BrainMates

NOVEMBER 3, 2022

In Product Development. Product development can be a difficult process to get right. This happens because something goes wrong in the product development process somewhere between having that great idea and launching the end product into the market. No Clear Differentiation In Market. Poor Design & Execution.

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Userpilot

NOVEMBER 30, 2023

How do product managers identify market gaps? A market gap can be caused by missing functionality or poor user experience. Canva identified a market need for a user-friendly graphic design tool for non-designers and DocuSign for a secure solution to sign and manage digital documents and contracts. Let’s get into it!

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Roman Pichler

AUGUST 15, 2023

Take PowerPoint and Slides to stay with the previous examples. What are the benefits the product should generate for the company developing and providing it? It consequently fails to align everyone involved in developing and providing the product. Competition: Is your product still sufficiently differentiated ?

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Userpilot

SEPTEMBER 14, 2023

What customer discovery questions should product managers ask to accurately identify the unsatisfied needs of potential customers and validate ideas? TL;DR Customer discovery questions enable product teams to better understand customer needs and problems so that they can build products that the potential customer truly needs.

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Userpilot

JANUARY 29, 2023

Why do product managers need a new feature validation framework? TL;DR Product managers need a new feature validation framework to ensure that they meet user needs or drive organizational goals and avert product failure. Product teams should invest in validation when developing the MVP. How can you build one?

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Modus Create

MAY 28, 2024

In our Conversations with Chief Innovators series, Larry explains that business leaders are concerned because AI “exhibits behaviors we might label as bad in humans.” Top considerations for developing an AI strategy AI initiatives are not one-size-fits-all—yours should be tailored to organizational needs and strategic goals.

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Userpilot

DECEMBER 13, 2023

How do you develop a robust UX strategy? We also look at: What a UX design strategy is Why it’s important Its core principles and elements A practical example of a company with well-established UX strategies Let’s dive right in! The strategy should also have information about the UX team, processes, and guidelines.

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Johanna Rothman

MARCH 18, 2024

That's why Part 1 of this series discusses your value and what managers want and need. That part discusses why managers see agile coaches and Scrum Masters as staff positions, not line jobs. I assume you have some sort of functional product development expertise. If not, why are you in technical product development?

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The Product Coalition

AUGUST 23, 2023

By the look on the face of the product manager asking me, she didn’t want a canned answer; she was looking for a reason to believe, to rekindle her energy. A purpose we could share with the company’s leadership team, customers, and those working on the product. To grow our customer base and market share? A purpose we believed in.

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Userpilot

NOVEMBER 23, 2023

Why do product managers need them? TL;DR Regular roadmaps kill outcomes by forcing teams to think in the categories of features and timelines. It’s difficult to implement outcome-based roadmaps because stakeholders don’t trust product teams to deliver on business goals. A roadmap example. Ready to dive in to learn more?

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The Product Coalition

OCTOBER 13, 2022

If only books on product management had labels that say “pre-PMF” or “post-PMF”. Poor questions yield little value. ?? It gives you a way to identify your value propositions to differentiate. ??????????? It’s full of examples. ?? Time goes by, runway decreases. Eventually they run out of cash and shut down.

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The Product Coalition

MARCH 7, 2023

How to prepare for a user interview, all the way to sharing the results with your team. Many companies expect product managers, designers and other roles to be able to deliver good user interviews, but the training is often by trial-and-error. Being good at user interviews is not equal to simply listening to your users.

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ProductPlan

AUGUST 4, 2020

If you’re a product manager or part of a startup, you’ve likely heard about the Minimum Viable Product concept for getting products to market faster. In my opinion, the definition of an MVP is often misunderstood, and I’ve seen entrepreneurs and product teams misinterpret it with unfortunate results. And what it’s not.

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Roman Pichler

APRIL 3, 2018

At the same time, it offers you, the person in charge of the product, the necessary context to make the right strategic product decisions, for example, the market your product should serve and the business goals it should meet. Which management systems are required? The answer is simple in my mind: executive management.

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Userpilot

OCTOBER 21, 2022

Why would you care about MVE as a product manager ? Minimum viable features are the set of product characteristics that you need to develop to satisfy a user's need. The development of the MVP and MVE should happen at the same time. Developing one is not possible without the other. Got your seat belt on?

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Mironov Consulting

AUGUST 29, 2023

 Renting (licensing) means we can put more of our own effort into market differentiators. We want to invest our always-scarce development efforts in work that truly matters to our customers, or where only we can do what’s necessary.  So " and "is that a legitimate software update?" " issues.  CRMs

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The Product Coalition

JUNE 9, 2023

Everyone knows educating the market is hard to nearly impossible, but people always bring up examples like Facebook or the iPhone whenever I discuss it in my lectures. Photo by Oleg Magni from Pexels Educating the market has a bad reputation, and rightfully so. So what can and cannot work when you want to educate the market?

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Userpilot

MARCH 27, 2023

How can product analytics help product managers create better digital products and more satisfying user experiences? We finish with an overview of product analytics tools that your team can benefit from. We finish with an overview of product analytics tools that your team can benefit from. Let’s get right to it.

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DISQO

JUNE 30, 2017

When we surveyed 140 product managers, 1 in 2 said that their C-suite has direct input for what goes on the roadmap. Input from executives is only less common than input from product owners, engineering teams, and the product managers themselves. Meanwhile, input from customers lies towards the bottom of the list.

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Usersnap

DECEMBER 19, 2023

Ever wondered why the humble 1 to 5 rating point scale is the secret weapon of Product Managers (PMs)? TL;DR The article underscores the importance of 1 to 5 rating scale surveys & how it has helped me in my PM journey, exploring their simplicity, versatility, and impact on user-centric product development. Satisfaction Scale 2.

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Userpilot

NOVEMBER 21, 2023

We also share some best practices for product managers on how to pull off a successful product launch. Product launch checklists help align the efforts of all team members, enhance quality assurance, help mitigate risks, enable the evaluation of the launch, and help you deliver a better customer experience.

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Userpilot

JUNE 20, 2023

As a product manager, how can you effectively validate ideas and build a successful product that delights users? TL;DR Product idea validation is a process during which product teams test and tweak the product concept to ensure it satisfies a real market need. Why is product idea validation important? Let’s get straight into it!

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The Product Coalition

MARCH 10, 2023

These slogans are examples of hyperbole designed to boost the brand power of product businesses. Define outcomes in the terms of goals and/or objectives and/or key results, so product teams can clearly understand where to put their focus when they build specific features [outputs].” “To Outputs aren’t bad. ⚫ Outputs are timely.

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The Product Coalition

JANUARY 16, 2022

Understand Your Core Values The product roadmap in a product company (as opposed to a services company, for example) sets the strategic direction of everything going on. Naturally, this means that it needs to address aspects that are not necessarily within your direct control as the manager of the product department.

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The Product Coalition

SEPTEMBER 2, 2022

The leadership team finally agreed on the vision. Clarity enables the team to translate the choices into a functional product that creates value. So as you make choices, package the strategy into a document, and share it with the product team, keep four words in mind?—?a A yes with a weak how or a no receives a zero.

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Userpilot

AUGUST 31, 2023

You will have to install a code snippet in the header of your website or use Google Tag Manager to record the event on all pages. Other than that, to track custom events in GA4 – those that are not in the auto-collected list, you need to define events and set trigger conditions in Google Tag Manager. Cohort Exploration in GA4.

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The Product Coalition

MARCH 23, 2022

I apply this lens to a startup that develops solutions in the health-tech market. Microsoft, for example, depends on manufacturers (Dell/HP) and retailers (Best buy) to sell its software. How do you, for example, address a support call at 2 AM in the night because the market requires a mission-critical response?

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DISQO

JUNE 30, 2017

When we surveyed 140 product managers, 1 in 2 said that their C-suite has direct input for what goes on the roadmap. Input from executives is only less common than input from product owners, engineering teams, and the product managers themselves. Meanwhile, input from customers lies towards the bottom of the list.

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DISQO

JUNE 30, 2017

When we surveyed 140 product managers, 1 in 2 said that their C-suite has direct input for what goes on the roadmap. Input from executives is only less common than input from product owners, engineering teams, and the product managers themselves. Meanwhile, input from customers lies towards the bottom of the list.

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Userpilot

FEBRUARY 10, 2023

Actually, there are multiple types of personas for different teams, levels of research, and use cases—which you need to understand if you want to connect with customers. So let’s cover each of them and see what you can do to improve your team’s effectiveness. What is a persona?

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Mind the Product

APRIL 18, 2019

The rollercoaster ride that is product development is inherently chaotic and ever-changing. So, as process-oriented professionals, we product managers look to the structure and predictability of a scientific approach for certainty. The desired outcomes and how to guide the team towards them.

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The Product Coalition

OCTOBER 9, 2023

Berlyne As product managers, we have all enthusiastically dived into customer feedback, hoping to find insights that will take our product game to the next level. In this article, I will delve into the real-life examples and common challenges with each of those layers, as well as how to overcome those challenges.

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Mixpanel

JANUARY 3, 2022

Engineers are always looking for ways to differentiate themselves. As data-driven product development continues to balloon in popularity, so does the need for accurate and sophisticated implementation of analytics tracking in software products. Here’s just one example in a SwiftUI app. You’d be celebrated.

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The Product Coalition

FEBRUARY 22, 2021

As Sims & Johnson point out in their book The Elements of Scrum , Winston Royce described Waterfall as early as 1970, noting that it was an example of how not to do things. Consider how often the prevailing management culture is to apply undue pressure and emphasis upon deadlines as if they are the sole objective of work.

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The Product Coalition

JANUARY 4, 2021

Everyone knows educating the market is hard to nearly impossible, but people always bring up examples like Facebook or the iPhone whenever I discuss it in my lectures. Photo by Oleg Magni from Pexels Educating the market has a bad reputation. For example, if the solution is a car, then the variety of cars out there are the products.

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People-First Product Leadership

DECEMBER 4, 2023

Throughout the post, I provide practical tips and steps for developing these strategic elements, setting the foundation for further strategic planning. Identify their strengths, weaknesses, opportunities and threats (SWOT). Use this insight to differentiate your organization from others in the space.

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Usersnap

OCTOBER 3, 2023

In the competitive landscape of product management, prioritizing user satisfaction and engagement is pivotal. Quantifying user interactions and analyzing engagement provide insights necessary for informed decisions, enhanced competitiveness, and superior product development. How to use the HEART Framework – Practical Examples 1.

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