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16 Experimentation Influencers You Should Follow

AB Tasty

Given today’s fast-changing environment, Lukas believes that roadmaps should be treated as flexible guides rather than rigid plans: “I think roadmaps aren’t necessarily bad, but they should acknowledge the fact that there is uncertainty. In 2014, he founded Product School , now the global leader in Product Management training.

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Outsourced Software Product Development: A Comprehensive Guide

Arkenea

This can include: Product strategy: Roadmap definition, market research, feature prioritization. In the late 2000s, WhatsApp partnered with Eastern European developers to build its initial iOS and Android apps, keeping costs low while maintaining high quality, ultimately leading to its acquisition by Facebook for $19billion in 2014.

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When a collaboration is not a collaboration

UX Planet

This dynamic can play out on any scalefrom a minor UX improvement to a roadmap-level epic discussion. If youre a lone product design generalist, keep track of user experience topics that may soon become relevant on the roadmap. If the UXs long-term and holistic considerations are included in the final solution, then its cooperation.

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Unlocking Growth Through UX Research

UX Planet

Case Study: VirginAmerica Virgin America undertook a complete website redesign in 2014, grounded in extensive user research. The following framework provides a practical roadmap for this implementation: 4.1 A Maze study showed that companies developing research-based personas are 2.5

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How To Say “No” To A Feature Request

The Secret PM Handbook

It’s a different process if the enhancement is a good idea, but you are just unable to prioritize it highly enough to replace something else on the roadmap. Image “No” copyright (c) 2014 Henry Burrows, Attribution-ShareAlike 2.0 I’ll do another article on that soon. Generic – CC BY-SA 2.0 ) .

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Method to the Product Madness

The Product Guy

When I joined Wetu in 2014, I was the 7th employee, we had just over 100 companies using our software, we were exclusively available in Africa, and the product was already 5 years old. To keep track of what has been validated for delivery and development, a roadmap is your best tool. Secondly, you have to be a ruthless prioritizer.

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Journey to Success: The Seven Pivotal Purposes of Product Roadmaps

The Product Coalition

If you do things that are purposeful, you’ll eventually be successful.” — Howard Schultz Several years ago, I found myself in a heated discussion about product roadmaps with a client. So as he leaned across the table and looked me in the eyes, he demanded, “Explain why I need a product roadmap.” Why not, indeed?

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