Product Talk

OCTOBER 18, 2023

What tools should you use to test your assumptions? When we hear about an unmet customer need, pain point, or desire, we often jump to our first solution. We intuitively know not to only look at one apartment or house or interview at only one company, but in the workplace we’re often tempted to jump to our first solution.

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ProductPlan

DECEMBER 15, 2020

You’re a product manager, and you need to run a collaborative roadmapping exercise with various teams across your company. What is a Collaborative Roadmapping Exercise? A collaborative roadmapping exercise is an ideation meeting. This environment can help you with every stage of the exercise: before, during, and after.

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Product Talk

NOVEMBER 17, 2021

It’s no wonder we end up with software that doesn’t work for our customers. When a product manager, a designer, and a software engineer work together to decide what to build and they engage directly with customers themselves, we avoid this game of telephone. Align around specific solutions by story mapping the possibilities.

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Intercom, Inc.

MAY 16, 2022

When we want to discuss problems, imagine new ideas, and brainstorm solutions, it’s best to bring people together – whether in person or virtually. Too often, a discussion can become unfocused, brainstormed solutions end up scattered and lacking direction, or the session devolves into a competition of who can assert their ideas louder.

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Usersnap

APRIL 12, 2019

Google’s tech alone didn’t build them into a top company, User Research matters too! Instead, research first helped Google emphasize user personalization. Critical for their expansion, doing so also established current tech trends. Keep reading for info on Google’s current user research.

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UX Planet

JANUARY 7, 2024

DESIGN WORKBOOKS How to put design theory into practice in an efficient way My favorite UX design workbooks: develop your skills by solving exercises Learning design theory is a good step towards becoming a better designer, but it is also important to put the things you’ve learned into practice.

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The Product Guy

MAY 7, 2020

Relative to other standard roles defined in an organization such as Ops, Marketing, Tech etc., Often, this is due to resource constraints rather than a lack of understanding of a PM role. A PM may receive help from specialists in the organization such as Researchers, Project Managers, Product Marketing etc.

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Alchemer Mobile

APRIL 14, 2020

How deep does your understanding of the technology go as a PM? And how much do you try to be, like, a subject matter expert from a technological standpoint compared to your engineering team? How do you manage executive expectations, customer expectations, and technical resources? So that’s me. Christy : Awesome.

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Product Talk

FEBRUARY 10, 2021

I know that Hope and I hear a lot from the teams that we work with that most product people are really eager and they’re really diligent. Teresa: This is something that I see a lot where somebody reads about a framework or a tool or a technique and they fall in love with it. They want to do the right thing. Tweet This.

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Mind the Product

JUNE 18, 2018

Kevin Trilli joined Onfido as our chief product officer last year and brought with him some great experience, tools, and techniques. In these two posts I’ll cover three tools. These two tools help solve these problems. His methods have got us much more in tune commercially, and thinking strategically. Positioning Document.

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Product Talk

MAY 10, 2017

When we ask our teams to build an Android app or to develop a subscription offering, we are also being output-oriented. Or they prefer a mobile web experience to an app experience? It’s perfectly okay to say, your goal is to increase market share and we think the best way to get there is to develop an Android app.

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The Product Coalition

JUNE 26, 2023

Generative AI has the potential to create economic impact within sales, marketing, software engineering & IT, customer operations, and R&D functions across various verticals. Industries such as high tech, banking, pharmaceuticals and medical products, education and telecommunications, healthcare, and insurance stand to gain immensely.

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Sachin Rekhi

JUNE 1, 2017

Bear with me for a minute here, because I'm going to start by taking a detour and explaining a much researched problem in probability theory: the multi-armed bandit problem. Not just with using the computer, but very quickly in high school learned how to program it to make initially games and then various apps and utilities.

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Intercom, Inc.

JUNE 3, 2021

There have been two seminal memos that have, in a sense, rocked the tech industry. In terms of research and development or generally the product and engineering functions, the people who produce your software, this really is a question of investability. Three teams can tackle that app. Hello Paul. Paul Adams: Hi, Des.

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Roman Pichler

MAY 8, 2018

The cross-functional development team makes the design and technology decisions; and the Scrum Master guides process and organisational change, as the following picture shows. That’s the job of the development team.

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UX Studio

SEPTEMBER 20, 2018

In this case study, we show how we enhanced the user experience and gave solutions to reduce the churn rate for Xeropan. A gamified language learning application, Xeropan helps people learn English with fun exercises such as interactive videos, chatbot conversations and weekly lessons. Initial user research. Scope and team.

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Sachin Rekhi

FEBRUARY 16, 2020

Much of the literature that defines the role as the intersection of business, technology, and user experience isn't particularly helpful for practitioners who are left wondering what skills they need to learn versus the fine people they work closely with in actual business, technology, and user experience roles.

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Mind the Product

APRIL 24, 2018

Setapp provides Mac users with a way to use and discover new apps, and developers with a new way to reach customers and generate extra revenue. We liken Setapp to Netflix for Mac software: the user pays a monthly subscription and receives access to a suite of curated Mac apps. It’s a new style of distribution for Mac apps.

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UX Planet

FEBRUARY 21, 2024

As a Product Designer working in a high-performing software team, I am tasked and responsible for championing user value, ensuring that the end user's needs are met when using the product. It was a valuable growth for me to be deeply involved in assessing business values and technical feasibility with my team.

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UX Planet

SEPTEMBER 3, 2024

Qualitative user research is a powerful approach for uncovering these deeper insights, focusing on the “why” and “how” behind user behaviours. Unlike quantitative research, which deals with numerical data and statistics, qualitative research delves into non-numerical insights to reveal the underlying reasons behind user actions.

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Usersnap

JULY 16, 2021

Google’s tech alone didn’t build them into a top company; User Research matters too! Instead, research first helped Google emphasize user personalization. Critical for their expansion, doing so also established current tech trends. Keep reading for info on Google’s current user research.

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The Product Coalition

FEBRUARY 12, 2024

I enjoyed in-person meetings, especially in-person product review meetings. Early in the pandemic, this led me to resent virtual meetings, especially virtual product review meetings. This particular product review meeting was a breaking point. I struggled to figure out how to run the product review meeting effectively.

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Intercom, Inc.

JULY 25, 2019

Maybe it’s useful to actually to share some examples instead of talking about this in the abstract, but it’s basically about us having a predictable system. Obviously our goal, like any product and engineering team, is to ship great software that customers, love, value use, etc. We actually have a bit of a system.

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Userpilot

JANUARY 20, 2024

Next, conduct further research, run experiments , and dig deeper into issues to validate or refute the hypotheses. Once a hypothesis is proven right, generate solution ideas and prioritize them in terms of impact and technical feasibility. Finally, implement the solutions and monitor their impact. The ICE scoring model.

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UX Studio

SEPTEMBER 23, 2024

Imagine a future where lesson planning takes minutes, not hours—this is the promise of AI-driven educational tools. To understand how these tools work for teachers, we conducted an in-house project. During this project, we aimed to explore their attitudes toward AI and AI-driven tools. For recruitment, we used Respondent.io

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UX Planet

SEPTEMBER 14, 2024

Discover how to enhance user experiences by leveraging quantitative research, usability testing, and A/B testing to make informed, data-driven design decisions that lead to measurable results. Leveraging both quantitative and qualitative research methods is essential for optimizing features, improving usability, and driving user engagement.

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Roy Madden

JUNE 15, 2021

Steve, a long-time tech executive (Disney, Nike), is an engineer with a passion for streamlining his workflow and feeding his mind. Back in the day Steve, a tech old-timer, stayed up to date via blogs. “The process has kept me in tune with what’s going on around me with technology. It’s good mental exercise. ”.

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UX Studio

MARCH 13, 2023

I have been learning about self-awareness and the importance of mental health over the past 10 years, but I hardly used mobile apps or such to support my mental state. Still, there is no magic tool that works for everybody and helps in every situation. this end, there are quite a few tools that can help.

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Userpilot

JULY 9, 2021

Continuous Discovery Habits by Teresa Torres teaches you how to set up a continuous discovery system within your organization with actionable exercises. Product Mastery by Geoff Watts teaches you how to be a successful product owner within agile software development practices with the use of case studies. out of 5 stars.

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The Product Coalition

APRIL 22, 2021

On top of that, there are now huge volumes of research from academic circles, as well as popular journals like Harvard Business Review , INC.com , and Forbes ?—?all Design a new type of exercise equipment for people under the ages of 15. all pointing to a simple fact. Job interviews mean you hire the best actor on the day?—?not

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Intercom, Inc.

JULY 11, 2019

Move away from this concept and toward the idea of a flywheel instead: feeding energy back into the system instead of success rates diminishing over time. Source: HubSpot Research. That team, to me, has gotten a lot more interesting over the last three or four years because of that explosion of automation technology.

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Userpilot

SEPTEMBER 20, 2024

How to act on your research findings. Quantitative data analysis vs. qualitative data analysis Quantitative and qualitative data analyses have different objectives and use different data types, methods, and tools to achieve them. There are 5 main methods of qualitative research studies: Content analysis. Narrative analysis.

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UX Planet

DECEMBER 19, 2023

The topic for this article came about recently, since one of the applications I worked on 13 years ago (technically speaking, I started working on it 13 years ago, and that particular engagement continued for 2 years), is still actively being used in a facility that I go to almost on a daily basis.

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Mind the Product

FEBRUARY 1, 2018

Tuesday : create competing solutions to the problem. The purpose of Day 1 is to identify a problem you want to solve, which you do through customer empathy-based research. Day 2: Create Competing Solutions to the Problem. Team members work on their own for this sketching exercise. Thursday : build a realistic prototype.

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Lenny Rachitsky

JULY 9, 2024

As a result, most people underestimate how close ChatGPT and other tools are to replacing the work of a human. From this exercise, our goal is to understand how close AI is to automating the PM role, and what task areas are most likely to be delegated first. We’ll first present the task and the two solutions (one AI, one human).

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ProductPlan

SEPTEMBER 26, 2020

But research and development can be challenging to quantify. There’s no direct, straight line between a research exercise and the balance sheet. Yet research and development are essential to the long-term success of companies and their offerings. How Do You Know Your Research and Development Spend Is Appropriate?

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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 good Scrum Team pays attention to preserving an application’s technical health to ensure the Scrum Team is ready to pursue an opportunity in the market. Read more: Retrospective Exercises Repository.)

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