The Product Guy

MARCH 16, 2018

Guest Post by: Marissa Fong (Mentee, Session 5, The Product Mentor) [Paired with Mentor, Bill Gourlay]. Product management requires product strategy. These are all key questions addressed as part of product strategy. Below were what I brought to the products and how I was able to drive for quick results.

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The Product Guy

SEPTEMBER 24, 2024

Systems thinking is a holistic approach to analysis that focuses on the way that a system’s constituent parts interrelate and how systems work over time and within the context of larger systems. It pushes us to look beyond individual features or departments and focus on the larger systems that shape these elements.

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Product Talk

OCTOBER 2, 2024

For today’s Tools of the Trade , we caught up with Yury Oleynik , the VP of Product Management at HiveMQ , who has managed to make continuous interviewing a reality on his team. Like many of the stories we highlight here on Product Talk, Yury’s features a few false starts and frustrations.

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Productside

APRIL 9, 2025

In this post, were exploring the conversation we had in one of our Productside Stories episodes this season with Joeri Devisch , a veteran of product, technology, and transformation work at global companies. Strong product teams blend analytics, field insights, and deep user empathy to understand whats worth solving and why.

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Productside

MARCH 3, 2025

In our latest Productside webinar, Becoming an Effective Product Management Leader , Principal Consultants Roger Snyder and Kenny Kranseler delivered a no-nonsense roadmap for new leaders who want to nail their first 90 days (and beyond) and get the tools on how to become a product management leadereffectively. Do I push back?

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Lenny Rachitsky

NOVEMBER 17, 2024

These are stronger indicators of interest that tell you they really want your product, versus general positive feedback. Wiz hit $100 million ARR within 18 months (the fastest growth in startup history) and, five years in, is generating over $500 million ARR.

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Product Innovation Educators

FEBRUARY 17, 2025

Recently, at Hemnet, Sweden’s beloved property platform, she led product development that drove a 130% increase in top line revenues, making it the growth engine of the business. She now runs her own consultancy, helping CEOs scale their companies by transforming product vision into measurable business growth.

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Alchemer Mobile

DECEMBER 21, 2022

Then show the importance of targeting your customers with mobile surveys, and provide tips on how to effectively use them to drive mobile customer engagement and feedback. Obviously, in order to start segmenting on demographic data, you’ll need a system and CRM to collect this information. Let’s jump right in. Demographic factors.

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Userpilot

MAY 17, 2024

Looking for the best no-code SaaS tools to build innovative solutions and improve your product management workflows? This article dives into some of the best tools in 2024. The no-code technology offers a drag-and-drop interface that makes these tools easy to use for non-technical teams.

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The Product Coalition

APRIL 24, 2023

A customer feedback repository is the place you keep all your feedback data. What is a customer feedback repository? A feedback repository is a central location where product teams can collect and organize customer feedback. What is the purpose of feedback repositories?

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Userpilot

JULY 29, 2024

What’s a cost-effective way to manage and grow a product ? Using software for product management. This article will examine some of the best product management software in the market. Userpilot is a top product management software that enhances user experiences by effectively monitoring user behavior.

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Userpilot

AUGUST 8, 2024

Crafting a winning product strategy is crucial for SaaS success, and finding the right product strategy example can provide all the inspiration you need. This article provides concrete examples of different product strategies employed by SaaS companies. Book a demo to learn more.

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Roman Pichler

JULY 8, 2024

To achieve this, perform a stakeholder analysis using a tool like the Power-Interest Grid shown in Figure 1. [2] 2] Figure 1: The Power-Interest Grid The grid divides stakeholders into four groups: crowd, subjects, context setters, and players depending on how interested they are in your product and how much power they have.

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Roman Pichler

APRIL 2, 2019

While this probably sounds like common sense, I’ve seen more than one organisation trying to get more done by throwing people at a product. No wonder that the individuals struggled and the product suffered. This led to a bloated, over-complicated code base and a product that was difficult to adapt and expensive to maintain.

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The Product Coalition

APRIL 25, 2022

Product managers (PMs) are ninjas of aligning people, management, and processes. No product tool or template can save you if you’re not killing it in these three areas. The best product managers are in a continuous state of discovery and know that?—? neither the product nor roadmap are ever static.

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Melissa Perri

JANUARY 4, 2020

Teams and executives turned to data-driven decision making, and the tools and software followed. -- So what does that mean for the next 10 years? Here are my predictions: Strategy and product management will become more connected and synonymous, especially in SAAS/ other software companies.

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The Product Guy

OCTOBER 25, 2024

Often, these requests are made without supporting data or customer feedback, which can create tension between PMs and top-level executives. The CEO may want to introduce a new feature to impress investors, or a VP might suggest something based on personal preferences, despite little alignment with product goals.

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bpma ProductHub

SEPTEMBER 14, 2018

Seth Godin on Making Software Seth Godin spoke at Business of Software Conference USA last year to share some of the many lessons that he has learned in his 33 years in the software industry. This year, Business of Software Conference USA is in Boston,… You can watch the talk or read a transcript here.

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Melissa Perri

JULY 23, 2024

For the past eight years, I’ve been working with C-Suite leaders at companies big and small to set up their Product Management organizations. Some of these are Fortune 10 software-enabled companies going through digital transformations. At all of them, I start understanding the current state of Product Management.

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Userpilot

NOVEMBER 17, 2024

You can gather all the user feedback or behavioral data you want or even generate tons of Google Analytics reports. Despite all these efforts, you’re probably still not acting on product analytics correctly. At least that’s what Kevin O’Sullivan, Head of Product Design at Userpilot, has to say — and for good reason.

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Roman Pichler

MAY 5, 2020

A platform owner who manages a platform as a collection of shared software assets. The SAFe product owner who owns the product details. A portfolio owner who manages a group of (related) products. A platform owner owns such a platform. Pl atform Owner.

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Roman Pichler

FEBRUARY 14, 2023

Listen to the audio version of this article: [link] 1 Complement Scrum with a Product Discovery and Strategy Process Scrum is a simple framework that helps teams develop successful products. Otherwise, you might ask the wrong people for feedback on the increments and hence draw the wrong conclusions.

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Product Innovation Educators

OCTOBER 30, 2023

Tips for creating customer use cases – for product managers Today we are talking about how to create and use customer use cases to guide product design. Our guest is Dr. Lilac Muller, VP of Product Management at Kymeta Corporation. We put an MVP (minimum viable product) into the marketplace, learn, and refine the product.

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Arkenea

FEBRUARY 23, 2025

But, it’s usually challenging to assess what’s the right way to go about it – how much of iteration should be that from user feedback versus founder’s vision for the product? And, how do you also tell the difference between what feedback to incorporate?

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Userpilot

JULY 22, 2024

In a fast-paced industry like SaaS, leveraging business analytics effectively can be the key to staying competitive and driving product growth. Business analytics offers invaluable insights that help SaaS companies optimize operations, enhance customer experiences, and make data-driven decisions.

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Userpilot

MARCH 24, 2025

Their customers rely on their offline-first mobile app to guide them through complex fieldwork. They are seeking a Mobile Product Manager to lead the innovation and expansion of their field service mobile application across iOS, Android, and various third-party integrations. Who would be the best fit for this job?

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The Product Guy

MARCH 4, 2025

You’re gathering customer feedback, hitting your OKRs, and tracking every metric imaginable. And yet, your product is stuck. Heres the uncomfortable truth: these very practicesroadmaps, obsessive customer listening, and metrics worshipare strangling your products potential. Customer feedback drives iteration.

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Roman Pichler

APRIL 13, 2021

To select the right KPIs, I recommend taking the following three steps: First, use the user and business goals in the product strategy to select an initial set of indicators. Then take into account the product goals on the product roadmap to discover additional KPIs. Then consider how you can tell if they have been met.

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Alchemer Mobile

MARCH 26, 2021

To give you a general idea of where the mobile playing field is today, here are a few 2020 stats from our friends at App Annie : App Annie’s State of Mobile report is a fantastic place to start when looking for a general lay of the land and high-level stats. Incorporate customer feedback directly into your product roadmap.

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The Product Guy

NOVEMBER 21, 2018

Truly understanding your customers and finding ways to improve your product is an overwhelmingly daunting task. Customer discovery is key to informing product strategy and there is a mountain of techniques and methods available for conducting customer discovery. Engaged with the product. New Idea Generation.

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Userpilot

MAY 30, 2024

In the dynamic world of SaaS, creating a robust product feedback loop is essential for continuous improvement. Whether you’re launching a new feature or refining an existing one, gathering insights from users ensures that your product aligns with their needs and expectations. The product feedback loop.

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Product Innovation Educators

AUGUST 22, 2022

Insights on product strategy and customer research for product managers. Today we are looking at product management work through the eyes of a CEO, exploring several topics together. The CEO joining us is Matt Young, CEO of UserVoice, the first product feedback and research tool for software companies.

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The Product Coalition

FEBRUARY 3, 2022

A key ingredient to build a better product is customer feedback. There are various ways to collect customer feedback that include customer surveys through sales executives, feedback forms, focused interviews, etc. The same approach with a few alterations can be replicated for B2C SaaS products as well.

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The Product Guy

NOVEMBER 9, 2017

Each of these items are also useful when communicating your product’s strategy to various stakeholders within your organization. Themes typically describes abstract ideas or concepts critical to your product vision. Epics are also useful when describing features to an end-user of your product or service when collecting feedback.

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Reveal

DECEMBER 23, 2024

This guide will explain the following core areas: What is product analytics? What product analytics is and why it matters How to implement product analytics tools effectively What is embedded analytics? Defining embedded analytics and its role How embedded analytics transforms product analytics How do they work together?

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Roman Pichler

APRIL 4, 2023

For example, ensure that the individual’s role and responsibilities are clear; help the person grow as a product professional, be it by coaching and mentoring them or by encouraging them to attend training courses; offer clear and helpful feedback and hold them accountable for meeting agreed goals.

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The Product Coalition

NOVEMBER 12, 2024

While it would have been easy to blame the product strategy, marketing, or any number of other potential targets, they weren’t at the heart of the problem. The product strategy was sound, but we hadn’t translated it well. For example, an outcome might be a faster login to an app for a specific feature.

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