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Ask the Community: How Do You Shift From Functional Teams to Value-Driven Teams?

Product Talk

When an organization shifts from delivery or feature teams to product teams , the first step is often a change to team structure. Delivery and feature teams are often structured by function—front-end teams, back-end teams, mobile teams, etc. These teams can rarely deliver value on their own.

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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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10 Tips for New Product Research and Discovery

ProductPlan

A new product can feel the same way. There is a place between nothing and a great product that’s full of uncertainty. Now, after a decade of managing products and advising, I find it exciting. These days I look forward to starting research and discovery with nothing but a hypothesis.

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Tips for Becoming a Head of Product

Roman Pichler

Be Prepared to Look after People, Not Products. When you become a head of product, you move into a line management position. Consequently, your focus shifts from managing a product to looking after the product people on your team and empowering them to do a great job. For some people, that’s straightforward.

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Common Product Vision Board Mistakes

Roman Pichler

This article assumes that you are familiar with the product vision board or the key elements of a product strategy : market, value proposition, standout features, and business goals. Vision Captures Product Idea or Business Objective. Cause : A confusion about what an effective product vision is.

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How to Mitigate Risks Associated with Test Automation?

The Product Coalition

Poor quality testing results in higher expenses. Most of it falls on the event and testing groups, who ought to run extra tests because of computer code failures and work to eliminate them. However, the project budget doesn’t typically give resources for unplanned tests. So, manual testing remains necessary.

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4 key phases in product testing (and why not every feature should make it to beta)

Mixpanel

When you’re releasing a new product or feature, the step that gets the most attention is usually the beta testing phase. But getting a feature to a market-ready state is a long process involving months of work before you get to beta testing. Even though you’re talking to customers, this isn’t really a research group.