Roman Pichler

FEBRUARY 2, 2021

The latter would work with one or more development teams to get the specification implemented. During the development phase, the product manager would be only loosely involved, typically attending a project steering meeting and possibly issuing change requests.

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Mind the Product

MARCH 12, 2020

It defines, communicates, supports, and improves important operations which can be standardized, such as communication, planning processes, team gatherings, and training. How it’s become a critical function for scaling effective product teams. Developing and maintaining a continuing education program for product managers.

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The Product Coalition

JANUARY 27, 2022

At the beginning of any software development project, managers think of which methodology is between waterfall and agile. It’s essential to follow clearly defined processes or software development life cycle (SDLC) to ensure software development quality. Waterfall and agile: A smart method or bad solution?

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Intercom, Inc.

AUGUST 18, 2022

You’re autonomous, your code is immaculate, and you have a deep understanding of building and shipping software. Despite not having a formal education in engineering, Sarah landed a job as a developer in the French consultant Grand Manitou. Then, four years ago, in 2018, she got a job at Algolia as a software engineer.

Engineering 204

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Sachin Rekhi

MAY 18, 2022

I love talking to Amazon employees about how the writing culture is interwoven into their product development process and the pros and cons of it. I wanted to share what I learned from the book for those evaluating whether to bring a writing culture to their own product teams. Get used to it."

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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. What about the other people on the team who aren’t part of the product trio? How can product trios adapt to remote work and distributed teams? Do product teams really work this way?

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The Product Coalition

NOVEMBER 24, 2020

On the one side, they address typical Scrum events such as Sprint Planning, Sprint Review, and the Sprint Retrospective. 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 cross-functional?—?be

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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 recommend teams conduct story-based customer interviews to discover opportunities and run assumption testing to discover the right solutions. They help us explore the diverse perspectives on our cross-functional team and then align around a shared understanding.

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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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Intercom, Inc.

DECEMBER 12, 2018

By early 2018, Brinker had updated it with almost 2,000 more vendors — that’s nearly 7,000 marketing software companies fighting for the same buyers’ attention. The reasons for this growth – high-velocity economics of software innovation, the migration of money from old media to new media, etc. Alternatives: AdRoll, Quantcast.

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nulab

SEPTEMBER 2, 2022

In cases where an employee is being let go, properly documented offboarding can help minimize the legal and financial risks to the company. A well-executed offboarding process can help the company retain top talent and prevent bad blood between departing employees and those who remain. Notify the team. It’s good business.

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The Product Coalition

APRIL 25, 2022

The Best Product Managers use Product Management Software for: We’ve broken down this list into four stages of the feature life cycle that contributes to building the product value: opportunity identification and validation, design and prototyping, feature development, and launch and iteration.

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The Product Coalition

MARCH 27, 2019

Software development is rarely linear. If the team is unable to successfully manage those processes, it could cause chaos during development, and the customer will face sharp increase in development time and poor quality of work. Plenty has been written about scrum; however, let’s review the key aspects.

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PMLesson's Ace the PM Interview

JULY 6, 2020

Whether it be software engineers, data scientists, IT specialists, it now seems standard for companies to have open positions that can't be filled. Source: [link] As such, computer science and coding bootcamps have emerged as a popular choice for those seeking to enter the tech industry and obtain one of these open positions.

Software Review 85

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The Product Coalition

DECEMBER 21, 2021

Here’s our story how we’re developing a product using machine learning and neural networks to boost translation and localization Artificial intelligence and its applications are one of the most sensational topics in the IT field. So does that mean there’s already localization software on the market that uses machine translation?

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Roman Pichler

MAY 11, 2021

” But do not allow people to dominate and tell you what to do, and don’t agree to a weak compromise. The SAFe product owner is tactical in nature and focuses on working on the product backlog and guiding the development teams. Myth #3: The product owner is responsible for the team performance.

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The Product Coalition

MAY 19, 2022

A warehouse management system combines software, specific devices (for example, data collection terminals with a scanner), and IoT sensors to track inventory information. The type of application is negotiated with a logistics software development company before the start of the project. What is a warehouse management system?

Analytic Tools 126

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Modus Create

MAY 3, 2023

Common misconceptions with UX and product development UX is a powerful and valuable tool, but misconceptions abound about what UX can do and how long it can take to reap the benefits. Engineering teams likely have a history of delivering features and delivering them very fast. If you know your users, where is it documented?

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Mironov Consulting

JULY 28, 2022

Especially in B2B/enterprise software companies, I see two dramatically divergent ( incompatible ) worldviews that IMO explain a lot of corporate behavior. 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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Mind the Product

APRIL 27, 2017

There’s a lot of variation in how companies document product requirements. Some are moving away from detailed, written product requirements documents (PRDs), while others are using shorter write-ups, user stories, or jobs-to-be-done formats. Eric Ries, in his post “What is customer development? Focus on Core Problems.

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Mind the Product

FEBRUARY 15, 2018

Much has been written about the process of creating product roadmaps, not least the six great articles written by my own team. I believe the actions of a product leader all too often are the root cause of a “bad” roadmap. I would define a good roadmap as one that the team understands and feels ownership over.

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The Product Coalition

OCTOBER 5, 2020

To unburden their teams, companies like Facebook, Google, and others have turned to product operations, whose job is to help product teams achieve better outcomes. At its core, product operations enables product teams to achieve better outcomes. Create frameworks for aligning company, org, team, and individual goals.

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Intercom, Inc.

DECEMBER 2, 2021

From the process of disambiguation and the worst outage we ever had to our obsession with speed and how legal and engineering teams can work better together, Engineer Chats will give you a peek behind the engineering process at Intercom. The legal team isn’t there to slow R&D down. That is an ambiguous problem.

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Mironov Consulting

DECEMBER 29, 2022

Almost every week, I have a conversation with executives at B2B software companies who don’t see a bright-line distinction between software license revenue and customization/implementation revenue.  Or What do I mean by software product vs software services ?  A billable).  Building

Reporting Tools 111

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Sachin Rekhi

JULY 10, 2019

I always love reading each new book the Basecamp team publishes as they are inevitably chock-full of unique perspectives that preach an approach to working better that goes against conventional wisdom and established best practices. Before even considering a project for building in an upcoming cycle, the Basecamp team always shapes the work.

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The Product Coalition

DECEMBER 21, 2021

Unfortunately internal promotion isn’t always positive A quick disclaimer: I’m a huge advocate of career development and internal promotion. What are the experienced chefs doing, and how does the kitchen work as a team? Key considerations to build product capability within an organisational include: What is the team topology?

Product Manager 173

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Mironov Consulting

SEPTEMBER 15, 2019

Data science has traditionally been an analysis-only endeavor: using historical statistics, user interaction trends, or AI machine learning to predict the impact of deterministically coded software changes. Provide Much Deeper Context than Traditional Software Projects, Especially Use Cases and Business Goals. We versus They.

Data Visualization 90

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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?

Software Review 117

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Roman Pichler

FEBRUARY 2, 2021

The latter would work with one or more development teams to get the specification implemented. During the development phase, the product manager would be only loosely involved, typically attending a project steering meeting and possibly issuing change requests.

Agile 156

Agile Product Research User Testing Feedback Software 156

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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Modus Create

JUNE 1, 2020

The news is filled with tales of hackers breaking into financial institutions, DDoS attacks on credit card companies, and data breaches due to poor software configuration. Phase 1: Due Diligence and Discovery. Due diligence comes first but has its origins in other engagements Modus has conducted over the years.

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The Product Coalition

DECEMBER 8, 2019

Highly effective Product Managers develop themselves in 5 key areas. In some jobs, you can get by with just Competence, but in the unkempt, fuzzy, team-oriented domain of Product Management, you need both. Here are 2 actions you can take to develop your Craft Competence: Craft Competence ?? and others feel that.

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The Product Coalition

MARCH 23, 2018

Maybe it is because in the early stages of my career, I was a student of Waterfall and the idea of purposely avoiding the documentation stage just seemed irresponsible and actually, impossible to accept. Simply stated, there is no substitute for well-written and researched documentation. And again, my confusion grew.

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Intercom, Inc.

MAY 14, 2019

“Successfully managing complex sales requires a different level of visibility into your deals” To get visibility into large deals, I developed a visual framework – which I call the Agile Arrow – that applies popular project management principles to the work that we do as salespeople. 2 critical security and compliance inquiries.

Data Visualization 147

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Mixpanel

MAY 5, 2021

Teams are praised whenever they release a new feature (or product) to their customers. Employees on these teams likely felt proud to share something new with the world and maybe even posted their accomplishment on LinkedIn to spread the word and celebrate. Previously, he led growth and product teams at Instacart and Zynga.

Technical Review 144

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Userpilot

JULY 5, 2022

Document the customer journey with all touchpoints to see the pitfalls users are encountering. All of this is code-free. In short, a SWOT analysis will help you determine your strength and weaknesses and compare it against your opportunities and threats. Poor service=major satisfaction gaps=high churn=low revenue.

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Mind the Product

OCTOBER 1, 2019

The biggest reason people stick with the timeline roadmap is due to other stakeholders, like their boss or customers. A timeline roadmap simply doesn’t leave room for discovery and iteration, and at the end of the day, makes the product person look bad when delivery fails or the wrong product is built. Agency-like Business Model.

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