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Product in Practice: Assumption Testing with Engineers at Orion Labs

Product Talk

Engineers are often reluctant to participate in discovery. This is only natural: Through years of bad habits, many of us have shown engineers that we only value them for the code they can write. But there are many reasons why engineers are one of the essential members of the product trio. And this is a good thing.

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Why Engineers Should Participate in Discovery

Product Talk

Are you inviting your engineers to participate in discovery with you? Does your organization prefer that your engineers only write code? Marty Cagan , in Inspired , argues, “If you’re just using your engineers to code, you’re only getting about half their value.” And, sadly, many engineers make this mistake themselves.

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Mobile Test Automation Playbook

The Product Coalition

Guest post by Mark Mayo, Senior Quality Engineer at Terem. Manual testing of your mobile products is important and useful. Automated testing really assists with the efficiency here; being able to execute the same tests repeatedly, quickly and timely on a multitude of devices. What is Mobile Test Automation?

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Join 3 Free Product Discovery Webinars in May 2024

Product Talk

This event is a great fit for product managers, designers, engineers, and any other roles involved in building digital products who are using opportunity solution trees to manage their discovery efforts (or would like to). If you are not reading this article in your feed reader, then the site is guilty of copyright infringement.

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Join 4 New Events on Continuous Discovery with Teresa Torres (March 2024)

Product Talk

April 3rd: Identifying Hidden Assumptions: The Key to Faster Discovery Cycles Every week, I talk to people who can’t believe that product teams can really test multiple product ideas in the same week. It’s because most product people are stuck in a project-based idea-testing world. Register here. Register here. Register here.

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UI Test Automation Playbook

The Product Coalition

Guest post by Mark Mayo, Senior Quality Engineer at Terem Technologies This is the process of writing code and using tools to automate the user interface (UI) testing of front-end components of websites, desktop applications or mobile applications. But, getting it right goes beyond the coding of the tests and the tools you use.

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Evaluating Solutions: The 5 Types of Assumptions that Underlie Our Ideas

Product Talk

Assumption testing is at the heart of what good continuous discovery teams do week over week. But before we can test our assumptions, we have to identify them. The challenge is that we need to be able to see our assumptions before we can test them. Add the option to email the full text of the article to someone.