account management.

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Product Innovation Educators

OCTOBER 16, 2023

How product managers can promote human-centered design I wonder if you can relate to this frustration—the pressure to get products and product updates released quickly sometimes means making compromises on design quality. It’s an organizational issue—moving quickly to beat competitors and keep up with changing customer preferences.

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Product Innovation Educators

JUNE 27, 2022

Lessons learned from a product manager’s experiences at Google and YouTube. Most of us have become product managers and then moved on (or will move on) to product leadership based on our experiences and knowledge. I want to explore experiences that help you be a better product professional.

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The Product Guy

JULY 18, 2019

Product development roles and “product” as a discipline are rapidly evolving within technology companies. Product Management at scale has also evolved but at a slower pace. At startups or growth stage companies, a “Product Manager” is responsible for identifying what needs to be built and then executing on building the product.

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Roman Pichler

JANUARY 11, 2022

These help you direct your learning efforts, track progress, and measure how much you have learnt. I’ve chosen quarters in the sample roadmap above, but you can use shorter time frames, of course, if you can meet your learning goals more quickly. This can help you tie individual learning goals to team and department goals.

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Roman Pichler

SEPTEMBER 7, 2021

This can be reassuring for customers and stakeholders, as the individuals believe that they know when their features will be delivered. This makes the product roadmap more susceptible to change and it increases the effort to update it. In addition to goals, the template above contains dates or time frames, names, features, and metrics.

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The Product Guy

JANUARY 8, 2019

The day we reached 200 daily users was a critical milestone – more a psychological one for me personally than anything else. Local businesses paid us to be on our website, and people told us that it saved them time. We refined the message and added features important for our partners and users. A story of one failure.

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Userpilot

NOVEMBER 7, 2024

Let’s review everything your customer success team has to do in the absence of any customer success tools. Collect customer data to calculate complex formulas for tracking metrics, monitor customer health scores, and resolve support tickets while continuously trying to improve retention and expansion.

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Roman Pichler

JUNE 7, 2022

Consequently, you don’t know for sure how fast you are running and if you are on track to achieve your target finish time. While common sense suggests that managing a product without the right measurements is not a sensible approach, I’ve seen product teams who did not use any KPIs. 2 Wrong Product KPIs.

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The Product Guy

APRIL 9, 2020

Have you ever had to talk a difficult customer down from the ledge? What about stepping up to lead a team while a coworker is out on leave or joining a new team and having to earn their trust in less than a month? . Using existing behavioral and habit formation research, I developed and employed a simple and effective framework.

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Product Talk

DECEMBER 18, 2024

We covered how to manage messy opportunity solution trees , the most common challenges teams face when getting started with the discovery habits, what Im working on next, and so much more. Discovery is a team sport. Its not the exclusive domain of product managers. Its not the exclusive domain of UXers.

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Roman Pichler

JANUARY 22, 2024

These might be end-user-facing or internal ones like a software platform, for instance; they might directly generate revenue or support commercial offerings. You can think of Microsoft Visio as a product line, as it is offered in three versions at the time of writing—basic, standard, and advanced.

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Roman Pichler

FEBRUARY 19, 2024

Listen to the audio version of this article: [link] Introduction To discuss empowerment in product management, I find it helpful to distinguish three main levels of decision-making authority, product delivery, product discovery, and product strategy, as the model in Figure 1 shows. [1] I certainly don’t intend to make anyone feel bad.

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Userpilot

DECEMBER 31, 2024

You get something that truly works for you, and we get to connect with people who value what we offer and have the potential to become power users (and sources of sustainable revenue!). Trying to bring in as many users as possible, only to see most of them lose interest before their free trial is even over. The alternative?

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The Product Guy

AUGUST 30, 2019

Finding the right product management job can be tough, as product management is a multi-faceted discipline that doesn’t lend itself well to classification. Some organizations lean toward execution, with a focus on product artifacts like PRDs, user stories, and roadmaps. Others focus on UX, emphasizing wireframes and user flows.

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