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Product Idea Validation: 6 Steps for Ensuring Successful Products

Userpilot

Product idea validation is essential to avoid spending too many resources on a product that fails because nobody needs it. First, you need to clearly define the product goals, the problems it solves, and its alignment with the organization’s business goals. Some questions to answer include: What is the product?

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Adaptive Mindset ‘Hats’ Your Product Manager Wears

BrainMates

Adaptive Mindset 'Hats' Your Product Manager Wears By DAVID ALLSOPP No matter the product, industry or company size, successful Product Managers must wear various ‘hats’ on any given day to make all the pieces of the puzzle fit together. The Product Management profession itself is still relatively new.

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Making Effective Product Decisions: Tips for Deciding with Stakeholders and Dev Teams

Roman Pichler

In practical terms, involve stakeholders and dev teams in decisions that affect the product strategy and the product roadmap —be it that you create the plans or that you make bigger changes to them. Additionally, include the development team members in product backlog decisions , and always choose sprint goals together.

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Overengineering 101: What Is It and How Can Product Managers Avoid It?

Userpilot

Use opportunity solutions trees to align the problems you try to solve with product goals. Poor communication: even if you nail your product goals , make sure to communicate them clearly to the development team. This eventually leads to product failure, and in the case of smaller startups – business failure.

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The Roadmap Battle Royale

The Product Coalition

Battleground The product roadmap. It’s a battle royale to keep your product on plan, on course, and on time while many other interested parties push to get their needs prioritized above others. If you’re new to product management you might not own a roadmap. Are you aligned to the goals of the company strategy?

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How we failed our first OKR cycle and why we do virtual teams now

The Product Coalition

Of course, we made mistakes, learned, and iterated, as all startups do. Lesson 1: Don’t define OKRs without teams input It now sounds very stupid, but after 1 month into the cycle, we realized that most of the teams needed tech and product help to achieve their objectives. Here is how it all went. OKR cycle 1 So, we are doing OKRs!

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Making Effective Product Decisions: Tips for Deciding with Stakeholders and Dev Teams

Roman Pichler

In practical terms, involve stakeholders and dev teams in decisions that affect the product strategy and the product roadmap —be it that you create the plans or that you make bigger changes to them. Additionally, include the development team members in product backlog decisions , and always choose sprint goals together.