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How to Use Product Goals and Initiatives to Drive and Measure Success

Userpilot

Setting smart product goals is a vital skill for any sensible SaaS owner or product manager to get right. In this article, we’re going to explore what makes an effective product goal, the difference between goals and product initiatives, how to set them and make them work with your product backlog, and more.

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10 Product Roadmapping Mistakes to Avoid

Roman Pichler

It will also limit your ability to experiment and learn, to run sprints and discover the best way to address the user and customer needs and create value for the business. You can avoid these drawbacks by using a different roadmap type: a goal-oriented or outcome-based product roadmap. I don’t think so.

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OKRs and Product Roadmaps

Roman Pichler

Below is an example of how such a product roadmap might be captured and the elements it might contain. Figure 1: The GO Product Roadmap Figure 1 shows a specific goal-oriented roadmap template I developed, the GO Product Roadmap. The fourth row lists the product’s features. and Android 14.0.

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Succeeding with Product Delivery and Scrum: 10 Tips for Product People

Roman Pichler

Listen to the audio version of this article: [link] 1 Complement Scrum with a Product Discovery and Strategy Process Scrum is a simple framework that helps teams develop successful products. Continue the discovery and strategy work while the product is being developed. But don’t stop there.

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How to Use Idea Screening for New Feature and Product Development

Userpilot

Its goal is to eliminate ideas that aren’t feasible or aligned with your business goals. By screening your ideas before investing in their development, you reduce the risk of failure and can allocate resources to initiatives that satisfy customer needs and market demand. The idea screening process starts with idea generation.

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Seven Product Backlog Mistakes to Avoid

Roman Pichler

Third and most importantly, focus the backlog on a specific product goal. Then decline and remove items that do not serve this goal, as I discuss below. The Product Backlog is Too Detailed. Looking at the backlog, I noticed that it contained only detailed user stories—no epics or other coarse-grained items.

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Product in Practice: Introducing Opportunity Solution Trees at Texthelp

Product Talk

When they read Continuous Discovery Habits , Tali says she found the methods both inspiring and practical and she started by mapping opportunity solution trees: “It raised so many questions about the business goals and the product goals. It was a great experience,” says Tali.