Mind the Product

DECEMBER 18, 2019

So, it was natural that we should want to develop a talent growth plan for our people. Each month we send out an NPS survey to assess whether the company is being a great place to work, but a few months ago I also sent Google’s manager feedback survey to my team of 10 product managers. Team execution and development.

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Usersnap

NOVEMBER 6, 2020

Similarly, 88% of users don’t return to a website after bad user experience. So what’s a developer to do? Developers need to tap into the world of UX design to offer seamless experiences that keep the user loyal to their brand. What does UX have to do with software development, anyway? Don’t be that developer.

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Johanna Rothman

NOVEMBER 30, 2020

Steve, a software development manager, thought John was a “10x” developer. Was I willing to support and coach the other people in Steve's group to all become “10x” developers? Was I willing to support and coach the other people in Steve's group to all become “10x” developers?

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Alchemer Mobile

DECEMBER 7, 2022

In the case of software, the dilemma becomes increasingly difficult as most enterprise companies have the resources and talent in-house to build the software. By integrating third party software, you’re neither contaminating your app nor admitting that the software solves a problem you couldn’t solve with your own code.

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Alchemer Mobile

DECEMBER 7, 2022

Juggling your company’s immediate needs with long-term goals is always tricky, but when it comes to purchasing a tool to make your team’s lives easier, managers tasked with the decision to build or buy often struggle in what seems to be a comparison of apples to oranges. Total cost of ownership: How much will the software cost to buy?

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Userpilot

JUNE 27, 2022

What is developer marketing, and what is the point of it? As the name suggests, developer marketing is marketing to developers. In short, developer marketing is more than just capturing the attention of software developers and getting them to use your product. What is developer marketing?

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Userpilot

APRIL 30, 2024

In many ways, he has shaped how successful products are built and how teams can be organized to work toward excellence. In this role, he drove the development of products that took eBay’s global e-commerce platform to new levels of success. Marty Cagan is a popular name in the product management world. Who is Marty Cagan?

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PMLesson's Ace the PM Interview

FEBRUARY 25, 2022

Creating a concise, specific, and relevant front end developer resume is key to landing your next job in tech. For front-end developers, it is important to craft your resume in a way that highlights your skills, experience and programming language knowledge. We created this guide for both junior and senior front-end developers.

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The Product Coalition

DECEMBER 27, 2023

Building effective teams with people from different disciplines can be challenging due to various circumstances. Teams with multiple functions are instrumental towards staying competitive and succeed. Conversely, to rely solely on a single-function team for brainstorming is a recipe for failure.

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The Product Coalition

JANUARY 27, 2022

At the beginning of any software development project, managers think of which methodology is between waterfall and agile. It’s essential to follow clearly defined processes or software development life cycle (SDLC) to ensure software development quality. Waterfall and agile: A smart method or bad solution?

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The Product Coalition

MARCH 27, 2019

Software development is rarely linear. If the team is unable to successfully manage those processes, it could cause chaos during development, and the customer will face sharp increase in development time and poor quality of work. This project management framework is founded on clear and simple principles?—?the

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Userpilot

DECEMBER 6, 2022

‘Feature factory’ is not exactly a positive term, especially if you’re aspiring to be a product-led SaaS product management team. John Cutler first used the term to describe such companies because their software development processes resemble factory assembly lines. What is a feature factory?

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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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Split

MARCH 29, 2024

A production environment in software development is the final stage where applications meet end-users. This environment plays a pivotal role in delivering new features, shaping the user experience, and driving the success of any software product. This gives clarity on this vital aspect of software development.

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Sachin Rekhi

MAY 18, 2022

I love talking to Amazon employees about how the writing culture is interwoven into their product development process and the pros and cons of it. I wanted to share what I learned from the book for those evaluating whether to bring a writing culture to their own product teams. Get used to it."

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The Product Coalition

MAY 19, 2022

The WMS integrates with other systems (for example, enterprise resource planning software), runs in the cloud (software as a service) or on-premise (a logistics company maintains the platforms itself). The type of application is negotiated with a logistics software development company before the start of the project.

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Mind the Product

FEBRUARY 12, 2020

It’s also essential to creating a team where great people want to work. In a perfect product development world, communications are seamless, specifications are clear, and product and engineering teams work together without friction. These are team goals that get shared across the company. Share Leadership and Credit.

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Atlassian

FEBRUARY 3, 2022

Subscribe to Work Life Get stories about tech and teams in your inbox Subscribe. In 1988, Hewlett Packard (HP) conducted an internal review of their software development processes and set a target to improve their code quality tenfold. To meet this ambitious goal, they tried a number of approaches. Your checklist may include: .

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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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Modus Create

JUNE 18, 2019

But my employer had just paid for me to go through the training, and I was expected to help improve their development processes. That’s when it got bad. It got so bad that the CEO outlawed Agile altogether. We were so rigorous about following the rules that we completely missed the spirit of agile software development.

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The Product Coalition

OCTOBER 5, 2020

To unburden their teams, companies like Facebook, Google, and others have turned to product operations, whose job is to help product teams achieve better outcomes. However, product operations as a function is very much in its infancy, and so few resources exist about the role. What Is Product Operations? Key Tasks Goal planning.

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The Secret PM Handbook

MAY 12, 2017

Product managers tell me – and the people managing product managers tell me – that one of their biggest challenges is communicating with the development team. People complain about: Developers being poorly motivated, or having a bad attitude about what you want them to build. Or as we think we are. and “What?”

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The Secret PM Handbook

MAY 12, 2017

Product managers tell me – and the people managing product managers tell me – that one of their biggest challenges is communicating with the development team. People complain about: Developers being poorly motivated, or having a bad attitude about what you want them to build. Or as we think we are. and “What?”

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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. When setting up a new team, the person responsible for the technical implementation?—?the Working with a Software Vendor Outsourcing to a vendor means hiring a team for a specific task.

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Userpilot

APRIL 6, 2023

Developing and releasing sophisticated products with all the bells and whistles imaginable might seem like a great idea. After all, you want your newly released software to be as good as it gets when it’s finally launched, right? Poor prioritization and external pressure are also common causes. Book the demo!

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The Product Coalition

JUNE 24, 2022

As a Product Manager, at any given time you will be carrying on simultaneous conversations with developers, designers, your product team, data analysts, QA engineers, marketing, sales, possibly your executive team, client success, and of course, your users. You don’t like talking with your users Another biggie.

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CardBoard

SEPTEMBER 14, 2023

First things first, we need to create a model of our software development process. Here are some variables you might want to include in your model: Project Size: This could be the number of features you need to develop, the lines of code, or any other measure that represents the size of your project.

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The Product Coalition

JUNE 25, 2019

Do co-located teams truly perform better? But having experienced both poorly performing, co-located teams as well as high performing distributed teams, I wanted to take a closer look at some of the research as well as experiences of others. The team members are a critical part of the overall success of distributed teams.

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The Product Coalition

OCTOBER 15, 2019

I never had to deal with developers on a day to day basis?—?the However, I was thrown into the deep end again when I left the comfort of marketing and joined the tech team at Hotelclub where I managed a team of developers. I had no idea what I was doing and how I could lead a dev team. As a tip?—?always

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Intercom, Inc.

JANUARY 12, 2021

While that doesn’t sound very bad, according to Corey Quinn, the world’s most notorious Cloud Economist, it goes against best practices or “sensible defaults” and is “ the worst practice to be avoided by default.” But over time, we noticed that teams hated working on these services.

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The Product HQ

FEBRUARY 1, 2023

They work with leaders and their own teams across organizations. TPMs are responsible for communicating complex technical ideas to both technical and non-technical team members. As a technical program manager, you communicate with product managers, leadership teams, and external vendors.

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The Product HQ

MAY 10, 2024

Since product development is such a lucrative field, this is a crucial role for the company. This includes the project management of all of the activities done in product conceptualization, design, development, and marketing. Since the team is small, you will have to manage the technical aspects of product development.

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The Product Coalition

JANUARY 26, 2022

Chris’s team worked for a logistics service that tracked the ocean containers coming in and out of the ports. Their team set up the infrastructure and prepared the environment waiting for prospective accounts, which never came. Making the Product Choosing a Vendor Building business-class software demands a lot of time and resources.

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Modus Create

JANUARY 26, 2021

Adopting Agile sounds as simple as taking the SCRUM master certification tests and pushing them down the framework to a team of developers. Therefore, we went to sleep on a Friday and next Monday we were now an “Agile” team. What the middle management teams did to adopt such change was not an executive’s concern.

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The Product Coalition

DECEMBER 29, 2020

Corporations started re-structuring so that teams were self-managing, and were given more autonomy and ownership. This is when companies started applying consumer PM principles to software PM. There was a gap between development and tech which needed to be filled. Because we’ve launched “ Ship It ” as a free resource.

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Userpilot

OCTOBER 27, 2022

Once you start developing a feature, you should also test it regularly. The downside of iterative testing is that it requires additional resources and makes it difficult to estimate the release date. Next, use the right tool to collect the right information and use the data to inform new developments.

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User Testing Product Research Feedback Software Testing 96

Userpilot

MARCH 8, 2022

User behavior analytics helps you flag underperforming features and modify onboarding experiences to improve feature discovery. 51% of users won’t return to a company if they’ve had bad experiences with it. This will help you find areas of poor user experience. What is user analytics in SaaS? 2 – Hotjar.

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