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Run Less Software

Intercom, Inc.

The same is true in software. In this battle, I’ve found a secret weapon hidden within one of our core engineering strategies, an idea called Run Less Software. As well as being a critical philosophy behind how we build software, it also represents how I feel about the software industry and technology in general.

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How Our Cross-Functional Teams Decide What to Build at Whispir

The Product Coalition

I wrote a variation of this for the various product teams at Whispir recently and then as fate would have it, a CEO I know reached out to me on LinkedIn asking the same thing?—?so with very little effort but a huge amount of diligence and thought, and you can do it in 15 minutes if you have access to all the research already.

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391: Product VP of Wyze uses community for product innovation and you can too – with Steve McIrvin

Product Innovation Educators

When our customers want a new solution, we try to find that solution, invent something, or enhance the features of an existing product. We came up with the solution of putting an adapter with a USB port in a light bulb socket. Wyze’s tagline is to make great technology accessible. When we came out with the $19.99

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Top 5 Observational Research Best Practices

BrainMates

Observation is an important part of mixed methods user research. Whether observing people using a technology or system in the workplace, at home, or out in public, it can provide insights not available in quantitative data. Example: Metadata platform for content distribution. Put simply, metadata matters. But it does.

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7 Ways API & SDK Solutions Help Product Managers Move Faster

The Product Coalition

instead, carefully chosen tools and processes help PMs and their teams gain efficiency. Designed to streamline product development workflows, third-party APIs and SDKs make up one popular and powerful category of such tools. But no one can achieve such compressed time cycles just by working harder?—?instead,

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Why There’s No Single “Right” Way to Do Discovery: Part 1

Product Talk

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. It’s allowing each team to really find what’s going to work best for them. Let’s go ahead and dive in.

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Become a Product Visionary with Alternative Futures Analysis

The Product Coalition

Alternative futures analysis is a structured analytic technique that helps teams predict how the future might unfold. With this knowledge in hand, teams can more effectively identify and exploit opportunities and adopt risk strategies. As you assemble your team, take special care to select a diverse group of subject matter experts.