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The Cost of a Bad Product Strategy

ProductPlan

But for every success story, there’s a graveyard of failed products laid low by bad product strategies. A bad strategy is hard to overcome. What Does a Bad Product Strategy Look Like? What Does a Bad Product Strategy Look Like? If there was a simple test for bad product strategy most companies would happily use it.

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5 Costly Branding Mistakes

UX Planet

The last thing you need is to stumble into the abyss of bad branding, a place where countless others have lost their way. Market research for startup branding can be perceived as an unnecessary expense, especially when compared to product development or marketing activities that seem more directly linked to revenue generation.

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How Product Roadmaps Kill Outcomes [Dave Martin]

Userpilot

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. Many companies lack differentiation strategies and drive product development by copying competitors.

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New Feature Validation Framework For Product Managers

Userpilot

Without validating features, it’s easy to create products that aren’t aligned with their vision or are difficult to differentiate. Developing features without validation results in bloated products and unnecessarily drives the cost of development up. Product teams should invest in validation when developing the MVP.

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

Userpilot

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. Develop a product that meets customer needs and expectations. To evaluate your in-app messages, use flow analytics.

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The Lean Product Playbook Summary?—?achieving Product-Market Fit in 6 steps

The Product Coalition

You can develop hypotheses about your target market, but you won’t truly know who your customers are until you throw your hook into the water and see what kind of fish bite. It’s better to differentiate 1–3 different personas than one based on “average”. We also differentiate ourselves by pursuing a different set of delighters.

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Product Analytics Guide for SaaS Products

Userpilot

We finish with an overview of product analytics tools that your team can benefit from. Product analytics are used not only by the product team but also by the customer success and the marketing team, as well as UX designers and devs. As a result, product teams are able to make quicker decisions.