UX Planet

JANUARY 22, 2025

This is not just a design exercise; its the essence of building long-term trust, loyalty and engagement. Stripe, for instance, has turned complex payment systems into an elegant and approachable experience, making developers and businesses fall in love with itsbrand. Your digital brand should connect with users on an emotional level.

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Userpilot

MAY 17, 2025

Screenshots must preview real value, the description must hit the problem you solve, and early reviews should reinforce trust. At this stage, delighted users can refer other people and give reviews about your app. The exercises adapt to my past scores, so the challenges stay hard enough to feel like leveling up.

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UX Planet

DECEMBER 6, 2024

Satisfaction leads to positive reviews, recommendations, and increased user retention. There are various types of e-learning apps, each designed to serve different educational needs and preferences: Learning Management Systems (LMS): With these platforms, you create and manage educational courses or training programs.

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PMLesson's Ace the PM Interview

MARCH 17, 2025

If this is your interview, you’ll likely participate in several group exercises, and you may also have a 1-on-1 in-person interview there. System design Design Netflix. Design an application performance monitoring system. Expect a standard system design question that you’ll have to solve on a whiteboard.

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PMLesson's Ace the PM Interview

FEBRUARY 24, 2025

Reviewed by Deeptaanshu Kumar, a VP of data engineering (ex-Capital One, Freddie Mac). Similarities Identical Rounds: Expect many of the same rounds, including coding exercises, behavioral interviews, and a recruiter screen. Below, we discuss how to prepare for and ace data engineering interviews. and schedule subsequent rounds.

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Sachin Rekhi

APRIL 5, 2020

One practice that both companies established was weekly executive-level metrics reviews. I've come to believe that establishing such a metrics review meeting is critical for developing an effective data-driven culture and I wanted to share some of the best practices around doing so. Why metrics reviews matter.

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The Product Coalition

NOVEMBER 2, 2021

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.

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The Product Guy

APRIL 9, 2019

In my company, we review a living document with our management chain on a quarterly basis to align business direction for the short-term (immediate one to two quarters) to the long-term (two to five years). No formal stakeholder review as this is meant to be the first version that will undergo many iterations and refinements.

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The Product Guy

MAY 7, 2020

Often, this is due to resource constraints rather than a lack of understanding of a PM role. Hence roadmapping is a crucial exercise which can make or break your product. This could be due to lack of product, domain, system understanding and action should be taken to address such instances soon. Product Roadmap.

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The Product Coalition

NOVEMBER 1, 2020

A well designed experimentation system allows a company to accelerate growth by creating faster feedback loops and enabling progressive delivery. Allocate time regularly- The only way to get enough ideas to run a high velocity testing system is to set aside time for it. How to prioritize the ideas for maximum business value?

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Melissa Perri

JULY 23, 2024

I review strategies and roadmaps. At the end of this review, I do a Product Leadership workshop with C-Suite and Product leaders, where I show them what good looks like, and they have a chance to reflect on where they are. Other Times, it's due to a lack of skill set in product leaders. Lots of data goes into pinpointing.

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Roman Pichler

JANUARY 7, 2020

But don’t forget to regularly review the product roadmap —at least once every three months, as a rule of thumb. Carry out this exercise together with the development team. Don’t forget to involve the development team in this exercise. This should give you an indication of the likely labour cost required.

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The Product Guy

OCTOBER 1, 2018

In my own experience, this opportunity canvas and the product vision definition forced me to think about aspects I had not considered such as the cost of building and of not building this new system, and made me analyse how the proposed solution could support future hardware devices. and approach the exercise with a ”Yes, And.”

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The Product Guy

JUNE 25, 2018

These exercises with your report on handling situations and identifying phrasing that will be well-received will pay large dividends in the development of your report and save you time in the long run. You’re working diligently on a high priority ask, but then you get blindsided by a request from a stakeholder. We’ve all been there.

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The Product Guy

MAY 21, 2018

What problems are you trying to solve by doing this product envisioning exercise? I stuttered – currently our company goal is to increase marketplace liquidity, but this exercise is not directly tied to the goal. Before getting into any details, Andy asked – What is your company goal? Start with clear company goals.

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Product Management University

MARCH 23, 2023

Selling Demos The selling demo on the other hand, is an exercise in customer value themes and storytelling. Can you explain how your system reads resumes from job applicants?” It’s one of the biggest reasons buyers go radio silent after a demo. Instead of going right into the explanation, you can do one of two things.

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Product Innovation Educators

AUGUST 5, 2024

Due to recent downsizing, our subject company had only five team members available for this crucial project. Trust-building exercise: Share a professional learning experience with your team, discussing the insights gained. Accountability system: Establish partnerships within the team for mutual support in achieving key objectives.

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Intercom, Inc.

OCTOBER 9, 2019

But the reason it resonated so much with readers was its powerful core finding – our brain has two very distinct modes, or systems, of thought: System 1 (fast, automatic, and impulsive) and System 2 (slow, conscious, and deliberative). Rule 1: Know when to lean on your fast System 1 reactions. Why does it matter?

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UX Planet

JANUARY 7, 2024

DESIGN WORKBOOKS How to put design theory into practice in an efficient way My favorite UX design workbooks: develop your skills by solving exercises Learning design theory is a good step towards becoming a better designer, but it is also important to put the things you’ve learned into practice.

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Agile Velocity

AUGUST 19, 2020

STATIK (Systems Thinking Approach To Implementing Kanban 1 2 ) can be a great technique to help teams get up and running quickly, even teams that are using Scrum. . How does work flow through the team/system? . How to design a kanban system that allows us to visualize and manage the work? Design kanban systems .

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Product Innovation Educators

JULY 17, 2023

When you do a portfolio review and re-rank all the projects, you find out that a few of them that look shiny and bright at the beginning are not quite so shiny and bright over time. 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. Have a good data system.

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Intercom, Inc.

MARCH 3, 2020

We’re confident this won’t help people game our system, but it will give you the best chance to show us your strengths. For example, we might really admire your visual design work, but we’ll also want to see how you influence product strategy, define the problem, understand the system, collaborate with others, and more.

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Alchemer Mobile

MARCH 26, 2021

We also recommend checking out our 2021 Mobile App Engagement Report as we break down more engagement and experience-focused stats by category such as retention, loyalty, ratings and reviews, shifted sentiment, in-app survey responses, and more. Stop talking about customer-centricity; turn it into action.

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Alchemer Mobile

MARCH 11, 2021

Unfortunately, app store reviews are often the only easily-accessible place (aside from social media) for customers to air their grievances. As you’ll be able to see after going through this exercise, simply letting people leave any feedback they want on the app store isn’t useful or productive. Why is this? Ratings prompts.

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The Product Coalition

SEPTEMBER 7, 2024

This enduring appeal is partly due to the nostalgia of Pokémon and the “catch ’em all” mentality (which deserves its own discussion), but also because of some clever mechanisms built into the game. In this system, missing a day isn’t seen as a catastrophic failure. What weird twisted version of the 90’s was I living in?

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The Product Coalition

JULY 20, 2022

The factories are leaving due to lack of educated workforce. I recommend this game as an exercise to all PMs that have already received a feedback about being control freaks. Engaging storytelling: Any RPG system (tabletop) RPG (Rolle Playing Game) is probably the forefather of modern tabletop gaming.

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The Product Coalition

JUNE 26, 2023

Low-complexity tasks include processing payroll for employees, posting preapproved content on social media channels, entering invoices into the accounting system, tracking inventory levels for a product, etc. This exercise will help leaders visualize where generative AI can most effectively implement within their function.

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Mind the Product

MAY 2, 2019

We asked the children to review the cards to familiarize themselves with the images. In one instance, we ask a child to do the exercise. A two-hour conversation with a child about how they talk to a smart speaker is no simple task, so these cards brought something physical to an otherwise intangible experience. Key Take-aways.

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ProductPlan

DECEMBER 11, 2019

In our upcoming 2020 Product Management Report, we found that they’re relying on a handful of options depending on the scale and scope of the exercise and which stakeholders are included. Customers are no longer “trapped” with vendors they don’t want to stick with because moving data between systems is easier.

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Mind the Product

SEPTEMBER 29, 2017

After an idea generation exercise he and the team designed a new look for the Encarta product – which better showcased the quality of their product. There is a strict script and system for making the most of this week, without any meetings, as it’s a heavy investment for any company. This was a huge problem for Jake’s team.

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The Product Coalition

JULY 10, 2020

In other words: If two teams are building a part of an application separately, that system will probably have two components, introducing dependencies and additional communication overhead. In a remote working situation, to make matters worse, there is a compound effect due to the increased communication overhead.

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Intercom, Inc.

FEBRUARY 18, 2019

Thankfully, all of these issues can be solved with a good product engagement scoring system. This is an essential step due to one simple fact: Not all activity is created equal. If you are going to go through the exercise of creating an engagement score, it’s essential that it is something that can be used across your organization.

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Sachin Rekhi

FEBRUARY 16, 2020

For example, here is a video from 2016 that showcases the vision for SpaceX's Interplanetary Transport System which aims to bring the first manned crew to Mars. Inevitably I still re-create the high-level roadmap in presentations for All Hands meetings, exec reviews, and sometimes even customers. Design: Product Roadmap.

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The Product Coalition

MAY 11, 2022

A hierarchy built this way is just a mental exercise. How to make metrics pyramid work Classification is a magic word when it comes to an effective metrics system. Typical reasoning can sound like this: Look, the lifetime value of a customer (LTV) depends on retention. And for a small e-comm project, it is a good starting point.

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ProductPlan

MARCH 18, 2022

But grappling with the influx of ideas and instituting a system to handle them is essential because they sometimes have much to offer, even if it’s not right at the moment. Step 3: Reviewed. Just like we groom our backlogs , our idea repository is also deserving of a regular review.

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Nulab

MAY 25, 2022

The biggest disadvantages of information silos are wasted time and effort, either due to constant backtracking or duplication of work. Encourage feedback between team members by setting up regular performance reviews. Try out some team-building exercises. Why are information silos bad for business? Encourage feedback.

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Intercom, Inc.

JULY 23, 2020

Daniel: I definitely bring that angle to the table, and the way I try to think about that when I’m researching a company is through a process called due diligence. So we’ve done that same exercise and marketing of, again, how do we stand out? That exercise takes a lot of exploration and iteration.

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