Product Talk

SEPTEMBER 1, 2021

It just involved coordinating with the designer and tech lead, getting access to customers and prospects to start interviewing , and putting time on everyone’s calendars to do the actual work of opportunity mapping , creating interview snapshots, and deciding which solutions to pursue. Meet Lisa’s product trio at Human API.

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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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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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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. How are you going to turn that cash into code? Hello Paul.

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The Product Guy

APRIL 9, 2019

In my company, we review a living document with our management chain on a quarterly basis to align business direction for the short-term (immediate one to two quarters) to the long-term (two to five years). No formal stakeholder review as this is meant to be the first version that will undergo many iterations and refinements.

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ProductPlan

DECEMBER 11, 2019

In our upcoming 2020 Product Management Report, we found that they’re relying on a handful of options depending on the scale and scope of the exercise and which stakeholders are included. Cloud computing and technological advances make it cheaper and faster to bring a viable product to the market. There are also more choices than ever.

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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. These visual exercises facilitate the work of discovery.

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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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Mironov Consulting

MAY 24, 2022

I’ve written a lot about the organizational and conceptual gap between product/engineering teams and the “go-to-market” or sales/marketing side of tech companies.  (See and are then re-assigned elsewhere, leaving orphaned software that is quickly discarded without essential bug fixes or v1.1 features.  Commitments

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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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bpma ProductHub

MARCH 20, 2017

Let’s review a couple of scenarios: Scenario one – company has an existing product portfolio. In a recent exercise with a product team, I challenged them to list the markets where the company could potentially sell. The top challenge most product companies face is finding the best market for their product. Just remember to focus.

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Intercom, Inc.

MAY 16, 2022

Product design workshops are an opportunity for a team to untangle a problem together by going through a series of group exercises designed to get to a specific outcome. A doc of draft product principles to send to the product team for feedback and review. Warm-up exercise. Exercises (30 min). What date will it be?

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Intercom, Inc.

JANUARY 5, 2022

If I’m about to do business with your company and your software is going to access my customers’ data, it’s my responsibility to ensure you have the proper controls in place to protect it. Our prior company was founded here in San Diego almost 10 years ago, and it was a very different tech ecosystem back then.

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The Product Coalition

NOVEMBER 26, 2019

The most illustrative example of this point relates to software testing. QA specialists face more and more challenges during the work: the volume of tests rises while technologies dynamically change. As far as there are a lot of repetitive and time-consuming actions during software testing, automation is in high demand.

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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. I couldn’t have summarized it better!

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Product Talk

OCTOBER 18, 2023

But this is exactly what we do when we try to make our first idea match the customer need we are trying to address, within the technical constraints we encounter, while still managing to deliver the right business results. In his book Testing Business Ideas , David Bland shares an exercise called assumption mapping. Why do we do this?

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Modus Create

MARCH 3, 2021

Docker for Developers is perhaps the most comprehensive source of information on all things Docker and a wide range of technologies associated with Docker and deployment in the cloud. The book is oriented toward software development, deployment, and security. The code for all 16 chapters of the book can be found on GitHub.

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Userpilot

MARCH 7, 2024

I asked DALLE to ‘Give me an image of a tech CEO’. Then I tried regenerating the image to see on which try it would give me a tech CEO of a different gender (or colour). Check out this viral post by Andrew Gazdecki to learn more about what a ‘tech CEO’ is like US Census data from 2022 revealed that only 17% of tech CEOs are female.

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Indicative

SEPTEMBER 29, 2020

There are 3 scenarios where Funky Data takes places: Technical Issues. Technical issues need to be debugged and fixed but they aren’t the only reason why Funky Data happens. This isn’t a technical issue since mobile tracking simply hasn’t been implemented yet. Let’s run through a mental exercise. Conclusion.

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The Product Coalition

NOVEMBER 23, 2021

I recently led a workshop for an organic tech farm startup that wanted to set its foot online for selling organic food to B2B customers. it is the same as a car manufacture ally with software startup working on AI tech to develop autonomous eclectic car AI-based apps. Hence, it is good to opt for “ally” or “make”.

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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. It’s typically a product manager, a design lead, and a tech lead. We define the trio as this pretty standard template of a product manager, a design leader, and tech lead.

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Mind the Product

APRIL 24, 2018

We liken Setapp to Netflix for Mac software: the user pays a monthly subscription and receives access to a suite of curated Mac apps. So, while developers were fixing bugs, we started to challenge our critical product pillars by reviewing our answers to the main product questions: Who is our customer? Working on Customer Personas.

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ProductPlan

JUNE 1, 2023

No software developer wakes up in the morning excited to write a bunch of code that will be re-written a few sprints later. They could be inspired by new technology, a new business model gaining traction, or a competitor’s differentiating capabilities. Why do product teams become feature factories?

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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. Where to buy?

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ProductPlan

APRIL 16, 2019

And, there’s always an opportunity to ship code that is far from a “finished” product. While the particulars vary from organization, a typical definition of done consists of a checklist containing items such as: Code is peer reviewed. Code is checked in. Code is deployed to test environment. Code is documented.

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The Product Coalition

AUGUST 12, 2021

Jaime DeLanghe’s secrets to bring cross-functional teams together for optimal performance Before my career in tech, I worked in food service. Restaurants showed me the ropes of what it takes for cross-functional teams to succeed, and I still draw on the same strategies as a product manager in tech.

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Mironov Consulting

FEBRUARY 28, 2024

  They are coming off customer calls, strategy sessions, renewal discussions, marketing automation planning sessions, compliance reviews, and industry analyst briefings that highlight improvements that must be made.  ”)  Building software is a complex intellectual team exercise, not simply reading specs or typing. 

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Userpilot

JANUARY 20, 2024

Once a hypothesis is proven right, generate solution ideas and prioritize them in terms of impact and technical feasibility. For example, you may consider not only the impact of the solution but also its technical feasibility. Finally, implement the solutions and monitor their impact. Iterate on the feedback if necessary.

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Modus Create

APRIL 5, 2021

As an aspiring business leader and entrepreneur, I believe that not having a fundamental understanding of software development and data analysis weakens executive decisions that accordingly diminish long-term value creation. In other words, making big decisions and not knowing how technology works is bad for business. Conclusion.

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The Product Coalition

FEBRUARY 5, 2021

Then she decided to acquire technical skills in web development to get closer to the product development process. She had many ideas about how to improve marketing tactics but did not have the technical skills to either make the necessary changes on the web or create better solutions using technology.

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Intercom, Inc.

JULY 19, 2018

After coaching 100+ tech leads, managers, directors, VPs, and CTOs, Jean and Edmond are distilling their most valuable lessons into workshops and online courses. Engineers inherently know that when tech debt piles up, you need to invest in fixing it. When we do code reviews we look for what’s wrong.

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The Product Coalition

OCTOBER 15, 2019

(This is a post on its own again, but check out this video in the meantime) Feature Mapping is a scoping exercise to help teams decide the MVP for your product 3. Work with the tech lead on this. Software development is highly unpredictable? Software development is unpredictable. Use high-level timeframes e.g

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PMLesson's Ace the PM Interview

OCTOBER 29, 2021

Software Engineering jobs are among the most in-demand and highest-paying jobs on the labor market today. Bureau of Labor Statistics projects that software engineering jobs will grow by 22% in this next decade. Here is our list of the top 30 software engineering interview questions you will likely experience.

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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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Product Management 2.0

JULY 28, 2016

The software market is constantly evolving. In the span of a single week technology website Network World reviews an average of more than 20 software and hardware products. Consider: Effective portfolio management goes beyond identifying potential growth targets and due diligence to include “portfolio fit.”

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Mironov Consulting

MARCH 26, 2022

At least in the B2B software product world, I haven't found that to be true. " "Here is another one-line ticket written by non-technical users who don't understand their problem or our system.  We'll  Most of our P1 escalations are for code we didn't write and don't think is good."

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The Product Coalition

MAY 17, 2021

Join more than 210 peers from May 27–29, 2021 , for the Virtual Agile Camp Berlin 2021, a live virtual Barcamp using open space technology principles and practices. Page 9: During the event, the Scrum Team and stakeholders review what was accomplished in the Sprint and what has changed in their environment.

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