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Tools of the Trade: Visualizing Discovery with Opportunity Solution Trees

Product Talk

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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Building an Effective Product Feedback Loop

The Product Guy

The objective is to receive feedback and prioritize it internally against (1) company objectives (2)customer pains/experience (3) Quarterly Product OKRs and ship out solutions. . A feedback loop is: part of a system in which some portion (or all) of the system’s output is used as input for future operations. It’s cyclical.

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TEI 337: An expanded perspective on UX to make better products – with Mark Baldino

Product Innovation Educators

In this discussion we address what it means to properly incorporate UX (user experience) into your product work. Joining us is Mark Baldino, UX product design expert and co-founder of Fuzzy Math, which designs software products for companies. 1:37] Why should UX (user experience) be part of product strategy?

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519: Product verification, most important of the 19 activities of product management – with Nishant Parikh

Product Innovation Educators

How product managers can adapt core responsibilities across different organizations and contexts Watch on YouTube TLDR Through his research and practical experience at MasterCard, Nishant Parikh identified 19 key activities that define the role of software product managers. Why study the 19 key activities of software product managers?

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A Match Made in Heaven: UX Research and Product Led Growth

Our white paper, A Match Made in Heaven will give you a deep understanding of what exactly product led growth is, why it is so successful, and the UX tools you can use to understand your customers needs in order to build a product they love.

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Tools of the Trade: A Look at Pendo’s Discovery Tech Stack

Product Talk

Similarly, the opportunity solution tree can be an incredibly powerful tool for keeping track of your desired outcome , the opportunities you learn about during discovery, the solutions you’re considering for each opportunity, and the experiments you’ll run to assess your ideas. Tweet This.

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Tools of the Trade: Finding People to Interview Before You Have Customers

Product Talk

These touchpoints will allow you to collect stories that help you identify opportunities and build out your opportunity solution tree. For this Tools of the Trade , I spoke with several members of the CDH community to learn how they have approached recruiting customers or users in the very early stages of a product or company.

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The Value of a User Experience Platform For Product Managers

This white paper will go through each step of the product management process and explain how a UX platform can make you more efficient, thoughtful and effective through each stage of development. We will show you how a UX research platform can help you un

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Building a Research Flywheel: A Helpful Guide for Product Managers & Their Teams

Speaker: Jessica Hall, Product Strategy & Design Leader and Co-Author of The Product Mindset

Every step of the product journey is informed by research: what works, what doesn’t, what customers want, what they need. But no one tool or method can create a thriving research practice for product managers. You might be surprised to learn that neither of these businesses would be where they are today without it.

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The Art and Science of Explaining Your Product Strategy

Speaker: Jason Tanner, CEO of Applied Frameworks

Ideation, discovery, research, and analysis all inform the development of a product strategy that evolves iteratively as the product team learns more about customers, their problems, and potential solutions. However, effective communication of product strategy often presents challenges for product leaders.

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Beyond the Findings: The Case for UX Research in Digital Transformation

Speaker: Marina Foglietta-Tereo, Head of UX Research, AXA Insurance

People often think of UX Research as a highly tactical approach to improving the usability or visual appeal of a website or digital product. While good UX research will certainly validate and provide tactical improvements to an existing design, using it for validation alone would be like using your iPhone solely to tell time!

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The Subscription Economy: Unlocking the Power of User Research to Drive Growth and Retention in SaaS

To better understand the value of UX research in subscription-based services, this whitepaper will dive into various facets of subscription-based services within the context of Software-as-a-Service (SaaS) companies.

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How to Increase Your Research Efficiency and Move You From Insights to Action, Faster

Speaker: Michele Ronsen, UX Expert and Founder of Curiosity Tank

Conducting UX Research can often be a daunting task. Often, the most useful tool product managers and researchers can employ is a carefully thought-out approach. Join Michele Ronsen, UX Expert and Founder of Curiosity Tank, for an illuminating conversation on the ins and outs of efficient and effective UX research.