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The Biggest Difference Between Product Management and Portfolio Management

Product Management University

When you combine a simple portfolio SWOT analysis with market growth forecasts, the data paints a very clear and factual picture of your most lucrative market segments in pecking order. Those market segment priorities are just as valuable for product marketing and sales as they are product management.

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Hiring Enterprise Sales Teams Ahead of Product/Market Fit

The Product Coalition

A pattern I’ve seen 4 or 5 times seems worth describing, since other folks may be experiencing it: a very early-stage B2B/enterprise company brings on a full sales team before finding product/market fit. I’ve referred here to a solitary product manager, but the best validation interviews include designers and developers/ architects.

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Vision vs. Strategy

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I’ve explained that the context typically needs to be the product vision, and a specific set of outcome-based objectives for each team (OKR’s are an effective way to do that). Product Vision. The product vision describes the future we are trying to create, typically somewhere between 2 and 5 years out.

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Product Portfolio Management & the Strategic Ripple Effect 6 of 10 – A Portfolio Roadmap Isn’t Just a Product Thing

Product Management University

product management publishes a feature release schedule for every product. product marketing positions the value of those features for every product. sales demonstrates and sells the value of those features for every product. customer on-boarding configures features for the customer for each product.

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