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12 Ways to Reduce Customer Churn

Mind the Product

Marketing brought you leads, your funnel converted them to customers. So why are they leaving? Over the past 5 years, I’ve worked on ways to reduce customer churn in several high profile SaaS companies. I’ve learned that this is a battle that never ends, and there are different strategies to combat it. Customer churn is the number of customers [.]. Read More.

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The Discipline of "No"

Ken Norton

How product managers can learn to gently push back -. This article is from an interview and was originally published in Mixpanel’s The Signal. “People always talk about failure in tech as if it’s a badge of honor, but it’s terrible,” says Ken Norton, seasoned product leader, partner at GV, and avid cyclist. “It’s not like I celebrate when I.

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Product Management Skills: Cross Functional Collaboration

The Product Coalition

We’ve talked about cross functional collaboration a lot on this blog, but only ever in passing. It’s such an integral part of a Product Manager’s job description, that it’s just kind of a given that everyone knows what it means and how to do it well. But it’s not just newbies who can benefit from re-examining our understanding of cross functional collaboration.

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Tackling complex design debt: a three-step framework

Intercom, Inc.

Inconsistent product functionality, wildly differing UI components, and conflicting terminology – the slow creep of design debt can have far-reaching consequences for your business if left unchecked. Here’s a simple framework for managing it. A few years ago, we wanted to improve the A/B testing functionality in some of our targeted messages. It was a trivial feature that we thought would be a cinch to build.

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

Speaker: Duke Heninger, Partner and Fractional CFO at Ampleo & Creator of CFO System

Are you ready to elevate your accounting processes for 2025? 🚀 Join us for an exclusive webinar led by Duke Heninger, 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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How to be Bad at Product Development – Josh Mahoney

Mind the Product

Josh Mahoney draws on his experiences of being inspired to solve real problems for real people, and talks to ProductTank San Francisco about the dissonance between that drive to solve problems, and the reality of so many product roles. Surely the way to create great products that solve real problems is very straightforward: Create a better way [.]. Read More.

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Traditional Managers Disguised as Agile Practitioners are Killing Your Product

The Product Coalition

New Roles. Same Mentality. Continue reading on Product Coalition ».

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Give your customers best practices, not just FAQs

Intercom, Inc.

Most companies spend huge budgets creating content to get people to sign up to their product. But once a customer signs up, it’s left to a handful of badly written FAQs to help people get the most from the product. It’s no wonder up to 60% of users who sign up for a free trial use a product once and never come back. At Intercom, we believe that providing educational and motivational help content leads to loyal and engaged customers.

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Goal Setting in Product

Mind the Product

In this exclusive Prioritised member session, our panel discussed the product manager’s role in defining goals. Our experts answered questions such as how can we align teams and stakeholders around goals and what do we do when things start to go off track? The panel, moderated by Emily Tate, Managing Director at Mind the Product [.]. Read More.

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What I See Coming For The Channel: 2021

Jay McBain

Last year ended up being a tale of two cities for the channel. On one hand, customers and governments recognized partners as an essential service and central to their ability to rapidly respond to a worsening pandemic early in the year. With catlike reflexes, the IT channel emptied the laptop supply chain and became […].

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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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Implementing DevOps with the Help of QA Testing

The Product Coalition

In the DevOps scenario, the QA team integrates into the software development and testing process to ensure the seamless development of infrastructure, process smoothly, and make sure all changes function as expected. Why is QA testing needed when implementing DevOps? The role of DevOps is inevitable for the frequent upgrade of web app and mobile applications.

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Unpacking 5 of Atlassian’s Most Unconventional Company-Building Moves

First Round Review

After a 12-year run at Atlassian, Jay Simons digs into how the company's story runs contrary to conventional startup wisdom, unpacking their product-led growth flywheel, reliance on channel partners, strategy for launching new products, and slow-burn enterprise strategy.

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The Stages of Startups – Georgie Smallwood on The Product Experience

Mind the Product

Startups are often talked about as if they’re all the same, as if experience in one is directly transferable to another. Georgie Smallwood, Chief Product Officer at Tier Mobility, joined us on the podcast to chat about the differences in working for earlier stage companies and those that are scaling up. She covers why she [.]. Read More. The post The Stages of Startups – Georgie Smallwood on The Product Experience appeared first on Mind the Product.

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How Product Can (and Can’t) Speed Up Development

Mironov Consulting

Half of the calls I get from CEOs include requests for Product Management to boost productivity in Engineering (aka Development aka Makers). To ship more stuff, faster. To hit more roadmap dates. To reduce some fictitious cost-per-feature financial goal. To get more for less. This reflects confusion about what product managers do (and how we really add value), and often poor role definition where product managers are also project/program managers or engineering leads.

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15 Modern Use Cases for Enterprise Business Intelligence

Large enterprises face unique challenges in optimizing their Business Intelligence (BI) output due to the sheer scale and complexity of their operations. Unlike smaller organizations, where basic BI features and simple dashboards might suffice, enterprises must manage vast amounts of data from diverse sources. What are the top modern BI use cases for enterprise businesses to help you get a leg up on the competition?

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Hidden Cost of “Yes, But” in Product Investment Decisions

The Product Coalition

Recently I’ve sat through multiple investment committee decisions on new products and new ventures where there was excitement from executives to proceed, but the teams were given some conditions to meet before they could get a yes. The “yes, but…” where you need to change your plan or pitch, has a hidden cost that isn’t discussed and sometimes isn’t worth it.

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Leadership Tip #1: Always Tell the Truth, Even When You’re Embarrassed

Johanna Rothman

You're a middle or senior manager in an organization trying to hold on in these crazy times. And you just discovered you're shipping the wrong version of the product. (Or your product doesn't work or it has some kind of horrible defect.) Your customers are angry. Your employees are running around, trying to fix the problem. What do you say? What do you do?

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Climbing the Career Ladder Part 2: Senior, Product Lead and Product Director Roles

Mind the Product

You’ve spent a few years learning your craft and establishing your skills as a product manager, so where do you go next? This second part in our series looks at what’s needed of the senior, product lead, and director roles of Martin Eriksson’s foundational post Product Management Job Titles and Hierarchy. If you missed it, [.]. Read More. The post Climbing the Career Ladder Part 2: Senior, Product Lead and Product Director Roles appeared first on Mind the Product.

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Lean Market Validation: 10 Ways to Rapidly Test Your Startup Idea

ProductPlan

In 2016 I gave a talk on lean market validation at the opening night of Startup Weekend at the University of California, Santa Barbara. In attendance were 200 eager students and entrepreneurs who wanted to learn how to build a startup in 54 hours. For many first-timers with great ideas, the process is exciting but also a bit intimidating. This article outlines the advice I gave students and includes updates on some of the concepts to my current thinking.

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How To Select the Right Software for Innovation Management

Finding the right innovation management software is like picking a racing bike—it's essential to consider your unique needs rather than just flashy features. This oversight can stall your innovation efforts. Download now to explore key considerations for success!

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Stop Assigning Tasks to People

The Product Coalition

Learn how to succeed as a technology leader after 2020 Continue reading on Product Coalition ».

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Feedback Loops Help When to Centralize or Decentralize Product-Based Decisions

Johanna Rothman

When I think about agile approaches to work, I think about how fast we can change and the cost of those changes. We can change the next decisions about the work because we finish the current work and release it. Multiple deliverables allow us to change what we do and what we plan next. That's why an agile approach with deliverables every day or week doesn't fit with some kinds of projects, such as events.

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Is it Time to Rethink Your Analytics Strategy?

Mind the Product

Advertising Feature As a product person, you know the value of analytics. Done right, these tools can enable your application to unlock a whole host of benefits for both you and users, especially when it is embedded. However, analytics can present certain constraints if you approach it as just an add-on. Its ability to become [.]. Read More. The post Is it Time to Rethink Your Analytics Strategy?

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How to turn Innovation theatre into innovation outcomes

Strategyzer

We are often asked by senior leaders and innovation managers “how do I know if the innovation programs we have are successful?”. In other words: how do we know if these programs will produce long-term growth for our company? While one might be tempted to answer such a question by simply looking at the number of new business ideas that their innovation programs generate, we believe that this question can only be answered by looking at the totality of a company’s innovation ecosystem.

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How To Set Up Innovation So That It Aligns With And Enables Corporate Strategy

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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Things to Know for Every Entry-Level Ethical Hacking Professionals

The Product Coalition

Source: blog.eduonix.com As the digital world is growing by the second, there is a constant need to protect and secure everything it encompasses. There has been a significant rise in cybercrimes making the company’s security vulnerable. To protect the company’s data from viruses, ransomware, worms, and malware, ethical hacking has become necessary. What is Ethical Hacking?

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More Fun on the Troubleshooting Agile Podcast, Part 2

Johanna Rothman

Jeffrey, Squirrel, and I continued our conversation on the Troubleshooting Agile Podcast, with Part 2. We addressed more of the Modern Management Made Easy principles. Specifically, we discussed the ideas of empathy and value-based integrity. We had a great discussion about several of the principles in the Modern Management Made Easy books: Empathy.

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Product Tetris – The Ultimate Game of Leadership by Georgie Smallwood

Mind the Product

In this November 2020 #mtpcon Digital session, Georgie Smallwood, CPO at Tier, describes product leadership as the ultimate game of Tetris and reveals how to play the pieces as you get them. For Georgie’s advice on how to execute your product leadership role within set constraints or external impacts, watch the session in full, or read [.]. Read More.

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How to Write and Present a Winning UXR Case Study (With a Free Outline Template)

dscout People Nerds

Learn how to tell your project’s story—all while showing off your own skills. .

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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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How Can We Make Better Products from the Questions that Patagonia Uses in their Design Philosophy?

The Product Coalition

Yvon Chouinard, Founder of Patagonia, generously shares the questions from the Patagonia design philosophy in his book, Let My People Go… Continue reading on Product Coalition ».

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A primer on retention analytics for product leaders

Mixpanel

Test yourself with this word problem: Imagine you’re a product manager responsible for your company’s new “business messaging and collaboration” product. This quarter, you’re tasked with improving user retention in the first 7 days, by 15%. A lofty goal! Your team suggests two ideas: Change onboarding so it nudges new users to invite their team to collaborate right away.

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6 Strategies for Doing Faster User Research—Without Sacrificing Validity

UserInterviews

How to do quicker, more efficient UX research today, while creating long-term organizational knowledge that will help you move faster tomorrow.