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Product in Practice: Mapping Opportunities at trivago

Product Talk

They already had an established product and regular rituals that helped them consider their users. Through a combination of leadership buy-in, reading, and coaching, they committed to mapping opportunities and testing assumptions before jumping to solutions and found new ways to truly put their users first.

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Group Product Manager vs. Principal Product Manager: What’s The Difference?

The Product HQ

Product managers are responsible for establishing a product’s vision and long-term business strategy while ensuring that all stakeholders are aware of said strategy. It also helps that group product managers create documentation that outlines the product vision and requirements. Then look no further.

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Incorporating Empathy into Product Management

ProductPlan

No matter how you define product management, customers should always be at the center of things. Product managers try to solve customer problems, address customer pain points, add value for customers, etc. Empathy in product management spans wider than seeing which buttons customers click.

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You Are Building the WRONG Things in your SaaS product

The Product Coalition

As a result, a lot of product decisions are made on gut feeling, incomplete information, the loudest voice in the room, and the most demanding customers. Items that make it into SaaS products often don’t align with the company’s strategy to support growth or help existing customers reach their desired outcomes.

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6 Ways The Product Manager is the CEO of the Product (and 1 Way They are the CFO too)

The Product Coalition

The comparison has been around for a long time?—?the Create vision. Ownership, leadership, drive, ambition, etc. Only after all of this was I able to really understand the pain points these users had. Some of the pain they didn’t even realize. the users of the product. Make decisions.

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Are you Solving Customer Problems or Just Building Features?

ProductPlan

But are you solving for actual customer problems? The danger, however, lies in mistaking new functionality for actually adding meaningful value to the customer experience. To reframe things, only about one out of three feature ideas actually come directly from customers… you know, the people who are paying money to use your products.

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The Perfect World and the Real World of Product Research

The Product Coalition

Future-Backwards Exercise: Bring relevant stakeholders together to imagine the best and worst possible futures that could happen given the company’s current vision, strategy, and market conditions. Barriers : What are the barriers between users discovering the solution and experiencing the benefits of the solution to the fullest?