DISQO

JULY 5, 2018

Look no further than Amazon – in a 2017 letter to shareholders , CEO Jeff Bezos, credited a decision-making model for the company’s ability to deliver value to the market faster: “Most decisions should probably be made with somewhere around 70% of the information you wish you had. Make small bets, via experimentation.

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DISQO

JULY 5, 2018

Look no further than Amazon – in a 2017 letter to shareholders , CEO Jeff Bezos, credited a decision-making model for the company’s ability to deliver value to the market faster: “Most decisions should probably be made with somewhere around 70% of the information you wish you had. Make small bets, via experimentation.

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Amplitude

NOVEMBER 12, 2018

Holly Hester-Reilly has a fascinating, experiment-driven meets systems-thinking perspective on product management. Prior to jumping into product roles at Shutterstock and Media Math, Holly studied chemical engineering, and practiced research science for several years. Holly: I think the best product managers are like scientists.

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Mind the Product

MAY 25, 2018

In 2012, when I was working as part of the JustGiving team responsible for innovative products and disruptive business models, we decided to test how people could raise money for non-charitable good causes. Initially we worked with a team from ThoughtWorks for 12 weeks. This is what we did. 2012 – the Inception.

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The Product Coalition

JULY 30, 2020

I’d like to share a few product management insights from Synch, a company I co-founded in 2017, to help entrepreneurs who are launching new marketplaces. Even though the article is intended for entrepreneurs, it could also provide fundamental insights to product managers who are tasked to improve metrics in a marketplace.

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UX Studio

APRIL 6, 2023

We combine high-quality website design with user experience design to deliver an end product that helps our partners achieve their business goals. We accomplish this by putting UX research to use, which leads to enhanced, user-centric design. Architects can help in every phase of the product lifecycle.

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UX Studio

APRIL 6, 2023

We combine high-quality website design with user experience design to deliver an end product that helps our partners achieve their business goals. We accomplish this by putting UX research to use, which leads to enhanced, user-centric design. Architects can help in every phase of the product lifecycle.

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Melissa Perri

JULY 14, 2016

“What is your Product Strategy? When I replay this scene in my head, I can hear the CTO very audibly yelling (slash pleading) with our product team. BUT we still had to test our ideas. This is the way we were taught to think about Product Strategy. Product Strategy emerges from experimentation towards a goal.

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Intercom, Inc.

APRIL 5, 2018

As VP of Marketing and Growth at Duolingo through 2017, improving retention was the top priority of Gina Gotthilf. Our chat covers how gaming principles influenced her growth experiments, her team’s most successful retention tactics, and much more. What follows is a lightly edited transcript of the interview.

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Mind the Product

NOVEMBER 16, 2017

The day before Mind the Product London 2017 we ran a forum for invited product leaders on a series of topics with some of the leading product managers from around the world. Here’s what we learned about product leadership. Developing Your own Team. Collaborating with other teams.

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UX Studio: Product Management

JULY 5, 2021

As a client, you invest your time, energy, and limited resources into your digital product development. We are ready to help you with any design and research challenges you might have. . UX design and user experience research agency designing impactful digital products. Top 10 New York Design Firms I n 2021.

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Product Talk

JANUARY 31, 2024

You’ll often hear Teresa say that there’s no single right way to do continuous discovery. Something she might not say as often (that’s just as true) is that there’s no single wrong way to do discovery , either. Let’s be clear: The fact that it’s easy to make mistakes is not an excuse for avoiding discovery. Let’s dive in!

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PMLesson's Ace the PM Interview

DECEMBER 3, 2020

In 2017, a friend intro’d me to a tiny startup called Indigo Fair. since I had no real product experience. Along the way, I’ve shipped hundreds of products, and managed other PMs. Curious, I went through the interview process to put my learnings to the test. I was less comfortable with product sense.

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The Product Coalition

MAY 15, 2019

As a result, like many others I too have started to think of myself as more of a “product person” these days?—? One signal I’ve been giving much thought too of late is the collision of two roles, Product Management and Product Ownership. A topic of hot debate in the agile and product circles but with very few answers.

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Intercom, Inc.

MAY 8, 2019

How do you keep up with such breakneck development? By building a nimble, swashbuckling team that relishes tackling new challenges on the high seas of marketing. Now HubSpot’s VP of Marketing, Meghan is also the accomplished host of The Growth Show , which unpacks the stories behind inspiring products, businesses and movements.

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Userzoom

APRIL 17, 2018

We KNOW that a good UI is based on research, testing and slow, methodical improvements – not looking at a competitor’s site and saying “ooh, that’s pretty, I’ll steal that!”. Maybe too much, if you remember the Skype and Dropbox redesigns in 2017. UI trends are an even rockier terrain to navigate.

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Intercom, Inc.

MARCH 15, 2018

Will Larson has managed infrastructure teams for some of the biggest names in software. Partnering with the Infrastructure, Data and Developer Productivity teams, his group builds the tools that support every Stripe engineer and keep Stripe reliable and performant. product called Yahoo!

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Business of Software Conference

JANUARY 28, 2019

In this talk from BoS USA 2017, Paul talked about the important things to get right to set your company up well to turn your software into money. He’ll be talking about how to scale and onboard sales teams effectively. Steve Johnson talking about product management. We got the team together and went to work on it.

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The Product Coalition

JUNE 21, 2021

Many worked from home on tasks ranging from organising team activities via Slack, analysing data and collaborating on documents via Google Docs, to discussing strategies via Microsoft Teams and coaching clients via Zoom. According to some businesses, no explicit rules exist for how to make their products truly accessible.

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Mironov Consulting

JULY 5, 2016

I’ve recently talked with several companies that are spending $1M/year or more to build generic software that is very similar to commercially available products. The business team put in a budget request to cover 2 or 3 technical resources for a couple of quarters: let’s get this approved and started, because resellers are waiting!

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The Product Coalition

SEPTEMBER 15, 2019

But what about in product management? Should there be a code of ethics for Product Managers? Being a Product Manager isn’t like being a therapist, doctor, or lawyer. So maybe now is the perfect time to collectively create a Product Management Moral Code. We have a problem stepping away from the tech products we love.

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Intercom, Inc.

OCTOBER 10, 2019

We will work with you over months iteratively to develop that idea. We’ve since expanded into the conference-production business. So we use user research – and not only user research, but we try to incorporate a diverse set of perspectives into everything we create. It’s called Advancing Research.

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BrainMates

NOVEMBER 1, 2021

On average, about 40% of the products launched by organisations are failing to meet their intended objectives. Some quotes put this higher – up to 80 or even 95% – but 40% is what empirical evidence indicates and, even if this is an underestimate, that just makes product failure an even bigger issue for organisations.

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Business of Software Conference

MAY 29, 2019

Making that talented team work together well, now that’s even harder. In this talk from BoS Europe 2018 Alison Coward gave some great advice on how you can design the way a team communicates and works together to ensure you get the most out of everyone on the team. Hiring a group of talented people is difficult.

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Intercom, Inc.

OCTOBER 13, 2020

So, modern machine learning opens up vast possibilities – but how do you harness this technology to make an actual customer-facing product? Reading papers about how Google or IBM build their ML products, it’s easy to think only the very largest companies can afford to productize machine learning.

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Brian Balfour

FEBRUARY 7, 2017

I recently spoke with Andy as part of a 1 hour interview covering: How he brought a web-first product to mobile Activity notifications, rich push, and other techniques for driving mobile growth and retention Andy’s “Mobile Growth Stack” for 2017 You can watch the full interview here, and check out the truncated text version below.

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The Product Coalition

MARCH 11, 2020

TL; DR: Development Team Anti-Patterns After covering the Scrum Master and the Product Owner, this article addresses Development Team anti-patterns, covering all Scrum Events as well as the Product Backlog artifact. Only members of the Development Team create the Increment.

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Pragmatic Marketing

FEBRUARY 17, 2017

Since its introduction in early 2011, the RMJ has been tested with thousands of marketers and has proven to be an easy way to set a course for any marketing organization to more concretely connect with revenue. Lead Generation: Bad Leads to Sales, Quicker. Let’s review each stage of the journey.

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Usersnap

JUNE 11, 2019

In the past, the core goal of testing is to find bugs and fix them. But the dynamics of IT and testing landscape have changed now. Agile QA approach and user experience driven development (UXDD) have taken modern software development and testing by storm. Testing is changing, how are you adapting?

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Mind the Product

SEPTEMBER 10, 2017

I opened this year’s Mind the Product London conference by suggesting that product management isn’t actually about managing products, but about managing people. I believe that to be successful we need to work across disciplines and make sure that everyone in the team owns the product together. Compare and Contrast.

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Intercom, Inc.

AUGUST 15, 2018

At Reddit, he led a team of 35 – none of whom knew how to manage other engineers. He had to quickly determine which team members displayed a potential for leadership and teach them the fundamentals of management so they could make new hires and scale – without ruining the culture. That project led to my first cross-functional team.

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The Product Coalition

JULY 14, 2022

Whether you are new to the position or you have your fair share of experience, there are some dangers for product managers that not many people talk about. All rights reserved to Activision Blizzard I like to think that I have a lot of experience building products. Deadlines are for projects, not products.” Pitfall 1982.

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UX Planet

FEBRUARY 26, 2024

Conclusions Background Context Overview of Hiring Practices Some digital companies, during the recruitment process to fill positions like: UX Designer UX/UI — UI/UX Designer Product Designer Lead Head of Director of UX Researcher* usually require a challenge at the second step, other times as first step.

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The Product Coalition

FEBRUARY 15, 2021

TL; DR: How to Make Agile Work in Fast-Growing Startups For years, I worked in several Berlin-based, fast-growing startups in my capacity as Scrum Master, agile coach, and Product Owner. 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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Product Talk

SEPTEMBER 13, 2017

This past week I was in London speaking at Mind the Product. As usual, the Mind the Product team hosted a phenomenal event. When Mind the Product releases the video, I’ll add it to this post. Teresa Torres presented ‘Critical Thinking for Product Teams’ at Mind the Product London on September 8, 2017.

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DISQO

MARCH 6, 2020

It requires teams to gain insights directly from consumers through experimentation and prototyping, align to the actual wants and needs of the market, and accelerate time-to-market. Plus, either way, you need to be good at quickly recognizing and correcting bad decisions. Combining experimentation with market research.

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Mind the Product

APRIL 6, 2017

Instead, they use a system that allows them to explore many possibilities while continually developing options for better investment decisions based on what they discover from exploring each possibility. It’s a quick, inexpensive way to test the market. They are paying for information, as information has value.

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