Product Management University

NOVEMBER 17, 2022

After countless conversations, articles, webinars and conference sessions, I started to feel like the profession of product management had been reduced to…. Getting product teams to “consistently” operate with this mentality…still a challenge! The Importance of Strong Market-Facing Feeder Systems.

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The Product Coalition

DECEMBER 8, 2019

Highly effective Product Managers develop themselves in 5 key areas. In some jobs, you can get by with just Competence, but in the unkempt, fuzzy, team-oriented domain of Product Management, you need both. Here are 2 actions you can take to develop your Craft Competence: Craft Competence ?? and others feel that.

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Hutwork

MARCH 9, 2018

Magazine reports that most CEOs read at least a book a week, and this doesn’t include blogs, articles, podcasts, and videos they devour, too. Regardless, the following articles are a must-read for anyone concerned with rolling out the best product in each iteration. Agile Died While You Were Doing Your Standup. 4 One Door at a Time.

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The Product Coalition

DECEMBER 21, 2021

Here’s our story how we’re developing a product using machine learning and neural networks to boost translation and localization Artificial intelligence and its applications are one of the most sensational topics in the IT field. If so, what is the value of the solution you’re developing? Often people confuse it with automation.

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Roadmunk

SEPTEMBER 21, 2017

I’m constantly consuming articles on product management, product culture, startups and entrepreneurship to bolster my career as a product person and leader. This list is not the be all end all; there are countless ‘must-read’ articles for PMs. I’ve hand-picked articles that specifically helped me during key moments in my career.

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The Product Coalition

JULY 24, 2021

In my first article in this series, I posited that the only problem Agile has is that it’s too concise. People influence the system around them, but more often than not people conform to the system within which they operate. Can you imagine a team?—?that And so do people.

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Intercom, Inc.

AUGUST 13, 2019

As the head of our Support Ops team, I work daily with my teammates to develop automated solutions that don’t frustrate customers, but empower them. Our bots use AI to provide customers with links to existing resources, like knowledge base articles and FAQs. Why automate your customer service?

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The Product Coalition

AUGUST 25, 2022

Poor quality testing results in higher expenses. Having a listing of goals helps the team perceive what insights every one of the tests provides them, and conjointly simplifies the testing method itself. This may highlight existing failures and supply continuous feedback on the state of the system.

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Lenny Rachitsky

APRIL 2, 2024

In the past five years, Sean’s team has grown Duolingo’s daily active users from 5 million to nearly 30 million today (over 6x!), Including development time, experiment rollout, and running the experiment for two weeks to get data, they ended up launching the port of Feature A 82 days later.

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UX Studio: Product Management

JUNE 22, 2021

They get most of the recognition, but they also have to be involved in everything, which is super tiring and often leads to stress, burnout, and bad health. They don’t have to make every decision and double-check everything done by their teams. In this article, I will share what it is and how to use it.

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UX Planet

FEBRUARY 19, 2024

This article is for aspiring designers who are still creating a strong introduction to their UX or UI portfolio. In this article I am going to share with you 50 examples of proven design portfolio introductions from designer hires from Google, Apple, Facebook, Uber, Apple, Spotify, Airbnb, and Amazon. I design systems.

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The Product Coalition

JULY 11, 2022

Learn how to build a DEEP backlog and conduct productive refinement calls in order to maintain a happy and agile team. Is the work well distributed throughout the team, or are some overwhelmed while others with too much spare time? A not well refined backlog causes many problems for the team. Let's start with a reflection.

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Userpilot

SEPTEMBER 12, 2022

It may be reading articles on your blog, engaging with ads, leaving reviews, contacting the support team, and so on. Consumer touchpoints help to evaluate the degree of customer satisfaction and timely spot friction points (product bugs, lousy customer experience, poor UX, etc.). Why are customer touchpoints important?

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Modus Create

JUNE 18, 2019

But my employer had just paid for me to go through the training, and I was expected to help improve their development processes. That’s when it got bad. It got so bad that the CEO outlawed Agile altogether. What I am asking you to do is to not be religious about any prescribed system. My productivity suffered.

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The Product Coalition

JANUARY 27, 2022

At the beginning of any software development project, managers think of which methodology is between waterfall and agile. It’s essential to follow clearly defined processes or software development life cycle (SDLC) to ensure software development quality. Waterfall and agile: A smart method or bad solution?

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UX Studio

MAY 15, 2018

By definition, design handoff takes place when the finished design has reached the stage for the developers to implement it. Let’s look at the basics and some suggestions to get the best out of the designer-developer collaboration. Read more about this approach in Intercom’s great article.) We can always do something more.

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Agile Velocity

MAY 3, 2024

Agile implementation typically focuses on team-level adoption of Agile practices, emphasizing principles such as self-organization, cross-functional collaboration, and incremental delivery. Focus Only on Team Level Agile Transformation initiatives sometimes focus exclusively on individual teams, neglecting the broader organizational context.

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The Product Coalition

MARCH 8, 2020

I work in the tech industry & manage a team of around 12 people with a range of product, delivery & engineering skills. As a leader in tech, I have a variety of responsibilities, but I see my main role as building, enabling & motivating teams to deliver great digital products. To my mind, these are the most important parts.

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Mironov Consulting

DECEMBER 17, 2023

  The upside (for the sales team) is huge, and the cost (for product/engineering/support) is diffuse.    If it breaks three years from now — or has to change to work with changes in their other various systems — we’ll be expected to fix/change/adapt/improve it to meet purpose.    Far away. 

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The Product Coalition

DECEMBER 29, 2021

This year I developed a new reading approach, in which I read several books in parallel, usually from different topics. Strategy is visible as coordinated action imposed on a system. It is an exercise in centralized power used to overcome the natural workings of a system. When I say the strategy is “imposed,” I mean just that.

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The Product Coalition

JUNE 24, 2022

Every other day I seem to come across several new articles describing how to pass the infamous product manager interview. Apparently, what I don’t see is many articles aimed at helping people understand what the product manager position is actually like, and whether it is a good fit for them? Data used to scare me. Heck, it still does.

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Roman Pichler

DECEMBER 4, 2018

To understand if and to what extent your product is affected by technical debt, talk to the development team, for example, in the next sprint retrospective. I find that development team members usually have a good understanding where issues in the architecture and code are. Preventing Technical Debt.

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The Product Coalition

MARCH 29, 2018

I try to help product and sales teams succeed under the mantra “Easy to Sell, Easy to Renew.” I’ve struggled to find many examples detailing how to bond product and sales teams ( Antonia Bozhkova offers a good perspective ). Your teams will realign and strengthen their partnership as they see the product through each other’s eyes.

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Split

MARCH 29, 2024

A production environment in software development is the final stage where applications meet end-users. Furthermore, clearly distinguishing the production environment from the staging, testing, and development environments is a fundamental step in the software development process.

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Userpilot

APRIL 6, 2023

Developing and releasing sophisticated products with all the bells and whistles imaginable might seem like a great idea. In this article, we look at different ways for product managers to avoid falling into the overengineering trap. Poor prioritization and external pressure are also common causes. But worry not! Book the demo!

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Gainsight

APRIL 14, 2022

Expanding the team is not always the right answer to address scale and impact. Just as you wouldn’t expect to scale without a sales or marketing operations team, you can’t achieve the growth you dream of without a CS Operations team either. They are the driving force of any CS team. Team player. Why CS Ops?

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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. Use a color-coded system for a handy visual aid. Not all friction is bad. Positive vs negative friction.

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The Product Coalition

SEPTEMBER 10, 2019

How I Learned to Lead a Cross-Functional Product Team with Limited Resources For product managers, especially those at large organizations confident in their market position, it seems normal to have a permanent team (or even several teams), ready to serve and execute any request on demand. Buckle up, here come my principles!

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The Product Coalition

MARCH 29, 2021

TL; DR: Product Backlog Defense Make no mistake: Your Product Backlog is the last line of defense preventing your Scrum Team from becoming a feature factory; hence Product Backlog defense is vital: Figure out a process that creates value for your customers. Shall I notify you about articles like this one? Moreover, have the courage?—?and

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Intercom, Inc.

APRIL 22, 2021

If you’re a senior engineer and want to further your career, what skills should you develop? In this episode of Inside Intercom, Brian Scanlan , our own Principal Systems Engineer, sat down with Will to talk about all things s taff engineer – what it is, how to get there, and what happens when you progress beyond a senior engineering role.

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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.

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Tyner Blain

OCTOBER 23, 2023

When developing a product strategy you have to do a couple things – you have to both develop a strategy designed to support the company’s strategy, and you have to express it an a way which makes it actionable. As a leader, she could express intent and rationale, and her teams could trace their efforts back to her purpose.

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The Product Coalition

OCTOBER 13, 2021

In the article, I’ll cover the most significant mobile software testing types to bear in mind on the digital transformation journey. from insecure cryptography to weak passwords ? QA teams test the app’s functionality on the range of OSs, browsers, and devices. One of the ways is to focus more on software quality.

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Mind the Product

MARCH 12, 2020

It defines, communicates, supports, and improves important operations which can be standardized, such as communication, planning processes, team gatherings, and training. How it’s become a critical function for scaling effective product teams. Developing and maintaining a continuing education program for product managers.

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Userpilot

MARCH 14, 2024

If so, you’re in the right place, as this is the main question we explore in the article! Find friction points in the user journey Path exploration helps teams identify and address friction points within the user journey, which is essential for improving user satisfaction and conversion rates. Show how to create the report.

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The Product Guy

MAY 7, 2020

Hence it is critical that one is aware of the best practises of the role and develops his own philosophy which results into maximum positive leverage for the organization. This is my motivation behind writing this article. This article explores multiple aspects of product management. Product Roadmap.

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Userpilot

MARCH 7, 2024

These are the main questions the article explores. AI writing assistants help teams make their microcopies concise but informative and engaging. Your ability to engage users is evidence that you understand both your user preferences , needs, and pain points and the weak spots of your product experience. Let's dive right in!

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