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A Solo Designer’s Journey in a Fast-Growing Startup

UX Planet

From design-team-of-thirty to design-team-of-one Over the past two years, I have been a design-team-of-one at a fast-growing startup, and the experience has been nothing short of a rollercoaster. In a startup environment, where resources are often limited, collaboration becomes not just a preference but a necessity.

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Efficient Product Feedback Loop – Best Customer Strategies & Latest Tools

The Basics of Product Management

An efficient and easy product feedback loop is an essential component of every successful product. Setting up an effective customer feedback loop is one of the primary responsibilities of the product team. Product Feedback Loop – Strategies. Product Feedback Loop – Tools.

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Make better decisions faster: The 6 stages of quick, effective decision-making

Intercom, Inc.

Speed is every startup’s biggest competitive advantage. The second challenge is implementing a feedback loop. These broad information-gathering exercises are typically an inefficient, cumbersome, and unnecessary step. Your decision-making process is slowing you down. . Stage 6: Review the decision.

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Helping Product Managers to Let Go by Michael Sippey

Mind the Product

No one can be a product manager without being an optimist, but “optimistic” feedback loops can expose real product challenges. In the startup context, thinking big should be unconstrained and boundless. Practise this exercise during crucial conversations in one-on-ones, with management, and during staff meetings.

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How Software Products are Created in Test Kitchens

The Product Coalition

We have a direct feedback loop with our pharmacy for determining areas of improvement and quickly testing new innovative solutions. Bevy’s product was unintentionally incubated through a sister organization, Startup Grind. Startup Grind created a product to facilitate and manage the Startup Grind community.

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Personas: A Waste Of Money And Time

The Product Coalition

They’re often bound together with another time-wasting exercise in a digital globalised world?—?user The reality is, all the research indicates the exact opposite and it’s something that has even been picked up on by Eric Ries, author of The Lean Startup. “We And: “If you are asking, you’re not there yet.” Think about it.

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6 Things Product Managers Can Do with Qualitative Research

ProductPlan

Smaller startups may only be able to use one or two efficient and cheap methods, whereas massive companies will be able to do much more. It’ll help inform your communication style with your customers, making marketing significantly easier, and help you build feedback loops into your product.