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Product Management Process: The 7 Stages Explained

Userpilot

What does the product management process involve? Why is it important for product managers to follow them? These are just a couple of the questions that we are going to tackle in this article, so grab a beverage of your choice, find a comfy spot, and let’s dive in! What is product management? 2: Idea management. #3:

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Everyone Thinks They’re Managing by Outcomes. Here’s How to Actually Do it.

Product Talk

Last month, I spoke at the Business of Software (BoS) conference in Boston. A big thank you to Rich Mironov who referred me to BoS organizer Mark Littlewood, and to Jeff Merrell , my co-instructor at Northwestern , who helped me develop many of these ideas. Managing by outcomes has been a popular topic for quite some time.

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Tools of the Trade: Using Pendo to Manage Customer Requests

Product Talk

Just because an idea isn’t something you’re going to pursue today doesn’t mean it won’t be worth pursuing at some point in the future. Tweet This So how exactly do you manage all these ideas? For today’s Tools of the Trade , we caught up with Leann Schneider , Product Manager at Plum. Leann, welcome.

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5 Best Practices for Gathering Customer Feedback in 2018

Pragmatic Marketing

This was the subject line of an email I recently received from an account manager at a financial management software vendor. Even though it was frustrating, I understood why the software vendor was trying to gather customer feedback—to help with 2018 planning. So we use our own ideas portal for this.

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Where Do PMs Gather Their Product Ideas?

ProductPlan

Product teams long for similar moments of inspiration, but the motivational poster vision of breakthrough ideas misses the raw materials and effort that lead up to these moments. Product managers must start with a broad perspective of what’s possible and then narrow things down. Sales and account management. Outside in.

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Bottoms Up With OKRs | Whitney O’Banner, Medium | BoS USA 2019

Business of Software Conference

Marty Cagan (Founder, Silicon Valley Product Group and previous BoS speaker) recently published an article about OKRs which echos some of Whitney’s points about empowering teams and giving team objectives instead of individual objectives – BoS is often ahead of the curve – check out Marty’s post on svpg.com.

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The Top 7 Product Management Software Systems You Should Know About

Bain Public

In order to get the job done properly and efficiently, product managers deserve the proper software, tools and resources needed to create and execute successful products. Is a highly customizable product, covering all aspects of project and product management as well as offering a system suitable for large product teams.