The Best of Department of Product

In my view, meeting-heavy processes totally detract the ability to have people in different time zones working together. Meetings also get in the way of deep work, which is needed in teams of builders…

Engineers can write code which allows you to ‘subscribe’ to a specific event and also specify the location for receiving the event. This process of subscribing and waiting for something to happen is…

The tasks in a usability test should be realistic activities that the user might perform in real life when they’re using your product. They can be very specific or very open-ended, depending on the…

One of the first introductions product manager might get into the world of architectural design is the concept of microservices. But what exactly are they?

As a product team, you have specialized needs that can be solved by NLP systems. For example, how do you offer your customers a customized search engine, in which they can quickly search items in your…

If you’ve ever had the joys of working in both an early stage startup and a large corporation, you’ll understand the difference between a company with an operating cadence of ‘run’ and a company with…

Product principles are used by product teams to help guide decision making. They may initially feel like a nebulous corporate waste of time, but once you’ve invested some time in developing them,…

With ad-funded models increasingly looking like a risky strategic decision for some product verticals at least, consumers have shown more willingness to pay for digital products and services they feel…

In order to allow users of your product to manage the people who use it you’ll need to build some form of permissions system. But building permissions sounds a lot easier than it is.

Web3 has become one of the most talked-about concepts today. Just try to count how many times “crypto”, “NFTs”, or “DeFi” appear on your Twitter timeline. To many people, Web3 is just another…