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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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Why Product Management Is Not The Same As Oprah’s Favorite Things

The Product Guy

Or did they only care about the roadmap? For example, in 2005 the audience received items such as a Burberry coat, an iPod, and a Blackberry phone, but in 2006 each audience member received a $1,000 gift card and a camcorder and were told to record themselves using the money to do a good deed for someone else.

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In My Humble Opinion by Thor Mitchell

Mind the Product

As Ken Norton wrote in his 2005 article, How to Hire a Product Manager : ‘No one asked you to show up’. If you want to define the roadmap, to own the relationship with the customer or to manage the backlog, then you have to earn that right. Many organisations, large and small, get along fine without a Product Manager.

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Business Development vs. Product Management

The Product Guy

He grows revenue and adoption, and ensures product by turning business problems into profitable, simple, easy-to-use solutions Jordan works closely with his market, executives, and internal subject matter experts to develop roadmaps, and communicate these roadmaps internally and with clients.

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How High Performance Organisations Innovate at Scale by Barry O’Reilly

Mind the Product

80% of companies think they’re providing a superior proposition, according to Closing the Delivery Gap, the well-known 2005 survey from Bain and Co. A two-year roadmap doesn’t give you certainty. At the heart, the issues usually are related to rewarding outputs and not outcomes. Closing the Delivery Gap.

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Product Managers Guide to API Developer Portal UX

The Product Coalition

Compass for new product managers for how to build an API developer portal | Photo by Ali Kazal on Unsplash With APIs-as-a-Product on a rocketship since 2005, there are many elements that product managers need to master in their Developer persona user experience (Dx) to win and protect their business.

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Product Strategies for Non-Strategists

The Product Guy

He grows revenue and adoption, and ensures product by turning business problems into profitable, simple, easy-to-use solutions Jordan works closely with his market, executives, and internal subject matter experts to develop roadmaps, and communicate these roadmaps internally and with clients.