Roman Pichler

APRIL 5, 2022

For example, a product strategy workshop might have the objective to identify the key changes required to achieve product-market fit. Contrast this with a sprint review meeting , which might help you determine if users can easily sign up for the product. Assess product strategy and adjust if necessary.

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The Product Coalition

FEBRUARY 3, 2022

The Lean Product Playbook Summary?—?How How to Find Product-Market Fit “Main reason why most of the products fail is due to lack of product-market fit.” ~Dan Dan Olsen Product-Market Fit is inarguably one of the main factors deciding on product success or failure. And how to achieve it?

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Userpilot

JULY 29, 2024

Looking for the best product marketing campaigns to inspire your next project? We’ve curated 16 of the most innovative product campaigns from industry leaders like Userpilot, HubSpot, and Spotify, among others, that will spark your creativity and help you create campaigns that drive product growth.

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Userpilot

OCTOBER 19, 2024

Satisfaction in SaaS, therefore, isn’t simply about developing a nice product and launching it in the market. Instead, it involves several key aspects, including: Product functionality : The software solves the problems it was designed to solve. Bad experiences can, thus, cause irreparable damage to your brand.

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The Product Coalition

JULY 25, 2021

Even people with a developed growth mindset?—?ones No one likes to see their gaps pointed to, and for people who don’t have a developed growth mindset, it’s twice as hard. If your product managers don’t have an intrinsic motivation to grow, and you still need them to, you must instill it in them. Really really want it.

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The Product Coalition

FEBRUARY 26, 2022

I’ve asked friends who do the job at social events and got the same answer, and frequently asked members of my own teams, who struggled to find the time to do it. To compensate, I’ve seen UX researchers & designers pick up the mantle a lot more, and the design teams have really leaned into this space.

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Intercom, Inc.

SEPTEMBER 19, 2019

This is the recipe for a mediocre sales team. Like a sports franchise, a top team should be both collaborative and competitive. This year has been particularly exciting for us: we were able, after five and a half years of negotiation, to purchase Close.com as our new home and domain name, so we went through a rebrand from Close.io

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Product Innovation Educators

JUNE 7, 2021

Her name is Christina Wodtke, and she is a lecturer at Stanford, sharing insight into human innovation and high-performing teams. She has designed products with LinkedIn, Zynga, Yahoo! 13:27] What are the steps for putting OKRs into practice in a product team? Start using OKRs with a high-performing product team.

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Mind the Product

FEBRUARY 13, 2020

As a result, the team at Uniregistry decided to take a new approach to product validation in an attempt to avoid the same fate. This case study focuses on Lean Product Validation, but the chart below gives an overview of our entire customer discovery process and the steps we followed. The Approach. Advanced Website Builder.

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Roman Pichler

MAY 11, 2021

Instead, you should engage the stakeholders, leverage their expertise, and generate as much buy-in as possible , as I explain in more detail in my article “ Stakeholder Management Tips for Product People.” ” But do not allow people to dominate and tell you what to do, and don’t agree to a weak compromise.

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Mind the Product

MAY 25, 2018

In 2012, when I was working as part of the JustGiving team responsible for innovative products and disruptive business models, we decided to test how people could raise money for non-charitable good causes. Initially we worked with a team from ThoughtWorks for 12 weeks. 2014 – Testing and Growing the Team.

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Userpilot

OCTOBER 29, 2020

Product Marketing is a fairly new domain and the role of ‘Product Marketing Manager’ differs greatly from organization to organization. You may want to jump to a relevant section: Who’s a Product Marketing Manager? Product Marketing Manager’s Role and Responsibilities (depending on the company).

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Intercom, Inc.

JUNE 19, 2019

And as the Group Product Marketing Manager for Platform here at Intercom, I’ve loved seeing all the creative apps our partners have built. Ceci likes Bill Gates’s definition as the point when the value of the stuff built on top of your product surpasses the value of your product by itself. I like people enough.”

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The Product Coalition

NOVEMBER 10, 2024

In 1999, however, a cruise ship designer named John McNeece wanted to give an example of why it’s problematic to ask customers what they want. Even I, despite knowing better, often find myself talking about solutions with my team. It’s just easier than clearly articulating the problem I want the team to solve. Start right away.

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The Product Coalition

JANUARY 16, 2022

As such, it cannot be limited to include only the product-related parts like features and product KPIs. As a product leader who is creating this roadmap, you need to treat it as a compass and plan not only for your team and the technology team but rather as the direction that the entire company needs to go in.

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Mironov Consulting

SEPTEMBER 14, 2020

Over the last three decades, across 10 full-time jobs and 150 consulting clients, I’ve headed up product teams 18 times (mostly as interim VP ) and helped another dozen companies choose their Head of Product. Here are some patterns I’ve seen in picking successful Heads of Product. What’s In a Name?

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Intercom, Inc.

JANUARY 31, 2019

And as the organization grows, the work involved to get teams aligned on who you’re selling to and how you’re selling is not something to be taken for granted either. For today’s episode, we’re sharing go-to-market insights from past interviews that have resonated with us. When you’re a small team, your time is everything.

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Intercom, Inc.

JANUARY 20, 2022

Since then, in anticipation of Intercom’s R&D plan for 2022, we started looking at our internal cadence of productivity and kicked off a project to evaluate each process from ideation to shipping. We surveyed and interviewed key people in our teams to understand how they worked and how they saw Intercom’s internal operations.

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Userpilot

MAY 1, 2024

There is a ton of product management advice out there, but most of it is generic tips repeated over and over again. With a self-named newsletter and podcast, Lenny is a widely followed product expert. Before starting his own venture, Lenny worked in the product and engineering teams of companies like Airbnb and Neustar.

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Intercom, Inc.

NOVEMBER 3, 2022

Scaling a support team is challenging enough as it is. Maybe you’ve just extended support hours and it’s becoming harder to plan shifts for different time zones; maybe you’re spending hours figuring out schedules for the week ahead; maybe the inflow prediction was a bit off and now your team is under or overstaffed.

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Intercom, Inc.

DECEMBER 12, 2018

In this guide we’ll show you how your business can navigate the martech landscape to build a lean, productive marketing stack, and how some of the fasted growing software companies are building theirs. What is a marketing technology stack? ABM has evolved from buzzword to a “must-have” for marketing teams today.

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The Product Coalition

JANUARY 4, 2021

So what can and cannot work when you want to educate the market? Photo by Oleg Magni from Pexels Educating the market has a bad reputation. If you are simply advertising your product, you are educating the market on the product and on why it is better than the competition, namely your unique value proposition.

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The Product Coalition

JANUARY 5, 2019

It’s always there, and it follows you around like a bad penny. Tech debt is all of the little things that aren’t quite right about your product behind the scenes. It’s all the workarounds that you’ve found to quickly make the product look and behave the way that it does. How extensible does your product need to be?

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Business of Software Conference

NOVEMBER 26, 2018

This will change the way that a lot of people think about product market fit, BS metrics, understanding the needs of the people that really matter. Rahul Vohra (Founder/CEO, Superhuman) – The Product-Market Fit Engine from Business of Software Conference. So I’m going to talk about Product-Market Fit.

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The Product Coalition

JUNE 9, 2023

Everyone knows educating the market is hard to nearly impossible, but people always bring up examples like Facebook or the iPhone whenever I discuss it in my lectures. So what can and cannot work when you want to educate the market? Photo by Oleg Magni from Pexels Educating the market has a bad reputation, and rightfully so.

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Product Innovation Educators

FEBRUARY 3, 2025

How product managers use Jobs-To-Be-Done to create products customers love Watch on YouTube TLDR In this episode, I explain the Jobs-To-Be-Done (JTBD) framework, a powerful approach to understanding customer needs and developing successful products. ” For Tony and the team, this was a gut-wrenching experience.

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Pragmatic Marketing

NOVEMBER 9, 2009

While software development teams have been moving toward agile methods for years, many product managers are only now becoming aware of it. An agile approach applies collaborative and continuous improvement concepts to software development. It seems that agile teams do everything in a new way.

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The Product Coalition

MARCH 7, 2023

How to prepare for a user interview, all the way to sharing the results with your team. The skill of running effective user interviews is key to defining your target users, finding product-market fit , growing your product, figuring out what to build next — or just simply understanding how users perceive your product.

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The Product Coalition

FEBRUARY 14, 2022

Unlike what might be implied from the name, the lecture Itai gave discussed writing requirements for functionality that included estimates (in Hebrew), which were features that gained popularity back then. With data science teams, however, there is a feeling that they know better?—?they Instead, I gave the team clear instructions?—?take

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Intercom, Inc.

MARCH 18, 2021

In previous episodes, we’ve talked about how customer feedback and cross-team collaboration play a crucial role in the features and updates we build here at Intercom. To understand a bit more about the launch, we’ve gathered some of the folks behind it: Thomas Creighton de Farias – Senior Product Education Producer.

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Mind the Product

FEBRUARY 22, 2018

Given our limited resources, we shifted our business development focus to emphasize these companies. The logic of reinforcing success is appealing: Go to market, see where you get traction, and find more prospects like them. Also for the first time, we got input from them to better prioritize our product roadmap.

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Mironov Consulting

JULY 28, 2022

Enterprise Sales and Solutions Teams… Are paid/rewarded/promoted for working with individual prospects or customers one at a time.  Sales  Sales teams get quota relief from closing individual deals, not market segments.  Integration  Where else can we make this product fit?

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svpg

MAY 2, 2016

Exactly a year ago I was invited to give a keynote at the Craft Conference in Budapest and I discussed the 10 biggest reasons why product teams fail. So it inspired me to think hard about the most important characteristics of very strong product teams, and I forced myself to pick what I consider the ten most important.

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Userpilot

APRIL 30, 2024

Marty Cagan is a popular name in the product management world. In many ways, he has shaped how successful products are built and how teams can be organized to work toward excellence. Marty Cagan is a well-known figure in the product management and technology industry. Who is Marty Cagan?

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The Product Coalition

DECEMBER 4, 2023

A product strategy is often the missing link that would convert your efforts into actual revenue. An economic downturn, a war — you name it. Tough market conditions would cause your sales to dramatically drop or even cease. On one hand, that’s expected in a rough market, but is that really the root cause?

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Userpilot

DECEMBER 8, 2022

To avoid product failure, don’t launch without achieving product-market fit first. Good product positioning helps achieve customer fit and avoid customer dissatisfaction. Market research and customer discovery help validate ideas and make sure the market is ready for the product.

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The Product Coalition

JULY 16, 2023

In my first official product role, which I got to after managing large dev teams and a business-related role, I managed alone a product with a development team of ~40 people. One of the first things I did, for example, was to work with the salespeople on how to sell the product.

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