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The Critical Role of Product Strategy When Money Is Scarce (Part 1?—?Seed)

The Product Coalition

The Critical Role of Product Strategy When Money Is Scarce (Part 1 — Seed) A good product strategy is something every company needs. Here is how a product strategy can help you create business results, even when the market is not in your favor. Product strategy is such a vague term for most people.

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6 Ways to Stay Focused When Working From Home

The Product Coalition

One of my best tips for doing deep product work used to be to work from home. It was a countermeasure to the popular symptom of product managers doing their real work?—?market market research, customer insights, backlog grooming, etc.?—?when Working on the product strategy” is way too vague.

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Strategic Debt Is the Silent Killer of Startups

The Product Coalition

With everything you have to do every day, it is so easy to neglect strategy. But much like code, your product strategy also requires maintenance. So they do all sorts of validations and deep analysis processes: market research, business plan, competitive analysis, and so on. And guess what?

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Do Your Customers Really Want to Pay Less?

The Product Coalition

As a good product-leader-to-be (although I didn’t know it at the time), I asked them why did they want to do it, and then performed market research to understand the problem better. In one of my early career roles, I was brought into the company as a development team leader with a very specific task they wanted me to lead.

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Top 45 Product Marketing Manager Interview Questions

PMLesson's Ace the PM Interview

Had B&N marketed the nook more creatively, I believe it could have been successful. It was an Android tablet at its core and failed to highlight its capabilities beyond reading ebooks. Be aggressive with marketing. The product was only advertised in storefronts and did little to compete in the online space.

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Your Ultimate Guide To Successful Usability Testing

UX Studio: Product Management

Ideally, the product team has already passed that. In such cases, professional market research may work better for starters. The basic answer: any and every time during the product cycle. Something can always improve the product, so don’t forget the lean UX cycle: think, make, check. Download our free ebook now!

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Q&A with Steve Johnson, VP of Products, Pragmatic Institute

Revulytics

Here’s a key point: product managers put their problems into “planning,” and those problems get converted into items “ready for development,” but we haven’t handed them to developers yet, so we can continuously reprioritize. So if you’re playing catchup, maybe product parity solutions are more important.