Product Talk

APRIL 9, 2025

Remember, an API defines a pre-defined language for how code can interact with another service. Sometimes its due to documentation simply not being a priority. But more often than not, its due to the curse of knowledge. The easiest way to fix this is to test your documentation with real customers. Why does this happen?

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The Product Coalition

JANUARY 27, 2024

Software development with sustainability in mind is a rising trend in digital spaces. While software is intangible and doesn’t directly consume energy or produce emissions, its environmental implications lie in its development and usage. As software builders, we are uniquely positioned to influence this environmental trajectory.

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Product Management Unpacked

NOVEMBER 2, 2021

CMU Master of Science in Product Management program student Erick Valencia landed a PM experience of a lifetime as part of a student team developing a driverless race car system to race in the Indy Autonomous Challenge. His was one of six sub-teams all designing portions of the autonomous driving system. “I Mid-summer test.

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Split

JULY 13, 2023

The need for efficient and effective software development methodologies has never been more paramount. Amid this incessant search for perfection, two paradigms have become prominent: Test-driven development (TDD) and feature flag-driven development (FFDD). Then, they write the minimum amount of code needed to pass the test.

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UX Planet

NOVEMBER 4, 2024

Photo by UX Indonesia This ‘complete’ guide to usability testing follows an overview in my UX research methods playbook articles. Introduction If you’re responsible in some way for a digital product or system, you should be doing usability testing — whatever your sector, industry or role. But what is usability?

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The Product Coalition

APRIL 18, 2021

Technology analysts and experts are busy validating their impact in the consumer market or leveraging the same to create a better user experience and the best test management tools. Considering all factors, no technology can deliver expected results without testing and evaluation in a focused environment bringing together the related factors.

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The Product Guy

AUGUST 30, 2017

The team had been working for almost a year and had a huge amount of code under their belts. But just because it was a lot of code doesn’t mean it worked. In fact, our tests regularly failed. As we were getting closer to the end of the year, my senior vice president called me in, to review our progress against our goals.

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Product Talk

MAY 14, 2025

Chi started sitting in on quarterly business reviews with top vendors. These were review sessions Chis companys account management team was already having, and they gave her the chance to ask vendors about their order volume. Vendor integrates with a webhook system to receive status updates. Vendor creates a draft order.

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Intercom, Inc.

AUGUST 11, 2021

We believe there’s only so much you can do with automated tests and pre-production environments. Production is the only place where your code, infrastructure, and customers come together to represent objective reality. With over 50 deployments per day, it generally takes less than 12 minutes to ship new code.

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Lenny Rachitsky

FEBRUARY 25, 2025

Step 1: Preparation (3-5 weeks) The preparation step is a foundational effort where a lot of the groundwork and due diligence is done to inform the strategy selection process. Then iron out any adjustments as a result of these reviews. Let’s dive into detailed guidance for each step.

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The Product Coalition

AUGUST 28, 2023

The Software Development Life Cycle provides a practical framework you can apply to your product and improve your processes. These are planning, analysis, design, development, testing, implementation, and maintenance. It helps us meet customers’ demands, needs, and expectations. It covers planning, estimating, and scheduling.

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Intercom, Inc.

AUGUST 11, 2020

It was first proposed after Benjamin Whorf, a fire safety inspector at the time, observed how oil workers treated empty oil barrels as less hazardous than full oil barrels, despite them being equally flammable due to the traces of oil remaining in them. Think about the impact that racism has already had in tech. Know the scope of the issue.

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Arkenea

APRIL 10, 2025

In a fastmoving digital economy, many organizations leverage outsourced software product development to accelerate innovation, control costs, and tap into global expertise. Rather than building and maintaining a large inhouse team, businesses partner with specialized vendors to handle design, development, testing, and deployment.

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The Product Bistro

NOVEMBER 19, 2018

They ran Windows, and they ran our software that then runs the instrument. In the then current generation there are a lot of customers with older systems. Test usability on typical hardware and avoid support bottlenecks[/mks_pullquote]Truisms in the instrument business are that people expect support for a LONG time.

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The Product Guy

APRIL 9, 2019

In my company, we review a living document with our management chain on a quarterly basis to align business direction for the short-term (immediate one to two quarters) to the long-term (two to five years). The idea is to treat the strategy as a prototype that will undergo many iterations and testing. Testing the Proto-Strategy.

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Intercom, Inc.

AUGUST 6, 2019

Yes, the code that you write and the systems that you build are major contributing factors to the success and growth of a business. New interviewers should start off with sessions that involve less ambiguity like pairing or reviewing take home tests in order to become familiar with process. Who reviews my code?” “How

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TechEmpower - Product Management

AUGUST 21, 2023

Many CEOs of software-enabled businesses call us with a similar concern: Are we getting the right results from our software team? We hear them explain that their current software development is expensive, deliveries are rarely on time, and random bugs appear. What does a business leader do in this situation?

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The Product Guy

MARCH 12, 2025

The most effective teams foster a culture of structured disagreement not consensus where ideas are tested through rigorous debate, but personal attacks and politicking are off-limits. Every meeting becomes a performance review rather than a space for creative problem-solving. and pursue the answers.

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The Product Coalition

JANUARY 15, 2021

In Aug 2020, Google Play released the In-App Review API which lets app developers prompt users to submit Play Store ratings and reviews for the app without the inconvenience of navigating outside of the app or game. During the flow, the user has the ability to rate your app using the 1 to 5 star system and to add an optional comment.

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Lenny Rachitsky

JANUARY 14, 2025

Her background is in developer tools and distributed systems. 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.

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UX Planet

SEPTEMBER 3, 2024

This article reviews 3 popular contribution models: 1. It uses the hybrid model of contribution where the central design system team is responsible for the overall direction. This hybrid model helps the design team keep the system accurate and useful. This hybrid model helps the design team keep the system accurate and useful.

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The Product Coalition

MAY 18, 2022

Continuous improvement is a continual process to improve components of enterprise software?—?processes, Regardless of today’s software development aspect, increasing demand for new features in the products makes competitive advantage higher than ever. Changes can be large or small, which depends on the software projects.

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Userpilot

MARCH 5, 2025

That’s where customer engagement software comes in. How I chose the best customer engagement software My evaluation process combined thorough feature analysis , a careful review of user feedback, and insights from industry reports. Scalability and security: Can the platform grow with your business and protect your data?

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Alchemer Mobile

FEBRUARY 24, 2022

Whether a customer completes a purchase, leaves a review, or mentions your company socially, there is always an emotional state connected to their action. Customer reviews are a great way to track sentiment, and in-app ratings prompts can help inspire customers to leave their thoughts on your mobile experience. In-app ratings prompts.

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Alchemer Mobile

NOVEMBER 10, 2022

It provides the speed and efficiency mobile apps require for constantly changing products while maintaining the security and integrity of existing systems. Their A/B testing capabilities can uncover how different changes and features impact success metrics such as purchase rates, trial requests, onboarding, survey results, and more.

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The Product Coalition

JANUARY 27, 2022

At the beginning of any software development project, managers think of which methodology is between waterfall and agile. It’s essential to follow clearly defined processes or software development life cycle (SDLC) to ensure software development quality. Waterfall and agile: A smart method or bad solution?

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Intercom, Inc.

APRIL 13, 2021

A large part of making this belief a reality is the idea of running less software. For this reason, we chose to run exclusively on AWS and wherever possible, we make use of battle-tested AWS services, be it RDS Aurora for our relational databases, the Simple Queue Service (SQS) for our async workers or ElastiCache for our caching layer.

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Alchemer Mobile

AUGUST 2, 2024

The Classics: time-tested customer experience metrics Net Promotor Score (NPS) Introduced in the Harvard Business Review in 2003, Net Promoter Score (NPS) is a leading growth indicator across industries. This makes them vulnerable to switching to a competitor due to pricing, missing features, or poor customer experience.

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UX Planet

JANUARY 29, 2024

Exploring How AI Will Revolutionize Design System Creation, Maintenance, and Usage Design systems are an important part of every product app or website. Apart from the use and growth of design systems, the revolution of AI technology is here, and it will affect many places in our design process. But how will it be affected?

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Product Talk

MAY 15, 2024

This meant that they could attach information like the user ID to the Typeform page and review it as part of the responses users provided. Tweet This While this system wasn’t perfect, it worked pretty well for Ellen’s needs. With the user ID, they could look the person up in Amplitude and see how active a user they were.

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Userpilot

MAY 7, 2024

Using no-code tools for product managers allows you to build, iterate, and deploy software products without any coding knowledge. Let’s review the top five no-code tools tailored for product teams, including their key features and usage in product management. But what is the best tech stack for product management?

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The Product Coalition

DECEMBER 23, 2021

When it comes to building financial software, the importance of great design skyrockets. And it’s great that more open-minded companies understand how important it is to think about all social groups when it comes to using the software. How to make sure that such software products are truly universal?

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Userpilot

JANUARY 20, 2025

Software bugs are a budget killer for your company and a buzzkill for your users. Even with a rigorous software testing process, one pesky bug always slips through. In 2014, a software error on Amazon caused some items to drop to just one penny. How to use session replay tools to streamline the debugging process.

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Mironov Consulting

OCTOBER 19, 2022

1] Dedicated Bug Fixing Teams Sometimes there’s a push to create development teams specifically to close out bugs and defects, especially after frequent outages or to address long-term system neglect.  This " Code creators own quality.*  Here’s my thinking. [1]  It’s turtles all the way down.  So

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UX Planet

JANUARY 22, 2025

Problem Brief Over a span of 4 weeks, we tested Civians platform and created design solutions to improve the overall user experience of the dashboard. We concentrated on three primary goals for optimal insights of the redesign: Overview We used various recruitment tools to interview and analyze insights through 8 moderated usability tests.

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Split

MARCH 1, 2023

Feature Toggles, or feature flags as they’re often called, are a powerful tool for software engineers. Feature toggles have become increasingly popular among software developers. This is probably due to their ability to improve agility, accelerate time-to-market velocity, and increase reliability. Take notes! Take notes!

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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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