Product Talk

APRIL 17, 2024

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. It sounds like you are responsible for product, design, and research. Teresa: Okay.

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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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Mind the Product

JANUARY 21, 2020

One of the rare people who’s seen our world from all sides – Chris has been a developer, designer, researcher and product manager – he came on the show to share practical and implementable advice on how to move from intentions to actions. Tools for measuring your carbon impact. Influencing your vendors. normative.io.

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Roman Pichler

FEBRUARY 19, 2024

You use an outcome-based product roadmap and/or an opportunity solution tree , personas , user journey maps, and the product backlog to capture and validate your decisions and guide the product delivery effort. You follow a business strategy and, if appropriate, a product portfolio strategy , which guide and constrain your decisions.

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Userpilot

MARCH 6, 2020

As a team supporting diversity and women in tech – we decided to use the International Women’s Day as an opportunity to showcase some of the best talent in the industry – and interviewed the top female Product Managers, Product Owners and SaaS founders and CEOs. Women in SaaS. Women in Product.

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Roman Pichler

JULY 6, 2021

Instead of creating, for example, product strategies and roadmaps and tracking KPIs , you should help the people on your team acquire the right knowledge and develop the right skills so that they can carry out the relevant work on their own. Creating and validating a product strategy including market and user research.

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UX Studio

AUGUST 14, 2017

A UX workshop can help you gather the team and brainstorm to make better decisions. Ensure everybody is on the same page by making them more involved in the product development process with these tools. In a UX workshop, we share research results with the participants and let them come up with their own conclusions.

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Mind the Product

JANUARY 22, 2019

Noticing early indications of patterns of behavior can help product managers to plan ahead and work specific questions into their learning roadmaps. Understanding Systems Thinking. Systems thinking is the culmination of stakeholder management, and organizational alignment. What new opportunities could present themselves?

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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.

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Userpilot

AUGUST 26, 2021

You know how when you log into a SaaS product, you often notice the UI has changed or there are new options that weren't there before? That's SaaS product management hustling in the background to give you the best experience. You don't have to lift a finger and you get to access the latest updates whenever you log in.

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Mind the Product

NOVEMBER 1, 2017

Eric is a senior developer at a medium-sized software company. How do you collectively build your marketing persona through a workshop? Preparing for a Persona Workshop. Market research and having a customer proxy are prerequisites for a persona workshop. Our team is building a product for just one person.

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Product Talk

FEBRUARY 10, 2021

Teresa: This is something that I see a lot where somebody reads about a framework or a tool or a technique and they fall in love with it. They’ll come to a workshop or they’ll do somebody else’s training and they want everybody in the company to work the same way. And they say, “This is the only way to do this.

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Userpilot

JANUARY 31, 2023

In this comprehensive guide, we’ll break down underlying customer activation strategies and actionable strategies, specific onboarding tools , and techniques, and tangible examples to learn from. All of that will help you nail customer activation in your own SaaS. SaaS owners and product managers are busy people.

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Intercom, Inc.

APRIL 12, 2018

As the CEO of Dribbble, a global community and invite-only platform for designers to share and find work, Zack Onisko faces a unique challenge: how do you grow a gated product? Over time it’s become more of a mixed platform. And they said, “An iOS app.” Growing a gated platform. What drove that change?

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Roman Pichler

MAY 8, 2018

The cross-functional development team makes the design and technology decisions; and the Scrum Master guides process and organisational change, as the following picture shows. That’s the job of the development team.

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Userpilot

JULY 16, 2024

As a SaaS professional, you’ve probably asked yourself, “What’s tech product management?” We covered everything you need to know, from technical skills and responsibilities to a step-by-step roadmap for getting started. Technical product manager responsibilities include: Conduct user and market research to understand user pain points.

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Roman Pichler

JULY 11, 2016

Respect their UX/UI and technology decisions and their right to determine how much work can be done. As important as it is to make enough time for the team, don’t neglect your other product management duties, such as, engaging with users, working on the product strategy and roadmap, and managing the stakeholders. Be honest and open.

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Roman Pichler

APRIL 13, 2021

Then take into account the product goals on the product roadmap to discover additional KPIs. This, of course, assumes that you have a validated product strategy and a realistic product roadmap in place. To do so, I might measure market share, for instance, by tracking the product’s position in the appropriate app store.

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Mind the Product

MARCH 23, 2017

Mind the Product London 2017 on September 8 will be better than ever, with more workshops, more networking, and more fun than ever. At Adobe, she led Product Management for all of the Design, Web, and Interactive tools including Dreamweaver, Flash, Indesign, and Illustrator. Don’t miss out… Lea Hickman, Partner, SVPG.

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The Product Guy

MARCH 14, 2017

You can ask me to change the color somewhere or put a button on a screen, and I will probably do that, but I really like to get challenging problems where I can do my research build prototypes, do user tests, and come up with a solution that will raise our product to the next level. Designers has to work well with developers.

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Mind the Product

MAY 13, 2019

Finally we structure the “what” – this means we create systems, frameworks and processes, rather than feeding squads a roadmap. We built our knowledge from desk research, user interviews and personal experiences. Platform: Lever : Eligibility % and Shadow £. Explain the why. Structure the What.

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Product Talk

SEPTEMBER 4, 2024

We’ll learn about how they started rolling out the product trio model at Botify, some of the tools and tactics they’ve developed to guide their work, and what they’ve observed from the research they’ve conducted with other product leaders and trios. Do you have a Product in Practice you’d like to share? You can submit your story here.

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Mind the Product

AUGUST 2, 2018

Qualitative research vs Quantitative data. Roadmaps with dates vs Roadmaps with no dates. But at the end of the day these are all just tools in a toolbox. Every company, team, product, and market is different so blindly applying any tool, process or methodology every time is simply not going to work.

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Userpilot

NOVEMBER 4, 2020

Product Managers today have an overwhelming array of code free tools for UX design and development to choose from. In the bad old days, SaaS companies had to build every part of their products from scratch. In this blog, we’ll show you our favorite low code or code free tools for UX at every step of the Product Manager’s role.

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Userpilot

JANUARY 15, 2024

The roadmap to becoming a UI/UX designer is less about following a strict path and more about embracing a mindset of continuous learning. Let’s review the UI/UX roadmap, what UI and UX are, and how you can get into this career path. Practice, research, and networking are key to your professional growth in UI/UX design.

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UX Studio

JANUARY 10, 2019

Product teams need to learn how to exclude their biases and leverage quantitative and qualitative data in order to provide the best possible solution and choose the most reasonable direction for their product roadmap. Attending UX Research Training enables your product team to. How to apply research methods? Interviewing.

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The Product Coalition

OCTOBER 6, 2021

Ambitious growth plans often require addressing new customer needs, entering new markets, selling dramatically different products or applying new technology. Usually, it starts with an insight into a market, customer problem or new technology. This is where the New Venture Design Playbook comes in. Strategy 1. Business Model 3.

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Userzoom

JUNE 9, 2020

I’m in the unusual position of seeing directly (and indirectly) how hundreds of businesses’ digital departments across different industries have reacted to COVID-19, through my role as a UX research partner at UserZoom. Ugly research practices are rearing their heads. Image by Nick Bolton.

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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

APRIL 25, 2024

We cut straight to practical, usable examples you can immediately incorporate into your user research or interviews. Userpilot is an all-in-one solution for product teams that allows you to build bespoke in-app surveys with open-ended, Likert scale, and multiple choice questions (among other things) without any coding.

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The Product Coalition

SEPTEMBER 14, 2020

Many organizations erroneously define their products by taking a technology perspective. They consider the product’s underlying technologies, components, and tools and call a logical grouping of them a “product.” Some seven years ago, I gave a presentation about product roadmapping with the title “Products, Not Projects.”

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Mind the Product

OCTOBER 17, 2019

Product people descended upon central London this morning for a series of Mind the Product training workshops , kicking off #mtpcon ahead of tomorrow’s conference. From the 14 workshops there was plenty to take away. Here’s a very quick snapshot of three of them, led by Julia Whitney, Joe Leech, and Frank Qiu.

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Roman Pichler

NOVEMBER 12, 2019

Compare this example with a different one: I was working for a large technology company, tasked with helping develop a new digital product. This makes it easier to carry out collaborative market and user research work like observing and interviewing target users. Don’t forget to regularly rotate sites.

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Roman Pichler

NOVEMBER 12, 2019

Compare this example with a different one: I was working for a large technology company, tasked with helping develop a new digital product. This makes it easier to carry out collaborative market and user research work like observing and interviewing target users. Don’t forget to regularly rotate sites.

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Intercom, Inc.

OCTOBER 10, 2019

We do it by closing distances that our technologies have just opened. That includes design systems, pattern libraries and guidelines, but it goes beyond that. “We have to figure out ways to bring people back together, and we have to use technology to make that happen.” Louis: Technology is just a tool, right?

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UX Studio: Product Management

JUNE 23, 2020

Zignaly is a cryptocurrency trading platform that helps investors make the right trades by either copying other traders (copy-trading) or receiving trade suggestions based on technical and fundamental analysis (signals). On our side, we had one UX designer and one UX researcher, the latter of which also taking on the role of project manager.

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Mind the Product

MARCH 16, 2017

UPDATED Mind the Product San Francisco 2017 promises to be one of our best product conferences yet, with double the number of workshops , more networking events around the conference, and more fun than ever before. Prior to Twitter, Josh worked on the platform at Facebook and led the launch of Facebook Connect. Get those tickets now!

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