The Product Coalition

MAY 25, 2021

The value of a test kitchen when creating a product is immense. The ability to test and iterate based on real usage with real users is invaluable to getting to the root of a problem, understanding a user’s existence, and removing friction. So, what does a product test kitchen look like? There are essentially two different types.

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Userzoom

MAY 30, 2019

As part of our UX 101 education series , where we discuss the different types of studies and research methodologies you can use with the UserZoom platform, we’d like to introduce our readers to the exciting world of in-lab testing! What is in-lab testing? What are typical use cases for in-lab testing? No worries!

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The Product Coalition

DECEMBER 20, 2021

QA Automation Engineer is a product quality assurance specialist who creates tests with the help of software tools and verifies execution results. The main task of the QA-automator is to create automatic scripts that will check the work of the program based on test cases written by QA-manuals.

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Product Innovation Educators

AUGUST 29, 2022

We develop personas with names and pictures so when we’re talking through solutions we can picture those people and ask how our solution applies to them and whether they care about the features we’re building. [15:16] This doesn’t have to be a time-consuming or expensive exercise. You also need to provide data.

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Product Innovation Educators

OCTOBER 26, 2020

His name is Steve Glaveski and we discuss his system for getting more accomplished in less time. Test: Evaluate assumptions on an ongoing basis. Instead, test to know whether you should continue doing what you’re doing. Instead, test to know whether you should continue doing what you’re doing.

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Lenny Rachitsky

FEBRUARY 25, 2025

Basic definitions Strategy has benefited from several excellent foundational frameworks over the years, from Michael Porter’s work to Good Strategy Bad Strategy , Playing to Win , and The Art of War , to name a few. Next, cluster related problems into broader themes, and give each theme a relatively short and pithy name.

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Product Talk

OCTOBER 20, 2021

That’s why Teresa named her book Continuous Discovery Habits. Another advantage of tools like Intercom and Pendo is that you can set up A/B tests of your recruitment intercepts to better understand what kind of phrasing or types of incentives best engage your customers.”. Continuous discovery is about changing your behavior.

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Product Talk

JULY 19, 2023

You know (or you’re in the process of learning) how to identify opportunities , consider different solutions, and identify and test your assumptions. For the opportunity “reduce waste,” Amy has identified and tested a few solutions such as buying second-hand clothing and composting food scraps.

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Mind the Product

MAY 25, 2018

In 2012, when I was working as part of the JustGiving team responsible for innovative products and disruptive business models, we decided to test how people could raise money for non-charitable good causes. And for that, we needed a new name… Output of one naming brainstorm. 2014 – Testing and Growing the Team.

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Product Innovation Educators

JANUARY 7, 2019

Our guest is John Zeratsky co-author of Make Time: How to Focus on What Matters Every Day, He previously wrote the New York Times bestseller Sprint: How to Solve Big Problems and Test New Ideas in Just Five Days, which describes the Google Design Spring process invented by Jake Knapp. 26:23] The last part of the framework is Reflect.

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Product Talk

OCTOBER 2, 2024

. – Tweet This Yury says he was fortunate enough to start his career in product management at a company with a strong product culture, where regular customer interviewing , assumption testing , and a problem-first mindset was the norm. At HiveMQ, Continuous Discovery Habits has been required reading for the team. “I

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Mind the Product

SEPTEMBER 18, 2018

We test our ideas again and again. He had an amazing ability to get things done; to maneuver the human networks of the military to get supplies, Jeeps, passes, medicines – you name it. He sensed a problem and had a solution before anyone else in the camp even had a clue it existed (thus the name “Radar”).

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Mind the Product

APRIL 11, 2018

Two years from its initial launch and Wriggle had evolved from an idea about using tech to tackle food waste into a known name for a certain set of app-savvy urbanites in Bristol. In London, the office lunch market is cornered by chain stores with names like Pod and EAT serving packaged sandwiches and salads. First Expansion.

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Product Talk

MARCH 30, 2016

Gazzaniga named this tendency to rationalize our behavior even when we can’t possibly know the reason as the “left brain interpreter” and later studies have shown that we all have an active “left brain interpreter.”. Let’s try a little exercise. So why did I take the time to explain this complex experiment? We all do it.

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The Product Coalition

JULY 17, 2022

As the name suggests, the mechanism for determining customers’ favoured features is to give them each a fixed amount of play money for the exercise (denominated in poker chips, jelly beans, Monopoly money, etc.). How to use it? Then, let them spend that money on the proposed products? Earliest usable product ?—?A

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Product Talk

FEBRUARY 10, 2016

By the way, now that this has turned into an ongoing research process, it’s not too late to add your name to the list. Or maybe through split testing. Quantitative research, on the other hand, includes methods like surveys, A/B testing, multivariate testing, and traffic analysis. How to Choose Interview Participants.

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Product Management Lessons from the Trenches

SEPTEMBER 11, 2018

Below are some of the high-level category of KPIs you want to continuously measure and many of them would have come out of the exercises we covered in the previous couple of posts. As I mentioned above, once you have defined your business formula and found your critical event, the rest is relatively simple.

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Mind the Product

APRIL 3, 2020

From choosing the seat that gives us the greatest feeling of power in a meeting to breathing exercises and how to imbue everyday items with feelings of confidence. “I was really happy to have a great opportunity to see how the materials that we have spent three years creating and testing worked in a digital setting.”

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The Product Coalition

MAY 27, 2021

This is a mini-test on how you deliver feedback, whilst also testing your awareness of the product. It’s mostly a thought exercise, so don’t worry about not having the right experience. What they want to know: You might be tempted to throw around the names of some popular prioritization techniques, and that’s fine.

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UX Planet

JUNE 9, 2025

Lets explore using atomic notes gathered into the wall-to-wall exercise of affinity diagrams with exploratory research scenario as the focus. Consider using annotative coding to tag notes with identifiers like participant names, themes.

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Amplitude

DECEMBER 10, 2020

Here’s a quick little exercise. The purpose of this exercise is to show you how we can go from plain language descriptions of what is possible with a product to event definitions. Collection ID and Collection Name). Using Amplitude’s Chrome Extension (as well as the product) we test to make sure things are working.

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The Product Coalition

APRIL 2, 2020

For this reason, I recommend you do this exercise in two passes. Naming Believe me, there’s nothing more dispiriting than wading through years of inconsistent event data, trying to figure out the difference between signedUp , User Signed Up , and New User. It is crucial to get the naming consistent from the very beginning.

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Userpilot

NOVEMBER 20, 2023

Product teams use the model to evaluate ideas, prioritize features , select tools , assess risks, or allocate resources, to name just a few. Before you do so, however, validate them through user interviews, surveys , fake door tests , or prototype experiments. So in the case of the enhanced exercise tracker, this is (1.5+1+0.9)/(3.5+1.2)=0.72

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Imaginary Cloud - Design

MAY 21, 2020

Besides that, kids have an easiness to enter their own world and transform what could be an everyday object into a castle, airplane, monster, you name it. For example, incentivising kids to learn how to write with a pen and paper it’s an important exercise for their dexterity, instead of only presenting on-screen exercises.

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Sachin Rekhi

AUGUST 15, 2016

Every interviewer is encouraged to ask whatever set of questions they felt appropriate to help them evaluate the core competencies they were testing for. So don’t expect to receive these specific questions, but instead this should help you understand the competencies that are typically being tested for in product management interviews.

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Product Talk

NOVEMBER 16, 2022

If Ellen’s name sounds familiar, you may recognize it because she’s both an active member of the CDH Slack community and was featured in a Product in Practice post about involving engineers in assumption testing. We’ve often seen your name in the weekly shoutouts for the Continuous Discovery Habits community. Tweet This.

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Product Talk

SEPTEMBER 6, 2023

Let’s test our assumptions. 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. How do we get our teams access to the right tools to quickly test assumptions? How often are they running assumption tests ? Here’s why.

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The Product Coalition

NOVEMBER 30, 2022

Over time, as the process has become a ‘framework,’ I’ve seen JTBD employed as a “problem-finding” exercise, focusing on how people use products. Even a really simple demand test using Google AdWords can help to refine how you frame the motive in tests. Teams who implement JTBD often come back with “ Problems To Be Solved.”

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The Product Coalition

JULY 10, 2020

Free paper on Conway from HBS: Exploring the Duality between Product and Organizational Architectures: A Test of the “Mirroring” Hypothesis.) Goodhart’s Law Back in 1975, the British economist Charles Goodhart first published the idea that would carry his name, when he wrote about monetary policy. imposed from the outside?—?with

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UX Studio

NOVEMBER 19, 2018

After these five days, you don’t just get an idea, product or design tested but also learn a very useful and exciting design sprint methodology which your team can use later on. In them, you and your team work very intensely together, hence the name “sprint”. After five full days, you get a design idea created and tested.

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The Product Coalition

SEPTEMBER 28, 2020

I don’t believe, that a learning organization can manage without running user tests continuously. Therefore, the Product Owner should explain not just the whole user testing process, but also how the Scrum Team is involved in product discovery. Or have stakeholders name product ambassadors who act as “liaison officers” and train them.

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Userzoom

MAY 29, 2019

It’s an exercise in eating-our-own-dogfood/drinking-our-own-champagne (delete whichever turns your stomach least), which we’ll document more fully in our forthcoming series on The UX of UserZoom. Name: Becky Wright. – – – – – Name: Rose Leitner. Role: Senior Product UX Researcher.

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Userpilot

JANUARY 20, 2024

It’s important to test messages with a sample of users and use A/B and multivariate tests to gauge their effectiveness and refine them based on engagement. Bio – their imaginary name, title/company/industry, favorite brands. A/B and multivariate tests are an effective method to do this. Message A/B testing.

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The Product Coalition

FEBRUARY 15, 2021

Fallacy #1: ‘Agile’ Equals More Bang for the Buck If you ask founders and managers of startups why they want to become an agile organization, they typically name reasons such as: Becoming more efficient in software delivery, Delivering faster, Improving the predictability of software deliveries. The exercise works for everyone?—?sales,

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Modus Create

FEBRUARY 20, 2020

As such, exercise caution when adding a CSP to existing websites. Testing the Results. Mozilla has created a great tool for testing the presence and validity of the aforementioned security headers on your website. Type the domain name of your website (E.g.: Directions. www.example.com). Click the Scan Me button.

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The Product Coalition

JANUARY 5, 2021

For example, institute regular meetings with each stakeholder or have stakeholders name product ambassadors, who then act as “liaison officers” and train them accordingly. For example, invite the individual to a user story mapping workshop or user tests.) There are various ways to establish and improve this communication over time.

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Intercom, Inc.

JUNE 2, 2022

” I said, “Ironically enough, Exercise Science is a major, so I can,” so that’s where I chose my major. So, I’ve been sitting in the business strategy space and research and development, concept testing futuristic elements that might eventually be in restaurants. His name was Kenneth Cooper.

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