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A Tale of Two Roadmaps?—?And Why You Can’t Succeed With Only One

The Product Coalition

The first was a precise set of tasks, milestones, and deliverables for the diligent civil servants tasked with building — the engineers, designers, and product managers. The second was a simplified, big-picture version meant to guide the city’s council of stakeholders — a select panel of investors, business executives, and customers.

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Voice of Customer: Why VoC should lead your product development process

Usersnap

Do you consider customer feedback? Should the Voice of Customer influence product development? In Frost & Sullivan’s survey research on R&D/innovation and product development priorities, 84% of the respondents declare that they employ the voice of customers (VoC) in their product development cycle.

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Are you Solving Customer Problems or Just Building Features?

ProductPlan

But are you solving for actual customer problems? The danger, however, lies in mistaking new functionality for actually adding meaningful value to the customer experience. Where are product teams getting their feature ideas? Why do product teams become feature factories?

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Why Product Request SLAs Fail

Mironov Consulting

” GTM leaders typically ascribe this situation to lack of attention, poor work ethic, or weak understanding of customers on the part of product management – i.e. personal failures best addressed by replacing or upgrading product staff.  Or  Or by hiring outside experts to teach them prioritization.

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Modus Security: What’s Your Threat Surface?

Modus Create

The news is filled with tales of hackers breaking into financial institutions, DDoS attacks on credit card companies, and data breaches due to poor software configuration. At Modus, this is a question that often presents itself when architecting a client’s application solution or aiding in building out infrastructure and DevOps pipelines.

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The product data VCs want to see before investing in your startup

Mixpanel

VCs look for signals that you have the right product, in the right market, at the right time, with the right team at the helm. Stay away from flashy “vanity metrics” and focus on gathering deeper insights with value metrics. “The most important thing is seeing user activity grow within a product organically.”

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How Johannes Gutenberg Can Make You a Better Product Manager

The Product Coalition

Because scribes display more diligence and industry than printers.” Maybe the snake oil of its time, either way, he failed due to timing. However, it was delayed due to a flood?—?leaving Due to Gutenberg’s lack of means to pay back, Fust received the machinery, type set and supplies. Do you have customer feedback?