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What is Good Product Strategy?

Melissa Perri

When I replay this scene in my head, I can hear the CTO very audibly yelling (slash pleading) with our product team. To create a backend system that will allow the sales team to manage their leads.” “To These product initiatives aren’t bad, they are just communicated at the wrong time and with the wrong intentions.

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Outsourced Software Product Development: A Comprehensive Guide

Arkenea

In a fastmoving digital economy, many organizations leverage outsourced software product development to accelerate innovation, control costs, and tap into global expertise. Rather than building and maintaining a large inhouse team, businesses partner with specialized vendors to handle design, development, testing, and deployment.

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The tools we use: Challenging dogma in the design process

Intercom, Inc.

In a recent talk at UX London , I discussed some lessons learned while growing the design team at Intercom, reflecting on the technology industry’s obsession with tools, and pointed out how our sense of tools as objects or apps blinds us to the reality that the processes we adopt and develop are also, in effect, tools.

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Tools to Help Product Managers Think Strategically and Commercially: State of Product Meeting

Mind the Product

Typically this would be a cross functional team of C- level and director-level people. Yet by doing this exercise I’m now much more aware of how my product roadmap can make an impact on the profitability of our business. Strengths and weaknesses are internally focused, whereas opportunities and threats are caused by external factors.

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5 Product Management Hacks for Product Leaders

Mind the Product

As a product leader, you are the product manager for a leadership team, and the tricks you learned in product teams remain valuable, they just need a little tweak. Myths that an organisation tells itself can act as a reality distortion field that masks failing products and poor return on investment. Develop new opportunities.

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Developing a Thorough Understanding of Atomic Roadmapping Habits

ProductPlan

Are your roadmapping habits holding you back? James Clear’s 2018 book Atomic Habits explains that our atomic habits are created as a coping mechanism. Clear’s advice proves useful for product managers to implement his philosophy into their own atomic roadmapping habits. In many cases, this could very well be true.

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In Search of Product/Market fit: How Setapp Found its Customers

Mind the Product

Setapp provides Mac users with a way to use and discover new apps, and developers with a new way to reach customers and generate extra revenue. We didn’t know know if our sales predictions were good or bad. Problems with Customer Development. Early numbers indicated that our growth predictions were very wrong.