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Priority Starts at the Top

Folding Burritos

You’ve likely worked on new features, bug fixes, minor UX improvements, perhaps tackled some technical debt, and so on. . UX improvements can be valued in terms of incremental optimization outcomes like reducing task completion times or improving particular funnel steps. Do we want to work on multiple product goals at once?

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Building High-Performing Product Teams

Roman Pichler

It’s important that they have the right skills to spot and evaluate design and technology opportunities and to develop a rough understanding of the likely effort required to implement product decisions. The skills typically include architecture, programming, testing, and if the product is end-user facing, UX design capabilities.

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Succeeding with Product Delivery and Scrum: 10 Tips for Product People

Roman Pichler

It therefore offers only limited support for product people. 4 Take Advantage of Product Goals I like to think of a product goal as the specific outcome that a product should achieve in the next two to three months, for example, to increase conversion, to decrease churn, or to future-proof the product by removing technical debt. [4]

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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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Succeeding with Product Portfolio Roadmaps

Roman Pichler

The product teams hence have to figure out what their specific contributions will have to be. To put it differently, meeting the product goals must help achieve the portfolio objectives. As a consequence, a product roadmap is no longer exclusively directed by the corresponding product strategy.

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Setting a UX Budget? Answer These 6 Questions First.

UX Planet

Every dollar’s worth of expense is a fight, and spending 30% of the budget on “simply asking questions” (read: UX research) can be a hard sell. So, how do you ensure that UX gets its due in terms of investment? How do you plan to set aside a budget to enhance product performance and user satisfaction?

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Product in Practice: Introducing Opportunity Solution Trees at Texthelp

Product Talk

When they read Continuous Discovery Habits , Tali says she found the methods both inspiring and practical and she started by mapping opportunity solution trees: “It raised so many questions about the business goals and the product goals. There isn’t always one way of mapping a tree,” says Tali.