Product Talk

AUGUST 16, 2023

And she’s also always happy to coach the members of the Product Talk team in how to develop our own continuous discovery skills, too. While Welena’s role at Product Talk is not strictly as a product manager, that doesn’t stop her from developing and practicing her continuous discovery skills. You can submit your story here. .

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The Product Coalition

MARCH 28, 2022

clearly, all of us know the importance of truly understanding the customer problem before we ship a product, testing something with customers perhaps in a lab setting or in a pilot before scaling. I think it makes sense to hear that opinion and factor that into the product development process. Of course?—?the That said?—?just

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UX Planet

FEBRUARY 21, 2024

As a Product Designer working in a high-performing software team, I am tasked and responsible for championing user value, ensuring that the end user's needs are met when using the product. It was a valuable growth for me to be deeply involved in assessing business values and technical feasibility with my team.

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Roman Pichler

JULY 6, 2021

Consequently, your focus shifts from managing a product to looking after the product people on your team and empowering them to do a great job. Another key aspect to support the people on your team succeed is to create the right environment for people to succeed. Grow Your Leadership Skills.

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Roman Pichler

MAY 11, 2021

” But do not allow people to dominate and tell you what to do, and don’t agree to a weak compromise. The SAFe product owner is tactical in nature and focuses on working on the product backlog and guiding the development teams. Myth #3: The product owner is responsible for the team performance.

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Alchemer Mobile

NOVEMBER 9, 2022

My team is too small. Speaking up might spur a conversation around how to adjust your role to better fit your needs, or better yet, to bring in another team member to share your workload. Limited team bandwidth. The three most common challenges include: I have too many responsibilities. I don’t have enough time in my day.

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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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The Product Coalition

OCTOBER 30, 2023

It was another bad start to what seemed like Groundhog Day. “I That’s how budgets were constructed up until this year. Outcomes that initially float to the surface are often weak. OKRs are a goal-setting framework individuals, teams, and organizations use to define measurable goals and track their outcomes.

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Mironov Consulting

JUNE 27, 2020

On our side, we have expensive/talented/experienced sales teams that either close their few big deals this quarter or are put on notice. While we don’t know everything that’s been said during a 3-or-6-or-9 month sales effort, good sales teams will have briefed us on hot topics. Roadmaps are shared. Demos are shown. Why Does It Matter?

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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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Userpilot

JANUARY 10, 2024

User research methods for SaaS: Usability testing User testing User interviews Focus groups Session replays First click testing User feedback surveys Card sorting A/B testing Product analytics Heatmaps Userpilot can help you conduct user experience (UX) research and easily interpret the data.

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Modus Create

APRIL 5, 2022

The fundamental issue remains not considering security while developing software. . This post aims to answer the eternal questions: Why do developers omit security? What can be done to increase security awareness while developing code? Silos in Development and Security. Is there a cure for that state of mind?

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Roman Pichler

JUNE 7, 2021

Be Clear on When to Involve the Stakeholders and Development Teams. Complex and high-impact decisions, however, are best made together with the stakeholders and development teams. Additionally, include the development team members in product backlog decisions , and always choose sprint goals together.

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PMLesson's Ace the PM Interview

MARCH 15, 2021

You’ve probably also been asked “what’s your greatest strength (or weakness)” once or twice while interviewing for jobs. You may have also read the famous article ‘Good Product Manager/Bad Product Manager’ by Ben Horowitz. Interview example: “I strive to be a data-driven decision maker for my teams.

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The Product Coalition

FEBRUARY 12, 2024

As a result, the team struggled with how to prepare. I made it no longer than three minutes into the presentation and got this subtle feeling that the team was unprepared. Yeah, I was seemingly in a bad mood. The team was shutting down. I apologized to the team and said we would pick it up next week.

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The Product Coalition

NOVEMBER 30, 2022

But many, many products are developed without knowing from the start that people want the solution, or even care about the problem. Jobs To Be Done has given us a better way to approach customer development. Teams who implement JTBD often come back with “ Problems To Be Solved.” Why does this happen? It seems so simple!

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Intercom, Inc.

FEBRUARY 18, 2020

“Our growth is not just in our office, but growth in customers, revenue, people, dinners, lunches, lines of code, bugs, features, tests, everything” A lot has changed in the past six years across the board, but looking at technology, the web, JavaScript, there has been huge change. Intercom has changed massively too.

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UX Studio

JULY 4, 2018

VR in UX research can serve as an individual tool to explore user needs and test complex user experiences. We collected some best practices for those looking to learn more about or just getting started with VR user testing. Applications of VR user testing in retail. Test multiple store layouts in one place with VR.

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Usersnap

JUNE 24, 2022

If you only reply to negative reviews, that’s all prospective customers will see and it will give them a bad first impression of your company. Mention other products or services Share the positive review with your team Share the positive review with the world (yourself!) Gives specific & constructive Feedback.

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Mind the Product

JULY 10, 2017

Let’s establish this right upfront: nothing beats a well-managed full-time in-house team of local developers. Are there enough skilled developers at your location? And done right, I believe that outsourcing means you can come very close to your team next door in terms of productivity and innovation.

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Mind the Product

NOVEMBER 26, 2019

Bad time-management in product teams (or any team for that matter) is a source of pain for many but, by taking some simple actions you can ensure they’re a thing of the past. Here’s how you can support your team’s time-management as a product leader. In Conclusion.

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People-First Product Leadership

MARCH 24, 2024

I’m in Duke Leto’s camp and believe a boss - at any level - should care and be thinking about their team. And, the SVP of Sales who would stop by my desk in the mornings to share the good and bad about the product and my team with me. We all have good and bad days. They're testing me." They're not.

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ProductPlan

JUNE 11, 2019

Instead of a long list of context-free features and enhancements the roadmap is constructed to accomplish specific goals critical to the success of the business. While this can occasionally be blamed on poor execution, it is often simply a result of poor goal setting. An outcome-based roadmap sounds like a good idea.

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The Product Coalition

MARCH 18, 2018

If you work in a product team or in a digital business, you’ve probably heard a lot about this topic, or might even have lost some sleeping nights due to the lack of it in your daily basis. I think that there is no doubt whether designers and product team should work together and if both of them are essential to achieving great results.

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Folding Burritos

FEBRUARY 22, 2016

The reason is that we often fail to be constructive and pedagogic; if we don’t try to change their mindset, we’re sentencing ourselves to be thought of as “those pesky Naysayers.”. You want the stakeholders’ input, but you need it to be (and need them to think) in terms of problems for you and your team to solve. features.).

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The Product Guy

APRIL 9, 2019

The challenge to the product managers is to translate these into a more functional plan for our engineering team. We perceive strategy from the management as the gospel – Usually the opposite, a good leadership team usually expects the individual contributors to provide iterative feedback. Testing the Proto-Strategy.

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Mironov Consulting

MAY 2, 2019

But product management and development processes that work well for long-lived hardware can handicap software organizations. 1] For industrial hardware, the development/design cycle is separate from the manufacturing cycle. For software products, the development and design process *is* the manufacturing process.

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The Product Coalition

MAY 19, 2020

Intercept field study by UX Studio Image by UX studio Our client creates digital products to help football fans follow matches, favorite teams, news, or even play web or mobile games. Some years ago their team decided to put a new app in football-lovers’ pockets. We as researchers constantly supported the product team with insights.

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Modus Create

JANUARY 12, 2021

The construction and reconstruction of these pillars must be done continuously, in tandem, and requires effective dialog between all stakeholders in an organization. How do you define those pillars for your company and turn the metaphorical into the physical, and actually construct them?

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The Product Coalition

APRIL 3, 2019

This is Part 3/18 in the series “How to Build an Innovative New Product or Company” on the topic of over-investing in the “4 Steps to Develop a Strategy” I was introduced to a medical device company recently. The product is a piece of paper that has six testing areas on it, each of which can test for something different.

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UX Studio: Product Management

APRIL 27, 2020

Our client creates digital products to help football fans follow matches, favorite teams, news or even play web or mobile games. Some years ago their team decided to put a new app in football-lovers’ pockets. Before design, the team already had. Design and development were going smoothly and genuinely fast. Challenges.

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Izenda

JUNE 17, 2019

It’s often lumped in with “poor-planning skills” and “control issues.” As they work with several teams throughout the product’s development, being firm on goals and expectations will teach each team to expect direction. Think about the technical product’s development life cycle. User-testing.

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BrainMates

SEPTEMBER 23, 2020

We have developed a new leadership model – the Product Adaptive Leadership Model (PALM) that offers a path for Product Leaders to examine their current practices, apply new ways of solving problems, and improve their Product Leadership performance. This often goes unnoticed as the pace of development and deadlines increases.

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Intercom, Inc.

NOVEMBER 20, 2018

It is important that these friendly connections represent the target persona market you have outlined, as otherwise, the feedback loop is likely to be weak. If they don’t match the persona market, these contacts are not likely to offer constructive criticism given they may not even relate to the pain you are seeking to address.

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Usersnap

JANUARY 8, 2024

The engineering team from Lockheed Martin used imperial units (pounds-force), while NASA’s team used metric units (newtons). From aviation’s decade-spanning aircraft design challenges to construction projects exceeding budgets and deadlines—the common thread is the struggle with unforeseen variables in the real-world.

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UX Studio

MARCH 11, 2024

I realized that that wasn’t really gonna happen I’m very very bad at competition. And like the warmups and practice, I could see that I was kind of… you can kind of know how good you are on the team [00:04:00] in the warmups. Really anything to do with the wind surfing. Karthik: That’s nice.

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ProductPlan

APRIL 3, 2021

Great products come from great product teams—not from frameworks. Using the right product framework can help guide a team’s work. As a product leader, I encourage my teams to use whichever product frameworks they find helpful. Give your team the right tools to complete their work efficiently. It’s not the work itself.

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