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Successful Roadmaps Avoid One Thing: Drift

The Product Coalition

Product managers and their teams start with enthusiasm, hit the ground running, and create a solid roadmap. It was time to reset and reinvest in our strategy and roadmap. The same is true for your roadmap — it takes more than diligence. And if your vision and strategy are no longer working, revisit and revise them.

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Intercom on Product: Accelerating your strategy after COVID-19

Intercom, Inc.

And so, now’s the time to start thinking about accelerating our business strategies and grabbing the opportunities it brings. That’s the advice of the Sequoia team in their last memo, “ COVID Accelerated the Future, Now Seize It ,” and for the last couple of months, that’s certainly been on the top of our minds here at Intercom.

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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? It also helps in saving on directionless development costs. A product roadmap is a guiding document that details how your product strategy is to be transformed into a reality. It entirely depends on the number and size of features and development deadlines.

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Are you Solving Customer Problems or Just Building Features?

ProductPlan

Where are product teams getting their feature ideas? Most concerningly, 19% of respondents reported that their top source of ideas comes from senior management, who are often disconnected from both customers and the product development process. Why do product teams become feature factories?

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Product Model, Service Models, and Investor Valuations

Mironov Consulting

 But when I do product due diligence for SaaS-focused PE/VC firms, it's the very first thing I look at.  Let’s IMHO, software product companies are fundamentally different from software services/outsourcing/custom development companies.  Said   What BigCorp demands, BigCorp gets.  Hitting

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When You Need an Interim CFO vs. a Part-time CFO

The Product Coalition

But, you do need some level of financial help from an expert, someone who can cast a trained eye on your cash flow, margins, key performance indicators, and overall profit picture while you concentrate on your team, your products, and your strategies for growth.

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Product Management System Basics

ProductPlan

Who will we want to include in our cross-functional product team? How should we arrange the strategy, brainstorming, and planning meetings for this team? Where will we capture, maintain, and communicate our product strategy? What mechanism will we use to review and weigh priorities on what to build? Other methods?