Product Innovation Educators

OCTOBER 29, 2018

He has created products and led product teams for Fortune 500 companies including Cisco and Capital One, advised several small and medium businesses, and founded a Product Innovation, Design Thinking and Agile coaching practice called 5D Vision. The team was penalized if the iPads were stolen so they couldn’t really test them.

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Alchemer Mobile

APRIL 14, 2020

How do you manage executive expectations, customer expectations, and technical resources? I’ve been kind of actively running away from management roles, and mostly that’s just a factor of the things that I really wanna learn or I just really wanna learn how to be a really, like, kick-ass technical PM. So that’s me.

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Roman Pichler

JANUARY 9, 2018

Explore the key assumptions and risks in your product strategy and business model by systematically testing and addressing them in an iterative fashion using, for example, observations, interviews, surveys, and prototypes. Minimise the amount of time you spend on product discovery in order to accelerate time-to-market.

Product Research 167

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The Product Coalition

MARCH 1, 2024

What technical knowledge does Spotify expect from a candidate? explains that we need not just a “techie” who will monitor technical indicators but a product manager who will combine knowledge of the technical world with an understanding of customers' desires and main company metrics. Know what our users want?

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Userpilot

FEBRUARY 24, 2025

PM with a technical background and a strong product sense. Technical fluency to understand, communicate, and drive impact in highly technical and fast-moving problem spaces. PMs with no technical background. Those without a technical background. Who would be the best fit for this job? Android-first PMs.

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The Product Coalition

MAY 25, 2021

The value of a test kitchen when creating a product is immense. The ability to test and iterate based on real usage with real users is invaluable to getting to the root of a problem, understanding a user’s existence, and removing friction. So, what does a product test kitchen look like? There are essentially two different types.

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Roy Madden

JUNE 29, 2021

Set up email campaigns in collaboration with the broader marketing team, recommend and implement A/B and multivariate testing, and advise on ways to continuously improve overall email performance. You have 3+ years of experience with Hubspot, particularly focused on technical implementation. Required skills and experience.

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People-First Product Leadership

FEBRUARY 4, 2025

I am leveraging my product background in both coaching and advising AI-driven startups. Pivot 3: Product Manager to AI-Integrated Leadership Coach AI Integration Strategies: Personalized AI-Powered Assessments : Advise Wizly on data twins to attract and retain participants as well as clients. to offer 24/7 coaching services.

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The Product Coalition

MAY 27, 2020

Start on the right foot By factoring in a localization process from the get-go and choosing the right translation software and vendor, translations can be automated and accelerated on a technical level. The most helpful vendors are those that advise on the right processes and best translation management tools for the task at hand.

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The Product Coalition

MAY 11, 2022

Product specialization : “very tailored to solve a specific technical or business need” that becomes complicated quickly. To not try to please everyone, Ben and Blair advise “staying the course, given your strategy is sound”. The customer vs. the user: the one buying your product isn’t the same one who pays for it.

Enterprise 133

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The Product Coalition

DECEMBER 13, 2021

Product roadmap: Finally, everything comes and sit on top of your product roadmap in the form of the right backlogs for features that are tested and validated and aligned to the goals and outcomes. I have been doing consulting and advising work with startups, so let me know if you have any questions about this article.

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Intercom, Inc.

JUNE 21, 2018

It was really about testing our ideal customer profile religiously, figuring out what category would pick up the fastest, and who the early adopters were. It was about testing our ideal customer profile religiously. You’re advising more than 50 companies right now. A lot of my advising is actually around hiring.

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Userpilot

MARCH 8, 2022

She advises executives around the world regarding product management. Andrea Saez – Writer, Speaker, Advisor | Sr PMM @ Product School. Melissa Perri is one of the most recognizable names in Product Management. She’s currently a consultant, speaker, and teacher in product management.

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Product Talk

AUGUST 10, 2016

It’s easy for teams to work along both dimensions of product discovery—working to understand their customer’s context and iteratively testing their ideas—but that doesn’t mean they know how to connect the two sets of activities. We ignore the advice of Chip and Dan Heath where they advise us to avoid “whether or not” decisions (i.e.

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Mind the Product

JULY 10, 2017

Do a small, paid test project with all of them. After the test project your choice should come very naturally. I would recommend this model if you have no technical or product management background. Shortlist to about 1-3 remainders by kicking people who aren’t a fit.

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Product Talk

APRIL 7, 2021

In this third and final conversation in the series, we discussed two core principles of continuous discovery : why it’s essential to set up compare and contrast decisions and surface and test assumptions. I am a former chief product officer and now coach and advise product leaders and teams. Teresa Torres : Hi, everyone. Hope : Yeah.

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UX Studio

MAY 15, 2018

The technicalities of the design handoff also matter, but however nice and neat the specification, it makes little difference if you haven’t actually talked to developers until the design handoff. Best of all, you can also test it before you hand it over. We recently wrote an ebook, “Product Managers’ Guide to UX Design”.

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Userpilot

AUGUST 23, 2023

A product analyst needs to have the following skillsets: Technical skills: data analysis , data visualization, statistical analysis, and technical tools. But aspiring students are advised to study the following under a bachelor’s degree – business management, statistics, economics, or computer science.

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Userpilot

AUGUST 18, 2024

If you’re unsure how well your message resonates with your audience, you can use a tool like Wynter to test your message. Wynter’s message-testing tool will tell you what parts of your message resonate with the audience, what confuses them, and what misses the mark. Test your product message with Wynter.

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The Product Coalition

JANUARY 5, 2021

Early in the transition process, it is advisable to educate them with product-related workshops on agile principles. A new feature is overdue and has been drastically underestimated due to unexpected technical debt. For example, invite the individual to a user story mapping workshop or user tests.) How do you deal with that?

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The Product Coalition

MARCH 11, 2020

Product discovery encompasses all the research and decisions on the product, whether that’s planning your next feature, or testing your latest product proposition. Challenge definition A challenge could be responding to customer feedback, introducing a proposition, or overcoming a technical problem. What is product discovery?

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Mind the Product

DECEMBER 8, 2017

By defining these early in the development process, a product designer can advise you on how to hit your targets, as well as point out things to avoid. Many companies forget that it is advisable to keep product specifications restrained. The Lily Drone: Famous for an ambitious design that was too costly to produce.

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BrainStation Product Management

FEBRUARY 28, 2019

Self-styled ‘visionary’ Product Managers are dangerous – which is why I advise against hiring PM candidates who fire off (Steve Jobs) quotes during job interviews. Technical Skills for Product Management. A question that comes up often among would-be Product Managers is: “how technical do I have to be?”.

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Lenny Rachitsky

SEPTEMBER 3, 2024

The framework is based on his experience advising dozens of consumer subscription businesses, as well as his analysis of over 30,000 consumer subscription apps (based on proprietary data provided by RevenueCat ) and interviews with leaders at dozens of top consumer subscription companies.

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Userpilot

MARCH 3, 2022

Product managers with technical skills such as SQL or technical stack are in high demand, so highlight them in your resume. Show off your Product Manager (technical) skills. Here’s what Ritesh Thombre, Sr Product Manager(Data & Analytics) at ZS advises: Ritesh Thombre on presenting skillsets in your resume.

Data Visualization 98

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Userpilot

OCTOBER 1, 2021

Technically speaking, this is known as "primary onboarding." They'll also be able to test it and iterate on the result without bothering the dev team over something as simple as "Can you change this hotspot from red to blue, please?" " Onboarding milestones. 2 – Segmentation. 4 – Analytics.

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UX Studio: Product Management

MARCH 28, 2022

Is it technical details, customer insights or revenue and money? User test highlights : although our designers send detailed reports about the weekly user tests to our Slack channel, I think it’s super important, so they also sum it up in 1-2 minutes at our weekly product meeting. Who speaks at the meeting? Cadence and length.

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Mixpanel

MAY 5, 2021

He was the Growth Advisor in Residence at Greylock Partners, Growth Lead at Pinterest, and first marketer at Grubhub. He advised companies like Tinder, Hipcamp, Reddit, Canva, and Pocket. has exorbitant technical costs with maintenance example: Twitch tipping streamers through a system of “cheering” called Bits.

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Userpilot

OCTOBER 7, 2021

They're actually quite linear, which is the sort of product tour that we've advised readers of this blog to stay away from numerous times in the past. Once the script is installed, you'll be able to see the product tours that you create showing up on your app once you've tested them. Are less linear.

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The Product Coalition

OCTOBER 21, 2019

As a project manager at an IT company working with many non-technical startup founders, our clients, I often get to resolve a variety of interesting issues that relate to technology and communication. They had spent a lot of time choosing the technological stack and discussing technical solutions with outside consultants.

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Usersnap

FEBRUARY 19, 2019

It’s nice to have your customers testing the application. It is a cost-effective and real-world multi-platform testing approach. Crowdtesting is simply user testing through broader groups of people. You can have a variety of devices for testing. Crowdtesting is solely for testing your applications. Usability tests.

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Userpilot

SEPTEMBER 8, 2021

We generally advise against linear, top-down product tours. A/B test your product tour. More likely, they first created a basic product tour and then tested it repeatedly until they got the results that they wanted. For non-technical product managers, this is a huge win. No code required. Get a demo today!

Analytic Tools 98

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Userpilot

JANUARY 24, 2022

To prevent this problem, it’s advisable to fill any empty states with demo content. Examples might be: If your product requires a complicated technical integration before it can add value. If a customer signs up to your platform and is greeted by a blank canvas, they’re unlikely to know where to begin.

Analytic Tools 98

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UX Studio: Product Management

JULY 14, 2021

As a design thinking consulting firm , we advise on product strategy, lead workshops, and offer customized training to equip your business with the best UX practices. Design thinking companies aim to understand users’ pain points before developing a technically feasible solution that addresses their needs. Step 5 – Test.

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Mironov Consulting

MAY 18, 2024

  Out of scope means they can advise, counsel, suggest, offer to help… but don’t own the decision/action.    Unless there’s a really strong technical or design reason to go that way, I’ll go with another division of labor.”   Easy to address, or massive potential technical debt?”

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BrainStation Product Management

FEBRUARY 28, 2019

Speak to a Learning Advisor. Self-styled ‘visionary’ Product Managers are dangerous – which is why I advise against hiring PM candidates who fire off (Steve Jobs) quotes during job interviews. Technical Skills for Product Management. Other technical skills or competencies are similarly viewed as required at most companies.

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Andrew Chen

OCTOBER 31, 2016

Together, Shawn Clowes (Atlassian), Elena Verna (SurveyMonkey), Nick Soman (Gusto), Andrew Chen and Brian Balfour (Reforge, previously at Hubspot) have interviewed or screened over 1,000 individual candidates for growth roles – both for their current and previous companies, plus startups where they’ve invested/advised.

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