The Product Guy

NOVEMBER 21, 2018

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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The Product Guy

APRIL 9, 2019

Journey Into the World of Strategy. The notion of a strategy in product management seems like something that only high-level stakeholders at the executive level should care about. After all, many product managers tend to treat a strategy as something that’s scared and driven top-down from the executive management level.

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The Product HQ

MAY 10, 2024

In the conceptualization phase, product managers must identify the vision, mission, and requirements that will condition how a team builds out a product. On one hand, this entails coming up with possible design concepts that capture the vision, mission, and goals of a given product. Sharpen your data collection and analytical skills.

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Usersnap

APRIL 27, 2022

This article will show you how to reduce your SaaS churn by following the proven strategy that we have already successfully implemented. We sat down with the team for preventing customer churn and were able to combine churn analytics with customer feedback to reduce it down to 4.26%. The aimed benchmark was 3%.

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ProductPlan

JULY 13, 2020

As organizations grow and expand, keeping stakeholders and employees on the same page to drive alignment with your product strategy can be a big challenge. That’s because growth often brings culture shifts, new offices in different locations, and new hires with the different product vision. 5 Strategies for Driving Alignment.

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Roman Pichler

MAY 11, 2021

But the value a product creates is ultimately determined by its users: No product will be successful in the long run if it does not solve a specific user problem, create a tangible benefit, or help the users achieve a specific goal. Stakeholders can be powerful and influential individuals.

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Bain Public

APRIL 15, 2018

But this is an article about your CEO’s duty to set a vision, to define why your company exists. For some product managers, the thought of talking openly about the void left by a missing vision statement is paralyzing. And as a product leader gets more senior, the need to clearly define the product strategy intensifies.

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Roman Pichler

MARCH 11, 2020

Additionally, increase your ability to constructively deal with disagreements and learn to resolve conflicts so that nobody is left feeling frustrated or hurt. The latter includes carrying out product discovery and strategy work , updating the product roadmap , and prioritising the product backlog. Limited Influence on Group Selection.

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Roman Pichler

MARCH 11, 2020

Additionally, increase your ability to constructively deal with disagreements and learn to resolve conflicts so that nobody is left feeling frustrated or hurt. The latter includes carrying out product discovery and strategy work , updating the product roadmap , and prioritising the product backlog. Limited Influence on Group Selection.

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Product Management University

APRIL 12, 2021

Meet Customers. Schedule a series of 1-hour meetings with 15-20 customers that best represent your target markets. In fact, tell everyone your start date is the day after the last customer meeting. Build 10 minutes into the end of the agenda to hear what customer have to say about your products.

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Product Talk

FEBRUARY 12, 2020

Teresa was impressed by how Lisa took the big, hairy product idea of orchestration (more on that in a moment) and turned it into a tamable, iterative product strategy. We then jammed those models into our platform so that customers could access the outputs in many ways.” How do they know which channel is best for each customer?

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The Product HQ

MAY 10, 2024

A product lead or the lead product manager is often an experienced senior professional who drives the product strategy, leading and supervising a product team. In addition, they are experts in understanding customer development and transforming requirements into new products and features. Practice empathy towards others.

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ProductPlan

JUNE 8, 2021

So when I tried coming up with my own mindset and mantra for improving product management, I found myself elevating above the flowcharts and execution strategies, looking for something more universal. By helping our audience—from sales and marketing to engineering and QA—connect with the customer problem, we will drive better outcomes.

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Gainsight

MARCH 24, 2022

Unfortunately, as a product leader or manager, you’re probably being overwhelmed by feedback from every direction. That can muddy your vision and make it feel like it’s impossible to craft a clear plan for your team. These tools are critical because they sharpen your strategy and keep your team pushing forward in the same direction.

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UX Planet

JANUARY 31, 2024

Beyond project leadership, you must champion the design’s significance, shape a clear vision aligned with business goals, and uplift the team morale. A well-constructed Career Progression Framework (CPF) comes in handy for managers. Starting as a design manager can be exciting and a bit tough, especially for beginners.

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Tyner Blain

JULY 3, 2020

An epic represents the investment decision to solve a tangible problem; a collection of epics together represent a broader investment decision to advance the organization’s strategy. A well-constructed epic achieves two objectives. The Job of An Epic. Any given epic will be achieved through the development of multiple features.

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Userpilot

NOVEMBER 11, 2021

An outcome-based roadmap just sounds like a c-suite failing to construct a functional product organisation.”. Feature roadmaps jump to solutions, have little focus on customers and their problems. Product management is about the alignment of teams – from product strategy to company outcomes and objectives.

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Mironov Consulting

JANUARY 17, 2019

Many CEOs tell me that they (personally) are the best-informed people within their companies about what customers need , and they (personally) are best positioned to drive decisions on product priorities. Somehow, interpreting customer needs can feel different. First, some context.

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Sachin Rekhi

FEBRUARY 1, 2016

Shift your individual focus from design and execution to vision and strategy. The way I think about product management is it boils down to driving the vision, strategy, design, and execution of a product area. Doing this right means a lot more than simply supporting your team. Create a strong system of accountability.

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Roman Pichler

MAY 11, 2021

But the value a product creates is ultimately determined by its users: No product will be successful in the long run if it does not solve a specific user problem, create a tangible benefit, or help the users achieve a specific goal. Stakeholders can be powerful and influential individuals.

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Bain Public

SEPTEMBER 15, 2021

Today’s most valuable companies, like Facebook, Amazon, Netflix and Google, are product-led and customer-driven. They owe their success to a unified product vision that is informed by feedback from customers, prospects, and colleagues. Be incredibly rigorous in how you approach building products.

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Userpilot

APRIL 6, 2022

Unlike the traditional marketing plans that focus on only attracting prospects, SaaS product marketing helps you stand out in the market and looks at every stage of the customer funnel. This blog post will give you insights into: What a SaaS marketing plan is. Exactly how it differs from a traditional marketing strategy.

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Imaginary Cloud - Design

SEPTEMBER 1, 2022

Whether you are an e-commerce brand, B2B company, or another type of business, your website is likely to be the first impression many potential customers get of your company. Therefore, it is essential that your website reflects the image of your brand and provides visitors with a positive and informative user experience. Why redesign?

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Modus Create

MARCH 8, 2022

” or “which features will be released to our customers and when?” In Agile, a release is a group of software features that can be developed and deployed to the users in a given period. You can become so feature-focused that you forget about the overall vision and strategy for your product’s success.

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The Product Guy

NOVEMBER 9, 2017

A research conducted by Alpha UX found that 25% of Product Manager surveyed wished for a clearer product roadmap and strategy. While salary increase is a complex subject with variables outside of our control, I believe that having a clear product roadmap and strategy is every Product Manager’s responsibility. Research article.

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Antwak Blog

APRIL 8, 2021

In the daily grind, with project groups engrossed in their specific tasks, the product owner endures the worst part of outlining the product vision. While great product owners have a natural talent & capacity to direct product vision. The person in question actually has responsibility for product vision.

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ProductPlan

FEBRUARY 17, 2022

I’ll walk you through a few strategies I’ve found work well for turning a greenfield project into a successful product. The term greenfield gets its name from the construction industry. Current user base to leverage for usage statistics and feedback. Company familiarity with the value proposition or user personas.

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PMLesson's Ace the PM Interview

DECEMBER 14, 2020

In other words, the development phases such as conception, initiation, analysis, design, construction, testing, implementation, and maintenance are all done one at a time in a downwards sequence. A product cannot be released to customers or clients if bugs aren't fixed or requirements are missing.

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UserVoice

MARCH 21, 2017

While many roles in an organization are highly measurable—salespeople hitting their quotas, customer support issue turnaround time, system uptime, etc.—there’s Having a plan and a vision, communicating it well and sticking to it. Their vision paints a picture of what the world can look like when their products have hit the market.

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UX Studio: Product Management

JUNE 23, 2020

Considered to be one of the most promising players in the market for its highly innovative value proposition, Zignaly had just raised funds and was willing to invest heavily into delivering the best possible experience to their users. . The problem. The team: a strategic collaboration.

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Folding Burritos

FEBRUARY 22, 2016

Tying everything to a strong value proposition and vision is effectively the kind of thing that produces a cohesive product. The reason is that we often fail to be constructive and pedagogic; if we don’t try to change their mindset, we’re sentencing ourselves to be thought of as “those pesky Naysayers.”. By how much?”.)

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The Product Coalition

MARCH 15, 2020

If you are “doing prioritization”, that simply means you have too much you are trying to tackle, you are wasting time trimming down those ideas, and you are probably doing this in a series of internal discussions, i.e., you are not leveraging user testing to make evidence-based decisions to drive toward more innovative solutions.

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Bain Public

NOVEMBER 4, 2020

It’s rare for me to find a company whose strategy is specific and actionable enough to prioritize product work. When faced with a laundry list of strategies filled with 5, 8 or 13 tactical goals, it can be very difficult to prioritize anything. How does one stay on top of strategy while engaging in hard and shrewd bargaining?

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Roman Pichler

JULY 11, 2016

But let the ScrumMaster or coach tackle people, process, and organisational issues; let the development team figure out what needs to be done to implement the user stories and other product backlog items. Provide constructive feedback and share your concerns. Assume that the team members want to do their best.

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PMLesson's Ace the PM Interview

JANUARY 15, 2021

Let's take a closer look: Look at the Users First and foremost, take a look at the product users. Delineate all the varying user segments that may have different needs. Then, for the purposes of your answer, choose one particular user segment. You can choose segments such as children, elderly users, or public officials.

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Bain Public

JULY 12, 2021

It's a bottom-up process; you attempt to solve a problem with the team, get a signal early and use it to construct the bigger picture. By knowing your training dataset cold, you set the vision and direction of the product. UX costs: This is for testing to see if users respond positively to machine learning (i.e.

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Roman Pichler

FEBRUARY 14, 2023

Listen to the audio version of this article: [link] 1 Complement Scrum with a Product Discovery and Strategy Process Scrum is a simple framework that helps teams develop successful products. Otherwise, you might ask the wrong people for feedback on the increments and hence draw the wrong conclusions. But don’t stop there.

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