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Centralized vs Decentralized Idea Management

ProductPlan

When you’re creating a new product or trying to improve an existing product, you rely on a steady stream of ideas to move your product forward. Without idea management , you’ll quickly find that you spend more time wading through ideas than creating a winning product.

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Why is Idea Management Important?

ProductPlan

People come up with ideas all the time. Sometimes we even hold brainstorming sessions dedicated to nothing else but bringing forth new ideas. But coming up with ideas is the easy part. For this reason, product teams need to develop a process for idea management.

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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. Yes, that starts with a way to capture and organize ideas.

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Idea Backlog

ProductPlan

What is an Idea Backlog? In product management , an idea backlog is a list of ideas that need more discussion or vetting before the company can decide whether to move forward with them. The product team has not rejected the idea. That might be a terrific idea.

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The Importance of Crowdsourcing Your Product Ideas

ProductPlan

Each of those changes starts as an idea. Many other changes that don’t happen also start as an idea. When ideas that have nothing to do with solving customers’ problems become reality, that’s a sign that something is wrong with a product team’s idea management approach.

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Top Product Roadmap Tools for 2021: These will help you get things done

NextBigWhat

Product roadmap tools enable companies to manage their products, evaluate their life cycles as well as communicate the product’s goals and progress to their team members and management. Here is the list of top 10 product roadmap tools, curated for you.

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How to Support the Entire Product Lifecycle: A Tour of ProductPlan’s Enterprise Plan

ProductPlan

From inception to launch and beyond: Learn more about ProductPlan’s end-to-end product management platform. Still, product teams can do more to compete and win in this competitive landscape—like standardization, idea management, and launch management.

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Product Leadership in Scrum

Roman Pichler

While the three roles exercise different leadership, the people involved must effectively collaborate to achieve product success and align product strategy, roadmap, backlog, design and technology, and process decisions—without losing focus of their respective core responsibility. [1]. In the worst case, the strategy is no longer valid, but you do everything you can to steam ahead, asking the team to push out more and more features. Three Types of Leadership.

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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. What is product management? 2: Idea management. #3:

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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. An MVP is a very reliable way to validate your product ideas.

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The Top 7 Product Management Software Systems You Should Know About

Bain Public

It’s safe to say that shipping a product from start to finish is no easy task for a product manager. In order to get the job done properly and efficiently, product managers deserve the proper software, tools and resources needed to create and execute successful products. Roadmap and Build Products Customers Love Aha! Is a highly customizable product, covering all aspects of project and product management as well as offering a system suitable for large product teams.

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5 Best Practices for Gathering Customer Feedback in 2018

Pragmatic Marketing

This was the subject line of an email I recently received from an account manager at a financial management software vendor. So of course our team had told the account manager (many times over the past six months) about the one major improvement that we would really benefit from. And yet there I was with a mass email full of ideas. The product team was clearly not soliciting feedback from customer-facing team members (such as the account manager) on an ongoing basis.

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71 Scrum Product Owner Interview Questions (2)

The Product Coalition

Set 3: Internal Stakeholder Management This category of the Product Owner interview questions deals with specific aspects of relationships of the Product Owners with internal stakeholders: Your organization has recently decided to become agile and product-driven.

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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. The Five Essentials for Strategic Product Management. You can download the piece and learn about the foundational behaviors of strategic product management.

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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. The Five Essentials for Strategic Product Management. You can download the piece and learn about the foundational behaviors of strategic product management.

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Simplifying User Feedback

The Product Coalition

Seasoned Product Managers may feel they’ve previously heard everything they need to know to make a decision. New Product Managers may be in their first customer facing role, and gathering user feedback is outside their comfort zone. A Product Manager needs to go out and get feedback. But a user feedback strategy shouldn’t revolve around putting out fires. This is a reactive strategy, and being reactive is disruptive to the team.