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Product Management Process: The 7 Stages Explained

Userpilot

The product management life cycle consists of seven main stages: You start with Market Research to assess the external business environment and identify the needs of the users. During the Idea Management stage, continue with need discovery and start brainstorming solutions. What is product management?

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

Userpilot

MVP is a great risk reduction tool: it allows products or features to fail fast without investing in their development. Many product managers or product owners have taken the idea of MVP too far and focused too much on the ‘minimum’ and too little on the ‘viable.’ The MLP is the solution to that.

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How We’re Turning Feedback into Strategic Product Decisions

ProductPlan

And it is a problem without a great solution. The solutions that do exist today tend to fall into two camps. Repurposed existing solutions. The first camp consists of ad hoc solutions created using your digital workspace’s existing tools. Purpose-built” solutions. You know them well.

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Idea Backlog

ProductPlan

If you see a product feature or other type of item on an idea backlog, you can assume the following. The product team has not rejected the idea. The team has not researched the idea to determine whether to pursue it. They have not added the idea to the product roadmap.

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Everyone Thinks They’re Managing by Outcomes. Here’s How to Actually Do it.

Product Talk

Last month, I spoke at the Business of Software (BoS) conference in Boston. A big thank you to Rich Mironov who referred me to BoS organizer Mark Littlewood, and to Jeff Merrell , my co-instructor at Northwestern , who helped me develop many of these ideas. Managing by outcomes has been a popular topic for quite some time.

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Product Management Technologies; Five Essentials for Strategic Product Management; Planning Assumptions for 2016

Good Product Manager

We’ve been busy at SiriusDecisions with a lot of new research and resources for b-to-b product management leaders and product managers: The ABCs of Product Management Technologies. In my first post for the new SiriusDecisions Marketplace, I cover The ABCs of Product Management Technologies.

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Product Management Technologies; Five Essentials for Strategic Product Management; Planning Assumptions for 2016

Good Product Manager

We’ve been busy at SiriusDecisions with a lot of new research and resources for b-to-b product management leaders and product managers: The ABCs of Product Management Technologies. In my first post for the new SiriusDecisions Marketplace, I cover The ABCs of Product Management Technologies.