Mironov Consulting

MAY 16, 2020

A topic that’s come up several times recently in my product leader coaching sessions: how much to delegate to the (individual contributor) product managers on our teams – including different ways of building product skills and balancing personal empowerment against good results.

Weak Development Team 145

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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. THE CAUSE.

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Weak Development Team Software Review Technical Review Onboarding KPIs 149

The Product Coalition

MARCH 8, 2024

The important basis is the development of a strategy for short- and long-term digital transformation based on business results rather than technology. Agility and adaptability are paramount The business landscape is constantly evolving, and trends can shift rapidly. What is the importance of digital transformation?

Enterprise 126

Enterprise Research Software Feedback Software Strategy 126

Modus Create

SEPTEMBER 30, 2020

Automated tests can help to speed up delivery, reduce errors, and save testing engineers time to run comprehensive and complex tests. However, before automating all test cases, it is necessary to make a rigorous assessment of what can be automated, when, how, and what cost and effort is required to achieve the goal.

User Testing 98

User Testing Software Review Product Research Testing 98

The Product Coalition

OCTOBER 13, 2022

Learn who to listen to: “The Mum test” (Rob Fitzpatrick) This book will teach you that they’re some people you should never listen to, like your mum. Poor questions yield little value. ?? Plan your product: “story mapping” (Nielsen Norman Group) Often teams rely on lengthy requirements documents to move from a vision to a product.

User Testing 134

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Mind the Product

APRIL 23, 2018

And leaders have an outsized impact on team performance. She shared some insights on human behavior, and how we as leaders can use our influence to build a culture of psychological safety, enhancing collaboration and problem solving in our teams. Experimentation is not about testing guesses and hoping a “magic number” will move.

Agile 110

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Mironov Consulting

FEBRUARY 28, 2024

An essential role of CPOs and other product leaders that’s never listed in the job description is giving organizational 'air cover' to product managers to postpone almost all new requests — so that their teams can finish work already underway.    Lately, I’m calling this permission to stay focused.

Reporting Tools 105

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The Product Guy

FEBRUARY 27, 2020

At JCDecaux, I led the development of an information kiosk for airport passengers. Passengers are also able to view hotel information and use the devices to speak to the sales team of the hotel. Feasibility risk impacts the capacity of the team to build the product given time, skills and technology constraints.

User Testing 167

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Mind the Product

JUNE 17, 2019

He now heads up Silicon Valley Product Group, where he works with product managers and senior leaders to help them generate value through their products. Empower Your Teams if you Want to be Truly Agile. Agile and Lean are both experiencing this at the moment, as they have been oversold as the solution to too many problems.

Data Visualization 195

Data Visualization Product Research Analytic Tools User Testing 195

UX Planet

DECEMBER 15, 2023

Understanding your organization’s UX maturity is the first, most crucial step toward recognizing the strengths and weaknesses of your organization. According to the NN group, UX maturity measures an organization’s desire and ability to successfully deliver user-centered design. Have you defined the design problem at hand?

UX 94

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The Product Coalition

FEBRUARY 2, 2023

As product managers, it’s our job to develop solutions that solve real problems for our customers and create value for the business. Chances are, it might have been because the team wasn’t using the hypothesis-driven approach correctly. This will help to ensure that the results of the test are reliable and interpretable.

User Testing 144

User Testing Feedback Software Product Research Research Software 144

Split

FEBRUARY 24, 2023

No matter what industry you work in, the evolving demands of an “agile” promise is a challenge to live up to. For developers, that requires constant pivots, faster response times, and a graceful recovery from failure. As it turns out, there’s an important set of metrics all software teams should use as their benchmark.

Research Software 94

Research Software Software Review Product Research User Testing 94

Mironov Consulting

SEPTEMBER 22, 2020

Almost without fail, I find that the “maker” side of software companies (developers, designers, product folks, DevOps, tech writers…) and the “go-to-market” side of software companies (sales, marketing, support, customer success.) Some frequent bad outcomes from this confusion: We never finish our MVP. Here’s why…. What To Do?

Technical Advisors 142

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Userpilot

NOVEMBER 21, 2023

Product launch checklists help align the efforts of all team members, enhance quality assurance, help mitigate risks, enable the evaluation of the launch, and help you deliver a better customer experience. Develop a product that meets customer needs and expectations. If you can find buyers at this stage, you’re onto something.

Product launches 104

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The Product Coalition

SEPTEMBER 21, 2020

Good product teams understand that their customers’ needs and behaviours are ever changing and the way to truly predict what impact any update will have is to try it on a small set of real customers. Since experimentation has become a discipline on its own, there are established best practices for cross functional teams to follow.

Customer Experience 158

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Userpilot

MAY 5, 2022

Product managers lead interdisciplinary product teams to deliver products that bring value to customers. Product managers monitor and control the product lifecycle while ensuring there is the right corporate environment for its development. The product development process is one aspect of the product management process.

Product Research 98

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The Product Coalition

APRIL 14, 2019

And while there are instances where project management is critical, applying project thinking (or project management) to the entire lifecycle of product development is incredibly problematic. And that is what I see with SAFe (Scaled Agile Framework if you’re unfamiliar with the term). While its intentions may be good?—?and

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Weak Development Team Agile Product Research Customer Experience 94

Mironov Consulting

AUGUST 29, 2023

We want to invest our always-scarce development efforts in work that truly matters to our customers, or where only we can do what’s necessary.  So rent rent rent We’re in the Agile Devt software business rent rent build?  After all, we're smarter than other teams.   and then the next.

Analytic Tools 52

Analytic Tools Feedback Software Reporting Tools Engineering 52

Userpilot

JULY 5, 2022

As a result, it helps you develop only the features that they need and avoid falling into the feature fallacy trap and creating the consumption gap. In-app surveys , usability and prototype testing , or user interviews and focus groups can help you understand your customers’ requirements. What is incremental innovation?

Feedback Software 98

Feedback Software Analytic Tools Research Software Product Research 98

Userpilot

APRIL 25, 2022

Function friction is primarily about users being blocked from reaching their product goals because of an error, poor UX, or other factors. Not all friction is bad. Friction logs can be created by the whole team. Not all friction is bad. Share information across multiple teams. How do you create friction logs?

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Feedback Software Analytic Tools Data Visualization User Testing 98

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.

Product Research 150

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The Product Coalition

JUNE 17, 2019

For many years CSSSR has been developing IT systems for the biggest online banks, witnessing their success firsthand. This experience has led to several key insights: You Don’t Need a Large IT Department “We operate in small teams. To begin with, the development of new functionality requires considerable resources, including people.

Banking 94

Banking Development Team Review Software Review Technical Review 94

People-First Product Leadership

MARCH 4, 2024

How would you approach working with new team members in a different country, specifically to grow empathy and connection, due to cultural differences? Starting a community of practice I joined Pearson to create the Future Technologies team. Even though it is a large enterprise, you can apply these tips within any size of company.

User Testing 59

User Testing Feedback Software Technical Review Product Research 59

ProductPlan

JANUARY 5, 2023

Agile vs. agile. Are you Agile, or are you agile?” Adopting Agile methodologies like Scrum , Kanban , eXtreme Programming , or some combination of the above has been a trend, or some might say a craze, affecting digital product management for many years. They focus on the results that the team is looking for.

Artificial Inteligence 52

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Mind the Product

AUGUST 17, 2017

Their advice is to focus on the right technology, agile processes and great people to create the culture and operation you need. In 2015 they had a team of 6 people – they are now at 80. How the FT.com Operates 9 Teams With 80 People. Make Friends With Your Procurement Team. seconds on desktop.

Research Software 122

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The Product Coalition

MARCH 6, 2019

Bringing team members together, organizing user research, product demos, road mapping and more. Review any existing feedback you have as well as additional direct channels such as chat bots, surveys, focus groups, and interviews. At the minimum, your mobile product will bring design teams, IT, marketing and operations together?—?these

Analytic Tools 60

Analytic Tools Feedback Software Research Software Data Visualization 60

Modus Create

JANUARY 12, 2021

So let’s dive into some old and new methodologies that companies use to implement, develop and balance the three pillars. I’ll review four methodologies: waterfall, Lean, design, and Agile. The outcome of a project is well defined, so there are few surprises in what the team delivers.

User Testing 59

User Testing Customer Experience Technical Review Customer Feedback 59

ProductPlan

JUNE 11, 2019

While this can occasionally be blamed on poor execution, it is often simply a result of poor goal setting. But why do product teams have such a hard time creating the right goals to achieve our objectives? No matter how smart you are, how much experience you have, and how much subject matter expertise your team possesses.

Roadmap 85

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The Product Coalition

JANUARY 3, 2020

So, it was natural that we should want to develop a talent growth plan for our people. Each month we send out an NPS survey to assess whether the company is being a great place to work, but a few months ago I also sent Google’s manager feedback survey to my team of 10 product managers. It was clear the team needed a talent growth plan.

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Mind the Product

JANUARY 22, 2018

It’s the foundation that, for instance, powers a website and allows developers to add pages and features. By the time they need to be replaced few, if any, people from the original team are still around and, in any case, and no one fully understands the IT in detail. Replacing them is an expensive and high-stakes endeavour.

Research Software 107

Research Software Reporting Tools Weak Development Team Product Research 107

Userpilot

JULY 9, 2021

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. She coaches teams on how to collect meaningful customer input and use it to make product decisions on a daily basis. How to build an onboarding team. Plot summary.

Books 98

Books Research Software Feedback Software Analytic Tools 98

The Product Coalition

OCTOBER 15, 2019

Are you willing to shape it and head straight to the development process? Test the waters first and get your idea validated. It helps to test the concept and build a base for an MVP. You’ll get a better understanding of what MVP is in software development and how to build it right. Do you have a product concept in mind?

User Testing 60

User Testing Product Research Customer Feedback Feedback Software 60

The Product Coalition

APRIL 2, 2019

As a follow-up on my article 3 sins of implementing Agile , I am bringing this idea to Scrum , the most common manifestation of Agile. The company implements Sprints as two or three-week development periods used as a planning unit. The company implements Sprints as two or three-week development periods used as a planning unit.

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Weak Development Team User Testing Product Research Agile 60

PMLesson's Ace the PM Interview

JULY 13, 2020

From initial design and development through launch, upgrades, maturation, and eventually end-of-life, PMs are found wrangling other departments with competing priorities. Leading a diverse team. If you can do this at work, that’s great -- but any group will do. So how do you decide? What Am I Getting Into? And ultimately.

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Sachin Rekhi

JULY 10, 2019

I always love reading each new book the Basecamp team publishes as they are inevitably chock-full of unique perspectives that preach an approach to working better that goes against conventional wisdom and established best practices. Jason Fried says so himself in the foreward: For one, we’re not into waterfall or agile or scrum.

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Weak Development Team Software Review Customer Experience CTO 118

Mind the Product

DECEMBER 14, 2016

You learn so much from usability testing – either because you don’t use the software every day or you’re not knowledgeable enough about returns processes and counting routines. From this and focus groups, I was able to develop personas for our users and introduce them to our development team.

Analytic Tools 70

Analytic Tools Feedback Software Research Software User Testing 70

The Product Coalition

APRIL 6, 2020

For most companies it’s bad news?—?the They develop new business opportunities by making significantly greater investments than their rivals do in R&D and marketing, and they invest in assets such as plants and machinery.” These teams work towards business goals? What does it mean to you, your job and your company?

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