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How We’re Turning Feedback into Strategic Product Decisions

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For an idea management solution to work for product teams, it must separate the idea from the opportunity. On their own, ideas often exist in the solution space. From there, it’s on you – the product manager – to develop a solution that helps your organization attain the desired outcome.

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The Importance of Crowdsourcing Your Product Ideas

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You created your product to help customers solve a problem and align with your organization’s product vision. Many other changes that don’t happen also start as an idea. Some examples of crowdsourcing include: LEGO lets customers submit ideas for new LEGO sets via the LEGO Ideas platform.

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Product Management Process: The 7 Stages Explained

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The product management life cycle consists of seven main stages: You start with Market Research to assess the external business environment and identify the needs of the users. During the Idea Management stage, continue with need discovery and start brainstorming solutions. 2: Idea management. #3: 4: Roadmapping.

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Minimum Viable Product vs Minimum Marketable Product: What’s The Difference?

Userpilot

Idea management. Idea management. Tools like Opportunity Solution Trees help you generate ideas in a structured way and ensure that they support your business objectives too. Roadmapping helps you outline the overall product vision and business strategy. Example of emotional design by Asana.

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Where Do PMs Gather Their Product Ideas?

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The weary musician jotting down notes and chords that came to them in a dream or the product manager dreaming of new product ideas. Product teams long for similar moments of inspiration, but the motivational poster vision of breakthrough ideas misses the raw materials and effort that lead up to these moments.

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Bottoms Up With OKRs | Whitney O’Banner, Medium | BoS USA 2019

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Here’s a real life example: We will go viral as measured by 5000 new followers. But this is this is a real working example. It helps us align our shared vision for the team. So remember that earlier example. Managers leadership c-suite executives we overvalue our ideas. We think our ideas are amazing.

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71 Scrum Product Owner Interview Questions (2)

The Product Coalition

For example, institute regular meetings with each stakeholder or have stakeholders name product ambassadors, who then act as “liaison officers” and train them accordingly. Team up with the user experience people and run, for example, user journey or user story mapping workshops. Will that impede your work as a Product Owner?