Product Talk

SEPTEMBER 13, 2023

They’ll place more trust in you to pursue the opportunities and solutions you believe will have the most impact on your desired outcome. We spoke with User Research Director Niklas Fischerström and Chief Product Officer Francesca Cortesi to learn how they’ve worked together to roll out continuous discovery habits at Hemnet.

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Roman Pichler

FEBRUARY 14, 2023

But like any tool, Scrum has its benefits and limitations. These are typically brand-new and young products as well as products that are experiencing a bigger change, for example, to extend their life cycle by addressing a new market segment or by replacing some of the technologies. But a mountain bike is better for riding offroad. [3]

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The Product Coalition

APRIL 25, 2022

No product tool or template can save you if you’re not killing it in these three areas. That’s why we’ve listed 12 tools that the best product managers use to do their jobs better? and not the best product management tools. Product managers (PMs) are ninjas of aligning people, management, and processes.

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Roman Pichler

JANUARY 22, 2024

Their visions, target groups, needs, standout features , and business goals must comply with the overall portfolio strategy. [1] These might be end-user-facing or internal ones like a software platform, for instance; they might directly generate revenue or support commercial offerings. A product portfolio is a group of products.

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UX Planet

FEBRUARY 10, 2024

Systemic Thinking: The Key to an Impactful UX Strategy Systems Thinking is a holistic approach to problem analysis and solving that emphasizes viewing systems as a whole, rather than focusing only on individual parts. What is Systems Thinking? Interrelationship: all parts affect each other within a system.

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Roman Pichler

APRIL 13, 2021

It’s like driving a car with your vision blurred: You can’t see if you are heading in the right direction or getting closer to your destination. I am not a big fan of “standard” KPIs, for example, customer acquisition cost (CAC), churn, and number of active users for SaaS products. Step 2: Use Product Goals to Discover Additional KPIs.

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Product Talk

DECEMBER 11, 2019

Chris shared the story of how he introduced the opportunity solution tree to several teams at his company and a few of the iterations that helped make the tree an indispensable tool at SuperAwesome. Meet Chris Hockley. Meet Chris Hockley. First Impressions: A Staggered Rollout of the Opportunity Solution Tree.

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The Product Coalition

AUGUST 3, 2021

I realized after lockdown that long meetings carrying intensive discussion were a luxury. Every meeting is expected to start with an agenda and end with Next Steps. Every communication, every meeting is expected to be short, sweet, and meaningful. It's a new era of short calls and packed schedules.

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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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Alchemer Mobile

DECEMBER 7, 2022

“Should we buy this software or should we build it?” Juggling your company’s immediate needs with long-term goals is always tricky, but when it comes to purchasing a tool to make your team’s lives easier, managers tasked with the decision to build or buy often struggle in what seems to be a comparison of apples to oranges.

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Alchemer Mobile

DECEMBER 7, 2022

“Should we buy this software or should we build it?” Juggling your company’s immediate needs with long-term goals is always tricky, but when it comes to purchasing a tool to make your team’s lives easier, managers tasked with the decision to build or buy often struggle in what seems to be a comparison of apples to oranges.

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Product Talk

APRIL 17, 2024

Meet Stephanie and Learn About Her Role at Doodle Teresa: Excellent. We’re a 14-year-old company that started off as an ads business, and we’re transitioning into a SaaS business. We have five product managers, one UX researcher , five designers—one of them director of design, leading the design team. Teresa: Okay.

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Mind the Product

JANUARY 24, 2020

Using pen and paper to sketch out concepts and designs for software began with the birth of the graphical user interface (GUI) in the 1980s. Wireframes as a Tool for Product Managers. This translation role, conveying and explaining the needs of the customer to a software team, is a big chunk of what product managers do.

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Roman Pichler

SEPTEMBER 2, 2024

Unlike product discovery , it is not primarily concerned with determining the right solution—finding the right features, and creating the right user experience. A handy tool to formulate the strategy is my Product Vision Board, shown in Figure 2. Instead, strategy discovery focuses on the problem space.

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Intercom, Inc.

JANUARY 14, 2021

And so, in 2014, he founded Productboard , a product management system that incorporates customer feedback and insights to help product teams build better products. Looking at how the best companies operate, Hubert and his team boiled down product excellence to three key areas of action: vision, strategy, and execution.

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Roman Pichler

OCTOBER 6, 2020

For example, generate revenue or meet a profit margin, reduce cost, or develop the brand? What architecture patterns and technologies may be used? Meeting users and customers, at least in form of a video call, not only helps you validate your assumptions and develop new ideas. What makes the product stand out?

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Product Talk

FEBRUARY 14, 2018

Meet Sally and Pam. Sally is a product manager, Pam a user experience designer, and they are working on a new mobile app. Pam is assuming that the near-term vision is mostly right. She wants to ensure that the design of the MVP is coherent with the design of the near-term vision. How should they proceed?

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The Product Coalition

FEBRUARY 3, 2022

We make a living selling leaders and teams on what the future can look like, and then do our best to meet and exceed that vision. What if: Blockchain infrastructure scales, and underpinning digital identity could offer superior app experiences? Technologists are, by our very nature, forward-looking optimists.

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Product Talk

FEBRUARY 7, 2024

It’s not just about training people to conduct interviews , use opportunity solution trees , or test assumptions —though those are all important activities—it’s also about convincing them of the value of these activities and getting the people they work with on board as well. Do you have a Product in Practice story you’d like to share?

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The Product Coalition

MARCH 25, 2022

The overall technological progress enhances a lot of business areas, and financial technologies are certainly part of that dynamic. Banks, insurance companies, and trading platforms use digital solutions to facilitate their communication with clients and make operations easier to perform.

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Melissa Perri

OCTOBER 22, 2024

“Our vision is to be the best!” If you’ve ever sat through a company strategy meeting and left with your head spinning, you’re experiencing a common problem. First, there’s the vision – those sweeping statements that try to inspire but end up saying nothing. Start with these questions in your next meeting. Everything!”

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Product Talk

FEBRUARY 12, 2020

Meet Lisa Orr, Senior Product Manager at Airship. We then jammed those models into our platform so that customers could access the outputs in many ways.” You also have a mobile app that sends similar messages via push notifications. Widening the Scope from Solutions to Opportunities. But what exactly is orchestration?

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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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Userpilot

JULY 27, 2023

Confused about trying to understand SaaS roles? SaaS companies have many moving parts, and it can be difficult to determine who does what. TL;DR SaaS, or “Software as a Service,” is a business model that delivers centrally hosted software to subscribers over the internet. What is a SaaS business model?

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UserVoice

MARCH 7, 2017

Which is why it’s so important for product managers to have the right tools, processes and procedures in place to facilitate and streamline feedback collection to ensure they still have time to do the rest of their jobs. Let’s look at each group of internal stakeholders and examine the best way to get their feedback: Customer Experience.

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UserVoice

JULY 28, 2017

Here’s 3 steps you can take to start tackling your to-do list: Step 1: Get Organized With the Right Tool(s). But if you’re looking to mix up your day-to-day task tools, here are some suggestions. Task Management Tools for Product Managers. What it does well: It’s an extremely basic, simple solution.

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Roman Pichler

AUGUST 15, 2023

Take a productivity tools suite like Microsoft Office or Google Workspace. If I was in charge of such a portfolio, I would use an overall strategy for the entire suite and separate product strategies for the individual tools like Microsoft PowerPoint and Google Slides. Competition: Is your product still sufficiently differentiated ?

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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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Sachin Rekhi

FEBRUARY 16, 2020

Much of the literature that defines the role as the intersection of business, technology, and user experience isn't particularly helpful for practitioners who are left wondering what skills they need to learn versus the fine people they work closely with in actual business, technology, and user experience roles.

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Mind the Product

APRIL 2, 2019

Creating a successful product requires a clear vision. Equally important, it requires confidence that the vision is aligned with the needs of the customers the company exists to serve. This helped to inform its focus on developing its learning platform, Fender Play. The Fender Play learning platform.

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Product Talk

DECEMBER 18, 2024

We covered how to manage messy opportunity solution trees , the most common challenges teams face when getting started with the discovery habits, what Im working on next, and so much more. I started my career as a software engineer. How are we building production-quality software? I think that was in 2004. What does that mean?

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Userpilot

JULY 16, 2024

As a SaaS professional, you’ve probably asked yourself, “What’s tech product management?” To thrive as a technical PM, you need to have essential skill such as knowledge of Agile methodologies, familiarity with software engineering principles, leadership and communication. Develop the product vision and expand on the strategy.

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Intercom, Inc.

NOVEMBER 4, 2021

Previously on the show, we’ve taken you on a tour to meet everyone from our product management and marketing teams to our Sydney office down under. Without further ado, let’s head over to meet them in our San Francisco office. Scott says through a lot of research. We are that from an identity system standpoint.

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Product Talk

NOVEMBER 6, 2024

Meet the Continuous Discovery Champion, Teeba Teeba’s career so far has included four years in non-product roles, four years as a business owner, and four years working in fintech/banking product roles. Meet our continuous discovery champion, Teeba Alkhudairi. Teeba recently joined Lightspeed Commerce as a Senior Product Manager. “I

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Mind the Product

APRIL 10, 2017

As technology professionals, we have been stuck at metaphorical basecamp for years. The knowns have helped us find stability; allowed us to confidently work through challenges and find solutions. Like the technology we use to build the products we love ages and gets left behind, Agile has died while we were perfecting our standup.

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Intercom, Inc.

MARCH 3, 2020

We’re confident this won’t help people game our system, but it will give you the best chance to show us your strengths. Our vision is to bring a messenger-first, personal experience to all customer and business communication. Intercom’s R&D principles. Intercom’s mission is to make Internet business personal.

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Product Talk

SEPTEMBER 7, 2022

Through a combination of leadership buy-in, reading, and coaching, they committed to mapping opportunities and testing assumptions before jumping to solutions and found new ways to truly put their users first. Meet the Continuous Discovery Champions, Sören Weber and the Search & Flow Team. You can submit your story here.

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