Blog Posts Tagged Leadership

How Beta Testing Can Drive Go/No-Go Decisions

Beta insights can make or break a launch—learn how to ensure they shape Go/No-Go decisions, not just get buried in reports.

Leaders Who Inspire: Lessons for Quality Testing Teams

Leader Insights

Leadership lessons from figures like Michelle Obama and Jocko Willink that inspire and elevate quality testing.

2020 Centercode Content Roundup

Product Development

You can say what you like about 2020, but you can’t say we didn’t learn a lot. This year has forced us to grow and change many, many aspects of our lives, from how we work (#remote), to how we communicate with our team (“Can you guys see my screen?”), to how to dress (hello […]

Centercode CEO Talks Tackling Challenges with a COVID-World Mindset

Leader Insights

As the industry gets rocked with viral and economic disruption, consumers want more for their money. Meanwhile, the audience leveraging technology is broader than ever before — meaning the demand for seamless and delightful product experiences is the highest it’s ever been. How can companies fulfill higher customer expectations when resources are strained and the […]

How Centercode Is Helping You Adapt to the Unknown

Inside Centercode

The world is in a constant state of change — and it’s never been more apparent than during this period of global COVID disruption. Tech companies, in particular, are adapting in several ways. Some are scaling down the number of product launches to focus their resources on a select few. Some are reimagining the use […]

Centercode’s Passion for Supporting the CV Industry and Our Team

Inside Centercode

It’s our mission here at Centercode to make technology easier to use and more accessible for everyday people. We’re passionate about it — that’s why ‘passionate’ is one of the six core values we live by. In this new series about our core values, we’ll take a look at how each of those values informs […]

5 Beta Program Tips to Live By from Industry Superstars

Leader Insights

The only certainty in these unpredictable times is that your customers know what they want — and they’re eager to talk about it. That’s what makes securing customer feedback more crucial than ever. But with your team — and your customers — scattered to the winds and hunkered down for the long haul, it can […]

Highlights from Delta ’20: The Virtual Customer Validation Conference

Centercode News

With 18 speakers and over 400 attendees, Delta ’20: the Virtual Customer Validation Conference made one thing clear: even in uncertain times such as these, the CV industry is enthusiastically pushing forward. Over the course of three half-days in April, customer testing professionals from all over the world gathered together virtually to exchange ideas, ask […]

Luke Freiler Talks Ted and What’s in Store for Centercode

Centercode News

The Delta ’20: Virtual Customer Validation Conference saw over 400 Customer Validation professionals from companies like Bose, Roku, Autodesk, TechSmith, and countless others. Over the course of three days, attendees picked up new tips and techniques, workshopped their programs, networked across industries, and brought their experiences to the table in the largest gathering of customer […]

Centercode Hosts Delta ’20 Conference

Industry News

The event may be over, but you can still access the best-practice sessions and interviews with industry leaders on-demand! Watch the entire conference here. Laguna Hills, CA. Centercode, the leader in Customer Validation Software-as-a-Service (SaaS) solutions, today announced its upcoming free three-day virtual Delta ’20 conference April 7-9, 2020. This event is dedicated to the […]

2019 Customer Validation Content Roundup

Product Development

As we discover the myriad ways organizations are building and optimizing their Customer Validation (CV) programs, our team here at Centercode is devoted to developing content that’s inspiring and useful across departments, roles, and industries. This year, we’ve surveyed hundreds of companies and done countless hours of research to produce kits, ebooks, infographics, white papers, […]

Humanizing the Role of Beta Managers Through Communication

Leader Insights

If you’ve attended a QA or testing conference recently, it seems as though manual testing is a dying discipline. Due in part to the speed of development, test automation, and artificial intelligence, a greater proportion of test management is now influenced or even controlled by developers. In our interview with Jennifer Bonine, CEO of PinkLion.ai […]

3 Essential Community Management Tips from Microsoft’s Dona Sarkar

Leader Insights

In this second post of our two-part interview with Dona Sarkar, leader of the Windows Insider program, she unpacks several community management tips for beta program executives, product managers, and other people responsible for Customer Validation. While your community may not be at the scope and scale of Dona’s program at Microsoft (and not many […]

The Beginner’s Guide to Identifying Beta Program Metrics

Product Development

What are beta program metrics exactly? Which ones are important? Why do I need them? These are the types of questions that suddenly pop into the minds of product and program managers when an executive team comes looking for Key Performance Indicators (KPIs). I recently had an opportunity to work with Alex Larsen, the manager […]

AI and the Future of Testing

Leader Insights

Whether it’s the rise of AI, CI/CD, or DevOps, the lines between testing and development are blurring. But as testing methodologies evolve and bleed into development, professional testers are questioning how this evolution will affect their role in product development. In our interview with Jason Arbon, CEO of Test.ai, we dive deeper into the future […]

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