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Paving the Cowpaths – Log in how you like

By on April 19, 2013 in Product Lab

We noticed a pattern recently. People were resetting their passwords a lot, sometimes two or 3 times in a row. We couldn’t figure out why people were struggling to get in, but when we looked a little deeper, we realized that a good 30% of users were logging in with their email address. Now, what’s [...]

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Introducing the Auto Roadmap Tool – Product Management Automagic!

By on April 1, 2013 in Product Lab

The ProdPad development lab has been hard at work to make life easy for Product Managers. We know that the hardest part of any product management role is determining exactly what should be built and when, compiling that knowledge into an easy-to-understand product roadmap, and then getting everyone to buy into the latest roadmap updates. [...]

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Screenshot of an exported product roadmap in a presentation

Roadmapping without dates

By on January 24, 2013 in Product Lab

You may have noticed that roadmaps in ProdPad don’t have any dates on them – Instead, you’ll only find the column headings “Current”, “Near term” and “Future”. There is a very specific reason for why the columns don’t have dates which I’m going to explain, but first, some history: Our original version of roadmap was [...]

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Welcome Mat

A little something to welcome our users

By on July 21, 2012 in Product Lab

We’ve been doing a bit of experimenting here at ProdPad. There comes a time, in every Beta product’s early life, that you realise that the sign up flow you created just isn’t going to cut it. When we first built ProdPad, we built it as an internal tool, leaving the registration process as an afterthought. [...]

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