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Special: The 7 Knowledge Areas of Product Mastery in 2025 – with Chad McAllister, PhD

Product Innovation Educators

The article also discusses the importance of continuous learning in product management, the value of professional certifications like the New Product Development Professional (NPDP), and provides insights into resources for further development in the field.

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Tools of the Trade: Using Pendo to Manage Customer Requests

Product Talk

This is our application, and when you scroll down at the bottom, we have this widget called Resource Center. I love this idea of like, you’re not constantly getting peppered because there’s a place for the feedback to go. Leann: Exactly.

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Idea Backlog

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Product managers receive many ideas from these and other sources regularly. Because they have limited resources and time, product teams need a place to park ideas that seem viable but require more research, and that is how an idea backlog begins. Why Would a Product Idea End Up in an Idea Backlog?

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

Product Talk

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. The team may need more resources. And this is where the negotiation starts.

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71 Scrum Product Owner Interview Questions (2)

The Product Coalition

product ideas for scarce resources and accepting that the PO is the gatekeeper to the Product Backlog. In this case, reevaluating its benefit before pouring more resources into it is a necessity. Sooner or later, common sense will end this kind of misallocation of resources, as pet projects rarely provide a return on investment.

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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. 2: Idea management. #3: 4: Roadmapping.

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How Product Organizations Can Balance Big Bets Versus Short-Term Wins

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How can you justify redirecting resources to tweaking the UX or integrating an API when they could spend time building the next big thing? You can even work to get broad-based commitment to spending a specific percentage of product development resources on big bets, which should comprise at least 20% of the overall budget.