Product Talk

APRIL 9, 2025

Last week, I shared that we often get asked, Do API teams need to do discovery ? Today, Ill be covering the most common usability issues that arise when developers start working with a new API. Customer-facing APIs are products. You want customers to get value from your product as quickly as possible.

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Roman Pichler

FEBRUARY 14, 2023

Listen to the audio version of this article: [link] 1 Complement Scrum with a Product Discovery and Strategy Process Scrum is a simple framework that helps teams develop successful products. Otherwise, you might ask the wrong people for feedback on the increments and hence draw the wrong conclusions. But don’t stop there.

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Roman Pichler

JULY 8, 2024

3] Co-create the Product Strategy and Roadmap The traditional way to engage the stakeholders and secure their support is to present them with a draft strategy and roadmap, collect their feedback, update the plans, and, if necessary, show them the updated version. A great way to do this is to use the feedback framework shown in Figure 4.

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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. Simple task, right? First Attempt.

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The Product Coalition

OCTOBER 2, 2024

Stefan Röse breaks down how Quantilope is pushing forward customer development and the consumer research field. By Jon Matheson for Product Coalition Have you ever wondered how much a consumer is worth? Perhaps that’s why some research experts say, “Data is the new currency.” While flying from the U.K.

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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. Customer expectations shift dramatically depending on device. I don’t have enough time in my day.

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Mind the Product

OCTOBER 27, 2016

It wasn’t too long ago that designers and developers were disciples of strictly separate crafts – but today, someone who can do both well is quickly labelled a “unicorn”, and sought after by many a unicorn-thirsty start-up. It’s becoming a less and less reliable model for how customers actually engage with brands and businesses.

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Alchemer Mobile

AUGUST 27, 2020

Customer behaviors and preferences are shifting daily – as are their emotions. Success is understanding how the product fares in the market, and being able to adjust properly, pivot, and quickly make decisions based off of customer feedback. do not interface with developers in a technical way).

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Intercom, Inc.

NOVEMBER 24, 2021

We know that moving at speed is all about making decisions quickly and acting on them – but quick decisions get a bad rap. . They’re considered heedless, overly luck-dependent, and almost treasonous by those of us in the data and research domains. The second challenge is implementing a feedback loop.

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The Product Coalition

NOVEMBER 12, 2024

First principles help you focus on the fundamentals — like the value you want to create, the outcomes you’re aiming for, and what your users actually need. It was clear we weren’t delivering a product customers loved. It’s too bad I didn’t have first principles to draw on at the time. Ask what you can use for structure.

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UX Planet

MARCH 29, 2025

There may be times when you question yourself, or someone on your team wonders, Why are we doing it this way? In any case, hang around because well go over why UX design strategy is crucial, how to create one, and what the problems arefor you, your team, and, most importantly, your customers. Heres the thingyoudo.

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The Product Coalition

DECEMBER 21, 2020

Experimental Design For Product Testing?—?Important Take, for instance, a food scientist who believes that a new flavour enhancer could improve consumer demand, or a pharmaceutical company that have developed a medication which they believe could relieve high-blood pressure. The reason is simple.

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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 Coalition

FEBRUARY 26, 2022

Why have Product Managers stopped speaking to customers? Very sadly, most product managers I meet today no longer talk directly to customers regularly. If you ask; “How many customers did you speak to this week?” My view is that this evolution is bad for product management careers and the customers who benefit from what we do.

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The Product Guy

DECEMBER 7, 2017

No, this is not a bad joke. You spend months in discovery carefully understanding the customer, the business needs, the software requirements and how to execute it all. Once you discover what the root problem is, you lead a team to making the solution a reality. As a product manager you prep, plan and execute.

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Product Talk

SEPTEMBER 20, 2023

Instead of relying on someone else (like a coach or leader) to tell them what to do next, product teams can use an opportunity solution tree to keep track of their desired outcome , the opportunities they’ve identified to chip away at that outcome, and the solutions they’re considering to address those opportunities.

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Userzoom

FEBRUARY 12, 2020

This is a guide for UX and research practitioners who have either newly joined an organization that’s using the Agile methodology, or their current product development is adopting Agile for the first time and they’ve been told to “make UX research happen in this new fangled process immediately please!” . What is Agile?

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Roman Pichler

APRIL 1, 2020

Here is why: We routinely interact with individuals who have different perspectives, interest, and needs, such as users, customers, stakeholders , development team members. Users don’t always have the same wants and needs as customers, and the ideas of the stakeholders and dev team may diverge.

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Roman Pichler

APRIL 1, 2020

Here is why: We routinely interact with individuals who have different perspectives, interest, and needs, such as users, customers, stakeholders , development team members. Users don’t always have the same wants and needs as customers, and the ideas of the stakeholders and dev team may diverge.

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Mironov Consulting

JUNE 27, 2020

I have a narrow, somewhat puritanical view about product manager conversations with customers and prospects: we should never lie to them. These are complex deals on the customer side with buying committees, unique integration requirements, internal champions for each competing vendor, and reputational risk for choosing the wrong product.

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Intercom, Inc.

OCTOBER 16, 2018

They help managers evaluate how their employees are doing, the value they bring to a team and how their work can be improved. When I first started to work at Intercom as a Customer Support Representative (CSR), KPIs were completely foreign to me. Customer satisfaction (CSAT) scores. But KPIs carry the risk of seeming impersonal.

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Userpilot

JANUARY 10, 2024

Looking for the best ways to conduct user research and gather actionable insights? Whether you’re building a product from scratch, updating something on your platform, or just want to listen to users and create better experiences , this article provides the guide you need. We covered: The benefits of proper user research.

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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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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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Intercom, Inc.

DECEMBER 12, 2018

Marketing technology – or MarTech – stacks are the groups of technologies that marketers use to execute, analyze and improve their marketing across the customer lifecycle. Without this foundation, your marketing stack can become a set of siloed tools that will bog your team down in complexity. Strategy first, technology second.

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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. For some people, that’s straightforward.

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The Product Coalition

MARCH 28, 2022

Customer Empathy Saw a number of memes on this topic (Exhibit A above)?—?clearly, 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. There is definitely truth in that.

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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. Many companies think they know what users or customers care about. They may have even talked to potential customers. They have personas with descriptions. But here’s the thing.

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Product Innovation Educators

NOVEMBER 19, 2018

As product managers take on more responsibility and become product leaders, you’ll need to know how to construct and manage a portfolio and the best approach is Dynamic Portfolio Management. In the 2000s, portfolio management shifted toward products that would bring the most value to the customer.

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The Product Coalition

DECEMBER 21, 2021

Here’s our story how we’re developing a product using machine learning and neural networks to boost translation and localization Artificial intelligence and its applications are one of the most sensational topics in the IT field. If so, what is the value of the solution you’re developing? Often people confuse it with automation.

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Roman Pichler

MAY 11, 2021

But the value a product creates is ultimately determined by its users: No product will be successful in the long run if it does not solve a specific user problem, create a tangible benefit, or help the users achieve a specific goal. Myth #3: The product owner is responsible for the team performance.

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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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Intercom, Inc.

APRIL 22, 2021

If you’re a senior engineer and want to further your career, what skills should you develop? Moving forward in your career, avoid the trap of doing work that feels high-impact, but it’s actually not , or work that makes you look good at the expense of the project and the team. How do people move into staff engineering roles?

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Sachin Rekhi

FEBRUARY 1, 2016

I think one of the first challenges that new product leaders face is understanding exactly the division of labor between themselves and their team members. While you are largely given sound advice to focus on driving results through your team, it doesn't mean that when done right you are shirking all individual responsibility.

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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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ProductPlan

MARCH 12, 2019

Cultural fit is a relatively new concept in hiring and team building. At the same time, it’s widely acknowledged that the most qualified candidate isn’t necessarily the best one if they’re not a good fit for the culture. Culture sets the tone, permeating every aspect of the team and the quality of their work.

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The Product Coalition

NOVEMBER 24, 2020

A Scrum Master should recognize that different stages of a Scrum Team’s development require different approaches: some, teaching; some, coaching; and some, mentoring. A Scrum Master’s principal objective should be to remove themselves from daily operations by enabling the Scrum Team to be self-organizing. A cross-functional?—?be

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