The Product Coalition

NOVEMBER 24, 2020

A Scrum Master should recognize that different stages of a Scrum Team’s development require different approaches: some, teaching; some, coaching; and some, mentoring. A Scrum Master’s principal objective should be to remove themselves from daily operations by enabling the Scrum Team to be self-organizing. A cross-functional?—?be

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The Product Coalition

NOVEMBER 7, 2019

The company decided to pivot, and focus on developing what they initially thought of as a more convenient tool for internal business communication. When setting up a new team, the person responsible for the technical implementation?—?the Working with a Software Vendor Outsourcing to a vendor means hiring a team for a specific task.

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Userpilot

MARCH 8, 2022

User behavior analytics helps you flag underperforming features and modify onboarding experiences to improve feature discovery. 51% of users won’t return to a company if they’ve had bad experiences with it. This will help you find areas of poor user experience. What is user analytics in SaaS? 2 – Hotjar.

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Split

OCTOBER 21, 2016

Anyone on the team, from PMs to SREs, can target a whitelist, segment, or percentage of customers when releasing new features. In software development, we don’t have to suffer from that problem, though many of us do. Take advantage of the safety measures available to software developers.

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The Product Coalition

FEBRUARY 26, 2022

I’ve asked friends who do the job at social events and got the same answer, and frequently asked members of my own teams, who struggled to find the time to do it. To compensate, I’ve seen UX researchers & designers pick up the mantle a lot more, and the design teams have really leaned into this space.

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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. Since the team is small, you will have to manage the technical aspects of product development.

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Mironov Consulting

SEPTEMBER 15, 2019

Data science has traditionally been an analysis-only endeavor: using historical statistics, user interaction trends, or AI machine learning to predict the impact of deterministically coded software changes. Piping in real users’ voices and challenges motivates the whole team. And creates a storehouse of resonant insights.

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Userpilot

OCTOBER 27, 2022

Once you start developing a feature, you should also test it regularly. Next, use the right tool to collect the right information and use the data to inform new developments. For example, you can use software like Hotjar to record user sessions to identify friction points. Identify and fix bugs quickly. PMF survey in Userpilot.

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The Product Coalition

JANUARY 6, 2023

You have to integrate the SDK (Software Development Kit) of the mobile app analytics solution into your mobile app. This mobile app tracking SDK collects user interaction data and sends it into your mobile app analytics solution, where it will be processed and converted into insights on a dashboard for your product team.

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PMLesson's Ace the PM Interview

APRIL 4, 2022

It's common practice for companies to use recruiters (either contractors or in-house) to help them keep up with industry trends and find qualified software developers. Nevertheless, the experiences that many software engineers have with most recruiters aren't that great. Finding a GREAT one is.

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Usersnap

AUGUST 4, 2020

And if you’re here to find the best project management tool available, I have some bad news for you. There’s no objective answer to the question: What is the perfect software? Requirements differ from company to company, from team to team, and even from person to person. Trello for development and design teams?

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Split

JANUARY 8, 2020

Over the past few months we’ve been out in the field, chatting with development and operations teams from more than 100 different organizations around the U.S. We wanted to know how they get software to market. We wrap up this piece with some tips on how some of these teams are implementing best practices.

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Split

FEBRUARY 24, 2023

For developers, that requires constant pivots, faster response times, and a graceful recovery from failure. Still, against the enormous pressure to continually improve, the best software teams deliver the goods safely and on time. DORA stands for The DevOps Research and Assessment Team. They’re the DORA metrics.

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Split

DECEMBER 9, 2022

Without the right approach and tools, software developers are left crossing their fingers, hoping their rollouts won’t end with a crash. Does it sound as if releasing software is like working in a coal mine? No, software engineering is nowhere near as dangerous. The technique is called a canary release.

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The Product Coalition

JUNE 13, 2018

PM/PO, here is how you can have some deliver predictability with basic statistic applying in the team throughput TL:DR; How can we have the predictability of team deliver? Answers that all PM/PO would like to know Like a Product Manager/Owner, is an important thing to know how the team is performing.

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Usersnap

JUNE 11, 2019

Agile QA approach and user experience driven development (UXDD) have taken modern software development and testing by storm. And over 50 % of software firms have daily new releases. This trend is bound to increase with iterative development, continuous integration, and rapid deployment becoming the norm.

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Split

AUGUST 28, 2020

Software development in 2020 is a rapidly changing environment. In order to best support both speed and safety AS WELL AS business impact, you want your development teams and your customers driving your decision making. But how do you control for safety at speed? But, who should be in charge? Actually, no. Not so much!

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Agile Velocity

FEBRUARY 11, 2020

It is one of the most commonly used, abused, and misused metrics in Agile software development. Teams, their managers, and even their stakeholders often focus on “improving velocity” without considering the entire value delivery system. Bad turnover. Team learning logs. Measure for a Purpose. Example Measures.

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Agile Velocity

FEBRUARY 11, 2020

It is one of the most commonly used, abused, and misused metrics in Agile software development. Teams, their managers, and even their stakeholders often focus on “improving velocity” without considering the entire value delivery system. Bad turnover. Team learning logs. Measure for a Purpose. Example Measures.

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Mixpanel

OCTOBER 6, 2023

Sometimes teams fall short of getting pipelines tied together and running, sure. Developing systems for a diverse group of stakeholders to consume the same data is no small task; it’s a journey. Ryan Dahl, the creator of node.js, said it best in his 2011 rant: “I hate almost all software. Spectacularly.

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The Product Coalition

JANUARY 3, 2020

So, it was natural that we should want to develop a talent growth plan for our people. Each month we send out an NPS survey to assess whether the company is being a great place to work, but a few months ago I also sent Google’s manager feedback survey to my team of 10 product managers. It was clear the team needed a talent growth plan.

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Intercom, Inc.

APRIL 8, 2021

As face-to-face consultations were no longer an option for many healthcare providers, Joel and his team dropped everything and asked themselves: what could they build to help their customers (and their customers’ patients) adapt to the new normal? It was exciting, and the worst-case scenario wasn’t so bad. Joel: Sure.

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Atomic Spin PM

JANUARY 16, 2019

This is the second post in a four-part series aimed at helping you select the best software development partner. Defining “Great People” I would look for two big things: Generalist product developers – I want to work with people who specialize in software product development and who take a generalist approach to technology.

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Split

AUGUST 20, 2020

Let’s take a look at an example of how a controlled rollout can be beneficial for an agile dev team. Let’s say you are a web developer who has spent most of your career in JavaScript. You just recently joined a mobile team that uses React Native. This testing period will allow you to resolve any bugs or defects with your team.

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The Product Coalition

JUNE 17, 2019

The secret to becoming a successful startup lies in knowing your strengths and weaknesses and overcoming all the obstacles you will face along your journey. They know market trends and whether or not your product fits. You need to hire a team, obtain office space, and start creating a buzz about your company. Preparation is key.

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PMLesson's Ace the PM Interview

APRIL 26, 2022

Data science will only continue to expand as well as more teams begin to use data to make decisions, not just engineering. There will likely be data science professionals working on most marketing and cross-functional teams in the very near future. This type of job may work on a team or lead a team of others.

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The Product Coalition

JUNE 17, 2019

For many years CSSSR has been developing IT systems for the biggest online banks, witnessing their success firsthand. This experience has led to several key insights: You Don’t Need a Large IT Department “We operate in small teams. To begin with, the development of new functionality requires considerable resources, including people.

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Business of Software Conference

JUNE 27, 2019

There are 3 reasons your team isn’t doing what you want them to do, says Mikey Trafton. In his 3rd talk at Business of Software, Mikey picked up from where he left off at the end of his previous talk ‘ How To Recruit A Badass Team ‘ You’ve hired a great team, but you need to learn how to manage them.

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Usersnap

OCTOBER 15, 2019

One of the most difficult parts of software architecture is quality assurance planning. Brian Foote and Joseph Yoder said “If you think a good architecture is expensive, try bad architecture.” Poor development and testing workflows will result in slow progress, high costs and an unusable product. Components of a QA plan.

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Pragmatic Marketing

AUGUST 17, 2014

One of the most frustrating things I’ve heard over my career is that “agile is something that software developers do.” It ignores all the success agile teams have had in software the past decade and in other industries including architecture, marketing, video production and even the auto industry.

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The Product HQ

FEBRUARY 1, 2023

Regardless, these titles are industry-specific and change as industry trends evolve, but the underlying concept is the same. For example, in some cases, you focus on business intelligence and the agile development process. Another important thing to remember is to develop an in-depth understanding of the company you’re applying to.

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Product Talk

FEBRUARY 8, 2017

Instead, product teams are experimenting their way to viable solutions. We are putting our customers first, taking the time to discover unmet needs, and developing solutions that address those needs. into context and help product teams know what to use when. We no longer take months or years to release value to our customers.

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PMLesson's Ace the PM Interview

FEBRUARY 11, 2019

I started my career as a software developer, working on database applications. We work in the “technology industry,” and many of us obsess over the latest technology and trends, be they blockchain, AI, AR/VR, cybersecurity, IoT, etc. I don’t think we do a good job at defining and hiring for the right skill sets for these teams.

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Split

AUGUST 16, 2018

I sat down with this self-proclaimed loud mouth to discuss his keynote at DECISIONS 2018 , and Jez kindly agreed to do a brief Q&A so we could pick his brain on the state of things in the world of software delivery. People he encounters will often say, “Hey, have you heard of this lean product development?” Have you heard of it?”

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UX Studio

SEPTEMBER 20, 2023

Lisa leads the Product design team at make.com , the revolutionary visual platform that enables users to design, build, and automate anything without coding. I am in Prague this week, so I am really lucky to work with a team of designers here. So I’m doing great. So that’s how I would describe myself.

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Userpilot

JANUARY 14, 2024

TL;DR A product manager leads the product management team and is responsible for overseeing all stages of the product development process. They earn more than developers, astronauts, and even attorneys, but less than surgeons. The Director of Product is accountable for multiple product lines and manages product management teams.

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eG Innovations

AUGUST 20, 2019

And new challenges force you to develop new methods of solving old problems. During that time, there were diagnostic protocols and tools developed to help troubleshoot problems on the network. Since applications were simpler then, the need wasn’t as bad. Things are always changing. Performance monitoring is an old problem.

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