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User Documentation: The Ultimate Guide for Product Managers

User Pilot

Knowledge is power and user documentation is necessary for building it. But great documentation doesn’t happen by accident. This comprehensive guide will enable proactive product managers to figure out exactly how to craft documentation that will help users solve their problems and delight them. What is user documentation?

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Communicating the value of content design

Intercom, Inc.

If you’re one of these people, you’ve probably experienced first-hand the challenge of communicating the value of good content design to the rest of your product team. I recently tried to demystify this mysterious discipline in a talk at Write the Docs Prague for a room full of documentation specialists. How do we fix it?

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Crisis Communication: Strategies to Communicate Better During a Crisis

Sales Hacker

The key to adapting successfully is preparing for the unexpected — and communicating effectively with your team. After all, broken communication during a crisis will cause havoc among your employees and even customers. Whether you believe Murphy or not, it’s up to you to prepare for a worst-case scenario and communicate accordingly.

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How to Reduce Support Ticket Volume for SaaS [+ 15 Strategies]

User Pilot

Communicate product news with in-app messages so customers don’t inquire about them via tickets. Track whether your support documents are helping customers and refine them accordingly. To reduce such misdirected support inquiries, try using in-app notifications and messages to communicate information about technical updates.

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How to Build Your Startup like Google & Stripe

Tom Tunguz

The book starts with a company’s founding documents, expands to the operating cadence, and culminates in the business’ operating system. The operating cadence describes how & how often the management team reviews progress & communicates with the team. When we mess up, miss a deadline, or slow down, it matters.

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“You Don’t Want That!” — A Rant from Lance Walter on Product Management Communications

Kellblog

Keep reading to learn why and learn how to avoid some undesirable patterns in technical, product-related communications. So do I think this is good product-oriented communications? Let’s say this, for lack of a better word, triggered Lance. Over to you, Lance ? . When I saw this in the FAQ, I had to stop and read it twice.

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Data Product Teams : Best Practices for a Modern Data Team

Tom Tunguz

DPRDs, or Data Product Requirements Documents, contain the key information about a data product: what it will provide, how it will produce value, how the data will be governed including data quality alerting. Unlike code, data is stochastic or unpredictable.

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