Product Talk

APRIL 16, 2025

But then, one day, I found myself reading Ask Your Developer by Jeff Lawson and I realized I was the one making the mistake. Dont Ask Humans to Do Tasks That Should Be Automated If you arent familiar with Ask Your Developer, its a great read. Its written to help non-engineers understand the value of software engineering.

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Product Talk

APRIL 9, 2025

Today, Ill be covering the most common usability issues that arise when developers start working with a new API. If we can make it as easy as possible for developers to adopt and get value from our API products, we can often acquire a customer for life. Sometimes its due to documentation simply not being a priority.

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The Product Coalition

MAY 18, 2022

Continuous improvement is a continual process to improve components of enterprise software?—?processes, Regardless of today’s software development aspect, increasing demand for new features in the products makes competitive advantage higher than ever. Changes can be large or small, which depends on the software projects.

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Arkenea

APRIL 10, 2025

In a fastmoving digital economy, many organizations leverage outsourced software product development to accelerate innovation, control costs, and tap into global expertise. Rather than building and maintaining a large inhouse team, businesses partner with specialized vendors to handle design, development, testing, and deployment.

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The Product Coalition

AUGUST 28, 2023

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.

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Product Talk

FEBRUARY 2, 2022

This is only natural: Through years of bad habits, many of us have shown engineers that we only value them for the code they can write. The product trio did a few brainstorming sessions, picked a few things they wanted to develop further, and story mapped different solution paths. Tweet This. Click the image to see a larger version.

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Product Talk

MAY 14, 2025

We discussed the most common challenges developers face when starting with a new API. Its more common for developers to decide what to build. This story stands out because as a PM, Chi used discovery tactics like customer interviewing and story mapping to shape the development of an API.

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Sachin Rekhi

APRIL 5, 2020

One practice that both companies established was weekly executive-level metrics reviews. SurveyMonkey, on the other hand, had a single meeting called ACER, which stood for acquisition, conversion, engagement, retention, where they covered these funnels across all A/B tests happening in the company. Why metrics reviews matter.

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The Product Coalition

NOVEMBER 3, 2020

The conflict between launching new features versus improving the code quality is real and never ending. And sometime during the sprint, the development team realizes that if we want to implement it the correct way - ensuring engineering best practices, it will overspill and is not feasible to complete in the earlier planned timelines.’

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Userpilot

DECEMBER 18, 2024

Unfortunately, the research backs this up, with a staggering 90% of users reporting that they stopped using an app due to poor performance. UX analysis benefits product managers by providing data-driven insights to guide product development decisions and prioritize features. Basically, anything that ruins the user experience.

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The Product Guy

AUGUST 30, 2017

The team had been working for almost a year and had a huge amount of code under their belts. But just because it was a lot of code doesn’t mean it worked. In fact, our tests regularly failed. As we were getting closer to the end of the year, my senior vice president called me in, to review our progress against our goals.

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Mironov Consulting

OCTOBER 19, 2022

1] Dedicated Bug Fixing Teams Sometimes there’s a push to create development teams specifically to close out bugs and defects, especially after frequent outages or to address long-term system neglect.  This " Code creators own quality.*  Here’s my thinking. [1]  It’s turtles all the way down.  So

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The Product Guy

AUGUST 15, 2019

A reactive PM will set up/maintain all the necessary processes, ensure that product development is flowing along at a good pace, and respond to bugs/requests as they come along. They will challenge themselves and the team to work in smarter ways, ask more questions, and think about code improvement.

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The Product Coalition

FEBRUARY 29, 2024

Source In the expansive universe of software development, few platforms have wielded as much influence and innovation as GitHub. The Origin: A Fun Weekend In 2008 The GitHub saga commenced in 2008 when three men envisioned a platform that would democratize software development and foster collaboration on a global scale.

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UX Planet

NOVEMBER 4, 2024

Photo by UX Indonesia This ‘complete’ guide to usability testing follows an overview in my UX research methods playbook articles. Introduction If you’re responsible in some way for a digital product or system, you should be doing usability testing — whatever your sector, industry or role. Ok, that’s great for UX theory nerds.

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Mind the Product

FEBRUARY 13, 2020

It’s said that more than two-thirds of software projects fail to deliver expected results. Here’s how they used smoke tests to explore a new opportunity. Core team: Product Manager, Product Designer, and a Full-stack Developer (click to enlarge). Each of these ideas was at a different stage of development.

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Lenny Rachitsky

JANUARY 14, 2025

Core 4 pulls everything they’ve learned from working with thousands of teams into a single unified developer productivity framework. Laura Tacho is the CTO at DX , has taught over 1,000 tech leaders through her course on developer productivity metrics , and on the side is an executive coach for engineering leaders.

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The Product Guy

JULY 30, 2020

PMs often own the communication process around a product life cycle and need to make sure to have all relevant people in the loop of their communications especially in the product development process which requires approvals from the respective stakeholders. These are decision makers.

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The Product Guy

JUNE 20, 2019

When I joined Wetu in 2014, I was the 7th employee, we had just over 100 companies using our software, we were exclusively available in Africa, and the product was already 5 years old. Since then we have grown to over 100 employees, we have more than 800 companies using our software, and we have expanded globally.

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Userpilot

OCTOBER 31, 2024

Which product feedback software should you choose for your SaaS? In this round-up, I cover 21 of the best product feedback software solutions. In this round-up, I cover 21 of the best product feedback software solutions. Social listening tools : Software for monitoring online conversations, brand mentions, and trends.

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The Product Guy

APRIL 9, 2019

In my company, we review a living document with our management chain on a quarterly basis to align business direction for the short-term (immediate one to two quarters) to the long-term (two to five years). The idea is to treat the strategy as a prototype that will undergo many iterations and testing. Testing the Proto-Strategy.

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Roman Pichler

MAY 3, 2023

Listen to the audio version of this article: [link] Make Time to Keep up with Technology Trends As new technologies come and go, it’s important for you—the person in charge of the product—to stay on top of the developments. You talk to the development team, and the team members suggest that machine learning is likely to be the right solution.

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Roman Pichler

SEPTEMBER 11, 2023

This includes a sound understanding of the market, the user and customer needs, and the competition as well as solid product management skills such as the ability to develop an effective product strategy and an actionable product roadmap (as I explain in more detail in the article The T-Shaped Product Professional ).

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Product Management Unpacked

NOVEMBER 2, 2021

CMU Master of Science in Product Management program student Erick Valencia landed a PM experience of a lifetime as part of a student team developing a driverless race car system to race in the Indy Autonomous Challenge. Mid-summer test. Product Managers often face a race to the finish, so to speak. Synchronizing a sub-team.

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Intercom, Inc.

AUGUST 11, 2020

It was first proposed after Benjamin Whorf, a fire safety inspector at the time, observed how oil workers treated empty oil barrels as less hazardous than full oil barrels, despite them being equally flammable due to the traces of oil remaining in them. Think about the impact that racism has already had in tech. Know the scope of the issue.

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Userpilot

DECEMBER 31, 2024

Userpilots key features include: No-code Chrome extension for building in-app flows. A/B and multivariate testing for optimizing user experiences. In fact, it was first created as an analytics tool, and only in recent years has it also developed an engagement suite. Autocapture for recording in-app events without manual tags.

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TechEmpower - Product Management

DECEMBER 11, 2023

million software developers worldwide. Given this diversity, it's important to be selective in the development services company with whom you choose to partner. You'll discover firms that are prolific in design/interface and light on development, and vice versa. How do they verify the ongoing progress of development?

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Product Talk

MAY 15, 2024

This meant that they could attach information like the user ID to the Typeform page and review it as part of the responses users provided. She had to set up the survey and add logic to make sure the right people were going to the Calendly link and coordinate with the developer who was filling in some of the hidden variables behind the scenes.

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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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Userpilot

MARCH 5, 2025

That’s where customer engagement software comes in. How I chose the best customer engagement software My evaluation process combined thorough feature analysis , a careful review of user feedback, and insights from industry reports. Scalability and security: Can the platform grow with your business and protect your data?

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The Product Coalition

MARCH 9, 2021

All you need is a company providing React Native services and an outstanding team of developers who know exactly what they’re doing. Before you start planning your budget, let’s see why Uber is so popular and discuss what you need to develop a React Native app like it. yeah, don’t forget to develop a version for drivers.

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The Product Coalition

AUGUST 24, 2021

Due to the growing tendency of backing technology businesses, a software startup could raise millions of dollars of funding in their earliest stages of development. Many of those companies would spend that money on building their software without sufficiently interacting with their customers.

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Intercom, Inc.

AUGUST 11, 2021

We believe there’s only so much you can do with automated tests and pre-production environments. Production is the only place where your code, infrastructure, and customers come together to represent objective reality. With over 50 deployments per day, it generally takes less than 12 minutes to ship new code. Use feature flags.

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The Product Coalition

SEPTEMBER 7, 2022

Minimum Viable Products: Why You Should Test Before Investing In Ideas Let’s analyze the advantages of MVP-based software development. Why should you invest in MVP development? You can successfully prevent these problems by starting software development with a Minimum Viable Product (MVP).

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Alchemer Mobile

NOVEMBER 10, 2022

Developers can remove the pains associated with constantly incorporating new SDKs into an app and focus on delivering products that transform the customer experience. Zendesk is a service-first CRM company that builds support, sales, and customer engagement software designed to foster better customer relationships. Quantum Metric.

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Userpilot

SEPTEMBER 30, 2024

3P Learning is an Australian educational technology company that specializes in developing online learning resources. Its products use gamified experiences that help young learners develop science, maths, and literacy skills. Creating no-code onboarding experiences The main application is creating onboarding checklists for the parents.

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Roman Pichler

SEPTEMBER 4, 2018

This makes the sprint planning work challenging, and it can leave the development team feeling exhausted and stressed rather than motivated to start the new sprint. Bear in mind that product backlog grooming should be a team effort and that you should involve the development team members in the backlog work. Focus on the Sprint Goal.

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