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UX KPIs In SaaS: 10 Key UX KPIs That Product Managers Should Keep an Eye On

Userpilot

UX KPIs, or user experience key performance indicators, are essential numerical data points that are used to track, measure, and compare the experience users have with your SaaS product. These UX KPIs consist of real user monitoring metrics that can help you discover multiple user errors, deliver a better customer experience to your users, get valuable insights, and make decisions regarding UX design.

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Product Sense Demystified

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Even though I have been writing consistently about product now for more than two decades, including a few books, I have thus far managed to avoid using the term “product sense.” That was not an accident. I have always disliked the term, and I especially dislike the implications. But for whatever reason, a lot more. The post Product Sense Demystified appeared first on Silicon Valley Product Group.

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When it comes to product growth, the traditional funnel model is no longer enough

Mind the Product

In this Guest Post, Nick Chasinov, founder and CEO of Teknicks discusses why product marketers should transition from the funnel model to growth loops. [.] Read more » The post When it comes to product growth, the traditional funnel model is no longer enough appeared first on Mind the Product.

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Batteries Not Included: Turning a Minimum Viable Product to a Minimum Lovable Product

The Product Coalition

“The cost of mediocrity is disappointment.” — William Arthur Ward The excitement was palpable. Did I get it? Or would it be a disappointing Christmas? The snow outside was deep. The windows were frosted over. The wood-burning stove was roaring. A beautiful scene, yet all I could think of was that toy. Like the movie A Christmas Story and Ralphie’s quest for a bb gun, I had dropped as many hints as possible — although my ask was less dangerous.

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Platform Product Management Beyond Features: Introducing B-MAP for Platform Ecosystem Success

Traditional PM struggles with the complexities of platform ecosystems. B-MAP framework tackles this challenge. B-MAP goes beyond features, focusing on building, managing, adapting, and partnering to foster a thriving platform ecosystem.

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Two Ways to Take Your Customer Success Management Game to the Next Level

Gainsight

According to Gainsight research , companies continue to invest in customer success (CS), and it’s obvious why: CS is an efficient growth engine for the business. . Through renewals and expansion, CS boosts the bottom line by driving Net Revenue Retention (NRR)—a critical metric for SaaS organizations. But all of that is easier said than done. Today’s top CS teams realize the need to work smarter, not harder.

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Discovery Is Messy: How Do We Keep Track of All That We Are Learning?

Product Talk

As you start to adopt the continuous discovery habits, it’s easy to get overwhelmed by how much stuff you generate. What do I mean by “stuff”? Opportunity solution trees , experience maps, interview snapshots, interview notes and recordings, story maps , assumption maps, assumption test plans , and results. Inevitably, you might start to wonder, “How should I keep track of all of this stuff?

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Let’s talk about OKRs – The Product Experience

Mind the Product

In this week's episode on The Product Experience, Lily and Randy take a trip down memory lane to the best words of wisdom on OKRs from a range of product experts on the podcast. Tune in to listen to actionable insights from Storm Fagan, Todd Olson, Petra Wille, and more! [.] Read more » The post Let’s talk about OKRs – The Product Experience appeared first on Mind the Product.

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Building an MVP: Steps and Benefits

UX Studio: Product Management

When you have an idea in mind, you might feel the urge to create it in one sitting. But without a plan, research, test, and validation you might waste energy and money on developing something that’s not appealing to anyone. Sure, building an MVP can also feel like a waste of time, but trust us, it’s a proven method in the business world. Building an MVP (Minimum Viable Product) is the first and most crucial step of creating a new digital platform.

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Four Ways to Evolve Your Durable Growth Strategy

Gainsight

As market conditions shift, the era of growth at all costs has come to an end , and investors now have their eyes on companies that are capable of scaling efficiently. . That’s why we introduced the Durable Growth Playbook at our annual Pulse conference to arm organizations with the strategy they need to grow, despite economic uncertainty. But we didn’t stop there.

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Entity Resolution Checklist: What to Consider When Evaluating Options

Are you trying to decide which entity resolution capabilities you need? It can be confusing to determine which features are most important for your project. And sometimes key features are overlooked. Get the Entity Resolution Evaluation Checklist to make sure you’ve thought of everything to make your project a success! The list was created by Senzing’s team of leading entity resolution experts, based on their real-world experience.

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Video: How Today's Product Builders Find Product/Market Fit

Sachin Rekhi

Video: How Today's Product Builders Find Product/Market Fit. I recently had the opportunity to sit down with Fareed Mosavat, Chief Development Officer at Reforge, for a discussion on how today's product builders find product/market fit. We started by pointing out the shortcomings of the Lean Startup methodology, which remains the most popular approach to finding product/market fit today.

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SUNDAY REWIND: No one is immune to cognitive bias

Mind the Product

No one is immune to cognitive biases. Cindy Alvarez, Principle Researcher at Microsoft and Author of Lean Customer Development wanted us to recognize this fact at #mtpcon San Francisco 2018. In this Sunday Rewind, we look back on this talk and what we learned from her keynote. [.] Read more » The post SUNDAY REWIND: No one is immune to cognitive bias appeared first on Mind the Product.

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Uncommon Advice to Young People Who Want to Succeed in Product Management

The Product Coalition

Becoming a great product manager isn’t about acquiring hard skills. So what makes a great product manager? I remember when I joined an early stage startup and started to develop hard skills. I learned SQL and JavaScript to gain autonomy and engineers’ respect. While I learned the hard skills, the decisions we made weren’t better. We didn’t move faster, nor did the the team respect me more.

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A note from Eoghan McCabe

Intercom, Inc.

We’ve got an update to share. Today, we announced that Eoghan McCabe, Intercom’s chairman, co-founder and former CEO, is returning to lead the company as CEO. Karen Peacock is stepping down as CEO and transitioning to an advisory role to support through the transition. Below is the email that Eoghan sent to the company after sharing the news with employees at All Hands.

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The Big Payoff of Application Analytics

Outdated or absent analytics won’t cut it in today’s data-driven applications – not for your end users, your development team, or your business. That’s what drove the five companies in this e-book to change their approach to analytics. Download this e-book to learn about the unique problems each company faced and how they achieved huge returns beyond expectation by embedding analytics into applications.

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Globalizing Customer Feedback

The Product Guy

The future of product management may lie in solving the problem of unifying customer feedback from all around the globe. Watch and learn more from product management expert, Don Ross.

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Learnings from London: Tech and the new normal by Benedict Evans

Mind the Product

This week’s Learnings from London takes us back a couple of years to an online talk from Benedict Evans, an analyst and former partner at Andreessen Horowitz, which fittingly looks at the impact of Covid on tech and at how it’s been the catalyst for explosive acceleration and experimentation. Ben says that today everyone is [.] Read more » The post Learnings from London: Tech and the new normal by Benedict Evans appeared first on Mind the Product.

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Oversharing Information With Developers: Product Management Lessons Learned

The Product Coalition

Image by master1305 on Freepik Writing product requirements is the bread and butter of thousands of product managers or product owners worldwide. It’s how to communicate to developers what to build. Whether the medium is a ‘PRD’ (product requirements document), user story, or link to prototypes, there are endless ‘best practices’ and tips for how to do it best.

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Management coach Lara Hogan on perfecting the leadership craft

Intercom, Inc.

Each person on your team has different needs, responds to feedback in different ways and evolves in different trajectories – and management should always reflect that. Even when you reach the perfect team dynamic – a new hire or budget cut can easily throw things off balance. But no matter how isolating a management position can feel, you’re not going through it alone.

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IDC Analyst Report: The Open Source Blind Spot Putting Businesses at Risk

In a recent study, IDC found that 64% of organizations said they were already using open source in software development with a further 25% planning to in the next year. Most organizations are unaware of just how much open-source code is used and underestimate their dependency on it. As enterprises grow the use of open-source software, they face a new challenge: understanding the scope of open-source software that's being used throughout the organization and the corresponding exposure.

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Track regulatory changes in your industry

Roy Madden

Market Intelligence. Stay on top of new or changing regulations that affect your company. Stay on top of new or changing regulations affecting your company with Feedly’s AI Engine. Our new ‘ Regulatory Changes ’ Machine Learning model allows you to: Track the new laws that are affecting your market Monitor the regulations that are affecting new technologies Keep up with any regulatory and clinical trial developments in the biopharma industry.

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Simple steps to effective collaboration

Mind the Product

In an ideal world, product management and the rest of the business work together in a spirit of constant cooperation and collaboration. There’s no friction, everyone pulls together and works towards a universally understood common goal, and everyone is listened to and treated with respect – happy days. If that’s your reality – amazing. For [.

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How to Lead Your Audience to the Result You Want?

The Product Coalition

As product managers, we can’t succeed without others agreeing with our direction and doing their part. Meetings are an important tool in that mission. First, you need to prepare and understand what is the desired outcome of that meeting. But then comes the hard part — how to get everyone onboard? Here are some guidelines for how to run the meeting itself and get to the outcome you want.

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Announcing our refreshed guide ‘The Customer Retention Starter Kit’

Intercom, Inc.

A few years ago, we published The Customer Retention Starter Kit which helped thousands of businesses retain more customers over the long term. Today, we’re launching a completely refreshed guide to help you engage, nurture, and retain more customers in the modern age. In today’s digital era, engaging and retaining the customers you have is easier and more efficient than winning new ones.

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A Comprehensive Checklist to Revamp Your Website & Increase Profitability

Unlock the power of a well-designed website with our eBook, 'Comprehensive Checklist: A Guide to Website Redesign.' Crafted by Brucira and ruttl founders, it's your ally in reshaping your digital presence. Welcome to a transformative journey!

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How to Analyze Customer Behavior and Improve In-app Experience

Userpilot

How can you analyze customer behavior in-app to deliver unparalleled in-app experiences? What customer data can you collect to derive valuable insights and improve retention? In this piece, we’ll cover everything you need to know about customer behavior analysis. Read on to unlock product growth opportunities! TL;DR. Customer behavior data refers to any customers’ interactions inside the product across the different stages of the customer journey : from engaging with the onboarding c

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10 Tips for New Product Research and Discovery

ProductPlan

A blank page, much like the one I’m using to write this article, used to scare me. A new product can feel the same way. There’s nothing to build on and so many more risks. There is a place between nothing and a great product that’s full of uncertainty. Earlier in my career, this was nerve-wracking. Now, after a decade of managing products and advising, I find it exciting.

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Ten Ways to Embed Psychological Safety in Your Product Team

The Product Coalition

It’s not easy to work in environments without safety, and it’s more productive to operate where it exists. So here’s some ways… Continue reading on Product Coalition ».

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What is customer self-service?

Intercom, Inc.

A customer self-service offering is key to empowering customers with information while also reducing the burden on customer service professionals. Customer self-service takes a variety of forms, including but not limited to: help centers or knowledge bases, customer portals, FAQ or glossary pages, mobile apps, AI-powered chat and messaging services, or customer communities.

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LLMOps for Your Data: Best Practices to Ensure Safety, Quality, and Cost

Speaker: Shreya Rajpal, Co-Founder and CEO at Guardrails AI & Travis Addair, Co-Founder and CTO at Predibase

Large Language Models (LLMs) such as ChatGPT offer unprecedented potential for complex enterprise applications. However, productionizing LLMs comes with a unique set of challenges such as model brittleness, total cost of ownership, data governance and privacy, and the need for consistent, accurate outputs. Putting the right LLMOps process in place today will pay dividends tomorrow, enabling you to leverage the part of AI that constitutes your IP – your data – to build a defensible AI strategy fo

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How to Use Growth Loops to Drive Adoption in SaaS

Userpilot

Sustainable growth is the biggest priority for any SaaS business that wants to succeed. Building compounding growth loops will help get you there. It’s what companies like Dropbox, Loom, and Slack did to get to where they are today. In this article, we’ll cover: What growth loops are and what makes them so effective. The different types of growth loops and their intended benefits.

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4 Lessons CPOs Can Learn From Top-Performing CEOs About Resource Allocation

Dragonboat

Executive Summary While simultaneously reading the book, CEO Excellence: The Six Mindsets That Distinguish the Best Leaders from the Rest, and watching each of Dragonboat’s CPO Series webinars, I made a few valuable connections between how top-performing CEOs handle company resource allocation decisions and what chief product officers (CPO), or any CxO, can learn from […].

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Product Metrics Maps: What It Is and How to Build It

The Product Coalition

A step-by-step guide on measuring customer behavior at each stage of their product journey Continue reading on Product Coalition ».