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. Each feedback loop has a minimum of four stages. It’s cyclical.

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Product Talk

JUNE 19, 2024

I’m disappointed to see the rise of generative AI tools that are designed to replace discovery with real humans. 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. Don’t get me wrong.

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Intercom, Inc.

FEBRUARY 8, 2018

More than 50 years ago graphic designers realized that having shared underlying rules when creating a bunch of related objects, a design system, was a smart idea. I hosted Rune on the podcast to walk through how systems thinking got to this point, the ways our design tools must evolve as a result and much more.

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Roman Pichler

MAY 11, 2021

” But do not allow people to dominate and tell you what to do, and don’t agree to a weak compromise. The SAFe product owner is tactical in nature and focuses on working on the product backlog and guiding the development teams. Myth #3: The product owner is responsible for the team performance.

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Roman Pichler

DECEMBER 4, 2018

But the quality of your product matters: It directly impacts your ability to achieve strategic product goals and make your products successful: Technical debt makes it hard to experiment with new ideas, release new features, and quickly respond to user feedback. [1]. Furthermore, consider the life cycle stage of your product.

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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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Intercom, Inc.

APRIL 19, 2018

Yet competition and the exponential rate of change in software are pushing against that mission. Enter our philosophy of Run Less Software. It means reducing choices amongst engineering teams and standardizing technology, so our team can spend as much time as possible delivering value to customers.

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Userpilot

AUGUST 26, 2024

Product data capture is essential for SaaS companies looking to understand user behavior, optimize user experiences, and drive product growth. From choosing the right data capture methods to navigating complex tools, SaaS companies must balance the need for detailed insights with the reality of technical constraints.

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Userpilot

JULY 29, 2024

Looking for the best customer success management software to power up your product growth strategy, but you are overwhelmed with so many options in the market? TL;DR Customer success software refers to tools that help manage customer experiences and drive customers toward their desired outcomes. We’ve got you covered!

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Roman Pichler

FEBRUARY 2, 2021

The latter would work with one or more development teams to get the specification implemented. During the development phase, the product manager would be only loosely involved, typically attending a project steering meeting and possibly issuing change requests.

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Userpilot

DECEMBER 6, 2021

Is your customer success platform up to scratch for 2022? SaaS is evolving and users today expect more value, more quickly, with less effort than ever before. If your customer engagement levels are not where they need to be, maybe it’s time to look at the customer success software you’re using again?

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Intercom, Inc.

JANUARY 20, 2022

We surveyed and interviewed key people in our teams to understand how they worked and how they saw Intercom’s internal operations. And sure enough, the feedback was that things were starting to slow down. When people detect a bottleneck in the system, the operational cadence of the company starts slowing down. We learned a lot.

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Userpilot

JANUARY 9, 2024

In the market for product design tools to support your workflows and help your team work better? A quick Google search will show you heaps of tools, and you may even experience decision fatigue trying to choose the best. In this article, we distilled it to just 15 tools, showing each product’s strengths and weaknesses.

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The Secret PM Handbook

MAY 12, 2017

Product managers tell me – and the people managing product managers tell me – that one of their biggest challenges is communicating with the development team. People complain about: Developers being poorly motivated, or having a bad attitude about what you want them to build. ” and “What?” and “What?”

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UX Studio: Product Management

SEPTEMBER 25, 2017

After our team at UX Studio started using product management tools, the time spent on communication surprisingly decreased. Coordinating designer and developer teams simultaneously while reporting to the boss via email becomes a drag. Collaboration tools. Mobile app version available. Intuitive interface.

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Product Talk

MARCH 1, 2023

I realize that many product people have never worked in a product trio , don’t have access to customers, aren’t given time to test their ideas, and are working in what Marty Cagan calls “features teams” or “delivery teams.” If you missed the first one on product success and team satisfaction , be sure to start there.

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Amplitude

JANUARY 23, 2018

As VP of Product at Amplitude, I get the opportunity to work with hundreds of different products teams every year?—?ranging So in the mode of Ben Horowitz’s classic essay Good PM/Bad PM , I’ve captured my thoughts on what I believe makes a good product team vs a bad product team. PM, Design and Engineering?—?are

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Userpilot

APRIL 7, 2023

What are the different types of B2B customer insights for SaaS businesses? When your product is catering to other businesses, it can be difficult for sales reps and other teams to understand the needs and experiences of the clients, especially if the client company sells multiple products. What are B2B customer insights?

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The Product Guy

OCTOBER 9, 2018

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). What systems/metrics/processes do we need to measure and track winning?

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Intercom, Inc.

MARCH 15, 2018

They’re the ones making sure your app is secure, that uptime looks good, and that the rest of your engineering org has the right tools to build features your users need and want. Will Larson has managed infrastructure teams for some of the biggest names in software. That was just a transformational experience.

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The Secret PM Handbook

MAY 12, 2017

Product managers tell me – and the people managing product managers tell me – that one of their biggest challenges is communicating with the development team. People complain about: Developers being poorly motivated, or having a bad attitude about what you want them to build. ” and “What?” and “What?”

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Userpilot

FEBRUARY 22, 2024

Great SaaS customer support is the key to keeping your customers happy and satisfied with your product. We take a deep dive into the strategies of successful SaaS businesses and the tools that power your strategy. We take a deep dive into the strategies of successful SaaS businesses and the tools that power your strategy.

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Userpilot

OCTOBER 1, 2022

Software adoption is crucial to the success of SaaS companies because it secures users to be long-term customers. A SaaS business model relies on recurring revenue from retained users, so if adoption fails, the whole business model fails as well. In SaaS, the median user growth is 4%, while the median activation rate is 17%.

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Sachin Rekhi

AUGUST 6, 2015

The customer development and lean startup methodologies evangelized by Steve Blank and Eric Ries brought us a better approach that favored experimentation over elaborate planning, customer feedback over intuition, and iterative design over traditional “big design up front” development. Target Audience. Problem You're Solving.

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Intercom, Inc.

SEPTEMBER 9, 2022

In the past five years, we’ve seen neural network technology really take off into its own. Building ML products requires balance – it’s pointless to start with the problem if the solution is unattainable, but you shouldn’t start with the tech if it can’t meet real customer needs. AI has been quite overhyped in the past.

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Userpilot

OCTOBER 6, 2022

How comprehensive is your SaaS company’s approach to customer communication? According to research conducted by PWC, one in three consumers would walk away from a brand they love after just one bad customer service experience. Provide meaningful interactions through UI feedback mechanisms like tooltips.

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Userpilot

JULY 27, 2023

Confused about trying to understand SaaS roles? SaaS companies have many moving parts, and it can be difficult to determine who does what. TL;DR SaaS, or “Software as a Service,” is a business model that delivers centrally hosted software to subscribers over the internet. What is a SaaS business model?

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Mind the Product

FEBRUARY 12, 2020

It’s also essential to creating a team where great people want to work. In a perfect product development world, communications are seamless, specifications are clear, and product and engineering teams work together without friction. These are team goals that get shared across the company. Share Leadership and Credit.

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Userpilot

AUGUST 28, 2022

Wondering what the Technology Adoption Curve is? The technology adoption curve shows the distribution of users depending on how quickly and easily they embrace technological innovation. The technology adoption curve shows the distribution of users depending on how quickly and easily they embrace technological innovation.

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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. And that’s not a bad thing. It’s allowing each team to really find what’s going to work best for them.

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Userpilot

JANUARY 17, 2024

Scaling SaaS is not for the faint of heart. This guide explores 15 practical strategies you can adopt when scaling your SaaS business. TL;DR Scaling SaaS refers to the capacity of a business to grow without compromising performance and quality. Provide the necessary training for your sales teams.

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UX Studio: Product Management

JANUARY 11, 2021

At UX Studio , while we develop our products, uxfol.io and copyfol.io , we are mainly focused on agency work, meaning that we cooperate with several clients as external teams. This post was written from the perspective of designers, mainly intended for external teams and entrepreneurs. Five challenges and solutions.

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Userpilot

APRIL 25, 2022

A friction log is a document capturing the challenges and frustrations a customer might face using your SaaS. Function friction is primarily about users being blocked from reaching their product goals because of an error, poor UX, or other factors. Not all friction is bad. Friction logs can be created by the whole team.

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UX Planet

SEPTEMBER 10, 2024

The effectiveness of a design system cannot be assumed; it must be actively measured and optimized over time. A robust design system should not only streamline design and development processes but also ensure scalability as the organization grows, adapts to new platforms, and handles diverse product requirements.

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Roman Pichler

JUNE 4, 2019

Even if your product is not affected by any deadline, it may be helpful to consider dates or timeframes when developing a product roadmap, as this allows you to understand if the plan is realistic. A handy tool for this job is the Iron Triangle shown below. Dates on a product roadmap are neither good nor bad in my mind.

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Userpilot

MARCH 23, 2023

What are the reasons for customer churn in SaaS? And how can customer success teams address them to ensure product growth? As a SaaS company, your ultimate goal is to retain customers and keep them happy with your product. 3: Poor customer service or experience with the sales teams can make customers churn.

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Mind the Product

OCTOBER 29, 2018

Defining your process for feedback will save time and improve feedback quality. Consider Your Approach to Feedback. At every level of our careers, we are faced with unsolicited, opinionated and sometimes outlandish product feedback from our internal teams. Dismissive of Feedback. Do you start with a “No”?

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