Mind the Product

OCTOBER 16, 2017

As a product manager who has managed offshore development teams, I’ve learned that it’s not easy, and that having engineering teams on the other side of the world is not always congruent with delivering great products. What are the Positives? What are the Downsides? There is also the time difference.

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The Product Coalition

OCTOBER 30, 2023

It was another bad start to what seemed like Groundhog Day. “I This was the third conversation we were having about the product, an app that served our own company along with external customers. Yet, for many product managers, simplicity is challenging to achieve. Often, product managers skip this step in favor of speed.

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The Product Coalition

NOVEMBER 23, 2021

Measuring the performance of product managers is a real challenge for a number of reasons. When planning the product managers’ goals, this challenge can translate into taking the wrong direction altogether. Here is a new way to look at product management goals, and make them a useful tool for both you and your team.

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Mind the Product

MARCH 12, 2020

How does it help modern product management organizations to scale effectively? Similar to the emergence of design ops in the last five years, product operations fulfills a need to streamline a scaling function. What product ops is. How it’s become a critical function for scaling effective product teams.

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Userpilot

DECEMBER 13, 2023

How do you develop a robust UX strategy? TL;DR UX strategy provides guidance to the UX design team on how to create and improve experiences that satisfy user needs. TL;DR UX strategy provides guidance to the UX design team on how to create and improve experiences that satisfy user needs. This is the main focus of the article.

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The Product Coalition

SEPTEMBER 21, 2020

Part 2 of series on experimentation When should product managers experiment? 10 guidelines to design high impact experiments. Running Experiments has become one of the most valuable tools for Product Managers to validate ideas, de-risk releases and measure the impact of their work. And when are experiments invalid?

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Bain Public

DECEMBER 14, 2021

Product managers are forever students; they are constantly seeking to learn and grow their skillset and knowledge. As the technology industry continues to grow, so much product managers so they don't fall behind. How do you know that you are making a product or service that your customers want? Goldstein, Steve J.

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ProductPlan

DECEMBER 3, 2020

What All Industries Expect from Their Product Managers. Whether the industry is pharmaceuticals, furniture, or food, product managers representing all types of products share a few common high-level responsibilities. They develop a strategic direction and drive the development of their companies’ products.

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UX Studio

MAY 15, 2018

By definition, design handoff takes place when the finished design has reached the stage for the developers to implement it. Let’s look at the basics and some suggestions to get the best out of the designer-developer collaboration. First of all, I must state that a “finished design” of a digital product does not exist.

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UX Planet

DECEMBER 15, 2023

These thoughtful considerations will ensure that you have the correct assessment of your company’s UX maturity , your product’s current standing, future needs, and your user requirements — all of which will form the foundation of your UX budget. guidelines, following a suit filed by a blind individual ( source ).

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Alchemer Mobile

DECEMBER 5, 2022

Over the past few years, many people in the development community have sounded off about “rating nags” and the “please rate me” dialogs that some apps show, with perhaps the most pointed critique coming from John Gruber , of Daring Fireball. The answer has to come from the app developers and publishers, not the app customers.

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UX Studio

SEPTEMBER 10, 2019

In this post we created a guide on the steps to take in developing your brand strategy. How to develop your brand strategy? This happens either because they don’t know how to start the process or keep the information updated and shared across their teams. They establish what you stand for as a team. Brand guidelines.

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Modus Create

JUNE 18, 2019

But my employer had just paid for me to go through the training, and I was expected to help improve their development processes. That’s when it got bad. My productivity suffered. It got so bad that the CEO outlawed Agile altogether. For teams that I’ve been a part of, the frequency hovers somewhere around 10%.

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Folding Burritos

DECEMBER 7, 2017

As Product Managers, we perfectly understand the need to generate and use customer feedback. What isn’t so often clear is how to do this on a day-to-day basis, when we’re not as experienced or when we deal with “less than ideal” products and organizations. You need to know where you’re headed.

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ProductPlan

DECEMBER 2, 2020

What All Industries Expect from Their Product Managers. Whether the industry is pharmaceuticals, furniture, or food, product managers representing all types of products share a few common high-level responsibilities. They develop a strategic direction and drive the development of their companies’ products.

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Mind the Product

JULY 10, 2017

Let’s establish this right upfront: nothing beats a well-managed full-time in-house team of local developers. Are there enough skilled developers at your location? And done right, I believe that outsourcing means you can come very close to your team next door in terms of productivity and innovation.

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Usersnap

MARCH 19, 2019

As a product manager or a SaaS company owner, what is your main drive in building new products? Should the Voice of Customer influence product development? Why Voice of Customer Should be Included in Development Process. Let your customers make product development decisions for you!

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Intercom, Inc.

APRIL 23, 2018

Most sales and support teams are already well versed in conversations about data deletion, risk assessments and security frameworks, but those issues are going to become an even more prominent part of the discussion once GDPR comes into effect. Setting up developer guidelines will help current and future collaborations and integrations.

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The Product Coalition

JUNE 8, 2018

Apptimize helps teams develop better digital products with easy to deploy SDKs and a centralized dashboard for all channels. The first thing mobile teams need to understand without a shadow of a doubt is the differences between a mobile website, a hybrid app, and a native app. iOS vs Android 3.

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The Product Coalition

JANUARY 16, 2022

As such, it cannot be limited to include only the product-related parts like features and product KPIs. As a product leader who is creating this roadmap, you need to treat it as a compass and plan not only for your team and the technology team but rather as the direction that the entire company needs to go in.

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The Product Coalition

AUGUST 15, 2022

maybe not such a bad thing in this case. Products in concept, prototyping, alpha, beta, and MVP should focus on learning and not the predictability of a roadmap. In mature companies, roadmaps provide a false sense of certainty when you are early on in developing a product. What is the product concept?

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Folding Burritos

DECEMBER 7, 2017

As Product Managers, we perfectly understand the need to generate and use customer feedback. What isn’t so often clear is how to do this on a day-to-day basis, when we’re not as experienced or when we deal with “less than ideal” products and organizations. You need to know where you’re headed.

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The Product Coalition

SEPTEMBER 15, 2019

But what about in product management? Should there be a code of ethics for Product Managers? Being a Product Manager isn’t like being a therapist, doctor, or lawyer. So maybe now is the perfect time to collectively create a Product Management Moral Code. Why should companies care about ethics?

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ProductPlan

OCTOBER 29, 2019

The developers will handle it. Product managers don’t want to spend time worrying about security. Yes, you, the product manager, you have to worry about cybersecurity, too. Why is such a seemingly non-essential topic critical to your product’s success? 5 Things About Product Security You Should Be Aware Of.

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Imaginary Cloud - Design

JULY 2, 2020

little about product design. It is not that those books are bad. In a time when there was very little acknowledgment about the importance and the role of design, when design was mainly done by developers and with very little user awareness. Summing it up: Sprint describes how to include design in your product development.

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The Product HQ

FEBRUARY 1, 2023

Technical program manager (TPM) roles range from mid to senior-level positions that support organizations with their product goals. They work with leaders and their own teams across organizations. TPMs are responsible for communicating complex technical ideas to both technical and non-technical team members.

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Alchemer Mobile

OCTOBER 22, 2019

On the other hand, nobody knows your idea better than you, and the best way to share it for future professional design and development is to visualize it. Having a prototype is not only a good way of presenting your idea, but it can also help you determine app development costs in the future. Sounds interesting, right?

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The Product Coalition

APRIL 29, 2019

Agile is dead: SCRUM implementation survival guide | BraveGeeks by Yuri Mediakov, PM at BraveGeeks Team Photo by Frode Myklebust on Unsplash Dave Thomas, one of the creators of the Agile Manifesto, has declared Agile as dead, stating that the values of being agile have been totally lost behind the implementation.

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The Product Coalition

JULY 24, 2020

Identifying and answering the most important questions Launching a socially responsible investing product was something the Nutmeg team wanted to do for a long time. It took a few years until the team felt the market for this product was mature enough. In these guidelines, I always put reminders for myself as well.

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UX Studio

JUNE 20, 2019

The ability to develop more consciously requires knowledge of your own strengths and weaknesses. And last but least, you also need to mention some graphic design skills in job interviews to the hiring managers. A new tool, plugin, method, trend or guideline pops up every day. No one on our team besides me ever had.

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The Product Coalition

MAY 22, 2019

They serve bad goals just as well as they do good goals. In fact, of all the management tools, OKRs are the easiest to misuse, overuse and abuse?—?many This is a major problem because bad OKRs can amplify the issues the org is troubled with rather than fix them. Having too many goals robs teams of focus. Reduce avg.

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ProductPlan

APRIL 3, 2021

Great products come from great product teams—not from frameworks. Using the right product framework can help guide a team’s work. But the product will be only as good as the people behind it. Product Frameworks Can Become a Crutch. Product frameworks free up time and creative energy.

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The Product Coalition

JUNE 22, 2020

because everybody’s human and this always happens Schedule colleagues to do the interviewing Finalize objectives and guidelines But wait?—?you And you’re telling me you don’t have guidelines for how to conduct interviews, analysis exercises, and communicate findings? So work with what skills your team has and go from there.

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The Product HQ

FEBRUARY 1, 2023

(Needs Images) Interested in learning the difference between product development and product management? Product development and product management may seem to be similar concepts, but in reality, they’re quite different. What is Product Development? What is Product Management?

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Intercom, Inc.

JANUARY 12, 2022

I was the type of person whose job is to work with marketers, product managers, or operations folks to help them make decisions about which products to ship, which audiences to target, or if the business is performing well in certain areas and not well in others. However, we’ve had a great team.

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Imaginary Cloud - Design

JULY 2, 2020

little about product design. It is not that those books are bad. In a time when there was very little acknowledgment about the importance and the role of design, when design was mainly done by developers and with very little user awareness. Why disregarding product design books is a mistake. Why is that?

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The Product Coalition

JULY 5, 2023

While I thought it was an absolute, for a micro-second, I questioned it, and then the floodgates of doubt opened — maybe not such a bad thing in this case. Products in concept, prototyping, alpha, beta, and MVP should focus on learning and not the predictability of a roadmap. The slide doesn’t guide product teams for planning purposes.

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