Mironov Consulting

JUNE 25, 2023

Many of my discussions with product leaders (CPOs, VPs and others who manage teams of product folks) are about the substance of product management: portfolios, competing stakeholders, pricing & packaging, tarot cards as a revenue forecasting model.  Last A competitor announces ChatGPT-based retirement investment advice.  

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The Product Coalition

AUGUST 25, 2022

Poor quality testing results in higher expenses. Most of it falls on the event and testing groups, who ought to run extra tests because of computer code failures and work to eliminate them. However, the project budget doesn’t typically give resources for unplanned tests. So, manual testing remains necessary.

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The Product Coalition

DECEMBER 23, 2021

“If you think good design is expensive, you should look at the cost of bad design,” Ralf Speth, a former Jaguar Land Rover CEO. The study by the Design Management Institute analyzed the performance of design-led organizations that place influential design decisions at the top as compared to the Standard & Poor’s index over 10 years.

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Roman Pichler

JULY 11, 2016

Manage the Product, not the Team. Focus on your job as the product manager or product owner, and manage the product, not the team. Treat the Team as an Equal Partner. The team members are not your resources but the people who create your product. Assume that the team members want to do their best.

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Product Talk

FEBRUARY 2, 2022

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. Ellen is the Senior Director of Product Management at Orion Labs , a B2B company that offers voice communication to teams in industries like hospitality, retail, transportation, logistics, and security.

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Userpilot

OCTOBER 27, 2022

What is iterative testing? Iterative testing involves running repeated experiments on your product features to evaluate their effectiveness and identify improvement opportunities. Iterative testing involves running repeated experiments on your product features to evaluate their effectiveness and identify improvement opportunities.

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The Product Coalition

DECEMBER 21, 2020

Experimental Design For Product Testing?—?Important Take, for instance, a food scientist who believes that a new flavour enhancer could improve consumer demand, or a pharmaceutical company that have developed a medication which they believe could relieve high-blood pressure. This article assumes a basic understanding of A/B testing.

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Usersnap

FEBRUARY 9, 2024

For Product Managers and Developers, selecting the right, usability testing platform and tool isn’t just a task; it’s a crucial step in shaping your product’s success. The market offers a variety of usability testing tools, each varying in price, features, and research methods. What is QA usability testing?

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UX Planet

FEBRUARY 13, 2024

Prescriptive Agile frameworks make it hard for designers to add valuable contributions to the team. I designed every detail in Photoshop before handing the mockups to the developers. I was excited to be part of a cross-functional team and I could not wait to start working in sprints. But it wasn’t all that bad.

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The Product Coalition

JANUARY 16, 2024

“Everyone has a plan until they get punched in the mouth” — Mike Tyson I’ve wrestled with weak roadmaps — even some downright disasters. Product managers and their teams start with enthusiasm, hit the ground running, and create a solid roadmap. Don’t get caught up in the moment; take the request away, sync with the team, then commit.

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Roman Pichler

OCTOBER 5, 2021

One of the challenges the agile transition team was concerned about was the choice of the right product backlog tool, which at first seemed odd to me. Another time, I was asked to help a team of a major charity in the UK whose task was to create a new website for their fund-raising campaigns. Third, they can be tested.

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Roman Pichler

NOVEMBER 1, 2022

A good test to understand if a product goal describes an outcome is to ask the why question. If you say yes to every request, you are in danger of creating a Frankenstein product—a product that is a collection of unrelated features, offers a weak value proposition, and gives rise to a poor user experience.

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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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BrainMates

NOVEMBER 3, 2022

In Product Development. Product development can be a difficult process to get right. This happens because something goes wrong in the product development process somewhere between having that great idea and launching the end product into the market. Poor Design & Execution. Poor Design & Execution.

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Split

JULY 22, 2022

Yet, when it comes to preparing A/B tests for the product features your company builds and deploys, “in the dark” is often where you’re forced to operate. Did all the people in your test sample complete the experiment you served without hesitation? Just the thought of fuzzy data is enough to leave a bad taste in your mouth.

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Roman Pichler

JANUARY 11, 2022

For example, the guidelines I have developed for the GO product roadmap template directly apply to the roadmap in figure 1. This can help you tie individual learning goals to team and department goals. Step 1: Understand the strengths and weaknesses in your product management skill set. If that’s the case, then don’t feel bad.

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280 Group

OCTOBER 16, 2023

It’s an addiction to busyness that blinds teams to the true impact of their efforts. Under this oppressive regime, teams toil tirelessly, their velocities cranked up to a weaponized 120% optimization, all while lacking a clear strategic purpose. The result?

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ProductPlan

OCTOBER 3, 2019

But for every success story, there’s a graveyard of failed products laid low by bad product strategies. A bad strategy is hard to overcome. What Does a Bad Product Strategy Look Like? What Does a Bad Product Strategy Look Like? If there was a simple test for bad product strategy most companies would happily use it.

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Roman Pichler

AUGUST 11, 2020

It can also result in a large product backlog and high development cost: The greater the number of people who should benefit from your product is, the more diverse their needs are likely to be, and the more features are usually required to address them. Instead, they require tough strategic decision and clear focus. Needs are Features.

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UX Studio: Product Management

JANUARY 11, 2021

At UX Studio , while we develop our products, uxfol.io and copyfol.io , we are mainly focused on agency work, meaning that we cooperate with several clients as external teams. This post was written from the perspective of designers, mainly intended for external teams and entrepreneurs. Five challenges and solutions.

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TechEmpower - Product Management

SEPTEMBER 25, 2023

When speaking with founders and CEOs, we often hear concerns like this: My project manager is losing confidence in the development team. I think that poor communication and differing team cultures might be part of the problem, but how can I know for sure? These are the worries that keep team leads up at night.

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The Product Coalition

JULY 28, 2020

Users can bounce because of multiple reasons such as poor design or poor content and/or product messaging. The 5 seconds test and the first-click test are common qualitative testing techniques to start investigating the issues with your bounce rate. You can easily create and run those tests using the UsabilityHub.

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The Product Coalition

JANUARY 5, 2023

Dark periods are when a product team knows what to design and develop and go about doing it, but the work has yet to be exposed to users in any significant way. Product dark periods are when a product team’s commitment and culture are tested. Developers will be knocking out cards. The dark periods are challenging.

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Mironov Consulting

NOVEMBER 10, 2016

While sales teams stereotypically rally around contests, talk sports and drink coffee (which is for closers)… development teams may sit silently side-by-side-side most of the day engaging in multiple Slack conversations, taking breaks for air hockey or exchanging giphys , and critiquing each other’s code indents.

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Roman Pichler

MAY 11, 2021

” But do not allow people to dominate and tell you what to do, and don’t agree to a weak compromise. The SAFe product owner is tactical in nature and focuses on working on the product backlog and guiding the development teams. Myth #3: The product owner is responsible for the team performance.

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The Product Coalition

AUGUST 3, 2023

A compelling product vision is a guiding light, providing direction and purpose to the development process. The Importance of a Strong Product Vision A compelling product vision is a guiding star that aligns everyone involved in the product development process. For example, “Increase market share by 20% within the next two years.”

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The Product Coalition

OCTOBER 13, 2021

In the article, I’ll cover the most significant mobile software testing types to bear in mind on the digital transformation journey. as well as the industry, target audience, and distribution channel, the testing process will differ. Functional testing As practice shows, mobile users are intolerant to low-quality software ?

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The Product Coalition

MAY 1, 2023

The team stressed. Then in strolls the design team, telling us to step back. Another blocker in my path preventing me from moving the product team into action. However, I’ve learned that cutting corners early in product strategy development leads to significant hurdles later on. Think of it like a room’s air conditioning.

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The Product Coalition

SEPTEMBER 17, 2020

Picture this: you develop an app, then launch it worldwide. Yeah, we know, it sounds pretty much like a developer’s worst nightmare. And that’s why localization testing exists: to prevent these very situations. Localization testing is usually not the first thing that development companies consider.

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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. We’ll explore how you can test and research ideas for your product, service, or business model. The result of idea validation is to develop a feasible prototype or MVP?—?both New ideas are exciting. Can it be done?

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Userpilot

MARCH 21, 2022

What is fake door testing? And how can product managers use it to inform decisions about product development? The article will give you an understanding of how fake door tests work, how to design them, and what to watch out for not to turn your users against you. by participating in beta testing).

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Userpilot

DECEMBER 8, 2022

Employ heatmap data in your A/B testing to get more context and understand what drives conversions. Product teams use different types of heat maps to assess in-app user behavior and activities, such as clicks, hovers, etc. This type of heat map helps product teams understand which features are most popular and which need improvement.

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The Product Coalition

NOVEMBER 9, 2020

It was about 12 months ago when I was challenged by our CEO to dismantle our squad and create a growth team. Not being too sure what a growth team was, we started anyway. We got access to work completed by Andrew Chen & Brian Balfour , took a few courses from the Reforge series and started developing our growth loops.

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Userpilot

JUNE 30, 2022

Without it, you’d find yourself implementing features for the wrong customers, distorting your value proposition, and leading your customer support (CS) team to burnout from dealing with bad-fit users. 75% of companies will break up with poor-fit customers, according to Gartner. Sean Ellis test with a PMF survey.

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Centercode

APRIL 16, 2021

One of the greatest traits of agile development is that it allows teams to respond to customer desires quickly. Unlike the avalanche of changes you’d release every so often under Waterfall, this snowball approach of cumulative product evolution over time enables teams to act on what customers want, when they want it.

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The Product Coalition

OCTOBER 29, 2018

“We just pushed it live,” the release manager belts out, to a team fresh off the battlefield that is software product development. I was new to it all, a team whose mantra was to create, build and release. In retrospect, it was probably the best place to start, given that external development teams are now more commonplace.

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Johanna Rothman

NOVEMBER 30, 2020

Steve, a software development manager, thought John was a “10x” developer. Was I willing to support and coach the other people in Steve's group to all become “10x” developers? Was I willing to support and coach the other people in Steve's group to all become “10x” developers?

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