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Technical Product Manager: Exploring Their Role and Responsibilities

Userpilot

Tech PMs work actively with product teams on the product vision and strategy. A big part of their job is managing the roadmap and prioritizing technical initiatives in the product backlog. Regular product managers are more customer-centric in their approach. Product vision.

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Five Product Owner Myths Busted

Roman Pichler

This requires full-stack ownership : having the authority to make strategic product decisions in addition to tactical ones. Consequently, a Scrum product owner should own a product in its entirety—from the product vision to the product details. The picture below illustrates this concept.

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Overengineering 101: What Is It and How Can Product Managers Avoid It?

Userpilot

To avoid falling into the trap, set clear and realistic objectives that are aligned with the product vision. Use opportunity solutions trees to align the problems you try to solve with product goals. Poor communication: even if you nail your product goals , make sure to communicate them clearly to the development team.

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Strategic Product Management: The Role of a Strategic Product Manager

Userpilot

Product managers conduct primary and secondary market and customer research to find the target market and identify opportunities that existing products don’t satisfy. Each user group may engage with the product differently because of their different objectives. What is product strategy? Be in charge of the product vision.

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Tips for Becoming a Head of Product

Roman Pichler

This includes the following ten capabilities: Formulating an inspiring vision for a product. Carrying out the relevant product discovery work and taking into account product ethics. Creating and validating a product strategy including market and user research.

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The Difference Between Annual Product Planning and Quarterly Planning

ProductPlan

Companies set financial goals, compensation targets, and strategic objectives for the year. For this reason, it’s the perfect time to align those with the product vision by conducting an annual planning session. In an ideal world, those dates wouldn’t impact when products ship. Establishing success metrics and KPIs.

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How to be the go-to engineer for product analytics

Mixpanel

For example, a Signup event might be tracked in a place in the code that seems obvious at first but actually ignores an entire class of situations where signups might also occur. On top of that, events could be duplicated if called in the wrong place, and events could be periodically skipped.