BrainMates

SEPTEMBER 18, 2019

It’s heart-breaking that, after all the effort that goes into developing and launching a new Product, from so many different people, 40% of product launches fail. Markham’s landmark study showed [1] and this is what we learned about at the latest Product Talks in Sydney. lack of effective product marketing.

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Mind the Product

APRIL 27, 2017

Some are moving away from detailed, written product requirements documents (PRDs), while others are using shorter write-ups, user stories, or jobs-to-be-done formats. Some product teams are moving away from written PRDs to visual artifacts like mockups and prototypes. Eric Ries, in his post “What is customer development?

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Userpilot

OCTOBER 25, 2022

Goals are important aspects of the product strategy. They tell the product management team what they need to achieve. Market research, differentiation, and positioning are necessary to prepare for the product launch. What is strategic product management? Activities for strategic product managers.

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ProductPlan

MARCH 1, 2023

What is Product Planning? Product Planning is researching, making decisions, and taking action to develop a successful product. The importance of product planning Product planning is woven into everything product managers do. You’ll answer questions like: What things frustrate our persona regularly?

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Userpilot

OCTOBER 27, 2022

Iterative testing should happen at every stage of product design. Once you start developing a feature, you should also test it regularly. Iterative testing allows product managers to find and fix problems early on before they become more difficult to rectify. Why is conducting iterative testing vital for product managers?

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ProductPlan

AUGUST 10, 2023

Meanwhile, the slow, steady drumbeat of cautious experimentation and incremental enhancements always makes the product better. It’s not sexy and won’t land the leadership team any TED Talks. That means doing your homework regarding market intelligence, product-market fit, technical feasibility, and the like.

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Mind the Product

JUNE 28, 2019

Of course such things are common on any failure to launch a product as well. Shipbuilding in 1628 was not unlike the way many agile software development teams operate. Experts declared the fundamental design and architecture to be bad because there wasn’t enough ballast to ensure stability. So what did go wrong?

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The Product Coalition

DECEMBER 21, 2020

If you let yourself get carried away, it’s really, really hard to tell the difference between a good and bad one. Idea validation is a process where a specific product, service, or business idea is tested in various ways to determine its viability. This limits your risk of having to make costly changes to your product later on.

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Sachin Rekhi

FEBRUARY 1, 2016

I think one of the first challenges that new product leaders face is understanding exactly the division of labor between themselves and their team members. While you are largely given sound advice to focus on driving results through your team, it doesn't mean that when done right you are shirking all individual responsibility.

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Department of Product

OCTOBER 23, 2022

Product Principles – Examples for Product Managers Make decision making easier with inspiration from top product companies Product principles are used by product teams to help guide decision making. Principles can help guide both strategic decisions and tactical decisions.

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ProductPlan

AUGUST 10, 2023

Meanwhile, the slow, steady drumbeat of cautious experimentation and incremental enhancements always makes the product better. It’s not sexy and won’t land the leadership team any TED Talks. That means doing your homework regarding market intelligence, product-market fit, technical feasibility, and the like.

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Userpilot

AUGUST 14, 2023

Which asks users to rate their likelihood of recommending your product to a friend on a scale of 0-10. Which measures the customer’s experience with a specific product, feature, or team interaction. Ask users to rate from 1 to 5 how easy it is to use your product. Product evaluation surveys. CSAT surveys.

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PMLesson's Ace the PM Interview

JULY 13, 2020

PMs come in all shapes and sizes, but ultimately they’re responsible for managing the product through its lifecycle. From initial design and development through launch, upgrades, maturation, and eventually end-of-life, PMs are found wrangling other departments with competing priorities. To ship a great product.

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ProductPlan

OCTOBER 6, 2022

Now, after a decade of managing products and advising, I find it exciting. Throughout my experience, I’ve used many frameworks and tools to support the research and discovery process. There seemed to be a lot of pain and no solutions for launching a product or feature from the product manager’s perspective.

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Department of Product

MAY 22, 2020

And the product team responsible got some pretty brutal reviews in the process. Whether we like not, digital products deliver value through features. Sales If you’ve ever sat in on a sales meeting with a client, you’ll know what happens in a typical product demo. They’re addictive. And stimulating.

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Department of Product

FEBRUARY 18, 2022

SaaS Pricing Models for Product Managers 6 ways to price your SaaS product using leading SaaS businesses as inspiration Pricing a product is a critical part of product management; it’s rarely something product teams will or should do themselves and will typically involve a blend of product, marketing and sales.

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Userpilot

SEPTEMBER 25, 2023

Concept testing takes place before the development phase to assess how well the idea could satisfy user needs , while usability testing focuses on how easy the product is to use and navigate and happens during the development stage. Concept testing should be an integral part of product development for a number of reasons.

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Userpilot

DECEMBER 8, 2022

Market research and customer discovery help validate ideas and make sure the market is ready for the product. Product failure is often attributed to poor UI/UX. Make your UI easy to navigate so that customers can easily learn how to use it and can experience product value quickly. Getting your pricing right is tricky.

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Userpilot

JANUARY 14, 2024

TL;DR A product manager leads the product management team and is responsible for overseeing all stages of the product development process. Typically, product managers are responsible for market and user research, product discovery , feature prioritization , and roadmapping.

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The Product Coalition

DECEMBER 27, 2023

Building effective teams with people from different disciplines can be challenging due to various circumstances. In the product management discipline, cross-functional collaboration is more than a buzzword — it’s a critical strategy. Teams with multiple functions are instrumental towards staying competitive and succeed.

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Mind the Product

APRIL 19, 2018

New product development is a risky business for companies – the failure rate for product launches hovers around 40%. A quick look at Product Hunt demonstrates there is a flourishing market for new products, all of them competing for our time and money. Why use a Gate System?

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Userpilot

NOVEMBER 8, 2022

Your product go-to-market strategy is the final ingredient for any successful product launch. As a product marketer , it is your job to identify the best target audience for your product, while also finding the best pricing options, distribution channels, and unique value propositions.

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Business of Software Conference

OCTOBER 11, 2023

As usual, you really had to be there but here are the Sigmacorn notes… 9:00 Mark Littlewood: Opening remarks Welcome to BoS! How will we win?

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Userpilot

JUNE 22, 2023

In this article, we will learn how to effectively reduce the load on your customer support team with 11 effective tactics. TL;DR Product complexity, new features and updates , and poor onboarding can lead to high customer support loads. Use customer support tools to reduce your support team’s need for human intervention.

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Department of Product

JUNE 27, 2022

Poor structure can make things worse. Define your org structure There are many ways to organize product development. Organize cross-functionally within engineering, embed product and design It is common for Engineering to organize along functional lines. For example, Frontend and Backend teams.

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nulab

MARCH 5, 2021

A product launch is a bit like a quest. A product roadmap is essentially a map that guides you through your product launch, from day one all the way through to the end. A product roadmap is essentially a map that guides you through your product launch, from day one all the way through to the end.

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Department of Product

MARCH 28, 2022

In each of these scenarios, some companies will quickly adapt to new trends and reconfigure their product offering to stay relevant. The types of trends that matter to product teams So if we agree that staying on top of trends matters, the question then is, what types of trends should we bother staying on top of?

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Mind the Product

SEPTEMBER 20, 2017

Three mindsets of product development. Design Thinking is how we explore and solve problems; Lean is our framework for testing our beliefs and learning our way to the right outcomes; and Agile is how we adapt to changing conditions with software. Building a product is a lot like a combat mission. A product wall.

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The Product Coalition

JUNE 9, 2021

That approach works fine until your sales team gets on the phone to tell a customer about the Next Big Thing. When you define a roadmap as a group of project commitments, you’ve set your team up for failure. A good roadmap illustrates how your product contributes to the company. Framework Step 1?—?Vision

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Department of Product

AUGUST 22, 2022

Here’s some of the areas we felt could be the most impactful as part of your product health check, spanning data, devices, value proposition, business and strategy. Sure, you can dig deeper later on, but these are fundamental metrics that are important to understand when you’re assessing the overall health of your product.

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Bain Public

JANUARY 11, 2022

They might suddenly fall in love with shiny objects, new technologies (like AI or blockchain) or the R&D team might have come up with something they wish to commercialize with no valid market. In doing so, CEOs dilute the product mission, strategies and tactics beyond recognition, causing product teams to lose control.

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The Product Coalition

NOVEMBER 6, 2019

Learn how to create your product roadmap in 2019, including 5 templates you can get inspiration from. Anything from working as a team or long-distance communication can be improved with the right application. Roadmapping is one of the unsung heroes in the product arena. Besides, a bad plan can really damage you in the long run.

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The Product Coalition

DECEMBER 20, 2018

Product Management is one of the toughest jobs out there. You are supposed to coherently navigate the development, design, and marketing of a product. Anything from working as a team or long-distance communication can be improved with the right application. Roadmapping is one of the unsung heroes in the product arena.

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The Product Coalition

MARCH 21, 2019

Through these failures, I’ve come up with a framework for defining, layering, and communicating an effective product strategy that can close the gap between strategy and execution. Why Defining Product Strategy is Hard Strategy Overload One of the challenges with the word “Strategy” is that it is an overloaded term.

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Product Bookshelf

JANUARY 9, 2021

Strong product teams use a variety of product discovery techniques to identify and address risk. The best teams tackle the biggest risks first. What is Product Discovery. A key theme in Inspired is that strong product teams practices separate discovery and delivery activities. Inspired by Marty Cagan.

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ProductPlan

MAY 7, 2019

Ensuring everyone is striving toward the same strategic goals while still working and thinking independently isn’t easy, particularly when the organization is broken out into separate teams. How can specialization and product-level focus marry up with the overlying objectives the company has defined and is measuring itself against?

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Lenny Rachitsky

APRIL 21, 2024

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