The Product Coalition

DECEMBER 13, 2022

In a recent poll, many of my fellow facilitators shared that the most challenging part of designing a workshop lies in picking the right methods and activities to apply, then pacing against them. As guides, we want so badly to steer our teams in the right direction and toward the best possible outcomes. Hey, I get it!

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Roman Pichler

AUGUST 15, 2023

Take a productivity tools suite like Microsoft Office or Google Workspace. If I was in charge of such a portfolio, I would use an overall strategy for the entire suite and separate product strategies for the individual tools like Microsoft PowerPoint and Google Slides. Why will people want to use it or pay for it?

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Userpilot

FEBRUARY 10, 2023

Actually, there are multiple types of personas for different teams, levels of research, and use cases—which you need to understand if you want to connect with customers. So let’s cover each of them and see what you can do to improve your team’s effectiveness. What is a persona?

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Roman Pichler

NOVEMBER 12, 2019

I once worked with a telco company that was developing a brand-new commercial product. Product management and development were located at separate sites in different countries. The technical complexities were greater than anticipated and the development progress was slower than forecasted. To Collocate or Not.

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Roman Pichler

NOVEMBER 12, 2019

I once worked with a telco company that was developing a brand-new commercial product. Product management and development were located at separate sites in different countries. The technical complexities were greater than anticipated and the development progress was slower than forecasted. To Collocate or Not.

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Roman Pichler

FEBRUARY 2, 2021

Before the advent of agile frameworks like Scrum , a product person—the product manager—would typically carry out the market research, compile a market requirements specification, create a business case, put together product roadmap, write a requirements specification, and then hand it off to a project manager.

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UX Studio: Product Management

JANUARY 11, 2022

If you are looking for a web design agency in Vienna —Webdesign Wien Agentur in German — chances are you need help with product design, usability research, training, or consulting. Our experts analyzed services, portfolios, expertise, strengths, and weaknesses of dozens of Webdesign Wien companies to create this curated list.

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Product Innovation Educators

OCTOBER 16, 2023

What do we know about people, systems, and contexts? 6:49] How is poor CX costly to an organization? Some companies already have UX researches who specialize in qualitative research. ” That means we didn’t do the right research. Then we need research. We care about research rigor.

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UX Planet

JANUARY 16, 2024

The last thing you need is to stumble into the abyss of bad branding, a place where countless others have lost their way. SELECT Branding Process by Shakuro Mistake #1: Neglecting market research Market research is the North Star of branding. How to avoid: Recognize the value: market research is an investment, not an expense.

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Userzoom

DECEMBER 17, 2019

Armed with the proper tools, guidance and methods of communication, you should be able to convince anyone within your organisation about the value of user research and the positive impact it will have on the bottom line – without resorting to cattle-prods, lies or locking yourself in the stationery cupboard and having a very loud cry.

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Roman Pichler

FEBRUARY 2, 2021

Before the advent of agile frameworks like Scrum , a product person—the product manager—would typically carry out the market research, compile a market requirements specification, create a business case, put together product roadmap, write a requirements specification, and then hand it off to a project manager.

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Roman Pichler

JULY 6, 2021

Consequently, your focus shifts from managing a product to looking after the product people on your team and empowering them to do a great job. Another key aspect to support the people on your team succeed is to create the right environment for people to succeed. Grow Your Leadership Skills.

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Userpilot

FEBRUARY 3, 2021

Unfortunately, user journey mapping can be a long and arduous process that requires support from all of your stakeholders – meaning multiple meetings and perhaps a workshop ( long sigh ). The Bottleneck -Your software developer who is too busy to take on every experiment you want to run. Also known as: Table of Contents.

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Product Talk

JANUARY 19, 2022

I teach teams that business outcomes are derived from your business model. My business model formula looked something like this: # of teams in my coaching program x price per team. Increasing the number of teams that I coach would increase both revenue and impact. I can only work with so many teams at once.

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UX Studio

JULY 17, 2018

This detailed article will guide you through how we facilitate a UX project kick-off workshop here at UX studio. What happens at a project kick-off workshop? We hold kick-off workshops when a new project starts. You want to trust the design team, and see how they process and understand your product and company.

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Userzoom

JUNE 9, 2020

I’m in the unusual position of seeing directly (and indirectly) how hundreds of businesses’ digital departments across different industries have reacted to COVID-19, through my role as a UX research partner at UserZoom. Ugly research practices are rearing their heads. Image by Nick Bolton.

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The Product Guy

MARCH 14, 2017

The developers sitting nearby just watched the show for the first time, but after a while they stood up to join the party one by one. Soon the whole team was standing behind the designer’s screen shouting new ideas and tips about the layout, the colors, the icons, the fonts and everything else. What to expect from a design team?

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The Product HQ

MAY 10, 2024

Since product development is such a lucrative field, this is a crucial role for the company. This includes the project management of all of the activities done in product conceptualization, design, development, and marketing. To do so, startup product managers will need to conduct market research to maximize product-market fit.

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Userzoom

APRIL 30, 2019

In the various design teams that I have been part of, I’ve often experienced contrasting practices of validating products. These are a set of methods which involve internal experts (colleagues from the design or other teams, stakeholders or even clients). Hundreds of such tools are available online and offline. Image by Crew.

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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. We’ve tested most as workshop methods on our clients in the last couple of years, and have included some research techniques as well. How to develop your brand strategy? They establish what you stand for as a team.

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UX Studio

APRIL 6, 2023

We accomplish this by putting UX research to use, which leads to enhanced, user-centric design. With this approach, we were able to increase the booking rate on France’s leading travel app, Liligo , by 200%. This includes UX redesign, UX consulting , UX audit, product discovery, and UX training for teams.

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UX Studio

APRIL 6, 2023

We accomplish this by putting UX research to use, which leads to enhanced, user-centric design. With this approach, we were able to increase the booking rate on France’s leading travel app, Liligo , by 200%. This includes UX redesign, UX consulting , UX audit, product discovery, and UX training for teams.

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Sequent Learning

NOVEMBER 12, 2018

How can they develop more innovative products and services? Regardless of industry, product managers navigate similar obstacles as they work towards common objectives with their cross-functional teams. It offers practical tips for guiding cross-functional teams as they: Cultivate market insights. Experience-Based Training.

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Mind the Product

OCTOBER 22, 2018

Following a day of focused workshops and leadership discussions, we came together at London’s Barbican Centre to talk product. We work with developers, user researchers, data scientists and a host of other experts every day – so it’s only natural that we feel like the dumbest people in the room. We are all Imposters.

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UX Studio

MAY 2, 2018

UX design is a process , and I follow all the rules: I value research, I make design decisions based on user insights, and I always put the user first. As a general rule, the more you know about your target audience, the more creative solutions you can deliver. This requires even more research.

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The Product HQ

MAY 10, 2024

With more digital and data-driven products, the demand for traditional product managers is now shifting from sales teams to data product managers. Develop the Right Skills Certification in data PM develops the right skills. Big data analytics is a growing global market expected to reach $550 billion by 2028.

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Roman Pichler

JULY 6, 2021

Consequently, your focus shifts from managing a product to looking after the product people on your team and empowering them to do a great job. Another key aspect to support the people on your team succeed is to create the right environment for people to succeed. Grow Your Leadership Skills.

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Intercom, Inc.

OCTOBER 5, 2022

Each person on your team has different needs, responds to feedback in different ways and evolves in different trajectories – and management should always reflect that. Even when you reach the perfect team dynamic – a new hire or budget cut can easily throw things off balance. It’s called Resilient Management.

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Mind the Product

FEBRUARY 5, 2018

There’s an increasing number of research tools, analytics providers and general reading material available, all pointing to the need for more evidence-based decision making. We discussed a number of coaching and development opportunities associated with this difficulty. Decision Making: Data vs Gut Feeling.

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Bain Public

MAY 29, 2020

MAIN: Developing Entrepreneurship in Quebec. MAIN , also known as Mouvement des accélérateurs d’innovation du Québec, states that their mission is "to improve the cohesion and efficiency of the business incubator and accelerator ecosystem and to increase its impact on the development of entrepreneurship and innovation in Quebec.".

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Userpilot

APRIL 25, 2024

We cut straight to practical, usable examples you can immediately incorporate into your user research or interviews. Userpilot is an all-in-one solution for product teams that allows you to build bespoke in-app surveys with open-ended, Likert scale, and multiple choice questions (among other things) without any coding.

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Mind the Product

MARCH 7, 2017

Or “ How to Manage Software Development in Teams who Think Nothing Like you “ Product management has two diversity problems. Cultural homogeneity in product teams is dead, welcome cultural diversity. Product managers who work with cross-cultural teams are in the crossfire. It simply doesn’t work.

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Intercom, Inc.

OCTOBER 10, 2019

We do it by closing distances that our technologies have just opened. We will work with you over months iteratively to develop that idea. That includes design systems, pattern libraries and guidelines, but it goes beyond that. ” Jonathon: You mentioned earlier that good UX humanizes technology. Show up with an idea.

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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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UX Studio: Product Management

SEPTEMBER 19, 2019

Having an established UX design process can save you time, energy, money and can also save you from a bad headache. It is important to look for these skeletons in the very beginning of the UX design process so we can find solutions for them, too. Find out more about our experience and process of kick-off workshops.

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ProductPlan

JUNE 11, 2019

We know what we want to happen, we do lots of research and planning, put in the work, and then wait to see if the results match our expectations. While this can occasionally be blamed on poor execution, it is often simply a result of poor goal setting. Any company can create new technologies. Defining the right outcomes.

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Business of Software Conference

MAY 29, 2019

Making that talented team work together well, now that’s even harder. In this talk from BoS Europe 2018 Alison Coward gave some great advice on how you can design the way a team communicates and works together to ensure you get the most out of everyone on the team. Hiring a group of talented people is difficult.

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