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Defining Guidelines in Product Management

The Product Guy

A lot of them worked in other positions before moving to product management, like engineers, analysts, marketers and project managers, and learned by taking on extra responsibilities. Becoming a product person seems to be easier with access to clear guidelines. Also who is to define “good” in various industries and companies?

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523: #1 change to make OKRs work for you – with Ben Lamorte

Product Innovation Educators

Key results should be measurable outcomes that tells the team whether they are making positive progress, like “200 people sign up for the demo after reading the blog post.” Confusing tasks with key results: An action like “update the blog” is a task, not a key result.

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516: Strategic decision making in product management- with Atif Rafiq

Product Innovation Educators

Pricing levels, program guidelines Next, each group shared their questions with the others, and they used AI to compare the breadth and depth of the questions. Service speed, staff needs Customer Value How does this work with loyalty programs? Digital integration, easy redemption Business Model What makes this profitable?

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Top 10: Why Salespeople Don’t Use Corporate Positioning Decks

Product Management University

Directly from many salespeople (clients) over the past 20 years, here are the most popular responses (in no particular order) to the question, “Why don’t you use the corporate positioning deck? Here’s the problem with most positioning presentations that come from corporate marketing. “ Too much fluff.

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Powerful Product Positioning: Follow These Three Rules

Product Management University

Powerful product positioning usually boils down to the best story, which is not always the best product. Adhere to these three guidelines and marketing and selling value will be a lot easier. Great positioning is centered on the aspirations of your target customers and why those aspirations are so important to their success.

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La Dolce Vita di un Product Manager

The Product Coalition

Space for Celebrating Wins If you Google project management principles, you’ll find that celebrating even small achievements is emphasized in every post and guideline. What matters most in maintaining genuine satisfaction is cultivating a positive attitude within both your work life and personal life.

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527: The truth behind “CEO of the Product” – with Francesca Cortesi

Product Innovation Educators

She positioned herself at the intersection of different functions, collecting input from business stakeholders to define problems, then transmitting requirements to development teams to create solutions.