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519: Product verification, most important of the 19 activities of product management – with Nishant Parikh

Product Innovation Educators

How product managers can adapt core responsibilities across different organizations and contexts Watch on YouTube TLDR Through his research and practical experience at MasterCard, Nishant Parikh identified 19 key activities that define the role of software product managers. Why study the 19 key activities of software product managers?

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Ask Teresa: Does the Engineer in the Product Trio Need to be the Tech Lead?

Product Talk

In the past, I’ve sometimes used language like “design lead” or “tech lead” to refer to the design and engineering members of the trio. Sometimes it refers to someone’s seniority within the company, and at other times it refers to their authority and autonomy for a given project. The term “lead” is vague.

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Product in Practice: Mapping Business and Product Outcomes to Stand Out in the Job Search

Product Talk

Sometimes recruiters would have the answer and sometimes they would refer Teeba to the hiring manager. Actually, even when I got rejections, it was due to mismatch in industry, company stage, etc. Example 1: A B2C tax software platform One company Teeba interviewed with was a B2C tax software platform.

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Why Design-to-Dev QA Still Stings

UX Planet

We pour weeks into meticulous Figma files, yet the last mile between mock-up and production code keeps tripping us up. This is an honest autopsy of why QA hurts and how teams can start healing it — today — without buying more software (though new approaches are brewing). Each side assumes the other “gets it.” Was This Helpful?

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UX Analytics: It’s Not Just About Data Collection and Methods

Userpilot

Unfortunately, the research backs this up, with a staggering 90% of users reporting that they stopped using an app due to poor performance. Expert review : Established design experts check your products design based on usability principles to identify potential improvements. Basically, anything that ruins the user experience.

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New Figma MCP + Cursor Integration with Example

UX Planet

link] The Problem with Previous Approaches Before MCP integration, generating code from AI typically involved providing static images of Figma designs. In just 15 minutes, I transformed a simple design into a fully functional web app, completely bypassing traditional hand-coding. Click on New MCP Server , opening a file named mcp.json.

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Introducing Core 4: The best way to measure and improve your product velocity

Lenny Rachitsky

I’ve yet to come across a software leader who isn’t. In the past, most measurements focused on activity—like lines of code, number of commits, story points shipped—which don’t tell a complete story about performance. The time to first review was about 60 minutes. See the example in the template.