20 useful services for product managers
We are in the editorial staff of “ Netology ” together with the teachers of the course “ Leader
digital-product ”gathered a selection of services that will help the team, product or project to improve teamwork and make their lives better. Perhaps many of them will be familiar to you - by working process or rumored. We will be glad if in the comments you offer your options or tell us what you liked / did not like this or that service.
When every day you are engaged not only in workflow, but also in things aimed at improving the work of the product, introducing features and eradicating bugs, you will want to make life easier for you. To make the team work more closely together, to see all the stages of the work and there would be no wheel alignment in every minute of work.
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In this case, services come to the rescue. We interviewed four teachers of the “ Digital Product Manager ” course and made a selection of services that make life easier and help you to work efficiently.
1. Excel - uses for everything from computing to collecting analytics. Conveniently, we all know, works on all devices. Now it is perfectly replaced by Google Tables, which is much more convenient. You can open and close access, do everything the same as in Excel, functionality is unlimited, and access to the file is possible from anywhere in the world. Plus, the ability to edit, comment and even formulate tasks via @.
2. Jira - for setting and tracking tasks is indispensable. Considered one of the best products for agile teams. It can create user stories and tasks, schedule sprints and distribute tasks to teams. Create subtasks and distribute to departments. You can prioritize, release products and be sure that the information remains at hand. In addition, it is possible to create reports, visualize data.
In addition, you can optimize your work by integrating with Confluence, Bitbucket, Stride and hundreds of other development tools.
Jira use Airbnb, Spotify, Ebay, Cisco and many others.
3. Confluence - created for all product documentation: service descriptions and product requirements, technical documentation, release descriptions. One click integrates with Jira. Made by the same Atlassian team.
This is a replicable wiki system for internal use by organizations in order to create a single knowledge base. Confluence loves Nasa, Docker and Lufthansa.
4. Zeplin - for working with layouts. The perfect interaction between designer, product and front-end development. No more huge numbers of meetings, calls and so on. Works great with Sketch, Photoshop. About Zeplin on Habré can be read here .
Zeplin use Slack, Pinterest, Zendesk, MailChimp and many other companies.
5. Balsamiq - for mokapov and prototypes. Very convenient and interesting as a tool. It has a user interface library. There is a version control, features for A / B-test. It has extensions and helps to work at the same time to productologists, designers and front-tenders.
Balsamiq is loved by Cisco, Zappos, Apple, Adobe, Ebay, Skype, Sony and other companies.
1. We skip Zeplin, because he sang an ode to him above. Let us consider the other four services.
2. How to use Google Docs product? It is convenient to compile roadmaps of services and aggregate statistics data in Google Tables.
3. Dropbox Paper is a very handy tool for keeping product documentation on the launched functionality. At the same time, it integrates with many other services: from SoundCloud and Spotify to Youtube and Google Docs. At the same time there are chats and collaboration is possible, which is ideal for any product.
4. PrioriData is a handy tool for exploring competitors on mobile platforms. Allows you to rank keywords, upload and check expenses. And it helps to explore the market and develop your own application.
5. Moqups - a simple and comfortable service for quick prototyping of ideas. Helps the team work on mockups, mockups, prototypes and diagrams. All in one: from design to collaboration.
1. The best service of the last two years - Notion.so . This is a service for organizing information and processes for teams and for personal use. It is incredibly convenient for writing texts, working on projects, maintaining personal deshbord. He replaced Evernote and all text editors. Plus in karma for attention to UX microaction like adding a new element. By the way, in TestFlight beta applications under iOS now spin and it is amazing!
2. Sketch. The product should be able to design basic user scenarios in the interface and in order not to distract the designer to be able to quickly assemble the necessary interface into Sketch from ready-made components. Application: quick fixes of interface jambs or missing scenarios bypassing the designer, adjusting texts in mock-ups, prototyping with the client during customer development.
3. Trello . An indispensable multi-product. The beauty of Trello is simplicity and flexibility. With the help of Trello, you can maintain a list of feature quotes from users and conveniently rank them over time, plan team work on the horizon of weeks and months, and keep team work.
4. Clear . This is a trite todo-app. The product does not need due dates, grouping by projects, tags, delegation, and other bells and whistles. The main attribute for tudushki is minimization of the overhead of recourse to the tudushka, which means that it must constantly hang on the screen. Clear is one of the few no-UI tudu applications and it easily takes any place allotted to it. Clear always hangs on my screen to the right, occupying 25% of the screen area and saves a ton of time and attention.
5. Zoom.us. The last team was distributed and the conference calls were a real pain. Skype had to be constantly restarted, often it simply did not work or the interlocutors did not hear each other. Hangouts won in the nomination "the most idiotic organization of groups," but not in the nomination "convenient for use in a team." Zoom.us is the only tool that just works - it has good picture and sound quality, an adequate interface and work logic.
1. Product Hunt is used for inspiration, staying in trend and checking “is there already such a product?”.
2. Moqups - mockups and prototypes that are stored on the web. Used to illustrate requirements. You can link to any project. At the same time, data storage in the cloud is convenient for working with a remote team, an unlimited number of users with one subscription. In general, a whole design ecosystem in one tool.
3. Mindmeister . Works for product like a memory card - the best format for structuring any data. From meeting with the customer or stakeholder to the features of the site.
4. Usabilityhub - a tool for the very case when you need to show a prototype to real people, but there is no time to search. And the best thing for remote user testing. The service uses Amazon, Groupon, Hubspot, Nasa.
5. Getabstract , to read the extracts from a pile of books for which there is no time. Education for the product is important because something new appears every day. And it is necessary to keep up with the time, ideas and new trends.
digital-product ”gathered a selection of services that will help the team, product or project to improve teamwork and make their lives better. Perhaps many of them will be familiar to you - by working process or rumored. We will be glad if in the comments you offer your options or tell us what you liked / did not like this or that service.
When every day you are engaged not only in workflow, but also in things aimed at improving the work of the product, introducing features and eradicating bugs, you will want to make life easier for you. To make the team work more closely together, to see all the stages of the work and there would be no wheel alignment in every minute of work.
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In this case, services come to the rescue. We interviewed four teachers of the “ Digital Product Manager ” course and made a selection of services that make life easier and help you to work efficiently.
Five services of Katya Tekunova, the Rambler / Platform service manager at Rambler & Co
1. Excel - uses for everything from computing to collecting analytics. Conveniently, we all know, works on all devices. Now it is perfectly replaced by Google Tables, which is much more convenient. You can open and close access, do everything the same as in Excel, functionality is unlimited, and access to the file is possible from anywhere in the world. Plus, the ability to edit, comment and even formulate tasks via @.
2. Jira - for setting and tracking tasks is indispensable. Considered one of the best products for agile teams. It can create user stories and tasks, schedule sprints and distribute tasks to teams. Create subtasks and distribute to departments. You can prioritize, release products and be sure that the information remains at hand. In addition, it is possible to create reports, visualize data.
In addition, you can optimize your work by integrating with Confluence, Bitbucket, Stride and hundreds of other development tools.
Jira use Airbnb, Spotify, Ebay, Cisco and many others.
3. Confluence - created for all product documentation: service descriptions and product requirements, technical documentation, release descriptions. One click integrates with Jira. Made by the same Atlassian team.
This is a replicable wiki system for internal use by organizations in order to create a single knowledge base. Confluence loves Nasa, Docker and Lufthansa.
4. Zeplin - for working with layouts. The perfect interaction between designer, product and front-end development. No more huge numbers of meetings, calls and so on. Works great with Sketch, Photoshop. About Zeplin on Habré can be read here .
Zeplin use Slack, Pinterest, Zendesk, MailChimp and many other companies.
5. Balsamiq - for mokapov and prototypes. Very convenient and interesting as a tool. It has a user interface library. There is a version control, features for A / B-test. It has extensions and helps to work at the same time to productologists, designers and front-tenders.
Balsamiq is loved by Cisco, Zappos, Apple, Adobe, Ebay, Skype, Sony and other companies.
Five services of Mikhail Karpov - product manager on VKontakte
1. We skip Zeplin, because he sang an ode to him above. Let us consider the other four services.
2. How to use Google Docs product? It is convenient to compile roadmaps of services and aggregate statistics data in Google Tables.
3. Dropbox Paper is a very handy tool for keeping product documentation on the launched functionality. At the same time, it integrates with many other services: from SoundCloud and Spotify to Youtube and Google Docs. At the same time there are chats and collaboration is possible, which is ideal for any product.
4. PrioriData is a handy tool for exploring competitors on mobile platforms. Allows you to rank keywords, upload and check expenses. And it helps to explore the market and develop your own application.
5. Moqups - a simple and comfortable service for quick prototyping of ideas. Helps the team work on mockups, mockups, prototypes and diagrams. All in one: from design to collaboration.
Five services of Ivan Zamesin - product manager at Chatfuel
1. The best service of the last two years - Notion.so . This is a service for organizing information and processes for teams and for personal use. It is incredibly convenient for writing texts, working on projects, maintaining personal deshbord. He replaced Evernote and all text editors. Plus in karma for attention to UX microaction like adding a new element. By the way, in TestFlight beta applications under iOS now spin and it is amazing!
2. Sketch. The product should be able to design basic user scenarios in the interface and in order not to distract the designer to be able to quickly assemble the necessary interface into Sketch from ready-made components. Application: quick fixes of interface jambs or missing scenarios bypassing the designer, adjusting texts in mock-ups, prototyping with the client during customer development.
3. Trello . An indispensable multi-product. The beauty of Trello is simplicity and flexibility. With the help of Trello, you can maintain a list of feature quotes from users and conveniently rank them over time, plan team work on the horizon of weeks and months, and keep team work.
4. Clear . This is a trite todo-app. The product does not need due dates, grouping by projects, tags, delegation, and other bells and whistles. The main attribute for tudushki is minimization of the overhead of recourse to the tudushka, which means that it must constantly hang on the screen. Clear is one of the few no-UI tudu applications and it easily takes any place allotted to it. Clear always hangs on my screen to the right, occupying 25% of the screen area and saves a ton of time and attention.
5. Zoom.us. The last team was distributed and the conference calls were a real pain. Skype had to be constantly restarted, often it simply did not work or the interlocutors did not hear each other. Hangouts won in the nomination "the most idiotic organization of groups," but not in the nomination "convenient for use in a team." Zoom.us is the only tool that just works - it has good picture and sound quality, an adequate interface and work logic.
Five services of Mikael Geletsyan - product manager in Detstvoy mir and KidZania Moscow
1. Product Hunt is used for inspiration, staying in trend and checking “is there already such a product?”.
2. Moqups - mockups and prototypes that are stored on the web. Used to illustrate requirements. You can link to any project. At the same time, data storage in the cloud is convenient for working with a remote team, an unlimited number of users with one subscription. In general, a whole design ecosystem in one tool.
3. Mindmeister . Works for product like a memory card - the best format for structuring any data. From meeting with the customer or stakeholder to the features of the site.
4. Usabilityhub - a tool for the very case when you need to show a prototype to real people, but there is no time to search. And the best thing for remote user testing. The service uses Amazon, Groupon, Hubspot, Nasa.
5. Getabstract , to read the extracts from a pile of books for which there is no time. Education for the product is important because something new appears every day. And it is necessary to keep up with the time, ideas and new trends.
Source: https://habr.com/ru/post/338798/
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