Product Management University

JUNE 12, 2024

Customer Advisory Boards (CABs) are still the best bang for the buck when it comes to “customer discovery,” not to be confused with user or product discovery! Over the years, I’ve had the privilege of facilitating numerous customer advisory boards for my clients. More on that later.

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Intercom, Inc.

MARCH 18, 2021

In previous episodes, we’ve talked about how customer feedback and cross-team collaboration play a crucial role in the features and updates we build here at Intercom. Or rather, two – conversation topics and custom reports. I mentioned at the start our company values: obsessesing over our customer success.

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Roman Pichler

JULY 7, 2020

A feature team is a development team that implements end-user functionality end-to-end. Figure 1 depicts a simple software architecture that consists of three layers: user interface, business logic, and data. A feature team might then develop the capability that allows users to see their eating trend, for instance.

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Product Talk

FEBRUARY 8, 2023

We’re zooming in on one aspect of discovery: automating the recruiting process for customer interviews. You may want to speak with existing customers or users. You might want to speak with former or prospective customers. Mohamed’s team runs continuous discovery with different customer segments.

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Product Talk

APRIL 8, 2020

For this post, we spoke with a product team from Simply Business about some of the major lessons they’ve learned since adopting continuous discovery habits like interviewing their customers, questioning their assumptions , and using the opportunity solution tree to guide their work. What does the company do and who are your main customers?

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Intercom, Inc.

APRIL 9, 2020

It’s the perfect storm that produces a swell of people who need to get in touch with customer support. In the midst of such a surge, it’s essential to get customers’ issues resolved quickly. Assisting both customers and support staff by offering predictive suggestions. But others might need more direct answers.

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Product Talk

APRIL 3, 2024

Customer interviews are one of the most impactful activities a product team can do. Customer interviews are one of the most impactful activities a product team can do. Tweet This An early customer interviewing mistake is to spend your interview time exploring your solution ideas. . But only if we use the right methods.

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Alchemer Mobile

NOVEMBER 1, 2024

It goes without saying that today’s consumers spend an incredible amount of time on their smartphones. Consider these statistics : Smartphone users access an average of 30 mobile apps in a month, at an average rate of 10 every day. Across every industry, apps are clearly an essential channel for customer engagement.

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Alchemer Mobile

NOVEMBER 8, 2022

includes powerful new out-of-the-box features to make it easier for brands to collect customer feedback within their mobile experiences and take action on the voice of the customer. Closing the customer feedback loop. provides a scalable way for brands to close their feedback loop. Apptentive SDK 6.0

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Userpilot

MAY 13, 2024

Customer feedback surveys serve as invaluable tools for gathering actionable insights directly from your audience. However, it’s important to know when and how to trigger the forms to gather user feedback , for increased response rate and data credibility. Customer Effort Score (CES). Customer experience.

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Intercom, Inc.

FEBRUARY 6, 2020

The shift from serving just consumers to serving consumers and companies is a massive one. “The shift from serving just consumers to serving consumers and companies is a massive one” For Udemy, investing in a B2B arm seemed too obvious, and too good, an opportunity to ignore.

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Roman Pichler

SEPTEMBER 11, 2023

I view it as an entity that creates tangible value for users and possibly customers as well as the business. Once you’ve identified and selected a specific product, you can take the next step and determine the people who are required to create or progress it and generate the desired user and business benefits.

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Intercom, Inc.

NOVEMBER 2, 2020

Divergent mental models: Designers may naturally tend towards thinking in terms of layouts or user flows, Engineers in terms of code architecture, PMs in terms of value delivered. Just like when you’re presenting mockups for feedback, it’s not enough to just present your work on screen and expect instant alignment.

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Piyanka Jain

SEPTEMBER 18, 2020

Recently, one of my clients, the CIO of a $3B consumer technology company, shared with me that their company had created at least 1000 dashboards in last year or so, based on specific requests by internal stakeholders?—?and Or, in case of analysis, maybe you gave a horrible presentation?—?not and less than 5% of them are used.

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Intercom, Inc.

AUGUST 18, 2021

There’s a good reason that the seemingly simple Net Promoter Score (NPS) has become a ubiquitous, revered statistic in modern business – this single number is viewed as a measure of customer loyalty, a way to benchmark competitive performance, and has been proven to correlate with revenue growth (hence the popularity).

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Product Talk

SEPTEMBER 7, 2022

A lot of product teams claim to be focused on their users. They might even have regular steps in their processes that remind them to put their users’ needs first. It’s more about looking for new ways to collect insights from users, uncover underlying assumptions, and explore the opportunity space.

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Product Talk

AUGUST 4, 2021

I know many authors who use their blog as a way to test content. So I put the book on hold and started devising a plan to test my content. This gave me a great feedback loop to measure the efficacy of my content. Some teams got stuck because they couldn’t find customers to interview. I knew I needed more feedback.

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Product Talk

JANUARY 31, 2024

Describing the early phase of her discovery journey, Leann says, “Thinking back to where we started, it was in two areas—doing more interviews with our users and focusing on opportunities instead of solutions.” We started continuous discovery in two areas—doing more interviews with our users and focusing on opportunities instead of solutions.

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Intercom, Inc.

AUGUST 25, 2020

Along the way, we’ll explore how conversational UX – cooperative exchanges of inputs and outputs – closes gaps between products and users. One of Grice’s key insights is what he called the cooperative principle. Ask yourself, “How do I bridge users’ existing mental models and the product itself?”. Deservedly so.

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The Product Coalition

MAY 8, 2023

Let’s talk about how CS teams drive value in logging customer feedback, product roadmapping, and closing the loop. Your Customer Success team is critical to an effective feedback management process. Building a customer feedback management system? Contact with churned customers. Retention = profits.

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Alchemer Mobile

APRIL 14, 2021

While the world around us shifted in response to the pandemic, consumers turned to media apps as an outlet to stay informed, connect with loved ones, decompress, and even have some laughs. Below are short summaries of the six subcategories included in our research, with engagement benchmarks for companies to aim for in 2021.

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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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Roman Pichler

OCTOBER 6, 2020

This increases the chances of creating a product that users actually want and need and achieving product success. Carrying out product discovery involves answering the following questions: What is the specific value the product should create for the users and customers? Who are the users and who are the customers?

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Roman Pichler

APRIL 5, 2022

For example, a product strategy workshop might have the objective to identify the key changes required to achieve product-market fit. Contrast this with a sprint review meeting , which might help you determine if users can easily sign up for the product. Discuss development progress and user feedback on the latest product increments.

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Roman Pichler

NOVEMBER 2, 2021

A development team does a good job if the following three conditions are fulfilled: First, the group reliably meets the agreed sprint goals and delivers product increments that offer a great user experience and exhibit the desired software quality. To discuss how you might help a struggling team, let’s use an example. Thank you for that.

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The Product Coalition

JANUARY 26, 2024

Twenty five mini-research ideas for finding something meaningful to work on. In the perfect world, product managers have all the time, resources, and skills to do impeccable, in-depth market and user research. So let’s talk about mini-research. Think of research as digging for gold.

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Folding Burritos

FEBRUARY 13, 2018

Our goals and work are defined elsewhere, at different times, and there are good tools for that (like face-to face discussions, presentations, and roadmapping, product design and collaboration tools). We have to regularly reach stakeholders where they are , and make it extremely easy for them (not us) to consume the information.

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Product Talk

FEBRUARY 28, 2024

The idea was that her trio would test out the concepts from Continuous Discovery Habits and then guide the broader product organization at Going to adopt the habits. I really just love focusing on keeping the customer at the forefront of building great, impactful solutions,” says Kelsey.

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The Product Coalition

SEPTEMBER 24, 2024

Here’s how you can apply the ‘User Outcome Connection’ and get results. In some instances, these innovations feel like game-changers, set to transform the experience for users across the board. The real difference lies in whether these features address genuine user needs. Let’s talk about how to use AI where it matters most.

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Product Innovation Educators

DECEMBER 2, 2024

A custom ChatGPT model that helps accelerate product innovation Watch on YouTube TLDR In this episode, I interview Mike Hyzy, Senior Principal Consultant at Daugherty Business Solutions. Instead of focusing solely on today’s customer problems, product teams need to look 2-5 years into the future.

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Intercom, Inc.

JANUARY 14, 2021

With a background in computer science and an MBA, he soon realized that understanding the markets and customers is as important as building the products. And so, in 2014, he founded Productboard , a product management system that incorporates customer feedback and insights to help product teams build better products.

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Userpilot

JUNE 29, 2024

Wondering how to create a user journey map for your SaaS product? Read on to learn about: Importance of user journey maps for product teams. Different user journey map types. User journey stages. User journey mapping process. Service-blueprint maps cover both user interactions and internal processes.

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Product Talk

JANUARY 3, 2024

Through the course, Mike developed his listening skills, created better relationships with members of the sales team, and began to use the insights he gathered to improve the product offering, make a positive impact on company revenue, and earn several promotions along the way. I had to do a lot of selling on that,” says Mike.

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Lenny Rachitsky

SEPTEMBER 3, 2024

If you’re building a consumer subscription app, this post is your new bible. Over the past year, Phil Carter has been developing a framework for growing consumer subscription businesses, called the Subscription Value Loop. A massive thank-you to Phil for doing the work to put a piece like this together.

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