Mind the Product
JUNE 4, 2021
This article looks at the future of product practice and product management — at how far we’ve come, our present-day understanding of product, and the challenges we still need to meet. It should help you, as a product person, to better understand:- Why we keep asking “what is product management?” and why we find it so [.] Read more » The post What is product?
TryMyUI
JUNE 4, 2021
As a product manager, you are constantly tasked with determining what features to implement and how to go about doing so in order to get your product into the testing phase. The post Vital Role of User Research In Getting Your Product To MVP appeared first on TryMyUI Blog.
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Indicative
JUNE 4, 2021
Happy June to each and every valued Indicator. We hope that our valued customers stateside had a thoughtful Memorial Day Weekend spent with family and friends. If you’re one of our international Indicators, we hope that the summer is coming at a good time, and you’re finding time to enjoy the longer days. Here at Indicative, our engineers have been busy this month developing a number of improvements to empower you to get the results you’re looking for.
Userpilot
JUNE 4, 2021
Are you looking for WalkMe alternatives? We’ve got you! We’ve tried 5 of the biggest WalkMe alternatives over the last couple of weeks, and we wanted to share our in-depth feedback. Important Note: WalkMe, Userlane, and Whatfix are suitable for the employee onboarding use case when you’re onboarding with a third-party tool like Salesforce and Workday.
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Centercode
JUNE 4, 2021
Most companies run Beta Tests, but it’s important to fix critical real-world issues before putting your products in the hands of Beta users, and eventually your customers. Alpha Tests provide an opportunity to get your products into real user environments with technical users who can help you identify and prioritize bugs.
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Centercode
JUNE 4, 2021
We throw around a lot of terminology on our website and in our resources. Today we wanted to take a moment and clarify what some of those beta terms mean. The terms and definitions below are taken from our free eBook: 100 Tips for Better Beta Tests.
nulab
JUNE 4, 2021
Linear thinking is great when you need to get from A to B in the most straightforward way. But this kind of thinking isn’t the right answer for every situation. When you need lots of creative ideas or more leftfield solutions to a problem, lateral thinking is the way to go. Lateral thinking can be tricky, even if you think of yourself as a creative person.
Centercode
JUNE 4, 2021
How you communicate with your testers has a huge impact on the success of your beta. If you don’t communicate clearly or often enough you risk alienating or confusing your testers. On the other hand, if you communicate too much you could frustrate testers with your constant micromanaging. Both scenarios depress tester participation and limit feedback.
Userpilot
JUNE 4, 2021
Imagine driving to a new holiday destination without a GPS. It’d probably take you hours and you might not even get to the right place. SaaS apps also need walkthrough software to guide their users through their products. A walkthrough software uses interactive walkthroughs to support new user onboarding. If you get your new user onboarding wrong, it’ll create a domino effect on all your product metrics: Product time to value goes up ; When your time to value goes up, fewer users are activated w
Speaker: Scott Sehlhorst
We know we want to create products which our customers find to be valuable. Whether we label it as customer-centric or product-led depends on how long we've been doing product management. There are three challenges we face when doing this. The obvious challenge is figuring out what our users need; the non-obvious challenges are in creating a shared understanding of those needs and in sensing if what we're doing is meeting those needs.
Centercode
JUNE 4, 2021
One of the challenges of recruiting beta testers is eliciting interest from potential candidates. One way you can do this is by ensuring you have an attention-grabbing way to invite people to your beta test. Beta testers should represent a good spectrum of your product’s target market.
ProductPlan
JUNE 4, 2021
What Is Distinctive Competence? Distinctive competence refers to a superior characteristic, strength, or quality that distinguishes a company from its competitors. This distinctive quality can be just about anything—innovation, a skill, design, technology, name recognition, marketing, workforce, customer satisfaction, or even being first to market. Via distinctive competency, a company can provide a premier value to customers.
Centercode
JUNE 4, 2021
Testing your product before launch and collecting pre-release user feedback is a crucial part of the product development lifecycle. However, one question we’ve seen come up in the industry in recent years as automated testing becomes much more powerful is if human testers are needed for this type of testing anymore.
Centercode
JUNE 4, 2021
Read the updated version of this blog post. During the early stages of planning a beta project, one of the first questions people ask is, “How long should my beta test be?” Usually, this question is followed by, “How many beta testers do I need?
Speaker: Timothy Chan, PhD., Head of Data Science
Are you ready to move beyond the basics and take a deep dive into the cutting-edge techniques that are reshaping the landscape of experimentation? 🌐 From Sequential Testing to Multi-Armed Bandits, Switchback Experiments to Stratified Sampling, Timothy Chan, Data Science Lead, is here to unravel the mysteries of these powerful methodologies that are revolutionizing how we approach testing.
Centercode
JUNE 4, 2021
For founders, running a beta test is a thrilling and terrifying time. You’ve put blood, sweat, and tears into making your idea into a real product and this is the first time that product is going to be hands of real customers.
Centercode
JUNE 4, 2021
Many software companies are switching from traditional development methods to agile development. Agile development is an iterative methodology, focused on incremental software development rather than longer, more regimented development lifecycles. Agile development is rapid and flexible, and therefore requires a beta testing approach that is rapid and flexible as well.
Centercode
JUNE 4, 2021
A successful Beta Test is not only about presenting your stakeholders with a well-rounded plan. It’s about setting their expectations, then knocking those expectations out of the park. A big part of that depends on setting the right test length. Test length defines the scale of your project.
Centercode
JUNE 4, 2021
For our third installment of the Beta Tips series we’re covering tester selection. At this point you’ve planned your beta test and you’ve recruited a large pool of people interested in testing your product. You know that your testers can make or break your beta, so how do you make sure the testers you select are top notch?
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Centercode
JUNE 4, 2021
Every experienced beta manager knows how useful a well-crafted survey can be to the success of a beta test. Where poorly-written surveys provide useless or misleading information and overly complex surveys burn out testers, well-written surveys can have the opposite effect — helping you collect the high-quality feedback you’re looking for.
Centercode
JUNE 4, 2021
Being in beta isn’t bad. In fact, it’s an exciting (and necessary) step towards a successful product launch. Every day, product developers request their beta tests to be featured on Betabound, which is Centercode’s community of 150,000 beta testers.
Centercode
JUNE 4, 2021
There comes a point when the scale of your user testing projects or program exceeds what standard productivity tools like email and spreadsheets can handle. And that's when it's time for an upgrade: a specialized user testing tool that will serve as a hub for all your test management activities. Awesome!
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