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How to fix Your Product Goals for Better Human Outcomes

Mind the Product

Hello product designers, this is for you. I want to talk to you about product goals, metrics, and how they get muddled in the product design process, leading to some less than humane outcomes. So, product goals and metrics – the tools that allow you to build design foundations and shape a strategy.

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Seven Product Backlog Mistakes to Avoid

Roman Pichler

Third and most importantly, focus the backlog on a specific product goal. Then decline and remove items that do not serve this goal, as I discuss below. The Product Backlog is Too Detailed. The former means that there is no product goal that guides the decision if an item should be added to the product backlog or not.

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11 Types of Product Managers for SaaS Companies

Userpilot

This is particularly important when it comes to data products, that is those that require advanced analytics and complex data management systems, like streaming services. Their responsibilities also include defining companies’ data governance policies, developing data tracking plans , and selecting suitable product analytics tools.

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Product Consequences and a Product Code of Ethics?

Mironov Consulting

Are we enabling employers or governments to monitor new kinds of activities? If someone uses our product as directed, what are possible unintended bad outcomes? On the other hand, I see a lot of product segments that are inherently problematic, especially in financial services, ad tech and user-generated content/social media.

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Business model first–and other innovation insights for product managers Aug 19, 2016 - The Everyday Innovator – Resources for Product Managers and Innovators

Product Innovation Educators

good-products-bad-businesses/. How product managers can create new ideas. Create the right mindset by first understanding product goals, such as increasing the number of customers or decreasing the volume of customer service inquires. New Podcast Episode: Managing product teams – with Todd Dewett, PhD.

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Succeeding with Product Delivery and Scrum: 10 Tips for Product People

Roman Pichler

It therefore offers only limited support for product people. 4 Take Advantage of Product Goals I like to think of a product goal as the specific outcome that a product should achieve in the next two to three months, for example, to increase conversion, to decrease churn, or to future-proof the product by removing technical debt. [4]

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Product Analytics Framework: A Guide for SaaS Companies

Userpilot

The process of creating a product analytics framework starts by identifying internal stakeholders it will benefit from. Next, each stakeholder group sets relevant product goals , chooses corresponding metrics , and selects data sources. Solid product analytics tools include Amplitude , Google Analytics 4 (GA4) , and Hotjar.