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Tools of the Trade: Visualizing Discovery with Opportunity Solution Trees

Product Talk

The opportunity solution tree helps visualize all the work that goes into continuous discovery. And while opportunity solution trees have become increasingly common among product teams, there’s still plenty of room for customization, both in the way you set up your trees and the tools you use to build them.

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Ask the Community: How Do You Shift From Functional Teams to Value-Driven Teams?

Product Talk

When an organization shifts from delivery or feature teams to product teams , the first step is often a change to team structure. Delivery and feature teams are often structured by function—front-end teams, back-end teams, mobile teams, etc. These teams can rarely deliver value on their own.

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What Does a Software Product Manager Do?

The Product HQ

The product management world relies on teams of product people who work in unison toward a central goal. For that reason, each person on the team needs to know exactly what they have to do and how. In the case of someone like a Software product manager, this may prove challenging.

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13 Product Mmanagement Tools the Best Product Managers Use

The Product Coalition

Product managers (PMs) are ninjas of aligning people, management, and processes. No product tool or template can save you if you’re not killing it in these three areas. The best product managers are in a continuous state of discovery and know that?—? neither the product nor roadmap are ever static.

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Build vs. Buy: When to Buy Software or Build It Yourself

Alchemer Mobile

“Should we buy this software or should we build it?” The build vs. buy question is both one of the most common and one of the most challenging dilemmas facing product managers. This is almost always fallacious thinking as the vast majority of app publishers already work with a wide array of third-party tools.

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Build vs. Buy: When to Buy Software or Build It Yourself

Alchemer Mobile

“Should we buy this software or should we build it?” The build vs. buy question is both one of the most common and one of the most challenging dilemmas facing product managers. . This is almost always fallacious thinking as the vast majority of app publishers already work with a wide array of third-party tools.

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Everything You Need to Know about Product Portfolio Strategy

Roman Pichler

1] Product Portfolio, Product Family, and Product Line—What’s the Difference? A product portfolio is a group of products. These might be end-user-facing or internal ones like a software platform, for instance; they might directly generate revenue or support commercial offerings.