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The Perfect World and the Real World of Product Research

The Product Coalition

Twenty five mini-research ideas for finding something meaningful to work on. In the perfect world, product managers have all the time, resources, and skills to do impeccable, in-depth market and user research. The real world has limited resources, unrealistic deadlines, and new teams that have not been able to do research at all.

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UX Strategy: What is it and How to Create One

UX Planet

UX professionals often focus on mastering practical skills such as UI design, user research, and usability testing. Image by NNGroup UX strategy blueprint The UX Strategy Blueprint created by Jim Kalbach is a simple tool to help you define a UX strategy. Objectives describe the actions or steps to take to reach the goal over time.

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Selection Criteria for Product Management Tools

The Secret PM Handbook

Tools For What We Do. As a product manager, I’d like to find some tools that help me do my job. Markets – my segments, their problems, and how to reach them with my solution (and if they are big enough for me to make money). Revenue and profit – how my solution will generate top and bottom line dollars.

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Product Managers are Not Required to Design, But Learning Design is Part of The Job

The Product Coalition

When I start to learn about product management, it seems PMs do a lot of things related to data, research, user experience, and dealing with other teams such as design, engineering, etc. It is crucial for product managers and UX designers to communicate and collaborate to research customer needs and envision solutions.

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The Secret Product Management Framework

The Secret PM Handbook

And even roadmaps. Let’s call it a “solution.”. Market research. Will enough people pay for a solution that it’s worth our time to solve it? Once you have this funnel of market problems coming in through this research, there’s a process of deciding which problems to attack. Design, both visual and technical.

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What to Measure for Product-Led Growth

Gainsight

Like customer success, product-led growth strategies were born out of a need to optimize SaaS companies. According to Forrester research , product-led growth companies have sparked more than $208 billion in market value so far. Since January 2020, PLG companies have outperformed standard SaaS growth by 2x.

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The Secret Product Management Framework

The Secret PM Handbook

And even roadmaps. Let’s call it a “solution.”. Market research. Will enough people pay for a solution that it’s worth our time to solve it? Once you have this funnel of market problems coming in through this research, there’s a process of deciding which problems to attack. Design, both visual and technical.

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