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Product in Practice: Testing Assumptions Was Tricky But the Convo Team Didn’t Give Up

Product Talk

Whether you encounter technical difficulties, have a hard time finding customers to connect with, or run up against any other number of problems, it can be tempting to give up. Instead of giving up at this stage, they started looking into other ways of connecting with their potential users. You can submit yours here.

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Workshop: How to Get the Most Out of User Interviews

bpma ProductHub

By Garima Painuly – As product managers, we know we should obsess over our customers. Depending on your organization, you may be working with a robust user research team or you may be on your own, finding & conducting interviews to uncover needs and ideas that might delight. If you’re new to interviewing users, asking “Why?”

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Product in Practice: Getting Engineers Involved in Brainstorming

Product Talk

Teresa wrote : “When tackling new problems, we each bring our own unique perspective to the situation, based on our past experience with those types of problems. Each person on your team represents a unique set of experiences and thus brings a fresh perspective to the situation. But she was coming up against a bit of a roadblock.

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Product in Practice: Introducing Opportunity Solution Trees at Texthelp

Product Talk

Tali Melchior , Director of Product Management at Texthelp , was first inspired to experiment with opportunity solution trees in a previous role. And finally, Tali was so convinced of the power of opportunity solution trees that she started leading workshops at product events to teach others how to use this tool.

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How Product Managers Can Learn to Love Reporting

Speaker: Eric Feinstein, Professional Services Manager, Looker

For a long time, Product Managers have found it challenging to design interfaces inside their products that users could use for reporting. It seems like PMs and engineers have grown to hate embedded reporting. How to evaluate embedded analytic solutions as strategy to greatly reduce initial and on-going engineering effort.

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Here’s how to develop the most successful user stories

bpma ProductHub

There are many ways to deliver your requirements to your engineers but none is more effective than user stories. ” A list of requirements might represent logic, long case studies might represent art, but user stories represent the best of bringing the two together with context. All user stories are not created equal.

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How Segment avoids user onboarding drag for its technical product

Mixpanel

Onboarding new users is one of the biggest challenges a technical product faces. This is doubly true when a portion of those would-be users don’t have technical backgrounds. Both the Mixpanel team and our partners over at Segment know how crunchy user onboarding can be. What does use case-driven onboarding look like?