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The Important Product Manager Skill That You’re Missing

The Product Manager Coach Blog

When you’re connected, you have a broader spectrum of information to draw from, allowing you to anticipate market shifts, user needs, and potential threats. By networking, you’ll get: Crowdsourced Solutions: Instead of spending hours researching, a well-placed question within your network can offer immediate answers.

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The Most Under-Appreciated Product Management Skill

ProductPlan

When interviewing customers to make sure you truly understand what they think. Crowdsourced Picks. Keeping tabs on KPIs, dealing with a demanding customer, attending standups, updating financial forecasts, and scheduling customer calls might sound like a crazy week for most people. Problem-solving. Common Threads.

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Customer needs with JTBD–and other innovation insights for product managers July 15, 2016 - The Everyday Innovator – Resources for Product Managers and Innovators

Product Innovation Educators

Defining customer needs with jobs-to-be-done theory. New product development frequently begins by having keener insights into customers’ needs than competitors do. Insights lead to innovations and increased value for customers and the organization. Read more at https://strategyn.com/2016/07/11/customer-needs-defined/.

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Product Mindset: Encouraging Ownership in a Scrum Team

The Product Coalition

In this game, the team members turn a blank, white box into a product package reflecting the value our product provides to our users. Think of the product box as a tangible elevator pitch capturing the essence of your product as a sales pitch to prospective customers. What Do We Know about our Customers? in pairs?—?the

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Business model first–and other innovation insights for product managers Aug 19, 2016 - The Everyday Innovator – Resources for Product Managers and Innovators

Product Innovation Educators

Products (wrongly) get created this way – product first, customer second, revenue third. Create the right mindset by first understanding product goals, such as increasing the number of customers or decreasing the volume of customer service inquires. build products customers want and love. Read more at [link].

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The Top 7 Product Management Software Systems You Should Know About

Bain Public

Bain Public’s experienced group of product managers reviewed the following 7 product management software systems, helping product managers with a wide variety of tasks such as product strategy and roadmapping, task management, customer feedback, user testing and much more. Roadmap and Build Products Customers Love Aha!

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Why You Need to Keep MOATs Front and Center in Your Product Roadmap Strategies

Bain Public

The reality is that your challengers are out there, and many will try to make an identical copy of your product to compete for your TAM (Total Addressable Market). Before diving right into the 11 types of MOAT, first you need to understand the three main pillars they sit under — market expansion, innovation and cost-efficiency.