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The Secret Product Management Framework

The Secret PM Handbook

Product” involves things like: Requirements or user stories or features. Our products solve problems for users. The most fundamental thing to remember is that successful products solve problems for customers. Products for consumers can solve a problem, or they can address a desire or need. Let’s call it a “solution.”.

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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. So let’s talk about mini-research. Think of research as digging for gold. There is only the real world.

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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. I deal with: Customers – finding their problems and listening to their product feedback. Strategy – how the goals of my company drive the solutions I deliver, and how my solution aligns with those goals.

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CX expert Annette Franz on putting the ‘customer’ in ‘customer experience’

Intercom, Inc.

Most businesses design customer experiences from the inside out, based on what is best for the company, when they should be doing the exact opposite. Few people are as passionate about customer experience as Annette, the founder and CEO of consulting firm CX Journey Inc. How to put the “customer” in “customer experience”.

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Who’s who: Understanding your business with customer segmentation

Intercom, Inc.

At some inflection point of growth, it becomes impossible to intuitively know your customers, let alone decide which ones to focus on. We could no longer assume all our customers had uniform needs and could be reached the same way. Download The Growth Handbook. What is customer segmentation?

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446: Winning at new products – with Bob Cooper, PhD

Product Innovation Educators

He is frequently helping organizations succeed while also holding the role of Professor Emeritus at McMaster University and Distinguished Research Fellow at Penn State University. On the other hand, there are all kinds of new technologies like AI, biosciences, and new opportunities in the medical field.

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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. Product management and UX design both strive to understand user needs, create valuable experiences, and continuously innovate products.