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10 Best product management tools of 2021. Product management tools are software applications that help product teams carry out some or all phases of the product life cycle, from planning, researching, and developing to launching, assessing, and iterating on a product. Ben Aston describes the types of PM tools you can take advantage of when building products and overviews ten product management tools.

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The 8 best product roadmap tools of 2021 (free and paid). Roadmapping is a crucial part of every product manager’s role, but it’s safe to say a lot of PMs don’t particularly enjoy it. Luckily, there are some excellent product roadmap tools / planning tools out there to help make it more bearable. The folks at Userpilot describe eight tools you can use for product roadmapping.

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What Is User Onboarding? Examples, Best Practices & Mistakes to Avoid

If you have ever managed or used a digital product, it’s likely that you have experienced a user onboarding flow at some point. We explore what user onboarding is, why it’s important to get it right and take a look at some world-class examples of onboarding experiences.

Sendbird and Building Communities for Product Managers

• The purpose of communities and why they matter
• Different community types and how to identify the right one for your business
• Actionable steps to create and nurture an interactive community
• How to track the impact of your community efforts

Finding your early fans

As product people, we always like to stay close to our customers (or at least, we should). But how do we find our true fans? And even more importantly, how do we find those fans early?

A few years back, I self-published a book about raising startup seed capital outside of major tech hubs. It didn’t win me any awards – but I’m definitely proud that I pushed myself to bring that book to life. But looking back, I think I’m even more proud of the way I brought it to life.

Early on in my process, I decided to involve the very audience I was writing for early. So early, I was still writing the book. I created a landing page, and asked people for help. I told them that they’d get a chance to see me writing and editing the book in real time. When it was finished, they’d even get a copy for free. All I asked in return was for feedback along the way and to help spread the word when the book launched. I still credit this process with being the reason my book made it to the top of Product Hunt when it launched.

Today, certain writers are doing similar things with Substack. In fact, one writer is seemingly skipping the binding altogether and serializing his work directly to Substack – where his customers will eventually pay a monthly fee to read his work. 

Finding our early fans isn’t a concept that’s limited to publishing, though. When we’re building our tech products, how can we challenge ourselves to think similarly? Might our product be ripe to have a community developed and harnessed early? How do we get them to love our product before our product ever even launches?

I don’t have answers here. I just have a lot of questions. You can ponder these as you enjoy the weekend!

Top 10 product management tools for 2021. It’s challenging to decide which of the many product management tools to use while managing the entire process. Should you use a suite of different product manager tools? Or should you use one product management tool that rules them all? Erica Chappell highlights ten product management tools so you can identify the one that works best for your situation.

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The 11 must have tools for product managers.  Product managers generally need to bridge the gap between teams and work cross-functionally with development, marketing, and support to lead teams from a product’s conception through launch. Product management tooling needs to support that gap spanning. Leeyen Rogers describes eleven tools for product managers to help you select the right one for your situation.

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10 Best product portfolio management tools. Product portfolio management tools are a way to easily glance across all the products or services you and your team offer in order to better manage, organize, and analyze them. Product portfolio management software may track product growth prospects and operational risk. This helps you decide which products to grow and which to eliminate. Ben Aston helps you quickly compare and evaluate the best product portfolio management tools for managing a range of products with accuracy and ease.

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Get some Product Therapy with Christian Idiodi during the next season of Rocketship.FM!

Churn rate is one of the main metrics of any SaaS business, with figuring out how to reduce it a key priority at every stage of growth. At LiveIntent, the team prevents churn and encourages repeat product adoption by building campaigns with rules to automatically engage users with either an email or in-platform message. In this discussion, Jessica will dig into why churn is such an issue for companies — and can share strategies for combatting churn (spoiler: a part of it involves Customer Success!).