The Product Guy

JANUARY 7, 2025

An in-depth review revealed that misaligned goals between IT and customer service teams, coupled with outdated processes, were the primary issues. By asking, What systemic issues are contributing to this problem? Instead of feeling defeated by inconsistent exercise habits, ask, Whats preventing me from staying active?

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The Product Guy

OCTOBER 1, 2018

All of this while guiding the development team, maintaining constant communication with stakeholders and potential customers, and optimizing for the product’s ultimate impact on its users. Having a clear understanding of the reasoning behind building a product can go a long way towards smoothing the development process. Exploration.

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Mind the Product

MAY 2, 2019

We asked the children to review the cards to familiarize themselves with the images. As a result, we’ve been able to take these learnings and think of creative ways to apply those enjoyable elements of baseball in the game that we’re developing now. In one instance, we ask a child to do the exercise. Key Take-aways.

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The Product Guy

JUNE 25, 2018

These exercises with your report on handling situations and identifying phrasing that will be well-received will pay large dividends in the development of your report and save you time in the long run. One example is business development calling in a junior product manager for a client call. We’ve all been there.

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Product Innovation Educators

AUGUST 5, 2024

Mentoring is crucial for developing future leaders and sustaining a strong organizational culture. To excel in this leadership role, focus on these three key areas: Know: Develop a comprehensive understanding of your product, market, and team dynamics. Their primary competitor assigned 100 people to develop a next-generation product.

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UX Planet

JANUARY 7, 2024

DESIGN WORKBOOKS How to put design theory into practice in an efficient way My favorite UX design workbooks: develop your skills by solving exercises Learning design theory is a good step towards becoming a better designer, but it is also important to put the things you’ve learned into practice.

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Product Innovation Educators

JULY 17, 2023

Show the customer something in the first three weeks of development and repeat every four weeks. ” The team got into iterative development or Agile Stage Gate, and it worked very well. [17:46] Maybe it is time for a tough re-review of the entire set of projects to kill some of them to benefit the whole portfolio.

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Intercom, Inc.

OCTOBER 9, 2019

But the reason it resonated so much with readers was its powerful core finding – our brain has two very distinct modes, or systems, of thought: System 1 (fast, automatic, and impulsive) and System 2 (slow, conscious, and deliberative). Rule 1: Know when to lean on your fast System 1 reactions. Why does it matter?

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Intercom, Inc.

MARCH 3, 2020

We’re confident this won’t help people game our system, but it will give you the best chance to show us your strengths. For example, we might really admire your visual design work, but we’ll also want to see how you influence product strategy, define the problem, understand the system, collaborate with others, and more.

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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. . How does work flow through the team/system? . How to design a kanban system that allows us to visualize and manage the work? Design kanban systems .

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Alchemer Mobile

MARCH 26, 2021

We also recommend checking out our 2021 Mobile App Engagement Report as we break down more engagement and experience-focused stats by category such as retention, loyalty, ratings and reviews, shifted sentiment, in-app survey responses, and more. Stop talking about customer-centricity; turn it into action.

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The Product Coalition

SEPTEMBER 7, 2024

This enduring appeal is partly due to the nostalgia of Pokémon and the “catch ’em all” mentality (which deserves its own discussion), but also because of some clever mechanisms built into the game. In this system, missing a day isn’t seen as a catastrophic failure. What weird twisted version of the 90’s was I living in?

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Mind the Product

SEPTEMBER 29, 2017

In this incredible talk from Mind the Product London 2017, Jake Knapp shared how he developed the Design Sprint, and how to do them well. After an idea generation exercise he and the team designed a new look for the Encarta product – which better showcased the quality of their product. The Genesis.

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The Product Coalition

JULY 20, 2022

The factories are leaving due to lack of educated workforce. I recommend this game as an exercise to all PMs that have already received a feedback about being control freaks. Engaging storytelling: Any RPG system (tabletop) RPG (Rolle Playing Game) is probably the forefather of modern tabletop gaming.

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The Product Coalition

JUNE 26, 2023

A Five-Step Methodology to Incorporate Generative AI into Business Strategy Developers, technologists, and innovators across enterprises are already using the new tools to boost their individual productivity at work and at home. This exercise will help leaders visualize where generative AI can most effectively implement within their function.

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UX Planet

JANUARY 22, 2025

This is not just a design exercise; its the essence of building long-term trust, loyalty and engagement. Custom development ensures every feature aligns with the brands values and customer expectations. Its a holistic system that weaves together strategy, design, functionality and authenticity.

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Modus Create

MARCH 3, 2021

Three Modus engineers recently wrote a book about Docker and security best practices, Docker for Developers , published by Packt Publishing. Docker for Developers is perhaps the most comprehensive source of information on all things Docker and a wide range of technologies associated with Docker and deployment in the cloud.

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Userpilot

MAY 17, 2025

Screenshots must preview real value, the description must hit the problem you solve, and early reviews should reinforce trust. At this stage, delighted users can refer other people and give reviews about your app. The exercises adapt to my past scores, so the challenges stay hard enough to feel like leveling up.

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Sachin Rekhi

FEBRUARY 16, 2020

For example, here is a video from 2016 that showcases the vision for SpaceX's Interplanetary Transport System which aims to bring the first manned crew to Mars. Inevitably I still re-create the high-level roadmap in presentations for All Hands meetings, exec reviews, and sometimes even customers. Design: Product Roadmap.

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Tyner Blain

MARCH 20, 2025

Just as you change collaboration patterns through changing how you develop roadmaps, you change the conversation with leaders through how you orient towards supporting them. ” It is through the exploration of possible solution approaches that we truly develop an understanding of the problem. This is clearly insane.

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ProductPlan

MARCH 18, 2022

For this reason, product teams need to develop a process for idea management. But grappling with the influx of ideas and instituting a system to handle them is essential because they sometimes have much to offer, even if it’s not right at the moment. Step 3: Reviewed. But coming up with ideas is the easy part.

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Mind the Product

JUNE 18, 2018

The State of Product is an exercise in strategy, it’s an opportunity to take stock of where your product is, where it fits within the wider market, and where it should go. It also stretches product managers to consider their impact on the wider business, by asking them to review their products’ margins and revenue generating impact.

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Mironov Consulting

MARCH 26, 2022

 We can get an outside development team to do exactly what's needed." " Across the aisle on the development side, I hear: "Just last week, the exec team confirmed our top 3 initiatives for the quarter.  We've " "Engineering has 18 unfilled developer position.  We

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Sachin Rekhi

JUNE 16, 2019

Going through OKR exercises helps you collectively align on what those ultimate metrics that really matter for the company should be. But then they'd develop specific ways to evaluate each of those skills as well as drills to improve upon any skills requiring improvement. And this takes a lifetime of experience to hone and develop.

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The Product Coalition

JANUARY 5, 2021

A good starting point would be working with the “Manifesto of Agile Software Development,” particularly ensuring that stakeholders understand that adapting to change over following a plan is paramount for the organization’s future success. A new feature is overdue and has been drastically underestimated due to unexpected technical debt.

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Intercom, Inc.

JULY 23, 2020

When most people think of product development, they imagine an in-person experience. Daniel: I definitely bring that angle to the table, and the way I try to think about that when I’m researching a company is through a process called due diligence. One is the vision and exploration part of great product development.

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Nulab

MAY 25, 2022

The biggest disadvantages of information silos are wasted time and effort, either due to constant backtracking or duplication of work. When team members have to continually solve the same problems or deal with inconsistent information, they develop feelings of isolation and frustration — two things that are terrible for morale.

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The Product Coalition

MARCH 29, 2018

This exercise and the decisions you make to remedy any problems will help your teams, customers and company become more successful. The success criteria are captured in salesforce (or whatever system) to provide transparency within your organization. Others never had UX rigor in the product development. Where do they disagree?

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ProductPlan

JUNE 1, 2023

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. No software developer wakes up in the morning excited to write a bunch of code that will be re-written a few sprints later.

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The Product Coalition

JULY 11, 2023

From traditional banking to decentralized revolution For decades, traditional banks have held the reins of our financial systems. Blockchain, often referred to as the “digital ledger,” is a transparent and immutable system that records and verifies transactions across multiple computers.

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The Product Coalition

DECEMBER 10, 2019

Long story short, we decided to learn more about the way software development teams approach the bug reporting process. For that exercise we’ve taken a random sample of 3000 bug recordings uploaded to our database in the last 2 months. Is there even such a thing as a standard working day in software development circles?

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Userpilot

JULY 23, 2024

The RICE framework evaluates features by weighing their Reach, Impact, and Confidence against the Effort required for development. The Product Tree is a visualization tool that presents the hierarchy of features, from core systems to future enhancements. Weighted scoring system template.

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UX Studio

SEPTEMBER 20, 2018

A gamified language learning application, Xeropan helps people learn English with fun exercises such as interactive videos, chatbot conversations and weekly lessons. I worked closely together with Bence (UX researcher and colleague), as well as Xeropan’s CEO and developers. Increase in churn rate: defining the problem . The problem.

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Arkenea

DECEMBER 15, 2024

This article pinpoints all the key aspects developers need to know to build a diet and nutrition app. A lot of people are turning towards online fitness classes due to the availability of stable network connections, thereby driving the diet and nutrition app market growth. It also offers points for completing the workout.

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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. So what are the blind spots that are rampant in corporate security systems? How does that feel?

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Mironov Consulting

FEBRUARY 28, 2024

  So the ratio of wants/needs/demands/ couldas/shouldas to actual development capacity is often 20x-50x.   They are coming off customer calls, strategy sessions, renewal discussions, marketing automation planning sessions, compliance reviews, and industry analyst briefings that highlight improvements that must be made. 

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ProductPlan

APRIL 16, 2019

While the particulars vary from organization, a typical definition of done consists of a checklist containing items such as: Code is peer reviewed. Different companies and development groups will come up with their own variant, but they all tack back to the same ideal: the code does what it’s supposed to and doesn’t break anything else.

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