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10 Tips for Effective Product Management Meetings

Roman Pichler

For example, a product strategy workshop might have the objective to identify the key changes required to achieve product-market fit. Contrast this with a sprint review meeting , which might help you determine if users can easily sign up for the product. Assess product strategy and adjust if necessary.

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How to Become a Director of Product

The Product HQ

If you’re looking to move forward from a product manager position, you need to have a formal degree. At times, tech companies that require a master’s degree also accept people who are in the process of completing their master’s program. The Director of Product job responsibilities is a mix of these three primary functions.

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July’s Top Customer Experience Trends and Product Management News

Alchemer Mobile

In a month with two gargantuan fines levied at tech companies for data breaches, the full effects of Europe’s General Data Protection Regulation (GDPR) are coming into focus. Being customer-centric is about more than just offering a good product or staffing a contact center. 9. 12 Product Management Myths. via Apptimize].

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A summary of “Building Products for the Enterprise”

The Product Coalition

According to the authors, it’s mainly because of three reasons: The business model : SaaS often works on a direct-sales model and Sales most often “sell a complex product to a relatively small group of customers for large deal sizes”. The customer vs. the user: the one buying your product isn’t the same one who pays for it.

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Product Idea Validation: 6 Steps for Ensuring Successful Products

Userpilot

Product idea validation is essential to avoid spending too many resources on a product that fails because nobody needs it. First, you need to clearly define the product goals, the problems it solves, and its alignment with the organization’s business goals. Some questions to answer include: What is the product?

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The Rise Of Customer Development

The Product Coalition

Many venture capital firms were interested in investments at comparatively high valuations in technology companies available around that era. Investment banking firms, substantially benefiting from initial public offerings (IPO), strongly encouraged investments into the technology sector. Startup funding was relatively easy to raise.

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How we failed our first OKR cycle and why we do virtual teams now

The Product Coalition

Lesson 1: Don’t define OKRs without teams input It now sounds very stupid, but after 1 month into the cycle, we realized that most of the teams needed tech and product help to achieve their objectives. Finance could do some basic automation in Google Sheets with Zapier, but the real boost required a tech solution.