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Strategic Product Bugs

The Product Coalition

Your product will always have bugs, and you will always need to chase and fix the important ones. But sometimes, the really important bugs are not showing in the product itself. These are bugs in your product strategy, and if not fixed, it will be very difficult for your product to succeed. Here are a few popular strategic bugs and how you can fix them.

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3 tactics to drive results with your product roadmaps

ProductBoard

The tactics you need to create effective product roadmaps that drive results Getting a roadmap right is invaluable to any organization – it provides transparency into which areas will contribute to business goals and are worth focusing on, it saves time by allowing for asynchronous communication (making prioritization easier), and it gives a clear statement of intent and path forward for everyone.

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The Top 3 OKR Templates for Product Operations

Dragonboat

OKRs Defined One of the most popular goal-setting frameworks used by product teams is objectives and key results (OKRs). OKRs help you track progress, create alignment, and encourage engagement around measurable results. It is a collaborative methodology that allows teams to set meaningful, audacious goals. In this blog post, we will cover the common challenges […].

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Context Switching: How to Manage It

The Product Coalition

Context switching, the ability to intellectually move between different types of tasks, becomes more and more necessary as you take on more and more responsibility. In my personal journey I’ve shifted from engineer to leading teams to being a CEO. I’ve gone from being able to spend all week focused on one task to having to cover the huge variety of contexts that come with growing a $10m+ revenue business, multiple important client relationships and projects, a number of ventures and different te

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Less Stress, More Success: Accounting Best Practices & Processes for 2025

Speaker: Amanda Adams, Fractional CFO, CPA

Are you ready to elevate your accounting processes for 2025? 🚀 Join us for an exclusive webinar led by Amanda Adams, a seasoned fractional CFO and CPA passionate about transforming back-office operations for finance teams. This session will cover critical best practices and process improvements tailored specifically for accounting professionals.

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Too Many Churned Users? How to Minimize Churn in SaaS

Userpilot

Churn is the enemy of product growth. A churned user means lost future revenue and a waste of the resources it took to acquire them. How do you lower your churn rate and make sure all your users stick around? In this article, we’ll show you: What customer churn is and why it matters. How to calculate churn rate so you know where you stand. Common reasons why your churn rate may be too high. 6 strategies to improve your churn rate and retain more of your customer base.

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9 Challenges of Product Development in a Downturn

Centercode

Your next product launch may be keeping you up at night. With fewer resources, budget cuts, and lack of personnel, it’s going to be much more challenging to release quality products and avoid costly delays.

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What Makes a Memorable Product Demo and Why is it Important?

Product Management University

Product demos are one of the most critical components of strong product marketing and sales for SaaS organizations. A great product demo creates an urgency to buy, while a bad product demo sends prospects running. Software product demos can also be incredibly valuable for startups who don’t have the luxury of a formalized product marketing function or dedicated sales engineers. .

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How to break into product management

Mind the Product

In this extensive guide for aspiring product managers, Naimeesha Murthy, Product Leader and Founder of Products by Women covers everything from the common types of product specializations, skills and competencies needed to become and succeed as a product manager and communities and opportunities to tap into to begin your journey. [.] Read more » The post How to break into product management appeared first on Mind the Product.

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Dear product stakeholder, please show me some love

Mind the Product

In this adapted excerpt from his recent book Sweet Stakeholder Love: Powerful Insights and Tactics to Deal with Stakeholder Issues Better and Achieve More Success at Work Sigi Osagie discusses stakeholder management. [.] Read more » The post Dear product stakeholder, please show me some love appeared first on Mind the Product.

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B2B eCommerce, Self-Service Portals, and PIM Trends for 2024

In 2024, B2B customers expect better quality and service with streamlined experiences that match consumer-grade simplicity—no long calls or meetings required. Our B2B eCommerce Trends Report, surveying 400+ B2B professionals in the US and Europe, reveals how eCommerce has become vital to top companies’ strategies. The report shows how leaders are leveraging eCommerce to break data silos, unify channels, and deliver the personalized experiences that customers demand.

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How to Build and Design a Successful App

Alchemer Mobile

Building a successful app can mean big business. But, it also requires a proper plan to reach your target market and stand out against millions of apps already successfully positioned in the market. There could be many apps available in the market that resemble your app, so it is critical to differentiate your app from your competitors. . You likely already know the challenges your up against, so let’s get right to it and talk about how to face these challenges head on!

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Reaccelerate: Finding new engines of growth in your business

Intercom, Inc.

At this year’s Web Summit conference in Lisbon, I gave a talk on how businesses should think about weathering these tough economic conditions, and indeed how they can actually find growth during them. You can check out the slides here, or read on for an illustrated transcript of my talk. Hi, I’m Des from Intercom. I hope you enjoy Web Summit and when it’s over I hope you return to offices, bedrooms or boardrooms with some good takeaways, new contacts, and also a little bit refreshed and re

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User Personas, Buyer Personas, and the Missing Link in B2B

Product Management University

If you’re in product marketing or product management, you’re likely familiar with the concept of user personas and buyer personas. These terms might even be used interchangeably in your organization to describe a product’s customers. However, user personas and buyer personas are distinctly different. Both represent different needs of the same organization.

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Challenges of product in enterprise organisations – Daniel Elizalde on The Product Experience

Mind the Product

Product innovation can get more challenging with the multiple layers of management you have to deal with in larger organisations. How can product managers channel their inner creative thoughts while collaborating effectively in large organisations? There was no one better to ask than Daniel Elizalde, Author of B2B Innovator’s Map, who had all of the [.

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Usage-Based Monetization Musts: A Roadmap for Sustainable Revenue Growth

Speaker: David Warren and Kevin O’Neill Stoll

Transitioning to a usage-based business model offers powerful growth opportunities but comes with unique challenges. How do you validate strategies, reduce risks, and ensure alignment with customer value? Join us for a deep dive into designing effective pilots that test the waters and drive success in usage-based revenue. Discover how to develop a pilot that captures real customer feedback, aligns internal teams with usage metrics, and rethinks sales incentives to prioritize lasting customer eng

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Motives To Be Met: An Introduction

The Product Coalition

Let’s explore and discover how we can take the Jobs To Be Done framework to the next level and beyond. In the world of startups, there’s a truism that 9 out of 10 companies fail. Why does this happen? The most likely answer is that not enough people bought or used the product. It seems so simple! But many, many products are developed without knowing from the start that people want the solution, or even care about the problem.

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Intercom’s Product Principles: building solutions that fit the bill

Intercom, Inc.

At Intercom, we value principles over processes. As we’ve scaled, we’ve distilled and fine-tuned the foundations that shape what we build and how we build it. Principles tell us where we should focus, how we make decisions and move forward as a team, and help us consistently build great products at scale. And that’s exactly why, earlier this year, we started a series dedicated to exploring the reasoning behind each one.

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Investing in Internal Documentation: A Brick-by-Brick Guide for Startups

First Round Review

David Nunez, an early hire at Stripe and Uber, shares his step-by-step playbook for establishing good internal documentation habits at your startup. He unpacks his tested tactics for creating a culture of documentation, setting the quality bar and keeping things organized.

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Creating a successful product strategy

Mind the Product

Effective product strategies are important for the success of any business selling products and knowing what one looks like is important. In this article, Shane Barker looks at what a product strategy is and lists 9 product strategies for setting your strategic vision for product offerings. [.] Read more » The post Creating a successful product strategy appeared first on Mind the Product.

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Prepare Now: 2025s Must-Know Trends For Product And Data Leaders

Speaker: Jay Allardyce, Deepak Vittal, and Terrence Sheflin

As we look ahead to 2025, business intelligence and data analytics are set to play pivotal roles in shaping success. Organizations are already starting to face a host of transformative trends as the year comes to a close, including the integration of AI in data analytics, an increased emphasis on real-time data insights, and the growing importance of user experience in BI solutions.

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How To Handle High Pressure in Product Management: A Practical Guide

The Product Coalition

I’ve had some dark days as a Product Manager. Here are a few tricks I’ve learned to help with the toughest days. Simplify You can’t pull a rabbit out of your hat, work miracles and have the perfect information available out of nowhere. All you can ever do is make the best decision in light of available information. If you need new information, work out what you can and can’t reasonably acquire.

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Built for you: Increased customizability, workspace security upgrades, custom objects in the Inbox, and more

Intercom, Inc.

This month, we’ve been working on email, security, and tooltips – and that’s just the beginning. Welcome to the November edition of Built for You. It’s that time of year again! As we approach the holiday season, your support team will no doubt be looking for ways to become more efficient, more effective, and less strapped for time – all while maximizing customer satisfaction. .

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Three Keys for Successful Agile Coaching: Level, Empathy, and Experience

Johanna Rothman

On the ANE panel last night, an agile coach asked, “What's my path forward as an agile coach? What do I do next?” That's a great question and one each coach might ask, to make sure they continue to add value to the client. (Internal or external, all coaches have clients.). I said that if the coach wanted to move up the hierarchy in the organization, the coach needed some form of management experience.

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Product, dance, and pockets of brilliance by Pippa Topp

Mind the Product

In her keynote session at #mtpcon London 2022, Pippa Topp, Interim Head of Product at Charlotte Tilbury, talks about product and creating pockets of brilliance. Watch this video or read on for key highlights from the talk. Pippa started her career as a project manager and never wanted to be a product manager. She had [.] Read more » The post Product, dance, and pockets of brilliance by Pippa Topp appeared first on Mind the Product.

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The 25 Types of Innovation Dominating R&D Today

Innovation varies widely across sectors and organizations, creating value in diverse forms. Understanding different types is crucial for R&D teams to foster creativity and uncover missed opportunities. This guide explores 25 key types of innovation in management frameworks.

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Riskiest Assumption Test (RAT): Why It’s a Better Framing Than Minimum Viable Product (MVP)

The Product Coalition

Image Credit: Girl with red hat on Unsplash In the product management universe, the idea of MVP has been popularized and socialized a great deal. The intent behind this has always been noble. However, organizations often fall into the trap of using MVP as an excuse to keep building minimum products & features. Customers don’t spend $$ on minimum products & experiences.

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412: Five keys to unlock your confidence – with Dr. Joan Rosenberg

Product Innovation Educators

How product managers can build authentic confidence. Today we are talking about how to unleash confidence. As product professionals, we need authentic confidence. Joining us is Dr. Joan Rosenberg, a cutting-edge psychologist known for her work in communication, confidence, resilience, authenticity, and grief. She is frequently sought by media and companies to speak and train on these topics.

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Close-Ended Questions – How to Get Quality Insights for Your Customer Feedback

Usersnap

Learning about your customers’ needs is sometimes like being a 1-person paddle boat upstream. Particularly when you don’t have the right tools or questions, it’s a lot of effort just to understand them, much less to execute on what you can learn. When you need to get a large amount of data quickly and easily, one of the best approaches to gather customer feedback data is using closed-ended questions.

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SUNDAY REWIND: Inspiring teams with product vision

Mind the Product

This week’s Sunday Rewind is an inspiring ProductTank San Francisco talk from Keela Robison, then CEO at PM Loop and now VP of Product Management at Google. She talks about what vision is, why it matters and how to find it. Vision comprises your values, purpose and envisioned future, says Keela. Your best employees – [.] Read more » The post SUNDAY REWIND: Inspiring teams with product vision appeared first on Mind the Product.

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Launching LLM-Based Products: From Concept to Cash in 90 Days

Speaker: Christophe Louvion, Chief Product & Technology Officer of NRC Health and Tony Karrer, CTO at Aggregage

Christophe Louvion, Chief Product & Technology Officer of NRC Health, is here to take us through how he guided his company's recent experience of getting from concept to launch and sales of products within 90 days. In this exclusive webinar, Christophe will cover key aspects of his journey, including: LLM Development & Quick Wins 🤖 Understand how LLMs differ from traditional software, identifying opportunities for rapid development and deployment.

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Demand Generation: Learning About What It Is, and What It’s Not!

The Product Coalition

After reading 40 articles about demand generation, I’m here to say that you would be surprised at what these articles have in common. There was surprisingly little distinction between demand generation and lead generation. At times, it felt like what was needed was a true back to basics positioning, where we are educated in not only the definition of demand generation, but what the point of demand generation even IS.

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3 Key Takeaways from the Webinar: Creating Strategic Alignment Through the Standardization of Your Product Roadmap

ProductPlan

Without a central location to organize product updates, product leaders waste time updating multiple spreadsheets and slide decks to keep their teams and stakeholders aligned. However, what can product leaders do to overcome the challenge? The key is the standardization of the product roadmap. In this webinar, Customer Support Team Lead at ProductPlan, Zach Garfinkel, sits with Inmar Intelligence’s Senior Product Manager, Stacy Hutchins, to discuss how ProductPlan roadmaps make it easy to create

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How to Monetize Data Analytics Offering? 

Reveal

Reveal Embedded Analytics. Integrating an embedded analytics solution into your software comes with tremendous opportunities to expand your business and drive new revenue streams. Thanks to the plethora of benefits that embedded analytics can bring to your businesses, you can easily monetize your data analytics offering by providing certain analytics features and functionalities as an add-on to drive even more revenue opportunities. .