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How to Develop, Articulate, and Sell Product Strategy

The Product Guy

First, I did not know how to frame, develop and present product strategy in a systematic way, and second, as a startup, my company has not historically had a good track record of strategy being developed outside of senior management (read: founder). Two major obstacles stood in my way.

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Defining Guidelines in Product Management

The Product Guy

How to learn by doing it and lead a new team at the same time? How to plan for future growth for oneself, the product team and the products overall? It was a mind expanding exercise and set a clear structure for me to rethink what is really the differentiation factor in our product. .

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Building an Effective Product Feedback Loop

The Product Guy

Ruthless prioritization translates to product teams spending time building the right thing at the right time. This discipline is the bread & butter for a winning product team, but building an effective product process takes a lot of trial and error. A product feedback loop keeps software teams close to their customers.

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Founders: What Are the Signs It’s Time to Evolve Your Core Customer Benefit?

The Product Coalition

Around that time, a healthy startup should have established: A solid team A great product/service with at least one core value proposition A base of loyal and highly satisfied customers Once the founder sees good traction with 50+ enterprise customers and/or thousands of users, they face a dilemma.

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The 5 Most Lethal Mistakes in Product Development

BrainMates

Developing and launching a product only to have it fail is the complete antithesis of the “Fail Fast” innovation motto. You have just invested 1000s of work hours and millions of dollars in developing & launching this product. Failure Point #3 – No clear differentiation in the market. To that, I say unequivocally NO !

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Make New Product Features Stick

The Product Guy

If a persona says no to both questions, users like her won’t care about this feature, even if you consider it your magnum opus or your product’s big differentiator. This is more likely to work for a mobile app for consumers than for a desktop application for enterprise. Sad but true. Landing pages. You may buy this ebook at [link].

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The Secrets of Highly Successful Sales People: Objection Handling

The Secret PM Handbook

There’s the monetary cost – usually substantial for an enterprise application or system. After all, a known bad (the current situation) is sometimes better than an unknown bad (a new application that doesn’t work). How do you prepare the sales team for these kinds of objections? They might postpone the decision.