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I’ve abandoned “MVP”

Mironov Consulting

Almost without fail, I find that the “maker” side of software companies (developers, designers, product folks, DevOps, tech writers…) and the “go-to-market” side of software companies (sales, marketing, support, customer success.) Some frequent bad outcomes from this confusion: We never finish our MVP. Here’s why…. What To Do?

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Part One: Key Elements to Become a Healthy Product-Led Organization

Bain Public

Let’s face it, most organizations have poor habits around roadmap completion — this is why getting leadership (or stakeholders) to develop consistent, stable and familiar routines reinforced through repetition and communication is valuable. Unfortunately, product leadership culture can get a little messy.

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Strategic Product Management: The Role of a Strategic Product Manager

Userpilot

They tell the product management team what they need to achieve. It tells your product team what they need to do to build a product that satisfies the needs of a specific group of users, and contributes to the realization of the company objectives. Goals are important aspects of the product strategy. Source: Pragmatic Institute.

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Your Audience’s Real Roadmap Questions

Mironov Consulting

I strongly advocate a “portfolio pie” model of prioritization, to avoid putting all of our development eggs into the feature basket. Especially in enterprise/B2B, sales teams may have only a handful of major active accounts, each carrying a lot of revenue. More here.)

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Tackling complex design debt: a three-step framework

Intercom, Inc.

. “Our in-app messages and email messaging enabled companies to reach customers inside the product in real time, so they could deliver the right message, at the right moment” Initially, our sole focus was developing in-product messaging. We knew we had to change tack and find a way to align teams and functions as we scaled.

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10 Must-Have Code-Free Product Marketing Tools – The Only Tools You’ll Really Need As a Product Marketer

Userpilot

In this post, we’re going to provide you with the best Product Marketing tools for each Product Marketing Job-To-Be-Done – which are critical for allowing your product marketers to do their work independently from your dev team or graphic designers! Now – how are they supposed to do it without development skills though?

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What is SaaS Marketing? The Ultimate Guide

Userpilot

Choose marketing channels Once SaaS marketing teams have identified the target audience and defined the positioning of the product, it’s time to select the marketing channels that will be used to drive acquisitions. Sluggish MRR growth could be an indicator of poor product-market fit, high churn, or a pricing mismatch.