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2022 Budgets: Where to Put Your Resources

ProductPlan

Product teams are spending on things that make them work better, smarter, and faster. They’re also investing in activities that help them better understand their market and customers. Here are some areas to consider when making your 2022 requests: Product Stack Tools for 2022 Budgets. Customer Surveys.

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Close Your Eyes and Imagine a Strategy. Let Me Guess: Got Nothing?

The Product Coalition

In Michael Porter’s books, or anywhere else, I haven’t been able to find many examples of what a strategy should look like. Here’s a proposal: open any book on strategy and go to the Index. Lookup “Strategy, an example of”. A product strategy can be covered in 4 parts (1) Buyer + $ value pool. Find anything?

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Impact Mapping: Does it Make a Difference in Building Better Products?

Userpilot

An impact map is a visual representation of the connections between the goals you want to achieve, the customers, and solutions. While impact mapping focuses on the interdependencies between the three, a customer journey map is a step-by-step breakdown of the actions your customers need to complete to experience value.

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Product in Practice: Tackling Big Hairy Product Challenges with Continuous Discovery

Product Talk

Her exposure to the product team —and the departure of a previous product manager—sparked Lisa’s interest and led to her stepping into the product manager role right around the time that Teresa began working with the product team as a discovery coach. We realized we needed to build that trust into the product itself.”.

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Product Planning Process: The Product Managers’ Guide to Building Successful Products

Userpilot

Product planning is the iterative process that prepares every stage of the product development life cycle, from the initial idea through launch and further development. Product planning focuses on the customer and business outcomes that the product should achieve. Stages of product planning.

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How to survive the SaaS Winter

ProductPlan

Now that borrowing money is more expensive, venture capital is drying up, and customers aren’t buying as much. Four ways product teams can survive SaaS Winter. Here are four lessons learned from past recessions that show how product teams can survive and thrive in the latest economic cold spell. Focus on customer value.

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Everything You Need to Know About Creating User Personas for Enterprise Applications

UX Planet

Imagine there are ten different types of users who will interact with your product, each with unique goals and ways of using the interface. Customization and Personalization: The ability to customize and personalize the user experience to suit different roles within an organization is often a key requirement for enterprise users.