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How to Offer Constructive Feedback: A Framework for Product People

Roman Pichler

Here are four examples: Joe, the sales rep, has promised a feature to an important customer without first talking to you—the person in charge of the product. It can be tempting to ignore people issues and focus on product-related tasks like reviewing the product strategy , updating the product roadmap , and refining the product backlog.

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Establishing Customer Advisory Boards for Product Managers

The Product Guy

Truly understanding your customers and finding ways to improve your product is an overwhelmingly daunting task. Customer discovery is key to informing product strategy and there is a mountain of techniques and methods available for conducting customer discovery. It allows you to tap into the most influential customers.

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Maximising Stakeholder Buy-in to Product Strategy and Product Roadmap

Roman Pichler

The individuals whose buy-in to strategy and roadmap decisions is crucial are the players: They are interested in your product, as they, for example, will have to market and sell it. Smaller strategy updates and product roadmapping decisions, however, are not as critical. I refer to this group as key stakeholders.

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Building Better Product Roadmaps: First Principles You Can’t Ignore

The Product Coalition

How first principles can help you design product roadmaps from the ground up. Product roadmaps are no exception. Creating or even updating a product roadmap can feel like being handed a blank sheet of paper and told you have 60 minutes to write a ten-page college essay on a topic you didn’t study for….

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How to ask your customers great questions and gather actionable feedback – 3 key takeaways

Intercom, Inc.

CX for Growth is a webinar series hosted by the Startups team at Intercom, a casual, interview-style monthly session featuring special guests and exploring customer experience topics that help to drive growth in your business. How to bake in a process and culture of customer feedback. Scalable customer feedback approaches.

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Tips for Becoming a Head of Product

Roman Pichler

Instead of creating, for example, product strategies and roadmaps and tracking KPIs , you should help the people on your team acquire the right knowledge and develop the right skills so that they can carry out the relevant work on their own. You are also able to skilfully deal with difficult feedback and criticism that others share with you.

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How to Use Customer Feedback as a Sales Tool

The Product Coalition

We’ve all heard the term “ customer-centric ” in the context of running a successful business, but what does it really mean? From one perspective, it’s about creating value for customers, delivering an effective product at a good price. This is where customer feedback for sales comes into play. No ifs, no buts.