Product Innovation Educators

MARCH 4, 2025

How AI captures customer needs that human product managers miss Watch on YouTube TLDR In my recent conversation with Carmel Dibner from Applied Marketing Science, we explored how artificial intelligence is transforming Voice of the Customer (VOC) research for product teams.

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Product Talk

MARCH 13, 2024

When an organization shifts from delivery or feature teams to product teams , the first step is often a change to team structure. Delivery and feature teams are often structured by function—front-end teams, back-end teams, mobile teams, etc. These teams can rarely deliver value on their own.

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Sachin Rekhi

OCTOBER 25, 2016

While every product team I've worked with leverages customer feedback to inform product decisions in some way, most fall short of designing their customer feedback loop to maximize the benefits to the product team of gathering, recording, and synthesizing feedback.

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Product Talk

FEBRUARY 10, 2021

A few months ago, fellow Product Talk coach Hope Gurion and I sat down to discuss why there’s no single right way to do discovery. Meet your co-presenters, product discovery coaches Teresa Torres and Hope Gurion. We are both product discovery coaches with Product Talk. Thank you so much.

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Alchemer Mobile

FEBRUARY 2, 2021

According to an InMobi survey , the number one challenge facing app developers today isn’t design or development. The bad news? Without marketing, even the best apps struggle when it comes to customer acquisition and discovery. You don’t need a big budget or a dedicated marketing team to market your app.

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The Product Guy

JANUARY 7, 2025

Whether youre grappling with a delayed product launch or a strained relationship, the path forward begins by uncovering the deeper truths beneath the surface. Product managers live and breathe this approach, diving beyond symptoms to address root causes. Imagine what could happen if we applied those skills beyond products.

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UX Planet

NOVEMBER 4, 2024

Photo by UX Indonesia This ‘complete’ guide to usability testing follows an overview in my UX research methods playbook articles. Introduction If you’re responsible in some way for a digital product or system, you should be doing usability testing — whatever your sector, industry or role. But what is usability?

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Johanna Rothman

MARCH 5, 2020

This series is about helping a team create a less brittle environment—more resilience. This part is about shortening feedback loops. Brief description of the problem at a recent client: Person A checked in code that broke an “unrelated” part of the system. Neither did the team. I admit it.

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TechEmpower - Product Management

SEPTEMBER 25, 2023

When speaking with founders and CEOs, we often hear concerns like this: My project manager is losing confidence in the development team. I think that poor communication and differing team cultures might be part of the problem, but how can I know for sure? This is where a technical review can be useful!)

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Userpilot

OCTOBER 19, 2024

Customer satisfaction (CSAT) is a measure of how well a company’s product, service, and overall experience meet customer expectations. Satisfaction in SaaS, therefore, isn’t simply about developing a nice product and launching it in the market. Regular updates : The product is frequently improved based on user feedback.

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The Product Guy

APRIL 9, 2019

Guest Post by: Eric Wang (Mentee, Session 8, The Product Mentor) [Paired with Mentor, Chris Butler]. The notion of a strategy in product management seems like something that only high-level stakeholders at the executive level should care about. Make a list of the scope and the challenges to your product. Simple task, right?

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Roman Pichler

FEBRUARY 9, 2022

What’s more, it’s not uncommon in my experience that product owners have to do their job without the support of a Scrum Master or agile coach. This includes product roles such as product owner and feature owner. Having an effective Scrum Master allows you to focus on your job—to maximise the value the product create.

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The Product Coalition

NOVEMBER 12, 2024

How first principles can help you design product roadmaps from the ground up. Product roadmaps are no exception. Creating or even updating a product roadmap can feel like being handed a blank sheet of paper and told you have 60 minutes to write a ten-page college essay on a topic you didn’t study for….

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UX Planet

DECEMBER 6, 2024

If there is one thing thats altering the way we create user experience (UX) designs and conduct research in 2024, it is definitely artificial intelligence (AI). Automation is also streamlining many routine design tasks, allowing designers to prototype and analyze user research muchfaster. Finally, we have user research analysis.

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Roman Pichler

APRIL 3, 2018

Business Strategy vs. Product Strategy. It’s distinct from the product strategy : The business strategy states how the company will be successful, whereas the product strategy describes how a product will achieve success, as the following picture illustrates. It is therefore a key input for any product discovery work.

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Mind the Product

MARCH 12, 2020

Product operations is an emerging function. How does it help modern product management organizations to scale effectively? Similar to the emergence of design ops in the last five years, product operations fulfills a need to streamline a scaling function. What product ops is. What Product Managers do.

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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. Before founding Viable, he held senior leadership roles in engineering, technology, and product.

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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

DECEMBER 23, 2021

“If you think good design is expensive, you should look at the cost of bad design,” Ralf Speth, a former Jaguar Land Rover CEO. The study by the Design Management Institute analyzed the performance of design-led organizations that place influential design decisions at the top as compared to the Standard & Poor’s index over 10 years.

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Intercom, Inc.

JUNE 1, 2021

Most support teams have seen an influx of support queries since COVID-19 hit – and those issues are more complex than ever. According to recent research, however, many teams aren’t sufficiently equipped to meet these new challenges. Challenge #1: Limited team bandwidth, resources, and budget.

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Alchemer Mobile

AUGUST 2, 2024

By understanding what drives customers away, organizations can take proactive action to improve customer experiences and product offerings. Make better-informed business decisions Data-driven insights from CX metrics enable teams to make informed decisions. Like an NPS survey, a CES survey utilizes a Likert Scale.

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Mironov Consulting

OCTOBER 19, 2022

Product management doesn’t run Engineering; Engineering runs Engineering. And at least in public, Engineering and Product leadership need to be shoulder-to-shoulder , actively supporting each other at every turn. But there are some engineering team configurations that I see as problematic.  So

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Mironov Consulting

MAY 24, 2022

Everywhere I go, I see massive amounts of product waste : development work delivered on time/on budget that doesn’t drive sales or customer satisfaction or business improvement.  Yet I think serious product discovery and end user validation may be stuck in this cultural/conceptual gap.  Product

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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. Ensure that your data is clean and easily accessible, as poor data quality undermines the value of even the best customer success tool.

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Intercom, Inc.

AUGUST 11, 2020

And while seeing this work come to fruition, Sam, a Product Engineer at Intercom, was inspired to find more ways to get involved. For example, webcams with built-in facial detection sometimes don’t detect people with darker skin , because they were only tested on people with lighter skin. How we rethought our terminology.

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Folding Burritos

DECEMBER 7, 2017

As Product Managers, we perfectly understand the need to generate and use customer feedback. What isn’t so often clear is how to do this on a day-to-day basis, when we’re not as experienced or when we deal with “less than ideal” products and organizations. By itself, that’s absolutely meaningless.

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Mind the Product

AUGUST 19, 2019

What does it mean for us as product managers? We all use AI or machine learning (ML)-driven products almost every day, and the number of these products will be growing exponentially over the next couple of years. What does it mean for us as product managers? Lesson 1: Understand the Problem You’re Trying to Solve with ML.

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Mind the Product

DECEMBER 5, 2019

How do you decide what to prioritize or whether to believe what customers and prospects are telling you about your product? Here, I’ll explain how applying the hierarchy of value certainty, shown below, can help you to answer these questions and make your product profitable. A core skill of product management is prioritization.

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Product Talk

APRIL 3, 2024

Customer interviews are one of the most impactful activities a product team can do. Customer interviews are one of the most impactful activities a product team can do. Well, when I ask you if you would use my product or service, two things happen: You want to be nice to me. But only if we use the right methods.

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UX Planet

SEPTEMBER 10, 2024

The effectiveness of a design system cannot be assumed; it must be actively measured and optimized over time. A robust design system should not only streamline design and development processes but also ensure scalability as the organization grows, adapts to new platforms, and handles diverse product requirements.

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Intercom, Inc.

JANUARY 21, 2020

The results shows us the value of taking a principled approach to writing text for mobile apps – because product design is still all about the words. If it’s one of the most common elements in our designs, why is it so often the last thing most teams focus on – if they focus on it at all? Mobile apps dominate our digital experiences.

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Agile Velocity

AUGUST 19, 2020

STATIK (Systems Thinking Approach To Implementing Kanban 1 2 ) can be a great technique to help teams get up and running quickly, even teams that are using Scrum. . Applying this approach designed for Kanban can dramatically accelerate the forming and improvements of a Scrum team. What is the current way of working?

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Intercom, Inc.

JANUARY 19, 2021

Inconsistent product functionality, wildly differing UI components, and conflicting terminology – the slow creep of design debt can have far-reaching consequences for your business if left unchecked. A few years ago, we wanted to improve the A/B testing functionality in some of our targeted messages. Moving fast makes you slow.

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The Product Coalition

JANUARY 28, 2021

Product Bugs: A Comprehensive Guide?—?Part Part 1 Product Bugs are one of the most common and accepted parts of building tech products. Yet bugs are often overlooked or an afterthought, especially when it comes to thinking about how to improve productivity and, ultimately, get better outcomes for customers.

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Product Innovation Educators

JULY 17, 2023

Lessons from the discoverer of Stage-Gate for product managers Today we are talking with a legend in product management. Our guest is Dr. Robert Cooper, who discovered the now famous Stage-Gate process and was named the “World’s Top Innovation Management Scholar” by the prestigious Journal of Product Innovation Management.

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Intercom, Inc.

JUNE 15, 2022

Product teams often fall into the trap of spending most of their time on the core functionality of the products they’re building. Onboarding is critical to the success of your product. Focusing on the onboarding process at the beginning of new product development is critical to overcoming this.

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The Product Coalition

MARCH 29, 2018

Is your B2B product easy to sell and easy to renew? I realize not every product person has to navigate sales stakeholders. But if you’re working on a B2B product with a sales force, odds are you know what I mean. But if you’re working on a B2B product with a sales force, odds are you know what I mean.

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