Mind the Product

OCTOBER 21, 2019

A strong product strategy is often neglected because of the absence of any strategic thinking in product teams. What can product managers do to make sure they give their product strategy the attention it warrants? Tanya shares her ideas for nurturing a strong product strategy from this year’s #mtpcon London Product Leadership Forum.

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Roman Pichler

JULY 6, 2021

Instead of creating, for example, product strategies and roadmaps and tracking KPIs , you should help the people on your team acquire the right knowledge and develop the right skills so that they can carry out the relevant work on their own. Creating and validating a product strategy including market and user research.

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The Product Coalition

APRIL 3, 2019

This is Part 3/18 in the series “How to Build an Innovative New Product or Company” on the topic of over-investing in the “4 Steps to Develop a Strategy” I was introduced to a medical device company recently. The product is a piece of paper that has six testing areas on it, each of which can test for something different.

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The Product Coalition

AUGUST 6, 2023

Development and Prototyping: Building a working prototype or a minimum viable product (MVP) to test and validate the concept. Testing and Iteration: Conduct thorough testing to identify and resolve any issues or shortcomings in the product, leading to iterative improvements. Bring your ideas to market!

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Ronke PM

MARCH 26, 2024

It is crucial to persuade these individuals to embody the product's concept through their coding, testing, branding, research, and design. Rule 2: Communicate Product Strategy and Roadmap Every organization and product leader handles the communication of product strategy and roadmap differently.

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The Product Coalition

FEBRUARY 12, 2024

Side Note: Asking why and how a roadmap was constructed in a certain way also makes a great product manager interview question. Strategy —  Is there a clear strategy behind the product and the roadmap? First, did you test it? When reviewing a roadmap with the product team, there are six points I always look for.

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Userpilot

MARCH 10, 2024

A/B tests help you test two or more variations of UX to find the one that’s better aligned with your users’ preferences. Create data-driven product strategies – Usage pattern data helps understand how people navigate your product so product teams can design features and user experiences accordingly.

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Split

MARCH 29, 2024

Furthermore, clearly distinguishing the production environment from the staging, testing, and development environments is a fundamental step in the software development process. This is where development teams construct and refine new features. From here, we transition to a testing or staging environment.

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Alchemer Mobile

NOVEMBER 9, 2022

By not making it a priority to ask for, listen to, and implement customer feedback in a constructive manner, companies are missing a huge opportunity to closely align their business with their customers’ wants, needs, and expectations —while still keeping their product roadmap aligned with business goals. .

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Haines-Group

SEPTEMBER 19, 2023

Here the acronym stands for: M essaging, V alue-proposition, and P ositioning Think of it as the “Marketing MVP” These “MVP” elements are foundational to strategy and absolutely critical to the product’s ultimate commercial success. Write a few versions and give each the test: Is it Differentiated, Relevant, Credible?

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The Product Coalition

OCTOBER 2, 2022

Impatience also creates unstable product strategies. This is why product managers must stay patient and always constructively challenge the roadmap and make updates. Watching these videos is a good crash test to make sure you’ll like the job. Not understanding this and being impatient only leads to mistakes.

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Intercom, Inc.

FEBRUARY 18, 2020

“Our growth is not just in our office, but growth in customers, revenue, people, dinners, lunches, lines of code, bugs, features, tests, everything” A lot has changed in the past six years across the board, but looking at technology, the web, JavaScript, there has been huge change. Intercom has changed massively too.

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Split

MARCH 20, 2024

This spans planning, development, testing, approval, deployment, release, and post-implementation support. Why Release Management Matters A robust release management strategy is critical for optimizing a software delivery workflow. An excellent release management strategy proactively nurtures these relationships and feedback loops.

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The Product Coalition

AUGUST 9, 2021

I led sales meetings, talked to developers, even tested the algorithms to determine their accuracy. Different factors including, but are not limited to Product’s lifecycle, Technology used, Company Strategy, and Leadership Persona are critical in determining the exact coordination for the Product Team. But we could not go the JIRA way.

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UX Planet

FEBRUARY 13, 2024

These professionals typically aren’t able to provide much value when it comes to problem solving or strategy itself, because: a) product owners have already “figured out” the solution and b) designers are meant to execute on someone else’s vision. Where Does Deliverability/Production fit with Templates, Automation and AI.

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Roman Pichler

JUNE 7, 2021

In practical terms, involve stakeholders and dev teams in decisions that affect the product strategy and the product roadmap —be it that you create the plans or that you make bigger changes to them. I find it useful to have UX design, architecture, programming, and testing skills present to make the right decision.

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Roman Pichler

MAY 11, 2021

The individual should carry out product discovery and strategy work in addition to taking care of the product backlog work. This includes showing the dev team how agile processes can be applied and suggesting specific techniques, facilitating meetings, and teaching people how to constructively deal with conflicts.

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Mind the Product

MARCH 27, 2020

Armed with a clear view of the team and the product’s maturity, we can watch out for key behaviours and apply specific strategies to help the team and product go from surviving to high performing. Most important was the building of processes around constructive feedback. How Mature are we? We often talk about scaling our products.

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The Product Coalition

OCTOBER 30, 2023

That’s how budgets were constructed up until this year. Unlike featured-based roadmaps, which focus on the delivery and output of capabilities, outcomes-oriented roadmaps prioritize desired outcomes or results — a key element of product strategy. The company and/or product strategy are only sometimes openly shared.

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The Product Coalition

AUGUST 4, 2021

It has been constructed and back tested against the many discoveries we’ve run at Terem. For example, if you are doing Product Discovery on a new major feature with an established, existing product in a large organisation, then you will likely have customer data, a strategy and OKRs. Business development risk?—?does

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The Product HQ

MAY 10, 2024

Familiarize yourself with business principles, market strategies, and product creation. Always be Open to Feedback That includes any constructive criticism that they may give. Use it to inform your product roadmap and make any necessary changes in your product management strategy.

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Product Innovation Educators

MAY 23, 2022

He leads market strategy for UserTesting, which is a firm that helps you experience what your customers experience, getting human insights within just a few hours to help you design and deliver exceptional products. User testing is a way to get regular people to respond to any prompt—a marketing message, a product question, a discovery point.

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The Product Coalition

DECEMBER 11, 2023

There are two things you want to do with that profile before you continue: the first is to validate and test it for a while. Other than crystalizing your assumptions and strategy, this stage is about results. You cannot move forward without having at least some evidence that what you do actually works.

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Department of Product

OCTOBER 26, 2023

Discord is expanding its new monetization strategy, making its app hub available to users in Europe and the UK. The open API approach taken by Discord’s product team is in stark contrast to the monetization strategies deployed at Reddit and X but a 30% cut is still a hefty commission. Enjoy the rest of your week!

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Mixpanel

JULY 22, 2021

Human37 helps you define, design, implement and activate your tailored and future-proof customer data strategy. In organisations with bigger IT departments, the practice of developing the product, strategy, operations and the processes and multi-disciplinary teams involved is often referred to as DevOps. . But they’re still there.

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Mind the Product

OCTOBER 23, 2018

The default behaviour of a team with this kind of roadmap is to complete one feature and then start developing the next one, even if the context (strategy, user needs, competition) has changed. You Don’t Have a Clear Company Strategy. When they won’t budge on a solution, propose a test. The Wrong Conversation.

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ProductPlan

JUNE 8, 2021

So when I tried coming up with my own mindset and mantra for improving product management, I found myself elevating above the flowcharts and execution strategies, looking for something more universal. The real test is how much they’re willing to pay for it, which truly shows how much they value the solution. Meaningful.

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Gainsight

SEPTEMBER 1, 2021

For product leaders and managers, now’s the perfect chance to embrace product growth, and tap into its benefits, as the strategy reshapes the industry. Product growth is a SaaS strategy where you use your product to attract more users, drive higher engagement, and retain more customers. Ready to start riding the product growth wave?

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Userpilot

MAY 16, 2022

Product-led growth is a strategy that emphasizes driving growth using the product itself , rather than through traditional sales and marketing techniques. Ramli John’s ‘Eureka’ framework is an excellent place to start when devising a product-led onboarding strategy. See how Userpilot can help.

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Userpilot

DECEMBER 11, 2023

Regular mobile usability testing can help you nip these usability problems in the bud. That said, one of usability’s big dilemmas is how to balance the cognitive load of frequent user testing with the hunt for different models that most users hold. How to determine users’ existing mental models?

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The Product Coalition

NOVEMBER 19, 2020

Xero’s Demo Company gives you immediate access to data for testing the API out Getting Started Despite having seen the link earlier on getting started, I did get momentarily confused when trying to get started. It meant I was ready to interact with real data within 3 minutes of starting the sign-up process.

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UX Planet

DECEMBER 19, 2023

And the role design plays in informing those decisions and interacting in a constructive manner with clients/users. And this is something that requires some finesse in terms of content writing, but also in terms of product placement and overall strategy. I’ll share a few examples on this particular topic.

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Userpilot

APRIL 6, 2022

Exactly how it differs from a traditional marketing strategy. A SaaS marketing plan covers all the strategies and tactics, from lead generation to converting potential customers to paying customers, to ensuring they stick with your product for a long time. SaaS pricing strategy unlike regular products/services is subscription-based.

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Product Talk

FEBRUARY 12, 2020

Teresa was impressed by how Lisa took the big, hairy product idea of orchestration (more on that in a moment) and turned it into a tamable, iterative product strategy. We’ve onboarded many customers onto our predictive suite and every time we get the same question: ‘How can I test that it works?’

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Roman Pichler

MAY 11, 2021

The individual should carry out product discovery and strategy work in addition to taking care of the product backlog work. This includes showing the dev team how agile processes can be applied and suggesting specific techniques, facilitating meetings, and teaching people how to constructively deal with conflicts.

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Reveal

JULY 21, 2023

Dashboard linking in the financial services industry: Linking risk assessment financial dashboards with compliance dashboards can help identify potential risks, monitor regulatory compliance, and facilitate proactive risk mitigation strategies. You will be redirected to it once the link symbol is selected.

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People-First Product Leadership

MARCH 24, 2024

They're testing me." Attitude The candidate is constructive and confident, not condescending or narcissistic, when sharing their background. When I’ve found myself in such situations, the business strategy or goals often turn out to be TBD or individuals have different versions in their head. They're not.

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