The Product Coalition

MAY 27, 2021

You might start out doing PM one way at the start of your career, and then have developed a completely different set of frameworks and techniques by the end. It’s mostly a thought exercise, so don’t worry about not having the right experience. Why they’re asking: Bigger companies know that their name carries a certain amount of clout.

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The Product Coalition

FEBRUARY 12, 2024

Prioritization is the most important exercise a product team can take when it comes to a roadmap. Accountability with names tied to each item on the roadmap is critical. It’s not possible to do everything, so you must choose. Ownership —  This one is simple. Who owns the roadmap? Who owns each feature?

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UX Planet

FEBRUARY 25, 2024

Jakob’s Law (named after Jakob Nielsen) states that since users spend most of their time on other websites, they prefer your site to work the same way as all the other sites they already encountered with. As a result, you’ll have an approach or framework for training your designer eye on a daily basis.

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The Product Coalition

JULY 24, 2020

Check out more insightful sketches by Jono Hey on sketchplanations.com This article is part of a wider guide on how to establish a product discovery framework in your organization. Up until this point in the blog series, the focus has been all about establishing the framework. When creating customer profiles?—?guess guess what?

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Userpilot

JULY 9, 2023

Teresa Torres, product management coach and the author of the continuous discovery framework , recommends starting prioritization with the problems to identify those that will have the biggest impact on user experience. There are a number of prioritization techniques you can use at this stage, like the RICE framework.

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Product Innovation Educators

JANUARY 7, 2019

A simple framework for product managers to increase focus and eliminate distractions from your day. That begins by getting more done today and our guest has the four-part framework for making that happen. By the way, Jake is the other co-author of the four-part Make Time framework we are about to discuss in detail.

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Product Innovation Educators

APRIL 10, 2023

His name is Doug Stone. When you do qualitative interviews to get the Jobs-to-be-Done, use a cognitive framework to organize the discussion guide. This is a great empathy exercise for clients, but it’s not worth the time. His name is Doug Stone. We then need to know what is most important to tackle first.

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Mind the Product

MAY 4, 2018

The workshops contained many hands-on exercises that gave the participants the opportunity to learn about each other’s backgrounds and perspectives. One recurring theme was the notion that as product managers we should care more about people than about frameworks, tools, and methods. Blind-Date Dinners. The Future.

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Amplitude

MAY 7, 2018

As a result, many modern product teams have decided to abandon personas altogether and adopt practices like user scenarios, user stories, or the “Jobs to be Done” framework instead. The quadrant even provided a framework to take our analysis to the next level. Side note: Choosing names for personas. Names matter.

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The Product Coalition

AUGUST 12, 2019

Given that its sibling empiricism is an integral part of Scrum as a framework, applying Scrum first principles thinking is also a useful exercise. First principles thinking alongside empiricism formed an essential part of ancient Greek philosophy, namely Aristotle‘s. Learn more about how to Elon Musk the Scrum Guide.

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The Product Coalition

MAY 17, 2021

Given that Scrum is a framework with a precise and concise yet short “manual,” this effect should not surprise anyone. Suppose “good” failure is not celebrated as a critical part of the learning process, and incrementalism becomes the name of the game. There are plenty of Scrum stakeholder failures.

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The Product Coalition

APRIL 14, 2020

The Scrum Master encourages the Scrum Team to improve, within the Scrum process framework, its development process and practices to make it more effective and enjoyable for the next Sprint. For example, in the Conversation Café exercise during rounds 1, 2, and 4, everyone is muted except the individual that is sharing his or her thoughts.

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UX Planet

DECEMBER 11, 2023

Elaine’s Notes on Domestika This course is jam-packed with introductory concepts, principles, and easy-to-follow thought exercises. Heidi and Rebecca are both legends in the industry, and there’s so much lived experienced that they can both share, as well as well-formed frameworks for how to approach design work in Conversational AI.

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Userpilot

AUGUST 10, 2023

Behavioral targeting and automation is a rapidly evolving space that brings several key benefits: to name a few, you can boost customer engagement, drive loyalty , and increase retention. Firstly, you need to conduct a mapping exercise: defining user behaviors, and which messages you’d like sent in which situation.

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Modus Create

AUGUST 24, 2021

There are two types of unit testing: Manual : As the name implies, unit tests are run manually to verify the correctness of your code. We have several frameworks for unit testing. Name your tests appropriately. Also, when you test very small units, your tests can run fast, like a thousand tests in a second fast. Conclusion.

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Roman Pichler

SEPTEMBER 11, 2023

Listen to the audio version of this article: [link] Organise the Team around a Product As the name suggests, a product team is focused on a product. This individual leads the product team, not by being the boss but by exercising emergent leadership. To help you with this, I’ve created the framework shown in Figure 2.

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Nulab

MAY 26, 2021

Come up with a new name for the business. Use the SMART framework again to help team members make sure their goals fit the criteria and be on-hand to offer support (not everyone is good at goal-setting). Increase customer reviews by 10% by the end of the first quarter. Hold four interviews a week to hire a new project manager.

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Roman Pichler

MAY 5, 2020

As its name suggests, a product owner in Scrum is in charge of a product. Note that the choice of the name is intentional. The other product people involved should have roles whose names correctly reflect their scope of ownership, as I discuss below. Scrum Product Owner. SAFe Product Owner.

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Userpilot

JANUARY 25, 2021

These questions have a lot to do with Tony Ulwick’s Jobs-To-Be-Done-Framework. The persona is much more focused on goals and pain points collected during user journey mapping exercises, in-app surveys, and interviews ( which is what we will be focusing on in this article ). What is their primary goal? Elizabeth Wu.

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ProductPlan

MARCH 26, 2020

If you’re not making regular appearances in front of senior management and on a first-name basis with the powers that be, it’s time to change that if you have ambitions for loftier roles. Include senior management in prioritization exercises. Create roadmap views and presentations specifically for executives.

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Product Bookshelf

AUGUST 22, 2016

Transform yourself into an ‘idea person’ by looking for inspiration with everyday activities and creative-thinking exercises. Don’t be afraid to start from scratch, adapt observed ideas, and use the Thinkertoys frameworks to unlock your imagination. When faced with a problem, start breaking it down into parts. by Susan Weinschenk.

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Intercom, Inc.

JULY 19, 2018

Louis: When you think about teams, beyond 1:1 conversations, have you found any frameworks that work well for teams to talk about things like this? Those frameworks work best when people can build upon an existing strong relationships as well as a place to be safe. An engineer is never alone in their problems.

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Modus Create

JULY 1, 2020

I had been on a sort of health kick for a few years: I quit smoking, I started walking to get low impact exercise, and so on. Some of the variable names in the framework are similar and I’d confuse two of them – even though I am very familiar with the code base and have a decade of experience with it.

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The Product Coalition

MARCH 21, 2019

Why are we doing feature [feature name]?” Every feature being proposed in our yearly planning exercise required a spreadsheet that estimated how much money was going to be made. When I first joined Apple Maps in November 2014, I was handed the feature list for the year. I would ask. When I was in Bing Ads this happened to me.

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Amplitude

NOVEMBER 12, 2018

So to keep teams from letting that happen, I ask them to go through a pre-mortem exercise. And there are nuances to practicing growth well, but it’s just easier to understand the name. It’s much more common in enterprises, where they have the runway and resources to pursue “the perfect decision.” That’s a tough one.

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Business of Software Conference

FEBRUARY 26, 2019

Uh, so the first one is a, there’s a, an architect named Will Brooder. Uh, and I said, you should look up an artist named Meg Dogood. Um, so this is an exercise I’ve done with teams and I’ve done on my own. So I had the privilege of meeting this woman named Stacey Kirk. That’s okay. Um, yeah.

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Roadmunk

APRIL 12, 2018

Listen to the episode below: As we continue to explore the human side of product this season, we’ve paired up with Mike Belsito and Michael Sacca (same first name!), Eleni: I was saying before we started this chat that I have personally never interviewed two people with the same name at the same time so we will see how this goes!

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Intercom, Inc.

OCTOBER 1, 2020

It would include customer support, along with buying a domain name, along with building a peak feature, because there were four of us and there was that sort of chaotic sense of everyone does everything. We had a ground re-think just as an exercise in making sure we weren’t falling into that trap ourselves.

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Intercom, Inc.

OCTOBER 1, 2020

It would include customer support, along with buying a domain name, along with building a peak feature, because there were four of us and there was that sort of chaotic sense of everyone does everything. We had a ground re-think just as an exercise in making sure we weren’t falling into that trap ourselves.

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PMLesson's Ace the PM Interview

OCTOBER 24, 2020

Finally, you'll need to conduct some technical exercises before the conclusion of your phone interview. In some of the shorter phone screenings, technical exercises may be excluded. Be sure to ask questions such as: Should I expect behavioral questions, or should I prepare for a technical exercise or both?

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Modus Create

MAY 20, 2020

In the ’60s, his first attempt at creating a supercomputer failed with huge financial losses – but undeterred, Watson went on to make IBM a household name. Not easy, oversimplified and very hypothetical, but an evaluation framework could help. .” As the second president of IBM, Thomas Watson Jr.,

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Product Talk

JULY 19, 2023

And if you’re working within the continuous discovery framework, there’s a good chance you’re already using the opportunity solution tree to record and track many of these activities. Without the framework, I was constantly bouncing between things.” And the end result of this exercise?

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Intercom, Inc.

NOVEMBER 28, 2018

With at least 830 vendors in the space and more being added daily, building your tech stack can quickly become an overwhelming exercise, even for the most experienced of us in sales operations. Simple frameworks for choosing your sales tools. Put simply: Work that is high in value and requires a high touch should be accelerated.

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The Product Coalition

DECEMBER 20, 2021

The result of such exercises surprised even me. My students themselves began to give clarify names of the variables, their code began to correspond better to the Code Convention, and much more intelligible comments appeared in their works. Work with Mockito (or other mock testing frameworks). Use special forums to find this.

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Product Talk

SEPTEMBER 6, 2023

Just to give us a bit more of an idea of what we’re working with here today, I thought it’d be nice if we did a quick exercise. Petra: Quickly the question is, how do we deal with people that are not catching up with the methodologies and framework and the market as product leads? Petra: But we know it’s not.

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Product Talk

MAY 10, 2023

That was my first introduction to the continuous discovery framework. There were some things that I’d been doing in my role or at past jobs that as I was introduced to it, I was like, “Oh, this is like that thing I was doing, but it’s got a name and more of a process to it than what I was already doing.”

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Business of Software Conference

JANUARY 28, 2019

So – and then when I read into it, actually they were well thought out, if you read behind the names, there’s some well done research and arguments and they really said that brainstorming under certain circumstances is no more productive than other means of coming up with ideas. And then it got even worse. The first thing I say is this.

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