The Product Coalition

OCTOBER 19, 2020

This is a well known mantra among tech CEOs, especially Facebook’s Mark Zuckerberg. Alternative futures analysis is a structured analytic technique that helps teams predict how the future might unfold. With this knowledge in hand, teams can more effectively identify and exploit opportunities and adopt risk strategies.

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Usersnap

MARCH 19, 2019

Do you consider customer feedback? Should the Voice of Customer influence product development? In Frost & Sullivan’s survey research on R&D/innovation and product development priorities, 84% of the respondents declare that they employ the voice of customers (VoC) in their product development cycle.

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The Product Coalition

JUNE 17, 2019

“The digital transformation of any enterprise is a herculean task requiring a willingness to embrace cultural change, the ability to immerse the entire organization in the customer journey, and a total commitment to digitize to the core”?—? Bank customers’ requests are rapidly changing. We identify opportunities. We execute.

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Product Talk

MARCH 2, 2016

I love that Marty Cagan and Jeff Patton have long been advocates of dual-track development. If you aren’t familiar with dual-track development, it’s the separation of product discovery from product delivery. Continuous integration reduces the risk of large code conflicts that used to take days or sometimes weeks of testing to resolve.

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The Product Coalition

MARCH 6, 2019

Bringing team members together, organizing user research, product demos, road mapping and more. Your software needs to be updated frequently and to the satisfaction levels of the app store gatekeepers. In a recent product management insights report , as many as 57% of PMs said they don’t spend enough or any time road mapping.

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Gainsight

MARCH 19, 2020

And that’s driven thousands of customer success professionals who were used to seeing their clients and teams every day to learn the ins and outs of “virtual” CS. Thanks to many, including Marco Innocenti and the team at Zoom, as well as Jay Nathan. But here we are. We hosted a webinar with Slack on this topic. Turn On Video.

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Iteratively Blog

MARCH 15, 2020

You can expect to catch insights on topics like scaling processing pipelines, deploying databases, maintaining your data lake, and establishing proper governance practices. ? It’s recorded bi-weekly where they feature in-depth analysis and a top-notch interview that highlights the people applying these technologies in real-life scenarios. ?

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Bain Public

APRIL 25, 2022

We had some insightful discussions and they confided in me the challenges the local startups and ecosystem were experiencing regarding their roadmap development. "I Soko was a great technology and had a number of applications. Claude, Daniel and I began to ideate on ways that we could collaborate by leveraging Daniel’s software.

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UX Studio: Product Management

JULY 5, 2021

As an expert and an opinion leader in the UX field, we’ve reviewed the competency, portfolio, and former projects of New York design agencies to define the best user experience design agencies in New York , based on our judgment. . As a client, you invest your time, energy, and limited resources into your digital product development.

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The Product Coalition

MAY 18, 2016

My supervisors in different teams (I was in a management trainee rotational program) gave me two big projects. One project was about pre-IPO funding for which I had to do a lot of financial modeling, due diligence, and third party negotiation. Product manager is the title of a role in technology companies.

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Intercom, Inc.

OCTOBER 27, 2022

Whether it’s customer onboarding or just gathering information for an event, we’re often trapped in endless follow-ups and back-and-forth emails until we finally get the assets and can move on with other, more meaningful tasks. While in the early 2010s, the SaaS startup scene in France was not as developed as in the U.S.,

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Gainsight

AUGUST 31, 2020

It is a stationary bike system built with a large screen at the front, enabling users to live stream or follow on-demand workouts at home. I liked being that interface between what the company was building and what the customer needs.” So I went from running product to running product and development.”

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Bryce York

NOVEMBER 27, 2016

” Without clear growth goals, your team can’t stay in sync or work at their best. The biggest cost of an out of sync team – wasted effort. Imagine you ask someone on your team to build an email campaign to promote a new feature. Goal : Improve new user activation. A Case Study from LogMeIn.

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Mironov Consulting

FEBRUARY 9, 2023

” GTM leaders typically ascribe this situation to lack of attention, poor work ethic, or weak understanding of customers on the part of product management – i.e. personal failures best addressed by replacing or upgrading product staff.  Or  Or by hiring outside experts to teach them prioritization.

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Intercom, Inc.

DECEMBER 9, 2022

In a recent episode, our Director of Machine Learning, Fergal Reid , shed some light on the latest breakthroughs in neural network technology. Our technology interfaces are gradually becoming more conversational, and we’re just starting to see the quality of natural language understanding get good enough to unlock them.

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Gainsight

SEPTEMBER 6, 2022

This is especially evident in the Software-as-a-Service industry, where layoffs, hiring freezes and a slowdown in sales are creating never-before-seen headwinds. The mindset in SaaS has shifted,” says Nick Mehta, Chief Executive Officer at Gainsight, a leading customer success and product experience platform. “The

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ProductPlan

JUNE 1, 2023

But are you solving for actual customer problems? The danger, however, lies in mistaking new functionality for actually adding meaningful value to the customer experience. Where are product teams getting their feature ideas? Why do product teams become feature factories?

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Intercom, Inc.

JUNE 3, 2021

That’s the advice of the Sequoia team in their last memo, “ COVID Accelerated the Future, Now Seize It ,” and for the last couple of months, that’s certainly been on the top of our minds here at Intercom. There have been two seminal memos that have, in a sense, rocked the tech industry. I’m joined, as always, by Mr. Paul Adams.

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PMLesson's Ace the PM Interview

DECEMBER 4, 2020

If you're interested in the field of technical program management, then the answer is, without a doubt, yes. As the name of the position suggests, program sense is an integral part of a technical program manager's day-to-day. They are responsible for ensuring technical processes can be completed according to their deadlines.

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Department of Product

MARCH 28, 2022

Or how about telling the execs at Microsoft Office that their model of selling physical boxes of Office software is a one way ticket to death by Google Workspace? The types of trends that matter to product teams So if we agree that staying on top of trends matters, the question then is, what types of trends should we bother staying on top of?

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ProductPlan

JULY 10, 2020

As the Director of User Experience, our team was tightly partnered with our product management counterparts to ensure we had baked-in practices and habits that enabled all of our development teams to deliver an exceptional product experience effortlessly. And our success was evident in the feedback. Pat on back.

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Gainsight

JUNE 4, 2019

Now customer success has its own prestigious award! We wanted to save a spot on the biggest stage in customer success to honor teams that made an impact in four different categories over the last year. So we asked you, the customer success community, to nominate your peers to be recognized. The Innovation Award – Loopio.

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The Product Coalition

JUNE 24, 2021

In this article, we want to tell you about what happened behind the scenes, including the deck we presented to the Benchmark team. We hope this will give you some insights about the fundraising process, even though our case might be atypical. This is what happened again with the Benchmark team.

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eG Innovations

JULY 19, 2022

Grafana is developed by Grafana Labs with a free version of Grafana available on GitHub under a GNU AGPLv3 license. A licensed Grafana Enterprise version with additional capabilities is also available for self-hosted, on-premises installation or as managed SaaS (Software as a Service) via an account on the Grafana Labs cloud service.

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Intercom, Inc.

DECEMBER 2, 2021

From the process of disambiguation and the worst outage we ever had to our obsession with speed and how legal and engineering teams can work better together, Engineer Chats will give you a peek behind the engineering process at Intercom. When tackling a technical design for a system, make sure you always understand the data models first.

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The Product Cafe

DECEMBER 12, 2023

Have you ever wondered why, despite listening intently to your customers and diligently building the features they ask for, your product still struggles to gain traction? The Product Death Cycle emerges when we build features based on customer feedback but still see low usage. Are You Trapped in the Product Death Cycle?

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Sequent Learning

FEBRUARY 2, 2021

Product Management for Non-Software Products. JJ is also a serial entrepreneur, co-founding a healthcare technology company as well as a product development and talent management consultancy. How to manage tech debt. Kanban boards, scrum masters, story points, development velocity, and so on. . Episode 67.

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Amplitude

MAY 17, 2017

When there’s so much data to work with, it’s easy to get careless and assume that the numbers right under your nose are always telling you the truth: A new piece of code breaks your homepage , but after looking at your analytics you see that users are spending more time on it than ever —and therefore must be more engaged.

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UX Studio: Product Management

JULY 29, 2020

Hired as external consultants, researchers, and product designers, sometimes we are asked to join an existing product team and help in transforming an organization from the inside. . Understanding the team and the context they operate in is the starting point before trying to change anything. Listen first. Create alliances.

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Business of Software Conference

NOVEMBER 26, 2018

Video, Slides, Transcript and Rahul’s blog about this follow… Understanding Customers. One of the themes that emerged over the course of the conference was the importance of understanding the needs of customers and the metrics you can use to better understand and act on their real, rather than stated, needs.

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UX Studio

MARCH 4, 2019

Web designer vs web developer – as a UX designer, I counter this match daily. But truly, the phrases don’t stop here, we have visual designers, front-end developers, back-end developers, UX designers (like me), et cetera. A developer friend of mine met with a client a couple of months ago. User expectations.

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Intercom, Inc.

JULY 23, 2020

Though technology has allowed us to work remotely for quite some time, companies have debated whether it’s truly best for business. When most people think of product development, they imagine an in-person experience. But remote work is here to stay, which means that teams must now focus on building those muscles.

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Intercom, Inc.

MARCH 29, 2022

We were joined by more than 2,500 customers, partners, and others who wanted to learn more about our product, goals, and the path ahead. You’ll meet some of our customers, including Wayne Stewart from Atlassian and Brian Lederman from Coda, as they explore the ways Intercom is helping them scale their businesses.

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Product Talk

FEBRUARY 10, 2021

Teresa: For those of you that are Product Talk readers, Melissa writes our Product in Practice series where we’re sharing stories about teams doing great discovery work, so you may have seen her name there. It’s allowing each team to really find what’s going to work best for them. Let’s go ahead and dive in.

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Business of Software Conference

NOVEMBER 28, 2019

Over 30 years Stephen has seen the evolution of software and tech companies with a fascinating career spanning computers, strategy, software , universities, chairing 8 companies, Government, and most recently in AI gaining a wealth of experience and some great insights to share. Video, Slides, and Transcript below.

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