Mind the Product

MAY 30, 2019

When you design and build a product, it is important that you regularly demo completed work with the team and key stakeholders. In Agile software development, so-called sprint demos are a key part of every iteration, but whatever product you’re building, be it an app, a website (or even a physical product), demos can be incredibly valuable.

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The Product Coalition

JULY 6, 2022

Nowadays, digital products are becoming more and more prominent in our lives, and it’s already part of our daily activities. The majority of such apps have undergone iterative and incremental development to enhance and improve their features. Most of our readers would have heard of Agile product management. Why does Lean matter?

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Mind the Product

OCTOBER 29, 2018

Consider Your Approach to Feedback. Saying No is an important part of the product manager’s role. At every level of our careers, we are faced with unsolicited, opinionated and sometimes outlandish product feedback from our internal teams. Product “No” Outcomes. Dismissive of Feedback. Lack of collaboration.

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Userpilot

AUGUST 12, 2024

Have you ever wondered about the product design process for companies like Slack, Loom, or ClickUp? These companies not only follow a user-centric approach to product management. They also have a robust system to collect data, make decisions, build solutions, perform tests, and deploy new products on time.

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Userpilot

MARCH 19, 2024

Even if you’ve been a product manager for a while, a new feature rollout can be a challenging experience. We explain what a feature rollout is, why it is important for product teams, and how to conduct them. Thanks to that, the development team can collect user feedback and test the feature before rolling it out to all users.

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The Product Coalition

APRIL 3, 2023

Product Feedback Step-by-step guide with examples How do you handle product ideas from customers? You’re a SaaS business serious about building a product your customers love. And that means you need a system for managing feature requests and customer feedback. Make a list of these sources of customer feedback.

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UX Planet

SEPTEMBER 16, 2024

You thought you had it sussed: you knew that all UX projects started with extensive user research; you knew that prioritised requirements were essential; you knew that a project is judged on its final deliverables. The Lean Research Loop The Lean UX approach as an iterative project life cycle has been conceptualised as the Lean Research Loop.

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Userpilot

MARCH 2, 2022

Much of product success depends on your marketing team but business decision-making and progress evaluation are crucial to keeping your company focused on the right path towards sustainable growth. So, let’s see how you can implement SaaS OKRs successfully to track progress towards these goals and drive product growth.

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Johanna Rothman

OCTOBER 20, 2020

The original signatories of the Manifesto for Agile Software Development wanted to solve these specific problems: How can we: Bring more adaptability to software development? Especially since teams now had these levers, from the iterative and incremental approaches: Prototype something for fast feedback.

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Userpilot

OCTOBER 11, 2021

Have you tried including SaaS marketing best practices in your SaaS marketing strategy and accelerate product growth ? SaaS marketing is the marketing process applied to generate demand and drive adoption and retention for SaaS products and apps. Sounds simple, right? Not necessarily. What is SaaS marketing?

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Intercom, Inc.

AUGUST 6, 2020

Our conversation with Prashanth covers some great topics including why community is at the very heart of what Stack Overflow is doing and how they balance the needs of the product and the community that use it. With such a big community it’s important to balance the needs of the product with those who use it.

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Johanna Rothman

NOVEMBER 30, 2020

Steve, a software development manager, thought John was a “10x” developer. Was I willing to support and coach the other people in Steve's group to all become “10x” developers? You might create an image of the feedback loops, as in Unearthing Your Project's Delays. In John's code.

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Userpilot

JULY 11, 2022

It doesn’t matter how great your product is, if your customer support is bad, your customers will leave! In this article, we’ll be sharing 10 golden rules of customer service that will help your support team develop quality support and exceed customer expectations. Ask for feedback and understand what needs to be improved.

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Userpilot

JANUARY 31, 2022

Product management specializations have trended upwards in recent months. These “specializations” often place focus around a specific set of skills or needs a company has, somewhat creating a division within the product manager role. Are we breaking apart the product manager role a bit too much? Product Management Skills.

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Userpilot

JULY 17, 2023

How to choose the right product team structure for your SaaS? We also look at: Responsibilities of product teams Key roles you may want to include Different ways to structure your team Examples of different structures Let’s get right to it! They lead a team that consists of developers and designers.

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Agile Velocity

FEBRUARY 11, 2020

It is one of the most commonly used, abused, and misused metrics in Agile software development. When it comes to metrics in Agile , the data itself is not the goal — instead, it’s a means of tracking your journey, testing hypotheses, and providing feedback as you head towards your next goal. . Feedback surveys.

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ProductPlan

MARCH 27, 2019

In this post we’ll outline the basics of continuous delivery, what it means to you as a product manager, and how to adapt your roadmapping process to best work in a continuous delivery environment. When products adopt Continuous Delivery or CD, they begin pushing updates out to end users as quickly as they’re available.

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Agile Velocity

FEBRUARY 11, 2020

It is one of the most commonly used, abused, and misused metrics in Agile software development. When it comes to metrics in Agile , the data itself is not the goal — instead, it’s a means of tracking your journey, testing hypotheses, and providing feedback as you head towards your next goal. . Feedback surveys.

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Userpilot

APRIL 11, 2023

Building an effective customer insights strategy is a vital part of any good product manager’s skillset. In this article, we’re going to unpack why a customer insight strategy is important, how to build one, and how you can use these insights to drive customer satisfaction (and a better product experience).

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Revulytics

APRIL 4, 2018

High-Tech Anthropology – a term coined by internationally acclaimed workplace culture phenomenon Menlo Innovations – is perhaps the height of customer-obsessed product development. In an internal demo of the software, many pictures of tropical places featured in the UI drew questions from other Menlo employees.

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Agile Velocity

MAY 14, 2020

DevOps is the practice of software development (Dev) engineers and of IT operations (Ops) working together during a product’s entire lifecycle, from design through development to production support, in order to shorten the total lead time (from concept to cash) and to provide predictable delivery of high-quality products.

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Johanna Rothman

FEBRUARY 14, 2020

There's a great introduction article, Capitalization of software development costs.). Let's assume everyone works together, on one project (product, if you prefer). I would add demoing in as value creation, but I'm not sure how accountants categorize feedback loops. See Minimum Product Outcomes for more details.).

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UX Planet

FEBRUARY 2, 2024

In simple terms, prototyping helps validate the feasibility of the product or concept by matching it with user expectations and needs. A prototype is a simulation or sample version of a final product or application used for testing before launch. This works best in the early stages of design, mainly for testing product ideas.

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Userpilot

MARCH 29, 2023

How can it help product and marketing teams make data-driven decisions and improve the user experience at different stages of the customer journey? TL;DR Digital analytics allows teams to measure and analyze product performance to improve their digital strategy. acquisition channels), product data (e.g.,

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Agile Velocity

SEPTEMBER 12, 2023

Agile practices, like Scrum and Kanban, initially developed for software development, are now being embraced across all departments and functional areas including marketing, finance, and human resources. Create alignment, maximize communication, spark motivation, develop capability, and share knowledge.

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Split

APRIL 24, 2024

Managing numerous testing environments poses a significant hurdle in the complex sphere of software development. Test environments are where code becomes a reality. These environments provide a controlled space for testing and refinement before a product is released to end users.

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UX Planet

JANUARY 22, 2024

One Click Generates Lots of Product Ideas Most people think designers get their ideas easily and quickly. But it is not like that; we often struggle to find ideas for the products we work on. PRODUCT: Add here some info about the product you design. The prompt Act like a product designer with over 20 years of experience.

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Split

MAY 27, 2020

Which is a better approach to developing, testing, and delivering new code: feature flags, or feature branches? That’s great, but what happens to your ability to push frequently to production when partially complete or untested changes have been merged in? to reduce cycle time from commit to production.

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Userpilot

AUGUST 19, 2022

For any SaaS owner or product manager , organizing a successful software rollout can be a stressful, exhilarating experience. In this article, we’re going to unpack the mysteries of what it takes to put together a truly successful software rollout plan. Always consider testing product-market fit before a big rollout.

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The Basics of Product Management

APRIL 27, 2020

Kanban is a critical tool for a successful Product Manager. Ability to use tools such as Kanban is one of the necessary skills for a Product Manager. It is a visual scheduler of your tasks, that was first developed by Toyota to efficiently manage its manufacturing processes. We will proceed to the full list in a minute.

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Split

AUGUST 28, 2020

Software development in 2020 is a rapidly changing environment. In order to best support both speed and safety AS WELL AS business impact, you want your development teams and your customers driving your decision making. But how do you control for safety at speed? However, it certainly slows things down.

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Revulytics

SEPTEMBER 6, 2019

While it’s easy to have missed those short-lived or misconceived products, it’s much harder to ignore the fiasco Snapchat encountered when it redesigned the platform in 2018, triggering a tsunami of user backlash, including a petition begging the company to reconsider and a 2% loss of its daily active user community in a single quarter.

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Usersnap

DECEMBER 10, 2023

User Acceptance Testing (UAT) is important for more agile software development teams. It’s the last stage in the software development life cycle, and it ensures every product meets the requirements and designations of the users. List of user acceptance testing tools ? Testsigma 2. Selenium 2.

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Split

JULY 30, 2020

The answers I found were: shift left testing, continuous integration, and continuous delivery. These “new” ways of making software made sense to me because they significantly reduced the cost of making change at scale, whether measured in time, talent, or treasure. Adaptability Through Local Team Autonomy at Whole Foods.

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Userpilot

FEBRUARY 21, 2022

All product managers want to delight and engage their customers. An interactive user guide is a set of functionality helping customers understand how to use your product. Interactive user guides improve user onboarding and drive product adoption. Let’s look at two of the most common: 1 – Product tours.

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Userpilot

AUGUST 28, 2024

Understanding the salary range for product coordinators is crucial whether you’re entering the field or looking to advance your career. In this guide, we’ll provide an overview of typical product coordinator salaries, explore factors that can influence earnings, and share valuable resources to help you progress in your career.

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Revulytics

MARCH 20, 2018

In his book, “ What Do You Want Your Customer to Become ,” author and MIT Research fellow Michael Schrage challenges his readers to think beyond the traditional criteria that go into calculating what is agreed upon across industries as one of the most important metrics to measure – customer lifetime value.

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