UX Studio: Product Management

JANUARY 11, 2021

At UX Studio , while we develop our products, uxfol.io and copyfol.io , we are mainly focused on agency work, meaning that we cooperate with several clients as external teams. This post was written from the perspective of designers, mainly intended for external teams and entrepreneurs. Five challenges and solutions.

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Johanna Rothman

MARCH 5, 2020

This series is about helping a team create a less brittle environment—more resilience. Brief description of the problem at a recent client: Person A checked in code that broke an “unrelated” part of the system. Neither did the team. In this case, the project team had no automated tests.

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Intercom, Inc.

DECEMBER 9, 2022

And this is why we decided to bring you a special episode about these latest developments in the world of AI, what they mean, and whether it’s time to apply it in real-life scenarios such as customer support. OpenAI released their most recent machine learning system, AI system, and they released it very publicly, and it was ChatGPT.

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The Product Guy

MAY 7, 2020

Hence it is critical that one is aware of the best practises of the role and develops his own philosophy which results into maximum positive leverage for the organization. As I strive towards becoming a product leader, I wanted to understand the best practises in product management and in the process develop my own product philosophy. .

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Sachin Rekhi

JANUARY 26, 2020

I'm a firm believer that Objectives & Key Results (OKRs), the goal-setting framework invented at Intel and popularized by Google and John Doerr , can be a highly effective leadership tool for a team of any size. I've seen teams define new OKRs every month, every quarter, or every year. Writing Effective OKRs.

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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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Intercom, Inc.

DECEMBER 2, 2021

Previously hosted by Jamie Osler , a Senior Product Engineer at Intercom for over seven years, it’s now up to Principal Systems Engineer Brian Scanlan to pick up the baton and keep the chats going. The core of algorithms and systems is data models. The legal team isn’t there to slow R&D down.

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Product Talk

JUNE 19, 2024

Tweet This So I want to take some time to review why we do discovery. I break the underlying structure of discovery into three parts: Starting with a clear desired outcome —in other words, starting with a clear definition of success. Take a minute and suppose you were on the search team. The outcomes represent business value.

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Mind the Product

AUGUST 19, 2019

Secondly, as great product managers are also great capacity builders for their teams, you should start looking for opportunities that AI can present for your product. That’s why it’s incredibly important to develop a good level of empathy and user understanding, not only for yourself, but for the whole team.

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Alchemer Mobile

JULY 16, 2021

While customer acquisition, ratings and reviews, and social proof are the most externally visible success indicators for your brand, customer retention is an integral part of the health of your organization. Customer retention definition. Marketing teams: The value of customer retention is much more directly tied to ROI for marketers.

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ProductPlan

MAY 22, 2020

It’s not necessarily bad when product management adapts to each company’s specific needs. Below is the discussion Melissa Perri had with John Cutler and Jim Semick on why teams that are scaling need product ops. Processes & Practices: The more product teams grow and multiply, the less homogenous they get.

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The Product Coalition

FEBRUARY 1, 2021

Most of us have been through the results of poor management of bugs: hair-on-fire, last-minute late nights to madly scrambling to critical fix bugs blocking a release, or stopping a customer from using a product. Does your organisation provide you and your team with direct access to customers, or are there gatekeepers?

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Intercom, Inc.

JULY 29, 2021

And so, Mark Rudden and his team had to figure it all out by themselves. Fortunately, Mark had quite a bit of experience working and scaling teams in demanding, hypergrowth environments. Onboarding systems are no exception, especially when you’re trying to replicate on-site conditions in an online setting.

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Folding Burritos

DECEMBER 7, 2017

This led me to reach out to 14 leading Product Managers and talk with them about how they use customer feedback in their own companies and teams. Uses and definition of different kinds of segmentation. It’s a two-level processing system: Do we know “Who” is giving us this feedback and why? You need to know where you’re headed.

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Userpilot

JULY 22, 2024

Let’s explore the steps to develop a solid positioning statement and some examples of successful brand positioning from other companies. TL;DR Developing a solid product positioning strategy involves several key steps. Here are the steps to develop your positioning effectively: Conduct thorough market research.

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Mind the Product

NOVEMBER 9, 2016

As we look at what it takes to develop non-gaming VR products, their separation from gaming becomes very important. Developing business products in VR, however, is like creating a new sport by combining American Football and what the rest of the world calls Football. So what does all of this mean for product development?

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Mind the Product

DECEMBER 5, 2019

In fact, some methods are pretty poor. Some product managers make poor decisions because they don’t have the right skills. When I worked at Trustpilot, we had solid evidence that consumers wanted to read reviews about products. Currently, Trustpilot only shows company reviews). Your Skills Resume: Can you Identify Profit?

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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. When tools and systems are not created with them in mind, they lose trust and understanding. You may not understand someone else’s definition or report. He’s been conditioned to not bother the data team.

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Mind the Product

NOVEMBER 21, 2019

As a product leader, you are the product manager for a leadership team, and the tricks you learned in product teams remain valuable, they just need a little tweak. Myths that an organisation tells itself can act as a reality distortion field that masks failing products and poor return on investment. Develop new opportunities.

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Mind the Product

APRIL 27, 2017

Some product teams are moving away from written PRDs to visual artifacts like mockups and prototypes. Eric Ries, in his post “What is customer development? Some product teams will use written methods across both the problem identification and solution definition steps, while others will use visual methods. Visual Methods.

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The Product Coalition

FEBRUARY 10, 2022

Moreover, this area has become extremely lucrative due to lockdowns and restrictions of the pandemic. It attracted more people to the online live streaming and now it’s projected that, due to streaming, by the year 2025 users will spend more than $17 billion in social apps annually. The definition of live streaming is quite simple.

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Alchemer Mobile

MARCH 18, 2021

Almost all apps experienced significant change in their DAU due to COVID-19. During the webinar, you can engage with Team Apptentive by chatting along, I hope you do that. You will definitely be able to engage remotely with my really tiny dog who has a very loud voice. Transcript. I just heard Lola make noise.

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Split

AUGUST 28, 2020

Software development in 2020 is a rapidly changing environment. The CAB itself is a collection of representatives from various functions inside and outside of corporate IT, chartered with reviewing proposed changes and assisting the change manager in change assessment, prioritization and scheduling. But, who should be in charge?

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Intercom, Inc.

JANUARY 31, 2019

As part of the process, we’ve spent a lot of time reviewing who we should be selling to these days, and how we should be selling to these customers. And as the organization grows, the work involved to get teams aligned on who you’re selling to and how you’re selling is not something to be taken for granted either. Speed is everything.

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Product Talk

FEBRUARY 10, 2021

Teresa: For those of you that are Product Talk readers, Melissa writes our Product in Practice series where we’re sharing stories about teams doing great discovery work, so you may have seen her name there. And that’s not a bad thing. It’s allowing each team to really find what’s going to work best for them.

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Intercom, Inc.

JANUARY 5, 2022

After working on NASA’s Space Shuttle Main Engine, he went on to develop Portfolium, a social networking platform that allows students and graduates to showcase skills beyond the traditional resume to potential employers. Portfolium was eventually acquired, but the team behind it never stopped thinking about a better way to do it.

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Intercom, Inc.

OCTOBER 5, 2022

Not just in product reviews, roadmap meetings, or design critiques from product people, but across the company. There are several common patterns among failed solutions: The team didn’t have a good understanding of the problem to begin with. Your product is a system. Problem definition is hard.

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Mironov Consulting

SEPTEMBER 15, 2019

We’ve known forever that we (product managers) must include our developers and designers in the earliest stages of problem definition and solution ideation. Piping in real users’ voices and challenges motivates the whole team. Less appreciation of commercial software development pressures. We versus They.

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Johanna Rothman

NOVEMBER 16, 2020

One of my reviewers for the Modern Management Made Easy books asked a fascinating question: I've never seen this many women in management or in senior leadership positions. Too many of these educated people had no idea how to work as a collaborative team. The idea of a code review or a design review? Consider the System.

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ProductPlan

JUNE 1, 2023

Where are product teams getting their feature ideas? Most concerningly, 19% of respondents reported that their top source of ideas comes from senior management, who are often disconnected from both customers and the product development process. Why do product teams become feature factories?

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Modus Create

JUNE 18, 2019

But my employer had just paid for me to go through the training, and I was expected to help improve their development processes. That’s when it got bad. It got so bad that the CEO outlawed Agile altogether. What I am asking you to do is to not be religious about any prescribed system. My productivity suffered.

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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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Mironov Consulting

JULY 28, 2022

Apologizing in advance: I’m intentionally exaggerating the differences between two broad corporate groups: wildly oversimplified roles and attitudes and reward systems.  Each Enterprise Sales and Solutions Teams… Are paid/rewarded/promoted for working with individual prospects or customers one at a time.  Sales

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The Product Coalition

NOVEMBER 2, 2021

My take on it: while I love ex-developer PMs, and find that their teams often execute better, this is by no means a requirement. However, if a non-techy PM meets a non-businessy team lead, things can go sideways pretty quickly. while the user name does have a unique id, the team and content do not. Why is this important?

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Imaginary Cloud - Design

JULY 2, 2020

It is not that those books are bad. In a time when there was very little acknowledgment about the importance and the role of design, when design was mainly done by developers and with very little user awareness. Summing it up: Sprint describes how to include design in your product development. little about product design.

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nulab

JANUARY 7, 2022

In this article, we’re going to walk you through the definition of root cause corrective action, plus give you tips on how to use it. According to Deming’s philosophy, the way to get rid of systemic issues is by addressing the root causes instead of only treating the symptoms. What is a Root Cause Analysis?

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Mironov Consulting

APRIL 15, 2023

On either side, it’s easy to assume bad intent or have this get personal.  Almost  (Hint: replacing everyone on those teams doesn’t seem to fix the problem.)  But if we see this as a systemic problem, it can be less about individuals.  More What Does That Have To Do With Chocolate Cake?

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