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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Johanna Rothman

MARCH 5, 2020

This series is about helping a team create a less brittle environment—more resilience. Neither did the team. In this case, the project team had no automated tests. The team called the product people “product owners.” Neither did the developers. These developers had no built-in feedback mechanisms.

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BrainMates

NOVEMBER 1, 2021

Developing and launching a product only to have it fail is the complete antithesis of the “Fail Fast” innovation motto. You have just invested 1000s of work hours and millions of dollars in developing & launching this product. Most companies are in reality reviewing and failing several orders of magnitude less ideas than this.

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People-First Product Leadership

JULY 17, 2023

As I shared in the prior newsletter , being a product person means that by definition you're living in a world where no one knows the right answer yet because if somebody did, they would've already built it. To ensure your team’s success, think beyond your own team.

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Roman Pichler

FEBRUARY 11, 2020

Different people have suggested different definitions for the term software platform. If the teams developing the different apps all created their own user-interface layers, there would be considerable code duplication, added development costs, and increased development time. Treat the Platform as a Product.

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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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The Product Coalition

MARCH 11, 2020

TL; DR: Development Team Anti-Patterns After covering the Scrum Master and the Product Owner, this article addresses Development Team anti-patterns, covering all Scrum Events as well as the Product Backlog artifact. Only members of the Development Team create the Increment. Source : Scrum Guide 2017.

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The Product Coalition

OCTOBER 15, 2019

Often people stumble into the Product Management career without any Technology background. I never had to deal with developers on a day to day basis?—?the the only ‘Technical’ person I spoke to was my content Producer. I had no idea what I was doing and how I could lead a dev team. Get to know your Tech Lead well.

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The Product Guy

MAY 7, 2020

Hence it is critical that one is aware of the best practises of the role and develops his own philosophy which results into maximum positive leverage for the organization. As I strive towards becoming a product leader, I wanted to understand the best practises in product management and in the process develop my own product philosophy. .

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Roman Pichler

APRIL 5, 2022

Contrast this with a sprint review meeting , which might help you determine if users can easily sign up for the product. But for sprint review meetings , you may also want to invite (selected) users and customers to collect their feedback. Discuss development progress and user feedback on the latest product increments.

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Userpilot

NOVEMBER 21, 2023

If so, you should definitely watch the talk that Jason Knight , a product consultant and advisor, gave at this year’s Product Drive hosted by Userpilot. TL;DR Product managers often don’t get the due recognition for their work and their role is often marginalized by frustrated leadership or other teams. Let’s dive in!

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The Product Coalition

JANUARY 28, 2021

Part 1 Product Bugs are one of the most common and accepted parts of building tech products. Some people want to believe that they won’t happen or don’t want to talk about them so that they don’t risk being seen as bad at their job. I’ve never seen a roadmap naming the bugs a team wants to introduce?—?but

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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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PMLesson's Ace the PM Interview

JULY 6, 2020

Today, there's a rather substantial talent gap in the tech industry. As the 21st century continues to roll on, an increased need for tech and computing professionals will continue to grow, widening the tech talent gap even further. So this begs the question: is Lambda School worth the money, in the end?

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The Product Coalition

OCTOBER 20, 2020

It’s understandable that most of us don’t make time for personal development. Who wants to spend time after a hard day of work learning and developing when they could be kicking back with a beer and watching The Crown? A few months ago, I introduced a concept I have developed called the PM, or Product, Quadrants.

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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

OCTOBER 30, 2023

It was another bad start to what seemed like Groundhog Day. “I An outcome-oriented approach helps teams remain focused on the bigger picture, ensures efforts go toward delivering meaningful value to customers, and gives them the freedom to figure out the best way instead of having ‘the way’ committed well before discovery.

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Mixpanel

MARCH 3, 2022

Data has fundamentally changed how we design and develop products, but there’s a difference between simply reacting to data points and applying the level of analytic rigor needed to yield meaningful results. There’s an enormous amount of ambiguity when it comes to developing products. Here’s how. The wins are not synonymous.

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Intercom, Inc.

AUGUST 18, 2022

Sarah Dayan is a staff engineer at Algolia , a “Search-as-a-Service” platform that helps developers build index and search capabilities into their own platforms through an API, and the host of two tech podcasts: Developer Experience and Entre Devs. How would she provide the right technical direction for the company?

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The Product Coalition

NOVEMBER 26, 2019

QA specialists face more and more challenges during the work: the volume of tests rises while technologies dynamically change. To optimize the workflow and keep up with the changing technologies, they need to apply completely new methods, such as testing automation and go deeper into programming.

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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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Mironov Consulting

JUNE 30, 2017

I’ve noticed a frequent executive-level misalignment of expectations across a range of software/tech companies, particularly in B2B/Enterprise companies and where Sales/Marketing is geographically far away from Engineering/Product Management. Let’s call it the software development deli counter problem. And they’re right.

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The Product Coalition

JANUARY 26, 2022

Table of Contents The Story Begins in Iowa ; Joining the Family Business ; Creating the Solution ; Making the Product ; Technical Challenges ; Moving To the Market ; Founder Tips ; Conclusion. Chris’s team worked for a logistics service that tracked the ocean containers coming in and out of the ports.

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Mironov Consulting

JULY 28, 2022

Enterprise Sales and Solutions Teams… Are paid/rewarded/promoted for working with individual prospects or customers one at a time.  Sales  Sales teams get quota relief from closing individual deals, not market segments.  Integration  Commitments from Product/Development are assumed to be on schedule.  Custom

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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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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. Here are some ways I vet product management candidates to weed out poor fits and spot the diamonds in the rough. Stage 1: Reviewing the applications. Are they team players?

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UX Planet

FEBRUARY 19, 2024

Firstly, this is definitely what a recruiter is going to read and evaluate first as a potential indicator to whether they should hire you. A bad first impression could ultimately hurt your chances of landing a dream job. People see selling as a bad word but it ultimately makes life easier if you know how to do it.

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The Product Coalition

DECEMBER 14, 2019

However, in time, this procedure has become a widespread methodology in technology product development too. Code and Fix (often known as Cowboy coding ) is considered the simplest product development process and is the default method for prototyping software-oriented technology solutions.

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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.)  That each week they leave a fresh gift (💩) for the tech side to clean up – displacing whatever was planned.  But

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nulab

MARCH 11, 2020

And while it definitely has a place, it shouldn’t be your guiding light. You can also collect customer feedback via reviews, surveys, interviews, or focus groups. As part of this, you should also review your suppliers and distributors (if applicable), as well as the tools and software you use. Suss out the competition.

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ProductPlan

APRIL 9, 2019

A lack of trust from developers and engineers creates endless second-guessing, challenges and sometimes even a refusal to follow through on requests, which becomes a huge timesuck and morale destroyer. If the executive team doesn’t have faith in product management, ideas are likely to be ignored, plans overruled and cachet denied.

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The Product Coalition

JULY 6, 2022

Fifteen years ago Ben Horowitz published his now famous memo, “G ood Product Manager/Bad Product Manager ” in which he posits that “A good product manager is the CEO of the product”. A bad CEO takes the credit and passes on the blame. A bad CEO assumes they have the best idea in the room.

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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. Here are some ways I vet product management candidates to weed out poor fits and spot the diamonds in the rough. Stage 1: Reviewing the applications. Are they team players?

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The Product Coalition

APRIL 1, 2023

A brilliant guy, with many years of tech leadership experience, but none in product management. I used to manage large development teams — all smart and independent people — but I hadn’t managed product managers before. And how can you let someone from your team lead parts of the strategy which you own yourself?

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The Product Coalition

JULY 2, 2022

When I participated in the live discussions about the same topics, I realized that some of the gaps are due to perspective: So many of the companies I work with (either the few that I am personally consulting to, or among the CPO Bootcamp participants) are startups or scaleups, and only a small number are larger corporations.

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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

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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