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Technical Review: A Trusted Look Under the Hood

TechEmpower - Product Management

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.

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Successful Roadmaps Avoid One Thing: Drift

The Product Coalition

Product managers and their teams start with enthusiasm, hit the ground running, and create a solid roadmap. But as time passes, they’re hit with fire drills, ongoing discovery, reprioritization — the works. Our product was evolving rapidly and haphazardly. The same is true for your roadmap — it takes more than diligence.

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Top 5 Observational Research Best Practices

BrainMates

Observation is an important part of mixed methods user research. Observational research is particularly useful during the early phase of product or feature discovery, to uncover the pain points of existing solutions and to discover opportunities worth exploring further to serve unmet needs. A curious discovery was made.

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Why There’s No Single “Right” Way to Do Discovery: Part 1

Product Talk

A few months ago, fellow Product Talk coach Hope Gurion and I sat down to discuss why there’s no single right way to do discovery. Meet your co-presenters, product discovery coaches Teresa Torres and Hope Gurion. We are both product discovery coaches with Product Talk. Thank you so much.

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The Importance of Being Transaction-Ready: Navigating Seed and Series A Stage Rounds for Venture Capital Funding

DevelopmentCorporate

Venture capital funding, particularly at the Seed and Series A stages, is essential for the growth and development of startups. These early rounds help startups establish and scale their operations by providing capital for market research, product development, and team expansion.

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How Our Cross-Functional Teams Decide What to Build at Whispir

The Product Coalition

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.

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Hiring a UX designer won’t magically solve your product problems & other UX misconceptions debunked

Modus Create

You might have created the first version of your product very quickly, and, at that time, you might not have been concerned with how it looked; you just wanted it to work. Your pride over your initial launch has faded, and you might wonder how your product got so messy. Not so fast. Not so fast.