Userpilot

SEPTEMBER 25, 2023

Concept testing takes place before the development phase to assess how well the idea could satisfy user needs , while usability testing focuses on how easy the product is to use and navigate and happens during the development stage. Userpilot’s feedback and analytics features allow teams to conduct concept tests and analyze data.

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Nulab

MAY 25, 2022

Picture this: you’re working on a project with a team of people located in different parts of the world. Even though you’re all working towards the same goal, it can feel like you’re in your own little world, disconnected from the rest of the team. Why are information silos bad for business? Another downside?

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Intercom, Inc.

JUNE 14, 2018

Looking for an example of a happy, high performing product team? I hosted Laura on our podcast to learn everything from why assembling a great product team is like pulling off a heist, to tips for improving collaboration and marrying business needs with user goals. If you enjoy the conversation check out more episodes of our podcast.

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Mironov Consulting

FEBRUARY 28, 2024

An essential role of CPOs and other product leaders that’s never listed in the job description is giving organizational 'air cover' to product managers to postpone almost all new requests — so that their teams can finish work already underway.    Lately, I’m calling this permission to stay focused.

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Mixpanel

JANUARY 21, 2020

As Director of Product Management at Mixpanel, an important part of my role is hiring and developing a world-class team of product managers and ensuring that we’re empowering those people to be the best product managers they can be. I hope you find this info both thought-provoking and useful. Customer focus. Communication skills.

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Roman Pichler

JUNE 4, 2019

Even if your product is not affected by any deadline, it may be helpful to consider dates or timeframes when developing a product roadmap, as this allows you to understand if the plan is realistic. Dates on a product roadmap are neither good nor bad in my mind. Ensure the Roadmap is Realistic.

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nulab

OCTOBER 14, 2020

Once you’ve gathered as many ideas as you can, the team works together to narrow it down until you have just the best remaining. Ideation will help you with the following things: Overcome analysis paralysis and help you and the team enter a creative mindset faster. Help the team both work and think together. Brainstorming.

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Mironov Consulting

MAY 24, 2022

Everywhere I go, I see massive amounts of product waste : development work delivered on time/on budget that doesn’t drive sales or customer satisfaction or business improvement.  Yet  We shout past each other using secret keywords (“agile”) and assuming bad intent.  Project teams that ship v1.0

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The Product Coalition

MAY 27, 2021

The Most Common Product Management Interview Questions What do you see as a Product Manager’s main role within product development? How do you see your career developing in the next 5 years? What are your main strengths and weaknesses? What do you see as a Product Manager’s main role within product development?

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Roman Pichler

DECEMBER 4, 2018

In the worst case, you have to go through a rewriting exercise where some parts or even the entire product are being redeveloped. To understand if and to what extent your product is affected by technical debt, talk to the development team, for example, in the next sprint retrospective.

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The Product Coalition

NOVEMBER 24, 2020

A Scrum Master should recognize that different stages of a Scrum Team’s development require different approaches: some, teaching; some, coaching; and some, mentoring. A Scrum Master’s principal objective should be to remove themselves from daily operations by enabling the Scrum Team to be self-organizing. A cross-functional?—?be

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Amplitude

OCTOBER 10, 2017

Most organizations that start hiring to build out the product team have not exhausted the potential on their current team. Growing your team from within is harder and requires more effort, but I believe it also helps you build a fundamentally stronger team in the long-run. A tracker for growing our team.

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The Product Manager Coach Blog

DECEMBER 12, 2023

Get ready for a fantastic new year with my quick goal setting and year-end retrospective exercise designed specifically for product managers looking to grow their careers. That’s why I’ve put together this quick goal setting and year-end retrospective exercise specifically for product managers looking to grow their careers.

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Tyner Blain

MARCH 31, 2024

Most people and teams conflate prioritizing and sequencing of work. Going to Market You will develop a go-to-market (GTM) approach which includes multiple releases of your product. Too many teams try and use reskinned project-management tools which are helpful when sequencing instead of being helpful when shaping.

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Intercom, Inc.

NOVEMBER 24, 2021

We know that moving at speed is all about making decisions quickly and acting on them – but quick decisions get a bad rap. . Still, effective, quick decision-making is a skill we crave and can increase agility, energy, and momentum within any team. . What would a better option look like? Stage 6: Review the decision.

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Mind the Product

MAY 27, 2019

Neville started with a “nine dots” exercise (you must link all nine dots using four straight lines or fewer, without lifting the pen). He explained the rules and challenged us to complete the exercise. Empower teams so they come up with solutions. Develop Your Pieces. Identify and focus key weaknesses.

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Tyner Blain

OCTOBER 3, 2023

Tversky and Kahneman developed the idea of anchoring bias in their research – we know that how you set it up when communicating is how people will interpret it. Many leaders of product teams I’ve met also focus on their version of a faster elevator. You are biasing explicitly when sharing clarity of purpose.

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Mind the Product

SEPTEMBER 29, 2017

Furthermore, in order to ensure that product teams don’t become too risk averse to learn from their failures and iterate their way to success, a few cautions are warranted in evaluating product teams. The last thing that product teams need is a leader who tells them: “You either succeed or you’re out.” Watch What You Measure.

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The Product Coalition

JUNE 14, 2023

Harvard Business Review emphasizes the importance of purpose in leadership, stating, “Leaders who are genuinely connected to their purpose can create deeply engaged teams and ignite a collective sense of purpose.” I share my answers why with my team even when it feels childish or sensitive, and encourage them to do the same.

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Mind the Product

FEBRUARY 20, 2020

To help hiring managers and recruiters, like myself, decide whether or not to interview you, it can be a great exercise to treat your resume like a professional product. Ultimately, your resume should itself signal that you have the skills required to be a successful product manager on any team. If you’re. Storytelling.

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Roman Pichler

JULY 20, 2016

To help you develop your agile product roadmap, I have created a goal-oriented roadmap template called the GO Product Roadmap. I like to use my Product Vision Board to develop a valid product strategy. The best roadmap is worthless if the people required to develop, market, and sell the product don’t buy into it.

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ProductPlan

MARCH 31, 2022

When it comes to the product team’s organizational structures and strategies, product operations is the hot new thing. More and more teams realize the value of having an operationally-focused professional. Teams must carefully consider if product operations solve the core problems and challenges.

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The Product Coalition

DECEMBER 13, 2022

As guides, we want so badly to steer our teams in the right direction and toward the best possible outcomes. Other times it means you’re starting from scratch and need to move the team into alignment. Activities to try: If you need to focus or align the team, I recommend starting with this Playing Field exercise.

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The Product Coalition

SEPTEMBER 2, 2022

The leadership team finally agreed on the vision. Clarity enables the team to translate the choices into a functional product that creates value. So as you make choices, package the strategy into a document, and share it with the product team, keep four words in mind?—?a A yes with a weak how or a no receives a zero.

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Amplitude

AUGUST 30, 2017

At the Product Analytics Summit in Seattle this past March, we chatted with some of our customers about how they use Amplitude as part of their product development toolbox. It helps you stay in tune with user needs and helps you make product development decisions that cater to those needs. Instead, run beta tests to be sure.

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The Product Bistro

JULY 12, 2016

An interesting role play, Steven lined up 6 victims willing participants, to represent the major functional groups in an organization, Product Management, Operations, Sales, Marketing, Customer Support, and Development, providing each of them a backstory to guide their motivation. The exercise was interesting.

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UX Planet

FEBRUARY 21, 2024

As a Product Designer working in a high-performing software team, I am tasked and responsible for championing user value, ensuring that the end user's needs are met when using the product. It was a valuable growth for me to be deeply involved in assessing business values and technical feasibility with my team.

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Johanna Rothman

APRIL 23, 2021

You might feel weak. Or, you might worry your colleagues see you as weak or incompetent. In addition, the more the people around you can exercise their critical thinking skills. Many of us know what that feels like as a technical team member. The teams didn't change how they worked. Are you wary of asking for help?

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The Product Coalition

NOVEMBER 26, 2019

My main purpose was to walk the manual QA testing team through Java basics so that they could continue with QA automation engineer tutor. In addition to monitoring the quality of the product on different stages, they also writing some scripts (which are codes by definition) to check the product code the developers have implemented.

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The Product Coalition

MARCH 29, 2018

I try to help product and sales teams succeed under the mantra “Easy to Sell, Easy to Renew.” I’ve struggled to find many examples detailing how to bond product and sales teams ( Antonia Bozhkova offers a good perspective ). Your teams will realign and strengthen their partnership as they see the product through each other’s eyes.

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ProductPlan

JUNE 1, 2023

Where are product teams getting their feature ideas? Most concerningly, 19% of respondents reported that their top source of ideas comes from senior management, who are often disconnected from both customers and the product development process. Why do product teams become feature factories?

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The Product Cafe

APRIL 14, 2024

You need to understand the strengths of your team members. Even with a talented team, success becomes unattainable if their goals diverge from yours. Even with a talented team, success becomes unattainable if their goals diverge from yours. Therefore, for you to be successful, your team needs to be aligned with your goals.

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Amplitude

OCTOBER 10, 2017

Most organizations that start hiring to build out the product team have not exhausted the potential on their current team. Growing your team from within is harder and requires more effort, but I believe it also helps you build a fundamentally stronger team in the long-run. A tracker for growing our team.

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ProductPlan

MARCH 1, 2023

Product Planning is researching, making decisions, and taking action to develop a successful product. Product management teams will have their cadence and frameworks for planning, but typically it consists of some version of annual combined with quarterly planning. What is Product Planning?

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ProductPlan

APRIL 25, 2023

Great teams assemble individuals with differing skill sets, perspectives, and experiences. For example, Iron Man and Captain America leading the Avengers or Superman, Batman, and Wonder Woman teaming up as the Justice League. Many product teams now have their own team of super-powered individuals banding together for a common cause.

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Mironov Consulting

JANUARY 8, 2020

We’ve relearned over the last few years that products can have unintended side effects, and that bad actors can misuse good products. As product professionals, we’re often not taking time to anticipate bad outcomes. A conceptual checklist might include: How might bad actors exploit our tool / platform / product / service?

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The Product Guy

AUGUST 13, 2020

How to learn by doing it and lead a new team at the same time? How to plan for future growth for oneself, the product team and the products overall? It was a mind expanding exercise and set a clear structure for me to rethink what is really the differentiation factor in our product. .

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