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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

It will also limit your ability to experiment and learn, to run sprints and discover the best way to address the user and customer needs and create value for the business. You can avoid these drawbacks by using a different roadmap type: a goal-oriented or outcome-based product roadmap. I don’t think so.

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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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Setting a UX Budget? Answer These 6 Questions First.

UX Planet

Even if UX work seems fine at your organization, know that there are still some things to set a budget for, like improving the product’s creation process, or your customers’ and usersexperiences. Have you defined your short-term and long-term product goals? The aim is to expand our user base.”

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Five Product Owner Myths Busted

Roman Pichler

Myth #3: The product owner is responsible for the team performance. An agile development team does a good job if the memebers can reliably meet the agreed goals and create software that offers a great user experience and exhibit the desired quality. Myth #5: It’s the product owner’s job to get the project delivered.

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Technical Debt and Product Success

Roman Pichler

As the person in charge of the product, you may not be terribly concerned about how clean and well-structured the code is. The messier the code and the less modular the architecture is, the longer it takes and the more expensive it is to change your product. You can do this by adding tech debt remedial items to the product backlog.

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Friction Log in SaaS: Step-by-Step Guide For Product Managers

Userpilot

A friction log is a document capturing the challenges and frustrations a customer might face using your SaaS. Product friction describes anything that causes your users difficulty. Function friction is primarily about users being blocked from reaching their product goals because of an error, poor UX, or other factors.