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

MARCH 20, 2024

A streamlined release management process is imperative for mitigating deployment risks and accelerating software delivery. Understanding precisely how to improve release management is key for more efficient software development. This spans planning, development, testing, approval, deployment, release, and post-implementation support.

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Userpilot

MARCH 9, 2023

That’s exactly what we explore in our review. This includes unlimited no-code features and page tagging, user segmentation , and behavioral analytics. The free plan doesn’t include experimentation to test your guides. G2 reviewers give Pendo an average rating of 4.4 Let’s get right to it! No integrations.

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Userpilot

JULY 18, 2023

It takes a fair bit of effort and time to keep up with the constant innovation in the product management software space. Fear not though, as our product management software guide will give you insights into some of the best-in-class applications that will boost your team performance and help you build successful products!

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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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Userpilot

SEPTEMBER 2, 2022

On the hunt for the best instructional design software to create course content and engage learners? In this article, we cover: How SaaS companies can use instructional design software to increase product adoption. TLDR; Instructional design software helps you create custom eLearning courses and training material.

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Split

MARCH 31, 2023

Testing in production is a software testing method that involves running tests in a live, real-world environment. This type of testing allows organizations to deploy new features and test their performance or run tests to observe how the system responds to different user inputs.

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Userpilot

JUNE 19, 2023

What factors should you consider when choosing a SaaS learning management system to support your customers and employees? TL;DR A SaaS learning management system (LMS) is a cloud-based solution for delivering educational experiences. They should also support mobile learning and integrate with other organizational systems, like HR.

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Product Talk

MARCH 13, 2024

Instead, they hand off work from team to team—the back-end engineers design the data model and system architecture, the front-end engineers build the interface elements, the mobile engineers work toward feature parity, etc. Sam created a diagram to help demonstrate the benefits of organizing teams by value stream as opposed to code base.

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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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Split

AUGUST 3, 2023

Mitigating risks in AI software development requires a combination of best practices, careful considerations, and proactive measures. Robust Testing and Validation Implement rigorous testing methodologies to validate AI models and their performance. Here are some key steps to help navigate the industry trend.

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Agile Velocity

AUGUST 15, 2022

In a previous post in our Scrum Assessment Series , we shared some ideas to help catalyze engaging sprint reviews. Here, we take a deeper dive into the topic of awesome Sprint Reviews. The Sprint Review, just like the Retrospective , is an important feedback loop in a Scrum team’s toolbox. Why is the Review so important?

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Usersnap

JUNE 18, 2020

This article is brought to you by Usersnap , a user testing tool that helps you to communicate visually. The methodology of User Acceptance Testing (UAT) is pretty straight-forward. The implementation itself requires some in-depth knowledge on the available types of User Acceptance Testing, though. Get a 15-day free trial here.

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Userpilot

FEBRUARY 26, 2023

In this in-depth review, we’ll explore the features, benefits, and limitations of Mixpanel Analytics and why you might need to find a better alternative for you. A/B testing in Mixpanel helps you track user interactions to determine which version of a feature or product works best. A/B testing experiments.

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Userpilot

DECEMBER 6, 2023

TL;DR Product dogfooding is a testing practice. The term comes from a commercial and was first used in the software context by a Microsoft manager in 1988. Product dogfooding enables organizations to shorten the feedback loop by testing their products for bugs and usability issues before releasing them to the users.

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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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Usersnap

DECEMBER 10, 2023

User Acceptance Testing (UAT) is important for more agile software development teams. It’s the last stage in the software development life cycle, and it ensures every product meets the requirements and designations of the users. This is why the magic of the best user acceptance testing tools is crucial. Usersnap 2.

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Modus Create

SEPTEMBER 9, 2021

The surface area for testing software has never been so broad. Today’s applications interact with other applications through APIs, leverage legacy systems, and grow in complexity from one day to the next in a nonlinear fashion. Testing apps require a bigger budget for tools and resources compared to programming.

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Johanna Rothman

MARCH 5, 2020

Brief description of the problem at a recent client: Person A checked in code that broke an “unrelated” part of the system. I'll call this checking in code in Email that broke Search. They had one piece of feedback: the checkin broke “unrelated” code. These product people executed manual tests.

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Modus Create

AUGUST 24, 2021

Software engineers have been testing ever since they could write code. However, the ability to automate software tests commercially emerged only in the 1980s with the introduction of AutoTester. In this article, we will explain why you should write unit tests. . What is Unit Testing?

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TechEmpower - Product Management

MARCH 4, 2024

Similarly, in customer support , AI-driven chatbots and automated response systems are taking over routine support, effectively handling common issues such as account inquiries or basic troubleshooting. Overall, generative AI is a transformative asset in the software engineering lifecycle, from conception to deployment.

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Atlassian

JANUARY 13, 2022

They wanted to speed up long-distance calls, leading them to release a complex software upgrade. Later, they found that the software upgrade contained one line of buggy code, leading to cascading switch failures that ultimately snowballed into a huge problem. That’s why improving your code quality is necessary.

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Userpilot

OCTOBER 28, 2020

In this blog, we’re going to take your through the market-leading product tour software and solutions out there so you can choose the one that suits you best. Beyond the Software – How to Get the Best Results from Product Tours. Intercom Product Tours doesn’t support A/B testing. Source: userpilot.com. Pros of Userpilot.

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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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Split

MARCH 17, 2023

Continuous delivery (CD) and pipeline deployment (PD) are commonly associated with software development and deployment. Continuous delivery and pipeline deployment streamline the software development and delivery process, enabling teams to release software updates more frequently, with more confidence and fewer errors.

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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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Split

MARCH 10, 2023

Believe it or not, this is also true of software architecture. Engineers love to crank out code. Design and architecture of a system often plays second fiddle, if it plays at all. Why Care About Software Architecture? It’s important to take your medicine of system design. It’s why Agile works so well!

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The Product Coalition

MARCH 13, 2023

Justin Norris After reviewing his post, I feel that Justin highlights the following key activities in order to produce valuable report designs: Help stakeholders communicate their ideas. Make a dictionary of the business and systems entities and terminology. Review the mockup with team and stakeholders. Make sure it flows.

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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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Split

JULY 27, 2023

They enable rapid deployment of features, testing in production environments, and easy rollback or disablement when needed. But what is the best option for your project: a homegrown feature toggle solution or a software-as-a-service (SaaS) feature toggle?

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Split

MAY 1, 2024

The first thing you will need to do is download the sample code from Github and install the required Flask library. Copy Code Copied Use a different Browser gh repo clone Split-Community/New-Relic-RUM-Demo cd nr-sampleapp pip install flask Next, we will go ahead and create an application in New Relic to represent our sample app.

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Userpilot

OCTOBER 8, 2021

We had a play with some of their tools to save you the trouble of testing them out yourself. You can review Pendo's analytics in their free trial, which displays various different graphs on the basis of dummy data. If so, you can test out Userpilot's analytics by starting a free trial today. Feature Clicks.

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The Product Coalition

DECEMBER 29, 2022

The emergence of new technologies, mobile app-based services such as food delivery service apps , QR codes, traceability software, and numerous others have resulted in a radical transformation of the food industry. The dramatic reduction in the costs associated with the various tests mentioned is a second step forward.

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PMLesson's Ace the PM Interview

MARCH 21, 2022

Trying to better understand the software engineer career path? Software engineers have the option to stick to software development at higher and higher levels. Different software engineers work on different kinds of technical projects. This, too, can influence the potential career trajectory of a software engineer.

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Split

JUNE 21, 2023

Feature toggles are a powerful tool that developers can use to deploy code changes quickly and efficiently. They allow developers to test features in production without exposing them to end-users. This means that they can test new features quickly and easily, with minimal risk.

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Mironov Consulting

FEBRUARY 28, 2024

  They are coming off customer calls, strategy sessions, renewal discussions, marketing automation planning sessions, compliance reviews, and industry analyst briefings that highlight improvements that must be made.  Crack the WIP Agilists and systems thinkers call this the WIP/Work in Progress.  There’s

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Split

FEBRUARY 24, 2023

Still, against the enormous pressure to continually improve, the best software teams deliver the goods safely and on time. As it turns out, there’s an important set of metrics all software teams should use as their benchmark. Identified after surveying over 31,000 software people, they designed four very helpful DORA Metrics.

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