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Dealing with an Underperforming Development Team

Roman Pichler

What is Bad Performance? Before I discuss how you can help an underachieving team, let’s briefly explore what good performance looks like, assuming that an agile, Scrum-based process is used. Second, the team participates in continuous discovery and strategizing , and its members regularly help refine the product backlog.

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

Userpilot

Overlapping responsibilities and conflicting priorities are just a couple of the many friction points between product managers and product marketing managers – leading to inefficient workflows and potential product failures. What are the typical roles and responsibilities of product managers and product marketing managers?

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How to Perform A Product Feature Analysis

Userpilot

Product feature analysis is a powerful tool in the SaaS product manager’s arsenal. Extract feature development insights. Best practices to help product managers perform feature analysis: Perform user research and analyze your competitors’ products to find market gaps. This article aims to simplify feature analysis.

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10 Tips for Effective Product Management Meetings

Roman Pichler

For product strategy and roadmap meetings, I recommend involving the key stakeholders , for example, someone from sales, marketing, support, and finance, as well as development team representatives—ideally members who know about the user experience (UX), architecture, and technologies. State objective and agenda. Close the meeting.

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Ten UX/UI Design Challenges That Can Compromise Financial Apps

The Product Coalition

“If you think good design is expensive, you should look at the cost of bad design,” Ralf Speth, a former Jaguar Land Rover CEO. The study by the Design Management Institute analyzed the performance of design-led organizations that place influential design decisions at the top as compared to the Standard & Poor’s index over 10 years.

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The Most Powerful Phrase in the Product Manager Vocabulary

The Product Bistro

The most powerful phrase in product management isn’t something witty about product market fit, or positioning, or market segmentation. You are the product manager, you own it, and while you could play the blame game (and be correct), you shouldn’t. You message that up the organization, and to the outside world.

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The biggest challenges facing support teams right now (and how to solve them)

Intercom, Inc.

As a result, we’ve seen some major, long-lasting changes to how businesses and consumers communicate and build relationships with one another: The popularity of messaging channels is on the rise – messenger-based support is now the second most used support channel. Challenge #1: Limited team bandwidth, resources, and budget.