The Product HQ

FEBRUARY 1, 2023

Technical program manager (TPM) roles range from mid to senior-level positions that support organizations with their product goals. They work with leaders and their own teams across organizations. TPMs are responsible for communicating complex technical ideas to both technical and non-technical team members.

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Intercom, Inc.

AUGUST 15, 2019

If an organization’s founders aren’t designers and don’t come from a background where well-designed products played a key role in their lives, it can often be the last discipline to be brought onboard the team. On a bad day, a lot more of it got thrown away. My responsibility was to build a design team in that new agile way of working.

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Mind the Product

DECEMBER 11, 2017

I became director of communications, leading the development of intranets and web applications. Challenges aside, I enjoyed the close-knit teams and easy access to upper management which enabled quick decision making. Designers vs Developers. Tension between designers and developers was palpable.

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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.

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Userpilot

OCTOBER 27, 2022

Once you start developing a feature, you should also test it regularly. Next, use the right tool to collect the right information and use the data to inform new developments. For example, you can use software like Hotjar to record user sessions to identify friction points. Identify and fix bugs quickly.

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Modus Create

JANUARY 12, 2021

On the other hand, capitalizing on a company’s current position to appease shareholders or investors, without innovating, improving, or optimizing, might be profitable in the short term, but in the long run you will likely lose market share. I’ll review four methodologies: waterfall, Lean, design, and Agile.

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Mind the Product

MARCH 7, 2017

Or “ How to Manage Software Development in Teams who Think Nothing Like you “ Product management has two diversity problems. Cultural homogeneity in product teams is dead, welcome cultural diversity. Product managers who work with cross-cultural teams are in the crossfire. It simply doesn’t work.

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The Product Coalition

SEPTEMBER 17, 2020

Picture this: you develop an app, then launch it worldwide. Yeah, we know, it sounds pretty much like a developer’s worst nightmare. Localization testing is usually not the first thing that development companies consider. Localization testing is one of the types of QA that takes place during product development.

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Folding Burritos

SEPTEMBER 7, 2015

How can this kind of stress be any good for our teams in the long run? The lesson I’ve come to learn over the years is that we need to accept and embrace deadlines as a positive influence on our work. The good and bad parts are, however, separated by a very fine line. Turning deadlines into a positive influence.

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The Product Coalition

MAY 15, 2019

A story of love, hate, oppression and triumph I’ll admit, I’ve started to fall out of love with agile over the past year or so?—?don’t I wholeheartedly believe that you need to be adaptable to survive today but the further I travel on my own journey the more I wonder if we as an industry are moving past agile. Enter agile.

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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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Modus Create

JUNE 1, 2020

The news is filled with tales of hackers breaking into financial institutions, DDoS attacks on credit card companies, and data breaches due to poor software configuration. VAST (Visual, Agile, and Simple Threat modeling). These items are ideally addressed as longer-term projects with dedicated teams. Who are the actors?

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The Product Coalition

OCTOBER 15, 2019

Are you willing to shape it and head straight to the development process? In this article, we’ll help you distinguish the starting and end points for the product development and guide you through the MVP, MMP, MLP, MDP, and MAP startup stages. Do you have a product concept in mind? Test the waters first and get your idea validated.

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Modus Create

APRIL 5, 2021

After interning at a wealth management firm, I began recruiting for sales and trading positions, which seemed like a happy medium. Joining the Modus Create Team. In other words, making big decisions and not knowing how technology works is bad for business.

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Imaginary Cloud - Design

FEBRUARY 20, 2019

In software development, it's also not the most valuable player , which has the same initialism, but it's used on completely different areas. Knowing that the effort to build a MVP is much less than what would be needed to implement all the initially contemplated features, all outcomes are positive, even in worst case scenarios.

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UX Studio

APRIL 6, 2023

This includes UX redesign, UX consulting , UX audit, product discovery, and UX training for teams. Parachute focuses on custom website development that includes UX design, conversion optimization, e-commerce website design and development, and branding. If you’re in need of a website design agency, we’re happy to help.

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UX Studio

APRIL 6, 2023

This includes UX redesign, UX consulting , UX audit, product discovery, and UX training for teams. Parachute focuses on custom website development that includes UX design, conversion optimization, e-commerce website design and development, and branding. If you’re in need of a website design agency, we’re happy to help.

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Modus Create

JULY 11, 2019

People with strong personalities habitually play devil’s advocate — a habit which, on its own, is actually not bad. People who fit this description are often people in positions of power. Again, the ability to rally a team around a common goal is a great quality in a leader. Marty is the lead designer on a design team.

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Tyner Blain

AUGUST 1, 2013

I’ve been revisiting his concepts and their use recently, thinking about how to revise them for some exercises I’ve been doing with product teams. Back in 2011, Luke Hohmann introduced me to this concept and technique, and I used it with success with a team I was working with at the time. Whole Product Game Background.

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The Product Coalition

APRIL 19, 2021

The Product Backlog and Refinement If you are looking to fill a position for a Product Owner in your organization, you may find the following 71 interview questions useful to identify the right candidate. You can sign up here for the ‘Food for Agile Thought’ newsletter and join 30,000-plus other subscribers. PO Interview Questions?—?The

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Userpilot

MAY 1, 2021

collecting and analyzing VoC data, helps your Customer Success team improve the user onboarding process. The Customer Success team’s role is to close the gap between customer expectation and customer experience. Both negative and positive. Sending out surveys and talking to customers might sound easy.

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The Product Coalition

FEBRUARY 26, 2022

I’ve asked friends who do the job at social events and got the same answer, and frequently asked members of my own teams, who struggled to find the time to do it. To compensate, I’ve seen UX researchers & designers pick up the mantle a lot more, and the design teams have really leaned into this space.

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PMLesson's Ace the PM Interview

FEBRUARY 25, 2022

Creating a concise, specific, and relevant front end developer resume is key to landing your next job in tech. For front-end developers, it is important to craft your resume in a way that highlights your skills, experience and programming language knowledge. We created this guide for both junior and senior front-end developers.

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Mironov Consulting

MAY 24, 2022

Everywhere I go, I see massive amounts of product waste : development work delivered on time/on budget that doesn’t drive sales or customer satisfaction or business improvement.  Yet  We shout past each other using secret keywords (“agile”) and assuming bad intent.  Project teams that ship v1.0

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Business of Software Conference

DECEMBER 11, 2019

Agile methodology sounds confusing and difficult, but Bethany Pagels-Minor breaks it down to bite-size slices of delicious cakes that will will help every team work better, communicate better, and provide better returns. from Business of Software Conference. Why does everyone come to me about Agile Methodology?

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The Product Coalition

MARCH 2, 2020

manifest themselves in Scrum stakeholder anti-patterns which easily can impede any agile transition. The Scrum Stakeholder and Organizational Excellence in Legacy Organizations Regularly, InfoQ applies the ‘ Crossing the Chasm ’ metaphor to engineering practices, thus covering a part of the agile movement to create learning organizations.

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The Product Coalition

MAY 25, 2018

TL;DR: Webinar Product Backlog Anti-Patterns The third Hands-on Agile webinar product backlog anti-patterns covers common problems from out-dated and oversized tickets to the part-time proxy product owner and his or her idea repository. It covers more than 160 scrum anti-patterns that hold your scrum team back.

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Product Innovation Educators

AUGUST 14, 2023

I founded Prodify so my team and I can help companies by sharing knowledge from our previous experiences. It’s not because they’re bad at what they do. Product management is concentrated on the creation of customer value from which you’re then in a position to derive business value.

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PMLesson's Ace the PM Interview

APRIL 4, 2022

It's common practice for companies to use recruiters (either contractors or in-house) to help them keep up with industry trends and find qualified software developers. Nevertheless, the experiences that many software engineers have with most recruiters aren't that great. However, job recruiters have a bit of a bad rap.

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The Product Coalition

APRIL 25, 2022

The Best Product Managers use Product Management Software for: We’ve broken down this list into four stages of the feature life cycle that contributes to building the product value: opportunity identification and validation, design and prototyping, feature development, and launch and iteration.

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The Product Coalition

JUNE 24, 2018

TL;DR: Webinar Product Owner Anti-Patterns The sixth Hands-on Agile webinar product owner anti-patterns addresses twelve ways to improve a product owner’s skill set. as the scrum master or scrum team?—?should The Third episode covers the weak product owner: The PO has not learned to say no to stakeholders demanding new requests.

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Hutwork

MARCH 19, 2018

Product management goes well beyond those certified in agile or another method. The best books available can help you learn more about product management, collaboration, habits, remote teams, different methodologies, and more. Agile Change Management: A Practical Framework for Successful Change Planning and Implementation.

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Crafty CTO

MAY 1, 2020

This is the sequel to my post Shape Up Your Agile , about the book Shape Up: Stop Running in Circles and Ship Work that Matters by Basecamp ’s Ryan Singer. We left off at the handoff of shaped, de-risked work to the development teams. In effect, we are saying: “Here you go, dev team. And shipping!)

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Pragmatic Marketing

NOVEMBER 9, 2009

While software development teams have been moving toward agile methods for years, many product managers are only now becoming aware of it. An agile approach applies collaborative and continuous improvement concepts to software development. There is no single, definitive “agile method.”

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PMLesson's Ace the PM Interview

MARCH 7, 2022

Watch him critique his old resume that landed him an Associate Product Manager position at Google. The best performing product managers are candidates who are inquisitive, methodical, and mindful of their own limitations or weaknesses. 2020) John's Web Agency is a family-owned web development agency in Los Angeles, CA.

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Tyner Blain

APRIL 7, 2015

Last month, Mike Smart of Egress Solutions and I gave a webinar for Pragmatic Marketing on product roadmapping when working in agile environments. Described something (bad) which was not a roadmap. Concluded that roadmaps are bad. One attendee asked, “ Please explain how a prioritized list of features is not a roadmap?

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Product Talk

FEBRUARY 8, 2017

Instead, product teams are experimenting their way to viable solutions. We are putting our customers first, taking the time to discover unmet needs, and developing solutions that address those needs. My goal was to put our varied methodologies and techniques (Lean, Agile, Jobs-to-be-Done, design thinking, etc.) Anders Ericsson.

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