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This article describes in detail what product management is and who are the product managers. Here I also introduce a first-of-its-kind tool that allows us to use the subtleties of human psychology to develop various nudging strategies.

UX Core - Cognitive Science and User Experience

The article describes a few offline games that can be embedded into the existing education programs to increase self-awareness and knowledge of cognitive biases.

Using UX Core tool in education programs

This article describes a new tool called "UX Core Guide". The tool allows you to look at the most common management-related questions from the perspective of cognitive biases.

UX Core Guide introduction

This article describes how the UXCG tool was built from concept to release. It will be useful for researchers to see the thought process of the UX Core author.

How UXCG was built

This article shows how we can use cognitive biases when composing a Persona for our product. The tool will be beneficial not only for product teams, but also for sales, marketing, growth, and many other teams.

Creating User Persona with Cognitive Biases

This is a real-world example of how our talented product teams work with UI-UX design from scratch. The article describes how we build and use User Personas, how we use design iterations and many more. The article also contains the URL to the original PRD file used in development.

UI-UX Design Case Study

In this article we go over the main goals and the techniques used while building first-of-its-kind awareness test called uxCAT.

Introducing uxCAT: A Science-Backed Tool to Help You Think Smarter

Product Management

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Why study management?

Topics discussed:<ul><li>What is the idea;</li><li>Idea generation;</li><li>Outlining the project;</li><li>Project's main documentation;</li><li>Wireframes;</li><li>Mockups;</li><li>Prototypes;</li><li>Final UI design and project architecture.</li></ul>

#1. What is a project?

Described what are the IT project artifacts. Particularly EPICs, User Stories, Bugs, Tasks, Sub-tasks and other.

#2. Project artifacts and their importance

Topics discussed:<ul><li>How to setup working environment for a new project;</li><li>How to solve issues of project coordination, communication, and file sharing;</li><li>The most crucial issues in creating a working environment.</li></ul>

#3. Project management environment

Describes the difference between the management philosophies, methodologies and frameworks.

#4. Project management philosophies methodologies and frameworks

Describes the basics of different SDLCs, and the fundamentals of Agile.

#5. Software development life cycles

Describes SCRUM framework artifacts, rituals and roles.

#6. SCRUM Framework - artifacts, rituals, and roles

Describes project processing workflow. Particularly:<ul><li>Customer requirements analysis;</li><li>Initial documentation writing;</li><li>EPICs creation;</li><li>EPICs prioritization;</li><li>User Stories;</li><li>User Stories evaluation and velocity calculation;</li><li>Sprint backlog development;</li><li>Retrospective analysis.</li></ul>

#7. Project approval and further workflow

Describes how to write a user story on an example of a real, online product.

#8. How to write user stories

Describes the most common technical components used in software projects. Mentioned:<ul><li>Servers;</li><li>Hosting;</li><li>Databases;</li><li>System testing;</li><li>Tools for monitoring;</li><li>Tools for analysis.</li></ul>

#9. Technical components of the software project

Describes some real examples of typical cooperation between the customer and the software development company.

#10. Cooperation between customer and development company

Conclusions. The article shows a few ways on how project manager's career can be developed further.

#11. Career path of a manager and a few tips

Here we talk about the tool that addresses:<ul><li>Unnecessary overengineering;</li><li>Messed up development priorities;</li><li>Customer - Development team miscommunication;</li><li>DEMOs readiness status tracking;</li><li>and more.</li></ul>

Solving overengineering and DEMO readiness problems with PS+

Project Management

Company Management

UX Core

All steps of UXCG development from concept to shipping

This article describes how the UXCG tool was built from concept to release. It illustrates in detail all the author's thoughts while researching the topic.

<h1>Wolf Alexanyan</h1>Product and Operations manager with over 17 years in IT (B2G, B2B, crypto). &nbsp;Cognitive science and human behavior expert. Open-source evangelist. 4X Co-founder.  Architect of lawful cyber intelligence systems, digital forensics labs, multi-factor biometric authentication technologies, ERP/CRPs, and other high-impact solutions. CPO and COO at&nbsp;<a target="_blank" rel="noopener noreferrer" href="https://hexens.io/">Hexens </a>(Elite cybersecurity team). Principal consultant at a special unit working on classified governmental projects in the Middle East.

KeepSimple | Science And Management

This project provides unique educational tools specifically designed for managers, aiming to improve the quality of their decision-making.

KeepSimple | Unique tooling for managers

This is a first-of-its-kind free educational tool that became popular in product management communities worldwide in less than six months of its release in 2020. It comprises over a thousand practical examples of cognitive biases used in company management, personnel handling, and software development. The project has been widely recognized by leading global scholars in cognitive science and behavioral economics from such institutions as Duke University, Harvard Business School, American University in Dubai (AUD) and many others.&nbsp;

This is a modular management framework for remote-first software development companies. The framework was designed specifically for&nbsp;The Software Development Company to make it the first company in the country to open its internal structure and processes to the public to this extent.

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Dan Ariely

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Sarah Drasner

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Matt Higgins

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Javier Alvira-Legaria

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Abdulazez Salem Alenazi

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Vahe Momjyan

Pyramids of Operational Needs