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Challenges
This feature provides product managers, designers, and team members with a platform to hone their skills. Need help with strategy? Utilize our product toolkit or your own personal tools to practice. Whether individually or in a group, these exercises are designed to foster hands-on learning, moving beyond theory to practical application.
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Getting Started
To begin, familiarize yourself with the exercise, which comprises a general overview, quotes, and pertinent data. While suggested tools are provided, exercise your discretion in selecting those most suitable for you.
After completing the exercise and arriving at a solution, feel free to request feedback or review the possible solution provided. To have your solution featured on the solutions page, kindly email us at info@inspiredproductworkshops.com.
Tools
Maximize the benefits of the exercises, workshops, and templates available in our product toolkit to successfully complete this exercise, providing hands-on, real-life practice. Whether pursued independently to achieve specific goals or in collaboration with like-minded individuals, partnering up enhances the exercise and allows for the honing of facilitation skills.
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Possible Solutions
We've presented a potential solution for this exercise, offering a overview of what the solution entails. Additionally, we've included pertinent questions you should have considered during the exercise, along with its relevance to a real-life scenario. At the bottom of each challenge page is a link to the solution.
Feedback
For feedback on a specific exercise, simply upload your files to the Challenge Feedback thread on our forum. Either a fellow member or one of our team members will promptly respond. We encourage community engagement, so feel free to offer feedback to others, fostering mutual growth through diverse perspectives.
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Effort
EXPRESS CHALLENGE
For a simpler challenge, review each exercise and brainstorm for an hour or two. Once you've finished brainstorming and formed a hypothesis, you can explore the possible solutions for each scenario.
DEEP DIVE CHALLENGE
To complete one of these projects for a real company will take the following time frame. However, these can be completed for practice in 30-50% of the time. ​
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Very Short: 1-8 hours. This range is suitable for tasks that can be completed within a single working day or even just a part of it. Ideal for quick analysis, minor feature improvements, or small research tasks.
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Short: 9-24 hours. These assignments might span over a few days, given the working hours in a day. Suitable for tasks requiring a bit more depth, such as developing detailed user personas, conducting a competitive analysis, or initial prototyping.
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Medium: 25-40 hours. This timeframe suggests a week's worth of work, assuming an 8-hour workday. It fits projects like developing a comprehensive market analysis, detailed feature design and prototyping, or creating a strategic plan.
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Long: 41-80 hours. Assignments with this rating could take up to two weeks to complete. They're suitable for more complex tasks such as implementing a new feature, extensive market research projects, or developing a full product strategy.
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Very Long: 81+ hours. These are significant undertakings that could take more than two weeks, possibly up to a month or more, to complete. Suitable for large-scale projects like executing a major product launch, developing and testing a completely new product feature, or extensive user research and testing phases.
Want more?
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