UX Planet

FEBRUARY 13, 2024

Prescriptive Agile frameworks make it hard for designers to add valuable contributions to the team. I designed every detail in Photoshop before handing the mockups to the developers. I was excited to be part of a cross-functional team and I could not wait to start working in sprints. But it wasn’t all that bad.

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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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Amplitude

OCTOBER 27, 2020

The power of product analytics becomes apparent when any team at a company—marketing, product, design, engineering—can quickly ask and answer questions about user behavior and customer journeys. But getting to that point requires an investment in product data management. They trust the data, and they can act quickly.

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Mironov Consulting

AUGUST 29, 2023

 And calling out the need for some honest discovery before we embark on major engineering efforts. We want to invest our always-scarce development efforts in work that truly matters to our customers, or where only we can do what’s necessary.  So and then the next.

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Mixpanel

JANUARY 3, 2022

Engineers are always looking for ways to differentiate themselves. As data-driven product development continues to balloon in popularity, so does the need for accurate and sophisticated implementation of analytics tracking in software products. Spearhead a slick analytics implementation. You’d be celebrated.

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Intercom, Inc.

MARCH 15, 2018

As a startup scales, the importance of infrastructure engineers simply can’t be overstated. They’re the ones making sure your app is secure, that uptime looks good, and that the rest of your engineering org has the right tools to build features your users need and want. The tenets of foundation engineering at Stripe.

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The Product Coalition

JANUARY 26, 2022

At the same time, consolidation faces a big problem: it gets hard to collect real-time data on health issues. Chris’s team worked for a logistics service that tracked the ocean containers coming in and out of the ports. Their team set up the infrastructure and prepared the environment waiting for prospective accounts, which never came.

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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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Mironov Consulting

SEPTEMBER 15, 2019

Data science has traditionally been an analysis-only endeavor: using historical statistics, user interaction trends, or AI machine learning to predict the impact of deterministically coded software changes. This is data science (DS) as an offline toolkit to make smarter decisions. And creates a storehouse of resonant insights.

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Amplitude

JANUARY 23, 2020

In my coaching work, I end up talking to lots of product development teams about data, KPIs, running experiments, and “measuring the team”. At at the end of the day, cultivating a learning culture (a prerequisite in my mind for the responsible use of data) isn’t something you install. Why does it depend?

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Iteratively Blog

DECEMBER 17, 2020

Chances are, you’ve probably heard that phrase in relation to your data hygiene. But how do you fix the garbage that is bad data management and quality? Especially if you don’t have control over the implementation of tracking code (as is the case with many data teams). Well, it’s tricky. according to IBM.

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The Product Guy

AUGUST 1, 2019

What do you do when your team is working their socks off and yet they are getting little credit for the work being done, mainly because the team isn’t able to set concrete expectations with the stakeholder? This obviously reflected as a failure to deliver on part of the engineering team. THE CHALLENGE. THE CAUSE.

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Alchemer Mobile

JULY 13, 2021

Bad product experiences increase customer frustration, potentially creating resentment around having difficulty completing tasks within an application and increasing customer churn. Beforehand, make sure your team is aligned on: Their definition of product experience. The goals you hope to achieve by investing in product experience.

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The Product Coalition

MAY 1, 2023

The team stressed. Then in strolls the design team, telling us to step back. Another blocker in my path preventing me from moving the product team into action. However, I’ve learned that cutting corners early in product strategy development leads to significant hurdles later on. Think of it like a room’s air conditioning.

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Intercom, Inc.

AUGUST 15, 2018

On day one as Reddit’s new VP of Engineering, Nick Caldwell faced a dilemma. He had just spent 13 years at Microsoft, most recently as the head of 300 engineers. At Reddit, he led a team of 35 – none of whom knew how to manage other engineers. Managers oversee their team members’ work and career development.

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Intercom, Inc.

JUNE 10, 2020

I hope this post allows people and teams to safely talk about Product Judgment. If you ever had to face a Manager, Director or Exec as they make bad product decisions and you’re struggling to persuade them otherwise, this post will help you. It takes years to build, and therefore ranges from very weak to very strong.

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The Product Coalition

JANUARY 5, 2023

Dark periods are when a product team knows what to design and develop and go about doing it, but the work has yet to be exposed to users in any significant way. Product dark periods are when a product team’s commitment and culture are tested. Developers will be knocking out cards. The dark periods are challenging.

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The Product Coalition

JULY 2, 2020

Yes, it’s the product manager’s responsibility to gather information and make data-driven decisions on the overall look of a product. That’s the magic of product development! Designers typically tend to care less about numbers and data compared to engineers. it doesn’t necessarily mean they’re a bad designer.

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NextBigWhat

SEPTEMBER 5, 2020

– Slow product development. – lots of biz users than engineers. – too many nice things: culture, team dinners, offsites, parties, famous angels, famous VCs. – learn about the bad investments of famous investors. 3/5 Co-founder conflict causes: – weak prior relationship. Follow @1ndus.

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The Product Guy

OCTOBER 9, 2018

First, I did not know how to frame, develop and present product strategy in a systematic way, and second, as a startup, my company has not historically had a good track record of strategy being developed outside of senior management (read: founder). Two major obstacles stood in my way.

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Mixpanel

JANUARY 12, 2023

It’s absolutely rooted in the empirical data that gives an objective understanding of your customers’ paint points and desires. And just like a product process, you need data to create something great. From customer research to monitoring and iteration, good copywriting is rooted in data. It’s a product unto itself.

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Intercom, Inc.

APRIL 22, 2021

As it turns out, he’s also quite the writer – since the last time we spoke , he has published not one but two books on engineering. After writing An Elegant Puzzle about the challenges of engineering management in high-growth organizations, his focus shifted to a career path that’s much less understood – the technical leadership track.

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BrainMates

AUGUST 22, 2019

Don’t tolerate bad management if it’s making you miserable. The number one thing I see that undermines product and engineering teams’ success is senior executives who help too much,” adds Rich. And while you may worry about churn and seek to reduce it, there’s far more rationality and data-driven views. Pick your place.”.

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Iteratively Blog

DECEMBER 13, 2020

At the end of the day, your data analytics needs to be tested like any other code. If you don’t validate this code—and the data it generates—it can be costly (like $9.7-million-dollars-per-year To avoid this fate, companies and their engineers can leverage a number of proactive and reactive data validation techniques.

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PMLesson's Ace the PM Interview

APRIL 26, 2022

Interested in getting help acing your data science or machine learning interview? Check out our complete Data Science Interview Prep Course.    Curious about following a data science career path? And as companies collect even more information, working with and understanding data is becoming a bigger priority.

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The Product Coalition

JULY 11, 2022

Learn how to build a DEEP backlog and conduct productive refinement calls in order to maintain a happy and agile team. Is the work well distributed throughout the team, or are some overwhelmed while others with too much spare time? A not well refined backlog causes many problems for the team. Let's start with a reflection.

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Product Warrior

DECEMBER 7, 2022

It is filled with complexities, so strategy must share the direct impact designers, engineers, and product managers' software is going to have. To do this, we need to understand which decisions underperform rapidly and then course correct. Using the Product VCP I align stakeholders, underpin decisions and empower teams.

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Userpilot

APRIL 6, 2023

Developing and releasing sophisticated products with all the bells and whistles imaginable might seem like a great idea. TL;DR An over-engineered product is more complex than it should be and it solves problems that don’t exist. Low feature adoption is one of the symptoms of over-engineering. Book the demo!

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Product Innovation Educators

OCTOBER 16, 2023

It starts with evidence, knowledge, and data. 6:49] How is poor CX costly to an organization? The try to get the best evidence, knowledge, and data to drive strategies, priorities, decisions, and products using qualitative data. 12:10] What other sources of data do you use? 9:30] Where should we start with CX?

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Userpilot

NOVEMBER 30, 2023

A market gap can be caused by missing functionality or poor user experience. Tracking user behavior in-app enables product teams to find ways to improve product experience. Competitor analysis enables PMs to find areas where rivals fail customers and develop sound positioning and differentiation strategies.

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Mironov Consulting

DECEMBER 17, 2023

  The upside (for the sales team) is huge, and the cost (for product/engineering/support) is diffuse.    Closing this $480k/year license deal is highly visible to the exec team and Board.  Their market strategy team realizes they need one more field mapped.    Far away. 

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Mixpanel

DECEMBER 7, 2021

Good product teams know their users inside and out. They get to know all of this by using data as a strategic asset—because good product teams are made up of good product analysts. Does this mean every product team should be packed with data science degrees? Not in the slightest.

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Intercom, Inc.

JANUARY 12, 2022

The fact of the matter is that data science, as a field, is still relatively new. But as Benn points out, the future of data analysis isn’t an architecture diagram or business leaders looking at dashboards – it’s building an experience, and a very exciting one at that. I worked there for a couple years as an analyst or data scientist.

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The Product Coalition

MARCH 8, 2024

In simple words, a digital transformation strategy is a thorough plan for utilizing digital technologies to enhance the physical components of your company, including engineering, production, and service. Data becomes a strategic asset In the digital age, data is power. Use statistics to quantify the impact.

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UX Studio: Product Management

JUNE 22, 2021

They get most of the recognition, but they also have to be involved in everything, which is super tiring and often leads to stress, burnout, and bad health. They don’t have to make every decision and double-check everything done by their teams. Context: the most important tool to empower your team. All without their manager.

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Mixpanel

JANUARY 21, 2020

As Director of Product Management at Mixpanel, an important part of my role is hiring and developing a world-class team of product managers and ensuring that we’re empowering those people to be the best product managers they can be. The same goes for an engineering degree. Data proficiency. Customer focus.

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Ronke PM

AUGUST 16, 2023

Table of Contents Technical Support Customer Success/Relationship Managers Marketing Sales Team Data Scientist Finance UX Researcher UX Designer Content Designers and Conversational Designers Engineering Legal Security (IT) PMO (Product Management Office) (Bonus!)

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