Tue.Aug 16, 2016

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How to Distinguish Between Your Product Roadmap, Product Strategy, and Product Vision

UserVoice

While you might “own” the product, your product’s vision should be coming from the top of the house. It should be driving everything in your organization, not just product development. Sales, operations, technology… all of it should be working toward a common vision. So, if the vision isn’t the responsibility of the product team, what is? Let’s use a hypothetical example — a space travel.

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The Product Roadmap and the Release Plan

Roman Pichler

What is a Release Plan? A release plan forecasts how a major release is developed. It’s a type of project plan —albeit an agile one—and it usually covers the next three to six months. I use the term major release to refer to a version of your digital product that introduces a noticeable change, for instance, by adding or optimising functionality or enhancing the user experience, and it typically results in a new product version—think of Windows 10 or iOS 9.3, for example.

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Pricing Segmentation Best Practices for XaaS

TSIA

The unique inventions and service offerings of entrepreneurs can captivate us, yet even the most innovative solutions and services can struggle when managers fail to set prices that simultaneously attract customers and produce profit. Though pricing is a complex concern for businesses in all industries, it is a particular point of confusion in XaaS industries, where "anything as a service" requires pricing versatility that cannot be achieved with more traditional price structures.