Userpilot

APRIL 9, 2020

The one or two short questions you ask in your welcome screen. The NPS survey. The small feedback window. The exit (or churn) survey. What do all of them have in common? They are the so-called microsurveys – and more and more SaaS companies are using them to collect valuable data – often right in their products. Why? Today, you can’t build your products ‘off plan’ – you need to tailor and constantly adapt them to the needs of your users.

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Mind the Product

APRIL 8, 2020

As COVID-19 continues to impact life, work and everything in between, we’re asking the product management community – how have you and your work been affected so far? What challenges are you facing and what action have you already taken to cope during the crisis? We’d like to better understand your professional experiences and learnings throughout the pandemic so that, with your permission, we can share them with the rest of the product community.

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BrainMates

APRIL 8, 2020

“You’re not responsible for your first thought; but you are for your second thought and the first action you take.”. InDebted’s Head of Product Disha Manikumar probably didn’t expect her talk to be running to a virtual audience…but we are Product Managers and if there’s one thing we do well, it’s pivot! Disha gave us a masterclass on the different types of bias and why unconscious bias in particular can severely affect your performance as a Product Manager AND the quality of the Products y

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Product Management University

APRIL 9, 2020

The COVID-19 pandemic has thrown your customer priorities into a tailspin. For some organizations, their biggest vulnerabilities have been exposed at the most inopportune time ( Zoom Meeting ). For others, their strengths have been amplified ( MyPillow ). In either case, the top-down priorities of your target customers are completely different than they were before COVID-19.

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ProductCraft

APRIL 9, 2020

I start every morning with a list. When I was younger, the list was simple. Go to school, do homework, ride my bike with friends, learn a new house skill (I started doing laundry when I was eight because I thought it looked fun). Every bullet on my list was meant for self-improvement, though I. Read more » The post Beyond New Features: Three Ways to Care for Your Product appeared first on ProductCraft by Pendo.

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The Product Coalition

APRIL 9, 2020

A Product Manager’s guide to surviving in a COVID-19 world Continue reading on ProductCoalition.com ».

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Mind the Product

APRIL 6, 2020

Eighteen months ago travel tech company Almundo started to refine its processes to become a product-driven company. Our goal was to define how we would set and communicate the company strategy, and how that strategy would lead OKRs and backlog definition. This is what we did. Note: This post was written before the Covid19 lockdown. We are currently rethinking the process to be 100% remote-friendly.

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Product Talk

APRIL 8, 2020

Welcome to the latest installment of Product in Practice! 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. Want to check out the other posts in this series?

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Alchemer Mobile

APRIL 9, 2020

Mobile apps in the Food and Drink category have experienced radical change these last few weeks. The COVID-19 pandemic has more and more people using app-based food delivery services, and QSRs are seeing an influx of mobile payments at their drive-throughs with the closure of dine-in establishments. For example, according to data compiled by Foursquare, QSR foot traffic increased 11 percent from mid-February to mid-March in the United States. ?

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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

User Testing

Intercom, Inc.

APRIL 9, 2020

Around the world, with offices closed and people staying at home, most of life is happening online now. That means brick-and-mortar shops are learning on the fly to take their businesses digital, and folks at home are pushing their utilities and SaaS products to the brink. It’s the perfect storm that produces a swell of people who need to get in touch with customer support.

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Sachin Rekhi

APRIL 5, 2020

Ada and I both had the privilege of working at two data-driven companies, LinkedIn and SurveyMonkey , led by two analytically rigorous leaders, Jeff Weiner , and the late Dave Goldberg. Those experiences shaped the way that we both now think about building an effective data-driven product culture. One practice that both companies established was weekly executive-level metrics reviews.

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The Product Guy

APRIL 9, 2020

Guest Post by: Niveditha Jayasekar (Mentee, Session 11, The Product Mentor) [Paired with Mentor, Patrick Hoffman]. Have you ever had to talk a difficult customer down from the ledge? Or work with a difficult person, period? 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?

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Mind the Product

APRIL 7, 2020

Throughout their careers, whatever question either Lily or Randy has had, Roman Pichler’s probably had some great advice on the topic! A longtime consultant, author and teacher, we grabbed him for a chat focusing on some of the lessons contained in his fourth book, How to Lead in Product Management. Quote of the Episode. A successful outcome for a negotiation is finding a solution that is mutually agreeable and sustainable and addresses the needs of the two parties.

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Intercom, Inc.

APRIL 8, 2020

This is a time of great uncertainty, with everyone suddenly having to adjust to social distancing restrictions and widespread industry upheaval. Our customers are relying on Intercom more than ever, and often in a host of new and unforeseen ways. Therefore, it’s incumbent on us to make sure Intercom is stable and robust at this time, and that we keep shipping new features. “How do you try to maintain “business as usual” at a time when everything is seriously unusual?

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First Round Review

APRIL 9, 2020

We've tapped First Round partners, recession-era founders and our community of CEOs to put together the most comprehensive guide available about what it takes to lead a startup during this economic crisis. From extending your runway and reducing burn to supporting your team, this guide tackles the tough questions startup leaders are asking right now.

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The Product Guy

APRIL 7, 2020

Excerpts from our conversation with 2019’s TPMAS winner of The Best Visionary Product, Garrett Lang. Watch now and see why they are counted amongst the ranks of the best in product management. More to Come. Thank you to everyone who participated, nominated, interviewed, AND passed on the word! The nomination period for The Product Management Awards 2020 has begun!

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Mind the Product

APRIL 10, 2020

In this talk from #MTP Engage Manchester consultant Itamar Gilad takes us through his GIST (goals, ideas, steps, tasks) framework. Itamar has over 20 years of product management experience working with industry leaders such as Google and Microsoft. He’s now a consultant, speaker and writer. Three Types of Launch. Part of the role of a product manager is to discover and help build products that have a high market impact.

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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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Intercom, Inc.

APRIL 6, 2020

To help essential workers providing COVID-19 relief, UK peer-to-peer car sharing service Hiyacar has made its service free to National Health Service (NHS) workers and other key individuals. Founded in 2016, Hiyacar’s goal has always been to connect drivers with trusted local car owners. Drivers can rent affordable cars nearby and car owners can earn an extra income by hiring their idle cars out to vetted and verified drivers.

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UserInterviews

APRIL 7, 2020

What changes when you switch from in-person to remote research, the tools you can use to do your best work, and creative ideas for remote studies.

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ProductPlan

APRIL 9, 2020

We are excited to welcome guest writer Carlos González de Villaumbrosia to the ProductPlan blog. Carlos González de Villaumbrosia has over 10 years of experience building teams and digital products in the US, Europe, and Latin America. Carlos founded Product School in San Francisco in 2014. Today, the company is the global leader in product management training with 20 campuses worldwide and a live online campus.

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Mind the Product

APRIL 9, 2020

Co-organiser, Renato Silva reveals who works hard behind the scenes to bring ProductTank Bangkok (aka PTBKK!) to life, and how their meetups have been helping the community since they began in 2017. What is it that motivates you to run ProductTank meetups? Put simply – getting the Bangkok product community together. Most product teams around the city don’t connect to one another and feel very inspired whenever they see other people working in the same field, going through the same ki

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Intercom, Inc.

APRIL 7, 2020

As the coronavirus outbreak upends lives and businesses everywhere, support teams are increasingly the first place that customers turn to for guidance. Our new research reveals the impact it’s had on these teams. Whether it’s checking on shipment status, processing refunds, or fielding requests for payment relief, support reps are facing mounting pressure.

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nulab

APRIL 8, 2020

Automatic computer updates are annoying, especially when you’re in a rush — but imagine that on a company-wide scale. It’d be a complete disaster: when the system’s down, people can’t work. Developers need to be able to update and maintain their company’s systems without bringing the whole organization to a standstill. And, as containers become ever-more popular, dev teams need more efficient ways to manage their systems.

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ProductPlan

APRIL 6, 2020

Remote product management strategies are no longer a “niche” topic. The importance of working effectively from afar has become paramount for many organizations. But the challenge of filling such a cross-functional role remotely is particularly tricky. So much of product management is about the relationships we form with our coworkers and customers, as well as effectively communicating complex subjects and building consensus.

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Mind the Product

APRIL 7, 2020

The ultimate goal of any product team is to design products that are desirable, viable, and feasible. To achieve this, and drive rapid validation and iteration cycles, teams need to constantly refine their understanding of three key questions. These are: Who is my customer? What is their problem? What is the best, lightest solution I can build for them?

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Speaker: Paul Heller

Most innovation work proceeds independently from company strategy. As a result, the products that arrive in the market are not well aligned with the company’s goals. This challenge is particularly significant in organizations with transformation-oriented strategies, where innovation must directly support growth, scalability, and strategic pivots. In this session, we will discuss why innovation in large companies is so often not aligned with the company’s strategy and what innovation leaders, pro

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Intercom, Inc.

APRIL 6, 2020

Over the coming weeks, I, along with others on the team, will be selecting and sharing articles from the Inside Intercom archives that have proven helpful to our customers and visitors in the past. With so many of us looking for positive outlets for our increased time at home at the moment, we hope these articles can be helpful again. They may even prove a small distraction from what can seem like universally bad news right now.

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Userzoom

APRIL 6, 2020

Stephen Apap , Lead UX Researcher at Betsson Group, has been with the online gambling company for over 5 years now, delivering actionable insights and recommendations based on the voice and behavior of the consumer. Stephen has managed various user testing and creative projects across Betsson’s various sites and markets from set-up through to the reporting phase.

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ProductPlan

APRIL 10, 2020

“Am I working on the right things?”. “How can I fit it all in?”. I find myself asking these questions almost daily, both in my personal and professional life. How can I spend my time working on the things that matter most? Even with the world in upheaval and our shift to distributed work, these questions are still top of my mind. With my trips, events, and other plans postponed for now, there are so many other things that can potentially fill up my time in this time of uncertainty.

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