Product Talk

MARCH 13, 2024

Instead, they hand off work from team to team—the back-end engineers design the data model and system architecture, the front-end engineers build the interface elements, the mobile engineers work toward feature parity, etc. and it created confusion for the lead devs with regards to how they would participate in the teams.

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Mind the Product

FEBRUARY 8, 2020

What exactly is technical debt? In this ProductTank San Francisco talk, Asa Schachar, Engineering Manager at Optimizely , explains exactly what technical debt is and how to stop it from slowing down the product development process. How to deal with technical debt. How to Deal With Technical Debt.

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Product Talk

OCTOBER 11, 2023

Assumption testing is at the heart of what good continuous discovery teams do week over week. It’s how we evaluate which ideas will work and which won’t. But before we can test our assumptions, we have to identify them. The challenge is that we need to be able to see our assumptions before we can test them.

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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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Userpilot

NOVEMBER 21, 2023

In his talk, Jason talked about how product managers can upskill to meet the challenges in their daily work and how to make sure that their organizations value their work. How to upskill as a product manager. Tech debt will eventually catch up with you if you don’t take time to fix things as you go. Let’s dive in!

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The Product HQ

MAY 10, 2024

That said, while startup product managers are in demand, many prospective professionals still have difficulty figuring out how to embark on this career path. Step 2: Become a Certified Technical Product Manager Many companies have their own internal training programs and certification processes.

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PMLesson's Ace the PM Interview

MAY 16, 2022

This article is part of our series on Security Engineering. If you're interviewing for engineering roles, don't miss our Complete Software Engineering Interview Course. It is currently one of the most in-demand tech positions. In this article, you'll learn: What Is a Security Engineer?

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Mixpanel

FEBRUARY 23, 2024

Onboarding new users is one of the biggest challenges a technical product faces. This is doubly true when a portion of those would-be users don’t have technical backgrounds. Both the Mixpanel team and our partners over at Segment know how crunchy user onboarding can be. What does use case-driven onboarding look like?

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Mixpanel

JANUARY 3, 2022

Engineers are always looking for ways to differentiate themselves. Here are four ways you can position yourself as the go-to engineer for everything product analytics—and simultaneously make yourself invaluable to both the product and engineering teams. Spearhead a slick analytics implementation. You’d be celebrated.

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Mironov Consulting

OCTOBER 19, 2022

Product management doesn’t run Engineering; Engineering runs Engineering. And at least in public, Engineering and Product leadership need to be shoulder-to-shoulder , actively supporting each other at every turn. But there are some engineering team configurations that I see as problematic.  So

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PMLesson's Ace the PM Interview

MARCH 21, 2022

Trying to better understand the software engineer career path? Want to know what your next steps are as an engineer as you make your way to CTO? An engineering career can go in many different directions depending on your technical skill set and what you want out of a job. We've got your covered.

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Mixpanel

APRIL 18, 2024

For one, in an ideal scenario, any new feature release requires a healthy amount of testing and, unlike B2C companies which build for general consumers and might have millions of users, most B2Bs are lucky to have a few thousand people regularly using their products. How does it work? Take Mixpanel, for example. Who is it designed for?

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ProductPlan

SEPTEMBER 21, 2023

Best Practice: Incorporate regularly scheduled meetings every couple weeks or so to review your progress on your OKRs, and make sure you’re still on the right track. Are you curious to see how ProductPlan’s end-to-end product management platform can support your organization’s OKRs? Request a demo today!

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PMLesson's Ace the PM Interview

OCTOBER 6, 2021

Being one of the largest tech companies on the planet, it should come as no surprise that landing a job at Facebook is not necessarily a walk in the park. This is especially true if you're looking to join the technical program management team. The questions are both challenging and Facebook-specific. Feeling overwhelmed? Have no fear!

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The Product Coalition

JUNE 11, 2023

By contrast, work samples, cognitive testing, and structured interviews all provide more accurate predictions, with cognitive testing and structured interviews each offering roughly twice the predictive power of unstructured interviews. Combining cognitive tests with structured interviews yields even better results.

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Userpilot

JANUARY 9, 2024

Use qualitative data, such as user surveys, usability testing, session recordings, and heatmaps, to answer why the trends exist. Review and analyze to identify improvement opportunities. A step-by-step guide to the UX audit process There are no standardized steps on how to conduct a UX audit. Design a user survey with Userpilot.

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The Product Coalition

JANUARY 27, 2024

Digital technology has inadvertently become a significant contributor to the growing carbon footprint of the tech industry. How To Calculate Carbon Footprint in Software Source: Green Software Foundation While various formulas exist for this purpose, the Software Carbon Intensity metric is particularly effective.

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Product Management Unpacked

NOVEMBER 2, 2021

The event was organized by Energy Systems Network, an initiative of the Central Indiana Corporate Partnership, a non-profit industry consortium promoting innovation in advanced energy technology. As a business engineer, just like a Product Manager, you’re trained to perform different key roles in an organization.”. Mid-summer test.

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The Product Coalition

MARCH 18, 2021

If you are then you need to know how to build a SaaS application, and that’s exactly what we will cover in this article. E.g., you need to look for experience in the industry you target and the technology stack. Test it in the market. He/she needs to document the architectural decisions, and this needs a structured review.

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The Product Coalition

MARCH 8, 2024

They involve integrating digital technologies and processes into every aspect of your business, from operations to customer interactions. It’s not just about adopting the latest gadgets, but about using technology to drive meaningful change and achieve specific business goals. What is the importance of digital transformation?

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Product Talk

FEBRUARY 28, 2024

The idea was that her trio would test out the concepts from Continuous Discovery Habits and then guide the broader product organization at Going to adopt the habits. They weren’t sure how to show their work and bring their stakeholders along with them. Next, their tech lead created some lo-fi mockups in FigJam.

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Lenny Rachitsky

FEBRUARY 22, 2024

. • Sendbird —The (all-in-one) communications API platform for mobile apps • Explo —Embed customer-facing analytics in your product — Elizabeth Stone is the chief technology officer of Netflix. The annual cycle focuses on gathering feedback for the sake of improvement rather than assigning ratings.

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The Product Coalition

DECEMBER 23, 2021

With the worldwide revenue from the financial technology sector to double by 2024 , fierce competition evolves. Fintech software represents specific challenges due to diverse dynamic content, graphs, tables, and more. How to make sure that such software products are truly universal? And here’s when UX testing steps in.

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Userpilot

JANUARY 15, 2024

But how do you know where to begin in UX design ? Let’s review the UI/UX roadmap, what UI and UX are, and how you can get into this career path. Mastering user research methodologies like interviews, surveys , and usability testing so you can understand user needs and behaviors. How to start with UI/UX design?

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Userpilot

JANUARY 20, 2024

Once a hypothesis is proven right, generate solution ideas and prioritize them in terms of impact and technical feasibility. Book the demo to see how it can help your team conduct RCA! The objective of RCA is to discover what caused a particular problem, why it happened, and how to prevent it from happening again.

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PMLesson's Ace the PM Interview

JUNE 19, 2022

You will need extensive technical experience to qualify for most professional cloud architect positions. So, how do you become a cloud architect then? A cloud architect is technically a subset of a solutions architect roles responsible for designing and implementing technical solutions to an organization's business problems.

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PMLesson's Ace the PM Interview

APRIL 6, 2020

Wondering how to become a PMM? Given how new and versatile the role is, product marketing management is also probably the least standardized role in tech companies, which makes the process of becoming a PMM quite obtuse and vague. Product marketing is one of the newest and most impactful roles within an organization.

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Userpilot

MARCH 7, 2024

Free tools offer basic functionalities but are limited in different aspects like customizations, technical support , and integrations with other apps. How to choose an analytics tool? Acquiring premium tools or enterprise versions is often off the table due to financial restrictions. Step 1: Define your goals. Source: UXtweak.

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Centercode

JANUARY 22, 2021

If you’re all about quality, you might describe perfection as a product that aces all its test scripts and doesn’t surprise you with bugs once it’s in the field. If you’re a skeptic (or an engineer), you might scoff and say: “Perfect? ” Gets positive reviews and increases revenue.

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Centercode

JULY 29, 2020

Begging for feedback from unenthusiastic or inexperienced testers is a frustratingly common occurrence for many beta and delta testing teams. But tester engagement — and the resulting feedback — are both vital to test success. In fact, recent research shows that even dedicated teams see beta test participation levels as low as 15%.

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Sachin Rekhi

AUGUST 4, 2021

Or PMs at larger established tech firms might see great PMs at work within their company, but they struggled to reverse engineer just how to recreate their success for themselves. This is due to the very process by which the roadmap is developed. I went on to discuss this skill gap with Brian Balfour, CEO of Reforge.

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The Product Coalition

DECEMBER 21, 2021

Let’s talk with Stas about how this kind of solution differs from the traditional approach to localization, how to train a machine and achieve high quality, and what disadvantages there are to artificial intelligence. There are machine translation engines available to companies for a one-time fee or by subscription.

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Centercode

MARCH 4, 2021

Every year, Consumer Reports tests thousands of products — from cars, to laptops, to WIFI-enabled speakers and appliances — and grades them on a scale of 0 to 100. A trusted source of unbiased product testing , their mission is to make it easier for consumers to make well-informed buying decisions. How do customers see the product?

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Mironov Consulting

FEBRUARY 28, 2024

  They are coming off customer calls, strategy sessions, renewal discussions, marketing automation planning sessions, compliance reviews, and industry analyst briefings that highlight improvements that must be made.    Not sure how practical it is, but I love it!    Now.   Please pull me in on those.”

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The Product Guy

AUGUST 1, 2019

A startup development team consisting of a product manager and two offshore engineers was facing major challenges in meeting client deliverable deadlines – repeatedly. Each major release deadline created a high pressure environment with engineers working overtime in the weeks prior in order to meet delivery dates. THE CHALLENGE.

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Product Talk

MAY 15, 2024

In each instance, Ellen found a solution that didn’t require too much time or technical know-how to set up. This meant that they could attach information like the user ID to the Typeform page and review it as part of the responses users provided. The best way to begin is with small steps. Was the output not good enough?

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Userpilot

JULY 9, 2021

Continuous Discovery Habits by Teresa Torres teaches you how to set up a continuous discovery system within your organization with actionable exercises. Product-Led Onboarding by Ramli John and Wes Bush is a new book about how to implement user onboarding for the ultimate customer retention.

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