ProductPlan

JUNE 1, 2023

Where are product teams getting their feature ideas? Most concerningly, 19% of respondents reported that their top source of ideas comes from senior management, who are often disconnected from both customers and the product development process. Why do product teams become feature factories?

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Nulab

MAY 25, 2022

Picture this: you’re working on a project with a team of people located in different parts of the world. Even though you’re all working towards the same goal, it can feel like you’re in your own little world, disconnected from the rest of the team. Why are information silos bad for business? Another downside?

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Mironov Consulting

FEBRUARY 28, 2024

An essential role of CPOs and other product leaders that’s never listed in the job description is giving organizational 'air cover' to product managers to postpone almost all new requests — so that their teams can finish work already underway.    Probably only 10 lines of code.   Now.

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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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Mironov Consulting

MAY 24, 2022

Everywhere I go, I see massive amounts of product waste : development work delivered on time/on budget that doesn’t drive sales or customer satisfaction or business improvement.  Yet  We shout past each other using secret keywords (“agile”) and assuming bad intent.  Project teams that ship v1.0

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The Product Coalition

FEBRUARY 15, 2021

Fallacy #1: ‘Agile’ Equals More Bang for the Buck If you ask founders and managers of startups why they want to become an agile organization, they typically name reasons such as: Becoming more efficient in software delivery, Delivering faster, Improving the predictability of software deliveries. The exercise works for everyone?—?sales,

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Userpilot

SEPTEMBER 20, 2024

This article will teach you how to analyze qualitative data to inform product development and improve the product experience. It involves iterative processes of coding, categorizing, and synthesizing data. The first step in the content analysis research method is data coding, or labeling and categorizing. Narrative analysis.

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The Product Coalition

NOVEMBER 12, 2019

TL; DR: 15 Sprint Review Anti-Patterns Are we still on the right track? Answering this question in a collaborative effort of the Scrum Team as well as internal (and external) stakeholders is the purpose of the Sprint Review. Given its importance, it is worthwhile to tackle the most common Sprint Review anti-patterns.

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The Product Coalition

DECEMBER 29, 2021

This year I developed a new reading approach, in which I read several books in parallel, usually from different topics. It is an exercise in centralized power used to overcome the natural workings of a system. Weak leaders silence their critics and make themselves weaker. When I say the strategy is “imposed,” I mean just that.

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Roman Pichler

JULY 20, 2016

To help you develop your agile product roadmap, I have created a goal-oriented roadmap template called the GO Product Roadmap. I like to use my Product Vision Board to develop a valid product strategy. The best roadmap is worthless if the people required to develop, market, and sell the product don’t buy into it.

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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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Modus Create

AUGUST 24, 2021

Software engineers have been testing ever since they could write code. However, the ability to automate software tests commercially emerged only in the 1980s with the introduction of AutoTester. Unit testing is a type of software testing where individual units or software components are tested.

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Lenny Rachitsky

JULY 9, 2024

For more: Best of Lenny’s Newsletter | Hire your next product leader | Podcast | Lennybot | Swag Subscribe now In my quest to develop a comprehensive benchmark to measure progress toward AI replacing PMs, I teamed up with full-time prompt engineer (and past collaborator) Mike Taylor on a piece that will surely blow your mind.

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People-First Product Leadership

NOVEMBER 5, 2024

It’s like developing a sixth sense for product success. How can we assess the level of product sense in PMs, designers, and developers? Is product sense an innate skill, or can the ‘art’ side be developed? Frustrated that your ‘art’ skills aren’t developing fast enough? The secret?

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Userpilot

MAY 30, 2024

PMs prioritize product development and functionality, while PMMs focus on market adoption and product desirability. Project management software, visual collaboration tools, roadmap software, shared Slack channels, and customer feedback and analytics tools can facilitate collaboration between PMs and PMMs.

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Modus Create

APRIL 5, 2021

Joining the Modus Create Team. 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. rating from 63 reviews on the App Store with over 500 users.

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Modus Create

MAY 25, 2022

Social engineering is a threat because it is a way for criminals and bad actors to access sensitive information by tricking people into revealing it. Poor Cyber Hygiene. Poor cyber hygiene is a threat because it leads to increased vulnerability to cyberattacks, as well as decreased efficiency and productivity.

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Product Innovation Educators

JULY 17, 2023

Some companies will retreat and cut their spending by cutting bolder long-term innovations, and we saw in the recession around 2010 that was a bad strategy. Show the customer something in the first three weeks of development and repeat every four weeks. It’s a combination of IT software and LEGO blocks.

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Intercom, Inc.

JANUARY 5, 2022

After working on NASA’s Space Shuttle Main Engine, he went on to develop Portfolium, a social networking platform that allows students and graduates to showcase skills beyond the traditional resume to potential employers. Portfolium was eventually acquired, but the team behind it never stopped thinking about a better way to do it.

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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). The challenge to the product managers is to translate these into a more functional plan for our engineering team. First Attempt.

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The Product Coalition

OCTOBER 4, 2019

It’s the end of the Sprint and your team has just finished the Sprint Review. There was not as much to demonstrate to the business as the team had promised and the stakeholders that you invited are underwhelmed with the progress that has been made in the cycle. Picture: A genuine retrospective being held somewhere right now.

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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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Userpilot

JULY 23, 2024

They represent the customer’s voice and collaborate with product teams and stakeholders. The RICE framework evaluates features by weighing their Reach, Impact, and Confidence against the Effort required for development. Is it to reduce churn or drive positive reviews ?

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PMLesson's Ace the PM Interview

MARCH 1, 2020

Hi I'm Kevin Wei, a product manager (aka an offering manager -- I can get into that in a bit) on IBM's data + AI team. I studied mathematics at UCLA, worked 2 summers as a software engineering intern at a Series E AdTech startup, and advised Metta World Peace (Ron Artest) as the product manager for his social basketball app, Gradelo.

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eG Innovations

MARCH 7, 2023

Consider the scenario – You are an SRE (Site Reliability Engineer) joining a team to take charge of their Java applications. Getting a replica environment up and running is usually simple on the cloud provided you have the right IaC (Infrastructure as Code) tools set up.

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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. Problems with Customer Development.

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The Product Coalition

MARCH 18, 2018

If you work in a product team or in a digital business, you’ve probably heard a lot about this topic, or might even have lost some sleeping nights due to the lack of it in your daily basis. It seems pretty obvious that designers and product teams have different ways of thinking, but have you ever wondered why?

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Tyner Blain

AUGUST 10, 2023

The Jobs of the Problem Statement This article continues a series on the three critical flaws in most product development processes a problem statement exists to address. To reduce the confusion, delays, and waste teams face as a result of not knowing why something is being asked for and not knowing what good enough looks like.

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People-First Product Leadership

JULY 30, 2024

Practice interview questions, discuss trends, share resources, and review each other’s resumes. Here is an exercise I did which really helped me. tip: stories work with stakeholders and recruiters too) E is for Evaluation What metrics will you use to measure your job search or career development progress? Want some help?

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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. Complex deals, complex problems.

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Mind the Product

JUNE 19, 2018

This meeting is an exercise in strategy, an opportunity to take stock of where your product is, where it fits within the wider market, and where it should go. It also stretches product managers to consider their impact on the wider business, by asking them to review their products margins and revenue generating impact. Profitability.

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Mind the Product

MAY 25, 2018

In 2012, when I was working as part of the JustGiving team responsible for innovative products and disruptive business models, we decided to test how people could raise money for non-charitable good causes. Initially we worked with a team from ThoughtWorks for 12 weeks. Initially we worked with a team from ThoughtWorks for 12 weeks.

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The Product Coalition

FEBRUARY 22, 2021

Moreover, we ought to expect uncertainty to be increasing due to the hyper growth of digital assets. And note that this applies to any project, software or not. Agile and The Intuition Gap Iteration via smaller steps allows workers to exercise better intuitive judgment about their work. This is a common confusion.

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Intercom, Inc.

JANUARY 31, 2019

As part of the process, we’ve spent a lot of time reviewing who we should be selling to these days, and how we should be selling to these customers. The process of defining your positioning strategy is not a one-and-done deal – in a crowded marketplace, it needs to be an ongoing exercise. They include: Close.io Speed is everything.

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Userpilot

SEPTEMBER 23, 2021

It’s near-impossible to code your own onboarding without a vast amount of time and money, so you need special onboarding software. Moment” : when an accountant is shown a demo of the app by the project manager and thinks “nice, this will ensure the team stays on budget.” A friendly photo of one of your team.

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The Product Coalition

OCTOBER 8, 2018

To be simple, the product management is an interdisciplinary role that reaches across teams to design, bring better products to the market, set your business plan, and marketing. If you are developing a website and writing code for it, without even understanding of who will be using your services and products?

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The Product Coalition

MAY 20, 2020

Example: Project manager prepares a project utilization report Delivery manager at a bespoke software development company prepares a report of how many man-days have been utilized on a project for a given client. Custom development of a bespoke reporting tool 2. Try a little exercise, before we move on.

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