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Product in Practice: Finding the Best Way to Communicate with Different Stakeholders

Product Talk

Her continuous discovery journey hasn’t just been about interviewing customers or prototyping to test assumptions. Lisa and her team were able to convince their leadership to allow them to run a one-month beta launch with a limited set of customers to test out their new feature. Tweet This. Lisa Orr understands this all too well.

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Alternative Product Business Models

Department of Product

And whilst some roles in product require a background in software engineering, these are usually optional. Clearly, this isn’t applicable for all products, but it’s an interesting development in the B2C space. Some roles prefer design clout but again this is optional. All roles, however, require business skills.

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Customer Interviews: How to Recruit, What to Ask, and How to Synthesize What You Learn

Product Talk

For the purposes of this article, the following activities are not customer interviews: Usability tests or prototype tests or any other customer conversation about potential solutions. I prefer to see the product trio (a product manager, a designer, and a software engineer) interview customers together.

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The 3 Sets of Technical Product Manager Interview Questions

The Product Coalition

So people add two and two, and they induce that every single worker must have deep understanding of matters like coding, automating and other complex software engineering topics. While UX and UI are as or even more important than in B2C contexts, its technical systems must be rigorous. This is very far from the truth.

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What 14 startup investors and advisors taught us about chasing (and finding) product-market fit

Mixpanel

” Startup Grind Jaclyn Allen, Partner Success Manager, and Daniel Reilly, Software Engineer, Startup Grind. ” Startup Grind Jaclyn Allen, Partner Success Manager, and Daniel Reilly, Software Engineer, Startup Grind. Just make sure to figure out how you’re defining retention for your product, and stick with it.