ProdMinds #10 — Scott Williamson
Successful products attract rapid growth in usage and it can be a huge challenge to keep up with performance, availability, and security demands.
How We Use Producter's Documentation Module
In Producter, documentation is an essential component for every team. With only one documentation, Producter took its first steps. It all started with just a few words written down on paper for many products that have become indispensable in our lives.
Achieve Product Success in a Fast-Growing Market
Being a product leader requires enormous efforts and being in tune with the market and customer needs. For that reason, product leaders are the ones who guide the company's strategy. What should product leaders do to stay successful in a fast-growing market?
How to Create a Customer Feedback Strategy
Managing customer feedback can be challenging. It is one of the most important responsibilities of a product manager. Using a solid feedback management strategy will help you improve customer satisfaction, reduce churn, increase revenue and most importantly, create customer loyalty.
Product-Market Fit Through Continuous Feedback Management
Product managers are always looking for ways to find the product-market fit. One way to do this is through continuous feedback management. This involves tracking customer feedback and using it to make constant changes and improvements to the product.
ProdMinds #9 — Shyvee Shi
A key to master the art of being compelling as a PM is to focus on both the “substance” of your argument and the “style” of the argument, particularly as it relates to the target audience and key stakeholders we are trying to convince.
Level 2 Unlocked: Public Beta
We published the first version of Producter shortly after quitting our full-time jobs. We had our first closed beta user create the workspace last year at these times.
Best Hacks to Get Honest Customer Feedback
If you are a B2B SaaS business brand owner or a product manager in a B2B SaaS brand, you know how important it is to keep improving your SaaS products.
5 Ways to Avoid Feature Bloat
See a need, fill a need. That’s how product managers roll. You want your product to solve more problems. You keep adding new features your users are asking for. You end up with too many features.
ProdMinds #8 — Ankit Goswami
Instead of “work fast and break stuff” you should work fast and learn quickly. What this means is that you have to understand problems you think you will be able to solve
The Role of Product Manager in the Product-Led Growth Equation
As a product manager, you're likely always looking for ways to grow your company's revenue. But what if there were a specific approach you could take that would guarantee growth? The key to sustained revenue growth lies in product-led strategies.
ProdMinds #7 — Jacqueline Suttin
Product Management for me has been a journey through various start-ups, I started in a clinical setting, pivoted into marketing
What B2B metrics should you start with?
The first thing to understand is that in a B2B context, there are two key user personas, hence the metrics are different as per the priorities of the persona.
Producter Glossary: Community
Communities are an essential element in supporting product growth. Communities provide some services to customers, albeit in a limited capacity, to reach a wider audience and expand features. (rules set by communities)
5 Key Metrics Every Product-Led Company Must Track
Keeping track of your product's numbers is always critical, regardless of where you are in the process. Metrics allow you to see the big picture and prevent emotional decisions that are made in error.
Producter Glossary: Roadmap Milestones
A roadmap milestone is a date that specifies an event or deadline that the product manager wants the team to be aware of. They exist to highlight internal and external goals.
ProdMinds #6 — Joaquim Costa
I’m a Portuguese entrepreneur and a global citizen, currently based in the south of Portugal. I’m the type of person that enjoys moving fast, launching when 75% done and making adjustments on the fly.
ProdMinds #5 — Samuel Beek
When I started building software, I didn’t know that there were multiple roles in teams. It might sound funny now, but I was under the impression that everybody just combined everything.
Producter Glossary: Customer-Centricity
An organization’s life cycle should be built around the customer. A customer-centric approach begins with determining what clients need and how they want to interact with your company.
My First Four Months as a Producter
In February, I began working at Producter as a Product Management Intern. As I have been learning and experiencing along the way, I would like to share them with you.
Top 10 Product Management Podcasts
Guy Raz dives into the stories behind some of the world’s best-known companies. How I Built This weaves a narrative journey about innovators, entrepreneurs and idealists — and the movements they built.
ProdMinds #4 — Federico Sallemi
I think no one is born a Product Manager, simply because there is no single study course to become one. And I was no exception.
Our Team Rituals at Producter
Connection is the cornerstone of team culture. Although we are a remote-first team and love it, it might feel isolated without in-person interactions.
Behind the Scenes: Product Decisions
Every product goes through natural stages before development. For a product to become successful, it’s important to have all the right pieces in place. That’s why product managers rely on mapping out the various product development stages to obtain greater insight into the next steps.
ProdMinds #3 — Lena Sesardic
Like most product managers, I fell into the wild world of product management by accident. After studying Economics at university, I worked in customer service and operations at a small startup for a few years where I ended up doing some data analysis projects for the CEO.
ProdMinds #2 — Kristof Van den Eede
Hello, I studied New Media and Communication Technologies at Howest in Belgium, a program with a solid mix between programming, networking, video, and web development. That landed me a job as a front-end developer at a big media company.
Producter Glossary: Agile Framework
Agile is a work management approach based on iteration. The value of Agile is that it helps unpredictability, continuous improvement, fast responses to change, and satisfy customers.
ProdMinds #1 — Maarten Dalmijn
Hello. My path into Product Management is unusual. I have no background in tech or business at all. I studied Biology and obtained an engineering degree in Functional Genomics at the Technical University of Delft.
Product Documentation Tree Framework
Product documentation is essential to help users navigate through your product. Many teams consider documentation a necessary evil, something that needs to be written if you have to.
20 Product Communities to Join
Producter is a product management tool designed to become customer-driven. Producter Slack community is for professionals in the product space. It’s a great place to meet other product people and gain insights from them and learn more about product-led growth, product management, and more
Producter Glossary: Feature Request
A feature request is a suggestion, message, or request from a user regarding a particular feature that your organization wishes to implement. Feature requests can be used to decide how to iterate on an existing product.
7 Trends that Will Shape Product Management in 2022
The field of product management is always changing — and the next few years are shaping up to be an exciting time for product management. As the industry continues to grow, companies need insight into what is going to happen next.
Producter Glossary: Documentation
Documentation is a source of information. It can be written for any purpose. Tech teams tend to use documentation to explain their code. It can also be written for API and SDK guidelines.
Top Product Management Conferences in 2022
Leading the Product event was started by Product Managers for product managers to share their passion for creating and managing great products and services. Leading the Product is an event you can’t miss if you work in or around a product.
Producter Glossary: Persona
Personas are used to help a product manager (or product developers) understand the characteristics, behaviors, goals, and responsibilities of a particular segment of users. We can say that persona is actually an analysis process.
Overcoming Silos in Departments
It is a problem when it stems from the inability to communicate effectively and efficiently within and across teams in an organization.
New Milestone: We’ve Raised Our $300K Pre-Seed Round
At Producter, we’re going beyond building a project management tool. We’re building a product management tool to help teams make the right decisions every day.
Producter Glossary: Prioritization
Prioritization is the process of evaluating ideas and working carefully to increase their value and ensure efficient resource utilization. Every product manager needs to be capable of prioritizing.
10 Youtube Channels for Product Managers in 2022
Founded in 2014, Product School is the global leader in Product Management training with a community of over one million product professionals.
Producter Glossary: Product Requirements Document (PRD)
Product requirements documents (PRD) are used by product teams to describe the details of a solution/product they provide to solve a specific challenge and share them with stakeholders.
Crafting Valuable Release Notes
Release notes enable product managers to broadcast information to users, outside of the confines of the product’s innate user experience flows. That makes release notes particularly invaluable for product managers, especially for those who seek adoption of their product.
Producter: How We Created Our Early-Stage Growth Strategy
When a startup gets off the ground, it faces many uncertainties and difficulties simultaneously. As everyone tries to get to point A from point B, you uncover what A and B are.
Producter Glossary: Minimum Viable Product
A Minimum Viable Product (MVP) is just what it sounds like. Introducing a new product to the market with minimal features but enough to catch consumer attention is called Minimum Viable Product or MVP.
Producter: Finding a SaaS Idea by Using Ikigai
As a previous freelance product designer, I had the opportunity to work with at least 10 product teams. They all had their own methods of doing things due to their unique cultures. This presented the truth and the problems with different patterns in the product management vertical.
Producter Glossary: Backlog
A backlog is a list of tasks needed to execute a more extensive strategic plan. A product development context includes a prioritized list of items.
Why is design so critical for product-led companies?
Before Producter, I worked for over 10 products. I designed many of them from scratch. Reviewing a new product every day has created my design perspective. Analyzing a product’s design system and values helps me to understand its strategy and purpose.
Producter Glossary: Product Feedback
Customers provide feedback regarding their experiences with a product or service. In addition to revealing their satisfaction level, it helps product, customer success, and marketing teams identify opportunities to improve.
10 Effective Methods to Prioritize
A PM would have hundreds of various ideas for adding new features to their product if asked. Many PMs find it challenging to decide what to build next as users flood in with ideas and feature requests. We’ve listed 10 practical prioritization techniques for you to master as a product manager.
How to achieve product success with a public changelog
Shipping that amazing new feature, improving an existing one, or fixing a bug. Each takes time and effort. But what if you never announce them at all? No one will know, not even the other teams in your company.
Producter Glossary: Changelog
A changelog is a chronologically ordered list of all notable changes for each release or version. Having a structured and consistent changelog makes it simpler for users and contributors to understand exactly what changes have been made between releases.
5 Extensions Product People Should Use
Here are the top five extensions we used to speed up and boost productivity while building Producter.
Producter Features Vol 1.0
Producter both helps product and customer-facing teams to make informed decisions backed by customer feedback.
Producter Glossary: Sprint
Sprints are usually completed within one to four weeks in the scrum. This time-box focuses on building and testing clearly defined sets of functionality, leading to a shippable work increment.
5 Tools Product People Need
Modern tools can help quantify, objectify, segregate and delegate tasks properly and proportionately. In the early stages of building a startup, it can be difficult to determine which tools are essential, useful, and not worth your time.
Top 5 Methods to Collect User Feedback
User feedback is what your users think and feel about your product. What satisfies or frustrates them usually comes from their level of satisfaction with your product.
Producter Glossary: Digital Product Manager
The role of product managers is to lead and make strategic decisions about products. There has been a misconception that product managers are “mini CEOs” of the product they manage.
Producter Glossary: Product
Product is a collection of core business features that deliver the complete product experience to a defined set of market segments. Software and data can make up an entire product.
Why Strategic Product Roadmap is Key to Success?
Almost every product company knows a product roadmap is needed. Yet, it is often a love & hate relationship. To build a successful roadmap, you need to have a clear product vision and strategy.
Producter Glossary: Stakeholder
Stakeholders are groups of people who participate in the product development process on different levels. They can be in technical or non-technical teams or outside the company. In any case, the stakeholders usually play a primary role in the success of a product either directly or indirectly.
Producter Glossary: Product Vision
A product vision outlines the overall long-term goal of your product. Basically, it communicates why the product exists and what the desired end state of the product is in the future.
What Does Product Management Mean For Producters?
The north star of a digital product company is product management and vision. You always know where and how they should be. It should shine the brightest so that you can see it. Seeing it clearly will help you to stay on your path, always.
Shifting from Sales-led Growth to Product-led Growth Mindset
Openview defines product-led growth as an end user-focused growth model that relies on the product itself as the primary driver of customer acquisition, conversion, and expansion.