The Product Coalition

DECEMBER 6, 2018

Overview: For decades, product developers have created unique processes and tools to serve as a guide in brainstorming, documenting, and developing new entries into the market. With the increasing popularity of web software applications came a more flexible development lifecycle and new guiding process frameworks like Agile.

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The Product Coalition

SEPTEMBER 17, 2020

Yeah, we know, it sounds pretty much like a developer’s worst nightmare. And that’s why localization testing exists: to prevent these very situations. Localization testing is usually not the first thing that development companies consider. What is localization testing? Why is localization testing so important?

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The Product Coalition

SEPTEMBER 7, 2023

Think of any common software or digital product you have used recently — were you frustrated with it? Consider a simple example: creating a PDF (Portable Document Format) file from a Word document. PDFs are the most used portable document type claimed, not just by Adobe, but also by this PDF technical community.

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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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Usersnap

DECEMBER 10, 2023

User Acceptance Testing (UAT) is important for more agile software development teams. It’s the last stage in the software development life cycle, and it ensures every product meets the requirements and designations of the users. This is why the magic of the best user acceptance testing tools is crucial.

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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

DECEMBER 28, 2022

Explore-things-web-development-vs-app-development Are you confused about web development vs app development while creating a digital application? Explore more to define web vs mobile development further. If you are a startup, estimating the cost of software development helps plan your budget better.

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Split

AUGUST 5, 2020

Testing in production is becoming more and more common across tech. The following plan is both guidance and order of operations for what to implement if you want to start testing in production. If your team is still hesitant or fearful, have them watch my video on testing in production. The Benefits of Testing in Production.

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Atomic Spin PM

JUNE 18, 2019

Documentation means a lot of different things to different people. I’ve also found it’s one of the top five topics to cause a developer to cringe. If you’ve used a waterfall software development process, you’re all too familiar with documentation. There should still be some documentation.

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Modus Create

SEPTEMBER 30, 2020

Automated tests can help to speed up delivery, reduce errors, and save testing engineers time to run comprehensive and complex tests. However, before automating all test cases, it is necessary to make a rigorous assessment of what can be automated, when, how, and what cost and effort is required to achieve the goal.

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Modus Create

SEPTEMBER 9, 2021

The surface area for testing software has never been so broad. Testing apps require a bigger budget for tools and resources compared to programming. Earlier software developers used to write code and testers checked it for quality. This allows you to concentrate on the most important aspect of testing — thinking.

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Split

MARCH 10, 2023

The Agile Manifesto starts with, and is fairly well summarized with the following sentence: We are uncovering better ways of developing software by doing it and helping others do it. Agile has put the focus of the software development process squarely on the sole process of writing and delivering code.

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Modus Create

JULY 22, 2021

Google’s QA team defines a flaky test as a test that exhibits both a passing and a failing result with the same code. So, let’s look at some common situations where a test could be flaky and provide possible fixes. We’ll often use Cypress , a popular web testing library to solve this problem. . .”

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Modus Create

OCTOBER 27, 2020

Test automation experts use API testing to receive quick feedback and improve product quality. This article will share why API testing is a necessary component of your automation suite and what the benefits of implementing API testing are. What is API Testing? Benefits of API testing. Let’s get started!

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Lenny Rachitsky

MARCH 26, 2024

Below, Colin breaks down in the simplest way possible—and with hands-on practice—APIs, code deployments, system architectures, branches, databases, unit tests, and much more. Once you understand a few basic patterns with APIs, you’ll be able to breeze through technical documentation in no time.

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The Product Coalition

MARCH 18, 2021

A step-by-step approach to developing a SaaS product Take the following steps to build a SaaS platform: 1. Decide on the SaaS model, product strategy, and the pricing strategy Formulate your strategy before undertaking software development. Decide on the core features to offer, and document the requirements.

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The Product Coalition

APRIL 11, 2022

MLOps as a new format of work The standard software development life cycle (SDLC) includes requirements definition, design, development, testing, and deployment. Like DevOps, it aims to automate the ML model development cycle so that the transition from model testing to production release occurs automatically.

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The Product Coalition

APRIL 25, 2022

Prioritization frameworks Gantt charts/roadmaps Documenting and organizing user research interview results Checklists and task management across teams Spreadsheets do have their drawbacks. This means the most recent designs will show up live in the document. Web files on Figma are easily shared with a single link.

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The Product Coalition

SEPTEMBER 4, 2020

Traditionally, Waterfall model was used as an SDLC (Software Development Life Cycle) Methodology. Agile talks about Iterative & Incremental Software development, which gives it the ability to adapt to changes whenever required. Waterfall model involves a stepwise linear progression of activities. When to use Agile?

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The Product Coalition

JULY 5, 2021

However, veterans of the software testing world know that agile development is a superior method to manage the constantly changing needs that many software development projects encounter. After all, one of the Agile Manifesto’s core principles is to welcome changing needs, even late in development.

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The Product Coalition

FEBRUARY 15, 2024

IT and cybersecurity In IT and cybersecurity, Generative AI enhances threat detection and software development processes. Initiate pilot projects to test selected tools in real-world scenarios, gathering feedback from users and stakeholders to assess effectiveness and usability before proceeding with broader implementation.

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Roman Pichler

FEBRUARY 2, 2021

This is enabled by a closer, ongoing collaboration with cross-functional development teams, shifting from written documentation to face-to-face conversations, and using techniques such as user stories that reduce overhead—when applied correctly.

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Split

MARCH 30, 2023

Feature toggles—or feature flags or flippers—are a powerful tool software engineers use to enable and disable certain features within a codebase. This allows changes in the system to be tested with minimal risk of disruption or downtime. – Improved reliability as features can be tested with minimal risk of disruption or downtime.

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Userpilot

JULY 8, 2022

FDD iterations are shorter than in Scrum, the documentation is more comprehensive and there are fewer meetings. This is possible because detailed documentation helps keep larger teams aligned. Feature-Driven Development helps you focus on improving the most important functionalities and so drives incremental innovation.

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Usersnap

JANUARY 8, 2024

A paradigm shift in product development Real-world case studies Netflix: Shaping the future of online entertainment ? PackageX: Solving mailroom logistics The 5 steps of the iterative process of product development 1. Development 4. Testing & Feedback 5. Zappos: Minimizing risk early ? Planning 2.

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The Product Coalition

AUGUST 10, 2020

outsourcing software development as a non-essential business area?—?has While they try to become more appealing to product and software developers, they still have difficulties understanding what it takes to build an attractive product/engineering culture. such as software development?—?to to third parties.

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Userpilot

SEPTEMBER 29, 2023

TL;DR The new product development process is the method of building new products or services and bringing them to market: everything from generating ideas for a product concept to prototyping to identifying a target market, to launch, and beyond. While product development describes the process of creating the product itself (i.e.

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Product Solving

APRIL 11, 2023

TL;DR: Domain fidelity is a critical aspect of software development that ensures a system or product closely aligns with the real-world needs of its users. By prioritizing domain fidelity and avoiding the pitfalls of premature optimization, development teams can reduce technical debt and create more effective solutions.

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Userpilot

JULY 18, 2023

It improves team productivity and efficiency by providing them with a centralized platform for collaboration, document sharing, and communication. Wireframing and prototyping software Wireframing and prototyping software are essential tools for product teams during the design phase. – for product/software development Aha!

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Roman Pichler

MAY 11, 2021

Such a backlog has enough “ ready ” high-priority items to guide the work of the development team and to allow its members to create a “done” product increment—executable software that is tested and documented and that could be released. Myth #5: It’s the product owner’s job to get the project delivered.

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Alchemer Mobile

AUGUST 2, 2018

Collecting customer feedback for use cases gets tossed aside, non-technical teams won’t have new user stories to keep the product relevant in the market, and testing with customers becomes an afterthought. They support the engineering team and manage software development details, while still ensuring customer requirements drive the product.

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The Secret PM Handbook

MAY 12, 2017

Our primary mechanism for communicating with development – aside from having conversations with them, which you’re doing, right? – is via some variety of “product requirements document” – the written-down “Why?” This might be a document, or a wiki page, or even a post-it note. A is for Acceptance tests.

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CardBoard

AUGUST 21, 2023

It’s the secret sauce that makes software development teams hum and businesses boom. It was a solution to a problem, a response to a method that was too rigid for the dynamic world of software development. That method was the Waterfall model, the traditional approach to software development.

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The Product Coalition

MARCH 15, 2021

So, the product marketing and product management teams constantly discover these needs through surveys and interactions, and to document these we use something called jobs-to-be-done (JTBD). We document these formally so they are always available to see in confluence. Don’t be afraid to test multiple ideas with users.

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The Secret PM Handbook

MAY 12, 2017

Our primary mechanism for communicating with development – aside from having conversations with them, which you’re doing, right? – is via some variety of “product requirements document” – the written-down “Why?” This might be a document, or a wiki page, or even a post-it note. A is for Acceptance tests.

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Roman Pichler

FEBRUARY 2, 2021

This is enabled by a closer, ongoing collaboration with cross-functional development teams, shifting from written documentation to face-to-face conversations, and using techniques such as user stories that reduce overhead—when applied correctly.

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The Product Coalition

MARCH 16, 2021

Some common examples include A/B testing , lazy registration , infinite scrolling , carousels , gamification , instant gratification , variable rewards , etc. They can do a lot of experiments and A/B tests to figure out what works best to achieve the desired outcome from the product. Directors only have one chance.

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