ProductPlan

JANUARY 21, 2021

In 2016 I gave a talk on lean market validation at the opening night of Startup Weekend at the University of California, Santa Barbara. In attendance were 200 eager students and entrepreneurs who wanted to learn how to build a startup in 54 hours. 10 Ways to Rapidly Test Your Startup Idea. Write down your product concept.

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The Product Coalition

JULY 1, 2021

An API platform is table stakes to build your public APIs on, especially if an API is a key part of your strategy, yet too often, API infrastructure is hand-coded, leading to short- and long-term trouble. Offering an API publicly to partners and developers requires an extra level of polish.

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Modus Create

JUNE 18, 2021

More data and more code in more places increase your threat surface, creating opportunities for malicious actors online. . Here’s what a comprehensive security assessment looks like: Step 1 – Due Diligence. Source code of existing applications. SDLC (Software Development Life Cycle) of the organization .

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Userpilot

JUNE 22, 2021

To provide the best onboarding experience, you naturally need the best onboarding software for SaaS. In this post, we will very briefly discuss what to look for in the best onboarding software for SaaS for you, and then move on to analyzing the top 6 choices you may want to consider. Which is the best onboarding software for you?

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The Product Coalition

OCTOBER 28, 2019

What No One Tells You About Being a Product Manager at an Early Stage Startup Over a year ago, I asked around, searched for books or articles, went to several talks but found very little advice on being a product manager at an early-stage startup. We didn’t have any documentation, processes, or guidelines to refer to.

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ProductPlan

JANUARY 21, 2021

In 2016 I gave a talk on lean market validation at the opening night of Startup Weekend at the University of California, Santa Barbara. In attendance were 200 eager students and entrepreneurs who wanted to learn how to build a startup in 54 hours. 10 Ways to Rapidly Test Your Startup Idea. Write down your product concept.

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The Product Coalition

FEBRUARY 14, 2023

You can learn many core product skills from internships, especially if you get a chance to intern at startups. Tip 2: Case Studies Case studies are a document or a presentation that showcases your problem-solving skills. Case studies focus on thought processes, ideation, documentation & problem-solving.

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The Product Coalition

DECEMBER 25, 2023

Why is change management in enterprise software so hard? Users want to use software that will make it easy to collect data. Software developers usually don’t want to work in Microsoft Sharepoint. I interviewed up to ten internal super users who would each review one hundred and twenty SharePoint documents a day.

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PMLesson's Ace the PM Interview

DECEMBER 14, 2020

A common question for product managers, project managers, technical program managers, and software developers alike is what methodology to use given a project. Think about the complexity involved in developing and releasing a piece of software. This is where the actual software is built in the Waterfall methodology.

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The Product Coalition

MAY 8, 2018

Handover is a crucial process in the software lifecycle, and it may turn out to be costly and harsh unless you take the appropriate precautionary steps to make it smooth and downtime-free. The following article answer the question how to transfer software development works to another programming team. Then, a solid plan comes in handy?

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Userpilot

MARCH 16, 2023

Looking for an in-depth review of UserGuiding pricing so you can understand whether it’s the right choice for you? Although review sites and word-of-mouth can help you narrow down your choices, they can fail to help you make the right decision. The platform allows you to build product tours and walkthroughs without any coding.

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The Product Coalition

SEPTEMBER 29, 2022

Another impetus is when you permanently inherit some of their products or features due to an organizational or strategic change in hierarchy. Get written resources Ask for documents sent now. Let there be awkward silence for a moment when you ask what documents, emails, correspondence, PRDs, epics, whatever, you should look at.

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Userpilot

APRIL 9, 2024

Known for its code-free onboarding flow creation, Appcues enables personalized in-app experiences focusing on user engagement and retention. Try Userpilot and Take Your Onboarding Experience to the Next Level Get a Demo 14 Day Trial No Credit Card Required How can onboarding software improve the customer onboarding process?

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The Product Guy

OCTOBER 9, 2018

First, I did not know how to frame, develop and present product strategy in a systematic way, and second, as a startup, my company has not historically had a good track record of strategy being developed outside of senior management (read: founder). I became a product manager because I wanted to take a more strategic role at my company.

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ProductPlan

JANUARY 21, 2021

In 2016 I gave a talk on lean market validation at the opening night of Startup Weekend at the University of California, Santa Barbara. In attendance were 200 eager students and entrepreneurs who wanted to learn how to build a startup in 54 hours. 10 Ways to Rapidly Test Your Startup Idea. Write down your product concept.

User Testing 52

User Testing Startups Product Research Testing 52

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. Reduced time-to-market : We can now release new products and features more quickly.

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The Product Coalition

DECEMBER 27, 2017

Ensure that your bookkeeper consistently applies good work habits and that all information is in order before it is turned over to an accountant to review; otherwise, you will end up paying a much higher hourly rate to a tax accountant to organize and correct what should have been handled already.

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UX Studio

DECEMBER 14, 2023

The following lines are written with full bias due to nostalgia and my gratitude towards all the people who made UX studio a special community, a hub for our professional passion, and a source of inspiration. However, at that time, I was busy working on my startup as a co-founder, so this feeling endured for another 1,5 years.

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Userpilot

OCTOBER 4, 2022

G2 is a business software and services review platform that relies on user-generated content to grow organically. The Pirate Metrics Framework , a system developed by Dave McClure from 500 Startups, maps out the customer journey into five stages: Acquisition, Activation, Retention, Referral, and Revenue ( AARRR ).

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Userpilot

JANUARY 28, 2021

According to Mark Davis , Director of Product Management at Fullstack Academy : “ Product managers who know how to write code are a rare breed, and are in extremely high demand…because they’re better able to lead the developers who will build their products. Most commonly – employers look for experience when hiring PMs.

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People-First Product Leadership

SEPTEMBER 17, 2023

I created an onboarding document to help frame the work, people, and history the new PM would encounter during their first 30, 60, and 90 days. To ensure I hit all the key topics, I asked individuals across the organization to do a review - anchoring on people the new PM would be working with directly.

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UX Planet

FEBRUARY 1, 2024

Why this Industry The finance industry presents a compelling opportunity for designing applications due to the significant and widespread challenges outlined in the problem statement. Threats: Competition from both FinTech startups and traditional financial institutions. Threats: Intense competition from FinTech startups.

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The Product Coalition

JULY 6, 2022

When the company or product is successful, it is due to their pioneering, faultless leadership, but when the ship starts to sink, it’s due to those dumb engineers that can’t get two lines of code out without hundreds of bugs. This is a classic leadership trap that many leaders (not just CEOs) often fall into.

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Product Talk

MARCH 2, 2016

The adoption of Agile has helped us deliver iterative chunks of code rather than waiting for the big reveal at the end of a long project. Continuous integration reduces the risk of large code conflicts that used to take days or sometimes weeks of testing to resolve. Product discovery, on the other hand, has been much slower to mature.

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Business of Software Conference

NOVEMBER 1, 2018

Business of Software Conference USA 2018 – Some Highlights. The 12th Annual Business of Software Conference USA took place in Boston, MA, last month – October 1-3. Matt Wensing – 1 Startup In 10 Years vs 1,000 Startups In 10 Minutes. What an incredible few days. Live Switch Interview.

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ProductPlan

MARCH 14, 2023

They range from gargantuan MRI machines to cotton swabs to the patient portal software for scheduling appointments. More focus on opportunities than ideation Outside of health tech industry startups, healthcare product managers are rarely tasked with developing groundbreaking, disruptive technologies and solutions.

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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. Every tool comes with a unique set of features designed to cater to diverse testing requirements.

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The Product Coalition

MARCH 25, 2022

CB Insights states that 41 fintech startups that are backed by venture capital are worth $154.1 Regtech apps Regulatory technology (or Regtech) is software that helps companies stay in compliance with all regulatory and legal statements. Fintech startups can use this opportunity and create a voice-based solution.

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Usersnap

JUNE 27, 2023

But for startups, the challenge of finding 100 willing beta users can feel like an insurmountable obstacle. Maze Maze is a powerful beta testing platform that facilitates the discovery and management of beta users for startups. Developers can effortlessly gather actionable customer feedback by integrating custom code into web pages.

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Mind the Product

OCTOBER 1, 2019

The biggest reason people stick with the timeline roadmap is due to other stakeholders, like their boss or customers. The key is this though: just because one item in your roadmap has a date, doesn’t mean you should give everything a due date. You can avoid painful moments by keeping these two documents separate.

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The Product Coalition

FEBRUARY 5, 2021

After attending a web development boot camp and working as a web developer at a small startup, she got the opportunity to become a product manager. Unsure of the best way to break into the technology industry, she attended a coding boot camp at Lighthouse Labs for becoming a developer.

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Intercom, Inc.

APRIL 2, 2018

The code you’ve spent so much time on never ships. Instead of submitting your work for review, afraid of the amount of feedback you’re going to get, embrace the process and seek out the opinions of those who will give you the most feedback from day one. Write/update your documentation. You have sign-off, though.

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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. Reduced time-to-market : We can now release new products and features more quickly.

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Intercom, Inc.

JULY 24, 2018

Due to our rapid growth, we needed to scale the team remotely before opening an office. Together we felt like we were growing something from scratch, everything from our work processes to our team identity contributed to a strong sense of being part of “a startup within a startup”, related to but distinct from the broader Intercom family.

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The Product Coalition

MARCH 8, 2023

Healthcare CIOs, responsible for maintaining data quality, face difficulty communicating the business value of IT to executives due to the use of ineffective metrics. Data accuracy: Healthcare data can be prone to errors, such as typos, incorrect codes, or missing information, which can negatively impact patient care and decision-making.

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Modus Create

AUGUST 31, 2021

Project management software includes a broad spectrum of tools. You can set due dates, create checklist items, and communicate with your team through comments. Atlassian’s flagship product, Jira, initially began as an issue tracking tool for software developers. Some might even complement each other. . An active sprint in Jira.

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Mixpanel

MARCH 15, 2021

Code-based implementations require engineering work, so collecting data to send to all of these different tools, or even just one of them, means that the team must divert their focus from core product development. For many—especially burgeoning startups—this can be a nonstarter. That solution exists, today. What is Freshpaint?

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