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Product in Practice: Assumption Testing with Engineers at Orion Labs

Product Talk

Engineers are often reluctant to participate in discovery. 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. This is a common mistake that Teresa addressed in a Core Concepts post , saying “We’ve spent the past 30+ years asking engineers to be order takers. We’ve often shut down their ideas before they can fully explain them.

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Transform the way you share your work: Tricks from Hollywood’s publicity playbook

Intercom, Inc.

At Intercom, we believe in the power of sharing cross-functionally. Seeking feedback at various stages of a project helps avoid bottlenecks and silos, and ultimately drives business impact. Diving into a new project is an exciting challenge, but it takes time to develop context, address stakeholder needs, and meaningfully understand the problem. Without even realizing it, we begin to work with blinders on.

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Celebrating 150 episodes: The Product Experience podcast

Mind the Product

After over three years on The Product Experience, we have reached our 150th episode! In this compilation episode on the podcast, we look back at the highlights from some of our favourite shows. [.] Read more » The post Celebrating 150 episodes: The Product Experience podcast appeared first on Mind the Product.

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Over-orchestrated: what happens when your team is too in-sync

Atlassian

Subscribe to Work Life Get stories like this in your inbox Subscribe. 5-second summary. Team cohesion is an important component of high-performing teams. Too much team cohesion can mean that individuals focus on coming to an agreement rather than finding the best idea. Encouraging a culture of healthy dissent can help prevent this – but only if team members feel psychologically safe.

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Exploring PerfDog Whitepaper 2024: Unlock the Power of Performance Testing

Key Takeaways Robust Platform & Multi-System Support: Brief introduction to PerfDog's extensive compatibility across various operating systems and hardware platforms including Android, iOS, PC, gaming consoles and more. In-Depth Performance Metrics: Quick view of the extensive range of metrics for system, graphics and rendering, user experience, in-depth analysis, and more.

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A Product Manager’s First 90 Days

The Product Coalition

Build longterm success when starting a new job Continue reading on Product Coalition ».

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The Process Behind Creating Engaging Products and Experiences

Balsamiq

Hi everyone! We’re here to update you on the evolution of a project we’ve had going for a few years now. It started out as Balsamiq Interviews and morphed into The Process Behind. The reason for the name change is that we want these conversations to be solely focused on the creation of a product or feature and the story behind what it took to create a particular project at their company.

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Best UX Research Tools for Product Design Teams

UX Studio

You can easily get lost and puzzled when you start looking at all the infinite UX research tools that have become available lately. That’s why I decided to compile the most common UX research tools for you and hopefully, you will be able to find the proper ones for your needs. User testing and recruiting tools Naturally, I have to start with user testing and recruiting tools.

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Monitoring and Managing Azure Active Directory Users

eG Innovations

This blog post is part 2 of our Monitoring Microsoft Azure Active Directory series. Managing Identity is a big challenge in a cloud environment, especially when users can potentially log in from anywhere. Additionally, users can often use different types of devices to log in and access cloud-hosted resources. Without a central Authentication and Authorization source, it is very difficult to manage who can login to what and who can do what with a cloud resource.

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Rebuilding Research and Making Wine

dscout People Nerds

Dave Hora outlines his philosophy for generating research activities with a structure that’s flexible and human-focused, woven from architecture and wine making.

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Product Management Careers: Job Prospects, Pathways, and Must-Have Skills (2024)

The product management job market in 2024 reflects the fast-growing and ever-evolving nature of the field. For product managers looking to future-proof their careers and take advantage of new opportunities, staying informed about the professional landscape is a smart move. In this comprehensive career guide from Regis College, you’ll learn about: The current job outlook for product managers in 2024 Six professional pathways and the average salaries for these roles in the U.S.

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ONE THING on Outcome vs. Output

Product Culture

Well-known Harvard Business Review blogger Deb Mills-Scofield distinguishes output from outcome well: “Let’s define outputs as the stuff we produce, be it physical or virtual, for a specific type of customer — say, car seats for babies. And let’s define outcomes as the difference our stuff makes — keeping your child safe in the car.” Subscribe to my weekly Nano-letter: Sign Up.

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Be a BoS-Ambassador : Tell us your story

Business of Software Conference

One of the wonderful things about Business of Software is the community that has formed over the years. We have seen some of our delegates go from unfunded initial concept startups through stages of growth and then exiting to move onto new adventures. This is what Business of Software is about and we want to hear your story. We’ll be picking a few submissions to win a BoS-Ambassador ticket to our one-day exclusively online conferences.

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I Didn't See That Coming: Red flags to look for in your next CS job interview

UserIQ

"As the World Churns" podcast Episode 3 transcript, featuring guest Erika Villarreal:

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Avoid the Strategy Templates Myth. Do this Instead.

The Product Coalition

One of the most typical requests of people looking to learn about or deploy a product strategy is, “ where is the template I can use to fill it with all my …ideas… ”. Or “ where can I find a good strategy document from another company I can inspire on? ” In theory, this sounds like a great question to ask! You would know what sections to pay attention to, confirm how it should look, avoid missing any significant part, and have a solid argument to share with peers and stakeholders when they ask w

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The Path to Product Excellence: Avoiding Common Pitfalls and Enhancing Communication

Speaker: David Bard, Principal at VP Product Coaching

In the fast-paced world of digital innovation, success is often accompanied by a multitude of challenges - like the pitfalls lurking at every turn, threatening to derail the most promising projects. But fret not, this webinar is your key to effective product development! Join us for an enlightening session to empower you to lead your team to greater heights.

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App Onboarding Design: How to Build a Beautiful Onboarding Experience for Your App

Userpilot

Perhaps the most common app onboarding design problem is trying to build your entire onboarding process from scratch. Sure, it can be done, but do you really have the time and money to make all your own mistakes and reinvent the wheel completely? It’s much smarter to study app onboarding best practices and work with onboarding software that will massively reduce your labor time.

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Software Engineer Interview Cheat Sheet: Tips, Tricks and Advice

PMLesson's Ace the PM Interview

Even if you have years of software engineering experience under your belt, the technical interview can be daunting! For junior developers, you may be afraid that you haven't prepared enough—that you might call the wrong variable in a time crunch. For senior software developers, the fear may be related to not being as familiar with programming language or concepts.

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Atomic research principles for building a sustainable research repository

UX Studio: Product Management

In 2016, Brad Frost introduced atomic design: a new approach to designing systems in which all interfaces can be broken down into small, modular building blocks that can be reused and recombined. Last week, we discussed what research repositories are and why researchers, designers, and product managers alike should invest in them. This week, we’ll take a look at the research principles that underpin them.

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Product Updates: How to Announce What’s New in Your SaaS Product

Userpilot

Shipping regular product updates as you iterate and improve your SaaS is part and parcel of the industry. With customer needs constantly evolving – and in a busy, noisy world – it’s all too easy for your product update to slip through the cracks. Getting it right is a balancing act: you need to make sure your users know what’s changed, without bombarding or overwhelming them with in-app communication.

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7 Pitfalls for Apache Cassandra in Production

Apache Cassandra is an open-source distributed database that boasts an architecture that delivers high scalability, near 100% availability, and powerful read-and-write performance required for many data-heavy use cases. However, many developers and administrators who are new to this NoSQL database often encounter several challenges that can impact its performance.