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Lying To Customers

Mironov Consulting

That might seem obvious or naïve, but recent conversations with several B2B/enterprise clients suggest that it’s actually controversial. For context, enterprise tech companies tend to have a small number of large deals each quarter that really matter. ( Expect account-level distrust, bad blood, and a search for who’s to blame.

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Applying Proto-Strategy to Product Management

The Product Guy

The challenge to the product managers is to translate these into a more functional plan for our engineering team. We perceive strategy from the management as the gospel – Usually the opposite, a good leadership team usually expects the individual contributors to provide iterative feedback. Testing the Proto-Strategy.

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How (Industrial) Hardware Is Different from (B2B) Software

Mironov Consulting

But product management and development processes that work well for long-lived hardware can handicap software organizations. 1] For industrial hardware, the development/design cycle is separate from the manufacturing cycle. For software products, the development and design process *is* the manufacturing process.

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The Work of a Strategist

The Product Coalition

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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9 essential sales steps you need to grow your SaaS startup

Intercom, Inc.

It is important that these friendly connections represent the target persona market you have outlined, as otherwise, the feedback loop is likely to be weak. If they don’t match the persona market, these contacts are not likely to offer constructive criticism given they may not even relate to the pain you are seeking to address.

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Your Audience’s Real Roadmap Questions

Mironov Consulting

I strongly advocate a “portfolio pie” model of prioritization, to avoid putting all of our development eggs into the feature basket. Especially in enterprise/B2B, sales teams may have only a handful of major active accounts, each carrying a lot of revenue. More here.)

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16 Product Management Tools You Don’t Want to Miss in 2020

Userpilot

User testing (UserTesting, Userfeel). This is way more efficient than relying on your already-busy dev team. You can add interactions so that other team members can see the functionality. This is also useful for testing your product before committing to a specific design. Feedback collection (Typeform, Feedier).