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To Influence Product Development, Spend More Time in the Problem Space

280 Group

Given tight deadlines and the pressure to get to market quickly with innovative products, many Product Managers feel the need to propose product features and changes they think will meet customer needs. However, this can backfire if you fail to thoroughly define who your customers are, their pains, and their potential gains. .

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53 Questions Developers Should Ask Innovators

TechEmpower - Product Management

Even when they have talked to multiple developers or development firms, we’re often the first to ask basic questions like “Who are your customers?” ” or “Are you developing for desktop, tablet, mobile, or all three?” The innovator/developer relationship needs to be a conversation.

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10 Ways Customer Data & Machine Learning Can Enhance Customer Experience

Userpilot

Coupled closely together with Machine Learning is customer data. Combining customer data & machine learning unlocks the power of big data. This one-two combo is a great way to help enhance customer experience , one of the most impactful methods of increasing product growth. What is machine learning?

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UX vs CX (User Experience vs Customer Experience): Explaining 4 Key Differences

Userpilot

UX deals with a user's interactions with specific aspects of your product, while CX is broader and covers all customer engagements with your brand. TL;DR The user experience (UX) is the sum of a user's thoughts, impressions, and feelings as they interact with specific aspects of your product.

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Driving Business Impact for PMs

Speaker: Jon Harmer, Product Manager for Google Cloud

Move from feature factory to customer outcomes and drive impact in your business! This session will provide you with a comprehensive set of tools to help you develop impactful products by shifting from output-based thinking to outcome-based thinking.

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Fintech Customer Experience: How to Measure and Improve It [+ Tools]

Userpilot

Creating a positive fintech customer experience for every lead who walks through the door of financial institutions is easier said than done. However, this guide will show you how to measure customer experience in the fintech industry, make improvements, and pick the best tools for the job!

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9 Customer Analytics Use Cases For SaaS

Userpilot

Looking for customer analytics use cases that can significantly improve your SaaS? This article lists key use cases for SaaS and explains how to implement them to unlock customer satisfaction and product growth. We also cover: Customer analytics categories. The three types of customer analytics and their significance.

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Product Design & Customer Experience: An Innovative View on Inclusive Product Development

Speaker: Dan Jenkins - Human Factors & Research Lead – DCA Design International

It is a philosophy that encourages us to consider how size, shape, age, gender, sexuality, ethnicity, education levels, income, spoken languages, culture and customs, and even diets shape the way we interact with the world. Use Product Management Today’s webinars to earn professional development hours!

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Feedback: The Secret to Innovating Your Product Development Process

Speaker: Liz Love, Chief Commercial Officer at ProdPad

As product managers, we all seem to experience similar pain points in our day to day lives. We all struggle with stakeholder conflict, constant feature requests, failed launches, unexpected outcomes, unhappy users, and complexity. In this session, you will learn: The reasons behind product management pain points.

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Customer Advocacy and Community

Speaker: Liz Richardson and Deena Zenyk

So you’ve heard the news, your existing customers are your best source of new customers. But how do you go about formalizing a process that proves your customers are important to you and achieves reliable business outcomes? By following a step-by-step process that uses your community to develop a customer advocacy program.

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How Product Teams Can Benefit from Feature Flags

Feature flags offer great value to developers, but they can benefit product teams equally as much. Product teams can use feature flags to continuously deliver a higher-quality product to their end users, all while saving time and speeding up development cycles.

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How to Evaluate and Implement Customer Feedback Into Your Product Roadmap

Speaker: Rebecca Notté, Product Operations Manager and Hannah Chaplin, Director of Product Marketing at Pendo

It can be a real challenge to collect, manage, and understand feedback from customers. And how can you bring the voice of the customer into projects you're already working on? Taking a proactive approach when collecting customer feedback will answer all these questions and ensure that you are building the best product.

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If You Build It, They Will Come: A Guide to Customer Onboarding

Speaker: Jamie Bernard, Sr. Product Director and Product Management Practice Lead at Nexient, an NTT Data Company

The act of onboarding the customer – and putting the customer first during this onboarding – seems like a no-brainer thing to get right, but so many get it wrong. If you can simplify your onboarding process and show your product's value from the beginning, you can lower customer churn and increase the usability of your product.

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How Leveraging Data Creates Efficient Product Roadmaps

Speaker: Hannah Chaplin - Product Marketing Principal & Steve Cheshire - Product Manager

Without product usage data and user feedback guiding your product roadmap, product managers and engineers end up wasting money, time, and effort building what they think stakeholders want, rather than what they know they need. How to incorporate customer feedback into your roadmap.

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The Product Symphony: Orchestrating Success with Storymapping

Speaker: Jamie Bernard - Senior Product Director at Launch by NTT Data

In today’s dynamic business landscape, successful product management hinges on a keen understanding of customer needs and market dynamics. It serves as a catalyst to better align your entire organization, setting the stage for impactful, customer-centric product management.