Centercode

JULY 29, 2020

Begging for feedback from unenthusiastic or inexperienced testers is a frustratingly common occurrence for many beta and delta testing teams. But tester engagement — and the resulting feedback — are both vital to test success. With Centercode, the results are anything but average. Let’s schedule my meeting. Interested?

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Centercode

FEBRUARY 18, 2021

Product development also looked very different back then. Brainstorming product vision with your engineers and design team? And nestled in the center of all this was beta testing, a practice (usually without standardized processes) that loosely applied to any sort of pre-launch product testing. Not really a thing.

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Centercode

FEBRUARY 4, 2020

Centercode, the leader in Customer Validation Software-as-a-Service (SaaS) solutions, today announced its upcoming free three-day virtual Delta ’20 conference April 7-9, 2020. Often, organizations do not have dedicated resources or tools to help validate products and tend to rely on a manual means to perform product tests.

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Centercode

MAY 7, 2020

If you’re someone who’s been charged with managing a beta testing program, these five industry superstars know what you’re going through. Here are the five top tips for managing a beta program, taken from their sessions at Delta ’20: The Virtual CV Conference. Tip #5: Love What You Do.

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Centercode

OCTOBER 14, 2020

In step with the rapid, unprecedented shift from the office to the home office, the demand for technology like routers, wireless printers, webcams, headsets, and portable hard drives has hit the makers of these products like a tidal wave. Nothing frustrates customers quite like hidden bugs in the latest product update.

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Centercode

AUGUST 7, 2020

It’s the number one objective driving your product’s success. You need thorough test coverage before release — that is, you need to see how your product’s features and functions perform with real customers in their actual environments. Beta and Delta Managers. Product Managers.

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The Review by First Round

OCTOBER 7, 2021

GC also previously spent 6 years at Atlassian, as a sales engineer and product marketing manager for developer tools.) In today’s conversation, we dig deep into why he advocates for a hybrid go-to-market strategy that brings together more traditional selling with modern product-led growth.

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Mixpanel

JANUARY 15, 2020

As a product manager, the first question is simple. The list of products and features your team released will do the trick. Understanding impact can drastically change the priorities of any product team. Until now, product teams had two options to assess the effect of their product launches on their key metrics.

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Centercode

JANUARY 28, 2021

When most people think of “beta test feedback,” they think of bug reports and feature requests. And they’re not wrong — issues and ideas are a key component to a successful pre-release customer test. But they aren’t the only way that test managers should be collecting feedback during beta.

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Centercode

FEBRUARY 12, 2019

These gatherings are rare, but each one offers incredible insights into both the state of Beta Testing and the professionals leading the charge. The attitudes and energy of the professionals we have the privilege to work with show how much passion there is for building better products. Centercode Product Manager Chris Rader and Sr.

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Centercode

JULY 21, 2020

Read on to see the ways that the Centercode team showcases its passion for building better products. We’re passionate about bringing testing professionals together. Nowhere is this more obvious than events like the Delta Conference. Watch the session recordings from Delta ’20 for free. The CV Industry.

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Amplitude

JANUARY 8, 2021

The delta is insane. Do you have a test environment?”. You can’t mess anything up, and later we can set this up to pass data to QA, Staging, and Product environments dynamically. We also have this Chrome Extension that helps you test things without opening Amplitude. It boils down to working small and working together. .

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Centercode

DECEMBER 11, 2019

When it comes to scheduling, we always know exactly when our releases are going into delta. As an engineering project manager at Centercode , I’d love to sit here and say that I always know when a build is going into Customer Validation months in advance. We’re never caught off guard by unexpected critical issues.

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Centercode

SEPTEMBER 17, 2019

In product development, timing is everything. The type of customer-driven product questions you ask, when you ask them, and the kind of customer feedback you use to answer them all influence the insights you pull in and how they’ll ultimately serve you. When you need a product concept or feature idea. Alpha tests.

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Centercode

SEPTEMBER 10, 2019

Product managers would wait weeks or even months for feedback to trickle in once the product was on the market. Products need to interact seamlessly with other devices — even as technology as a whole continues to evolve. Today’s product managers have many practices for collecting customer feedback at their disposal.

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Intercom, Inc.

FEBRUARY 3, 2022

The same product, service, and price point could lead to two completely different experiences based on how expectations are set. Information is an asset – if you create value for prospects, even if it’s not about your products or services, some of them will eventually reward you with their attention, loyalty, and money.

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Centercode

JUNE 26, 2019

Proceeds from the investment will be used to further accelerate the rapid growth of the Company’s SaaS and managed services offerings. Organizations typically lack a dedicated tool to validate products with confidence and often rely on manual processes to perform product tests.

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Centercode

JUNE 26, 2019

Proceeds from the investment will be used to further accelerate the rapid growth of the Company’s SaaS and managed services offerings. Organizations typically lack a dedicated tool to validate products with confidence and often rely on manual processes to perform product tests.

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Centercode

APRIL 29, 2021

Products will need to be more complex and connected than ever. Even if you found every issue with your product at a given time, the reality is tech environments are continuously evolving, creating new potential interoperability issues all the while. They’ll Need Efficient, High-Performing Products.

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Centercode

APRIL 16, 2019

These are the types of questions that suddenly pop into the minds of product and program managers when an executive team comes looking for Key Performance Indicators (KPIs). I recently had an opportunity to work with Alex Larsen , the manager of the technical operations beta team at Trimble Transportation, on just that.

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Centercode

FEBRUARY 5, 2019

My two favorite moments during a mostly uneventful Super Bowl were 1) Tony Romo circling all of the “punts” and 2) watching the Amazon Beta Testing Program commercial. We now know that Mr. Ford had good reason to not be thrilled about the Beta Test. The Real Stuff Behind the ‘Amazon Beta Testing Program’.

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Department of Product

JULY 29, 2022

Product Positioning for Product Managers Why an understanding of how your product is positioned is critical A key responsibility for Product Managers is to define how their products are positioned in the market. This is the result of unique product positioning.

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Product Innovation Educators

AUGUST 17, 2020

What product managers need to know about customer validation and alpha, beta, and delta testing. Product testing is about more than determining if a product functions properly or not. Luke has spent most of his career improving product testing. 1:46] How did you become a testing expert?

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Centercode

MARCH 12, 2021

There isn’t a one-size-fits-all method of product development that’s guaranteed to work for your organization. Customer testing programs are the same way. Yes, customer testing is a necessary part of releasing high-quality products. Dedicated individual or team focused on managing projects.

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Centercode

JULY 30, 2019

And those legacy software testing processes that are unable or unwilling to do so are at risk of being replaced. The same rule applies to beta testing. Is traditional beta testing at risk? Beta testing has been around for decades. Part of the fault lies in a lack of standardized pre-release customer testing processes.

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Centercode

OCTOBER 9, 2020

In October 2020, YouTube quietly changed the way it beta tests which allows only premium subscribers to opt-in to test new features. High engagement equals more feedback, more feedback equals more fixes, and more fixes equal higher product quality. Which means more engagement and better feedback. 4 Powerful Benefits.

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Centercode

APRIL 9, 2020

The Delta ’20: Virtual Customer Validation Conference saw over 400 Customer Validation professionals from companies like Bose, Roku, Autodesk, TechSmith, and countless others. They also asked a lot of eye-opening questions — both about the current state of customer testing and what’s in store for the future.

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Centercode

OCTOBER 23, 2020

Imagine: A delightful, bug-free product springs fully formed from your PRD and lands directly into your customers’ waiting hands. No product is perfect at the start. But perfecting a product is possible — and with the right methodologies and practices, it’s well within reach. Seems impossible?

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Alchemer Mobile

APRIL 14, 2020

Get your cup of coffee ready and watch the full recording from our live panel discussion with product professionals from leading brands like Dropbox, Concur, and Stripe. Here are some of the questions they’ll discuss: What’s the relationship between design, development, engineering, and product and your company?

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Centercode

DECEMBER 26, 2019

In this ebook, you’ll learn techniques for overcoming today’s product development challenges like interoperability, multiplying use cases, and growing technological diversity. Discover the specific benefits Customer Validation brings to Product Management with the CV in 20 Minutes for Product Managers ebook.

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Mixpanel

OCTOBER 6, 2023

This is especially true in analytical products: If the dashboard feels slow—relative to how it “felt” yesterday—it doesn’t matter how powerful the back-end is. Nothing kills engineering productivity more than unpacking legacy code. These expectations are usually established by an earlier version of a system.

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Centercode

DECEMBER 18, 2019

Centercode enables companies to get the unique product intelligence they need to dominate their markets with bug-free, crowd-pleasing products. Visit Centercode’s Solutions to learn how our end-to-end platform helps companies like yours manage their Customer Validation testing in one environment, at scale.

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Centercode

MAY 29, 2019

Software testing teams often find themselves sacrificing quality for speed when it comes to getting updates out on time. Over the last couple of weeks, we’ve explored how professionals are using customer testing to scale their resources and manpower within continuous delivery. How Feature Flagging Modernizes Beta Testing.

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Centercode

MAY 7, 2019

Sifting through the responses, we found crucial pieces of information that point to how customer testing helps alleviate some of these challenges and shapes the progress of software development. Beta testers report the issues they’re experiencing in their real-world environments and product ecosystems.

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Centercode

MAY 29, 2019

Software testing teams often find themselves sacrificing quality for speed when it comes to getting updates out on time. Over the last couple of weeks, we’ve explored how professionals are using customer testing to scale their resources and manpower within continuous delivery. How Feature Flagging Modernizes Beta Testing.

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The Accidental Product Manager

NOVEMBER 20, 2023

There was a race to win the battle to dominate the at home test market Image Credit: CT Senate Republicans I think that we all realize that the Covid-19 pandemic affected just about everyone. Sure, they could go to the doctor and get tested, but what they really wanted to be able to do was to test themselves at home.

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Userzoom

MAY 9, 2019

They’re not like your traditional product teams. They place bets, they run tests, and they’re generally just involved in improving what is the core experience for most of our users. So we’re equally as focused now on the service design behind the new products that we develop. We call them iBET.

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