Product Bookshelf

APRIL 15, 2024

Martin Good Strategy, Bad Strategy by Richard Rumels Product strategy is a set of choices informed by product vision and company objectives. Strategy development requires imagination and creativity ; a good strategy is not the result of detailed analysis. ” is rivaled only by “What is a roadmap?”

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Mironov Consulting

JUNE 25, 2023

Many of my discussions with product leaders (CPOs, VPs and others who manage teams of product folks) are about the substance of product management: portfolios, competing stakeholders, pricing & packaging, tarot cards as a revenue forecasting model.  Last A competitor announces ChatGPT-based retirement investment advice.  

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The Product Coalition

JANUARY 16, 2022

When creating your roadmap, you need to consider what’s important to the company (not just to the product) and what is the best way to make progress across these multiple needs. Navigating all of it could be challenging, so here is a simple tool that will help you find your way. In startups, it is actually the company roadmap.

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Roman Pichler

JULY 11, 2016

Manage the Product, not the Team. Focus on your job as the product manager or product owner, and manage the product, not the team. Provide guidance on the product, including its market, value proposition, business goals, and key features. Treat the Team as an Equal Partner. Help the Team See the Bigger Picture.

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Roman Pichler

MAY 11, 2021

While internal stakeholders such as marketing, sales, and support play an important role in successfully offering a product, it would be wrong to try to please them and to say yes to all their ideas and requests. ” But do not allow people to dominate and tell you what to do, and don’t agree to a weak compromise.

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Roman Pichler

AUGUST 15, 2023

Take a productivity tools suite like Microsoft Office or Google Workspace. If I was in charge of such a portfolio, I would use an overall strategy for the entire suite and separate product strategies for the individual tools like Microsoft PowerPoint and Google Slides. Why will people want to use it or pay for it?

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Userpilot

APRIL 19, 2024

Looking for the best way to do market research? From framing your initial question to extracting valuable customer insights, we’ll walk you through the lean market research process step-by-step. Get ready to empower your decisions with real-world market intelligence. Why should you do market research? The outcome?

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Roman Pichler

NOVEMBER 12, 2019

I once worked with a telco company that was developing a brand-new commercial product. Product management and development were located at separate sites in different countries. The technical complexities were greater than anticipated and the development progress was slower than forecasted. To Collocate or Not.

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Roman Pichler

NOVEMBER 12, 2019

I once worked with a telco company that was developing a brand-new commercial product. Product management and development were located at separate sites in different countries. The technical complexities were greater than anticipated and the development progress was slower than forecasted. To Collocate or Not.

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The Product Coalition

JANUARY 6, 2023

This article will take you through the mobile app tracking process from start to finish, the best practices for mobile application tracking, and the best mobile app tracking tools to do so. You have to integrate the SDK (Software Development Kit) of the mobile app analytics solution into your mobile app. What is Mobile App Tracking?

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Userpilot

MARCH 26, 2024

As you’re researching digital analytics tools, you’ve probably noticed how hard it is to find reliable information on the available solutions. To make your life a little bit easier and help you choose the best digital analytics tool for your SaaS, we’ve produced a guide of 15 excellent analytics platforms available on the market in 2024.

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Userpilot

MARCH 26, 2024

As you’re researching digital analytics tools, you’ve probably noticed how hard it is to find reliable information on the available solutions. To make your life a little bit easier and help you choose the best digital analytics tool for your SaaS, we’ve produced a guide of 15 excellent analytics platforms available on the market in 2024.

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Userpilot

MARCH 26, 2024

As you’re researching digital analytics tools, you’ve probably noticed how hard it is to find reliable information on the available solutions. To make your life a little bit easier and help you choose the best digital analytics tool for your SaaS, we’ve produced a guide of 15 excellent analytics platforms available on the market in 2024.

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Userpilot

MARCH 26, 2024

As you’re researching digital analytics tools, you’ve probably noticed how hard it is to find reliable information on the available solutions. To make your life a little bit easier and help you choose the best digital analytics tool for your SaaS, we’ve produced a guide of 15 excellent analytics platforms available on the market in 2024.

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Userpilot

MARCH 26, 2024

As you’re researching digital analytics tools, you’ve probably noticed how hard it is to find reliable information on the available solutions. To make your life a little bit easier and help you choose the best digital analytics tool for your SaaS, we’ve produced a guide of 15 excellent analytics platforms available on the market in 2024.

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Userpilot

JANUARY 16, 2024

From analyzing market trends to churning user needs and technical feasibility into golden product ideas, there are many benefits of ChatGPT for product managers. A potent tool, ChatGPT has proven to be a strategic addition to the product management toolkit, churning out ideas in even the most unlikely scenarios.

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Roman Pichler

JUNE 1, 2020

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. But do not accept inappropriate behaviour and do not allow people to treat you like a project manager, team lead, or personal assistant.

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Userpilot

JUNE 30, 2022

While everyone talks about product-market fit, finding product-customer fit is equally important when it comes to engaging the right customers and driving success. Product-market fit is about meeting the market’s demand by iterating the product, while customer fit is about attracting the right customers. What is customer fit?

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The Product Coalition

FEBRUARY 12, 2024

As a result, the team struggled with how to prepare. I made it no longer than three minutes into the presentation and got this subtle feeling that the team was unprepared. Yeah, I was seemingly in a bad mood. The team was shutting down. I apologized to the team and said we would pick it up next week.

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Roman Pichler

JULY 6, 2021

Consequently, your focus shifts from managing a product to looking after the product people on your team and empowering them to do a great job. For instance, you might show the individuals how they can make effective strategic product decisions, create an actionable product roadmap, and effectively use the right KPIs.

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The Product Coalition

AUGUST 23, 2023

To grow our customer base and market share? A purpose we could share with the company’s leadership team, customers, and those working on the product. For product teams, the why and purpose behind the product comes in the form of a meaningful, inspiring, yet achievable north star. How should I respond? To generate profit?

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Roman Pichler

FEBRUARY 2, 2021

Before the advent of agile frameworks like Scrum , a product person—the product manager—would typically carry out the market research, compile a market requirements specification, create a business case, put together product roadmap, write a requirements specification, and then hand it off to a project manager.

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The Product Coalition

DECEMBER 8, 2019

Highly effective Product Managers develop themselves in 5 key areas. In some jobs, you can get by with just Competence, but in the unkempt, fuzzy, team-oriented domain of Product Management, you need both. Market Competence ????? understanding your market, industry, competition) 3. Craft Competence ??

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Alchemer Mobile

DECEMBER 7, 2022

Juggling your company’s immediate needs with long-term goals is always tricky, but when it comes to purchasing a tool to make your team’s lives easier, managers tasked with the decision to build or buy often struggle in what seems to be a comparison of apples to oranges. If you’re using any sort of tool for analytics (e.g.

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Alchemer Mobile

DECEMBER 7, 2022

Juggling your company’s immediate needs with long-term goals is always tricky, but when it comes to purchasing a tool to make your team’s lives easier, managers tasked with the decision to build or buy often struggle in what seems to be a comparison of apples to oranges. If you’re using any sort of tool for analytics (e.g.

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People-First Product Leadership

DECEMBER 20, 2023

Part 3 brings together the Product specific Vision, Roadmap and Goals. Product Vision puts a company’s Vision and Mission into action The Product Vision ensures the Roadmap reflects the priorities which matter the most to the company’s customers and to the company. Not every Product team in every company has a vision.

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Userpilot

DECEMBER 13, 2023

How do you develop a robust UX strategy? TL;DR UX strategy provides guidance to the UX design team on how to create and improve experiences that satisfy user needs. TL;DR UX strategy provides guidance to the UX design team on how to create and improve experiences that satisfy user needs. This is the main focus of the article.

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The Product Coalition

OCTOBER 20, 2020

It’s understandable that most of us don’t make time for personal development. Who wants to spend time after a hard day of work learning and developing when they could be kicking back with a beer and watching The Crown? A few months ago, I introduced a concept I have developed called the PM, or Product, Quadrants.

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Alchemer Mobile

NOVEMBER 9, 2022

My team is too small. Speaking up might spur a conversation around how to adjust your role to better fit your needs, or better yet, to bring in another team member to share your workload. Limited team bandwidth. The three most common challenges include: I have too many responsibilities. I don’t have enough time in my day.

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Mind the Product

OCTOBER 1, 2019

I recently tweeted about timeline roadmaps saying they had to go. I tried a couple of searches while I was testing, including one of my favourites: search for “product roadmap” under the Images tab (whether in Google or Ecosia), and you’ll get a bunch of timelines. So here’s my FAQ on moving from a timeline roadmap.

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The Product Coalition

MARCH 8, 2024

Think of digital transformation strategies as your roadmap to success in the digital age. The important basis is the development of a strategy for short- and long-term digital transformation based on business results rather than technology. Involve them in strategy development, gather their input, and address their concerns.

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Under 10 Consulting

MAY 15, 2020

Your roadmap is a plan, not a commitment . "We We allocate 100% of our resources to the roadmap. We plan to use the other 100% of our resources for special projects." — Johnson's Roadmapping Conundrum. ?. But here’s the rub: A roadmap is not a task list or project plan. That’s not a roadmap; that’s a release plan. ?.

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Roman Pichler

MAY 11, 2021

While internal stakeholders such as marketing, sales, and support play an important role in successfully offering a product, it would be wrong to try to please them and to say yes to all their ideas and requests. ” But do not allow people to dominate and tell you what to do, and don’t agree to a weak compromise.

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ProductPlan

MAY 22, 2020

It’s not necessarily bad when product management adapts to each company’s specific needs. Below is the discussion Melissa Perri had with John Cutler and Jim Semick on why teams that are scaling need product ops. Processes & Practices: The more product teams grow and multiply, the less homogenous they get.

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Userpilot

OCTOBER 20, 2023

Getting user feedback is a crucial step of the market research process. Sentiment analysis makes it possible to compare your product to competitors, evaluate the impact of your product/marketing efforts, and gather actionable growth insights. Use detailed insights to target your growth marketing efforts and PLG strategy.

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Intercom, Inc.

NOVEMBER 3, 2022

Scaling a support team is challenging enough as it is. Maybe you’ve just extended support hours and it’s becoming harder to plan shifts for different time zones; maybe you’re spending hours figuring out schedules for the week ahead; maybe the inflow prediction was a bit off and now your team is under or overstaffed.

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Userpilot

AUGUST 21, 2023

Product managers often work in cross-functional teams and bridge the gap between multiple departments. Product managers need to put themselves in the shoes of company executives, other team members, and of course end users so a strong affinity for empathy will go a long way. What qualities do you look for in a strong product team?

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