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Susan Stavitzski on Customer Discovery: How to Test Assumptions and Uncover Opportunities

Userpilot

Why should you use customer discovery? How can product managers use it to test assumptions and uncover opportunities? These are the key questions that Susan Stavitzki, the Senior Product Manager at CarMax, discussed during her presentation at the Product Drive Summit this year. What is customer discovery?

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Discovery Hand-Offs Kill Momentum: Here’s What to Do Instead

Product Talk

One of the primary benefits of working in a product trio is we reduce the hand-offs between functional roles. When a product manager, a designer, and a software engineer work together to decide what to build and they engage directly with customers themselves, we avoid this game of telephone. Products aren’t built by trios.

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Product in Practice: Introducing Opportunity Solution Trees at Texthelp

Product Talk

There are all kinds of ways to introduce continuous discovery habits. And if you’re really excited about an idea, you might look for opportunities to share it outside your company with the broader product community. Today’s Product in Practice features a continuous discovery champion who did all three.

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6 Guiding Principles for Effective Product Discovery

Product Talk

In this context, solutions aren’t product solutions, but rather internal programs and processes that effect change within the organization. I realized that they perfectly summarized what matters to me in discovery, so I decided to share them with you. We can’t get very far in discovery if we don’t know who our audience is.

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Efficient Product Feedback Loop – Best Customer Strategies & Latest Tools

The Basics of Product Management

An efficient and easy product feedback loop is an essential component of every successful product. Setting up an effective customer feedback loop is one of the primary responsibilities of the product team. Of all the product management skills , this is one of the most important ones.

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The Perfect World and the Real World of Product Research

The Product Coalition

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. In the real world, product managers may have to start from scratch and quickly find something meaningful to work on.

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31 In-App Survey Questions You Should Be Asking Your Users (with Best Practices and Examples)

Userpilot

In-app survey questions can be one of the most effective tools when running product research. But crafting surveys is a bit of a work of art. But crafting surveys is a bit of a work of art. Benefits Best Practices for In-App Survey Questions 31 in-App Survey Questions You Must Ask Your Users How Userpilot Helps.