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Product in Practice: Getting Engineers Involved in Brainstorming

Product Talk

When running brainstorming sessions, Ellen found that engineers in particular were quick to jump to feasibility concerns. Ellen is the Senior Director of Product Management at Orion Labs , a B2B company that offers voice communication to teams in industries like hospitality, retail, transportation, logistics, and security.

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Beyond launch day: How to plan successful B2B product rollouts

Mixpanel

Believe it or not, rolling out a new product can be a lot trickier for B2B companies. Further, most B2B tools are productivity-boosting tools, which means when you do launch a new feature, you don’t always want to try to drive adoption with what could be noisy in-product messaging or tours. And there are several reasons why.

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

Product Talk

Feasibility assumptions address why we think we can build our solutions, and can include several elements like legal, compliance, security, organizational, and technical concerns. Tweet This The most common feasibility assumptions are engineering assumptions. Does the necessary technology exist?

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Track competitors and emerging trends with Leo, Feedly’s AI Engine

Roy Madden

The core of Feedly for Market Intelligence is an AI engine, called Leo, that automatically gathers, analyzes, and prioritizes intelligence from millions of sources in real-time. Meet Leo, Feedly’s AI Engine. Feedly’s AI Engine (Leo) automatically tags key market intelligence concepts.

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How Segment avoids user onboarding drag for its technical product

Mixpanel

Onboarding new users is one of the biggest challenges a technical product faces. This is doubly true when a portion of those would-be users don’t have technical backgrounds. Many companies now have fewer engineering resources, making it harder to get engineer buy-in. Measure the value of it.

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Template for Building a Winning Delivery Process Between Commercial and Product/Engineering…

The Product Coalition

Between commercial, product, and engineering leadership, a potential anecdote to rebuild trust and transparency can be instituting a simple, scheduled Product Steering process. Depending on how fast the business is moving, the types of things you are building, and size of the engineering team, decide on a monthly or quarterly cadence?—?no