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Idea Backlog

ProductPlan

If an idea for a product seems viable, why would the team place it in an idea backlog rather than start working on it right away? The idea doesn’t fit the company’s current strategy. Imagine a company that makes call center software for customer service departments. That might be a terrific idea.

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

ProductPlan

Big bets have big payoffs, but there’s a reason it’s called gambling In the venture capital world, the prevailing strategy is to invest in multiple companies knowing that many will fail. But it also sets the stage for a parallel strategy that doesn’t sacrifice short-term wins. This portfolio approach is baked into everything VCs do.

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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. And yet there I was with a mass email full of ideas. Even though it was frustrating, I understood why the software vendor was trying to gather customer feedback—to help with 2018 planning.

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

ProductPlan

Big bets have big payoffs, but there’s a reason it’s called gambling In the venture capital world, the prevailing strategy is to invest in multiple companies knowing that many will fail. But it also sets the stage for a parallel strategy that doesn’t sacrifice short-term wins. This portfolio approach is baked into everything VCs do.

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Centralized vs Decentralized Idea Management

ProductPlan

But if you aren’t careful, that steady stream of ideas can quickly become a flood that inundates your team and makes it impossible to get anything done. Without idea management , you’ll quickly find that you spend more time wading through ideas than creating a winning product. Who does it? What do they use?

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Bottoms Up With OKRs | Whitney O’Banner, Medium | BoS USA 2019

Business of Software Conference

Whitney O’Banner (Software Engineering Manager, Medium) – Bottoms Up With OKRs from Business of Software Conference. So, I’m going to dive into some strategies today to help us get it more right twenty years later after the introduction of OKRs. We think our ideas are amazing. Sketch Note.

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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]. Lead the Product.