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The Power of Opportunity Solution Trees: 7 Key Benefits Revealed

Product Talk

The root of the tree is your desired outcome—the business need that reflects how your team can create business value. Tweet This You start by prioritizing your business need—creating value for your business is what ensures that your team can serve your customer over time. These problems get compounded when working in teams.

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Aligning Product Managers and Product Marketing Managers for Success – Interview With Aatir Abdul Rauf

Userpilot

Here are the main takeaways: Product managers focus on building the right product, while product marketing managers focus on getting the product into the right hands. PMs and PMMs should work in lockstep, engage in joint planning sessions, collaborate on internal evangelism, have aligned KPIs, and mutually agree on responsibilities.

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Product in Practice: Making Customer Interviewing a Habit in an Early-Stage Startup

Product Talk

Sometimes they’re dissatisfied with what’s available on the market and think they can do better. As Teresa has written before, this last scenario is the most common. Here’s Teresa’s take : When we start with an idea, the scope of our discovery work becomes, “Is my idea good or not?” But it’s also problematic.

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Tools of the Trade: Visualizing Discovery with Opportunity Solution Trees

Product Talk

The opportunity solution tree helps visualize all the work that goes into continuous discovery. And while opportunity solution trees have become increasingly common among product teams, there’s still plenty of room for customization, both in the way you set up your trees and the tools you use to build them.

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480: Putting Design Thinking into practical action – with Tom Granzow

Product Innovation Educators

That is why Tom Granzow is with us. Summary of some concepts discussed for product managers [2:23] Why is Design Thinking one of your primary tools? Research: Build empathy. Facts: What did customers say and do? Visualize: Build a sketch, rendering, or prototype. Discover a. Understand customer problems.

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What metrics are the most important for your product?

Intercom, Inc.

The SaaS industry is full of advice on the perfect product metrics to gauge your users’ activation, engagement, and interactions. But how do these concepts translate into real product improvements? A central value of the analytics team at Intercom is “ start with the right question. ” What are product metrics?

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Insights from the CDH Benchmark Survey: How Are Teams Adopting Discovery Habits?

Product Talk

“Product thought leaders talk about an ideal way of working. Nobody actually works that way.” I realize that many product people have never worked in a product trio , don’t have access to customers, aren’t given time to test their ideas, and are working in what Marty Cagan calls “features teams” or “delivery teams.”