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Product in Practice: Assumption Testing with Engineers at Orion Labs

Product Talk

Engineers are often reluctant to participate in discovery. This is only natural: Through years of bad habits, many of us have shown engineers that we only value them for the code they can write. But there are many reasons why engineers are one of the essential members of the product trio. And this is a good thing.

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Assumption Testing: Everything You Need to Know to Get Started

Product Talk

A regular cadence of assumption testing helps product teams quickly determine which ideas will work and which ones won’t. And sadly, most product teams don’t do any assumption testing at all. In this article, I’ll cover assumption testing from beginning to end, including: Why should product teams test their assumptions?

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Why Engineers Should Participate in Discovery

Product Talk

Are you inviting your engineers to participate in discovery with you? Does your organization prefer that your engineers only write code? Marty Cagan , in Inspired , argues, “If you’re just using your engineers to code, you’re only getting about half their value.” And, sadly, many engineers make this mistake themselves.

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Mobile Test Automation Playbook

The Product Coalition

Guest post by Mark Mayo, Senior Quality Engineer at Terem. Manual testing of your mobile products is important and useful. Automated testing really assists with the efficiency here; being able to execute the same tests repeatedly, quickly and timely on a multitude of devices. What is Mobile Test Automation?

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Monetizing Analytics Features: Why Data Visualizations Will Never Be Enough

Think your customers will pay more for data visualizations in your application? Five years ago they may have. But today, dashboards and visualizations have become table stakes. Discover which features will differentiate your application and maximize the ROI of your embedded analytics. Brought to you by Logi Analytics.

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How to Hire an Engineering Consultant

The Product Coalition

To create such solutions, companies need software engineering professionals who can provide the expertise required. However, both the need and the sheer number of developers and technology consultants have made the challenge of sourcing reputable, professional, and capable software engineers even more difficult. Let’s dive right in.

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Java for Quality Assurance (QA) Automation Engineers: How to Learn?

The Product Coalition

However, I didn’t receive any particular instructions except for one: I should familiarize the group with Java basics and then later transfer them to the QA automation engineer mentor as soon as possible. The very first for me was a clear understanding of what QA Automation Engineer is and what they do. Who is a QA Automation engineer?

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Exploring PerfDog Whitepaper 2024: Unlock the Power of Performance Testing

Advanced Functions: Delving into specialized tools and modes within PerfDog, including Engine Mode, Systrace Mode, Network Testing, Custom Network Scenarios and Data Extension for optimized application performance.

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Best Practices for Creating Long-Lasting and Continuous Discovery Habits

Speaker: Teresa Torres, Internationally Acclaimed Author, Speaker, and Coach at ProductTalk.org

As a result, many of us are still stuck in a project-world rut: research, usability testing, engineering, and a/b testing, ad nauseam. Industry-wide, product teams have adopted discovery practices like customer interviews and experimentation merely for end-user satisfaction.

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The 5 Product Discovery Secrets Every PM Should Know

Speaker: Jim Morris, Founder, Product Discovery Group

By using the Product Discovery Cycle, teams can find new ideas, understand customer pain points, and test solutions quickly and cheaply. Why you should be involving engineers at every stage of the Cycle. Putting solutions to the test, analyzing the results, and creating new features.

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Put Your Data to Work: The Complete Playbook

From search engines to navigation systems, data is used to fuel products, manage risk, inform business strategy, create competitive analysis reports, provide direct marketing services, and much more. An interactive quiz to test (and refresh) your knowledge of different data types and how they help your organization.