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519: Product verification, most important of the 19 activities of product management – with Nishant Parikh

Product Innovation Educators

Product Roadmapping Once product positioning is established, product managers move into the more action-oriented activity of roadmapping. This planning phase requires careful consideration of multiple contextual factors that significantly impact how roadmaps should be developed and managed.

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How to be a great product manager during a recession

Product Management Unpacked

The 9/11 Recession: (March 2001 – November 2001). Prioritize your roadmap for customers. Anything that makes you a continued ‘aspirin’ versus a vitamin in the features roadmap goes to the top of this week’s sprint. Look at the roadmap. The Iran/Energy Crisis Recession: (July 1981 – November 1982).

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From vanity to value: How Intercom conducts NPS surveys

Intercom, Inc.

“First developed in 2001 by Fred Reichheld, NPS quickly became a key metric in all sorts of industries, an agreed measure of customer loyalty” First developed in 2001 by management consultant Fred Reichheld, NPS quickly became a key metric in all sorts of industries, an agreed measure of customer loyalty.

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Why is Agile Still Being Treated as Gospel?

The Product Coalition

Ever since the Agile Manifesto was written in 2001, the concept of becoming more efficient by embracing iterative delivery models and “learning-on-the-go” has captivated senior executives to junior project managers alike. All of this adapted to small development teams or small companies is no problem.

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Why Drawing Maps Sharpens Your Thinking

Product Talk

And, of course, there is our most debated artifact, the roadmap. We’ve already discussed the success of the business model canvas. Customer journey maps and empathy maps are also common. As is Jeff Patton’s user story mapping. Despite the prevalence of maps in the world of product, they are often under utilized. Tversky, B., Tversky, B.

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The tools we use: Challenging dogma in the design process

Intercom, Inc.

This was probably best illustrated in what’s been called the single most famous edit in the history of cinema, in 2001: A Space Odyssey. And then individual teams have roadmaps, six-week cycle goals, and weekly goals. Ultimately, tools are a part of who we are and how we conceive of ourselves.

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The Definition of Product Management Is Shrinking. It’s Not Good!

Product Management University

Strengthen your upstream practices around market and customer knowledge (not to be confused with user knowledge), customer discovery (not to be confused with user and product discovery) and create strategic product roadmaps (not to be confused with feature delivery schedules).