article thumbnail

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

ProductPlan

Where charismatic leaders rally the troops around an ambitious vision with a massive potential payoff. A clear product vision Every business and product needs a vision to guide everything that follows, from strategy to staffing to roadmaps. The product vision defines where the business wants the product to be.

article thumbnail

How We’re Turning Feedback into Strategic Product Decisions

ProductPlan

For an idea management solution to work for product teams, it must separate the idea from the opportunity. On their own, ideas often exist in the solution space. Ideas should inform your roadmap—they shouldn’t replace it. Many product people we speak with talk about the agony of a bottomless pit of ideas.

Insiders

Sign Up for our Newsletter

This site is protected by reCAPTCHA and the Google Privacy Policy and Terms of Service apply.

article thumbnail

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

ProductPlan

Where charismatic leaders rally the troops around an ambitious vision with a massive potential payoff. A clear product vision Every business and product needs a vision to guide everything that follows, from strategy to staffing to roadmaps. The product vision defines where the business wants the product to be.

article thumbnail

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

ProductPlan

ProductPlan customers have already taken the right step by investing in a purpose-built solution that helps them achieve a holistic view of their product strategy with dynamic roadmapping. Still, product teams can do more to compete and win in this competitive landscape—like standardization, idea management, and launch management.

article thumbnail

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.

article thumbnail

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

Userpilot

Idea management. Roadmapping. Idea management. Tools like Opportunity Solution Trees help you generate ideas in a structured way and ensure that they support your business objectives too. Roadmapping. Roadmapping helps you outline the overall product vision and business strategy.

article thumbnail

The Importance of Crowdsourcing Your Product Ideas

ProductPlan

You created your product to help customers solve a problem and align with your organization’s product vision. Many other changes that don’t happen also start as an idea. You must couple your efforts with a strong idea management practice to get the benefits of crowdsourcing without falling victim to some of its pitfalls.