Usersnap

FEBRUARY 9, 2024

For Product Managers and Developers, selecting the right, usability testing platform and tool isn’t just a task; it’s a crucial step in shaping your product’s success. The market offers a variety of usability testing tools, each varying in price, features, and research methods. Optimal Workshop 6.

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Roman Pichler

SEPTEMBER 7, 2021

This helps align the stakeholders and development teams, as I discuss below, and acquire a budget if required. No matter how well thought-out your product roadmap is, it is worthless if the key stakeholders and the development team members don’t understand and support it. Actionable.

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Mind the Product

FEBRUARY 13, 2020

As a result, the team at Uniregistry decided to take a new approach to product validation in an attempt to avoid the same fate. Here’s how they used smoke tests to explore a new opportunity. Core team: Product Manager, Product Designer, and a Full-stack Developer (click to enlarge). The Approach.

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Product Talk

JANUARY 31, 2024

Because discovery involves changing the way you work on an individual, team, and even company level, it’s all too easy to make mistakes and missteps. If you’ve already begun to develop continuous discovery habits, maybe one of these stories will remind you of something you’ve experienced somewhere in your journey.

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Roman Pichler

JULY 6, 2021

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. Another key aspect to support the people on your team succeed is to create the right environment for people to succeed. Grow Your Leadership Skills.

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BrainMates

AUGUST 22, 2019

Don’t tolerate bad management if it’s making you miserable. The number one thing I see that undermines product and engineering teams’ success is senior executives who help too much,” adds Rich. We get to do A/B tests and make choices and do discovery to address the bulk of the audience or the mass market.”. “In

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Roman Pichler

FEBRUARY 2, 2021

The latter would work with one or more development teams to get the specification implemented. During the development phase, the product manager would be only loosely involved, typically attending a project steering meeting and possibly issuing change requests.

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Roman Pichler

JUNE 7, 2021

Be Clear on When to Involve the Stakeholders and Development Teams. Complex and high-impact decisions, however, are best made together with the stakeholders and development teams. Additionally, include the development team members in product backlog decisions , and always choose sprint goals together.

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Userpilot

NOVEMBER 30, 2023

A market gap can be caused by missing functionality or poor user experience. Tracking user behavior in-app enables product teams to find ways to improve product experience. Competitor analysis enables PMs to find areas where rivals fail customers and develop sound positioning and differentiation strategies.

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The Product Coalition

OCTOBER 30, 2023

It was another bad start to what seemed like Groundhog Day. “I An outcome-oriented approach helps teams remain focused on the bigger picture, ensures efforts go toward delivering meaningful value to customers, and gives them the freedom to figure out the best way instead of having ‘the way’ committed well before discovery.

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Roman Pichler

FEBRUARY 6, 2018

But you can’t accomplish it on your own and rely on the development team and stakeholders. The development team and stakeholders then use these goals to determine the work they have to do—be it creating a marketing strategy, investigating a new technology, or preparing the distribution channels. But it’s not enough.

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The Product Coalition

JULY 22, 2021

My team and I have collectively worked on hundreds of software products, for dozens of different companies across many different industries. That does not mean efficiency is bad, or that it shouldn’t be a priority. You’d be a stickler for testing. Testing should be built into as many phases of a product roll-out as possible.

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Roman Pichler

FEBRUARY 2, 2021

The latter would work with one or more development teams to get the specification implemented. During the development phase, the product manager would be only loosely involved, typically attending a project steering meeting and possibly issuing change requests.

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Userpilot

JANUARY 10, 2024

User research methods for SaaS: Usability testing User testing User interviews Focus groups Session replays First click testing User feedback surveys Card sorting A/B testing Product analytics Heatmaps Userpilot can help you conduct user experience (UX) research and easily interpret the data. What is user research?

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Roman Pichler

JULY 6, 2021

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. Another key aspect to support the people on your team succeed is to create the right environment for people to succeed. Grow Your Leadership Skills.

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Userzoom

SEPTEMBER 3, 2019

Lee Duddell, UserZoom’s Senior Director of UX Research, reveals some of the mistakes that newbies make when they’re running tests for the first time and how they can avoid them. . Then we’ll look at some mistakes that newbies make when they’re running tests for the first time. So we just heard about training.

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UX Planet

JANUARY 16, 2024

The last thing you need is to stumble into the abyss of bad branding, a place where countless others have lost their way. Market research for startup branding can be perceived as an unnecessary expense, especially when compared to product development or marketing activities that seem more directly linked to revenue generation.

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The Product Coalition

FEBRUARY 15, 2021

Join us on March 9, 2021 , for a live virtual workshop to create actionable recommendations on how to deal with the outcome of a forensic Product Backlog analysis. In my experience, the challenges of becoming a learning organization can only be handled effectively by self-organizing teams. Participation is free.)

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nulab

NOVEMBER 5, 2021

A flash Silicon Valley campus staffed by armies of developers, bazillions in the bank, and countless users. You need to understand their product team structure… And you need to learn how startups can adapt them for rapid scaling without losing sight of their goal. Product roles explained: Product team structure.

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Userpilot

DECEMBER 22, 2023

Are all teams involved or is it just a select few with specialist expertise? Organizations with successful research democratization initiatives also benefit from improved collaboration between teams. Research teams may also be reluctant to train others not to compromise research results or out of fear of losing their positions.

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The Product Coalition

SEPTEMBER 14, 2020

It thwarts organizations efforts to scale agile product development. Everyone in your product development ecosystem should have a shared, consistent, and coherent answer to the fundamental question, “What is your product?” New technology variations and developments are part of ongoing improvements to your product’s value proposition.

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UX Studio

SEPTEMBER 10, 2019

In this post we created a guide on the steps to take in developing your brand strategy. We’ve tested most as workshop methods on our clients in the last couple of years, and have included some research techniques as well. How to develop your brand strategy? They establish what you stand for as a team. Get specific!

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The Product Coalition

OCTOBER 15, 2019

I never had to deal with developers on a day to day basis?—?the However, I was thrown into the deep end again when I left the comfort of marketing and joined the tech team at Hotelclub where I managed a team of developers. I had no idea what I was doing and how I could lead a dev team. As a tip?—?always

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Mind the Product

FEBRUARY 5, 2018

But many product leaders at the roundtable reported that their teams struggle to make decisions when they feel the data is either inconclusive or not available in sufficient quantities. We discussed a number of coaching and development opportunities associated with this difficulty. Your job is to “make the CEO win”.

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The Product Coalition

SEPTEMBER 11, 2019

3) Most companies use weak heuristics, opinions and archaic decision processes to place bets on a handful of unproven ideas. The alternative is of course evidence-driven product development. In product management circles the term “Product Discovery” has become most synonymous with evidence-driven product development.

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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. Since the team is small, you will have to manage the technical aspects of product development.

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Userpilot

APRIL 25, 2024

Userpilot is an all-in-one solution for product teams that allows you to build bespoke in-app surveys with open-ended, Likert scale, and multiple choice questions (among other things) without any coding. Specific open-ended questions such as ‘What did you appreciate most about your interaction with our team?’

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Roman Pichler

JUNE 4, 2018

Embracing new technologies like machine learning, micro services, big data, and Internet of Things (IoT) is part of that change, as is the introduction of agile practices including cross-functional and self-organising teams, DevOps, Scrum, and Kanban. Determine the Right Learning and Development Measures.

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Mind the Product

MAY 9, 2019

In March last year, my colleague and Mind the Product’s Director of Training, Rosemary King, wrote about how the company departments working alongside a product team could better work together to meet their common goals and to improve working practices. Test Everything. All product managers love a good test.

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Mind the Product

OCTOBER 24, 2019

Product managers can make better decisions if they’ve built transparency and trust with their team. Strategic decisions provide direction and focus for your product, guide product development action, and ensure alignment within your product ecosystem. You may also reduce trust in your team. A culture of trust develops.

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Mind the Product

APRIL 13, 2020

Christina Wodtke’s path to her current standing as an established authority on the attributes of high-performing teams and the use of OKRs has been a roundabout one. She’s also due to deliver a workshop on how to design product teams with intention at MTP Engage Hamburg. So what about high-performing teams?

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Mind the Product

JULY 10, 2017

Let’s establish this right upfront: nothing beats a well-managed full-time in-house team of local developers. Are there enough skilled developers at your location? And done right, I believe that outsourcing means you can come very close to your team next door in terms of productivity and innovation.

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Userpilot

FEBRUARY 3, 2021

Unfortunately, user journey mapping can be a long and arduous process that requires support from all of your stakeholders – meaning multiple meetings and perhaps a workshop ( long sigh ). The Bottleneck -Your software developer who is too busy to take on every experiment you want to run. Drive alignment across your team.

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The Product Guy

MARCH 14, 2017

The developers sitting nearby just watched the show for the first time, but after a while they stood up to join the party one by one. Soon the whole team was standing behind the designer’s screen shouting new ideas and tips about the layout, the colors, the icons, the fonts and everything else. What to expect from a design team?

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BrainMates

SEPTEMBER 2, 2019

Rich will be running a workshop in both Melbourne and Sydney the day before each conference, on the topic of ‘What do Product leaders do? That way, my Product Managers can spend less time working on the politics and more time in smaller teams that are essential to getting their products out the door and winning markets,” says Rich.

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Userpilot

FEBRUARY 10, 2023

Actually, there are multiple types of personas for different teams, levels of research, and use cases—which you need to understand if you want to connect with customers. So let’s cover each of them and see what you can do to improve your team’s effectiveness. What is a persona?

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Userzoom

APRIL 30, 2019

Still, it’s often difficult for them to understand the value of usability tests. In the various design teams that I have been part of, I’ve often experienced contrasting practices of validating products. These are a set of methods which involve internal experts (colleagues from the design or other teams, stakeholders or even clients).

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