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Applying Proto-Strategy to Product Management

The Product Guy

We perceive strategy from the management as the gospel – Usually the opposite, a good leadership team usually expects the individual contributors to provide iterative feedback. The idea is to treat the strategy as a prototype that will undergo many iterations and testing. Some of the challenges from my personal experience has been.

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The Worst Nightmare of Any Product Manager

The Product Guy

I had a strong roadmap, clear goals and a vision for the product. We would regularly meet to discuss the features required, what the customers expected. In fact, our tests regularly failed. In fact, our tests regularly failed. A production release was a distant vision. We were testing our code.

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Product Discovery Tips

Roman Pichler

I find it helpful to form a product discovery team that consists of: Development team members: user experience (UX) designer, developer, tester; Key stakeholders , for example, people from marketing, sales, and support; A ScrumMaster or agile coach. Talk to the Users. Do Just-Enough Product Discovery Work.

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“Build What Matters” Framework for Startups

The Product Coalition

The importance of measuring the small outcomes associated with their product goals or visions is the key to churn expected benefits throughout the product life cycle. Continuous experiments and user research, a part of D&F act as a preventative layer and bring stability while de-risking the product to save time, effort and money.

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When a collaboration is not a collaboration

UX Planet

For example, the more technical the product, the larger the designers technology gap that must be filled by an engineer. Conversely, if the user experience heavily relies on a graphic user interface, the larger the gap for the product designer toaddress. or Has any customer specifically asked for this?

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TEI 200: Deliver great products that customers love – with Valerio Zanini

Product Innovation Educators

Empowering product teams to create an agile culture with a customer focus. We actively look for problems and unmet needs, recognizing that those are opportunities to create value for customers. Our mental wheels are constantly spinning, thinking about how we can make existing products better and create new products that wow customers.

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A summary of “Building Products for the Enterprise”

The Product Coalition

As argued in the intro of the book, even though enterprise software makes up a big share of the total software market, most Product Management books still focus on consumer products only as well as ignore that enterprise software products are built and distributed very differently. Product Management is about solving customer problems.”