The Secret PM Handbook

AUGUST 22, 2016

Tools For What We Do. As a product manager, I’d like to find some tools that help me do my job. Markets – my segments, their problems, and how to reach them with my solution (and if they are big enough for me to make money). Revenue and profit – how my solution will generate top and bottom line dollars.

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Roman Pichler

MARCH 14, 2017

The confusion stems—at least partly—from the fact that Scrum is a simple framework focused on helping teams develop software. Why didn’t the framework use the term product manager ? Product managers used to do the upfront market research, product planning, and requirements definition work.

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Intercom, Inc.

JANUARY 14, 2021

With a background in computer science and an MBA, he soon realized that understanding the markets and customers is as important as building the products. And so, in 2014, he founded Productboard , a product management system that incorporates customer feedback and insights to help product teams build better products.

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Melissa Perri

JUNE 29, 2017

Let’s look at where these terms and disciplines originated from and how some common frameworks explain them. I was tasked with gathering the requirements from sales, coming up with a solution, designing it, and then shipping the specification document to development to be built. It can and should exist with any framework or process.

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The Secret PM Handbook

MAY 5, 2017

In this post, I share a simple model or framework to answer this question. The first box in the Secret Product Management Framework. A big part of our job is finding these market problems, customer needs and desires. Let’s call it a “solution.”. Market research. Which ones should you create solutions for.

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Intercom, Inc.

MAY 22, 2019

Deepa Subramanian (a graduate of Harvard Law School and a veteran of Salesforce) set out to improve businesses’ understanding of the customer voice by co-founding Wootric , a platform that offers a range of feedback collection and analysis tools to help teams gain deeper, more relevant insights into their users’ desires and complaints.

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The Product Coalition

DECEMBER 21, 2020

We’ll explore how you can test and research ideas for your product, service, or business model. It’s a framework to make quick, painless, and informed judgments about your idea so that you know whether it’s worth pursuing. Market research Every product design cycle should start with a robust research phase.

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Userzoom

JULY 31, 2019

The research industry is no stranger to buzzwords. So when I began bumping into mentions of ‘blockchain and research’ during season five of Silicon Valley , I made a mental note to pay close attention. I always encourage people to focus not on trying to understand the underlying technology but to understand what it enables.

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Userpilot

JULY 18, 2023

It takes a fair bit of effort and time to keep up with the constant innovation in the product management software space. The tools are constantly evolving and changing their pricing plans, so it may be difficult to ensure that your product team is using the right tools and getting the best value for the money.

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Userpilot

AUGUST 30, 2024

What are the different marketing research methods product marketing teams can use to inform their strategies? You will also learn about different types of market research and how to conduct it step by step. Observational research : Watching users engage with the product, e.g., through session recordings.

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Userpilot

AUGUST 18, 2024

SaaS tools are the industry's biggest open secret. Wondering what type of tools you should have in your stack? Then read on to discover the top 20 cloud-based apps that will help streamline different parts of your business. TL;DR SaaS tools are applications that users can access through an internet connection.

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Intercom, Inc.

OCTOBER 15, 2020

Our previous conversations with Bob have covered how to unpack customer motivations and the Jobs-To-Be-Done framework (of which he was one of the principal architects). Out of that,I was forced to actually talk to people and learn through very different methods and tools. Are these all software? Right now, I teach mostly.

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The Product Coalition

APRIL 7, 2021

Are you searching for the tech and design partner you can trust while building your mobile app together? As a consequence of this, the mobile app development industry is on the rise now. Probably, you look for a research-based recommendation of a reliable app development service provider too.

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Userpilot

JANUARY 22, 2024

A product marketing framework is like a compass that guides you through the complex, fast-paced world of SaaS. From initial launch to ongoing product management , this framework acts as a map towards sustainable growth. However, selecting a framework or creating one from scratch can be very confusing.

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Userpilot

NOVEMBER 29, 2023

With the right product research tools, you can dissect vast pools of data, gather actionable insights, and create products that align directly with your user’s needs. But how can you build the right product research tech stack to achieve your product growth goals? Qualtrics. UXPressia.

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Userpilot

JULY 24, 2024

Launching a product without a well-defined product strategy framework is similar—you risk wasting resources without a clear path to success. So, how do you outline a product strategy framework that is the foundation of product-led growth ? Outline a marketing plan to promote your product across multiple channels and drive sales.

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Roman Pichler

FEBRUARY 2, 2021

Before the advent of agile frameworks like Scrum , a product person—the product manager—would typically carry out the market research, compile a market requirements specification, create a business case, put together product roadmap, write a requirements specification, and then hand it off to a project manager.

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Product Innovation Educators

DECEMBER 2, 2024

A custom ChatGPT model that helps accelerate product innovation Watch on YouTube TLDR In this episode, I interview Mike Hyzy, Senior Principal Consultant at Daugherty Business Solutions. By the time we launch, the market may have moved on from the problem we originally set out to solve.

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Userpilot

MAY 27, 2024

TL;DR Product thinking is the process of identifying problems and coming up with solutions by placing the user in the center. This practice also invites you to think of your business goals and current technology limitations. Identify and assess market opportunities, by researching market gaps and trends to tailor profitable products.

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ProductPlan

APRIL 25, 2024

Instead of a traditional B2B software or physical piece of hardware, their products are programs, IT services , university websites (internal and external), or even actual curricula, to name a few. Generative AI is one such technology that is rapidly changing how students, teachers, and administrators interact with systems on campus.

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The Product Coalition

FEBRUARY 6, 2020

After all, when you know exactly what metrics are growing, what market leaders are betting on, how and what budgets are spent, what marketing solutions are chosen, what practices should be implemented and what to focus on in the near future, life becomes better. Marketers succeed in personalization in real time.

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The Product Coalition

OCTOBER 2, 2024

Stefan Röse breaks down how Quantilope is pushing forward customer development and the consumer research field. Perhaps that’s why some research experts say, “Data is the new currency.” Quantilope specializes in consumer insights technology, offering a platform to help businesses understand what consumers want and need.

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Userpilot

JULY 6, 2021

Is a SaaS product growth strategy essential to a modern business’s survival? What SaaS product growth strategies can you implement to get there? That's exactly what we'll cover in this article: what is a SaaS product growth strategy and what are the main growth strategy types. What is a SaaS product growth strategy?

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The Product Coalition

MARCH 24, 2021

Narrowing Down the Battlefield Figure 1 shows the ‘Technology Adoption Life Cycle’ for discontinuous innovations. We can see that such innovations face a chasm between the early and the mainstream market. Crossing this chasm decides if the innovation will become a success or has to leave the market.

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Product Innovation Educators

NOVEMBER 4, 2024

He shares practical insights from the Product Development and Management Association (PDMA) framework and explains how product managers can use these principles to improve their product development process. Tools and Techniques Jack mentions that he has personally used more than 70% of the tools in PDMA’s Body of Knowledge.

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DISQO

JULY 5, 2018

Incumbents across every industry have been put on notice: technology upstarts are taking over the Fortune 500 list at an accelerating pace. Whereas many organizations have deep and meaningful expertise doing large-scale market research, their findings are hitting critical limitations. No one wants to be the next Blockbuster.

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Mind the Product

MARCH 20, 2020

She condemns the SAFe framework, which separates the role of product owner and product manager, asserting the former as tactical and the latter strategic. Start today, by analysing all the information available – customer and user research, market research, and user data. Preparing for the C-Suite.

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UX Studio: Product Management

AUGUST 17, 2018

Usability testing forms a user experience research method, usually a qualitative one, as the core of UX research. Validating the value proposition of an app or website – do your potential customers understand it? Testing competitors’ solutions. In such cases, professional market research may work better for starters.

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Intercom, Inc.

DECEMBER 18, 2019

“It’s our great privilege to help tell the Intercom story, to bring you the personal stories of the wonderful people behind our product” We also published five guides, covering every aspect of buying a live chat tool and how to implement it for sales and marketing. . Reaching an “aha” moment.

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Userpilot

APRIL 19, 2024

Looking for the best way to do market research? From framing your initial question to extracting valuable customer insights, we’ll walk you through the lean market research process step-by-step. Get ready to empower your decisions with real-world market intelligence. Why should you do market research?

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Userpilot

JULY 10, 2024

Businesses invest heavily in product marketing through webinars, blog posts, and video content for a reason – it gets them notable results. If you’re looking to start or improve your SaaS product marketing strategy, this is the article to read. Both are vital for SaaS success.

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The Product Coalition

FEBRUARY 23, 2024

The title “product manager” is often misapplied within the technology sector, leading to a disconnect between role expectations and actual responsibilities. Instead of rushing into solution mode, I look for individuals who seek to understand the customer’s needs, the problem being addressed, and the market context.

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Lenny Rachitsky

JUNE 11, 2024

Subscribe now Chatbot tools like ChatGPT and Perplexity are quickly becoming de facto co-pilots for product managers. And 85% are using one weekly 🤯 Robert Bye, a PM at Figma, shared a common sentiment: When was the last time a new tool went from non-existent to daily use for the majority of product managers? Why did it work?

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Product Talk

SEPTEMBER 11, 2019

After sharing how I thought the business could improve based on the market situation, customer feedback , and some new ideas that leveraged our core technologies, she looked at me and said: “What are you doing? My teams move markets. I’m researching. Research is a significant part of Rachel’s job. Tweet This.

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Product Innovation Educators

DECEMBER 16, 2024

How product managers can adapt core responsibilities across different organizations and contexts Watch on YouTube TLDR Through his research and practical experience at MasterCard, Nishant Parikh identified 19 key activities that define the role of software product managers. Why study the 19 key activities of software product managers?

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Roman Pichler

FEBRUARY 19, 2024

You use an outcome-based product roadmap and/or an opportunity solution tree , personas , user journey maps, and the product backlog to capture and validate your decisions and guide the product delivery effort. In the scaling framework SAFe, however, the SAFe product owner has level-one empowerment, as far as I can tell. [4]

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Userpilot

AUGUST 29, 2023

Product management is equal parts art and science – and it’s vital to the success of your SaaS. Product teams advocate strongly for users: they’ll gather customer feedback, conduct market research, isolate a clear target market, and ensure new features are built to directly address user needs.

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