The Product Coalition

MARCH 15, 2021

I wrote a variation of this for the various product teams at Whispir recently and then as fate would have it, a CEO I know reached out to me on LinkedIn asking the same thing?—?so with very little effort but a huge amount of diligence and thought, and you can do it in 15 minutes if you have access to all the research already.

Development Team Review

TechEmpower - Product Management

AUGUST 21, 2023

Many CEOs of software-enabled businesses call us with a similar concern: Are we getting the right results from our software team? We hear them explain that their current software development is expensive, deliveries are rarely on time, and random bugs appear. These are classic inflection points for a development team.

Technical Review

Intercom, Inc.

OCTOBER 27, 2022

After running the first editions of the conference by himself, Alex sold B2B Rocks and, in 2019, he founded Collect , a platform that helps businesses collect and manage client documents, in the hopes that by putting this process on autopilot, teams can be more productive and focus their energy on bigger things. Alex: I don’t know.

Technical Review

Intercom, Inc.

FEBRUARY 26, 2018

are making it easier and faster for software developers to develop complex software applications atop this infrastructure. What took you months to ideate, design and develop can now be copied in days or weeks thanks to these new tools. Frameworks like Ruby on Rails, Node, Angular, Ember, React etc.

Research Software

Product Innovation Educators

JULY 4, 2022

8:00] Tell us more about how you’re developing your core capabilities, especially AI visual recognition. Training a computer vision model is very hard and usually requires an AI research team, but we wanted to make that problem accessible to anyone. That warms my heart because we’re on the same team and doing this together.

Artificial Inteligence

Iteratively Blog

MARCH 15, 2020

As folks who constantly deal with data, finding the right resources to refer in times of need is a challenge. Additionally, if you simply Google the phrase, ‘data analytics resources’, you will be overwhelmed. To solve this, we created an internal doc with the best five of every kind of resource that data folks generally refer to.

Data Visualization

The Product Coalition

MARCH 29, 2018

I try to help product and sales teams succeed under the mantra “Easy to Sell, Easy to Renew.” I’ve struggled to find many examples detailing how to bond product and sales teams ( Antonia Bozhkova offers a good perspective ). Your teams will realign and strengthen their partnership as they see the product through each other’s eyes.

Development Team Review

Product Talk

MARCH 2, 2016

I love that Marty Cagan and Jeff Patton have long been advocates of dual-track development. If you aren’t familiar with dual-track development, it’s the separation of product discovery from product delivery. User stories and user story mapping help a team align around the top priorities and get clarity around what they are delivering.

Product Research

BrainMates

SEPTEMBER 7, 2021

Whether observing people using a technology or system in the workplace, at home, or out in public, it can provide insights not available in quantitative data. We listened and diligently documented how they created and captured series and episodic metadata, and how it flowed through the ecosystem. A curious discovery was made.

Research Software

Product Talk

JANUARY 13, 2016

Most teams make one of the following two mistakes: They either gate releases with an A/B test trying to understand whether or not the feature had the intended impact or they test variables blindly hoping to stumble upon a better variation. I love that A/B testing has become so popular. It’s an important tool in our toolbox.

Product Research

Mixpanel

NOVEMBER 8, 2022

If your startup is vying for an investment when there are fewer dollars to go around, it makes coming up with a compelling product idea and showcasing demand for it with data even more important. VCs look for signals that you have the right product, in the right market, at the right time, with the right team at the helm.

Data Visualization

Modus Create

MAY 3, 2023

Common misconceptions with UX and product development UX is a powerful and valuable tool, but misconceptions abound about what UX can do and how long it can take to reap the benefits. Engineering teams likely have a history of delivering features and delivering them very fast. Not so fast. We already know our user.”

Development Team Review

The Product Coalition

JUNE 17, 2019

For many years CSSSR has been developing IT systems for the biggest online banks, witnessing their success firsthand. This experience has led to several key insights: You Don’t Need a Large IT Department “We operate in small teams. To begin with, the development of new functionality requires considerable resources, including people.

Banking

ProductPlan

FEBRUARY 1, 2021

Product leaders don’t often get many chances for hiring product team members. Additions to the product team must ramp up quickly. Stage 1: Reviewing the applications. When hiring product team members I’m also looking for adjectives and verbs that convey patience, curiosity, and a humble style. Are they team players?

Development Team Review

Mironov Consulting

FEBRUARY 9, 2023

doesn’t change the fact that 275 of them will never make it into the product development queue. So each product manager will now spend 1120+ hours/week thoughtfully reviewing and prioritizing and responding to incoming requests.   And requesters really don’t just want any answer: they want a YES answer.

Technical Review

The Product Coalition

JUNE 26, 2023

Every week, AI creators launch thousands of new applications while AI vigilantes identify and address risks , particularly in areas such as bias, data privacy, transparency, safety, and regulatory compliance. Over the next two years, the technology will mature, becoming safer, more compliant, and transparent.

Generative AI

Modus Create

JUNE 1, 2020

The news is filled with tales of hackers breaking into financial institutions, DDoS attacks on credit card companies, and data breaches due to poor software configuration. Phase 1: Due Diligence and Discovery. Due diligence comes first but has its origins in other engagements Modus has conducted over the years.

Software Review

Usersnap

MARCH 19, 2019

Should the Voice of Customer influence product development? In Frost & Sullivan’s survey research on R&D/innovation and product development priorities, 84% of the respondents declare that they employ the voice of customers (VoC) in their product development cycle. Do you consider customer feedback?

User Testing

The Product Coalition

JUNE 24, 2021

our open-source data integration platform; 2 months later, we announced our $26M Series-A round led by Benchmark. In this article, we want to tell you about what happened behind the scenes, including the deck we presented to the Benchmark team. This is what happened again with the Benchmark team.

Feedback Software

Revulytics

AUGUST 6, 2019

In the more than 20 years since Gates’ proclamation, many vendors have figured out how to collect, and from what I’ve seen working with vendors, they’re using software usage data and analytics to do it. In addition to enabling unlicensed use, this also cuts the flow of any infringement or metering data that might be sent to the vendor.

Reporting Tools

Intercom, Inc.

DECEMBER 2, 2021

From the process of disambiguation and the worst outage we ever had to our obsession with speed and how legal and engineering teams can work better together, Engineer Chats will give you a peek behind the engineering process at Intercom. The core of algorithms and systems is data models. The legal team isn’t there to slow R&D down.

Engineering

Userpilot

OCTOBER 6, 2023

In SaaS, the B2B marketing funnel forms the backbone of any successful product and marketing team. Review stage (BoFu). When potential customers are already engaging with your product—which is an opportunity to collect data through in-app surveys and behavioral analytics. It helps you visualize the customer journey.

B2B

Mironov Consulting

DECEMBER 29, 2022

 But when I do product due diligence for SaaS-focused PE/VC firms, it's the very first thing I look at.  Let’s IMHO, software product companies are fundamentally different from software services/outsourcing/custom development companies.  Said   What BigCorp demands, BigCorp gets.  Hitting

Reporting Tools

Mixpanel

DECEMBER 3, 2020

With so much at stake, brands must maximize the value inside their data and leverage the full power of their growth stack. If your product and marketing teams are the “brains” designing your experience, your technology stack is undoubtedly the “brawn” making it possible. . Strength in numbers. Making it personal. That’s great!

Data Visualization

ProductCraft

JULY 25, 2019

Product professionals, whether they work at a startup or an enterprise, tend to ignore a goldmine of readily available quantitative data. What I am referring to is the sales and business development data stored in the company’s CRM and diligently maintained by the sales operations team.

Information

PMLesson's Ace the PM Interview

JUNE 10, 2020

It's no secret that being a data scientist is one of the most lucrative and in-demand jobs in the modern economy. Thus far, the 21st Century has been synonymous with the meteoric rise of big data. million terabytes, of data are collected every single day. That's an insane amount of data. In fact, 2.5

Data Visualization

Amplitude

JUNE 8, 2017

One reason why I decided to work at Social Capital is that the team is good at recognizing that things are changing and we’re constantly innovating. Ashley in Ghana with the team at mPharma. Ashley : We have a pretty data-driven approach both when considering new investments as well as helping companies post-investment.

Technical Review

Arkenea

MARCH 29, 2025

HIPAA risk assessment ensures that ePHI is protected from threats and vulnerabilities such as fraud, data breaches, financial scams, identity thefts, etc. Cyber security continues to be the top priority for healthcare organizations owing to the rising number of thefts and data breaches.

Technical Review

ProductPlan

FEBRUARY 1, 2021

Product leaders don’t often get many chances for hiring product team members. Additions to the product team must ramp up quickly. Stage 1: Reviewing the applications. When hiring product team members I’m also looking for adjectives and verbs that convey patience, curiosity, and a humble style. Are they team players?

Development Team Review

ProductPlan

NOVEMBER 11, 2019

Some will delight and engage the executive team by taking a high-level approach and focusing on goals and strategy. Others dive into the specifics and make engineering teams happy since they’re so detailed. Don’t out map your team’s capabilities. Work with the engineering team and figure out just how long each item should take.

Roadmap

ProductPlan

NOVEMBER 19, 2021

Who will we want to include in our cross-functional product team? How should we arrange the strategy, brainstorming, and planning meetings for this team? What mechanism will we use to review and weigh priorities on what to build? The steps include the following: Building your cross-functional team. Other methods?

Research Software

Amplitude

MAY 17, 2017

When there’s so much data to work with, it’s easy to get careless and assume that the numbers right under your nose are always telling you the truth: A new piece of code breaks your homepage , but after looking at your analytics you see that users are spending more time on it than ever —and therefore must be more engaged.

Data Visualization

Revulytics

JANUARY 17, 2020

But some organizations that want to cut corners or lack diligent IT oversight take that risk, figuring they can handle any potential problems with the cheap software. Revulytics data shows forensic evidence of unlicensed software use in 194 of 195 countries. Business use of unlicensed software is higher than you might expect.

Analytic Tools

Split

MARCH 20, 2024

By optimizing release management flows, teams can facilitate on-demand deployments that enhance business agility without compromising stability. Understanding precisely how to improve release management is key for more efficient software development. Effective release management is pivotal for agile software development.

Release Management

UX Studio

MARCH 4, 2019

Web designer vs web developer – as a UX designer, I counter this match daily. But truly, the phrases don’t stop here, we have visual designers, front-end developers, back-end developers, UX designers (like me), et cetera. A developer friend of mine met with a client a couple of months ago.

Web Developers

Modus Create

JUNE 18, 2021

Businesses are building more applications than ever and processing unprecedented amounts of data. More data and more code in more places increase your threat surface, creating opportunities for malicious actors online. . How can we break this correlation between data and the risk of attacks? . What is a Security Assessment?

Software Review

The Product Coalition

MAY 18, 2016

My supervisors in different teams (I was in a management trainee rotational program) gave me two big projects. One project was about pre-IPO funding for which I had to do a lot of financial modeling, due diligence, and third party negotiation. Not sure though, I went to business school, hoping to find my way.

Technical Review