UX Studio: Product Management

SEPTEMBER 29, 2023

Your product strategy is already bulletproof — just make sure you’re not making any of these mistakes. Learn 5 examples from my career where strategy went haywire and my tips on how to avoid these situations. I’m Sándor, a product lead and former product designer with 5 years under my belt.

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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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Intercom, Inc.

JANUARY 14, 2021

And so, in 2014, he founded Productboard , a product management system that incorporates customer feedback and insights to help product teams build better products. Steve Blank, the father of Lean Startup, was my professor at Berkley and he got me into, “You need to get out of the building and test and iterate.”

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ProductPlan

OCTOBER 6, 2022

So if you are looking to launch a new product or feature, you are prepared with some tips to reduce that blank page anxiety. Start with your company and product mission and vision. Understand your customer outside of why they use your product. The post 10 Tips for New Product Research and Discovery appeared first on.

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Roman Pichler

OCTOBER 21, 2016

Here is a simple test: Close your eyes and gently observe your breath. I find that mindfulness is particularly helpful for product managers and product owners. Tip #1: Don’t Rush. As product managers and owners, we are prone to overcommitting and taking on too much work. Tip #2: Do One Thing at a Time.

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Roman Pichler

JANUARY 9, 2018

Explore the key assumptions and risks in your product strategy and business model by systematically testing and addressing them in an iterative fashion using, for example, observations, interviews, surveys, and prototypes. The people involved in product discovery should also participate in building the actual solution.

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Roman Pichler

NOVEMBER 15, 2017

Use the product roadmap together with the overall product strategy to decide if you should take on a request. In doubt, use the next sprint to test if the idea or request would be beneficial to the users. But remember that it’s virtually impossible to offer a product that pleases everyone.

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Roman Pichler

MAY 4, 2022

This team consists of a product owner , a Scrum Master , and several developers, which are also known as development team. Forming such a team connects the person in charge of the product—the product owner—with the people who design, architect, program, test, and document the solution—the developers.

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Mind the Product

JANUARY 9, 2020

VP Product, Remko describes a creative leader as “someone who enables or pushes teams to think of (and test) new ways to solve problems, gets inspiration from other areas or other disciplines, and enables cross-pollination between teams.” As a result, embracing ambiguity and improvisation is key. ” 10.

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UX Studio: Product Management

AUGUST 17, 2018

Here we’ll give you some guidelines and best practices, whether you’re just beginning to include usability testing in your processes or are setting out to up your usability testing game. Usability tests check if people can use a product. What is usability testing? What is the purpose of usability testing?

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Roman Pichler

AUGUST 11, 2020

This article assumes that you are familiar with the product vision board or the key elements of a product strategy : market, value proposition, standout features, and business goals. Solution : Describe the ultimate purpose of your product, the positive change the product should bring about like “healthy eating”.

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Product Talk

MARCH 13, 2024

Joel turned to the community to see if anyone had any tips or advice on introducing these changes or any pitfalls to watch out for. They started with a clear product strategy, aligning on the top customer problems they wanted to focus on in the first six months. They ran early usability testing to validate the team’s direction.

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ProductPlan

SEPTEMBER 20, 2022

Data drives our decisions, and A/B tests are the norm, gut feelings and hunches don’t carry much weight anymore. They want evidence and measurability to dictate which moves the product should make. This is why developing your product sense remains so important. Tips for developing your product sense.

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Userpilot

JUNE 29, 2022

But as a product manager , creating a story that will capture a customer’s attention might not be in your wheelhouse. In addition, we’ll look at six tips to help you create a compelling product story. Narrate the product strategy. The product strategy constitutes the how of your product.

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Userpilot

MAY 1, 2024

There is a ton of product management advice out there, but most of it is generic tips repeated over and over again. With a self-named newsletter and podcast, Lenny is a widely followed product expert. Lenny is a newsletter writer, podcast host, angel investor, and product consultant.

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Roman Pichler

SEPTEMBER 7, 2021

(See my article Making Effective Product Decisions: Tips for Deciding with Stakeholders and Dev Teams for more information on collaborative decision-making.). For a product roadmap to be effective, it must be actionable. Actionable.

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Roman Pichler

JULY 11, 2016

You should therefore help the team acquire the relevant market and domain knowledge—for instance, by involving the team in research and validation work, inviting them to join you when you visit customers— and ensure that they are aware of the product strategy and product roadmap as well as the business goals and KPIs.

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Mind the Product

OCTOBER 9, 2017

Companies often assume that the user has already bought their product, or wants to sign up for weekly updates, and nowadays that’s not always the case. This product design mistake immediately cuts away at potential customers who are just there to test and explore the app before buying a product.

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Mixpanel

JANUARY 28, 2020

Context matters: Using market data to guide product strategy. Getting innovation tips from customer data. Knowing market trends is essential, but it provides only a portion of the inputs needed for a successful innovation strategy. so you build out that part of the product.

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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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The Product Coalition

AUGUST 14, 2022

For some reason, most of them want my product strategy and product-market fit lectures during May and June, every year. I still wasn’t sure it was a good enough product but decided to run this pseudo A/B test before changing anything. That’s why the product strategy is so important?—?it

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The Product Coalition

JANUARY 16, 2024

So without further adieu, here are some proactive tips to maintain excellent roadmap health — no flossing required: Continuously sync to the vision and strategy. As a matter of practice, review your vision and product strategy at the same time as you review your roadmap. Run tests, show prototypes, and narrow them down.

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Roman Pichler

SEPTEMBER 7, 2021

(See my article Making Effective Product Decisions: Tips for Deciding with Stakeholders and Dev Teams for more information on collaborative decision-making.). For a product roadmap to be effective, it must be actionable. Actionable.

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The Product Coalition

FEBRUARY 12, 2024

Does it align with how your product will win in the market? For more on the topic strategy, here are two posts to review: Eight core elements of a winning product strategy Essential question that lead to a great product strategy Story —  Stories make the world go round. First, did you test it?

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Roman Pichler

APRIL 11, 2016

Show the salespeople how they can take advantage from the changes and how they can continue to influence the product and ensure that their needs are taken into account. A while back I worked with a company that had just established a new product management group. 4 Get the Right People on Board. 5 Sustain the Change.

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Roman Pichler

MAY 10, 2016

At the same time, I wanted to test that the product would create enough value for its readers before writing the actual book. My first MVP had little resemblance with the finished product: I used my product strategy and roadmap workshop as the initial minimum viable product. Minimum Viable Product #2.

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Roman Pichler

SEPTEMBER 19, 2016

For revenue-generating products revenue is commonly used, for example. But if your product exists to sell another product or service, then the number of active users might be the appropriate metric. The younger your product is, the more it is likely to benefit from Scrum.

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UX Studio

MARCH 17, 2019

Say you are building a new product. You have already validated this business model, the market, and user needs through interviews and testing. Now you want to build the product. Many people looking for UX help turn to friends and acquaintances hoping to acquire tips on who to work with. Mapping product structure.

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Userpilot

JUNE 25, 2023

Hooked delivers insights into the psychology of user habits and engagement to design captivating products. Sprint presents a practical and efficient approach to problem-solving and innovation , empowering SaaS teams to test and validate ideas quickly. Product Rantz is an amusing read on ‘how to lose users and alienate your customers.’

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Johanna Rothman

JULY 22, 2021

I see strategy necessary at these management levels: Organizational strategy, to define the value the organization offers to the employees, customers, and other stakeholders. Product strategy, to define the value the products offer to the product's users/customers. I'm going to call them all products.

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Alchemer Mobile

MARCH 17, 2020

Between interfacing with multiple teams, coordinating release schedules, prioritizing customer happiness, driving the mobile product roadmap, messaging product announcements internally and externally, and myriad other activities, the list of “to-do’s” for mobile product managers may seem endless, and the job is ever-changing.

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The Product Coalition

APRIL 17, 2023

Collecting product feedback is one of the main tasks of Product Managers. It’s their job to try to understand what customers need, and put that together with a number of other considerations to create a thoughtful product strategy. This can include opening a product or feature to beta testers.

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Roman Pichler

MARCH 14, 2017

It does not cover common product management practices, such as, product strategy development, product roadmapping, and financial forecasting; and the only product management tool it offers is the product backlog. The product manager would return only to issue change requests or help with the launch.

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The Product Coalition

DECEMBER 13, 2021

Many startups with an ordinary product make the way to growth and scalability whereas others with great products fail to survive. Both product and product strategy should fall in place to make the startup sustainable and help them to grow. What and Why and the inspirational differences that product brings.

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Bryce York

FEBRUARY 12, 2020

P.S. I’m writing a book on product management, learn more. Prefer your tips in bite-sized chunks? There’s a lot of content in this post, so if you’d prefer to get these 10 tips in bite-sized chunks, delivered straight to your inbox over the next 10 days… I’ve got you covered. More on this in tip #5. I know, I know.

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Userpilot

NOVEMBER 8, 2022

So how does a minimal viable feature differ from the concept of ‘minimum viable products? An MVP helps you define your complete product strategy. An MVF approach helps you test specific ideas (you can think of them as a type of ‘experimental feature’). An MVF approach helps you test specific ideas.

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Mind the Product

SEPTEMBER 14, 2018

Experimentation: testing insights through behavior and reducing risk. The good news, Brant says, is that over the last few years, product managers have really embraced these mindsets and absorbed this thinking into their work. How can Product Help? Brant gives us four tips for better innovation. The End Result.

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