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How To Train a Transactional Chatbot Using Reinforcement Learning?

The Product Coalition

We’d like to thank Tremis Skeete, Executive Editor of Product Coalition for his valuable contributions in the research, development and writing of this article. You’ve probably heard of the following notable examples: Siri Developed by Apple, Siri signaled the era for digital assistants.

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6 Key Challenges of Agile Transformation in a Hybrid Environment and 8 Strategies to Overcome Them

Agile Velocity

Agile practices, like Scrum and Kanban, initially developed for software development, are now being embraced across all departments and functional areas including marketing, finance, and human resources. Create alignment, maximize communication, spark motivation, develop capability, and share knowledge.

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Spendesk’s Nicolas Marchais on evolving with your market

Intercom, Inc.

So they created a software that provides control, visibility, and payment methods for corporate finance teams. Instead, focus on fostering a culture of communication and feedback loops between the team. If people aren’t looking for your solution, you have to educate them about the problem your product solves.

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With Agile Approaches, No Need to “Meet” or “Enforce” Deadlines

Johanna Rothman

In addition, each component team worked on any number of products, both development and support, for any given iteration. However, software product development is not construction. Schedule variance assumes we don't have feedback loops inside the project, or that we don't learn anything. See Why Do We Estimate, Anyway? ).

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How to Use Flow Metrics to See if Your Economies of Scale Offer Value, Part 3

Johanna Rothman

That's not product development—and that's the first place we get stuck with Economies of Scale thinking. Product development requires teams who can learn together. They started with developers first, and then testers, and finally UI people. But not for knowledge work or product development work.

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Voice of Customer: Why VoC should lead your product development process

Usersnap

Do you consider customer feedback? Should the Voice of Customer influence product development? In Frost & Sullivan’s survey research on R&D/innovation and product development priorities, 84% of the respondents declare that they employ the voice of customers (VoC) in their product development cycle.

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Building a culture of product experimentation at NerdWallet

Mixpanel

But in the consumer finance space, sensitivity towards personal financial data makes considerations around product experimentation all the more delicate. Staying focused on our “north star” metrics and leveraging lightweight prototyping makes for faster, cleaner feedback loops and clear-headed decision making.