Product Talk

DECEMBER 18, 2024

We covered how to manage messy opportunity solution trees , the most common challenges teams face when getting started with the discovery habits, what Im working on next, and so much more. Discovery is a team sport. I did classic web development before there were frameworks back in the ’90s. I hate definition wars.

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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 13, 2024

This information empowers teams across your company to make informed decisions based on customer experiences and perceptions. By identifying friction points, CES highlights areas that teams can streamline to improve overall customer satisfaction and retention. Customer satisfaction surveys are more powerful than you might think.

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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.

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Product Talk

MARCH 1, 2023

I realize that many product people have never worked in a product trio , don’t have access to customers, aren’t given time to test their ideas, and are working in what Marty Cagan calls “features teams” or “delivery teams.” If you missed the first one on product success and team satisfaction , be sure to start there.

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Product Innovation Educators

MARCH 3, 2025

How AI captures customer needs that human product managers miss Watch on YouTube TLDR In my recent conversation with Carmel Dibner from Applied Marketing Science, we explored how artificial intelligence is transforming Voice of the Customer (VOC) research for product teams. However, these early efforts faced significant limitations.

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The Product Coalition

DECEMBER 23, 2021

“If you think good design is expensive, you should look at the cost of bad design,” Ralf Speth, a former Jaguar Land Rover CEO. The study by the Design Management Institute analyzed the performance of design-led organizations that place influential design decisions at the top as compared to the Standard & Poor’s index over 10 years.

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Lenny Rachitsky

JANUARY 14, 2025

For more: Lennybot | Podcast | Hire your next product leader | My favorite Maven courses | Swag Subscribe now I talk a lot on my podcast and in this newsletter about the correlation between successful companies and an obsession with velocity. Her background is in developer tools and distributed systems.

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The Product Guy

JANUARY 8, 2019

Our story is not unique, of course. Similar stories have inspired new product and business development frameworks , thousands of articles, and numerous books. Companies simply ship too many poor products and features. Agile is sometimes seen as a panacea to all product development problems. The So-Lala Product epidemic.

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UX Planet

JUNE 17, 2025

Or perhaps this perception comes from us getting used to many B2B web apps having a poor user interfaces due to a lack of investment in design. When participants saw the test in a harder-to-read font, they performed significantly better. You read this correctly: performance was better with the bad font.

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The Product Guy

MARCH 14, 2017

The developers sitting nearby just watched the show for the first time, but after a while they stood up to join the party one by one. Soon the whole team was standing behind the designer’s screen shouting new ideas and tips about the layout, the colors, the icons, the fonts and everything else. What to expect from a design team?

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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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The Product Coalition

NOVEMBER 12, 2024

Because when we don’t ground our roadmaps in the fundamentals, things can quickly go off course. It’s too bad I didn’t have first principles to draw on at the time. Identify Base Principles —  What are the fundamental truths of product development? Of course, I’d be both excited and intimidated. Trust, outcomes, value?

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Productside

MARCH 24, 2025

Productside | Product Management Courses & Training Refining Product-Market Fit and Scaling B2B SaaS Products Most startups dont stall because of bad ideasthey stall because they stop refining their product-market fit and what works. Everyones chasing the next AI feature or untapped market. Theyre problem-solvers.

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Roman Pichler

FEBRUARY 11, 2020

If the teams developing the different apps all created their own user-interface layers, there would be considerable code duplication, added development costs, and increased development time. After all, a platform exists to help teams build better products faster and cheaper. Assign a Platform Owner.

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UX Planet

JULY 2, 2025

How to plan a dashboard people will use: 10 Key Steps Dashboard user interface elements in light and dark modes Our team has built dashboards for a wide range of businesses, and we’ve picked up a few key insights along the way. Start by organizing the requirements gathering process for yourself, developers, and designers.

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The Secret PM Handbook

MAY 12, 2017

Product managers tell me – and the people managing product managers tell me – that one of their biggest challenges is communicating with the development team. People complain about: Developers being poorly motivated, or having a bad attitude about what you want them to build. Resulting in the problems I mentioned above.

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Product Management University

JUNE 3, 2024

Here’s a look at the good, the bad and the ugly when it comes to product management outcomes. THE GOOD When it comes to getting your product management and product development teams focused, nothing beats well-defined outcomes that are clear, concise and measurable. Here’s the #1 reason why. Here’s the #2 reason why.

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The Product Coalition

NOVEMBER 9, 2020

It was about 12 months ago when I was challenged by our CEO to dismantle our squad and create a growth team. Not being too sure what a growth team was, we started anyway. We got access to work completed by Andrew Chen & Brian Balfour , took a few courses from the Reforge series and started developing our growth loops.

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BrainMates

JUNE 17, 2025

How Great Product Teams Deliver Strategic Impact By Kathryn Shepherd-King At a Glance Great Product Teams Don’t Just Ship Fast. But great product teams play a bigger game. Product teams are great at developing a vision, but not always at aligning it. They Deliver Strategic Impact. It’s designed.

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The Product Coalition

MARCH 9, 2021

All you need is a company providing React Native services and an outstanding team of developers who know exactly what they’re doing. Before you start planning your budget, let’s see why Uber is so popular and discuss what you need to develop a React Native app like it. yeah, don’t forget to develop a version for drivers.

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Product Innovation Educators

JANUARY 2, 2023

Think of the product team more like the marketing half of your organization—half of your ad dollars will be wasted; you just don’t know which half yet. When we get bigger and have bigger teams, it is such a frustrating feeling if you don’t feel in control or don’t know the main direction the organization is rowing in.

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Mind the Product

FEBRUARY 20, 2020

Ultimately, your resume should itself signal that you have the skills required to be a successful product manager on any team. You will, of course, often need to take multiple steps to land that interview. As a hiring manager, I want to hire great storytellers, s o the team can work towards a unified vision. . If you’re.

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Mind the Product

FEBRUARY 27, 2018

You have to invest skillfully to test these assumptions. The smarter your investment in testing, the better your chances of product success. Here’s what we’ve learned based on our experience of adopting a testing mindset and seeing your way through innovative product development. Product/Market fit Cannot be Planned.

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The Secret PM Handbook

MAY 12, 2017

Product managers tell me – and the people managing product managers tell me – that one of their biggest challenges is communicating with the development team. People complain about: Developers being poorly motivated, or having a bad attitude about what you want them to build. Resulting in the problems I mentioned above.

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Roman Pichler

APRIL 19, 2017

Stating a list of wholesome qualities is easy, of course. It’s all too tempting to fall back onto less skilful habits and become impatient, tense and stressed, say something we regret afterwards, or pass on the pressure to the development team. Nothing beats meeting real users. Who could disagree with that?

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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

MAY 26, 2021

AI technology in education develops your learning method properly. Artificial intelligence-based education apps are fulfilling an essential role in developing the process of education and preparation methods. AI in education benefits students obtaining the course materials and listening to the subject demo anytime from anywhere.

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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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Product Talk

JUNE 19, 2024

My advice in this article may not stand the test of time. I recommend teams conduct story-based customer interviews to discover opportunities and run assumption testing to discover the right solutions. We test desirability, usability, feasibility, usability, and ethical assumptions. Of course not.

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Intercom, Inc.

JUNE 15, 2022

Product teams often fall into the trap of spending most of their time on the core functionality of the products they’re building. Without an accessible onboarding process , customers may never reach the stage where they can use the game-changing features your team has worked so hard to build, making outcomes difficult to achieve.

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Intercom, Inc.

MARCH 12, 2019

A little over a year ago, I got the opportunity to start a new team within our sales organization – a team of Relationship Managers dedicated to growing our current customers at scale. To do the first, we had to hire, train, and write a playbook – the building blocks of any team. Relentlessly measure impact.

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Mironov Consulting

JANUARY 17, 2021

Half of the calls I get from CEOs include requests for Product Management to boost productivity in Engineering (aka Development aka Makers). This reflects confusion about what product managers do (and how we really add value), and often poor role definition where product managers are also project/program managers or engineering leads.

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Userpilot

SEPTEMBER 25, 2023

Concept testing is an integral part of designing UX that not only satisfies user needs but delights them. This article introduces various concept tests, shows you how to conduct them, and discusses ways to collect user feedback to gain actionable insights. In monadic tests, participants provide in-depth feedback on one concept only.

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Product Talk

AUGUST 16, 2023

Yes, all of the content we create—whether it’s this blog, the Product Talk Academy courses , the community , or the Continuous Discovery Habits book—focuses on the various facets of continuous discovery. 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.

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Folding Burritos

DECEMBER 7, 2017

This led me to reach out to 14 leading Product Managers and talk with them about how they use customer feedback in their own companies and teams. With older customers, we’re typically interested in satisfaction, power-user and early-testing feedback and pain points that the product doesn’t solve. You need to know where you’re headed.

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BrainMates

NOVEMBER 1, 2021

Developing and launching a product only to have it fail is the complete antithesis of the “Fail Fast” innovation motto. You have just invested 1000s of work hours and millions of dollars in developing & launching this product. Failure Point #4 – Poor design & execution. To that, I say unequivocally NO !

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