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Department of Product on Microservices
Microservices Explained for Product Managers
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?
Department of Product on Product Design
Natural Language Processing – Practical Applications of NLP for Product Teams
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…
Department of Product on Product Management
How to Structure your Product Org to Optimise for Growth
When a company grows quickly, it undergoes stress. The faster the growth, the more the stress. Structure can make the situation better, but only if it is designed correctly for growth. Good structure…
How to Build Products Quickly
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…
Department of Product on Saas
How to Design Permissions for SaaS products
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.
Alternative Product Business Models
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…
Department of Product on Web3
Web3 For Product Managers: A Guide For The Crypto-Curious
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…
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Webhooks Explained for Product Managers
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…
How to Plan Product Features Asynchronously
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…
How to Write Tasks for Usability Testing
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…
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