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Product Launch Checklist: A Step-By-Step Guide [+ Top Tips]

Userpilot

Do you even need a product launch checklist? More importantly, you will find here 2 different checklists: one for new products and the other for updates or feature releases. We also share some best practices for product managers on how to pull off a successful product launch. Let’s get right into it!

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How To Prevent Common Mistakes In Product Development

BrainMates

In Product Development. Product development can be a difficult process to get right. Not all products are created equal, and an alarmingly high number of products produced will fail. In fact, around 40% of the products launched by organisations fail to meet their intended objectives.

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How to evolve product launches as you grow

Intercom, Inc.

As a product-first company, new product launches are a core part of Intercom’s DNA – which means there’s always an abundance of juicy launches for us product marketers to work on. Given our cadence of launches and updates, we’ve developed a pretty well-oiled launch machine over the past few years.

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How bad Ideas get on the Roadmap

Mind the Product

So how do we all get to that point where we have caveats against multiple items on the product roadmap – and more importantly what do we do to mitigate it? Managing the “Shadow Product Team”. However it’s a problem when those disruptions become more frequent or the product team loses control of the strategy.

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Feature Death, Next Feature Fallacy & The Build Trap – Why Nobody is Using Your Product & What to Do About It

Userpilot

The myth of the ‘killer feature’ and believing that all your product problems can be fixed with more features (or the ‘one big thing’) leads to the so-called ‘Build Trap’. The Build Trap leads to spending more and more of your development resources on building and maintaining new features, rather than improving UX and feature adoption.

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Overengineering 101: What Is It and How Can Product Managers Avoid It?

Userpilot

Developing and releasing sophisticated products with all the bells and whistles imaginable might seem like a great idea. After all, you want your newly released software to be as good as it gets when it’s finally launched, right? Poor prioritization and external pressure are also common causes. Book the demo!

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The Complete List of Product Manager Interview Questions: 20+ Essential Queries

Userpilot

Because of the fast-paced nature of tech companies, the ability to solve problems quickly and think on your feet is a crucial skill for product managers to have. Product managers often work in cross-functional teams and bridge the gap between multiple departments. Product sense. How to set a product strategy?