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53 Questions Developers Should Ask Innovators

TechEmpower - Product Management

Even when they have talked to multiple developers or development firms, we’re often the first to ask basic questions like “Who are your customers?” ” or “Are you developing for desktop, tablet, mobile, or all three?” The innovator/developer relationship needs to be a conversation.

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Leveraging New Technologies: 3 Tips for Product People

Roman Pichler

Listen to the audio version of this article: [link] Make Time to Keep up with Technology Trends As new technologies come and go, it’s important for you—the person in charge of the product—to stay on top of the developments. You talk to the development team, and the team members suggest that machine learning is likely to be the right solution.

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Product Differentiation in SaaS: How to Make a Difference as a Product Manager

Userpilot

What’s product differentiation? What differentiation strategies can a product manager use to make the product stand out in a saturated market? Product differentiation is about highlighting the features of your product that make it stand out on the market. Mixed differentiation uses both objective and subjective criteria.

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The Rise Of Customer Development

The Product Coalition

Due to the growing tendency of backing technology businesses, a software startup could raise millions of dollars of funding in their earliest stages of development. Many of those companies would spend that money on building their software without sufficiently interacting with their customers.

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The 5 Most Lethal Mistakes in Product Development

BrainMates

Developing and launching a product only to have it fail is the complete antithesis of the “Fail Fast” innovation motto. You have just invested 1000s of work hours and millions of dollars in developing & launching this product. Most companies are in reality reviewing and failing several orders of magnitude less ideas than this.

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An API Platform is Table Stakes for a Public API

The Product Coalition

An API platform is table stakes to build your public APIs on, especially if an API is a key part of your strategy, yet too often, API infrastructure is hand-coded, leading to short- and long-term trouble. Offering an API publicly to partners and developers requires an extra level of polish.

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7 Ways API & SDK Solutions Help Product Managers Move Faster

The Product Coalition

This nimble approach to product management directly influences business outcomes, differentiating the most compelling products from lesser competitors and boosting adoption and customer satisfaction along the way. But no one can achieve such compressed time cycles just by working harder?—?instead,