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Product Differentiation in SaaS: How to Make a Difference as a Product Manager

Userpilot

What’s product differentiation? What differentiation strategies can a product manager use to make the product stand out in a saturated market? Product differentiation is about highlighting the features of your product that make it stand out on the market. Mixed differentiation uses both objective and subjective criteria.

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Reading list: Analyzing great product teams

Intercom, Inc.

After all, excellent design and engineering can only come from product teams that are empowered to solve hard problems and build great software. In our model, product teams effectively own a piece of the product, and consist of a Product Manager, Designer, and a few Product Engineers. Alignment on great product teams.

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Why Market Leadership Starts With Product Management

Product Management University

Building a Market-Facing Product Management Discipline The definition of “market” has more than its share of ambiguities. Pepper in some competitive differentiation. Product Design & Engineering Let’s not forget about product design and engineering. To some product managers, market is synonymous with users.

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6 Ways to Improve Your Product Experience

Alchemer Mobile

A good product experience is the primary driver behind product differentiation and ultimately, lasting customer satisfaction (measured through CSAT and NPS ) and loyalty. Beforehand, make sure your team is aligned on: Their definition of product experience. After you’ve socialized your ideas, it’s time to set time for a formal kickoff.

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How AI will impact product management

Lenny Rachitsky

Furthermore, soft skills like product sense, communication, creativity, and being the glue that enables a team to operate at their very best will become even more important (and a differentiator among companies). It’s actually already happening in engineering (check out Devin and Magic ). Think about it—what is AI best at?

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Product Management in 2021: Skills That Will Matter

NextBigWhat

Note that the core product management skills, i.e.empathy, customer centricity continues to be the important elements of the PM role, but in order to avoid yada yada gyaawn, let’s focus on the actionable new skills which will truly differentiate the great product managers from average ones, given the tailwinds. A lot of it.

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Technical Debt vs Product Managers

Ask Benny

While it is definitely a feasible and reasonable solution it is far from perfect and has some disadvantages, as I will try to depict below. If you would have built it the right way, you would have wasted expensive resources on engineering problems instead of discovering how to come with a differentiative solution.