Product Management University

MARCH 23, 2023

Selling Demos The selling demo on the other hand, is an exercise in customer value themes and storytelling. Can you explain how your system reads resumes from job applicants?” It’s one of the biggest reasons buyers go radio silent after a demo. Instead of going right into the explanation, you can do one of two things.

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Roman Pichler

JANUARY 7, 2020

But don’t forget to regularly review the product roadmap —at least once every three months, as a rule of thumb. Carry out this exercise together with the development team. Don’t forget to involve the development team in this exercise. This should give you an indication of the likely labour cost required.

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UX Planet

SEPTEMBER 11, 2024

Skill #2: Learn How to Become a Systems Thinker It’s super important to be able to understand interrelationships and patterns to help teams identify opportunities and innovate, quickly solve problems, and improve their decision-making. And systems thinking is the best way to build this competency. You just failed to be self-aware.

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Product Talk

MARCH 13, 2024

Instead, they hand off work from team to team—the back-end engineers design the data model and system architecture, the front-end engineers build the interface elements, the mobile engineers work toward feature parity, etc. The participants came out of the exercise better aligned and improved their future collaboration.

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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. Customers are no longer “trapped” with vendors they don’t want to stick with because moving data between systems is easier.

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Alchemer Mobile

MARCH 11, 2021

Unfortunately, app store reviews are often the only easily-accessible place (aside from social media) for customers to air their grievances. As you’ll be able to see after going through this exercise, simply letting people leave any feedback they want on the app store isn’t useful or productive. Why is this? Ratings prompts.

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The Product Coalition

JUNE 26, 2023

Low-complexity tasks include processing payroll for employees, posting preapproved content on social media channels, entering invoices into the accounting system, tracking inventory levels for a product, etc. This exercise will help leaders visualize where generative AI can most effectively implement within their function.

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Nulab

MAY 25, 2022

The biggest disadvantages of information silos are wasted time and effort, either due to constant backtracking or duplication of work. Encourage feedback between team members by setting up regular performance reviews. Try out some team-building exercises. Why are information silos bad for business? Encourage feedback.

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Arkenea

JULY 8, 2024

A variety of patient information is collected and stored in the system, from medical bills to treatment plans. The tracking system immediately alerts the authorities if there’s a data breach. HIPAA Audit Trails and Logs: An Overview Healthcare systems process thousands of activities each day ranging from user access to payments.

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The Product Coalition

JULY 20, 2022

The factories are leaving due to lack of educated workforce. I recommend this game as an exercise to all PMs that have already received a feedback about being control freaks. Engaging storytelling: Any RPG system (tabletop) RPG (Rolle Playing Game) is probably the forefather of modern tabletop gaming.

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People-First Product Leadership

MAY 19, 2024

Nice also can be cringeworthy when a manager says you are “nice” during a performance review. If speaking of monkeys and pedestals is not going to seal the deal with your execs, Teller’s approach to innovation is reminiscent of the problem solving technique, systems thinking.

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ProductPlan

JUNE 1, 2023

They bypass ROI calculations, due diligence, prioritization exercises, and customer validation. But the problem facing a particular customer may or may not represent a true systemic need. It might be unique to that customer due to external factors or just not be a top priority for others.

User Testing 98

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The Product Coalition

APRIL 5, 2020

They also do their best to hire specialists to build back end systems to ensure that the private information of the company and their clients are safe and secure. To do research like this is not to be taken lightly, because this is where in my line of business, the importance of due-diligence is critical.”

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Intercom, Inc.

OCTOBER 9, 2019

But the reason it resonated so much with readers was its powerful core finding – our brain has two very distinct modes, or systems, of thought: System 1 (fast, automatic, and impulsive) and System 2 (slow, conscious, and deliberative). Rule 1: Know when to lean on your fast System 1 reactions. Why does it matter?

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Modus Create

APRIL 14, 2020

There is no shortage of guides published about how to build a design system. However, many of these guides do not pay enough attention to a crucial step in building a design system: user research. I’ll discuss why including user research in your design system process is an absolute must.

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Product Talk

SEPTEMBER 1, 2021

To ensure that engineers got the most out of the meetings, Lisa asked them to participate in a dot voting exercise so they could have a say in what type of information they care about most. Lisa conducted a simple dot voting exercise to get input in what engineers wanted to cover in their weekly meeting. You ask them!

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UX Planet

JANUARY 9, 2024

This survey, titled “ Learning Management Systems (LMS) Accessibility Feedback Survey ,” focuses on understanding users’ experiences, opinions, and judgments about the accessibility features of different LMS platforms. ✅ Do —  How often do you use your Learning Management System(s)? How do you filter effectively?

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The Product Coalition

DECEMBER 29, 2021

Strategy is visible as coordinated action imposed on a system. It is an exercise in centralized power used to overcome the natural workings of a system. A mindful choice is a topic I reviewed his year from different angles, and this book was another reminder of how important it is to allocate your time in a meaningful way.

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ProductPlan

MARCH 18, 2022

But grappling with the influx of ideas and instituting a system to handle them is essential because they sometimes have much to offer, even if it’s not right at the moment. Step 3: Reviewed. Just like we groom our backlogs , our idea repository is also deserving of a regular review.

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Alchemer Mobile

MARCH 26, 2021

We also recommend checking out our 2021 Mobile App Engagement Report as we break down more engagement and experience-focused stats by category such as retention, loyalty, ratings and reviews, shifted sentiment, in-app survey responses, and more. Stop talking about customer-centricity; turn it into action.

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The Product Coalition

JULY 10, 2019

From Daily Scrum to Sprint Review took place on July 6th, 2019, at the Alte Kantine Wedding , an ample converted industrial space in Berlin. a 32-pages workbook provided to each attendee all information for the exercises. Due to time constraints, we also had to skip Min Specs and the User Experience Fishbowl. scenario?—?a

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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.  Crack the WIP Agilists and systems thinkers call this the WIP/Work in Progress.  There’s

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UX Planet

SEPTEMBER 14, 2024

Example : For a fitness app, target users who exercise regularly, or for a streaming service, select frequent movie watchers aged 18–35. Quality Assurance : Regularly review incoming data and flag any outliers or questionable entries. Define Your Target Audience : Identify who your product is designed for. Examples and Benefits : a.

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eG Innovations

AUGUST 4, 2022

Having to set thresholds manually for every single metric is a very time-consuming, monotonous exercise. Once the real usage of a system has been established, this type of auto-baselining learns what is normal and dynamic thresholds can be applied e.g., raise an alert if the bandwidth used by a server exceeds 200% of normal usage.

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Modus Create

AUGUST 24, 2021

The time to fix these issues could’ve been used to build new features or optimize the existing system. Bear in mind that fixing bugs without running tests could also introduce new bugs into the system. Writing some complex test cases could take some time, especially if you’re adopting TDD (Test-Driven Development).

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Product Innovation Educators

AUGUST 5, 2024

Due to recent downsizing, our subject company had only five team members available for this crucial project. Trust-building exercise: Share a professional learning experience with your team, discussing the insights gained. Accountability system: Establish partnerships within the team for mutual support in achieving key objectives.

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Intercom, Inc.

MARCH 3, 2020

We’re confident this won’t help people game our system, but it will give you the best chance to show us your strengths. For example, we might really admire your visual design work, but we’ll also want to see how you influence product strategy, define the problem, understand the system, collaborate with others, and more.

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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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UX Planet

JANUARY 9, 2024

Myth #2: Creativity is a solo act History has done a bad job when it comes to crediting breakthrough inventions and striking creative works to a single individual, greatly neglecting any support systems or collaboration that influenced these great minds. It could be a collection of notes, books, articles, music or art. Leritz & Michael D.

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Userpilot

JULY 23, 2024

The Product Tree is a visualization tool that presents the hierarchy of features, from core systems to future enhancements. Weighted scoring system The weighted scoring model involves selecting categories to rank features and scoring the features based on their importance to each category. Weighted scoring system template.

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UX Studio

MARCH 13, 2023

Sharing your difficulties with a person who can help you build a resilient attitude is a great way to improve your mental health Move – Physical exercise can reduce stress and even improve symptoms of anxiety disorders and depression. These can be breathing exercises, meditation programs, yoga stretches, or even bedtime stories.

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The Product Coalition

JULY 10, 2020

In other words: If two teams are building a part of an application separately, that system will probably have two components, introducing dependencies and additional communication overhead. In a remote working situation, to make matters worse, there is a compound effect due to the increased communication overhead.

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Tyner Blain

AUGUST 10, 2023

Product operations is a complex system, not a clockwork manufacturing system, and it manifests emergent properties. The recurring planning events are exclusively and myopically a recurring logistics exercise of allocating available capacity towards building the next set of things. The market-failure is “not their fault.”

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The Product Coalition

OCTOBER 8, 2019

An Eye-Opening Exercise Imagine you’re a Scrum Master and the line manager of your team believes that the best sign for a successful agile transformation is a steady increase in the Scrum Team’s velocity. delivers results: run the cooking the agile books exercise and address the faking agile metrics elephant in the room head-on.

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Product Innovation Educators

JULY 17, 2023

When you do a portfolio review and re-rank all the projects, you find out that a few of them that look shiny and bright at the beginning are not quite so shiny and bright over time. Maybe it is time for a tough re-review of the entire set of projects to kill some of them to benefit the whole portfolio. Have a good data system.

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The Product Guy

MAY 7, 2020

Often, this is due to resource constraints rather than a lack of understanding of a PM role. Hence roadmapping is a crucial exercise which can make or break your product. This could be due to lack of product, domain, system understanding and action should be taken to address such instances soon. Product Roadmap.

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ProductPlan

APRIL 25, 2023

This entails customer and market research, internal prioritization exercises, and tying back product goals and metrics to organizational targets and KPIs. Product operations staff focus on processes and systems at the portfolio level. Before going further, let’s revisit the responsibilities and purpose of each role.

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