The Product Guy

AUGUST 13, 2020

When I first researched about product management, I asked seasoned product managers how they started and they gave me very different kinds of answers. Are reading articles, taking online courses, watching videos and participating training program enough to make one a good product manager?

Product Management 163

Product Management Product Manager Research Software Feedback Software 163

Tyner Blain

OCTOBER 3, 2023

Adding additional elevators, or upgrading the existing elevators to be faster are both prohibitively expensive solutions for an existing hotel, and often impractical when planning the design of a new hotel. Additional elevators might be a good solution, adding mirrors in the hall by the elevator door is a great solution.

Weak Development Team 52

Weak Development Team User Testing Research Software Product Research 52

Mind the Product

FEBRUARY 20, 2020

To help hiring managers and recruiters, like myself, decide whether or not to interview you, it can be a great exercise to treat your resume like a professional product. Consider this article a requirements document: it’s structured into several user stories from the perspective of a hiring manager, for a product manager role.

Data Visualization 161

Data Visualization Weak Development Team User Testing Product Research 161

Intercom, Inc.

DECEMBER 19, 2018

Intercom, the product, continued to develop at a fast pace with hundreds of new features big and small – from an entirely reimagined Messenger to a thriving Intercom App Store to next generation chatbots, Custom Bots and Answer Bot. Lessons learned from scaling a team. It has been a year of extraordinary growth at Intercom.

Analytic Tools 150

Analytic Tools Research Software User Testing Customer Experience 150

The Product Coalition

SEPTEMBER 2, 2022

The leadership team finally agreed on the vision. Clarity enables the team to translate the choices into a functional product that creates value. So as you make choices, package the strategy into a document, and share it with the product team, keep four words in mind?—?a A yes with a weak how or a no receives a zero.

Product Strategy 124

Product Strategy Strategy User Testing Weak Development Team 124

The Product Coalition

JUNE 22, 2020

This article is part of a wider guide on how to establish a product discovery framework in your organization. And you’re telling me you don’t have guidelines for how to conduct interviews, analysis exercises, and communicate findings? It also doesn’t need to be expensive, or fancy, to be effective.

Customer Experience 78

Customer Experience Product Research Data Visualization Embedded Analytics 78

Intercom, Inc.

JULY 11, 2019

But as the business becomes more successful – and there are resources to build a support team – additional layers begin to separate executives from their customers. Since 2010, he’s helped the company grow to more than 40,000 customers and helped scale the support team to more than 500 employees to assist those users. Short on time?

Customer Experience 188

Customer Experience User Testing Research Software Customer Feedback 188

The Product Coalition

SEPTEMBER 29, 2020

As a Product Manager, you’re a team player who guides product development along its chartered course, but you have to do that without being the literal captain of the ship. Influence without authority is the skill of driving product development and ‘telling people what to do’ without formally being authorized to do so.

Product Management 183

Product Management Product Manager Data Visualization Weak Development Team 183

The Product Coalition

JULY 24, 2020

Check out more insightful sketches by Jono Hey on sketchplanations.com This article is part of a wider guide on how to establish a product discovery framework in your organization. It took a few years until the team felt the market for this product was mature enough. We were faced with a lot (!)

Product Research 78

Product Research User Testing Data Visualization Customer Feedback 78

ProductPlan

OCTOBER 25, 2022

Product teams long for similar moments of inspiration, but the motivational poster vision of breakthrough ideas misses the raw materials and effort that lead up to these moments. If you’ve been deeply submerged in your product ideas and users, this step is critical because it forces the team to prairie dog up to get a fuller picture.

Data Visualization 52

Data Visualization User Testing Product Research Customer Feedback 52

The Product Coalition

MARCH 18, 2018

If you work in a product team or in a digital business, you’ve probably heard a lot about this topic, or might even have lost some sleeping nights due to the lack of it in your daily basis. I think that there is no doubt whether designers and product team should work together and if both of them are essential to achieving great results.

Weak Development Team 60

Weak Development Team Onboarding KPIs Research Software Product Research 60

The Product Coalition

APRIL 2, 2022

There is a framework for almost every stage of our Product development lifecycle, but one of the only transversal things is that we need people to make things happen. This article is not intended to be a book review, but I used the skills described in this bestseller to link them with our day-to-day Product Management life.

Product Management 153

Product Management Product Manager User Testing Customer Experience 153

UX Studio

JULY 17, 2018

This detailed article will guide you through how we facilitate a UX project kick-off workshop here at UX studio. You want to trust the design team, and see how they process and understand your product and company. Get the stakeholders and the design team on the same page. Who: Designer(s) + researcher(s) working on the project.

Workshop 74

Workshop UX User Testing Research Software 74

ProductPlan

SEPTEMBER 10, 2021

The OKR methodology can be a powerful motivator for high performance and product excellence within teams and companies. The focus then shifts towards outcomes and individual and team authority and ownership. Moreover, they boost employee engagement and nurture strong team collaboration. Develop a Work Environment Built on Trust.

Weak Development Team 52

Weak Development Team Research Software Customer Experience Framework 52

Amplitude

NOVEMBER 12, 2018

Holly Hester-Reilly has a fascinating, experiment-driven meets systems-thinking perspective on product management. Prior to jumping into product roles at Shutterstock and Media Math, Holly studied chemical engineering, and practiced research science for several years. You have a background in chemical engineering. And you know what?

Product Research 97

Product Research User Testing Research Software Customer Experience 97

PMLesson's Ace the PM Interview

MARCH 2, 2022

Google Product Manager Interview Guide Google Engineering Manager Interview Guide Google Software Engineering Interview Guide Google APM Interview Guide Google Technical Program Manager Interview Guide Google Product Marketing Manager Interview Guide Does Google Ask Behavioral Interview Questions? What are your strengths and weaknesses?

Weak Development Team 52

Weak Development Team Technical Review User Testing Feedback Software 52

Bain Public

DECEMBER 8, 2020

As a product manager, you have to define product management for yourself and develop a plan with which you’ll take ownership of a portion of your company's growth. Are you encouraging cooperative communication within the team? It helps set expectations within your team and organization. Unwind With Exercise.

Weak Development Team 52

Weak Development Team User Testing Customer Feedback Customer Experience 52

The Product Coalition

JANUARY 26, 2024

Twenty five mini-research ideas for finding something meaningful to work on. In the perfect world, product managers have all the time, resources, and skills to do impeccable, in-depth market and user research. The real world has limited resources, unrealistic deadlines, and new teams that have not been able to do research at all.

User Testing 102

User Testing Product Research Research Software Data Visualization 102

Business of Software Conference

JANUARY 28, 2019

Paul Kenny is no stranger to the Business of Software Conference stage. A sales coach with experience working with software companies including Redgate and StackExchange, Paul has a huge amount of experience and insight to share on the process of selling your software. Paul Kenny, Founder, OceanLearning. Upcoming Events.

Research Software 40

Research Software Feedback Software Magazine Customer Experience 40

Surya Suravarapu

FEBRUARY 27, 2020

It is wanting more that pushes humanity to seek improvements, develop new technologies, and reach for a higher level." The users themselves, if they can, may build new solutions: the DIY types. Habits-in-choice This is a dominant force propelled by the concerns of switching costs from the current solution to the new product.

Feedback Software 52

Feedback Software Product Research Reporting Tools Research Software 52

Userpilot

SEPTEMBER 25, 2023

This article introduces various concept tests, shows you how to conduct them, and discusses ways to collect user feedback to gain actionable insights. TL;DR In SaaS, concept testing is a research method used to test concepts during product discovery and before their launch. Let’s dive in! What is concept testing?

User Testing 105

User Testing Product Research Feedback Software Analytic Tools 105

UX Planet

FEBRUARY 26, 2024

Largely picking up from the voices of designers themselves, the article amplifies their call for reform, advocating for a more human-centered and ethical approach to design talent evaluation. Conducting an audit of a web app or a mobile app ( generally an heuristic analysis ) B.

User Testing 85

User Testing Research Software Data Visualization Feedback Software 85

PMLesson's Ace the PM Interview

JUNE 8, 2020

This article was written by Timothy Fallen-Bailey, an Exponent PM Coach. It is usually up to the product manager to develop this strategy for their product, because they know the most about the opportunities and threats that are present for their particular market.

Research Software 80

Research Software Strategy Product Strategy User Testing 80

Roadmunk

APRIL 12, 2018

And one of the topics Mike and Michael did a deep-dive into were the tools product people apply to understand their users better—specifically u ser personas and jobs to be done. We have 15,000 product people from all over, mostly on the software side. The episode can be listened to above, and we’ve also included a transcript below.

User Testing 58

User Testing Customer Feedback Customer Experience Analytic Tools 58

The Product Coalition

NOVEMBER 24, 2020

Do you want to get this article in your inbox? A Scrum Master should recognize that different stages of a Scrum Team’s development require different approaches: some, teaching; some, coaching; and some, mentoring. Scrum is not designed for bean counters, although some metrics help understand a Scrum Team’s health.

Data Visualization 167

Data Visualization Weak Development Team User Testing Software Review 167

Userzoom

JULY 3, 2019

We’ve talked today about, you know, we can teach people how to do basic user research techniques and those causes of. We heard earlier, didn’t we about this nirvana in one company where the legal team is integrated in with the UX people. ” Because it’s their solution. What if they don’t care?

Customer Experience 105

Customer Experience User Experience User Testing Customer Feedback 105

UX Planet

JANUARY 9, 2024

To illustrate, a compilation of 70 previous research studies revealed that creativity training programs, when well-structured, resulted in enhanced performance. Creativity is a team effort, so make sure to leverage the expertise and skills of your team or people you trust when the need arises for you to be creative.

Research Software 78

Research Software Feedback Software Product Research User Testing 78

Tyner Blain

AUGUST 28, 2023

In my previous article, I shared an improved template for writing problem statements. Knowing a good structure is necessary, but you also need to avoid filling the good template with bad content. ” is the tool we use to work through things. The solution as it exists has too much flexibility for the target customers.

Research Software 52

Research Software Weak Development Team User Testing Systems Review 52

UX Studio

JANUARY 17, 2024

Her focus spans various areas, including product-led growth, UX design, user research, leadership, hiring, and scaling businesses. When the input from the business is coming to you start thinking about hypotheses first, not the solution. This is the main mental model shift because as designers, we start thinking about solution.

User Testing 74

User Testing Research Software Customer Experience Product Research 74

The Product Coalition

MAY 20, 2020

We are wired by nature to think about solutions. Our ears are rather tuned to hear solutions or hints of problems at most. Example: Project manager prepares a project utilization report Delivery manager at a bespoke software development company prepares a report of how many man-days have been utilized on a project for a given client.

Reporting Tools 89

Reporting Tools Customer Feedback Data Visualization Customer Experience 89

The Product Coalition

MARCH 2, 2020

Do you want to get this article in your inbox? Too bad, when nowadays diversity, autonomy, mastery, and purpose become the driving factors in a highly competitive environment where more of the same for everyone is no longer creating value. For managers, it means moving: From WIIFM (what-is-in-for-me syndrome) to team playing?—?the

Reporting Tools 78

Reporting Tools Data Visualization Product Research Systems Review 78

Roadmunk

NOVEMBER 9, 2017

Listen below: In this episode we have Evan Michner , Principal Product Manager at Atlassian —specifically for their chat tools, Stride and HipChat. I remember sitting down with the designer at the time saying, please tell me what the difference is between a graphic designer and a software developer. Evan: Everything.

Feedback Software 80

Feedback Software Research Software Weak Development Team Product Research 80

The Product Coalition

FEBRUARY 8, 2020

Hence, if you recognize some anti-patterns in your daily work, why don’t you ask the rest of the Scrum Team for support? Do you want to get this article in your inbox? The Product Backlog needs to represent at any given time the best use of the Development Team’s resources. The team answers the ‘how’ question?—?the

Weak Development Team 78

Weak Development Team User Testing Product Research Technical Review 78

The Product Coalition

OCTOBER 8, 2018

Keep on reading this article in order to get a better idea what a product management framework is, and why is essential for every startup? To be simple, the product management is an interdisciplinary role that reaches across teams to design, bring better products to the market, set your business plan, and marketing.

Startups 60

Startups User Testing Customer Feedback Product Management 60

ProductCraft

AUGUST 14, 2018

His curiosity and extensive research led him to write Hooked: How to Build Habit-Forming Products. And so I spent a lot of time in the Stanford Library researching a lot of very boring academic papers and I talked to a lot of people who wrote those papers. And the problem becomes the solution and so that continues this loop.

Research Software 66

Research Software Product Research User Testing Customer Experience 66

Modus Create

JUNE 29, 2020

A CoE is about teaching others and guiding them so they can add new tools to their professional toolbox. By creating CoEs we are taking the best of our values and making a structured program that help our teams to: Consolidate the knowledge and best practices they already have. The first phase of CoE team development is forming.

Research Software 89

Research Software Weak Development Team Technical Review Customer Experience 89

The Product Coalition

APRIL 4, 2018

A programming note: this article is broken into sections that correspond with the videos posted on Product School’s Facebook Page, and I reference the relevant timestamps at each header so that you can find them more easily in that section’s video. Director of Product at Reddit (8:48) We’ve got a great article for you today.

User Testing 74

User Testing Customer Experience Research Software Product Research 74