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A Tale of Two Roadmaps?—?And Why You Can’t Succeed With Only One

The Product Coalition

The first was a precise set of tasks, milestones, and deliverables for the diligent civil servants tasked with building — the engineers, designers, and product managers. In the product team’s, err, I mean civil servants’ headquarters, the roadmap was a living document, evolving like a dynamic organism.

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Why Product Request SLAs Fail

Mironov Consulting

” GTM leaders typically ascribe this situation to lack of attention, poor work ethic, or weak understanding of customers on the part of product management – i.e. personal failures best addressed by replacing or upgrading product staff.  Or They often propose grading product managers on answering tickets.  This

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To MRD or not to MRD.

The Product Bistro

In the way back time, before Agile, before OKRs and other fads, product managers wrote MRDs, or Market Requirement Documents. This was the artifact the began the process of developing a new product, or a variant of a product. A recent project, a complete re-do of one of our flagship products was needed.

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Top 5 Observational Research Best Practices

BrainMates

When building a metadata platform, designed to power a new media business, a series of customer interviews with the content producers were conducted to understand the workflow and develop a solution more effective than the existing patchwork of tools. Comparing sessions often provides insights not gleaned by reviewing in isolation.

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Setting a UX Budget? Answer These 6 Questions First.

UX Planet

So, how do you ensure that UX gets its due in terms of investment? How do you plan to set aside a budget to enhance product performance and user satisfaction? According to the NN group, UX maturity measures an organization’s desire and ability to successfully deliver user-centered design.

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Building Relationships with Other Team Leaders

UserVoice

One of the most challenging things about being a good Product Manager is the fact that we are often charged with the responsibility of making things happen without having any direct authority to “make” them happen. Conclusion.

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Product Manager: Seeking Help

The Product Guy

This article highlights a few ways to increase clarity and provide better role definition between a manager and a direct report as it pertains to daily situations involving escalations, blockers, and air cover. Given the split responsibility between manager and direct report, alignment and effective communication in these situations is key.