Wed.Oct 11, 2023

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Evaluating Solutions: The 5 Types of Assumptions that Underlie Our Ideas

Product Talk

Assumption testing is at the heart of what good continuous discovery teams do week over week. It’s how we evaluate which ideas will work and which won’t. But before we can test our assumptions, we have to identify them. That’s not always as easy as it sounds. Assumptions are beliefs that need to be true in order for our ideas to succeed. The challenge is that we need to be able to see our assumptions before we can test them.

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Product Portfolio Management & the Strategic Ripple Effect 5 of 10 – Integrating Business Processes vs. Products

Product Management University

Let’s start this discussion of integrating business processes vs. products with the spotlight on pre-sales, sales, and customer on-boarding since they bear the brunt of the ripple effect. Here’s the scenario. You’re in the throes of the sales cycle and it’s product demo time. In addition to functionality, you’re highlighting the fact that all your products reside on a common platform and the associated benefits that come with it.

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Harnessing Monte Carlo Simulations for More Accurate Sprint Planning

Agile Velocity

When it comes to Sprint Planning in the Scrum framework, precision and predictability are paramount. Yet Sprint Planning based on story points and average velocity, while popular, has inherent flaws. First, the assignment of story points is subjective and can vary widely among team members due to differences in experience, perception, and understanding of the work.

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Growth Experimentation: What Is It and How to Conduct One?

Userpilot

Growth is fundamental to every SaaS business: growth experimentation is a way to turbocharge your growth prospects and drive customer success. In this article, we're going to explain what a growth experiment is, how to create one, unpack how they're implemented, and how they can help you create sustainable growth over time. Let's get right into it!

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Platform Product Management Beyond Features: Introducing B-MAP for Platform Ecosystem Success

Traditional PM struggles with the complexities of platform ecosystems. B-MAP framework tackles this challenge. B-MAP goes beyond features, focusing on building, managing, adapting, and partnering to foster a thriving platform ecosystem.

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Elevating Product Management: The Imperative of a Dedicated Platform

ProductBoard

Product management is the very core of innovation and customer satisfaction, but it’s not without its challenges. As a product leader, you likely struggle with numerous issues that block your team’s efficiency and strategic focus. This article explores the signs that indicate it’s time to invest in a dedicated PM platform and outlines a systematic approach to make an informed decision.

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Hire Developers’ Team in California: Full Guide and Available Alternatives

TurnKey Labs

California, often regarded as the epicenter of technological advancement, pulsates with a relentless demand for skilled developers. It’s a state where ideas become reality, where startups turn into unicorns, and where innovation is not just a buzzword but a way of life.

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Efficient Prioritization: Dot Voting vs. Priority Poker in Product Management

airfocus

Effective prioritization in product management is made easy with methods like dot voting and priority poker. Explore their benefits, limitations, and how airfocus’ Priority Poker can empower your team to make impactful decisions.

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How LingQ Plans to Use Amplitude CDP to Increase Conversion Rates and Build Data Confidence

Amplitude

Read how adopting Analytics and CDP helped LingQ take a data-driven approach to refining its product offerings and personalizing lessons for language learners.

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Use This Process to Source High-Quality Research Participants

dscout People Nerds

Most of us have made mistakes in the recruiting stage at one point or another. Here’s how to minimize those risks throughout the process.

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Entity Resolution Checklist: What to Consider When Evaluating Options

Are you trying to decide which entity resolution capabilities you need? It can be confusing to determine which features are most important for your project. And sometimes key features are overlooked. Get the Entity Resolution Evaluation Checklist to make sure you’ve thought of everything to make your project a success! The list was created by Senzing’s team of leading entity resolution experts, based on their real-world experience.

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Amplitude and Braze: A Partnership Grounded in Better Customer Experiences

Amplitude

Discover how Amplitude and Braze work together to drive personalization and better business outcomes. Register for Braze Forge.

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ONE THING on Sneaky Workshopping

Product Culture

Workshopping is a technique for working with a group of people to create something together. It’s used by the most effective product leaders to generate ideas, solicit feedback, and gain alignment with stakeholders. Subscribe to my weekly Nano-letter: Sign Up Subscribe to One Thing Weekly Name * First Name Last Name Email * Our Privacy Policy * You can change your mind at any time by clicking the unsubscribe link in the footer of any email you receive from us, or by contacting us at bruce@produc

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Problem Statement Impact and Assumptions

Tyner Blain

Quantifying the impact of your problems puts them in perspective. It also exposes the assumptions you’re making, creating a virtuous cycle helping you to improve your framing of the problems, and making it possible to prioritize among them. When you first start to describe a problem, you may skip the notion of quantifying entirely, and instead describe an abstract scenario like “repeat customers abandon the new product registration process.” This is the not nearly enough, and m

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8 Ways to Simplify Lean Portfolio Management

Agile Velocity

Lean Portfolio Management (LPM) has become a pivotal strategy for many organizations aiming to optimize their product development efforts and align them with business objectives. While the Scaled Agile Framework (SAFe ® ) is a popular methodology to implement LPM, some organizations find its intricacies, ceremonies, and overhead daunting. For organizations who want the benefits of LPM without the framework, there are other streamlined approaches.

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The Big Payoff of Application Analytics

Outdated or absent analytics won’t cut it in today’s data-driven applications – not for your end users, your development team, or your business. That’s what drove the five companies in this e-book to change their approach to analytics. Download this e-book to learn about the unique problems each company faced and how they achieved huge returns beyond expectation by embedding analytics into applications.

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BoS USA 2023 – The Sigmacorn Notes

Business of Software Conference

Notes from the Sigmacorns at BoS USA 2023. As usual, you really had to be there but here are the Sigmacorn notes… 9:00 Mark Littlewood: Opening remarks Welcome to BoS! Attendee hub can be accessed via QR code on your nametag Code of conduct is available here Members of the team are wearing gray shirts Mayor Baldwin is unfortunately stuck in traffic, but Mark is more excited to meet her Mayor Baldwin will be presenting after the first speaker BoS is in Raleigh to stay: easier trip through i

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Decentralized Social Media Platforms?—?The Only Guide You Need to Read

The Product Coalition

Decentralized Social Media Platforms — The Only Guide You Need to Read Table of Contents ∘ Understanding Decentralization of Social Media ∘ Top Decentralized Social Media Platforms ∘ How to Create Your Own Decentralized Social Media Platform? ∘ Top Features of Decentralized Social Media Platforms ∘ Revenue Models of Decentralized Social Media Platforms ∘ The Cost to Create a Decentralized Social Media Platform ∘ User Experience and Adoption ∘ Decentralized Social Media’s Impact on the Digital La