UX Planet

FEBRUARY 22, 2024

5-step process The Jobs to Be Done (JTBD) is a powerful tool in product design that helps teams focus on understanding the needs and objectives of their customers rather than just the product itself. Here’s how to use the JTBD framework in product design: [link] 1. Why do they want to use your product? Who are they?

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UX Planet

FEBRUARY 13, 2024

Prescriptive Agile frameworks make it hard for designers to add valuable contributions to the team. Without discovery practices as part of the sprint, the product is destined to fail. I designed every detail in Photoshop before handing the mockups to the developers. In 2011 I was a UX Designer in a design studio.

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Gocious Blog

APRIL 30, 2024

The vast range of product complexity in manufacturing means that no two organizations will adopt the same process. Evaluating each trend and considering whether it's worthwhile for your company to test or ignore is important. The nature of a trend is that it's new, novel, and promoted across the industry, but is it worth implementing?

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The Product Coalition

NOVEMBER 29, 2021

In the previous article, I discussed in detail about Agile Product Life Cycle and its different phases and outcomes that allow an organization to function end to end in an agile product life cycle. In image 1 I have listed some practices in sticky notes below each of the phases to drive the Agile product life cycle.

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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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The Product Coalition

JANUARY 11, 2023

Photo by Dylan Gillis on Unsplash Market research and user experience research (UXR) are often confused as being the same thing, but they are actually distinct fields with their own goals and methods. To choose the appropriate research method for the business, it’s important to clarify the problem we are trying to solve.

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Johanna Rothman

JANUARY 6, 2020

In Costs of an Agile Approach for Hardware Products , I suggested that an iteration-based approach for hardware was too expensive. I focused on the actual development costs. Agile software teams are cross-functional and interdependent. Many agile software teams have somewhere between four and seven people.

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Johanna Rothman

MARCH 5, 2020

This part is about shortening feedback loops. However, they now had a production support problem that they needed to fix. They had one piece of feedback: the checkin broke “unrelated” code. It was time to see their feedback loops. See Your Feedback Loops. Neither did the developers.

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Usersnap

DECEMBER 10, 2023

User Acceptance Testing (UAT) is important for more agile software development teams. It’s the last stage in the software development life cycle, and it ensures every product meets the requirements and designations of the users. This is why the magic of the best user acceptance testing tools is crucial.

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Userpilot

MARCH 19, 2024

Even if you’ve been a product manager for a while, a new feature rollout can be a challenging experience. We explain what a feature rollout is, why it is important for product teams, and how to conduct them. Thanks to that, the development team can collect user feedback and test the feature before rolling it out to all users.

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Userpilot

SEPTEMBER 29, 2023

The product development process is part art, part science, and all important to the success of your SaaS. In this article, we've got a comprehensive review of the entire product development process. While product development describes the process of creating the product itself (i.e.

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Agile Velocity

APRIL 1, 2024

Agile training and transformation offer a beacon of hope, guiding organizations through these turbulent times with practices that enhance adaptability, customer satisfaction, and team morale. Here’s a look at the top 10 challenges business leaders and teams face today and how Agile principles can address them.

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Roman Pichler

JANUARY 9, 2018

Product discovery is a team sport. You should therefore involve the right people in the discovery work and secure enough of their time. Your goal should be to mitigate the risk of building a product nobody wants and needs, not to figure out the product details. Do Just-Enough Product Discovery Work.

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Product Talk

OCTOBER 10, 2018

Last week, I was in Cleveland for the Industry Product Conference. I spoke about the three mindsets that help a team find success as a continuous discovery team. Becoming a successful discovery team. Product management is changing. Product managers are evolving from focusing on outputs to outcomes. Tweet This.

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Mind the Product

OCTOBER 30, 2019

David Bland is the CEO and Founder of Precoil, an author, and a long-time practitioner of agile and lean startup. He joined us on the podcast to talk about how to create focus around what matters to your users by using different testing methodologies – a topic he and Alex Osterwalder cover in their book, Testing Business Ideas.

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The Product Coalition

AUGUST 14, 2022

There are some striking similarities between playing an escape room game and running a product discovery. Let’s look at the Product Discovery first. Product Discovery Product Discovery at its core is a process to help refine ideas by deeply understanding real user problems and then landing on the best way to solve them.

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The Product Coalition

FEBRUARY 22, 2021

TL; DR: Product Discovery Anti-Patterns Scrum has proven to be an effective product delivery framework for all sorts of products. However, Scrum is equally well suited to build the wrong product efficiently as its Achilles heel has always been the product discovery part. Participation is free.)

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The Product Coalition

APRIL 29, 2021

Hand-offs between development and operations teams have led to multiple issues for modern customer-obsessed businesses, as managing integration and delivery becomes increasingly challenging. To get around this problem, businesses are now focusing on becoming more agile to stay competitive.

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Centercode

APRIL 2, 2019

Test strategy is critical to the success of any testing effort – but where do you start? How does your strategy conform to different development methodologies? How you involve real users in beta testing? I have 20 years of experience in the testing industry. Adam : Sure! Can they act on this information?”

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UX Planet

DECEMBER 19, 2023

Agile UX is a design methodology based on the principles of Agile software development. Agile is a proven software development approach that emphasizes flexibility, collaboration and efficiency. Agile UX adopts the same values, reframed in the context of digital design projects. What is the Agile UX Process?

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The Product Coalition

JUNE 14, 2020

Using Sean Ellis Test For Measuring Your Product/Market Fit Sean Ellis, who is the author of “ Hacking Growth ,” as well as the first marketer at Dropbox and the guy who coined the phrase “ growth hacking ,” has a simple technique that helps product teams to measure whether they reached their product/market fit or not.

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Centercode

APRIL 16, 2021

One of the greatest traits of agile development is that it allows teams to respond to customer desires quickly. Its flexibility and conduciveness to rapid iteration opened the door to product evolution through small, successive improvements. But Agile, while incredibly useful, is really just a project management method.

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The Product Coalition

MARCH 14, 2023

Let’s take a look at what Lean product development is all about. Source: [link] Product development is the process of creating and improving products that meet the needs of consumers. In today’s fast-paced business environment, companies need to be agile and responsive to market changes.

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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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Centercode

JUNE 12, 2023

It’s clear that continuous delivery and Agile are the way of the future for software development. The problem is that while dev teams have managed to keep up with the demand so far, software testing teams are struggling to maintain output quality.

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The Product Coalition

JULY 28, 2020

The bounce rate is the percentage of users who visit a page on your product (for example, your home page) and then leave it before taking any primary action, such as registration or starting a free demo. Source: [link] A high bounce rate typically indicates that the product is not doing a good enough job of attracting visitors.

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Userpilot

JULY 5, 2022

Why is incremental innovation important for product managers ? Incremental innovation is a process of gradually modifying a company’s existing products or services through small improvements. Small but regular improvements are a more reliable way to achieve product-market fit. How is it different from other kinds of innovation?

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Mind the Product

JUNE 20, 2019

The Dilemma With Product Discovery. Even with very short cycles between discovery and delivery, it can take up to several months from identifying a user problem to the release of a potential solution to real users. The Magical Intersection of Product Discovery. Let’s start with the business.

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Roman Pichler

MAY 4, 2022

Scrum is a popular agile framework. This team consists of a product owner , a Scrum Master , and several developers, which are also known as development team. But what Scrum lacks in my mind, is a way to involve the key stakeholders in strategic product decisions and the product discovery work.

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Usersnap

JUNE 27, 2023

Are you ready to take your product from concept to triumph through effective beta testing? The journey from idea to success hinges on the crucial stage of beta testing. Even without a polished final product, there are potent strategies that can ignite excitement and gather a passionate community around your project.

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The Product Coalition

JANUARY 3, 2020

Creating a Product Discovery Track: A Practical Guide In the last decade we have evolved a lot in terms of agile development, Agility has become its own concept and we have lots of books and conferences for this subject. Agile methodology has matured a lot in the technology development phase?—?when

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Mind the Product

APRIL 21, 2020

– to come back on to the podcast and chat about how to make sure that, despite everything that’s going on, you continue to incorporate discovery into your practice. Then there’s the second piece of it: What’s the part of Discovery that’s going to stay stable over time? Customer Discovery.

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The Product Coalition

AUGUST 3, 2023

How to Achieve Success in Your Product Strategy In today’s rapidly evolving market, having a clear product vision and a well-defined strategy is essential for the success of any tech product. A compelling product vision is a guiding light, providing direction and purpose to the development process.

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Mind the Product

NOVEMBER 8, 2019

In this keynote from #mtpcon London, Jonny Schneider, Product Strategy and Design Principal at ThoughtWorks, discusses how using all of design thinking, agile, and lean means we can build better products. Key points: You should try to use design thinking, agile and lean when building your products.

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Amir Rozenberg

FEBRUARY 21, 2018

In the age of Agile and Digital Transformation strategies, every brand is looking to set themselves apart. When thinking about adoption of agile schemes, some of the common concepts that come to mind are Continuous Integration (CI), Continuous Delivery (CD) and Continuous Testing (CT). image below).

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Johanna Rothman

JANUARY 16, 2019

Is it possible to balance the product innovation and feedback we need, with the commitment our management wants? When does it make sense to ask for more feedback instead? How about when it does make sense to create small or larger estimates for the product? Let's start with the need for very fast product feedback.

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Centercode

SEPTEMBER 8, 2023

Explore why beta testing is essential for product validation and how it's evolving to fit agile development cycles.

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