Product Bookshelf

APRIL 15, 2024

Martin Good Strategy, Bad Strategy by Richard Rumels Product strategy is a set of choices informed by product vision and company objectives. Strategy development requires imagination and creativity ; a good strategy is not the result of detailed analysis. Playing to Win by A.G. Lafley and Roger L.

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Roman Pichler

NOVEMBER 1, 2022

A good test to understand if a product goal describes an outcome is to ask the why question. If you say yes to every request, you are in danger of creating a Frankenstein product—a product that is a collection of unrelated features, offers a weak value proposition, and gives rise to a poor user experience.

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The Product Coalition

SEPTEMBER 7, 2023

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. trillion PDF documents worldwide. Fun fact: Adobe’s engineering VP, Phil Ydens, estimated there may be up to 2.5

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UX Planet

FEBRUARY 13, 2024

Prescriptive Agile frameworks make it hard for designers to add valuable contributions to the team. I designed every detail in Photoshop before handing the mockups to the developers. I was excited to be part of a cross-functional team and I could not wait to start working in sprints. But it wasn’t all that bad.

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Product Talk

MARCH 1, 2023

I realize that many product people have never worked in a product trio , don’t have access to customers, aren’t given time to test their ideas, and are working in what Marty Cagan calls “features teams” or “delivery teams.” If you missed the first one on product success and team satisfaction , be sure to start there.

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UX Studio: Product Management

JANUARY 11, 2021

At UX Studio , while we develop our products, uxfol.io and copyfol.io , we are mainly focused on agency work, meaning that we cooperate with several clients as external teams. This post was written from the perspective of designers, mainly intended for external teams and entrepreneurs. Five challenges and solutions.

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Usersnap

JANUARY 8, 2024

The engineering team from Lockheed Martin used imperial units (pounds-force), while NASA’s team used metric units (newtons). As we explore the subsequent sections, we will uncover how this iterative approach to product development has revolutionized the way products are conceived, developed, and refined. Planning 2.

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The Product Coalition

SEPTEMBER 17, 2020

Picture this: you develop an app, then launch it worldwide. 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.

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Roman Pichler

MAY 11, 2021

” But do not allow people to dominate and tell you what to do, and don’t agree to a weak compromise. The SAFe product owner is tactical in nature and focuses on working on the product backlog and guiding the development teams. Myth #3: The product owner is responsible for the team performance.

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nulab

SEPTEMBER 2, 2022

In cases where an employee is being let go, properly documented offboarding can help minimize the legal and financial risks to the company. A well-executed offboarding process can help the company retain top talent and prevent bad blood between departing employees and those who remain. Notify the team. It’s good business.

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The Product HQ

FEBRUARY 1, 2023

(Needs Images) Interested in learning the difference between product development and product management? Product development and product management may seem to be similar concepts, but in reality, they’re quite different. What is Product Development? How Does Product Development Differ from Product Management?

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The Product Coalition

NOVEMBER 9, 2020

It was about 12 months ago when I was challenged by our CEO to dismantle our squad and create a growth team. Not being too sure what a growth team was, we started anyway. We got access to work completed by Andrew Chen & Brian Balfour , took a few courses from the Reforge series and started developing our growth loops.

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Userpilot

NOVEMBER 30, 2023

A market gap can be caused by missing functionality or poor user experience. Canva identified a market need for a user-friendly graphic design tool for non-designers and DocuSign for a secure solution to sign and manage digital documents and contracts. Here are 10 tried and tested ways to do it! What are examples of market gaps?

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Lenny Rachitsky

APRIL 23, 2024

Audit the funnel looking for low-hanging fruit “When I came into Linktree, I worked with the team to audit the funnel, looking for low-hanging fruit. The team was optimizing traffic coming from paid marketing channels because they’ve historically converted better. Develop a provocative point of view.

User Testing 89

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The Product Coalition

DECEMBER 21, 2021

Here’s our story how we’re developing a product using machine learning and neural networks to boost translation and localization Artificial intelligence and its applications are one of the most sensational topics in the IT field. If so, what is the value of the solution you’re developing? Often people confuse it with automation.

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The Product Coalition

OCTOBER 29, 2018

“We just pushed it live,” the release manager belts out, to a team fresh off the battlefield that is software product development. I was new to it all, a team whose mantra was to create, build and release. In retrospect, it was probably the best place to start, given that external development teams are now more commonplace.

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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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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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Product Talk

AUGUST 16, 2023

And she’s also always happy to coach the members of the Product Talk team in how to develop our own continuous discovery skills, too. While Welena’s role at Product Talk is not strictly as a product manager, that doesn’t stop her from developing and practicing her continuous discovery skills. You can submit your story here. .

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The Product Coalition

JANUARY 12, 2023

Not enough people spend enough time on defining vision and purpose Most value propositions are weak Companies don’t adapt their team typology to make a product Very few products are indeed prioritized by value User Reasearch and UX are ofter used in the wrong way 1. Here is what I noticed. targeted and user centric. Like in a startup.

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The Product Coalition

APRIL 25, 2022

The Best Product Managers use Product Management Software for: We’ve broken down this list into four stages of the feature life cycle that contributes to building the product value: opportunity identification and validation, design and prototyping, feature development, and launch and iteration.

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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

MAY 3, 2021

It helps you align with different team departments, better understand your customers , and find ways to step up your SaaS product. If you skip any of these phases, you risk not reaching the goals of your product release and underperforming. Are there enough people on your team to build the new product?

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Mironov Consulting

SEPTEMBER 22, 2020

Almost without fail, I find that the “maker” side of software companies (developers, designers, product folks, DevOps, tech writers…) and the “go-to-market” side of software companies (sales, marketing, support, customer success.) Some frequent bad outcomes from this confusion: We never finish our MVP. Here’s why…. What To Do?

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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. ” and “What?” and “What?”

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Userpilot

JULY 5, 2022

Customer expectations are beliefs and thoughts about a product or a service before accessing and testing it out. Document the customer journey with all touchpoints to see the pitfalls users are encountering. Customer expectation is what the customer believes and thinks about a product or service before accessing and testing it.

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The Product Coalition

OCTOBER 12, 2023

When the Higher-Powers have made their decision, it’s up to the team to de-risk in real time: A pragmatists survival guide to un-validated demands. Often, as teams, we have the head-space and capacity to push back, challenge, or provide evidence based alternatives. An invasive species has appeared, and it has root rot.

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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. ” and “What?” and “What?”

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Modus Create

MAY 31, 2021

In the last article, “ How to Effectively Implement API Testing ,” we learned about the API implementation concepts and their best practices. This article focuses on the practical challenges we faced while testing APIs and their best possible solutions. Initial Setup of API Testing Automation. Test Coverage.

Reporting Tools 52

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Roman Pichler

MAY 11, 2021

” But do not allow people to dominate and tell you what to do, and don’t agree to a weak compromise. The SAFe product owner is tactical in nature and focuses on working on the product backlog and guiding the development teams. Myth #3: The product owner is responsible for the team performance.

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Roman Pichler

FEBRUARY 2, 2021

The latter would work with one or more development teams to get the specification implemented. During the development phase, the product manager would be only loosely involved, typically attending a project steering meeting and possibly issuing change requests.

Agile 248

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The Product Coalition

OCTOBER 13, 2022

Learn who to listen to: “The Mum test” (Rob Fitzpatrick) This book will teach you that they’re some people you should never listen to, like your mum. Poor questions yield little value. ?? Plan your product: “story mapping” (Nielsen Norman Group) Often teams rely on lengthy requirements documents to move from a vision to a product.

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Modus Create

MAY 3, 2023

Common misconceptions with UX and product development UX is a powerful and valuable tool, but misconceptions abound about what UX can do and how long it can take to reap the benefits. Engineering teams likely have a history of delivering features and delivering them very fast. If you know your users, where is it documented?

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The Product Coalition

MARCH 7, 2023

How to prepare for a user interview, all the way to sharing the results with your team. I compiled this guide back when I was training product managers on my team to be able to run user interviews. I sometimes like to frame it as a hypothesis that I’m testing. How should I change the UX of [feature]?

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Mind the Product

FEBRUARY 14, 2020

While we might think of all debt as bad, Janna says this isn’t the case. What’s not fine, Janna says, is when tech debt is accrued without intention; because this happens when there isn’t a shared understanding of how the product will be built, and tech debt usually arises outside the control of the tech team.

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Roman Pichler

DECEMBER 4, 2018

To understand if and to what extent your product is affected by technical debt, talk to the development team, for example, in the next sprint retrospective. I find that development team members usually have a good understanding where issues in the architecture and code are.

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The Product Coalition

SEPTEMBER 20, 2022

In this article, QA engineer on the release team at inDriver Ivan would like to allow himself to freely speculate on the similarity between cognitive activity models in software testing and criminal investigations. It seems to me that these two areas have a lot in common. Now it is important to draw up an action plan.

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