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Technical Review: A Trusted Look Under the Hood

TechEmpower - Product Management

Most innovators don’t have a technical background, so it’s hard to evaluate the truth of the situation. We hear them explain that their current software development is expensive, deliveries are rarely on time, and random bugs appear. And unless they have a tech background, they can’t look under the hood themselves.

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Tech Spikes: Why, What, When and How

The Product Coalition

Tech Spikes are a useful activity for your product development team to perform when you need to explore how you are going to solve a challenging problem. They help you step outside the current flow of development to increase your understanding and reduce uncertainty. This work on the actual solution?—?usually

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User Documentation: The Ultimate Guide for Product Managers

Userpilot

Knowledge is power and user documentation is necessary for building it. But great documentation doesn’t happen by accident. This comprehensive guide will enable proactive product managers to figure out exactly how to craft documentation that will help users solve their problems and delight them. What is user documentation?

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Product Ops: Lessening the Need for Product Requirements Documents

ProductPlan

Implementing product ops at your company will reduce your team’s need to produce clunky, one-way communication vehicles like the product requirements document (PRD). the product requirements document, and why would you ever want one? A product requirements document describes every capability needed for a product or feature release.

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Successful Roadmaps Avoid One Thing: Drift

The Product Coalition

Your product is heading in a direction divergent from the direction documented in the roadmap. The same is true for your roadmap — it takes more than diligence. As a matter of practice, review your vision and product strategy at the same time as you review your roadmap. Have a plan for documentation.

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Product Breaking Point To Breakthrough: How To Drive Successful Product Reviews

The Product Coalition

I enjoyed in-person meetings, especially in-person product review meetings. Early in the pandemic, this led me to resent virtual meetings, especially virtual product review meetings. This particular product review meeting was a breaking point. I struggled to figure out how to run the product review meeting effectively.

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A Deep Dive into the Software Development Life Cycle (SDLC)

The Product Coalition

The Software Development Life Cycle provides a practical framework you can apply to your product and improve your processes. With the support of the SDLC, You can track and control your calendar, and increase productivity and speed of development. It helps us meet customers’ demands, needs, and expectations.