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The Product Interview?—?A Technical Exercise

The Product Coalition

A Technical Exercise In this post, I’ll offer my idea of the sort of technical abilities expected from a product manager. Okay, those were way too many words to explain that knowledge is usually not a bad thing for a PM… Exercise 1: know your data structure Take the following data structure of a note-taking app. Names are fragile?—?they

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Why Usability Means Credibility in Cybersecurity

The Product Coalition

the names, characters, businesses, places, events, and identifying details have been changed to protect the reputations and privacy of all parties involved. They also do their best to hire specialists to build back end systems to ensure that the private information of the company and their clients are safe and secure.

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Permission To Stay Focused

Mironov Consulting

  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.  Crack the WIP Agilists and systems thinkers call this the WIP/Work in Progress.  There’s

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Product in Practice: Finding the Best Way to Communicate with Different Stakeholders

Product Talk

If you’re a longtime Product Talk reader (or if you’ve read Continuous Discovery Habits), Lisa’s name might sound familiar. To ensure that engineers got the most out of the meetings, Lisa asked them to participate in a dot voting exercise so they could have a say in what type of information they care about most. You ask them!

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446: Winning at new products – with Bob Cooper, PhD

Product Innovation Educators

Our guest is Dr. Robert Cooper, who discovered the now famous Stage-Gate process and was named the “World’s Top Innovation Management Scholar” by the prestigious Journal of Product Innovation Management. Maybe it is time for a tough re-review of the entire set of projects to kill some of them to benefit the whole portfolio.

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3 Tips for Developing Courses Your Customers Will Love

Gainsight

Go through this exercise—solo or with your team—for the customer segments you’re creating courses for right now. Then, Lila and her team review that feedback and iterate courses accordingly. Ask yourself: What are their business and product goals? Where are they in the customer journey?

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Here’s Why You Should Write Unit Tests

Modus Create

There are two types of unit testing: Manual : As the name implies, unit tests are run manually to verify the correctness of your code. The time to fix these issues could’ve been used to build new features or optimize the existing system. Name your tests appropriately. Different levels of software testing. Conclusion.