Userpilot

NOVEMBER 17, 2024

Kevin has almost a decade of experience working at some of the world’s most innovative software companies. It also draws out the process by requiring time-consuming agreement on needs and strict protocols, like QA reviews. Additionally, product managers and designers mostly want to implement product analytics themselves.

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The Product Guy

AUGUST 1, 2019

A startup development team consisting of a product manager and two offshore engineers was facing major challenges in meeting client deliverable deadlines – repeatedly. Since there was no active grooming or planning session with the engineers, daily standups played the role of requirement review meetings. THE CHALLENGE.

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The Product Guy

AUGUST 15, 2019

Before my first year of product management, I had lots of preconceived notions about product management. These came from watching other product managers, reading books, attending meetups, and talking to other people in the tech industry about what product managers did. About Hannah Kim. More About The Product Mentor.

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Product Innovation Educators

FEBRUARY 12, 2024

How product management teams can make better innovation decisions I am interviewing speakers at my favorite annual conference for product managers, the PDMA Inspire Innovation Conference. David Matheson, whose session is titled “Improving decision quality during stage gate reviews.” Learn more about them at PDMA.org.

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The Product Guy

APRIL 9, 2019

The notion of a strategy in product management seems like something that only high-level stakeholders at the executive level should care about. After all, many product managers tend to treat a strategy as something that’s scared and driven top-down from the executive management level. Journey Into the World of Strategy.

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The Product Coalition

NOVEMBER 2, 2024

For me, it was never just a job; as a product person and project manager, it’s the life I’ve chosen. I began to ponder how I could manage my work so that my evaluation of work-life balance felt like “La Dolce Vita.” Every meeting, milestone, line of code, and conversation became more meaningful when done with intention.

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Intercom, Inc.

NOVEMBER 2, 2021

Countless theories have tried to explain the “Great Resignation” we’re experiencing, but none have managed to pinpoint an exact cause. One thing that will always be on that list, however, is good management. The data suggests bad management is a real and significant issue. It’s the managers. Always ask for advice.

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The Product Guy

SEPTEMBER 27, 2016

Each Session of the program runs for 6 months with paired individuals… Conducting regular 1-on-1 mentor-mentee chats Sharing experiences with the larger Product community Participating in live-streamed product management lessons and Q&A. Jordan Bergtraum VP Product Management, ServiceChannel. Signup to be a Mentor Today!

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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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The Product Coalition

JANUARY 27, 2024

Software development with sustainability in mind is a rising trend in digital spaces. I also thank Product Coalition founder Jay Stansell, who has provided a collaborative product management education environment. As software builders, we are uniquely positioned to influence this environmental trajectory.

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Roman Pichler

NOVEMBER 2, 2021

A development team does a good job if the following three conditions are fulfilled: First, the group reliably meets the agreed sprint goals and delivers product increments that offer a great user experience and exhibit the desired software quality. What’s more, an agile, self-managing team is collectively responsible for their performance.

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Userpilot

NOVEMBER 7, 2024

Let’s review everything your customer success team has to do in the absence of any customer success tools. With so much to accomplish manually, a lot slips through the cracks, leaving an unfulfilled gap in the arena of customer success management needs. Best customer success software for startups and small companies.

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Product Talk

NOVEMBER 6, 2024

While it’s not possible to remove all the uncertainty and ambiguity from the job search, Teeba Alkhudairi found a few ways to manage it. Teeba recently joined Lightspeed Commerce as a Senior Product Manager. I’ve always been fascinated by the discovery aspect of product management,” says Teeba. “I Why did she take this approach?

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The Product Guy

OCTOBER 9, 2018

I became a product manager because I wanted to take a more strategic role at my company. First, I did not know how to frame, develop and present product strategy in a systematic way, and second, as a startup, my company has not historically had a good track record of strategy being developed outside of senior management (read: founder).

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The Product Guy

MARCH 12, 2025

You’re Stuckand It’s Because You’re Playing by the Rules In product management, youve been told to follow the rules: stick to the roadmap, build consensus, and hit your OKRs. Every meeting becomes a performance review rather than a space for creative problem-solving.

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Product Innovation Educators

JULY 15, 2024

Mastering product lifecycle management – for product managers Watch on YouTube TLDR Product lifecycle management is key to successful product development and innovation. For software and SaaS products, development and lifecycle management often overlap.

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Alchemer Mobile

NOVEMBER 23, 2021

Whether you’re new to the product management field or a seasoned professional, it’s always valuable to learn from your peers’ lived experiences. While you can watch the full hour-long interview here , this post breaks down four of the key lessons we learned from Jessi Alva, Director, Technical Product Management at SAP Concur.

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Product Innovation Educators

NOVEMBER 6, 2023

How product managers can use AI to get more actionable insights from qualitative data Today we are talking about using qualitative data to drive our work in product and consequently improve sales. We found that artificial intelligence is starting to help companies make better product management decisions. What is that question?

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Userpilot

OCTOBER 31, 2024

Which product feedback software should you choose for your SaaS? In this round-up, I cover 21 of the best product feedback software solutions. In this round-up, I cover 21 of the best product feedback software solutions. Social listening tools : Software for monitoring online conversations, brand mentions, and trends.

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Intercom, Inc.

AUGUST 11, 2020

It was first proposed after Benjamin Whorf, a fire safety inspector at the time, observed how oil workers treated empty oil barrels as less hazardous than full oil barrels, despite them being equally flammable due to the traces of oil remaining in them. Master/slave” refers to a relationship between a primary source and its replicas.

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The Product Guy

JULY 30, 2020

Product Managers (PM) need to effectively communicate product vision, strategic roadmaps and concepts to a variety of different stakeholders through the different stages of the product life cycle. A tool to support product managers is stakeholder identification and how this results in a stakeholder map. These are decision makers.

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Product Innovation Educators

AUGUST 5, 2024

How product managers should use the five-step model for creating team culture Watch on YouTube TLDR Product managers often face the challenge of significant responsibilities without formal authority. As product managers, we must navigate both these realms. Clear purpose helps teams navigate complexity and maintain focus.

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Product Innovation Educators

JANUARY 27, 2020

The benefits of joining the PDMA community of product managers. Like many product managers, my path to product management was rather accidental. After leading software product teams for 10 years, I discovered the Product Development and Management Association (PDMA). Joining us is Mark Adkins, Vice Chair of PDMA.

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The Product Coalition

AUGUST 28, 2023

The Software Development Life Cycle provides a practical framework you can apply to your product and improve your processes. It’s also supports flexible methods that can be easily applied to your project, and it can support the management of expenses, overall costs of production and risks. The next step is Creating a Plan.

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Intercom, Inc.

AUGUST 17, 2020

And while machine translation is often suited to live conversations due to the importance of responding in real-time, anything less than human translation for knowledge base articles and onboarding flows won’t make for a good customer experience – and will inevitably result in low engagement and adoption rates.

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Roman Pichler

APRIL 13, 2021

While it’s helpful to be aware of the indicators that may be commonly used for the type of product you manage, it would be a mistake to blindly adopt them. These indicators suggest that achieving product success will be much harder in the future, due to an increase in technical debt , higher absenteeism or turnover rate. Less is More.

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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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Alchemer Mobile

MARCH 11, 2025

On the other hand, poor support can quickly lead to bad reviews, social media complaints, or lost customers. Encouraging Reviews and Ratings: Prompting satisfied customers to share their experiences on review sites and forums. Hint: Customers that are happy with your support staff will likely mention it in their review!

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Roman Pichler

FEBRUARY 14, 2023

2 Use Scrum for Products that Experience Uncertainty and Change Scrum is often seen as the standard way to create digital products, and I have met more than one company where the product managers were told to be agile and do Scrum. As I mentioned earlier, Scrum is not a product management framework. But it’s not enough on its own.

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Userpilot

JULY 7, 2024

Wondering which customer communication management software is ideal for enhancing customer interactions in your SaaS product? In this article, we examine what customer communications management software is and what to look out for when selecting one. We also consider the top 10 CCM software products on the market today.

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Intercom, Inc.

JANUARY 12, 2021

Although they may seem like strong opinions, many of these tips echo the main tenets of software engineering: work with you’ve got, design solutions as needed, don’t repeat yourself, and keep it simple, stupid! Don’t add to your stack unless you’re certain that your use case will not be satisfied by existing software.

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Product Innovation Educators

FEBRUARY 17, 2025

The product manager’s path to influence Watch on YouTube TLDR In my recent conversation with Francesca Cortesi, CPO, we explored why the popular phrase “CEO of the product” can be misleading for product managers.

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Userpilot

MARCH 5, 2025

That’s where customer engagement software comes in. How I chose the best customer engagement software My evaluation process combined thorough feature analysis , a careful review of user feedback, and insights from industry reports. Scalability and security: Can the platform grow with your business and protect your data?

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Roman Pichler

SEPTEMBER 11, 2023

This includes a sound understanding of the market, the user and customer needs, and the competition as well as solid product management skills such as the ability to develop an effective product strategy and an actionable product roadmap (as I explain in more detail in the article The T-Shaped Product Professional ).

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The Product Coalition

JUNE 2, 2023

A thing to define: AWS vs AZURE vs Google Cloud AWS, Azure and Google cloud platforms are the top of mind cloud service platforms in recent years, yet many software development start-ups do not have the ability to distinguish them. GCP gives the foundation a management stage and registration conditions that don’t require a server.

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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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