The Product Coalition

DECEMBER 17, 2019

We’ve just made it through a decade that completely revolutionized the way we think about tech. Top companies have completely changed the face of tech, transforming our lives. Siri received mixed reviews when she first landed in the iPhone 4S in 2011. Siri received mixed reviews when she first landed in the iPhone 4S in 2011.

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The Product Coalition

OCTOBER 8, 2019

An Eye-Opening Exercise Imagine you’re a Scrum Master and the line manager of your team believes that the best sign for a successful agile transformation is a steady increase in the Scrum Team’s velocity. delivers results: run the cooking the agile books exercise and address the faking agile metrics elephant in the room head-on.

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Userpilot

MARCH 3, 2022

Product managers with technical skills such as SQL or technical stack are in high demand, so highlight them in your resume. Show off your Product Manager (technical) skills. ” Technical skills in particular could be an asset for a product manager. Technical stack and product architecture. These include: SQL.

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Userpilot

JULY 9, 2023

Technically, it’s a validation technique rather than a user testing method. It explains the purpose of the exercise and invites them to beta test the feature once it’s ready. Session recordings are exactly what the name suggests: you record and then analyze how the user interacts with the product. Source: Miro.

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Usersnap

JULY 16, 2021

Google’s tech alone didn’t build them into a top company; User Research matters too! Critical for their expansion, doing so also established current tech trends. How can tech and available data enhance research initiatives? Online exercises often focus on software. Definitely not! Remote Usability Study.

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The Product Coalition

APRIL 14, 2020

For example, in the Conversation Café exercise during rounds 1, 2, and 4, everyone is muted except the individual that is sharing his or her thoughts. Those surveys can be Sprint-specific, penciled-in between the Sprint Review and the Retrospective. Hence the “name tags.”) (I am using Zoom for that purpose.)

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The Product Coalition

JULY 24, 2020

Up until this point in the blog series, the focus has been all about establishing the framework. Any inaccuracies or misinterpretations are due to me. Those should be standardized formats as well for easier creation and analysis during exercises later on. When creating customer profiles?—?guess guess what? Remember?—?this

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Mind the Product

MAY 25, 2018

JustGiving’s goal is to grow the world of giving, enabling more money to be raised for good causes through the use of technology. We ran through various exercises in the first week to give us direction, including user journey mapping , product in a box , and the speedboat game. This is what we did. 2012 – the Inception.

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Bain Public

MARCH 20, 2021

There are many peer-reviewed studies compiled by the Product Development and Management Association (PDMA) that illustrates about half of all product development projects fail; this failure rate is especially much higher in smaller and startup companies. Create the User Interface Design (UI) on top of reviewed and green-lit wireframes.

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The Product Coalition

MARCH 15, 2020

Strategy begins by identifying the structure of the challenge, not by naming performance goals. I recommend reading case study examples related to technological disruption, such as IBM’s shift into information services (consulting) and the waves of change that lead businesses to understand what to do and why.

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Usersnap

APRIL 12, 2019

Google’s tech alone didn’t build them into a top company, User Research matters too! Critical for their expansion, doing so also established current tech trends. How can tech and available data enhance research initiatives? Online exercises often focus on software. Definitely not! Remote Usability Study.

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Dear Strategy

SEPTEMBER 10, 2018

All, in all, it’s a fairly short read, but the general idea is that, in today’s fast-paced, high-tech environment, planning more than 3 to 6 months out is more or less a fruitless effort. NOTE: He also addressed this same topic in his book of a similar name, The Rise and Fall of Strategic Planning ).

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Userpilot

SEPTEMBER 8, 2021

For the more tech-savvy product marketers out there, you can signal the task completion to your onboarding software by creating a custom event called "Task XYZ is complete." As the name suggests, a welcome screen is a place to greet new customers. Create a welcome screen that greets your users by name in a friendly way.

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Nulab

SEPTEMBER 22, 2021

trends, legislation, tech breakthroughs, etc.). This will shape your positioning and approach, so it’s important to give it due care and attention. You might already have some names in mind, but you might be able to uncover more if you step into the shoes of your prospects. Name recognition. Effectiveness. Market share.

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PMLesson's Ace the PM Interview

MAY 4, 2020

I'll also be reviewing and responding to any Net Promoter Score (NPS) feedback we've gotten. Competitive Research I may also use my lunch time to check major industry blogs, analyst reports (Gartner, Forrester, IDC), and news aggregators to stay up to date on trends in the market. As the Google product manager, I run the meeting.

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The Product Coalition

MARCH 11, 2019

But luckily for you, I read a ton of leadership books and decided to blog about how they apply to PMs. This acronym popped up a while back in Organization Development circles and when I heard it the first time I thought… uh yeah, that’s all high-tech. But much of the world doesn’t operate like high-tech. You’re welcome ??.

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Roadmunk

APRIL 17, 2018

My name is Sanette Tanaka Sloan and I am a Senior Product Designer on our audience team here at Vox Media. The Verge is a technology brand and we used their content because their audience tend to be a little bit quicker to adapt to new technologies and to try out new products. How’s it going? Sanette: ? How are you?

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The Product Coalition

APRIL 23, 2020

By comparison to a co-located Scrum Team, the preparatory work, for example, regular Product Backlog refinements, keeping track of technical debt, and preserving a high-quality Definition of ‘Done’ is paramount to securing a successful outcome of the Sprint. The interviewer should pass on these new questions in due time.

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Product Talk

JULY 19, 2023

If Amy’s name looks familiar, you might remember that she was featured in a Product Talk blog post about what continuous discovery looks like (based on her work at Snag ) and Amy’s story was also included in Continuous Discovery Habits. And the end result of this exercise?

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Userpilot

SEPTEMBER 9, 2021

Allow us to share with you our ingredients for a great welcome page: the content, the visuals, and the technical side. The content of your welcome page should greet the user by name, introduce your business, outline the next steps, and feature a picture of one of your team. People love it when you address them by their first name.

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The Product Coalition

MARCH 11, 2020

Finally, the term Development Team seems to limit the role to technical people, for example, software engineers. Ignoring technical debt: The Development Team is not demanding adequate capacity to tackle technical debt and bugs during the Sprint. Read more on technical debt and Scrum.) Team leads?

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Userpilot

SEPTEMBER 23, 2021

If your product doesn’t work without a complicated technical integration, or your lead filtering system is very strict, it might actually be better to have a sign-up flow that creates lots of friction intentionally. As the name suggests, this is where you welcome your new users to your product. But not all of them.

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Intercom, Inc.

NOVEMBER 23, 2022

Then, we went through diligence for a couple of months, and while we were going through diligence, Russia was on the border of Ukraine, Russia invaded Ukraine, the markets tanked – all those things were happening. My parents were like, “What in God’s name are you doing? And so, yeah, very surreal.

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Product Management 2.0

JULY 28, 2016

In the span of a single week technology website Network World reviews an average of more than 20 software and hardware products. Consider: Effective portfolio management goes beyond identifying potential growth targets and due diligence to include “portfolio fit.” The software market is constantly evolving.

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The Product Coalition

MARCH 2, 2020

Often, these organizations were once created to train farm boys into assembly-line workers within a standardized industrial process churning out standardized products in the name of output optimization. Remember: Product Backlog item creation is a Scrum Team exercise.) No stakeholders : Stakeholders do not attend the Sprint Review.

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UX Studio

FEBRUARY 15, 2024

So my name is Victor Eperjesy. And also stay closely connected with UX and technology trends. And it was a really good workshop for us and also an exercise for us. So we, of course monitored, you know, Google reviews and what people said on social media and other places. Viktor: Sure. And thank you for the invitation.

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Roadmunk

AUGUST 10, 2017

To name a few: Overall client sentiment. I also closely monitor and respond to ratings/reviews from the App Store and Google Play Store. and the low Canadian dollar, I’m hearing more tech companies consider opening offices north of the border. There is no one-size-fits-all; it’s an ongoing exercise. Keep iterating.

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UX Studio

JULY 13, 2017

As we allow technology to infiltrate every field of our lives, bad UX design could become even more dangerous in the future. As the girl’s real name was never shared, he calls her Jenny. We let technology closer to our lives in every field. For most of us, a bad user experience means only a bit of frustration or a waste of time.

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Business of Software Conference

NOVEMBER 26, 2018

Video, Slides, Transcript and Rahul’s blog about this follow… Understanding Customers. Anyway, my name is Rahul. Press reviews are kind of blah, sales cycles take too damn long, but you can almost always feel it when it is happening. She is very open minded about new products and keeps up to date with technology.

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Business of Software Conference

JUNE 20, 2019

Founder Peldi has attended Business of Software every year since 2010, and has 5 BoS talks to his name. We didn’t really know what to call this talk so we gave it this name. You know I’ll make a web page, I’ll write a blog post, I’ll do something and it makes me feel better. They were not review quarterlies.

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The Product Coalition

SEPTEMBER 20, 2020

Run a quick mental exercise: Try walking in your stakeholders’ shoes, and ask yourself: Would you entrust your career a bunch of hoodie-wearing nerds, promising a big reward because they are practicing XP and Scrum? A too frequent Sprint Review, for example, every week, tends to wear off quickly, as not much novelty can be provided.

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Business of Software Conference

OCTOBER 1, 2019

So there’s almost always two questions that I hear from the executive team or the leadership team when faced with reviewing a roadmap or anything else that comes out of product management usually they are phrased in these two ways. So a bit of a vocabulary exercise will make this a quiz. It can’t be a name calling.

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Product Talk

FEBRUARY 10, 2021

I help Teresa out with content for the Product Talk blog. Teresa: For those of you that are Product Talk readers, Melissa writes our Product in Practice series where we’re sharing stories about teams doing great discovery work, so you may have seen her name there. I also help out with these webinars. Tweet This.

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