Exercises Software Review Testing 
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). The idea is to treat the strategy as a prototype that will undergo many iterations and testing. Pillars to a Proto-Strategy.
Product Talk
OCTOBER 18, 2023
A regular cadence of assumption testing helps product teams quickly determine which ideas will work and which ones won’t. And sadly, most product teams don’t do any assumption testing at all. In this article, I’ll cover assumption testing from beginning to end, including: Why should product teams test their assumptions?
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The Product Coalition
NOVEMBER 2, 2021
A Technical Exercise In this post, I’ll offer my idea of the sort of technical abilities expected from a product manager. Since the required skill level is not clear, it’s often also not clear what and how to test when interviewing a potential hire. A real-life scenario This exercise is not theoretical. The Product Interview?—?A
Sachin Rekhi
APRIL 5, 2020
One practice that both companies established was weekly executive-level metrics reviews. SurveyMonkey, on the other hand, had a single meeting called ACER, which stood for acquisition, conversion, engagement, retention, where they covered these funnels across all A/B tests happening in the company. Why metrics reviews matter.
Lenny Rachitsky
FEBRUARY 25, 2025
Step 1: Preparation (3-5 weeks) The preparation step is a foundational effort where a lot of the groundwork and due diligence is done to inform the strategy selection process. Winning aspiration: Once the strategic pillars and the “how might we’s” are established, kick off day 3 with a creative exercise.
Roman Pichler
SEPTEMBER 11, 2023
This individual leads the product team, not by being the boss but by exercising emergent leadership. The skills typically include architecture, programming, testing, and if the product is end-user facing, UX design capabilities. To effectively staff the product team, I recommend including the people shown in Figure 1. [1]
Intercom, Inc.
JULY 16, 2019
Almost every software company today has some kind of incident response process to help them navigate major service outages. For example, a relatively common type of incident might be a brief outage of Intercom due to a database failover. Resolution : The incident is resolved, and follow-up actions like an incident review occur.
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