Userpilot

JANUARY 8, 2024

With the right customer acquisition strategies, you can convert potential customers to paying users and set the stage for turning them into long-term loyal users. As you read on, you will learn: The power of search engines, content marketing, and existing user testimonials and how to leverage them to win new users.

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Userpilot

MAY 1, 2024

Before starting his own venture, Lenny worked in the product and engineering teams of companies like Airbnb and Neustar. Renowned for his tenure on Airbnb’s product team, Lenny’s professional journey truly began in 2010 when he served as the CEO of a budding startup named “Localmind.”

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The Product Coalition

DECEMBER 21, 2020

Experimental Design For Product Testing?—?Important Take, for instance, a food scientist who believes that a new flavour enhancer could improve consumer demand, or a pharmaceutical company that have developed a medication which they believe could relieve high-blood pressure. This article assumes a basic understanding of A/B testing.

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The Product Coalition

MAY 1, 2023

The team stressed. Then in strolls the design team, telling us to step back. Another blocker in my path preventing me from moving the product team into action. However, I’ve learned that cutting corners early in product strategy development leads to significant hurdles later on. We needed to deliver, not discuss.

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The Product Coalition

DECEMBER 23, 2021

“If you think good design is expensive, you should look at the cost of bad design,” Ralf Speth, a former Jaguar Land Rover CEO. The study by the Design Management Institute analyzed the performance of design-led organizations that place influential design decisions at the top as compared to the Standard & Poor’s index over 10 years.

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Userpilot

DECEMBER 13, 2023

How do you develop a robust UX strategy? We also look at: What a UX design strategy is Why it’s important Its core principles and elements A practical example of a company with well-established UX strategies Let’s dive right in! Start designing your strategy by clarifying the business goals.

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The Product Coalition

OCTOBER 13, 2021

To stay competitive in this new environment, tech-savvy C-levels put advanced technologies in the center of their winner-takes-all strategies. In the article, I’ll cover the most significant mobile software testing types to bear in mind on the digital transformation journey. from insecure cryptography to weak passwords ?

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Intercom, Inc.

MARCH 15, 2018

As a startup scales, the importance of infrastructure engineers simply can’t be overstated. They’re the ones making sure your app is secure, that uptime looks good, and that the rest of your engineering org has the right tools to build features your users need and want. The tenets of foundation engineering at Stripe.

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Mironov Consulting

NOVEMBER 10, 2016

As noted in my last post , Sales and Marketing often wonder whether Engineering is sufficiently motivated and engaged. Motivation and engagement look different on the tech side of the room: the outbound team often can’t tell whether Engineering is emotionally engaged. Some Engineering teams are unmotivated, though.

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Mironov Consulting

FEBRUARY 28, 2024

An essential role of CPOs and other product leaders that’s never listed in the job description is giving organizational 'air cover' to product managers to postpone almost all new requests — so that their teams can finish work already underway.    Lately, I’m calling this permission to stay focused.

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Ronke PM

MARCH 26, 2024

These leaders understand that bringing effective products, solutions, and services to market requires consensus building and engaging cross-functional teams in the journey. After all, the partner teams build products, not the product manager alone. We just execute differently, and sometimes we have a bad day or week.

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The Product Guy

APRIL 9, 2019

Journey Into the World of Strategy. The notion of a strategy in product management seems like something that only high-level stakeholders at the executive level should care about. After all, many product managers tend to treat a strategy as something that’s scared and driven top-down from the executive management level.

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Mironov Consulting

DECEMBER 17, 2023

  The upside (for the sales team) is huge, and the cost (for product/engineering/support) is diffuse.    Closing this $480k/year license deal is highly visible to the exec team and Board.  Their market strategy team realizes they need one more field mapped.    Far away. 

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UX Studio: Product Management

JUNE 22, 2021

They get most of the recognition, but they also have to be involved in everything, which is super tiring and often leads to stress, burnout, and bad health. They don’t have to make every decision and double-check everything done by their teams. Context: the most important tool to empower your team. All without their manager.

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Intercom, Inc.

AUGUST 15, 2018

On day one as Reddit’s new VP of Engineering, Nick Caldwell faced a dilemma. He had just spent 13 years at Microsoft, most recently as the head of 300 engineers. At Reddit, he led a team of 35 – none of whom knew how to manage other engineers. Managers oversee their team members’ work and career development.

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Roman Pichler

FEBRUARY 11, 2020

If the teams developing the different apps all created their own user-interface layers, there would be considerable code duplication, added development costs, and increased development time. After all, a platform exists to help teams build better products faster and cheaper. Assign a Platform Owner.

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Userpilot

NOVEMBER 30, 2023

A market gap can be caused by missing functionality or poor user experience. Tracking user behavior in-app enables product teams to find ways to improve product experience. Competitor analysis enables PMs to find areas where rivals fail customers and develop sound positioning and differentiation strategies.

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The Product Coalition

JULY 11, 2022

Learn how to build a DEEP backlog and conduct productive refinement calls in order to maintain a happy and agile team. Is the work well distributed throughout the team, or are some overwhelmed while others with too much spare time? A not well refined backlog causes many problems for the team. Let's start with a reflection.

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Mironov Consulting

MAY 16, 2020

A topic that’s come up several times recently in my product leader coaching sessions: how much to delegate to the (individual contributor) product managers on our teams – including different ways of building product skills and balancing personal empowerment against good results.

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Alchemer Mobile

NOVEMBER 9, 2022

My team is too small. Speaking up might spur a conversation around how to adjust your role to better fit your needs, or better yet, to bring in another team member to share your workload. Limited team bandwidth. Myth #2: Product managers should let technical architecture drive the strategy. Too many responsibilities.

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Split

MARCH 29, 2024

A production environment in software development is the final stage where applications meet end-users. Furthermore, clearly distinguishing the production environment from the staging, testing, and development environments is a fundamental step in the software development process.

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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. In engineering-driven organizations, product management can be very feature-focused. False: “We don’t need to user test. We already do testing.”

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Amir Rozenberg

AUGUST 5, 2017

In our business, we have a unique opportunity to see the strategic problems which, sadly, lead some teams to fall short of their web quality goals. The direct outcome of these failures: poor customer experiences and impacts on businesses’ bottom lines. So, you’d like the recipe for cross-browser testing success?

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The Product Coalition

JUNE 14, 2020

If the product leader on the client side is non-responsive, lingering with decision-making, doesn’t provide direction and priorities, doesn’t do requirements, this causes inefficiencies in the work of the engineering team. But what is tactic without a strategy? Can you imagine a role of ‘proxy test engineer’?

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Userpilot

APRIL 29, 2021

The Build Trap leads to spending more and more of your development resources on building and maintaining new features, rather than improving UX and feature adoption. This can make your product and team slower, make your UX more complicated, and overall – add little value for your customers. This can obviously backfire badly.

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Lenny Rachitsky

APRIL 2, 2024

Growth at Duolingo has continued to go exponential, and VP of Engineering Sean Colombo has been there through it all. In the past five years, Sean’s team has grown Duolingo’s daily active users from 5 million to nearly 30 million today (over 6x!), Please forgive me, Data Platform and Data Science & Analytics teams!

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The Product Coalition

FEBRUARY 12, 2024

As a result, the team struggled with how to prepare. I made it no longer than three minutes into the presentation and got this subtle feeling that the team was unprepared. Yeah, I was seemingly in a bad mood. The team was shutting down. I apologized to the team and said we would pick it up next week.

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Userpilot

AUGUST 21, 2023

Product managers often work in cross-functional teams and bridge the gap between multiple departments. Product managers need to put themselves in the shoes of company executives, other team members, and of course end users so a strong affinity for empathy will go a long way. What qualities do you look for in a strong product team?

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Mixpanel

JUNE 10, 2020

This understanding of why we do what we do is core to our product strategy, and informs every decision we make. On the NerdWallet team, we go beyond a binary “pass / fail” grade on demo days with Engineering, Product and Design. These turkey demos have surfaced key learnings for our team. what the heck is a Roth IRA?),

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Userpilot

JANUARY 22, 2024

The framework is a roadmap for creating a winning product marketing strategy that drives effective resource allocation and provides a flexible foundation for growth. A good product marketing framework has three main components: a go-to-market strategy , a product marketing strategy, and a growth strategy.

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Mind the Product

FEBRUARY 20, 2020

Ultimately, your resume should itself signal that you have the skills required to be a successful product manager on any team. As a hiring manager, I want to hire great storytellers, s o the team can work towards a unified vision. . I could use this same sentence for a product, scrum master, or engineering manager role.

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Iteratively Blog

DECEMBER 17, 2020

But how do you fix the garbage that is bad data management and quality? Especially if you don’t have control over the implementation of tracking code (as is the case with many data teams). Now, let’s look at why data teams struggle with this validation, and how they can overcome the challenges of it. Well, it’s tricky.

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Modus Create

AUGUST 24, 2021

Software engineers have been testing ever since they could write code. However, the ability to automate software tests commercially emerged only in the 1980s with the introduction of AutoTester. In this article, we will explain why you should write unit tests. . What is Unit Testing? Why Do We Need Unit Testing?

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Userpilot

NOVEMBER 21, 2023

Product launch checklists help align the efforts of all team members, enhance quality assurance, help mitigate risks, enable the evaluation of the launch, and help you deliver a better customer experience. Develop a product that meets customer needs and expectations. If you can find buyers at this stage, you’re onto something.

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Amir Rozenberg

AUGUST 5, 2017

In our business, we have a unique opportunity to see the strategic problems which, sadly, lead some teams to fall short of their web quality goals. The direct outcome of these failures: poor customer experiences and impacts on businesses’ bottom lines. So, you’d like the recipe for cross-browser testing success?

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Intercom, Inc.

APRIL 19, 2018

In engineering, you want to move fast, ship often and solve real customer problems. It means reducing choices amongst engineering teams and standardizing technology, so our team can spend as much time as possible delivering value to customers. Rich: Today I’m the Senior Director for Foundations Engineering at Intercom.

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DISQO

JUNE 30, 2017

Input from executives is only less common than input from product owners, engineering teams, and the product managers themselves. The challenge for product leaders is that ideas from the C-Suite often lack customer validation and therefore put teams at risk of investing resources in ideas that won’t be successful.

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