Mind the Product

SEPTEMBER 10, 2017

I believe that to be successful we need to work across disciplines and make sure that everyone in the team owns the product together. And while Design Sprints don’t give you a perfect solution or exact data, they give you more than enough information to decide what to do next. Teresa’s opportunity solution tree can help us to do this.

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The Product Guy

OCTOBER 9, 2018

First, I did not know how to frame, develop and present product strategy in a systematic way, and second, as a startup, my company has not historically had a good track record of strategy being developed outside of senior management (read: founder). What systems/metrics/processes do we need to measure and track winning?

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The Product Coalition

MARCH 6, 2019

Bringing team members together, organizing user research, product demos, road mapping and more. If you’re a mobile app product manager there’s a whole additional layer of complexity to add to that cake. Your software needs to be updated frequently and to the satisfaction levels of the app store gatekeepers.

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Userzoom

JANUARY 3, 2018

What a design system is, why you need one, and how to build it. Inconsistency across products and platforms. Poor communication between teams. These consequences of large teams just can’t be avoided, right? Enter the design system. But what exactly are design systems? What Is a Design System?

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Generation Focus

OCTOBER 6, 2023

The Generation Focus team is very grateful to be a part of the vibrant EPIC People community. Our founder, Joanna Beer, appreciated the opportunity to meet with the EPIC team to share about Generation Focus’ work towards ensuring equity and inclusivity in research recruitment. Scroll down to read the full interview!

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DISQO

JULY 5, 2018

Incumbents across every industry have been put on notice: technology upstarts are taking over the Fortune 500 list at an accelerating pace. Plus, either way, you need to be good at quickly recognizing and correcting bad decisions. As someone who did market research for a decade, the last half while at Toyota, I saw this first-hand.

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Department of Product

OCTOBER 5, 2023

Another doc app we came across that’s worth exploring this week is Reflect. Designed by a small, independent product team, Reflect is a rather beautiful new way to capture your notes, thoughts and ideas. In a press release , the two companies unveiled a partnership designed to address AWS’ perceived strategic weaknesses in AI.

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The Product Coalition

JUNE 25, 2019

Do co-located teams truly perform better? I’ve been personally told that all the research points to that. 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.

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Intercom, Inc.

SEPTEMBER 30, 2021

Rebecca has a background in astrophysics and computer science and spent many of her formative years looking at gamma-ray bursts and supernovas, but eventually, eager to get into software and product design, she moved to San Francisco. Little Otter and its family-first approach, they believe, is the antithesis of that.

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Userzoom

APRIL 17, 2018

We KNOW that a good UI is based on research, testing and slow, methodical improvements – not looking at a competitor’s site and saying “ooh, that’s pretty, I’ll steal that!”. How do we build an app for multiple use cases? In terms of visual design, we’ve already polished the popular apps to the moon and back!

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Intercom, Inc.

OCTOBER 29, 2020

Think about what you could be doing to bring more diversity into your teams and be more inclusive as a company, and go actively out of your way in order to achieve set goals. I usually do them with Paul or people from the product teams – it’s much more fun to be on a podcast with your boss. Be open-minded.

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DISQO

JULY 5, 2018

Incumbents across every industry have been put on notice: technology upstarts are taking over the Fortune 500 list at an accelerating pace. Plus, either way, you need to be good at quickly recognizing and correcting bad decisions. As someone who did market research for a decade, the last half while at Toyota, I saw this first-hand.

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DISQO

JULY 5, 2018

Incumbents across every industry have been put on notice: technology upstarts are taking over the Fortune 500 list at an accelerating pace. Plus, either way, you need to be good at quickly recognizing and correcting bad decisions. As someone who did market research for a decade, the last half while at Toyota, I saw this first-hand.

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Mixpanel

JANUARY 12, 2023

From customer research to monitoring and iteration, good copywriting is rooted in data. Start with customer research. You wouldn’t build a product without doing customer research and validating your idea. To get it right, you’ve got to run research to figure out what needs to be said. Keyword research.

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Intercom, Inc.

JUNE 18, 2018

However, we convinced ourselves that we’d better tackle the problem properly when we had time to fully explore the solution, and so we took our time defining the problem, doing extensive research and exploring lots of possible solutions. The whole process took a while. Why we shouldn’t trust our intuition.

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Mind the Product

MARCH 26, 2020

You go beyond developing a solution and like to be involved in the definition of the solution itself, giving your perspective and suggesting appropriate changes. It’s not just about developing a feature, you also make sure that is robust enough, so it doesn’t cause a bad impression. You care about quality.

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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. Do they offer an alternative?”

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Business of Software Conference

JANUARY 28, 2019

Paul Kenny is no stranger to the Business of Software Conference stage. A sales coach with experience working with software companies including Redgate and StackExchange, Paul has a huge amount of experience and insight to share on the process of selling your software. Paul Kenny, Founder, OceanLearning. Upcoming Events.

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The Product Coalition

JULY 14, 2022

This creates something of a “hit or miss” approach to my personal development. Assume you are developing a minimum viable product (MVP) to show at a convention, for example. Your teams work is meaningless if you don’t meet the event deadline. Most teams I’ve worked with are very lousy when it comes to historical tracking.

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DISQO

MARCH 6, 2020

Incumbent companies across every industry have been put on notice: technology upstarts are taking over the Fortune 500 list at an accelerating pace. It requires teams to gain insights directly from consumers through experimentation and prototyping, align to the actual wants and needs of the market, and accelerate time-to-market.

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Product Talk

SEPTEMBER 13, 2017

As usual, the Mind the Product team hosted a phenomenal event. Teresa Torres presented ‘Critical Thinking for Product Teams’ at Mind the Product London on September 8, 2017. I’ve been developing a visual critical thinking tool that I want to share with you today. Hi everyone. I’m excited to be here.

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Intercom, Inc.

JULY 11, 2019

But as the business becomes more successful – and there are resources to build a support team – additional layers begin to separate executives from their customers. Since 2010, he’s helped the company grow to more than 40,000 customers and helped scale the support team to more than 500 employees to assist those users. Short on time?

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Business of Software Conference

MARCH 27, 2019

Scott Berkun, author of The Dance Of The Possible, spoke at Business of Software Conference USA 2017 about how to unlock your creativity and pursue it in your workplace. Scott Berkun The Dance of the Possible BoS2017 from Business of Software Conference. We talk about building software – that comes from building.

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The Product Coalition

JULY 30, 2020

I’d like to share a few product management insights from Synch, a company I co-founded in 2017, to help entrepreneurs who are launching new marketplaces. Because you have to focus on optimization and fine-tuning, rather than establishing the platform. With this goal in mind, we decided to focus on the following metrics.

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Userpilot

JULY 23, 2020

You’re signing up new users for your SaaS product every day. In his blog, we’ll show you why profitability and growth depend on retention marketing; how to measure retention; how to reduce churn rate , and how to develop a strategy for keeping and growing your customers through the critical early stages and beyond. Congratulations!

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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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Intercom, Inc.

FEBRUARY 1, 2018

In August of 2016, Rachel Hepworth embarked on a unique challenge: start a growth marketing team at one of the most successful startups of this generation – one that had long relied heavily on word of mouth. Adam: Rachel, you’re leading growth marketing at one of the fastest growing software companies of this generation.

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The Product Coalition

APRIL 5, 2018

Back in Q1 of 2017, in my quest to create proprietary products and innovations to link past video views and engagement to future video projects, I had heard about algorithms that can learn from data without relying on rules-based programming. I work closely with CSuite leadership teams towards product-market fit and operating at scale.

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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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Intercom, Inc.

MAY 8, 2019

How do you keep up with such breakneck development? By building a nimble, swashbuckling team that relishes tackling new challenges on the high seas of marketing. Amazon collected 42% of all purchases made online in 2017. One of the biggest shifts that Meghan has made is to the way her team is organized.

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Amplitude

NOVEMBER 12, 2018

Holly Hester-Reilly has a fascinating, experiment-driven meets systems-thinking perspective on product management. Prior to jumping into product roles at Shutterstock and Media Math, Holly studied chemical engineering, and practiced research science for several years. You have a background in chemical engineering. And you know what?

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The Product Coalition

MAY 15, 2019

Scrum and the agile manifesto were created in a time where we used to still package and ship software physically. Scrum came about even earlier than the agile manifesto almost a whole decade to be exact (although you can traces origins earlier back to 1986 with the article The New New Product Development Game ).

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UX Studio: Product Management

JUNE 12, 2018

You likely work close to product development in some sort of tech company. Next, follow some practical examples focusing on Facebook , the platform on everybody’s mind to move the discussion from the abstract towards a real and relatable one. Notification grouping (system and human). First, engage employees.

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Mind the Product

MARCH 15, 2017

When Ben Horowitz wrote his groundbreaking memo good product manager, bad product manager nearly 20 years ago he described a product manager as the CEO of the product. These product managers tend to believe they have all the answers, that they produce the best solutions and designs, and that their teams should just do what they’re told.

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Bain Public

APRIL 1, 2018

Back in Q1 of 2017, in my quest to create proprietary products and innovations to link past video views and engagement to future video projects, I had heard about algorithms that can learn from data without relying on rules-based programming. I work closely with CSuite leadership teams towards product-market fit and operating at scale.

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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. What does good, actionable feedback look like?

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UX Studio: Product Management

FEBRUARY 26, 2019

It will introduce the top UX agencies here and shamelessly put our team on the list as well. Later, as software became more and more important, Ideo turned to interaction design. Most famous for their innovative work and the love of prototypes, Ideo provides diverse teams with designers, engineers, and researchers to a project.

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