The Product Coalition

SEPTEMBER 7, 2022

Minimum Viable Products: Why You Should Test Before Investing In Ideas Let’s analyze the advantages of MVP-based software development. If you look into the problem carefully, you’ll see that all the relevant reasons for failure : changing requirements, weak arrangement, insufficient investment and test activities?

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TechEmpower - Product Management

JULY 31, 2023

When talking to startup founders or other innovators, we always ask questions to better understand their business as a core. Start by building just enough of your product to get early CAC and CLV signals (they won’t be perfect). Conclusion Startup metrics are an invaluable tool for founders and innovators.

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The Product Coalition

MAY 25, 2021

The value of a test kitchen when creating a product is immense. The ability to test and iterate based on real usage with real users is invaluable to getting to the root of a problem, understanding a user’s existence, and removing friction. So, what does a product test kitchen look like?

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Usersnap

FEBRUARY 9, 2024

For Product Managers and Developers, selecting the right, usability testing platform and tool isn’t just a task; it’s a crucial step in shaping your product’s success. The market offers a variety of usability testing tools, each varying in price, features, and research methods. Usersnap 2.

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ProductPlan

JANUARY 21, 2021

In 2016 I gave a talk on lean market validation at the opening night of Startup Weekend at the University of California, Santa Barbara. In attendance were 200 eager students and entrepreneurs who wanted to learn how to build a startup in 54 hours. 10 Ways to Rapidly Test Your Startup Idea. Write down your product concept.

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UX Planet

FEBRUARY 29, 2024

From design-team-of-thirty to design-team-of-one Over the past two years, I have been a design-team-of-one at a fast-growing startup, and the experience has been nothing short of a rollercoaster. In a startup environment, where resources are often limited, collaboration becomes not just a preference but a necessity.

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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. This is why the magic of the best user acceptance testing tools is crucial. Testsigma 2.

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Mind the Product

OCTOBER 30, 2019

David Bland is the CEO and Founder of Precoil, an author, and a long-time practitioner of agile and lean startup. He joined us on the podcast to talk about how to create focus around what matters to your users by using different testing methodologies – a topic he and Alex Osterwalder cover in their book, Testing Business Ideas.

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Product Talk

OCTOBER 10, 2018

Last week, I was in Cleveland for the Industry Product Conference. I spoke about the three mindsets that help a team find success as a continuous discovery team. Becoming a successful discovery team. Product management is changing. Product managers are evolving from focusing on outputs to outcomes. Tweet This.

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Product Talk

DECEMBER 12, 2018

Are you inviting your engineers to participate in discovery with you? While I don’t believe in forcing engineers to participate in discovery, I do think product teams should do everything in their power to encourage their engineers to do so. Good discovery is fueled by valuable insights gleaned during customer interviews.

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ProductPlan

JANUARY 21, 2021

In 2016 I gave a talk on lean market validation at the opening night of Startup Weekend at the University of California, Santa Barbara. In attendance were 200 eager students and entrepreneurs who wanted to learn how to build a startup in 54 hours. 10 Ways to Rapidly Test Your Startup Idea. Write down your product concept.

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Mind the Product

APRIL 21, 2020

– to come back on to the podcast and chat about how to make sure that, despite everything that’s going on, you continue to incorporate discovery into your practice. Then there’s the second piece of it: What’s the part of Discovery that’s going to stay stable over time? Customer Discovery.

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The Product Coalition

JUNE 14, 2020

Using Sean Ellis Test For Measuring Your Product/Market Fit Sean Ellis, who is the author of “ Hacking Growth ,” as well as the first marketer at Dropbox and the guy who coined the phrase “ growth hacking ,” has a simple technique that helps product teams to measure whether they reached their product/market fit or not.

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Product Talk

JULY 12, 2017

It’s easy to think you already do continuous product discovery. They’ve read the industry books, they attend the popular product conferences , and they follow all the leading blogs. Most product teams are starting to integrate discovery practices into their product development process. Hypothesis Testing.

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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. Most of our readers would have heard of Agile product management. In fact, the biggest advantage that you can leverage from a startup perspective is Lean product management (‘Lean’ or ‘LPM’).

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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. Kim Goodwin’s talk: How can we Build Human-Centred Products.

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UX Planet

FEBRUARY 2, 2024

The potential of quantum computing and artificial intelligence to enhance user research User research is crucial for the human-centered design of digital products and services. However, traditional user research methods can be time-consuming, subjective, and difficult to scale. Unconscious bias can influence results.

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UX Planet

JANUARY 18, 2024

UX research emerges as a pivotal factor in crafting user-centered designs and strategies. User research aims to centralize the user in the design and development process, whether through interviews, usability studies, or other methods. What is UX Research in Design? Why Is UX Research Important?

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Bryce York

JULY 18, 2022

When you’re busy, good product discovery is the first thing to fall by the wayside. You might have heard me say before that a product manager stretched too thin becomes a project manager. That’s not to say project management is any less than product management. In Discovery, we encounter many types of risks.

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The Product Coalition

DECEMBER 13, 2021

Many startups with an ordinary product make the way to growth and scalability whereas others with great products fail to survive. What is wrong with these startups? Both product and product strategy should fall in place to make the startup sustainable and help them to grow.

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Product Talk

APRIL 8, 2020

Welcome to the latest installment of Product in Practice! For this post, we spoke with a product team from Simply Business about some of the major lessons they’ve learned since adopting continuous discovery habits like interviewing their customers, questioning their assumptions , and using the opportunity solution tree to guide their work.

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Usersnap

JUNE 27, 2023

Are you ready to take your product from concept to triumph through effective beta testing? The journey from idea to success hinges on the crucial stage of beta testing. But for startups, the challenge of finding 100 willing beta users can feel like an insurmountable obstacle.

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Mind the Product

JULY 30, 2019

Roisi Proven is a true product person: she has a penchant for imagining the worst, which she’s turned into a superpower to put all of her product decisions through a rigorous ethics test. Ethical frameworks for product development. The Black Mirror Test. Listen if you’d like to learn more about.

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Mind the Product

OCTOBER 13, 2020

Using that information in a way that helps align stakeholders and teams on the path to building great products? The post User Research Interviews – Robert Chokr on The Product Experience appeared first on Mind the Product. In this episode, sponsored by Amplitude , listen to learn about: * User Research.

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Mind the Product

JANUARY 19, 2021

Startups are often talked about as if they’re all the same, as if experience in one is directly transferable to another. Georgie Smallwood, Chief Product Officer at Tier Mobility, joined us on the podcast to chat about the differences in working for earlier stage companies and those that are scaling up. She covers why she [.].

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The Product Coalition

FEBRUARY 5, 2021

It’s time to start front-end performance testing. This article will be super helpful for you if: You’re a front-ender who just started this thrilling, misery, and filled with pain front-end testing journey! Digging deep into front-end testing: compare mockup vs. final result Learning from other people’s mistakes?—?this

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Userpilot

JULY 5, 2022

Why is incremental innovation important for product managers ? Incremental innovation is a process of gradually modifying a company’s existing products or services through small improvements. Small but regular improvements are a more reliable way to achieve product-market fit. How is it different from other kinds of innovation?

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The Product Coalition

FEBRUARY 22, 2021

TL; DR: Product Discovery Anti-Patterns Scrum has proven to be an effective product delivery framework for all sorts of products. However, Scrum is equally well suited to build the wrong product efficiently as its Achilles heel has always been the product discovery part. Participation is free.)

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Userpilot

FEBRUARY 17, 2022

If you’ve read Teresa’s Torres book, Continuous Discovery Habits , you’re probably familiar with her continuous discovery framework for building better products that are actually guided by user feedback. What is continuous discovery? What is actually the “product role” in a startup?

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Mind the Product

APRIL 6, 2021

For most of us, the way that we conduct user research has been different during a year of lockdowns. Not so much for Anna Lee Anda, UX Research Manager at Zendesk — as someone with a global customer base, she’s been working with these techniques for ages. Remote research. She joined us on the podcast to talk [.]

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Product Talk

MARCH 16, 2022

Visualizing discovery work with an opportunity solution tree has been a game-changer for both me and the teams that I work with. This sets the scope for our discovery. From there, an effective team is doing two key research activities week over week. Assumption testing is evaluative. Assumption testing is evaluative.

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Userpilot

MAY 7, 2024

Product adoption software is the lifeblood of the modern product management process. It is the key to making your product unforgettable and ensuring it gains traction in a difficult market. In this article, we explore what product adoption software does and identify 12 of the best product adoption tools on the market.

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Mind the Product

JULY 11, 2019

What’s the fundamental difference between product discovery and delivery or execution? The degree of uncertainty should determine whether you need to run product discovery or whether you can begin to deliver a solution to your customer. Scenario 3: Discovery in an Environment of Uncertainty.

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Mind the Product

JANUARY 26, 2021

Everyone – or so we’re told – has the dream of joining or founding a hot startup and making their fortune, all while really proving their product chops. Though he’s now a Product Manager at Facebook, Karthik Suresh co-founded Altrest and grew Craft.io Finding product/market fit.

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Andrew Chen

FEBRUARY 12, 2024

When I asked them their biggest learning on the trip so far, they said- We have to learn how to pitch our startup in the “American” way More self promotional, emphasizing the future not the past, talking about what it could be not what it is, playing up even small bits of proof points, etc. TLDR; there’s pitch mode and dinner party mode.

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Mind the Product

JANUARY 14, 2020

There’s a lot of debate in the product and research communities about quantitative vs qualitative approaches to metrics, so we sat down with Tomer Sharon (MD/Head of User Research and Metrics at Goldman Sachs) to talk about how he uses Google’s HEART approach to track what matters. Lean User Research.

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The Product Coalition

NOVEMBER 14, 2023

My guess is that’s because whether you like someone’s designs are relatively more subjective than whether you like a product manager’s approach, but I still think there are many traits that we can systematically identify when looking for a strong designer. Our product is also consumer-facing (donors and recipients).

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