The Product Coalition

SEPTEMBER 7, 2022

Minimum Viable Products: Why You Should Test Before Investing In Ideas Let’s analyze the advantages of MVP-based software development. Why should you invest in MVP development? You can successfully prevent these problems by starting software development with a Minimum Viable Product (MVP).

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The Product Coalition

OCTOBER 20, 2020

It’s understandable that most of us don’t make time for personal development. Who wants to spend time after a hard day of work learning and developing when they could be kicking back with a beer and watching The Crown? A few months ago, I introduced a concept I have developed called the PM, or Product, Quadrants.

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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 9, 2019

In March last year, my colleague and Mind the Product’s Director of Training, Rosemary King, wrote about how the company departments working alongside a product team could better work together to meet their common goals and to improve working practices. In Marketing, in Product, in Operations… test, learn, test again.

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Mironov Consulting

JULY 28, 2022

Especially in B2B/enterprise software companies, I see two dramatically divergent ( incompatible ) worldviews that IMO explain a lot of corporate behavior. Enterprise Sales and Solutions Teams… Are paid/rewarded/promoted for working with individual prospects or customers one at a time.  Sales

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Userpilot

MARCH 22, 2021

The world of software is crowded with a variety of product marketing tools that are ‘supposed’ to transform your workflow. Product Marketing tools that can add real value to your business do exist, but finding the right software in such a noisy environment can be challenging. What Is Product Marketing?

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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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Mind the Product

FEBRUARY 13, 2020

It’s said that more than two-thirds of software projects fail to deliver expected results. As a result, the team at Uniregistry decided to take a new approach to product validation in an attempt to avoid the same fate. Core team: Product Manager, Product Designer, and a Full-stack Developer (click to enlarge).

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Mind the Product

MARCH 20, 2018

The Product Lifecycle. We all know the product lifecycle chart. While many of us are familiar with the uphill battle and the grind involved in getting traction and any growth towards product/market fit, the launch and growth phases represent a small fraction of the overall life of a product. Product Lifecycle.

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Mironov Consulting

DECEMBER 29, 2022

Almost every week, I have a conversation with executives at B2B software companies who don’t see a bright-line distinction between software license revenue and customization/implementation revenue.  Or What do I mean by software product vs software services ?  A billable).  Building

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Userpilot

JANUARY 27, 2022

If speaking realistically, product churn is inevitable for SaaS companies but decreasing churn by just 5% can cause your profit to rise as much as 25-125%. That means you shouldn’t aim for zero churn but to drive revenue up to a point where it surpasses the amount you lose due to churn. Customer Churn vs. Revenue Churn.

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The Product Coalition

MARCH 23, 2018

I was then told I need to understand product market fit , if I was to truly appreciate how the lean model is applied throughout the product lifecycle. And to that end, one of my biggest objections to many of the products on the market today, is that there is no discernable difference between them.

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Userpilot

MAY 30, 2024

Overlapping responsibilities and conflicting priorities are just a couple of the many friction points between product managers and product marketing managers – leading to inefficient workflows and potential product failures. Product marketing managers focus on getting the product in the right hands.

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Mironov Consulting

APRIL 15, 2023

In my experience, there’s usually a fundamental misalignment between two broad groups at software companies – especially B2B/enterprise companies — that I’ve been thinking/writing for a while.  One On either side, it’s easy to assume bad intent or have this get personal.  Almost

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ProductPlan

JUNE 1, 2023

When your product can do more than it could do before, that sounds like a good thing. Added functionality, new capabilities, a more robust feature set…these are the talking points product marketers salivate over and executives search for on product roadmaps. Where are product teams getting their feature ideas?

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Userpilot

MARCH 13, 2024

Every seasoned product marketer knows that adding new features to your product is key to product management success. TL;DR Feature ideation is a process through which product teams brainstorm ideas for new features to introduce to their product. But not just any features will do.

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The Product Guy

FEBRUARY 27, 2018

We had just hired a new VP of Product who was radically (and rapidly) changing our product development process, and our engineers – based remotely, in Argentina – were struggling to keep up. “To Second, and more important, it shows the demotivation and binary thinking that can result from bad or nonexistent communication.

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Intercom, Inc.

OCTOBER 29, 2020

Think about what you could be doing to bring more diversity into your teams and be more inclusive as a company, and go actively out of your way in order to achieve set goals. I usually do them with Paul or people from the product teams – it’s much more fun to be on a podcast with your boss. Be open-minded.

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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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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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Userpilot

JUNE 30, 2022

While everyone talks about product-market fit, finding product-customer fit is equally important when it comes to engaging the right customers and driving success. You’ve achieved product customer fit when your product and its functionality help the user get their job done in the easiest and fastest way.

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Userpilot

APRIL 21, 2021

Put simply, good product marketing software helps your SaaS solve two fundamental problems: Build a product that users love on the basis of customer feedback Acquire and retain users of that product. But how do you choose good product marketing software? What is product marketing?

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Intercom, Inc.

JANUARY 31, 2019

As part of the process, we’ve spent a lot of time reviewing who we should be selling to these days, and how we should be selling to these customers. 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. Speed is everything.

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Usersnap

MARCH 19, 2019

Should the Voice of Customer influence product development? In Frost & Sullivan’s survey research on R&D/innovation and product development priorities, 84% of the respondents declare that they employ the voice of customers (VoC) in their product development cycle. Do you consider customer feedback?

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Ask Benny

JANUARY 25, 2020

Agile is a concept with principles that helps us develop software better, validate it as soon as we can, and bring value to our customers faster. Scrum is just one of the software development frameworks that implement agile and there are many others including Kanban, extreme programming, lean software development and more.

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The Product Coalition

JUNE 24, 2022

As a Product Manager, at any given time you will be carrying on simultaneous conversations with developers, designers, your product team, data analysts, QA engineers, marketing, sales, possibly your executive team, client success, and of course, your users.

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Mironov Consulting

JULY 27, 2023

Lately, I’ve been writing a lot about entirely predictable goal misalignments between the maker side (product, engineering, design) and the go-to-market side (sales, marketing, customer success) of tech firms, especially at B2B/enterprise software companies.  That

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Userpilot

DECEMBER 9, 2021

In the competitive world of SaaS products, product positioning is definitely something your product marketing team can’t afford to ignore. Product positioning allows you to identify your market niche. Why is product positioning important? The sales team could be a good source of information.

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Mironov Consulting

JUNE 28, 2018

When working on mass consumer products (think FitBit or Facebook or teach-your-kid-to-code toys ), we will have large numbers of small purchases — too many customers to know each by name. Long Sales Cycles, Weak Attribution, Few Data Points. From social team: “4500 likes and retweets of our latest post!”

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The Product Coalition

FEBRUARY 14, 2022

If you are the developer who is supposed to write this feature, you would ask the product manager for very specific instructions as to when and how to predict where this person is going. 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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Mind the Product

JANUARY 28, 2019

They go from planning one product to the next, foregoing the opportunity to establish fundamental product instincts, which only develop after managing the same product for an extended period of time. They never accumulated any substantial product management scar tissue. They never unlearned being self-centric.

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Userpilot

JULY 14, 2021

They are not helping you – the potential user; they are not helping our smaller competitors, who find themselves juxtaposed with enterprise software for a completely different user persona, and it’s not helping us – when we get leads that want something we can’t offer anyway. And neither do Pendo, Appcues, or Product Fruits.

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ProductPlan

DECEMBER 4, 2019

We outlined the seven internal politics situations you’ll likely encounter at least once in your product management career and how you can handle them. Situation: You’ve painstakingly constructed a roadmap after consulting with various stakeholders, the development team, and your peers. An Executive Needs a Feature *Now*.

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svpg

SEPTEMBER 30, 2016

Article: Behind Every Great Product. I titled the paper, “Behind Every Great Product” and it was inspired by the classic Good Product Manager / Bad Product Manager by Ben Horowitz. The paper proved popular and helped many teams to get a better understanding of just what product was all about.

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Product Innovation Educators

NOVEMBER 6, 2023

There’s a huge wealth of other qualitative data that often gets ignored by product teams because it is so hard to use—for example, customer support tickets, sales call transcripts, social media mentions, interview transcripts, and product reviews. This is a very manual process, so few teams decide to do the work. [4:22]

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Userpilot

FEBRUARY 3, 2023

Gather insights about your customers from internal teams. Leverage product analytics to do a customer behavior analysis and get a better understanding of how customers interact with your product. Perform social listening on social media and review sites to see an unfiltered look at what customers are saying about your brand.

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Userpilot

MARCH 30, 2024

Is Whatfix or Userlane the best tool for no-code growth? And is there a better in-app onboarding software that would better fit your needs? With so many alternatives on review sites, it’s a bit tricky to really choose one. TL;DR Let’s explore how Whatfix and Userlane compare when it comes to enabling SaaS no-code growth.

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