Product Talk

FEBRUARY 5, 2025

Of course, just because something is simple doesnt mean that its easy. Of course, it might not feel magical at the time. Amanda and Craig iterate on assumption tests Amanda and Craig both work at Convo , where they were trying to run assumption tests with Deaf users via Zoom. You just have to get started.

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Product Talk

APRIL 16, 2025

To deliver high-quality online courses we were patching together several different tools to create a good student experience. We used Teachable as our course platform, Slack for our community, Zoom for our live sessions, Google Calendar to send out course invites, Miro for collaboration, and Mailchimp to send out course emails.

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UX Planet

NOVEMBER 4, 2024

Photo by UX Indonesia This ‘complete’ guide to usability testing follows an overview in my UX research methods playbook articles. Introduction If you’re responsible in some way for a digital product or system, you should be doing usability testing — whatever your sector, industry or role. Ok, that’s great for UX theory nerds.

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Productside

APRIL 16, 2025

Productside | Product Management Courses & Training Breaking the Silos: How Product and Engineering Build Better Together In Season 3 of Productside Stories , we sat down with Guy Gershoni , Head of Engineering at genesIT, for a candid conversation on what it really takes to build great products in todays complex tech environments.

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Product Talk

MARCH 16, 2022

They are interviewing to discover opportunities and they are assumption testing to discover the best solutions. Assumption testing is evaluative. And assumption testing is the best way to do that. Assumption testing is evaluative. So in 2017, I released my first online course, Continuous Interviewing. We need both.

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Product Talk

DECEMBER 18, 2024

Of course, for product teams, we have to ship something, and so we’re going to also explore solutions. We can actually test our designs. Assumption Tests Help Us Discover the Right Solutions This is where our second small research activity is going to come into play. We’re going to be talking about outcomes.

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Productside

FEBRUARY 25, 2025

Key topic #3 Cultural IntegrationThe Silent Deal Killer: Proven tactics to avoid brain drain and create a unified product team post-acquisition. Why Listen to This Episode?

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Product Talk

OCTOBER 23, 2024

They are responsible for deciding what to build (with appropriate input from the rest of the team, of course). Rather, the product trio is our core decision-making team. They lead product discovery. So it’s natural that the more senior people on the team are part of this group. However, sometimes this doesn’t work for engineering.

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Productside

MAY 27, 2025

Productside | Product Management Courses & Training How WellNest Rebooted Product Strategy (eBook Preview) When product teams get stuck in backlog chaos, stakeholder noise, and reactive shipping, its not a process problem. Explore the Optimal Product Management Course. Its a product strategy problem. Wed love to hear your thoughts.

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Productside

MAY 15, 2025

Productside | Product Management Courses & Training Writing Effective Product Requirements to Drive Outcomes Most product managers dont set out to write bad requirements. Download our Voice of the Customer workbook free and field-tested.) Theyre under pressure to deliver. Theyre surrounded by requests. So what happens?

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Productside

MARCH 3, 2025

Roger : Own what you can control now: do a crash-course in user discovery, confirm if the product meets real needs, and present findings to leaders. Use contractors for short, specialized taskslike user testing or a big platform migrationbut keep strategic continuity in-house. Now Im blamed for poor growth.

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UX Planet

AUGUST 14, 2024

In this post, I’ve collected new free courses that will help you improve your UX design skills. The course from Alison UX/UI Photo by KOBU Agency on Unsplash Nailing UX Interviews and Creating a Viable UX Design Career is a free course suitable for beginners and those already working in UX Design. Duration: 1,5–3 hours.

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Product Talk

AUGUST 18, 2021

At the end of the project, we might do some validation research to validate the design (through usability testing) or the final delivery (through A/B testing ). You can learn more about how to translate business outcomes into product outcomes in our Defining Outcomes course. The Need for Continuous Discovery. Tweet This.

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Product Talk

NOVEMBER 22, 2023

Below the solution space are assumption tests. If we do the necessary work to test our decisions, we can quickly correct course when we find that we made the wrong decision. If we do the necessary work to test our decisions, we can quickly correct course when we find that we made the wrong decision.

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Productside

APRIL 2, 2025

Test if the story makes sense. Enroll in our AI Product Management course to master AI-driven strategy, uncover the right use cases, and lead cross-functional teams as you scale smarter with the power of automation and intelligent tools. As Tom put it: Clarity beats polish every time. Show it to your team. Share it with leadership.

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Alchemer Mobile

NOVEMBER 13, 2024

Pilot your survey: Before launching the survey widely, test it with a small group. Course evaluations are crucial for educational institutions, assessing participant satisfaction with course content and delivery methods, guiding curriculum development. A question like, “What could we have done differently?”

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UX Planet

OCTOBER 28, 2024

Prototyping Prototyping involves creating representations of your ideas to test with real users. Things to do: Define what to test: Identify the focus of your prototype testing — this could be testing the usability of a particular part of your solution. depending on what you’re testing. Image by NNGroup.

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Product Innovation Educators

OCTOBER 7, 2024

By using prototypes wisely, product teams can figure out what truly meets customer needs and test solutions before launching them in the market. Fifty-one percent of the design experience should be spent in the prototyping, testing, and iterating phase. Wettergreen is the co-author of the textbook Introduction to Engineering Design.

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UX Planet

MARCH 9, 2025

This can include user research and discovery, heuristic evaluation, and results of usability testing. Usability testing of newsolution How are you sure this solution will work better for us? So its vital to include a section that will describe what testing activities you plan to conduct to ensure that your design performs well.

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Product Talk

MARCH 8, 2023

” Here are some of my answers: Key result: Reduce the number of unsold seats in our courses Key result: Sell more books Key result: Grow membership by X% As written, these aren’t great key results. If you need help identifying the right outcomes, check out our course, Defining Outcomes. And here it is as an OKR.

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Product Innovation Educators

NOVEMBER 29, 2021

How small, focused tests can help product managers create better products. Today we are talking about using experimenting and testing to create products customers love. He is Director of Product at Kin Insurance and founder of The Modern Product Manager, which provides resources and courses for aspiring product managers.

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Product Talk

JUNE 10, 2020

I see a team that is engaging with customers on a regular basis, mapping the opportunity space , identifying and testing assumptions , iteratively exploring ideas , and shipping value (not just code) often. This, of course, assumes that you are letting your team focus on an outcome over time (i.e. Of course not.

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Lenny Rachitsky

JANUARY 7, 2025

For more: Lennybot | Podcast | Hire your next product leader | My favorite Maven courses | Swag Subscribe now This post will transform how you build products, come up with new ideas, and operate as a PM. Colin Matthews was a longtime PM and now teaches my favorite AI prototyping course: AI Prototyping for Product Managers.

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Product Talk

SEPTEMBER 18, 2024

It’s what motivates me to launch new courses and refine our existing lineup. Most product teams still aren’t managed by outcomes , talking to customers regularly , or testing their assumptions (or even testing their ideas). This has been our North Star metric. It has guided our work. It inspired me to write my book.

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Product Talk

JUNE 21, 2023

This is what inspired Teresa to write the Continuous Discovery Habits book and shift Product Talk to a course-first business. And later on that team, I took on helping the teams build new content verticals, figuring out which new topics our courses were structured around. She’s been a great source of support on a lot of levels.

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The Product Guy

APRIL 9, 2019

The idea is to treat the strategy as a prototype that will undergo many iterations and testing. Test your strategy whenever opportunity arise as this is intended to be YOUR source of truth to guide you along. Testing the Proto-Strategy. Pillars to a Proto-Strategy. Make a list of the scope and the challenges to your product.

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Product Talk

APRIL 20, 2022

In a matter of days, they have their first assumption tests live to help them evaluate which way to go. They identified several potential product ideas to explore and they used assumption testing to evaluate those solutions. If your founders aren’t ready to explore alternative solutions, you can start with assumption testing.

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Roman Pichler

JANUARY 11, 2022

I’ve chosen quarters in the sample roadmap above, but you can use shorter time frames, of course, if you can meet your learning goals more quickly. The issue is, of course, that as the person in charge of the product, you have plenty of other tasks besides meeting your learning goals. Having a plan is all well and good.

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Product Talk

MARCH 13, 2019

I teach two courses at Northwestern University. The first course focuses on teaching practitioners how to use design methods to solve business challenges related to learning and organizational change. This course is a 3-day seminar and our students are working executives. It will look very familiar to you.

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UX Planet

DECEMBER 6, 2024

There are various types of e-learning apps, each designed to serve different educational needs and preferences: Learning Management Systems (LMS): With these platforms, you create and manage educational courses or training programs. They provide tools for tracking progress, administering tests, and managing user registrations.

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Product Talk

NOVEMBER 15, 2023

Interviewing customers , building opportunity solution trees , running assumption tests —these are all activities that take your attention away from delivery. Tweet This Still, in our Product Talk courses and webinars, we often hear the complaint that teams don’t have time for discovery. It’s true that discovery takes time.

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UX Planet

OCTOBER 24, 2024

Assumptions : Your assumptions about users or behaviors that you want to test and validate through the research. Methods could include user interviews, surveys, usability testing, field studies, or A/B testing. It offers online design courses that cover the entire spectrum of product design, from foundational to advanced level.

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Product Talk

JANUARY 3, 2024

Can a single course change your career trajectory? Can a single course change your career trajectory? Yes, of course, we helped customers, but I was actually there to discover their true needs rather than solve their one problem.” Mike began his career as an engineer and transitioned into product about five years ago.

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The Product Coalition

NOVEMBER 12, 2024

Because when we don’t ground our roadmaps in the fundamentals, things can quickly go off course. Of course, I’d be both excited and intimidated. Plan to test for DMF: desirability, marketability, feasibility Don’t wait until the end to understand if someone will want the product or the feature on the roadmap.

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Product Talk

JUNE 2, 2021

What assumptions should they test? Because this team’s outcome is engagement over the course of a week, they might each draw what they think their customers’ experience is over that timeframe. They need to test their understanding by interviewing customers together. They have several key decisions they need to make.

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The Product Guy

AUGUST 15, 2019

Bugs come up, tests take a long time, code reviews are needed, merge conflicts occur, reviews from multiple shareholders might be required, etc. Though I had taken some programming courses, I didn’t have a full grasp of how complicated a product could be until partaking in all of the discussions behind a feature.

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Product Talk

AUGUST 12, 2020

We knew right away that 90 days was too long—we wouldn’t be able to wait an entire quarter before concluding the results of any tests we launched. Our plan was to watch over the course of the year if increases in 30-day retention could then be mapped to 90-day retention. We are planning to run A/B tests that still reference retention.

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