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The Worst Nightmare of Any Product Manager

The Product Guy

We would regularly meet to discuss the features required, what the customers expected. In fact, our tests regularly failed. We were testing our code. I’m not a technical Product Manager. I felt I had to wait until a feature built out before I could give my feedback. We were making great progress. What did we lack?

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The Subscription Value Loop: A framework for growing consumer subscription businesses

Lenny Rachitsky

If you’re not a subscriber, here’s what you missed this month: Why PMs are best positioned to thrive in an AI world On asking for help (even when you really don’t want to) Part 2: Time management techniques that actually work Subscribe to get access to these posts, and every post.

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When a collaboration is not a collaboration

UX Planet

For example, the more technical the product, the larger the designers technology gap that must be filled by an engineer. Conversely, if the user experience heavily relies on a graphic user interface, the larger the gap for the product designer toaddress. This dynamic creates the first blindspot. Try explaining that at theoffice!

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Product Discovery Tips

Roman Pichler

I find it helpful to form a product discovery team that consists of: Development team members: user experience (UX) designer, developer, tester; Key stakeholders , for example, people from marketing, sales, and support; A ScrumMaster or agile coach. Talk to the Users. Do Just-Enough Product Discovery Work.

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Moving at the Speed of Demand

Product Management Unpacked

Unlike traditional product managers, Claire is less involved with the technical aspects of product management. Armed with this knowledge, she is better positioned to collaborate with product managers regarding where a given solution or feature may fit into the product roadmap, if at all. It is a huge collaborative process.

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Why There’s No Single “Right” Way to Do Discovery: Part 3

Product Talk

In this third and final conversation in the series, we discussed two core principles of continuous discovery : why it’s essential to set up compare and contrast decisions and surface and test assumptions. I am a former chief product officer and now coach and advise product leaders and teams. Teresa Torres : Hi, everyone. Tweet This.

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Decode A Job Posting from Spotify: Senior Product Manager?—?Playlist Platform

The Product Coalition

That implies a lot of traffic, internal customers, ultra-optimization of customer experience, and, as a result, the need to build a platform and not just a one-time feature. Know what our users want? What technical knowledge does Spotify expect from a candidate? No one needs smarty-pants throwing technical terms around.