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What is the Product Operations Career Path?

ProductPlan

Organizing, automating, and making meaning out of this data tsunami is another critical product operations skill that lets product managers spend less time digging up or transmitting the basics and more time extracting the deep value that eventually informs the product roadmap. Finally, top-notch communication skills are essential.

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How to Survive the Hardest Part of Product Management by Janna Bastow

Mind the Product

But the training was intense! This sales training laid the foundation for the survival tactics Janna still uses today to manage people. One of the hardest challenges in product management is getting people aligned – especially if they have different reporting lines and objectives. Roadmaps are stories.

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Sustainable Product Strategy: How to Move from Outputs to Outcomes

Amplitude

Roadmapping is at the core of product strategy and product management. Output-focused product roadmaps provide a false sense of certainty, all while limiting product work to a few big bets, which may or may not pan out. We broke into pairs and then each pair developed a feature roadmap along a particular area of focus.

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Mismatched Expectations: Product Information and Sales Teams

Mironov Consulting

” Product: “We’re endlessly creating and updating demos, decks, product bulletins, release dates/roadmaps, FAQs, technical docs, checklists, cheat sheets -- but Sales hardly uses any of them, and still expresses deep frustration with us.  Sales Sales teams hate this.  They

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Sales Enablement Manager Salary [+ Resources to Advance]

Userpilot

Let’s dive deeper into the top 5 picks for you: Simplify sales data analytics and reporting with Userpilot : An important part of sales enablement is analyzing sales data to uncover problem areas, regularly track metrics , and report using data visualizations and dashboards.

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The Seven-Part Guide to Portfolio Product Management & Marketing

Product Management University

Sales Training on Customers vs. Products. The goal is to make sure sales dialogues lead with a strong vision and a differentiating value story that’s supported by all products. When it comes to sales training, products play a supporting role, not a leading role. The Value of a Product Marketing Roadmap for Sales.

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Intercom on Product: Accelerating your strategy after COVID-19

Intercom, Inc.

There’s no use in taking a few months to build an epic 40-page report on the next move when the idea is to be fast and agile. And the 40-page report took as long as it would to nearly hire the team and get them to build a product. When it comes to making your business case, however, try not to overthink it. So you can overthink this.

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