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Mismatched Expectations: Product Information and Sales Teams

Mironov Consulting

” Product: “We’re endlessly creating and updating demos, decks, product bulletins, release dates/roadmaps, FAQs, technical docs, checklists, cheat sheets -- but Sales hardly uses any of them, and still expresses deep frustration with us.  Sales Sales teams hate this.  They

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How to Survive the Hardest Part of Product Management by Janna Bastow

Mind the Product

Janna had a sales job in college and recounts how intense the training was – with role-playing exercises, secret shoppers, and scripts – and how focused it was on dealing with people. But the training was intense! Roadmaps are stories. ” A lot of roadmaps are simply incomprehensible.

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Product Management System Basics

ProductPlan

Building your product’s strategic schedule, including timelines for development milestones, marketing campaigns, sales training, etc. Training and onboarding. Product roadmapping. Your cross-functional team will always have one-click access to the current strategic roadmap and your backlog of other ideas.

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Do It For the Portfolio Instead of Every Product: Five B2B Product Management Best Practices

Product Management University

Sales Training. The goal is to make sure sales dialogues lead with a strong vision and a differentiating value story that’s supported by all products. When it comes to sales training, products play a supporting role, not a leading role.

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Sustainable Product Strategy: How to Move from Outputs to Outcomes

Amplitude

Roadmapping is at the core of product strategy and product management. Output-focused product roadmaps provide a false sense of certainty, all while limiting product work to a few big bets, which may or may not pan out. We broke into pairs and then each pair developed a feature roadmap along a particular area of focus.

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The Seven-Part Guide to Portfolio Product Management & Marketing

Product Management University

Sales Training on Customers vs. Products. The goal is to make sure sales dialogues lead with a strong vision and a differentiating value story that’s supported by all products. When it comes to sales training, products play a supporting role, not a leading role. The Value of a Product Marketing Roadmap for Sales.

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What is the Product Operations Career Path?

ProductPlan

Organizing, automating, and making meaning out of this data tsunami is another critical product operations skill that lets product managers spend less time digging up or transmitting the basics and more time extracting the deep value that eventually informs the product roadmap. Facilitating product feedback review and planning meetings.