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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

You can avoid these drawbacks by using a different roadmap type: a goal-oriented or outcome-based product roadmap. As its name suggests, this roadmap focuses on product goals and outcomes, such as acquiring customers, increasing engagement, and future-proofing the product by removing technical debt.

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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. Tali’s team now has a FigJam document that contains five trees.

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Product Teams in Scrum

Roman Pichler

This team consists of a product owner , a Scrum Master , and several developers, which are also known as development team. Forming such a team connects the person in charge of the product—the product owner—with the people who design, architect, program, test, and document the solution—the developers.

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Five Product Owner Myths Busted

Roman Pichler

As the product owner, it’s your responsibility that the work required to progress the product and reach the (next) product goal is adequately captured in the product backlog. Myth #5: It’s the product owner’s job to get the project delivered.

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How and When to Use Timeboxes, Iterations, and Sprints to be Most Effective

Johanna Rothman

” and pointed to a phase-gate approach with documentation deliverables after each phase. Every sprint delivers working product.” ” He said, “We'll deliver documents after each phase.” ” I said, “No, documents are not real deliverables. It's not a long document.

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Goal-Question-Metrics: A Holistic Alternative to Objectives and Key Results

The Product Coalition

Goal-Question-Metrics (GQMs): A Holistic Alternative to Objectives and Key Results (OKRs) GQM’s approach is to ask wide-ranging questions about a Goal. GQM Use in Ancient Times On a recent product requirements document, I laid out measures of success using an old favorite: Goal-Question-Metric (GQM).