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Why Tools Are Not the Answer

The Product Coalition

Running a successful product organization is hard. It’s no wonder there are many tools that try to resolve this. But tools alone won’t fix anything and can do the opposite. This mostly happens with products related to the product space itself — products for product managers and product teams.

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How to Sell Your Boss on Roadmaps Without Timelines

Mind the Product

Can’t get your boss to part ways with a time-based feature roadmap? I wonder what it is about feature roadmaps that is comforting to the C-suite. For bosses, I think there’s a perceived risk in moving from a safe and predictable feature roadmap to an experiment-based lean product roadmap. And yet, there they are.

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Introducing the Bain Public SOAP™ Product Leadership Framework. A Practical Definition.

Bain Public

Most companies don’t have a clear picture of their roadmap. Bain Public’s SOAP™ methodology and tool offers a full picture of your product strategy, tactics, metrics and roadmap all in one place. It breaks product innovation in 3 steps -- Product Mission, Product Blueprint and Roadmap Pillars.

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6 Customer Fit Types and How to Use Them To Drive Customer Success

Userpilot

You can leverage customer fit to bring success by: Creating user personas based on successful customers. Communicating a relevant value proposition with accurate product positioning. Designing your pricing plans to attract good-fit customers. Implement an engagement model that fits your perfect customer.

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A Product Owner’s Role in a Product Organization

ProductPlan

This article explores the product owner role and how it fits into the broader product team. The product owner’s role. According to scrum.org, “ The Product Owner is accountable for maximizing the value of the product resulting from the work of the Scrum Team. Represent the voice of the customer.

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The Activities of a Strategic Product Manager

ProductPlan

So, how does a product manager take ownership of more than just backlog management? How can you take responsibility for the vision and shape the future of your product when you don’t control strategy at the corporate level?”. Developing a Product Strategy. Product Vision. Product Strategy.

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Team Sport: Adobe’s Approach to In-Product Guides

Gainsight

” Companies with well-built solutions are discovering when they partner with equally good and complementary products; the results are outstanding. That happened when Adobe’s top-performing Product Adoption Team combined efforts using their Audience Manager with Gainsight’s PX solution.