The Product Coalition

JANUARY 27, 2022

At the beginning of any software development project, managers think of which methodology is between waterfall and agile. It’s essential to follow clearly defined processes or software development life cycle (SDLC) to ensure software development quality. Waterfall and agile: A smart method or bad solution?

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Intercom, Inc.

JANUARY 12, 2021

From premature optimization to over-engineering solutions for your product, it’s easy to get caught up in making technology decisions that slow you down instead of speeding you up. Going all-in on one cloud provider is where the magic of cloud platforms comes to life: that is, ease of use, simplicity of the platform, and efficiency.

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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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Split

FEBRUARY 24, 2023

For developers, that requires constant pivots, faster response times, and a graceful recovery from failure. Still, against the enormous pressure to continually improve, the best software teams deliver the goods safely and on time. DORA stands for The DevOps Research and Assessment Team. They’re the DORA metrics.

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Roman Pichler

JULY 11, 2016

Manage the Product, not the Team. Focus on your job as the product manager or product owner, and manage the product, not the team. But let the ScrumMaster or coach tackle people, process, and organisational issues; let the development team figure out what needs to be done to implement the user stories and other product backlog items.

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PMLesson's Ace the PM Interview

MAY 14, 2022

This article is part of our series on Solutions Architect interviews. If you're interviewing for solutions architect roles, don't miss our Complete System Design Interview Course. Solutions architect roles are rapidly becoming more important and popular in the technology ecosystem. 💡 Hey there!

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The Product Coalition

JUNE 21, 2021

A practical look at how and why software designers can ensure digital services can be used by everyone. People who need medicine use apps and websites to order perscriptions and have them delivered to their homes. Thanks to the coronavirus pandemic, making software accessible is arguably a common struggle around the globe.

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Userpilot

JUNE 10, 2022

Software bugs can be really costly, but surely there’s a way to make them cheaper? Maybe poor reviews will make it more difficult to attract new customers. Maybe poor reviews will make it more difficult to attract new customers. Some estimates say that poor-quality software cost businesses $2.08

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Roman Pichler

FEBRUARY 2, 2021

Before the advent of agile frameworks like Scrum , a product person—the product manager—would typically carry out the market research, compile a market requirements specification, create a business case, put together product roadmap, write a requirements specification, and then hand it off to a project manager.

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Modus Create

MARCH 6, 2020

With the relentless pace of innovation using Lean software development, we’ve seen an explosion in the use of serverless technologies with a mantra of “NoOps.” Research has shown teams implementing modern DevOps practices are significantly higher performing than those who don’t. Both are open source.

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Atomic Spin PM

JANUARY 9, 2019

Finding the right custom software development firm for your project is a tough job. Software projects are notorious for being late, over budget, and frustrating. Making useful, valuable software products takes a lot more than technical know-how. Evaluate the Software Firm First. And understands your industry?

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Usersnap

AUGUST 4, 2020

Especially when looking at the tool-side of project management. I see new tools popping up every other day. With Jira and Trello – we looked at two major project management tools, their benefits and drawbacks and most importantly their main differences. Project management tools. The basics of Jira.

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The Product Guy

AUGUST 1, 2019

What do you do when your team is working their socks off and yet they are getting little credit for the work being done, mainly because the team isn’t able to set concrete expectations with the stakeholder? This obviously reflected as a failure to deliver on part of the engineering team. THE CHALLENGE.

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The Product Guy

OCTOBER 9, 2018

First, I did not know how to frame, develop and present product strategy in a systematic way, and second, as a startup, my company has not historically had a good track record of strategy being developed outside of senior management (read: founder). What systems/metrics/processes do we need to measure and track winning?

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UX Studio: Product Management

JANUARY 11, 2022

This time, our UX experts reviewed dozens of Webdesign Wien companies to list the best Austria webdesign agencies to partner with in 2022. If you are looking for a web design agency in Vienna —Webdesign Wien Agentur in German — chances are you need help with product design, usability research, training, or consulting.

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Mironov Consulting

SEPTEMBER 15, 2019

Data science has traditionally been an analysis-only endeavor: using historical statistics, user interaction trends, or AI machine learning to predict the impact of deterministically coded software changes. Provide Much Deeper Context than Traditional Software Projects, Especially Use Cases and Business Goals. We versus They.

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PMLesson's Ace the PM Interview

MAY 6, 2022

Due to the essential nature of security engineering, the interviews for security engineers can be some of the most challenging in technical interviews. In general, try to be authentic and genuine, while also showing that you've done research on the company and are genuinely excited to work there. Watch our answer here.

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Roman Pichler

FEBRUARY 2, 2021

Before the advent of agile frameworks like Scrum , a product person—the product manager—would typically carry out the market research, compile a market requirements specification, create a business case, put together product roadmap, write a requirements specification, and then hand it off to a project manager.

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Modus Create

JANUARY 26, 2021

Adopting Agile sounds as simple as taking the SCRUM master certification tests and pushing them down the framework to a team of developers. Therefore, we went to sleep on a Friday and next Monday we were now an “Agile” team. What the middle management teams did to adopt such change was not an executive’s concern.

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UX Studio: Product Management

NOVEMBER 8, 2021

It will take a lot of your time to review and assess every company’s website manually. Our independent research ranks design companies based on their portfolio, skills, capabilities, and pricing. Now we decided to conduct extensive research to find and assess web design companies in Sacramento, California.

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Userpilot

JANUARY 30, 2023

Product adoption is crucial for the success of SaaS companies because it secures users to be long-term customers. Giving quick access to video tutorials across the app like Loom. Introduce secondary features with in-app tooltips , like Airtable. Providing self-service support with an in-app knowledge base , like Miro.

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Userpilot

JULY 9, 2021

Continuous Discovery Habits by Teresa Torres teaches you how to set up a continuous discovery system within your organization with actionable exercises. Product Mastery by Geoff Watts teaches you how to be a successful product owner within agile software development practices with the use of case studies. Plot summary.

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The Product Coalition

JUNE 24, 2022

Not only are there more technology companies than ever, and all these companies want and need product managers, but there is still so much mystique surrounding the role. I want to be able to save images in your app”, “We need to have Siri voice commands enabled”, “Add to Carts are down 15% in one user cohort”…but unless you ask “Why?”

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The Product Coalition

NOVEMBER 24, 2020

On the one side, they address typical Scrum events such as Sprint Planning, Sprint Review, and the Sprint Retrospective. 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 cross-functional?—?be

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The Product Coalition

JUNE 25, 2019

Do co-located teams truly perform better? I’ve been personally told that all the research points to that. But having experienced both poorly performing, co-located teams as well as high performing distributed teams, I wanted to take a closer look at some of the research as well as experiences of others.

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The Product HQ

MAY 10, 2024

Since product development is such a lucrative field, this is a crucial role for the company. This includes the project management of all of the activities done in product conceptualization, design, development, and marketing. To do so, startup product managers will need to conduct market research to maximize product-market fit.

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Product Club

DECEMBER 20, 2016

All these questions boil down to the same thing: “ How long will that chunk of software development take? ”. As product managers it often isn’t our responsibility to provide an answer, but we’re frequently asked the question by our superiors or dependent teams nonetheless. Bad weather. Wrong turns. Infrastructure changes.

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UX Studio

MARCH 4, 2019

Web designer vs web developer – as a UX designer, I counter this match daily. But truly, the phrases don’t stop here, we have visual designers, front-end developers, back-end developers, UX designers (like me), et cetera. A developer friend of mine met with a client a couple of months ago. UX researchers.

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The Product Coalition

JANUARY 3, 2020

The Hard Thing About Hard Things) At Latin American travel technology company Almundo , we believe that leaders are responsible for the people, whether that is via one-on-one meetings, career opportunities, company culture, or employee satisfaction. So, it was natural that we should want to develop a talent growth plan for our people.

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Usersnap

OCTOBER 15, 2019

One of the most difficult parts of software architecture is quality assurance planning. Brian Foote and Joseph Yoder said “If you think a good architecture is expensive, try bad architecture.” Poor development and testing workflows will result in slow progress, high costs and an unusable product. Functional Testing.

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PMLesson's Ace the PM Interview

MAY 22, 2021

Not only do you need to demonstrate your technical prowess and experience with designing complex systems, you also need to showcase your soft skills in people management. In general, try to be authentic and genuine, while also showing that you've done research on the company and are genuinely excited to work there.

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The Product Coalition

FEBRUARY 14, 2022

How many times have you heard the phrase “It’s research, it will be ready when it’s ready”? If you are the developer who is supposed to write this feature, you would ask the product manager for very specific instructions as to when and how to predict where this person is going. In algorithmic research, this is very prominent.

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Modus Create

JANUARY 12, 2021

The speed at which the economic landscape shifts has been increasing since the industrial revolution and the emergence of consumer technology. From the point of view of technology, manufacturing, and/or the ability to deliver a service, what is possible? I’ll review four methodologies: waterfall, Lean, design, and Agile.

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Mironov Consulting

JUNE 28, 2018

When working on mass consumer products (think FitBit or Facebook or teach-your-kid-to-code toys ), we will have large numbers of small purchases — too many customers to know each by name. Enterprise audiences are orders of magnitude smaller, and research candidates are likely to become sales prospects. And will soon forget us.).

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Tyner Blain

JANUARY 23, 2021

Orienting to value – every team, every person does it differently. How Teams Orient to Value. Over the years I’ve had the opportunity to work with dozens of teams, helping them improve their ability to create value. All of these teams believe the work they are doing is valuable. It oversimplifies.

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The Product Coalition

MAY 20, 2020

We are wired by nature to think about solutions. Our ears are rather tuned to hear solutions or hints of problems at most. Example: Project manager prepares a project utilization report Delivery manager at a bespoke software development company prepares a report of how many man-days have been utilized on a project for a given client.

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UX Studio

APRIL 6, 2023

We accomplish this by putting UX research to use, which leads to enhanced, user-centric design. With this approach, we were able to increase the booking rate on France’s leading travel app, Liligo , by 200%. This includes UX redesign, UX consulting , UX audit, product discovery, and UX training for teams.

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