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I’ve abandoned “MVP”

Mironov Consulting

After years of struggle, I’m advising all of my clients and product leader coachees to stop using the term “MVP”. Engineering and Product are written off as intellectual time-wasters. Marketing needs lots of late-stage assets: screen shots, validated benefit statements, ROI calculators, crisp segmentation, reference customers.

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A summary of “Building Products for the Enterprise”

The Product Coalition

Product specialization : “very tailored to solve a specific technical or business need” that becomes complicated quickly. To not try to please everyone, Ben and Blair advise “staying the course, given your strategy is sound”. by using case studies, or examples from references with ROI). Establish clear metrics of success.

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How to Keep on top of Trends that Matter to Product Managers

Department of Product

It is extremely difficult (and probably not advisable) to attempt to stay on top of all trends. Regular show and tells – aside from your standard product demos, encourage your engineers to show and tell the new tech they’re using in your product. It’s impossible for one person to do. And not all trends matter.

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What Skills Does a Product Manager Need?

BrainStation Product Management

Often referred to as “mini-CEOs” of a product, these specialists must possess a wide variety of skills and competencies to propel a product to success. Speak to a Learning Advisor. Technical Skills for Product Management. A question that comes up often among would-be Product Managers is: “how technical do I have to be?”.

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Product Discovery at Scale

The Product Coalition

These methods are often referred to as design artefacts and they include activities such as problem definition, prototyping, customer interviews, exploration and many more. Challenge definition A challenge could be responding to customer feedback, introducing a proposition, or overcoming a technical problem.

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What Skills Does a Product Manager Need?

BrainStation Product Management

Often referred to as “mini-CEOs” of a product, these specialists must possess a wide variety of skills and competencies to propel a product to success. Self-styled ‘visionary’ Product Managers are dangerous – which is why I advise against hiring PM candidates who fire off (Steve Jobs) quotes during job interviews.

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Product Management Process: The 8-Stage Guide to Smash Your Goals in 2023

Usersnap

Collaborate with design and engineering teams. So, I’d advise you to With Usersnap, you can smartly manage feedback from both internal and external stakeholders in one place. It refers to using agile methodology throughout your testing and bug-tracking workflows. Identify bugs and technical issues. What’s agile testing?