Bain Public

NOVEMBER 16, 2021

As a product manager, you must have the ability to create a business-viable product vision. Not only that, but this vision needs to drive and influence others to execute and deliver the components needed to build out that vision and make it a reality. Without collective discovery, pillar documentation and pre-wiring (i.e.

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Userpilot

JANUARY 16, 2024

ChatGPT can create broad multi-year roadmaps that prioritize the most critical feature requests , ideas, or improvements. Use ChatGPT to understand the motivations, goals, and frustrations of your users. Create detailed user personas and craft targeted stories for these personas. What is the annual growth rate of the market?

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The Product HQ

JUNE 10, 2024

To name a few, these activities include product development, positioning, and pricing according to customer satisfaction. So product managers require many skills, including technical, marketing, customer feedback, data management, project management, and market evaluation skills. Is the product customer-centric?

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Agile Velocity

MAY 3, 2024

Agile has been shown to shorten time-to-market, increase quality, instill predictability, improve customer satisfaction, and create an overall happier working culture. Business agility encompasses aspects such as product innovation, customer-centricity, cross-functional collaboration, and adaptive strategy execution.

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Sachin Rekhi

FEBRUARY 16, 2020

Much of the literature that defines the role as the intersection of business, technology, and user experience isn't particularly helpful for practitioners who are left wondering what skills they need to learn versus the fine people they work closely with in actual business, technology, and user experience roles.

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Userpilot

JANUARY 22, 2024

The framework is a roadmap for creating a winning product marketing strategy that drives effective resource allocation and provides a flexible foundation for growth. Finally, your growth strategy should identify all essential tools, allow for task automation, and define a strategy for improving the customer’s lifetime value.

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The Product Coalition

SEPTEMBER 29, 2022

Write up questions, assumptions, directions for a vision. Capture their vision If the outgoing product manager has a roadmap and vision, great. At first, they had more passion, a bolder vision. Get written resources Ask for documents sent now. Do a brainstorm with yourself. Not sure where to start?

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The Product Coalition

AUGUST 28, 2023

It helps us meet customers’ demands, needs, and expectations. Planning Before beginning with the planning — also called the feasibility stage, you should understand your product, target users’ needs, customers’ demands, and of course SDLC. Good product and customer satisfaction come through from a great analysis phase.

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ProductPlan

FEBRUARY 8, 2022

Product management owns the product roadmap, and their most important stakeholder is the product’s users/customers. The bread and butter product management tasks are prioritizing , evolving product strategy , and managing the product roadmap. How does the use of the product solve their pain point?

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Userpilot

SEPTEMBER 29, 2023

designing screens, writing code, running tests), product management is a broader concept that encompasses strategy , vision, and product-market fit. This could be a relatively low-fidelity prototype or a fully working MVP with just enough functionality to add some value to your users. Step four is building a minimum viable product.

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ProductPlan

NOVEMBER 11, 2019

There are many ways to build a roadmap and many types of roadmaps you can make. Roadmaps for sales and marketing tout new functionality and minimize the time spent on technical debt and scalability. Roadmaps for sales and marketing tout new functionality and minimize the time spent on technical debt and scalability.

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Mind the Product

APRIL 6, 2020

Product (and company) strategy is the backbone that guides product goal-setting and roadmap definition, although it’s sometimes overlooked or confused with having a vision. Product roadmaps are essential tools for assessing opportunities and defining how we accomplish our objectives. The Approach (the Frameworks).

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Gainsight

MAY 14, 2019

A product roadmap is a high-level, visual representation of the direction your product offering will take over time. A good product roadmap will provide your colleagues and stakeholders with the “why” behind your product and should serve the following purposes: Lay out the overarching strategy. Executive-level product roadmaps.

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Userpilot

JULY 20, 2022

It also outlines its stages, looks at the House of Quality, and how to make sure the Voice of your Customers is heard. Quality Function Deployment (QDF) is a framework that helps teams translate customer requirements into technical requirements, and design the product and processes needed for its development. Are you ready?

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Userpilot

AUGUST 13, 2023

A product prioritization framework helps you maximize customer value and deliver the best ROI by encouraging methodical examination of data before making decisions. Customer requests aren’t enough to make product decisions. Validate them with data from other sources, like analytics or insights from customer-facing teams.

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Userpilot

JUNE 29, 2022

Customers are more likely to remember your product if you tell them a compelling story. But as a product manager , creating a story that will capture a customer’s attention might not be in your wheelhouse. Your ideal customer, known as your buyer persona, is the hero of any good product story. Explain the product vision.

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Userpilot

JULY 18, 2023

TL;DR Product strategy tools assist product teams in defining, creating, and executing product strategies aligned with business objectives and user needs. Roadmapping software visualizes and plans product development over time, facilitating coordination and alignment across teams. More importantly, it helps launch already strong MVPs.

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Usersnap

OCTOBER 31, 2023

Imagine stepping into the world of product management with a product vision, secret formula and one particular feature that the industry’s luminaries use to transform raw ideas into gold consistently. Some PMs may opt for detailed paragraphs, while others favour brevity with one or two sentences to capture user will.

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ProductPlan

SEPTEMBER 2, 2022

For our ProductPlan customers, if you have questions about our pricing plans or want to see a demo, you can reach out to your Customer Success Manager, or you can schedule a demo here. Disclaimer: These are all actual statements our customers made when we spoke to them about their launch process! Of course, it’s a mess.

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Mind the Product

APRIL 16, 2020

We then identified and quantified the pain points around this core job to get our first cut and roadmap (see the process I’ve since developed here ). We validated the pain points using focus groups and user interviews, and we quantified them using a survey.

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Userpilot

NOVEMBER 14, 2022

Product planning focuses on the customer and business outcomes that the product should achieve. Product planning improves the alignment of teams and internal stakeholders with the product vision. Determine the problem you are going to solve for your target customers. Helps build products that answer user’s needs.

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The Product Coalition

OCTOBER 22, 2018

Brilliant meeting so many new people and catching up with so many Receptive customers too. It was called: F Customer Feedback Video will be available soon too. F Customer Feedback Hello, I’m Hannah Chaplin the CEO at Receptive. However, customer feedback is actually a huge opportunity for your business. It matters.

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Gainsight

JANUARY 17, 2020

When you’re trying to deliver an exceptional product, it’s easy to get lost in the constant deluge of customer feedback. Your users are likely communicating with your company through multiple channels and it can seem like feedback gets lost in a black hole. How do you work with your customer-facing teams to gather feedback?

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Usersnap

APRIL 29, 2023

From staying on top of market trends, user needs, customer feedback , and industry insights to managing their resources, and planning what’s ahead for their product. Heyday is a chatbot for e-commerce websites that takes care of responding to customers in sales and support situations.

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Userpilot

AUGUST 30, 2023

It’s 2023, and customers have options. This includes product managers , marketing managers , customer success managers , and anyone else who wants to learn how to attract more users, improve the user experience, and increase product adoption. But how do you do that? Product management and leadership speakers.

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Mind the Product

FEBRUARY 12, 2020

They’ll go off with their designers and come up with a grand vision to toss over the wall to the engineers for implementation. Building great products is a collaborative process that works well if everyone agrees on the product vision and strategy. Include Engineers in Product Decisions. So, leave them the freedom to do their job.

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Bain Public

JANUARY 11, 2022

Let’s face it, most organizations have poor habits around roadmap completion — this is why getting leadership (or stakeholders) to develop consistent, stable and familiar routines reinforced through repetition and communication is valuable. Do you validate the pain point and place it in a parking lot for triage?

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The Product HQ

FEBRUARY 1, 2023

Product managers are responsible for establishing a product’s vision and long-term business strategy while ensuring that all stakeholders are aware of said strategy. This includes the development and review of the product roadmap to guide the product team toward achieving the company’s objectives. Then look no further.

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The Product Coalition

DECEMBER 21, 2018

The Customer is NOT Always Right A transcript of my talk at SaaS North, Ottawa, 2018 Hi everyone, I’m Hannah Chaplin, the CEO at Receptive. In all the years I’ve been involved in producing software and SaaS products, customer feedback is still a really hot topic and one on which you still see lot of conflicting advice?

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PMLesson's Ace the PM Interview

FEBRUARY 7, 2022

Talk to Users & Customers ?? Your First 30, 60, 90 Days as a PM Checklist Common Mistakes Made in Early Days as a PM Talk to Users & Customers: Understand Their Pain Points Abstract by Oleg Shcherba Your first order of business as a new product manager should be talking to customers!

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Userpilot

JANUARY 17, 2024

If you do not scale, you will be unable to reach a new pool of customers and your competitors will leave you in the dust. If you scale prematurely, you may struggle to satisfy customer expectations. Scaling involves finding the right timing, understanding customer psychology, and making critical decisions to drive product-led growth.

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The Product HQ

MAY 10, 2024

More and more products are using more complex forms of technology to provide value to their customers. As professionals who work in such a technology-driven field, technical product managers need to understand the technical intricacies of the product vision they are managing. That’s much more powerful than one line on a resume.

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The Product Coalition

MAY 22, 2019

What products do we own and what business value do we provide either to the end users or internal customers? The direction and vision of the team answers: Where are we going? What pain points will we be solving in X years? At Square, many teams use the JTBD framework to gather and identify customer needs.

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ProductPlan

JULY 1, 2021

That includes employees across the company, as well as strategic partners and even customers. They also possess the institutional knowledge and expertise to anticipate friction points in advance thus minimizing potential damage via education and well-documented processes. Define and articulate a vision.

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The Product HQ

APRIL 20, 2024

This stage requires a high level of empathy from product leaders to identify the challenges that their users face as well as possible, lucrative solutions that work despite the complexities of their customer segment and market. Be sure to document the activities you carry out to help you prove the work you do to a potential recruiter.

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ProductPlan

AUGUST 23, 2022

No matter how you define product management, customers should always be at the center of things. Product managers try to solve customer problems, address customer pain points, add value for customers, etc. Empathy in product management spans wider than seeing which buttons customers click.

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Userpilot

JULY 17, 2023

The responsibilities of product teams include facilitating product discovery , launches and releases , customer onboarding , feature adoption, and account expansion. Another way to structure teams is by customer journey stage , where a different team is responsible for one stage, like adoption. Product Team Roles.

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