Userpilot

APRIL 30, 2024

In many ways, he has shaped how successful products are built and how teams can be organized to work toward excellence. In this role, he drove the development of products that took eBay’s global e-commerce platform to new levels of success. Marty Cagan is a popular name in the product management world. Who is Marty Cagan?

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svpg

JANUARY 11, 2016

I normally write about how to evolve your organization from a weak product org to a strong one. But in this article I want to talk about a pattern that I see in many companies that are actually doing really well, growing aggressively, yet they will sometimes, over time and unintentionally, replace their good behaviors with bad ones.

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The Product Coalition

JULY 12, 2022

Here are cases for when the cooperation between the product team and the client brakes down for objective reasons. Here I have tried to reveal the most common cases when the cooperation between the development team and the entrepreneur fails for reasons beyond the control of all parties involved. So I wrote this article.

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The Product Coalition

NOVEMBER 3, 2020

we got this request long before our MVP development agency was founded. Let’s talk about how to write a stunning app development RFP and make sure that the person who receives it clearly understands your needs and converts them all into something applicable and useful. ‘I need a website that will bring $10 a day’?—?we What about WHY?

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The Product Coalition

AUGUST 1, 2019

The few widely-available definitions This is the closest thing to a widely accepted definition of a Product Manager This Venn diagram from Martin Eriksson’s 2011 blog post is one of the most frequently cited definitions on any piece which explores the nature of the Product Management role. My take on the question?—?“So,

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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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Mironov Consulting

MAY 16, 2020

A topic that’s come up several times recently in my product leader coaching sessions: how much to delegate to the (individual contributor) product managers on our teams – including different ways of building product skills and balancing personal empowerment against good results.

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Mind the Product

FEBRUARY 12, 2020

It’s also essential to creating a team where great people want to work. In a perfect product development world, communications are seamless, specifications are clear, and product and engineering teams work together without friction. These are team goals that get shared across the company. Share Leadership and Credit.

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Intercom, Inc.

JANUARY 12, 2021

If you’ve been paying attention to any loud marketing efforts over the last few years, you have definitely heard about multi-cloud. “We think Lambda is great—definitely one of the good parts of AWS—as long as you treat it as the simple code runner that it is. But over time, we noticed that teams hated working on these services.

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Userpilot

DECEMBER 6, 2022

‘Feature factory’ is not exactly a positive term, especially if you’re aspiring to be a product-led SaaS product management team. John Cutler first used the term to describe such companies because their software development processes resemble factory assembly lines. What is a feature factory?

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Modus Create

JUNE 18, 2019

But my employer had just paid for me to go through the training, and I was expected to help improve their development processes. That’s when it got bad. It got so bad that the CEO outlawed Agile altogether. We were so rigorous about following the rules that we completely missed the spirit of agile software development.

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The Product Coalition

AUGUST 27, 2018

Agile vs. Being Agile Agile became popular shortly after ‘The Agile Software Development Manifesto ’ was published in 2001. Blindly adopting Agile is not a guarantee that a team will be agile , as these additional Agile rules are not essential to being agile. This is why one-size-fits-all Agile solutions are a bad idea.

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The Product Coalition

OCTOBER 15, 2019

I never had to deal with developers on a day to day basis?—?the However, I was thrown into the deep end again when I left the comfort of marketing and joined the tech team at Hotelclub where I managed a team of developers. I had no idea what I was doing and how I could lead a dev team. As a tip?—?always

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The Product Coalition

NOVEMBER 7, 2019

The company decided to pivot, and focus on developing what they initially thought of as a more convenient tool for internal business communication. When setting up a new team, the person responsible for the technical implementation?—?the Working with a Software Vendor Outsourcing to a vendor means hiring a team for a specific task.

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The Product Coalition

JULY 24, 2021

I truly believe that our bad mental model i.e. expecting people to execute like machines is at fault here. I have been in countless conversations where people argue incessantly about the definition of agile, PO vs PM, how the customers in their industry just don’t get it, and what actually constitutes good software engineering practices.

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The Product Coalition

JUNE 4, 2022

While it’s true that a math problem will have a definitive answer, the ways of getting to that answer are multiple. Now all the philosophical aspects about accepting failure aside, what we, as a society, have developed is undervaluing the power that comes from overcoming and correcting a mistake. Let’s talk about this for a second.

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ProductPlan

JUNE 1, 2023

Where are product teams getting their feature ideas? Most concerningly, 19% of respondents reported that their top source of ideas comes from senior management, who are often disconnected from both customers and the product development process. Why do product teams become feature factories?

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Mixpanel

OCTOBER 6, 2023

Sometimes teams fall short of getting pipelines tied together and running, sure. Developing systems for a diverse group of stakeholders to consume the same data is no small task; it’s a journey. Ryan Dahl, the creator of node.js, said it best in his 2011 rant: “I hate almost all software. Spectacularly.

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Mind the Product

JANUARY 21, 2019

As product managers our job description is pretty simple: to make all of our software development projects succeed. In fact, I would go so far as to say any failures or successes of the team are failures or successes of product management. Define Success. This needs to happen at every level. What makes a story “ready”?

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The Product Coalition

FEBRUARY 26, 2022

I’ve asked friends who do the job at social events and got the same answer, and frequently asked members of my own teams, who struggled to find the time to do it. To compensate, I’ve seen UX researchers & designers pick up the mantle a lot more, and the design teams have really leaned into this space.

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The Product Coalition

DECEMBER 2, 2020

His entire career seems to be in the e-commerce domain right from his career commenced in Software development. Scrum is a framework that thrives upon Self-managing teams. Questions that help the developers discover and navigate conflicts between their individual values and Scrum values.

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The Product Coalition

JULY 28, 2020

Typically, if your bounce rate is above 60%, then your product definitely has some issues. Users can bounce because of multiple reasons such as poor design or poor content and/or product messaging. However, having a high bounce rate doesn’t always necessarily mean that your product is not solving an important problem.

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Mironov Consulting

SEPTEMBER 15, 2019

We’ve known forever that we (product managers) must include our developers and designers in the earliest stages of problem definition and solution ideation. Piping in real users’ voices and challenges motivates the whole team. Less appreciation of commercial software development pressures. We versus They.

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Userpilot

JUNE 10, 2022

Maybe poor reviews will make it more difficult to attract new customers. Some estimates say that poor-quality software cost businesses $2.08 To be at an advantage when fixing bugs, a lot depends on how the software team is structured, and how the code is written: Have proper documentation. trillion in 2020.

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The Product Coalition

DECEMBER 14, 2019

This is a common approach that was originated by software engineers for tackling relatively easy and short-term challenges. However, in time, this procedure has become a widespread methodology in technology product development too. Engineers will begin the Coding process after some initial discussions with the product team.

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Iteratively Blog

DECEMBER 13, 2020

By definition, reactive data validation takes place after the fact and uses anomaly detection to identify any issues your data may have, and to help ease the symptoms of bad data. While these methods are better than nothing, they don’t solve the core problems causing the bad data in the first place.

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Usersnap

JULY 3, 2023

If you’re new to the bug tracking system, issue management or web development in general, you might wonder what a bug report is. For example, I’ve shown you 6 easy bug reporting tricks , answered the 4 W’s of bug reporting and gave you some insights on bad bug reports. But we need a bug report definition or meaning!

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Split

AUGUST 28, 2020

Software development in 2020 is a rapidly changing environment. In order to best support both speed and safety AS WELL AS business impact, you want your development teams and your customers driving your decision making. But how do you control for safety at speed? But, who should be in charge? Actually, no. Not so much!

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Tyner Blain

MAY 24, 2017

Taking agile, a process otherwise optimized for small, cross-functional, collaborative teams and making it work at scale is fascinating. Think of a couple dozen teams (a couple hundred people) working to deliver across a couple hundred systems, for a multi-billion dollar organization. Getting Faster at Building the Wrong Thing.

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The Product Coalition

JANUARY 26, 2022

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. To improve his productivity, Chris decided to take over the software design to a digital agency.

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The Product Coalition

APRIL 19, 2021

The following interview questions are neither suited nor intended to turn an inexperienced interviewer into an agile software development expert. The refinement is a continuous process to create actionable Product Backlogs that allow a Scrum Team to have a Sprint Planning at a moment’s notice.

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The Product Coalition

SEPTEMBER 17, 2020

Picture this: you develop an app, then launch it worldwide. Yeah, we know, it sounds pretty much like a developer’s worst nightmare. Localization testing is usually not the first thing that development companies consider. Localization testing is one of the types of QA that takes place during product development.

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Intercom, Inc.

APRIL 8, 2021

As face-to-face consultations were no longer an option for many healthcare providers, Joel and his team dropped everything and asked themselves: what could they build to help their customers (and their customers’ patients) adapt to the new normal? It was exciting, and the worst-case scenario wasn’t so bad. Joel: Sure.

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The Product Guy

AUGUST 10, 2017

A software product could overemphasize a feature that its own team just wanted to build. It lacks an absolute definition. Teams working on products for consumers can recruit survey participants or interviewees online by running ads on their social media channels or ordering results from a survey panel.

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Mind the Product

MAY 8, 2018

Scrum is a great way of organising software development teams but it doesn’t answer the sorts of questions that CFO types love to ask like “how much will it cost and when will I get it?” A layered backlog – which includes granular stories ready for the developers to work on. The Best of Both Worlds.

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Intercom, Inc.

AUGUST 15, 2019

If an organization’s founders aren’t designers and don’t come from a background where well-designed products played a key role in their lives, it can often be the last discipline to be brought onboard the team. On a bad day, a lot more of it got thrown away. My responsibility was to build a design team in that new agile way of working.

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The Product Coalition

JUNE 17, 2019

The secret to becoming a successful startup lies in knowing your strengths and weaknesses and overcoming all the obstacles you will face along your journey. There also has to be a definitive target market and need for the solution. You need to hire a team, obtain office space, and start creating a buzz about your company.

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