Bart Krawczyk Learning how to build beautiful products without burning myself out (again). Writing about what I discovered along the way.

Stories by Bart Krawczyk

Team alignment: Strategies for cohesive and effective teamwork

Product Management

Alignment involves a shared understanding of the current vision, goals, and priorities and a collaborative effort to achieve them.

Bart Krawczyk
Mar 4, 2024 ⋅ 4 min read
What Is Hypothesis Driven Development

What is hypothesis-driven development?

Product Management

Hypothesis-driven development focuses the development effort of validating a team’s most pressing hypotheses.

Bart Krawczyk
Feb 14, 2024 ⋅ 4 min read
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Critical UX artifacts for ongoing documentation (+template)

UX Design

The best way to address design cohesiveness and consistency is to create, maintain, and share ongoing UX documentation.

Bart Krawczyk
Feb 13, 2024 ⋅ 7 min read
Understanding the difference between output and outcome

Understanding the difference between output and outcome

Product Management

Outcomes are end goals you try to achieve (often referred to as “product impact”), whereas outputs are the means to achieve these outcomes.

Bart Krawczyk
Feb 8, 2024 ⋅ 4 min read
Maximizing Efficiency With WIP Limits

Maximizing efficiency with WIP limits

Product Management

Limiting WIP strengthens team focus, enhances collaboration, improves predictability, and helps you identify bottlenecks.

Bart Krawczyk
Jan 31, 2024 ⋅ 5 min read
Leveraging Key Differentiators For Competitive Advantage

Leveraging key differentiators for competitive advantage

Product Management

Ultimately, a differentiator answers the question of why customers would use your product over competitive solutions.

Bart Krawczyk
Jan 29, 2024 ⋅ 4 min read
Tips For Sharing Knowledge Across An Organization

Tips for sharing knowledge across an organization

Product Management

As organizations and product teams grow, sharing knowledge and keeping everyone aligned becomes increasingly difficult.

Bart Krawczyk
Jan 18, 2024 ⋅ 4 min read
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Popular mapping techniques for better UX design

UX Design

UX mapping techniques visually represent intangible parts of user experience. Here are the fundamental visual maps every designer should use.

Bart Krawczyk
Jan 16, 2024 ⋅ 4 min read
Team Meeting Strategies: How To Plan, Conduct, And Follow-Up

Team meeting strategies: How to plan, conduct, and follow-up

Product Management

Although single meetings are usually less important and impactful than a design sprint, you’ll notice that you spend a lot more time on them.

Bart Krawczyk
Jan 9, 2024 ⋅ 5 min read
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19 ways to use ChatGPT in UX design (with sample prompts)

UX Design

With the proper use of ChatGPT, you can easily double your productivity while maintaining your UX quality standards.

Bart Krawczyk
Jan 4, 2024 ⋅ 10 min read
Crafting your market entry with a go-to-market strategy template

Crafting your market entry with a go-to-market strategy template

Product Management

I’ve worked on products that were extremely successful, as well as ones that failed. The successful ones had clear answers to five questions.

Bart Krawczyk
Jan 4, 2024 ⋅ 6 min read
A Guide To User Testing

A guide to user testing

Product Management

In this article, you’ll learn what user tests are, how to properly conduct them, and how they can help you ship better products.

Bart Krawczyk
Jan 2, 2024 ⋅ 6 min read