Johanna Rothman

MARCH 5, 2020

This series is about helping a team create a less brittle environment—more resilience. Brief description of the problem at a recent client: Person A checked in code that broke an “unrelated” part of the system. Neither did the team. In this case, the project team had no automated tests.

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Arkenea

APRIL 10, 2025

In a fastmoving digital economy, many organizations leverage outsourced software product development to accelerate innovation, control costs, and tap into global expertise. Rather than building and maintaining a large inhouse team, businesses partner with specialized vendors to handle design, development, testing, and deployment.

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Johanna Rothman

NOVEMBER 16, 2020

One of my reviewers for the Modern Management Made Easy books asked a fascinating question: I've never seen this many women in management or in senior leadership positions. Up until the mid-1980s, women comprised about 1/3 of the technical people I worked with. The idea of a code review or a design review?

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UX Planet

DECEMBER 6, 2024

If there is one thing thats altering the way we create user experience (UX) designs and conduct research in 2024, it is definitely artificial intelligence (AI). From new UX-related technologies and automation to personalization. UX experts have already integrated AI into their daily lives in one way or another. No one can denythat.

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Intercom, Inc.

DECEMBER 4, 2019

That clarity is one of the main reasons I was so excited to join Intercom earlier this year – the company entered an industry dominated by impersonal and disconnected tools like ticketing systems and email with a vision to “make internet business personal.”. 1 Poor definition of value proposition and feature focus.

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Agile Velocity

AUGUST 19, 2020

STATIK (Systems Thinking Approach To Implementing Kanban 1 2 ) can be a great technique to help teams get up and running quickly, even teams that are using Scrum. . Applying this approach designed for Kanban can dramatically accelerate the forming and improvements of a Scrum team. What is the current way of working?

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Intercom, Inc.

DECEMBER 2, 2021

Previously hosted by Jamie Osler , a Senior Product Engineer at Intercom for over seven years, it’s now up to Principal Systems Engineer Brian Scanlan to pick up the baton and keep the chats going. The core of algorithms and systems is data models. The legal team isn’t there to slow R&D down.

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UX Planet

NOVEMBER 4, 2024

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. It doesn't matter whether we’re talking about a website, mobile app, AI assistant, AR/VR or other wearable technology; you need to test with users. But what is usability?

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The Product Coalition

FEBRUARY 10, 2022

Moreover, this area has become extremely lucrative due to lockdowns and restrictions of the pandemic. It attracted more people to the online live streaming and now it’s projected that, due to streaming, by the year 2025 users will spend more than $17 billion in social apps annually. The definition of live streaming is quite simple.

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UX Studio: Product Management

JANUARY 11, 2021

At UX Studio , while we develop our products, uxfol.io and copyfol.io , we are mainly focused on agency work, meaning that we cooperate with several clients as external teams. This post was written from the perspective of designers, mainly intended for external teams and entrepreneurs. Five challenges and solutions.

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Mind the Product

NOVEMBER 9, 2016

As we look at what it takes to develop non-gaming VR products, their separation from gaming becomes very important. Developing business products in VR, however, is like creating a new sport by combining American Football and what the rest of the world calls Football. VR is an ideal technology for training and simulations.

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Product Talk

JUNE 19, 2024

. – Tweet This So I want to take some time to review why we do discovery. I’ll do my best to update it as the technology evolves. I break the underlying structure of discovery into three parts: Starting with a clear desired outcome —in other words, starting with a clear definition of success. But this is where I stand today.

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The Product Coalition

FEBRUARY 1, 2021

Most of us have been through the results of poor management of bugs: hair-on-fire, last-minute late nights to madly scrambling to critical fix bugs blocking a release, or stopping a customer from using a product. Does your organisation provide you and your team with direct access to customers, or are there gatekeepers?

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Mind the Product

AUGUST 19, 2019

Secondly, as great product managers are also great capacity builders for their teams, you should start looking for opportunities that AI can present for your product. That’s why it’s incredibly important to develop a good level of empathy and user understanding, not only for yourself, but for the whole team.

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Userpilot

JULY 22, 2024

Let’s explore the steps to develop a solid positioning statement and some examples of successful brand positioning from other companies. TL;DR Developing a solid product positioning strategy involves several key steps. Here are the steps to develop your positioning effectively: Conduct thorough market research.

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Mind the Product

NOVEMBER 21, 2019

As a product leader, you are the product manager for a leadership team, and the tricks you learned in product teams remain valuable, they just need a little tweak. Myths that an organisation tells itself can act as a reality distortion field that masks failing products and poor return on investment. Develop new opportunities.

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Intercom, Inc.

JULY 23, 2020

Though technology has allowed us to work remotely for quite some time, companies have debated whether it’s truly best for business. We caught up for a chat that ranged from how to stand out in a crowded marketplace to why it’s a bad idea to judge your product’s success simply based on how much time people are spending in it.

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Alchemer Mobile

MARCH 18, 2021

Almost all apps experienced significant change in their DAU due to COVID-19. During the webinar, you can engage with Team Apptentive by chatting along, I hope you do that. You will definitely be able to engage remotely with my really tiny dog who has a very loud voice. Transcript. I just heard Lola make noise.

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Centercode

JUNE 27, 2025

Delta is the next generation of beta testing, leveraging Centercode technology to automate time consuming tasks while increasing user engagement and test results. It’s that your team expected something else. Some teams treat it as a final round of QA, focused on confirming fixes, catching bugs, or checking technical details.

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The Product Coalition

JUNE 21, 2021

Many worked from home on tasks ranging from organising team activities via Slack, analysing data and collaborating on documents via Google Docs, to discussing strategies via Microsoft Teams and coaching clients via Zoom. Others celebrated birthdays and had weddings via Facebook and Zoom. which are places of public accommodation.” [2]:

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Intercom, Inc.

JANUARY 5, 2022

After working on NASA’s Space Shuttle Main Engine, he went on to develop Portfolium, a social networking platform that allows students and graduates to showcase skills beyond the traditional resume to potential employers. Portfolium was eventually acquired, but the team behind it never stopped thinking about a better way to do it.

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Modus Create

NOVEMBER 15, 2024

McKinsey has estimated that AI technology could generate $60 billion to $110 billion per year in economic value for the pharma and medical-product subsectors alone. With the average cost of developing a new drug at approximately $2.3 billion , streamlining and automating clinical development processes are perfect use cases for AI.

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Split

AUGUST 28, 2020

Software development in 2020 is a rapidly changing environment. The CAB itself is a collection of representatives from various functions inside and outside of corporate IT, chartered with reviewing proposed changes and assisting the change manager in change assessment, prioritization and scheduling. But, who should be in charge?

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Amplitude

NOVEMBER 26, 2019

People in non-technical roles rely on data every day to make decisions, develop ideas or measure success. When tools and systems are not created with them in mind, they lose trust and understanding. You may not understand someone else’s definition or report. He’s been conditioned to not bother the data team.

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Mironov Consulting

JULY 28, 2022

Apologizing in advance: I’m intentionally exaggerating the differences between two broad corporate groups: wildly oversimplified roles and attitudes and reward systems.  Each Enterprise Sales and Solutions Teams… Are paid/rewarded/promoted for working with individual prospects or customers one at a time.  Sales

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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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The Product Coalition

MARCH 22, 2021

These fields include web design, mobile app development, SaaS, and even B2B products. With a relatively small team based in Omsk, southwestern Siberia, Purrweb has compiled an impressive portfolio. Work & Co has gained the trust of tech giants, so you can trust in their skill. It is proven to be an effective system.

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Imaginary Cloud - Design

JULY 2, 2020

It is not that those books are bad. In a time when there was very little acknowledgment about the importance and the role of design, when design was mainly done by developers and with very little user awareness. Summing it up: Sprint describes how to include design in your product development. little about product design.

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Mironov Consulting

APRIL 15, 2023

On either side, it’s easy to assume bad intent or have this get personal.  Almost  (Hint: replacing everyone on those teams doesn’t seem to fix the problem.)  But if we see this as a systemic problem, it can be less about individuals.  More What Does That Have To Do With Chocolate Cake?

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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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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. What Outsourcing Really is: Types and Opportunities When we say “outsourcing”, what we often mean is different levels of involvement, commitment, technical expertise, and responsibility.

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The Product Coalition

JANUARY 21, 2020

In this article I will discuss the unique nature of AI-based products and its influence on the development process and the usability. What should be the KPIs for the data scientists’ teams? The decision directs our data teams what to focus on to generate such an experience. I will also present how to bridge those inherent gaps.

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Mironov Consulting

JUNE 28, 2018

So a prospect might agree that “if your tech support chatbot will really cut our live support calls by 25%, I’ll buy it,” but there’s probably a pilot production phase where we have to demonstrate effectiveness. Long Sales Cycles, Weak Attribution, Few Data Points. Our stuff has to work before much money flows.

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Userpilot

JULY 9, 2021

Continuous Discovery Habits by Teresa Torres teaches you how to set up a continuous discovery system within your organization with actionable exercises. Product Mastery by Geoff Watts teaches you how to be a successful product owner within agile software development practices with the use of case studies. Definition of user onboarding.

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nulab

JANUARY 7, 2022

In this article, we’re going to walk you through the definition of root cause corrective action, plus give you tips on how to use it. According to Deming’s philosophy, the way to get rid of systemic issues is by addressing the root causes instead of only treating the symptoms. What is a Root Cause Analysis?

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Intercom, Inc.

JULY 19, 2018

After coaching 100+ tech leads, managers, directors, VPs, and CTOs, Jean and Edmond are distilling their most valuable lessons into workshops and online courses. Engineers inherently know that when tech debt piles up, you need to invest in fixing it. Jean: Especially with engineering teams. All these roles change very quickly.

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Andrew Chen

OCTOBER 17, 2017

Some of the biggest tech successes ever – eBay, Airbnb, Alibaba, Uber – are marketplaces worth tens of billions of dollars each. Marketplace companies often end up employing teams of “launchers,” a specialized ops role focused on cracking new cities. Marketplaces are easily underestimated.

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