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Why is Idea Management Important?

ProductPlan

But coming up with ideas is the easy part. For this reason, product teams need to develop a process for idea management. The two biggest challenges for idea management are efficiently and consistently recording and organizing ideas followed by actually making good use of them. Ideas are fleeting.

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Product Management Process: The 7 Stages Explained

Userpilot

What does the product management process involve? Why is it important for product managers to follow them? Product managers lead interdisciplinary product teams to deliver products that bring value to customers. Next, you define Technical Specifications and design product prototypes.

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10 Interactive Software Walkthroughs With Examples

Userpilot

We also covered best practices to ensure your walkthroughs get high user engagement. TL;DR A software walkthrough is the process of guiding users through the main features and processes of a software product. Walkthroughs help to: Improve user onboarding. Increase customer retention. Reduce time to value.

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How We’re Turning Feedback into Strategic Product Decisions

ProductPlan

There is no shortage of product ideas. Customer feedback, feature requests, and new ideas born from your interpretation of your product strategy—can all be the starting point for your company’s next great opportunity. It’s a frustrating, demoralizing, and ultimately unsuccessful way to create a product.

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Minimum Viable Product vs Minimum Marketable Product: What’s The Difference?

Userpilot

Would you like to know what role each of them plays in the product management process and how to build them? A Minimum Viable Product (MVP) is a version of the product with minimal features, built to validate product ideas. What’s a minimum viable product (MVP)? If so, you are in the right place!

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Where Do PMs Gather Their Product Ideas?

ProductPlan

The weary musician jotting down notes and chords that came to them in a dream or the product manager dreaming of new product ideas. Product teams long for similar moments of inspiration, but the motivational poster vision of breakthrough ideas misses the raw materials and effort that lead up to these moments.

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5 Best Practices for Gathering Customer Feedback in 2018

Pragmatic Marketing

Even though it was frustrating, I understood why the software vendor was trying to gather customer feedback—to help with 2018 planning. The experience also drove me to write this article on what I consider to be best practices for gathering customer feedback. No wonder the product was evolving at a slothful pace.