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Assumption Testing: Everything You Need to Know to Get Started

Product Talk

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 Interview?—?A Technical Exercise

The Product Coalition

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

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Applying Proto-Strategy to Product Management

The Product Guy

The idea is to treat the strategy as a prototype that will undergo many iterations and testing. Some fundamental principles I found helpful when starting this exercise, Keep it short and sweet so that you can quickly memorize the core message. Testing the Proto-Strategy. Pillars to a Proto-Strategy.

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Let’s Make It Better: Solving the Real Problems That Matter

The Product Guy

By collaborating with residents and testing new formats or themes, we could design events that truly resonate and foster a sense of belonging. Test new approaches, such as shifting certain tasks to the evening or using a timer to prioritize key activities. Initially, their prototype underperformed in user testing.

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Experimental Design For Product Testing?—?Important Concepts and Considerations

The Product Coalition

Experimental Design For Product Testing?—?Important The use of controlled experiments to understand and test ideas also extends to the online world, in the form of A/B testing. Lots have been written on the topic of highly successful tech companies such as Google, Amazon and others using A/B testing to iterate on ideas quickly.

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Optimizing internal product communications

Folding Burritos

There’s a simple exercise that brings a lot of clarity to how we can structure our communication about the product with stakeholders. To start the exercise off, we need to write down the list of questions that we get asked by (or that we ask) stakeholders. The communication dimensions. To whom should we say it? Content (What).

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Product Discovery Basics: Everything You Need to Know

Product Talk

At the end of the project, we might do some validation research to validate the design (through usability testing) or the final delivery (through A/B testing ). Good product discovery teams engage in two key activities week over week: customer interviewing and assumption testing. The Need for Continuous Discovery. Tweet This.