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Beyond the Book: Navigating the Real-World Challenges of Managing a Product Roadmap

The Product Coalition

Kris Gale As a wise man once said, no roadmap survives contact with reality. Firefighting while staying on course on the strategy and commitments of the roadmap is difficult. Like a forest never cleaned, filled with leaves, debris, and branches catches fire quickly, managing a roadmap left to rot is challenging.

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Key Best Practices for Using Customer Feedback

Folding Burritos

As Product Managers, we perfectly understand the need to generate and use customer feedback. This led me to reach out to 14 leading Product Managers and talk with them about how they use customer feedback in their own companies and teams. Feedback is only relevant vs. a goal and user context.

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Defining Guidelines in Product Management

The Product Guy

Becoming a product person seems to be easier with access to clear guidelines. In one of the earlier sessions with my mentor, we spent a lot of time talking through the business model, various groups in the organization, their responsibilities, engagement model and what the customer experience is at the end of the day.

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Avoid ‘Product’ Ground Hog Day: Unlocking Success When Crafting an Outcome-Driven Roadmap

The Product Coalition

This was the third conversation we were having about the product, an app that served our own company along with external customers. And we all know that internal customers take more work to manage. But I also recognized it was a significant change for stakeholders and customers. So, what is an outcome-oriented roadmap?

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Key Best Practices for Using Customer Feedback

Folding Burritos

As Product Managers, we perfectly understand the need to generate and use customer feedback. This led me to reach out to 14 leading Product Managers and talk with them about how they use customer feedback in their own companies and teams. Feedback is only relevant vs. a goal and user context.

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UX Strategy: Step-By-Step Guide for SaaS Companies

Userpilot

TL;DR UX strategy provides guidance to the UX design team on how to create and improve experiences that satisfy user needs. Such a strategy helps the team put themselves in the shoes of the users, better understand their needs and pain points , and make the user experience consistently good at all stages of the user journey.

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The Power of Product Lifecycle Management: Steering Product Roadmaps to Success

The Product Coalition

If your customer base ages with you, you’re Woolworth’s.” — Jeff Bezos Ever question the value of a product development lifecycle? roadmaps?” Executing a product roadmap requires more. It is then launched and made available to customers, growing and changing (larva/caterpillar) until it’s ready to scale (pupa/chrysalis).