Product Talk

DECEMBER 18, 2024

I was asked to give a ten-minute overview of my continuous discovery framework and then participated in a fireside chat where the host, Cecilie Smedstad , asked me to go deeper in a few areas. Discovery is a team sport. I did classic web development before there were frameworks back in the ’90s. Week over week.

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The Product Guy

JANUARY 8, 2019

Similar stories have inspired new product and business development frameworks , thousands of articles, and numerous books. Companies simply ship too many poor products and features. Agile is sometimes seen as a panacea to all product development problems. Enter Lean Customer Development. So where is the problem?

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The Secret PM Handbook

AUGUST 4, 2017

The Secret Product Management Framework. Finally writing down the Secret Product Management Framework was a revelation for me. One test of a new framework is how well it explains “previous observations.” In this article, I tie the older posts to the framework. What Should Product Teams Optimize?

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Product Talk

MARCH 1, 2023

I realize that many product people have never worked in a product trio , don’t have access to customers, aren’t given time to test their ideas, and are working in what Marty Cagan calls “features teams” or “delivery teams.” If you missed the first one on product success and team satisfaction , be sure to start there.

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The Secret PM Handbook

AUGUST 4, 2017

The Secret Product Management Framework. Finally writing down the Secret Product Management Framework was a revelation for me. One test of a new framework is how well it explains “previous observations.” In this article, I tie the older posts to the framework. What Should Product Teams Optimize?

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The Secret PM Handbook

AUGUST 4, 2017

The Secret Product Management Framework. Finally writing down the Secret Product Management Framework was a revelation for me. One test of a new framework is how well it explains “previous observations.” In this article, I tie the older posts to the framework. What Should Product Teams Optimize?

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The Product Guy

JUNE 18, 2020

Ruthless prioritization translates to product teams spending time building the right thing at the right time. This discipline is the bread & butter for a winning product team, but building an effective product process takes a lot of trial and error. A decision making framework that I use is. The feedback loop process is.

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The Product Coalition

SEPTEMBER 16, 2020

JavaScript frameworks made the life of the developers much easier thanks to the ease of building powerful and feature-rich apps that can take be versatile in look and feel across all platforms. Naturally, both frameworks deserve comparison with their pros and cons. Which is the ideal JavaScript framework in all counts?

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Product Management University

JUNE 3, 2024

Here’s a look at the good, the bad and the ugly when it comes to product management outcomes. THE GOOD When it comes to getting your product management and product development teams focused, nothing beats well-defined outcomes that are clear, concise and measurable. But not all outcomes are created equal.

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Usersnap

MAY 14, 2025

“If you have 10 teams decorating the hood of a car with rhinestones, the hood gets so heavy you can’t lift it to fix the engine anymore. Thats what product development feels like in most organizations.” You’ll likely burn fuel, time, and goodwill without achieving anything meaningful.

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Folding Burritos

FEBRUARY 22, 2016

Yet, I wanted to dig deeper into this issue by focusing on: The reasons why a Solution-first culture makes your life harder; A “framework” to drive stakeholders to think in terms of Problems. You want the stakeholders’ input, but you need it to be (and need them to think) in terms of problems for you and your team to solve.

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Roman Pichler

FEBRUARY 2, 2021

Before the advent of agile frameworks like Scrum , a product person—the product manager—would typically carry out the market research, compile a market requirements specification, create a business case, put together product roadmap, write a requirements specification, and then hand it off to a project manager.

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Mind the Product

MARCH 24, 2020

These are situations that are fraught with the possibility for unintended consequences – something Roisi Proven covered in her great episode (and talk) about the Black Mirror Test. Ethical frameworks for product development. The Black Mirror Test. Ethical frameworks for product development. *

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Productside

MARCH 24, 2025

Productside | Product Management Courses & Training Refining Product-Market Fit and Scaling B2B SaaS Products Most startups dont stall because of bad ideasthey stall because they stop refining their product-market fit and what works. Her 3-step framework: Identify overlaps. Everyones chasing the next AI feature or untapped market.

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Product Talk

APRIL 21, 2021

Welcome to JEDI Training for Continuous Discovery Teams. I’ve had the luxury of working with teams all over the world, and I teach them a structured and sustainable approach to continuous discovery. The reason why I like to share that is in today’s talk, we’re going to get into my continuous discovery framework.

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Roman Pichler

AUGUST 9, 2017

If you manage a digital product that end users employ, such as a web or mobile app, then you usually do not require in-depth technical skills, such as, being able to program in Java, write SQL code, or know which machine learning framework there are and if, say, TensorFlow is the right choice for your product.

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The Product Coalition

DECEMBER 21, 2020

If you let yourself get carried away, it’s really, really hard to tell the difference between a good and bad one. We’ll explore how you can test and research ideas for your product, service, or business model. The result of idea validation is to develop a feasible prototype or MVP?—?both New ideas are exciting. Can it be done?

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The Product Coalition

NOVEMBER 9, 2020

It was about 12 months ago when I was challenged by our CEO to dismantle our squad and create a growth team. Not being too sure what a growth team was, we started anyway. We got access to work completed by Andrew Chen & Brian Balfour , took a few courses from the Reforge series and started developing our growth loops.

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Arkenea

APRIL 10, 2025

In a fastmoving digital economy, many organizations leverage outsourced software product development to accelerate innovation, control costs, and tap into global expertise. Rather than building and maintaining a large inhouse team, businesses partner with specialized vendors to handle design, development, testing, and deployment.

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The Product Coalition

MARCH 9, 2021

All you need is a company providing React Native services and an outstanding team of developers who know exactly what they’re doing. Before you start planning your budget, let’s see why Uber is so popular and discuss what you need to develop a React Native app like it. yeah, don’t forget to develop a version for drivers.

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Intercom, Inc.

JUNE 15, 2022

Product teams often fall into the trap of spending most of their time on the core functionality of the products they’re building. Without an accessible onboarding process , customers may never reach the stage where they can use the game-changing features your team has worked so hard to build, making outcomes difficult to achieve.

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The Product Coalition

FEBRUARY 26, 2022

I’ve asked friends who do the job at social events and got the same answer, and frequently asked members of my own teams, who struggled to find the time to do it. To compensate, I’ve seen UX researchers & designers pick up the mantle a lot more, and the design teams have really leaned into this space. What can be cut first?

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Mind the Product

FEBRUARY 20, 2020

Ultimately, your resume should itself signal that you have the skills required to be a successful product manager on any team. As a hiring manager, I want to hire great storytellers, s o the team can work towards a unified vision. . Use this article as a guide to polish your resume and improve your job-hunting prospects. Storytelling.

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Userpilot

SEPTEMBER 25, 2023

Concept testing is an integral part of designing UX that not only satisfies user needs but delights them. This article introduces various concept tests, shows you how to conduct them, and discusses ways to collect user feedback to gain actionable insights. In monadic tests, participants provide in-depth feedback on one concept only.

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Folding Burritos

DECEMBER 7, 2017

This led me to reach out to 14 leading Product Managers and talk with them about how they use customer feedback in their own companies and teams. Frameworks like Jobs-to-be-Done are extremely helpful in determining exactly what the product is supposed to be doing for its customers — that is, the needs it serves.

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The Product Coalition

OCTOBER 5, 2020

To unburden their teams, companies like Facebook, Google, and others have turned to product operations, whose job is to help product teams achieve better outcomes. At its core, product operations enables product teams to achieve better outcomes. Create frameworks for aligning company, org, team, and individual goals.

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Mind the Product

JULY 12, 2017

Prioritisation is a necessary evil of every product development lifecycle. Prioritisation is one of the most critical aspects of product development. Unfortunately this isn’t always the case – we’ve all come across poor decision-making in organisations. Poor Prioritisation. However, it doesn’t have to be this way.

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Lenny Rachitsky

SEPTEMBER 3, 2024

Over the past year, Phil Carter has been developing a framework for growing consumer subscription businesses, called the Subscription Value Loop. What makes consumer subscription apps unusual is that most don’t have sales teams, which means the product must be able to sell itself organically and through paid advertisements.

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Userpilot

MAY 17, 2025

In fact, 52% of users have abandoned a mobile app due to poor localization , and over 60% of B2B buyers say theyll choose a localized product over a more expensive one in a foreign language. Use this quick ROI framework to prove localized apps are worth it Despite its clear benefits, not every app needs localization (at least not right away).

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Product Talk

AUGUST 14, 2024

We’ll hear from several members of the product team at Ramsey Solutions about their not-so-smooth transition to working in product trios, especially when it came to getting engineers to participate. Meet the Continuous Discovery Champions at Ramsey Solutions The product team at Ramsey Solutions is 40+ squads strong.

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The Product Coalition

SEPTEMBER 21, 2020

Good product teams understand that their customers’ needs and behaviours are ever changing and the way to truly predict what impact any update will have is to try it on a small set of real customers. Since experimentation has become a discipline on its own, there are established best practices for cross functional teams to follow.

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Modus Create

FEBRUARY 12, 2025

8 AI trends that will define product development By Greg Sterndale Posted in Digital Transformation , Product Published on: February 12, 2025 Last update: February 10, 2025 From modular architecture to agentic AI How product development will evolve in 2025 & beyond In product development, change is the only constant.

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The Product Coalition

MARCH 28, 2022

clearly, all of us know the importance of truly understanding the customer problem before we ship a product, testing something with customers perhaps in a lab setting or in a pilot before scaling. I think it makes sense to hear that opinion and factor that into the product development process. Of course?—?the That said?—?just

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The Product Coalition

FEBRUARY 2, 2023

As product managers, it’s our job to develop solutions that solve real problems for our customers and create value for the business. One effective approach is to use a hypothesis-driven product validation framework to ensure that your efforts are focused on the most important questions at the right time.

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Mind the Product

SEPTEMBER 20, 2017

Three mindsets of product development. Design Thinking is how we explore and solve problems; Lean is our framework for testing our beliefs and learning our way to the right outcomes; and Agile is how we adapt to changing conditions with software. The good and bad of goal-based measurements. Jeff Bezos. A product wall.

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Productside

OCTOBER 8, 2024

Overview Charles River Laboratories aimed to enhance its product management practices and foster better team alignment. Background Charles River Laboratories is a global leader in providing essential products and services in drug discovery, development, and manufacturing.

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Mind the Product

MAY 9, 2019

In March last year, my colleague and Mind the Product’s Director of Training, Rosemary King, wrote about how the company departments working alongside a product team could better work together to meet their common goals and to improve working practices. Test Everything. All product managers love a good test.

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