Product Talk

JANUARY 31, 2024

You’ll often hear Teresa say that there’s no single right way to do continuous discovery. Something she might not say as often (that’s just as true) is that there’s no single wrong way to do discovery , either. Let’s be clear: The fact that it’s easy to make mistakes is not an excuse for avoiding discovery. Let’s dive in!

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The Product Guy

JUNE 18, 2020

Guest Post by: Marvin Mathew (Mentee, Session 11, The Product Mentor) [Paired with Mentor, Jordan Bergtraum]. Ruthless prioritization translates to product teams spending time building the right thing at the right time. Each feedback loop has a minimum of four stages. The feedback loop process is.

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Roman Pichler

MAY 11, 2021

Myth #1: The product owner must ensure that the stakeholders are satisfied. But the value a product creates is ultimately determined by its users: No product will be successful in the long run if it does not solve a specific user problem, create a tangible benefit, or help the users achieve a specific goal.

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Mind the Product

MARCH 28, 2019

This article explores the value of both moderated and unmoderated user research. It outlines the differences between the two, and looks at the potential options for product managers in the light of timeline, budget, and expected revenue. Good Usability is Paramount for any Product.

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Roman Pichler

AUGUST 11, 2020

This article assumes that you are familiar with the product vision board or the key elements of a product strategy : market, value proposition, standout features, and business goals. The overall example I use to illustrate the mistakes is a healthy eating app that helps its users improve their eating habits and live more healthily.

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Product Talk

JUNE 5, 2024

Product trios are cross-functional product teams who are responsible for both deciding what to build and then building it. The goal is for a product trio to represent balanced perspectives while still remaining as small as possible to facilitate and expedite collaborative decision-making. What is a product trio?

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The Product Coalition

DECEMBER 21, 2020

If you let yourself get carried away, it’s really, really hard to tell the difference between a good and bad one. There’s nothing worse from a personal and business perspective than investing your time, money, and effort into an idea, only to find out no one wants it or needs it. New ideas are exciting. Google Glass, anyone?

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Product Talk

SEPTEMBER 20, 2023

The opportunity solution tree helps visualize all the work that goes into continuous discovery. And while opportunity solution trees have become increasingly common among product teams, there’s still plenty of room for customization, both in the way you set up your trees and the tools you use to build them.

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Intercom, Inc.

OCTOBER 13, 2020

We are at the start of a revolution in customer communication, powered by machine learning and artificial intelligence. Our Custom Bots and Resolution Bot already work for thousands of businesses every day. These bots help businesses deliver both radical efficiencies and better, faster support experiences.

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Alchemer Mobile

NOVEMBER 13, 2024

Introduction to customer satisfaction surveys Customer satisfaction surveys are vital tools for understanding what customers think, feel, and experience. Surveys provide a range of insights, from quick feedback after a purchase to in-depth assessments of brand loyalty.

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Product Talk

FEBRUARY 10, 2021

A few months ago, fellow Product Talk coach Hope Gurion and I sat down to discuss why there’s no single right way to do discovery. Meet your co-presenters, product discovery coaches Teresa Torres and Hope Gurion. We are both product discovery coaches with Product Talk. Thank you so much.

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Roman Pichler

NOVEMBER 1, 2022

1 The Product Roadmap is a Feature-based Plan. Traditional product roadmaps are usually output-focussed plans that map a list of features, like registration, search, and reporting, onto a timeline. This can be reassuring for customers and stakeholders. Say that I am about to create a product roadmap for a healthy-eating product.

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Alchemer Mobile

FEBRUARY 2, 2021

They focus all of their time and resources on building a great app. When it comes time to launch, however, they fall into the trap of thinking submitting an app to the app stores is the same as launching an app. According to an InMobi survey , the number one challenge facing app developers today isn’t design or development.

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Roman Pichler

JULY 6, 2021

Be Prepared to Look after People, Not Products. When you become a head of product, you move into a line management position. Consequently, your focus shifts from managing a product to looking after the product people on your team and empowering them to do a great job. For some people, that’s straightforward.

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Roman Pichler

OCTOBER 5, 2021

The Product Backlog is Too Big. A few years ago, I was asked to help a healthcare company with their agile transition and its impact on product management. One of the challenges the agile transition team was concerned about was the choice of the right product backlog tool, which at first seemed odd to me.

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Roman Pichler

JANUARY 11, 2022

Like a modern product roadmap, a learning roadmap states the specific outcomes or benefits you’d like to achieve to become a more competent product person, and it captures them in form of learning goals. These help you direct your learning efforts, track progress, and measure how much you have learnt.

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Roman Pichler

SEPTEMBER 7, 2021

Traditionally, product roadmaps are output-focussed plans that map features like registration, search, and reporting onto a timeline. This can be reassuring for customers and stakeholders, as the individuals believe that they know when their features will be delivered. Listen to this article: [link]. Goal-oriented (a.k.a.

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Product Talk

DECEMBER 15, 2021

No company is perfect, especially when it comes to continuous discovery. No company is perfect, especially when it comes to continuous discovery. You can probably easily list off where your current company is nailing it and where there’s room for improvement when it comes to adopting continuous discovery habits. Tweet This.

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Folding Burritos

DECEMBER 7, 2017

As Product Managers, we perfectly understand the need to generate and use customer feedback. What isn’t so often clear is how to do this on a day-to-day basis, when we’re not as experienced or when we deal with “less than ideal” products and organizations. Understand where it’s coming from.

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Alchemer Mobile

JUNE 16, 2022

At the end of the day, many customers feel that providing feedback is simply too cumbersome, too time-consuming, and too difficult. For mobile app customers, providing mobile feedback tends to involve navigating to a difficult-to-find support center or responding to an email buried in their spam inbox.

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Product Talk

AUGUST 14, 2024

It’s no secret that engineers can be hesitant to participate in product trios. They might feel anxious about taking on tasks that are new to them and outside their regular routine at work, like speaking directly with customers. They might fear that any time not spent coding is time when their technical skills are falling behind.

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Roman Pichler

FEBRUARY 2, 2021

Once Upon a Time in Waterfall Land. The latter would work with one or more development teams to get the specification implemented. The latter would work with one or more development teams to get the specification implemented. But it is less suited to create complex digital products.

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The Product Coalition

DECEMBER 21, 2020

Experimental Design For Product Testing?—?Important Important Concepts and Considerations From time to time, we come up with ideas and speculate about how they might play out in reality. At other times, we may have two or more variations of an idea and need to choose between them.

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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. Why should you invest in MVP development? You can successfully prevent these problems by starting software development with a Minimum Viable Product (MVP).

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Roman Pichler

DECEMBER 4, 2018

Why Technical Debt Matters for Product People. As the person in charge of the product, you may not be terribly concerned about how clean and well-structured the code is. The messier the code and the less modular the architecture is, the longer it takes and the more expensive it is to change your product.

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The Product Coalition

MARCH 11, 2021

And also is a way of preventing errors and defect bugs in the software development process. Overview of the quality assurance Quality assurance service is a systematic process to ensure the frontend and backend development satisfies specific requirements and quality standards. A simple and clear interface Security?—?The

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Product Talk

JULY 3, 2024

When we interview customers , our goal is to learn as much as we can about their context. This will help us understand their specific needs, pain points, and desires (otherwise known as opportunities) which will inform our product decisions. Maybe the customer tells you explicitly that this is not their usual way of doing things.

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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 I think serious product discovery and end user validation may be stuck in this cultural/conceptual gap.  Product

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The Product Coalition

SEPTEMBER 21, 2020

Part 2 of series on experimentation When should product managers experiment? 10 guidelines to design high impact experiments. And when are experiments invalid? Running Experiments has become one of the most valuable tools for Product Managers to validate ideas, de-risk releases and measure the impact of their work.

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Product Talk

MARCH 3, 2021

A few months ago, fellow Product Talk coach Hope Gurion and I sat down to discuss why there’s no single right way to do discovery. Welcome to “Why There’s No Single ‘Right’ Way to Do Product Discovery.” We’re both product discovery coaches with Product Talk. Find it here.

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Product Talk

APRIL 3, 2024

Customer interviews are one of the most impactful activities a product team can do. Customer interviews are one of the most impactful activities a product team can do. Tweet This An early customer interviewing mistake is to spend your interview time exploring your solution ideas.

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Product Talk

SEPTEMBER 13, 2017

This past week I was in London speaking at Mind the Product. As usual, the Mind the Product team hosted a phenomenal event. When Mind the Product releases the video, I’ll add it to this post. Teresa Torres presented ‘Critical Thinking for Product Teams’ at Mind the Product London on September 8, 2017.

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Intercom, Inc.

APRIL 5, 2018

If users don’t stick around, they won’t learn and inevitably won’t share Duolingo with their friends. In her five years there, she helped take Duolingo from 3 million users to more than 200 million. In her five years there, she helped take Duolingo from 3 million users to more than 200 million.

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Alchemer Mobile

AUGUST 2, 2024

Understanding customer experience (CX) isn’t just a strategy—it’s a superpower. Customer experience metrics illuminate the path to customer satisfaction, loyalty, and ultimately, success as an organization. Why should I track customer experience metrics?

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Alchemer Mobile

AUGUST 2, 2024

Understanding customer experience (CX) isn’t just a strategy—it’s a superpower. Customer experience metrics illuminate the path to customer satisfaction, loyalty, and ultimately, success as an organization. Why should I track customer experience metrics?

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Mind the Product

JUNE 17, 2019

We are all learning how to manage product in the internet age. He now heads up Silicon Valley Product Group, where he works with product managers and senior leaders to help them generate value through their products. Empower Your Teams if you Want to be Truly Agile. Agile and Lean Won’t Solve all Your Problems.

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Melissa Perri

JULY 14, 2016

“What is your Product Strategy? When I replay this scene in my head, I can hear the CTO very audibly yelling (slash pleading) with our product team. We had been experimenting towards a very concrete goal for two months, and had made a lot of progress. BUT we still had to test our ideas. YOU NEED A STRATEGY.”

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