ProductPlan

MARCH 12, 2019

Cultural fit is a relatively new concept in hiring and team building. This has given hiring managers the confidence to reject prospects who look perfect on paper, but might not mesh with the existing team and company norms. Culture sets the tone, permeating every aspect of the team and the quality of their work.

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Mironov Consulting

JULY 27, 2023

 Sales teams inundate us with urgent-but-repetitive ‘does product X do thing Y?’ 1] “Product Needs to Help Sales Close Major Deals” Enterprise sales teams are paid, rewarded, promoted, and measured on closing individual (big) deals.  So  There’s something more systematic here.

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Mironov Consulting

JANUARY 17, 2021

Half of the calls I get from CEOs include requests for Product Management to boost productivity in Engineering (aka Development aka Makers). This reflects confusion about what product managers do (and how we really add value), and often poor role definition where product managers are also project/program managers or engineering leads.

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UX Studio

APRIL 17, 2018

In this article, I will go through the seven basic AI UX principles products should follow. Here follow my seven principles of AI UX. Thus reads the first principle of AI UX. Firebase, a tool for mobile developers, labels the predicted data with a magic wand icon. Self-driving cars provide another good example of AI UX.

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Amplitude

NOVEMBER 26, 2019

People in non-technical roles rely on data every day to make decisions, develop ideas or measure success. We can create empathetic, intuitive systems When everyone on the team is empowered to understand data, they can make more informed decisions and measure their own success. He’s been conditioned to not bother the data team.

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UX Studio

MARCH 1, 2024

We formulated a dedicated team consisting of three researchers and three designers. While some team members immersed themselves in articles and courses, others extensively tested AI tools within the given timeframe. Read on to get a sneak peek at our research team’s conclusions. Don’t think that AI is smarter than you.

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The Product Coalition

MAY 10, 2019

One way is through Corporate Training. Developing new skills means opening new paths toward solutions. It is precisely because of this wide-spread value that companies like Uber are willing to spend money on Corporate Training; it is paying to optimize the company, not just the individual. Reskilling Existing Abilities ??

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PMLesson's Ace the PM Interview

FEBRUARY 25, 2022

Creating a concise, specific, and relevant front end developer resume is key to landing your next job in tech. For front-end developers, it is important to craft your resume in a way that highlights your skills, experience and programming language knowledge. We created this guide for both junior and senior front-end developers.

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The Product Coalition

SEPTEMBER 4, 2020

I became director of communications, leading the development of intranets and web applications. Challenges aside, I enjoyed the close-knit teams and easy access to upper management which enabled quick decision making. Designers vs Developers The work culture in this large organization was unlike anything I’d ever experienced.

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PMLesson's Ace the PM Interview

MARCH 9, 2022

As a capable, experienced UX designer or UX researcher, you spend your time thinking about how a product affects the user experience. But how easy is it to transition from being a UX designer or UX researcher to product management (PM)? Start Learning Can You Transition from UX to Product Management?

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Intercom, Inc.

AUGUST 15, 2019

If an organization’s founders aren’t designers and don’t come from a background where well-designed products played a key role in their lives, it can often be the last discipline to be brought onboard the team. On a bad day, a lot more of it got thrown away. My responsibility was to build a design team in that new agile way of working.

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Mironov Consulting

SEPTEMBER 22, 2020

Almost without fail, I find that the “maker” side of software companies (developers, designers, product folks, DevOps, tech writers…) and the “go-to-market” side of software companies (sales, marketing, support, customer success.) Some frequent bad outcomes from this confusion: We never finish our MVP. Here’s why…. What To Do?

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UX Planet

FEBRUARY 26, 2024

Conclusions Background Context Overview of Hiring Practices Some digital companies, during the recruitment process to fill positions like: UX Designer UX/UI — UI/UX Designer Product Designer Lead Head of Director of UX Researcher* usually require a challenge at the second step, other times as first step.

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Userpilot

DECEMBER 9, 2021

In the competitive world of SaaS products, product positioning is definitely something your product marketing team can’t afford to ignore. This enables the marketing team to set clear expectations from the very beginning of the marketing campaign. Strong positioning makes the work of the marketing and sales teams easier.

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UX Studio: Product Management

JUNE 22, 2021

They get most of the recognition, but they also have to be involved in everything, which is super tiring and often leads to stress, burnout, and bad health. They don’t have to make every decision and double-check everything done by their teams. Context: the most important tool to empower your team. All without their manager.

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Intercom, Inc.

OCTOBER 10, 2019

UX designer are creating worlds, and people live in those worlds. We will work with you over months iteratively to develop that idea. I am someone who started as a librarian and then became an information architect and then became a UX person and then became a publisher and then became a conference producer and podcaster.

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Mironov Consulting

NOVEMBER 2, 2018

But it’s easy for B2B/enterprise companies to fall into a sales-led development model where the majority of work is for individual customers – starving the core product of innovation, new features, quality improvements and technical resilience. Good estimation and busy technical team are the keys to success. What to do? [1]

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UX Studio

MAY 15, 2018

By definition, design handoff takes place when the finished design has reached the stage for the developers to implement it. Let’s look at the basics and some suggestions to get the best out of the designer-developer collaboration. We recently wrote an ebook, “Product Managers’ Guide to UX Design”. Click here to download!

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UX Planet

JANUARY 9, 2024

To illustrate, a compilation of 70 previous research studies revealed that creativity training programs, when well-structured, resulted in enhanced performance. Creativity is a team effort, so make sure to leverage the expertise and skills of your team or people you trust when the need arises for you to be creative.

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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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UX Studio

MAY 2, 2018

I’m walking on thin ice here, but sometimes I feel that UX design is killing my creativity. Then, I wonder: how to be more creative in a UX setting, while still putting the user first? Maybe I’m exaggerating, but in some respects, UX design has stagnation coded in. What lies behind a creative crisis and how to avoid it.

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The Product Coalition

OCTOBER 30, 2023

It was another bad start to what seemed like Groundhog Day. “I An outcome-oriented approach helps teams remain focused on the bigger picture, ensures efforts go toward delivering meaningful value to customers, and gives them the freedom to figure out the best way instead of having ‘the way’ committed well before discovery.

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Userpilot

APRIL 13, 2022

Click tracking is an essential method for uncovering weak spots in the product UX and the user flow by analyzing how users engage with your UI. This can be a broken link, poor onboarding , confusing UX, etc. The product team utilizes click data for making data-driven decisions on product development.

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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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freshtrax

APRIL 18, 2023

This Zambian-born designer worked as an architect in South Africa, studied design at Stanford University, and currently works as a UX designer in Tokyo. Akiko Sakamoto Akiko works as a UX researcher at Btrax. I sat down with Nondo Sikazwe again to speak more about the design differences between Africa, America, and Japan.

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Mironov Consulting

JUNE 27, 2020

On our side, we have expensive/talented/experienced sales teams that either close their few big deals this quarter or are put on notice. While we don’t know everything that’s been said during a 3-or-6-or-9 month sales effort, good sales teams will have briefed us on hot topics. Roadmaps are shared. Demos are shown. Why Does It Matter?

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The Product Coalition

MARCH 7, 2023

How to prepare for a user interview, all the way to sharing the results with your team. Many companies expect product managers, designers and other roles to be able to deliver good user interviews, but the training is often by trial-and-error. How should I change the UX of [feature]? Will the [target persona] buy this product?

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Product Innovation Educators

AUGUST 10, 2020

Do you and your product teams have the characteristics required for success? The Product Team Performance study has been identifying the characteristics of high-performing teams since 2012. It’s a performance study comparing factors of product teams that excel versus those that struggle.

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Amplitude

OCTOBER 10, 2017

Most organizations that start hiring to build out the product team have not exhausted the potential on their current team. Growing your team from within is harder and requires more effort, but I believe it also helps you build a fundamentally stronger team in the long-run. A tracker for growing our team.

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UX Studio: Product Management

FEBRUARY 26, 2019

I have spent more than 15 years with UX design agencies. This puts me in a position to tell endless stories of the heroic work top UX agencies do day after day to fight for a better digital world. Today I’m going to give you an overview of the top UX design agencies. Let’s jump right in and look at the top UX agencies list.

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The Product Coalition

JUNE 25, 2019

Do co-located teams truly perform better? But having experienced both poorly performing, co-located teams as well as high performing distributed teams, I wanted to take a closer look at some of the research as well as experiences of others. The team members are a critical part of the overall success of distributed teams.

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Userpilot

SEPTEMBER 2, 2022

In this article, we’ll look at various customer training tools available on the market. Benefits of customer training software: Improved customer experience and customer satisfaction, better onboarding , reduced time to value , increased customer engagement , etc. What are the benefits of using customer training software?

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Userpilot

JANUARY 3, 2023

MQL is a potential customer fit for your business, reviewed by the marketing team. The marketing team reviews and confirms the MQL before sending it to the sales team. An MQL is primarily a sales-ready contact but is not yet ready for direct, one-on-one attention from the sales team. Let’s dive in!

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Mironov Consulting

MAY 24, 2022

Everywhere I go, I see massive amounts of product waste : development work delivered on time/on budget that doesn’t drive sales or customer satisfaction or business improvement.  Yet  We shout past each other using secret keywords (“agile”) and assuming bad intent.  Project teams that ship v1.0

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The Product Coalition

MARCH 29, 2018

I try to help product and sales teams succeed under the mantra “Easy to Sell, Easy to Renew.” I’ve struggled to find many examples detailing how to bond product and sales teams ( Antonia Bozhkova offers a good perspective ). Your teams will realign and strengthen their partnership as they see the product through each other’s eyes.

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UX Studio

JANUARY 23, 2018

To save the world as a UX designer or product manager? Help a homeless person train up and get into work. A homeless charity presents its members (homeless people) to BEAM, whose associate plans a training with them aligned with their talents, experience and abilities. Then BEAM crowdfunds the training. Homelessness.

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Mironov Consulting

MARCH 4, 2020

A pattern I’ve seen 4 or 5 times seems worth describing, since other folks may be experiencing it: a very early-stage B2B/enterprise company brings on a full sales team before finding product/market fit. First, let’s recapping the basics of why we hire enterprise sales teams and what they do. Here’s my gross simplification.

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