The Product Guy

MARCH 14, 2017

We like to get painful user problems to solve. You can ask me to change the color somewhere or put a button on a screen, and I will probably do that, but I really like to get challenging problems where I can do my research build prototypes, do user tests, and come up with a solution that will raise our product to the next level.

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ProductPlan

JUNE 5, 2020

Key takeaways include product strategy , user research, and the UX/UI design process. The certification covers topics like defining roles and responsibilities, focusing on the right feedback from the right sources, and building products buyers want. 280 Group is a great option for AIPMM certification completion.

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Userzoom

AUGUST 20, 2019

Ask the nearest researcher what one of their most persistent pain points in conducting user research and usability testing is and we can almost guarantee that recruiting participants is up there near the top. Okay that’s out of the way now so you can stop rolling your eyes at me.

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Centercode

OCTOBER 29, 2019

We’re excited to announce the Virtual Customer Validation Conference , happening on April 7 – 9, 2020. This free, online event will focus on best practices and industry-vetted strategies for continuous product testing and ongoing customer engagement. Downloadable content (kits, ebooks, best practices, etc.).

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Split

JUNE 11, 2020

Often when we hear the term Software Development Life Cycle, we think of agile frameworks. In order to remain agile, we can apply similar procedures to the Software Release Life Cycle, or the process by which we move a product from coding into development. At the alpha stage, testing is being given to the product as a whole.

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Userpilot

JUNE 29, 2022

Customers are more likely to remember your product if you tell them a compelling story. But as a product manager , creating a story that will capture a customer’s attention might not be in your wheelhouse. Your ideal customer, known as your buyer persona, is the hero of any good product story.

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Revulytics

JANUARY 23, 2018

The main source of software development rework is a lack of a clear understanding of customer requirements. Here’s the bottom line: customers are busy – and it’s imperative to find a way to learn what they want and need from your software to do their jobs without disrupting their day-to-day work.

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Product Talk

AUGUST 4, 2021

I know many authors who use their blog as a way to test content. So I put the book on hold and started devising a plan to test my content. This gave me a great feedback loop to measure the efficacy of my content. Some teams got stuck because they couldn’t find customers to interview. I knew I needed more feedback.

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UX Studio

MAY 24, 2019

In this case study we’ll introduce the methods we used in our UX design process to make a complex system more user-friendly. But using continuous research and idea validation, you can keep your design efforts moving in the right direction. How we interviewed stakeholders and real users to discover their needs and pain points.

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Userzoom

JANUARY 29, 2020

When you’re down to the wire, time-wise, how can you ensure that user research is still being planned and executed as thoroughly and as user-focused as possible? Darrell Penta , Senior UX Researcher | HubSpot. Projects like these can put UX researchers in a very difficult position. Lean on your co-workers.

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Under 10 Consulting

JUNE 6, 2019

We were early adopters of agile methods but I certainly couldn’t attend daily standups; I wasn’t co-located so I couldn’t do some of the daily interactions that seem to be required today. As a technical role, the product managers participate in daily stand-ups, acceptance testing, and development briefings on the state of the product.

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The Product Coalition

NOVEMBER 30, 2020

You can sign up here and join 28k other subscribers Download the 71 Product Owner Interview Questions Ebook The free 71 Product Owner Interview Questions PDF is not merely listing the questions, but also contains background information on: Why the questions are useful in the process, and… A range of appropriate answers.

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Intercom, Inc.

JULY 4, 2019

If we implement a new feature, how will customer behavior change in a meaningful way?”. You want to reduce the scope of your question to: “What are the things we can change in our behavior or our users’ behavior that might make our customers more satisfied?” Here are five quick takeaways: Narrow your definitions.

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The Product Coalition

JANUARY 5, 2021

You can sign up here for our weekly ‘Food of Agile Thought newsletter’ and join 29k other subscribers. ?? Join us on February 3, 2021: Hands-on Agile #29: Scrum Guide 2020?—?Reloaded. These should allow an interviewer to deep dive into candidates’ understanding of Scrum and their agile mindset. probably more valuable?—?product

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The Product Coalition

APRIL 19, 2021

You can sign up here for the ‘Food for Agile Thought’ newsletter and join 30,000-plus other subscribers. Join more than 145 peers from May 27–29, 2021 , for the Virtual Agile Camp Berlin 2021, a live virtual Barcamp using open space technology principles and practices. Remember, “Agile” is a mindset, not a methodology.

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The Product Coalition

SEPTEMBER 14, 2020

Spend an adequate amount of time researching the answers to the questions above. You need to research deep because what you see on the surface isn’t going to give you the answers. For example, if you start implementing agile and Google it, you will get iterations, time boxes, retrospective, and incremental delivery.

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Centercode

DECEMBER 26, 2019

As we discover the myriad ways organizations are building and optimizing their Customer Validation (CV) programs, our team here at Centercode is devoted to developing content that’s inspiring and useful across departments, roles, and industries. Below is a roundup of our favorite pieces of Customer Validation content from 2019.

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Roadmunk

OCTOBER 26, 2017

Matt recently co-authored an ebook with Drift’s CEO, David Cancel, called “ Burndown: A better way to build products.” The ebook explores the Burndown framework that Drift’s product team has adopted for product development. Think of Burndown as a more iterative and flexible version of agile that’s heavily influenced by user feedback.

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The Product Coalition

JANUARY 12, 2020

How to Make Fewer Errors During Your Trial-And-Error Journey Reaching product-market fit requires a lot of trial-and-error, but it takes so much more to succeed. On the other hand, there is the tech world, and lean startup, and agile. Everyone knows that reaching product-market fit requires a lot of trial-and-error.

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Userzoom

NOVEMBER 27, 2019

In our continuing effort to demystify the statistics in your user research studies , we’re looking at confidence intervals: why do we need them, what are they, and why they are useful? Taking our UK student example, imagine we wanted to test two designs for a student bank account to see which design students preferred.

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Userzoom

FEBRUARY 12, 2020

This is a guide for UX and research practitioners who have either newly joined an organization that’s using the Agile methodology, or their current product development is adopting Agile for the first time and they’ve been told to “make UX research happen in this new fangled process immediately please!” . What is Agile?

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Userzoom

DECEMBER 11, 2019

Here are a few teasers of what’s to come: We can look forward to a further blossoming of the CX and UX relationship, where we move past the collection of pure attitudinal data towards a more holistic overview of experiences using quant and qual research. Becky Wright, Senior Product UX Researcher. Lee Duddell, Senior UX Director.

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Userzoom

DECEMBER 10, 2019

Our Senior UX Director Lee Duddell discusses the importance of democratizing UX , while highlighting the mistakes that people make when they begin sharing research empowerment around the organisation and how they can avoid them. Lee: So we’re gonna talk about democratizing research. There are structures. Show of hands?

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Userzoom

NOVEMBER 27, 2019

If you’re in the process of democratizing UX beyond the boundaries of your own UX team, and equipping other people in the organization with the skills to run their own research, s tandardization can increase efficiency and helps set expectations of what’s involved in a user research project. UX Researcher | GrubHub. “It

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Userzoom

DECEMBER 18, 2019

When it comes to usability testing, many are unaware that there are two types of evaluations that can be conducted during the product design and development lifecycle. These are formative and summative usability tests. So which tests do we use during the product design and development lifecycle?

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Userzoom

NOVEMBER 18, 2019

These include: ‘Integrating user research into product development’ is the number one challenge faced by 64% of our respondents, last year it was ‘securing resources and budget’. But how can you get research into this early stage? Centralized UX teams are decreasing as more UXers are embedded throughout the product line.

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Userzoom

DECEMBER 18, 2019

We’re very grateful to all our readers, contributors, customers, partners and experts who made this the best ever year for UserZoom and our newly re-branded BetterUX Blog. Benchmarking user experience. Running user research. Integrating research into product development. Benchmarking user experience.

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