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What’s Wrong With Detailed Gantt Charts and How to Make Fewer Details Work for You

Johanna Rothman

In innovative products, the interdependencies can change any day. The Gantt chart shows us the first date we cannot prove we cannot finish. (I If your product does not need much innovation, you can plan for longer and know you will meet that plan. But, the one thing the dependencies cannot show you is a completion date.

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467: Strategic product planning – with Yaroslav Lazor

Product Innovation Educators

In many organizations, there is a big gap in communication between product managers and engineers. Their thoughts include a massive amount of data that you cannot display in a straightforward way. However, the founder, who has been thinking about the problem for years cannot tell you all their thoughts because there are too many.

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452: Using exploration, alignment, and decision-making to innovate into the unknown – with Atif Rafiq

Product Innovation Educators

What product managers need to know about the Decision Sprint framework for faster problem-solving Today we are talking about faster problem-solving to speed innovation by using a three-part framework including Exploration, Alignment, and Decision-Making. This means we need a way of innovating that is more purposeful.

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How Product Risks Differ from Project Risks

Johanna Rothman

Project Risks Differ From Product Risks Now, I see that the determinism of the problem itself—the innovative nature of the product—also brings risks to the project. The more innovative the product is (or we believe it to be), the less we can plan at any one time. My risk thinking was incomplete.

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Four Key Product Management Lessons from Jessi Alva, Director, Technical Product Management at SAP Concur

Alchemer Mobile

Her passion is derived from igniting vision, commitment, innovation, and trust in leadership, development, and marketing teams. ?WATCH “Understand the role of product management within the organization that you’re either working or want to work. We cannot be successful without somebody coding or building a product.

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Bottom-Up SaaS Business Strategy Explained

Userpilot

Once they adopt the product, they champion it within the organization. In a nutshell, by enabling end-users to experience the product value , the bottom-up SaaS model turns them into product advocates who promote it from within the organization. Let’s dive right in! How is it different from the top-down business model?

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437: Product road mapping for executives to align customer needs and business strategy – with Maziar Adl

Product Innovation Educators

How product mangers can improve collaboration in cross-functional teams Today we are talking with Maziar Adl, the co-founder and CTO of Gocious, an organization that creates product roadmap management software. I was the CTO in a part of the organization called consumer services. Bottom up, there were also issues.