Product Innovation Educators

OCTOBER 28, 2024

Product innovation lessons from social media content creation Watch on YouTube TLDR In this episode of Product Mastery Now, I’m interviewing Leah and Philip Abraham, a creative duo with expertise in songwriting, acting, music production, and filmmaking.

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Productside

APRIL 2, 2025

Yet most product managers still rely on long documents, jargon-filled briefs, and clunky slide decks that dont land with the people who matter. Its a technique borrowed from the world of film and designbut it might just be the most underrated tool in a product managers toolbox. Lets talk about whats getting in the way.

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Product Talk

FEBRUARY 2, 2022

Engineers are often reluctant to participate in discovery. This is only natural: Through years of bad habits, many of us have shown engineers that we only value them for the code they can write. But there are many reasons why engineers are one of the essential members of the product trio. And this is a good thing.

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Product Talk

APRIL 21, 2021

Welcome to JEDI Training for Continuous Discovery Teams. I work as a product discovery coach. I’ve had the luxury of working with teams all over the world, and I teach them a structured and sustainable approach to continuous discovery. I’m Teresa Torres. Tweet This. Why Design Justice Matters.

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The Product Guy

AUGUST 1, 2019

Guest Post by: Merziyah Poonawala (Mentee, Session 9, The Product Mentor) [Paired with Mentor, Joni Hoadley]. What do you do when your team is working their socks off and yet they are getting little credit for the work being done, mainly because the team isn’t able to set concrete expectations with the stakeholder? THE CAUSE.

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Userpilot

DECEMBER 18, 2024

Unfortunately, the research backs this up, with a staggering 90% of users reporting that they stopped using an app due to poor performance. Poor performance includes slow loading times, complex design, confusing navigation, and unresponsive features. Even though they’re the ones using the product.

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Roman Pichler

JUNE 7, 2021

Be Clear on When to Involve the Stakeholders and Development Teams. Complex and high-impact decisions, however, are best made together with the stakeholders and development teams. Additionally, include the development team members in product backlog decisions , and always choose sprint goals together.

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Usersnap

MARCH 24, 2025

Imagine launching a product feature that no one uses. The team spent months building it, yet users dont see its value. Because product discovery was skipped … or done poorly. Product discovery process is the foundation of building successful products. Testing Assumptions Before Development 3.

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Product Innovation Educators

OCTOBER 28, 2024

Product innovation lessons from social media content creation Watch on YouTube TLDR In this episode of Product Mastery Now, I’m interviewing Leah and Philip Abraham, a creative duo with expertise in songwriting, acting, music production, and filmmaking.

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Mind the Product

FEBRUARY 13, 2020

As a result, the team at Uniregistry decided to take a new approach to product validation in an attempt to avoid the same fate. Here’s how they used smoke tests to explore a new opportunity. The company’s products are used by 30,000 customers with over a million domains under our management. The Approach.

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Product Talk

JUNE 19, 2024

I’m disappointed to see the rise of generative AI tools that are designed to replace discovery with real humans. But when we use generative AI to replace customer interviews , to generate opportunity solution trees , or to do our thinking for us, we fundamentally misunderstand the purpose of discovery. Don’t get me wrong.

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UX Planet

NOVEMBER 4, 2024

Photo by UX Indonesia This ‘complete’ guide to usability testing follows an overview in my UX research methods playbook articles. Introduction If you’re responsible in some way for a digital product or system, you should be doing usability testing — whatever your sector, industry or role. But what is usability?

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Lenny Rachitsky

JANUARY 14, 2025

Each week I tackle reader questions about building product, driving growth, and accelerating your career. From the creators of DORA, SPACE, and DevEx, and in collaboration with Laura Tacho and the team at DX , I’m excited to introduce you to Core 4. Her background is in developer tools and distributed systems.

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The Product Guy

FEBRUARY 27, 2020

Guest Post by: Syed Abdullah (Mentee, Session 11, The Product Mentor) [Paired with Mentor, Bryan Postelnek]. I have worked on several products that were built with passion and vigor. At JCDecaux, I led the development of an information kiosk for airport passengers. Today the product is very successful.

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Roman Pichler

AUGUST 11, 2020

This article assumes that you are familiar with the product vision board or the key elements of a product strategy : market, value proposition, standout features, and business goals. Vision Captures Product Idea or Business Objective. Cause : A confusion about what an effective product vision is.

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The Product Guy

APRIL 9, 2020

Guest Post by: Niveditha Jayasekar (Mentee, Session 11, The Product Mentor) [Paired with Mentor, Patrick Hoffman]. What about stepping up to lead a team while a coworker is out on leave or joining a new team and having to earn their trust in less than a month? Have you ever had to talk a difficult customer down from the ledge?

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Product Talk

JANUARY 31, 2024

You’ll often hear Teresa say that there’s no single right way to do continuous discovery. Something she might not say as often (that’s just as true) is that there’s no single wrong way to do discovery , either. Let’s be clear: The fact that it’s easy to make mistakes is not an excuse for avoiding discovery. Let’s dive in!

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The Product Coalition

DECEMBER 21, 2020

If you let yourself get carried away, it’s really, really hard to tell the difference between a good and bad one. Similarly, there are also many products that should have failed but didn’t. We’ll explore how you can test and research ideas for your product, service, or business model. New ideas are exciting.

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Roman Pichler

MAY 11, 2021

Myth #1: The product owner must ensure that the stakeholders are satisfied. But the value a product creates is ultimately determined by its users: No product will be successful in the long run if it does not solve a specific user problem, create a tangible benefit, or help the users achieve a specific goal.

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Product Talk

MARCH 13, 2024

When an organization shifts from delivery or feature teams to product teams , the first step is often a change to team structure. Delivery and feature teams are often structured by function—front-end teams, back-end teams, mobile teams, etc. These teams can rarely deliver value on their own.

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Product Talk

FEBRUARY 10, 2021

A few months ago, fellow Product Talk coach Hope Gurion and I sat down to discuss why there’s no single right way to do discovery. Meet your co-presenters, product discovery coaches Teresa Torres and Hope Gurion. We are both product discovery coaches with Product Talk. Thank you so much.

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Product Talk

SEPTEMBER 20, 2023

The opportunity solution tree helps visualize all the work that goes into continuous discovery. And while opportunity solution trees have become increasingly common among product teams, there’s still plenty of room for customization, both in the way you set up your trees and the tools you use to build them.

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Product Talk

JUNE 5, 2024

Product trios are cross-functional product teams who are responsible for both deciding what to build and then building it. The goal is for a product trio to represent balanced perspectives while still remaining as small as possible to facilitate and expedite collaborative decision-making. What is a product trio?

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The Product Guy

AUGUST 30, 2019

Guest Post by: Gregory Rakovsky (Mentee, Session 10, The Product Mentor) [Paired with Mentor, Nis Frome ]. Finding the right product management job can be tough, as product management is a multi-faceted discipline that doesn’t lend itself well to classification. Others focus on UX, emphasizing wireframes and user flows.

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Product Innovation Educators

MARCH 4, 2025

How AI captures customer needs that human product managers miss Watch on YouTube TLDR In my recent conversation with Carmel Dibner from Applied Marketing Science, we explored how artificial intelligence is transforming Voice of the Customer (VOC) research for product teams.

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Alchemer Mobile

FEBRUARY 2, 2021

According to an InMobi survey , the number one challenge facing app developers today isn’t design or development. The bad news? Without marketing, even the best apps struggle when it comes to customer acquisition and discovery. You don’t need a big budget or a dedicated marketing team to market your app.

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The Product Coalition

SEPTEMBER 7, 2022

Minimum Viable Products: Why You Should Test Before Investing In Ideas Let’s analyze the advantages of MVP-based software development. Why should you invest in MVP development? You can successfully prevent these problems by starting software development with a Minimum Viable Product (MVP).

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Product Talk

AUGUST 14, 2024

It’s no secret that engineers can be hesitant to participate in product trios. Or they might question how doing discovery is going to serve their short and long-term career ambitions. Do you have a Product in Practice story you’d like to share? The overarching goal of Ramsey Solutions products? You can submit yours here.

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The Product Guy

JANUARY 7, 2025

Whether youre grappling with a delayed product launch or a strained relationship, the path forward begins by uncovering the deeper truths beneath the surface. Product managers live and breathe this approach, diving beyond symptoms to address root causes. Imagine what could happen if we applied those skills beyond products.

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The Product Guy

JANUARY 8, 2019

Guest Post by: Sherzod Abdujabborov (Mentee, Session 7, The Product Mentor) [Paired with Mentor, Dan Mason]. We became a so-lala product: So-Lala [zo la la] – German word for so-so or meh. The So-Lala Product epidemic. Companies simply ship too many poor products and features. A story of one failure.

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Product Talk

DECEMBER 15, 2021

No company is perfect, especially when it comes to continuous discovery. No company is perfect, especially when it comes to continuous discovery. You can probably easily list off where your current company is nailing it and where there’s room for improvement when it comes to adopting continuous discovery habits. Tweet This.

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The Product Guy

AUGUST 10, 2017

As Marc Wendell described in a Product Mentor video, the foundation of success in both product management and user experience (UX) is solving a problem for a specific user. Products fall short when they include and/or over-prioritize extraneous features that don’t solve that user’s problem. 5 pitfalls and how to fix them.

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Roman Pichler

JULY 6, 2021

Be Prepared to Look after People, Not Products. When you become a head of product, you move into a line management position. Consequently, your focus shifts from managing a product to looking after the product people on your team and empowering them to do a great job. For some people, that’s straightforward.

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Roman Pichler

FEBRUARY 2, 2021

Before the advent of agile frameworks like Scrum , a product person—the product manager—would typically carry out the market research, compile a market requirements specification, create a business case, put together product roadmap, write a requirements specification, and then hand it off to a project manager.

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Roman Pichler

JANUARY 11, 2022

Like a modern product roadmap, a learning roadmap states the specific outcomes or benefits you’d like to achieve to become a more competent product person, and it captures them in form of learning goals. The roadmap in figure 1 is based on my GO product roadmap template. Figure 2: A Product Mmgt Skills Model.

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The Product Guy

MARCH 14, 2017

A product manager just stopped by the desk of the designer on a lazy Thursday afternoon. The developers sitting nearby just watched the show for the first time, but after a while they stood up to join the party one by one. I’ve been in this situation while I worked with various product teams as a designer.

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Alchemer Mobile

JUNE 16, 2022

On the flip side of this, product managers often feel overwhelmed by the idea of sifting through and making sense of the sheer amount of mobile feedback. Use real-time data and feedback to prioritize your product roadmaps. You also avoid the pitfalls of traditional feedback channels like email surveys.

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