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How to Use Product Goals and Initiatives to Drive and Measure Success

Userpilot

Setting smart product goals is a vital skill for any sensible SaaS owner or product manager to get right. In this article, we’re going to explore what makes an effective product goal, the difference between goals and product initiatives, how to set them and make them work with your product backlog, and more.

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10 Product Roadmapping Mistakes to Avoid

Roman Pichler

It will also limit your ability to experiment and learn, to run sprints and discover the best way to address the user and customer needs and create value for the business. You can avoid these drawbacks by using a different roadmap type: a goal-oriented or outcome-based product roadmap. I don’t think so.

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Technical Product Manager: Exploring Their Role and Responsibilities

Userpilot

What is a technical product manager? This is the question that opens our discussion of technical product management. TL;DR Technical product managers work with engineering and development teams on the technical performance of software products. What is a technical product manager?

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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. Stay present. 8 Choose a Decision Rule.

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Stakeholder Management Tips for Product People

Roman Pichler

The first one carries the risk of being a feature broker and offering a product that has a weak value proposition, gives rise to a poor user experience, and consists of a loose collection of features. A stakeholder is anyone who has a stake in your product, who is affected by it, or who shows an interest in the offering.

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Seven Product Backlog Mistakes to Avoid

Roman Pichler

The Product Backlog is Too Big. A few years ago, I was asked to help a healthcare company with their agile transition and its impact on product management. One of the challenges the agile transition team was concerned about was the choice of the right product backlog tool, which at first seemed odd to me.

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Product in Practice: Introducing Opportunity Solution Trees at Texthelp

Product Talk

And if you’re really excited about an idea, you might look for opportunities to share it outside your company with the broader product community. Today’s Product in Practice features a continuous discovery champion who did all three. Texthelp has over 50 million users served by 12 product teams in the US, the UK, and in the Nordics.