My areas of interest (on which I take notes here) currently are: Product design design psychology Product management Note-taking…
Cagan writes that about half of product ideas won't work. That's why Product discovery is necessary in product development – it enables to…
Tags: product management product design Even though People tend to speak about problems in terms of solutions , users and customers aren…
The differences stem mostly from three areas: 1) Business model 2) Product specialization & complexity 3) "Customers vs. users" Ad 1) B…
Good design consists of many layers. It has to be valuable, useful, usable, findable, accessible, credible and desirable. But the most…
In B2B, especially enterprise, PMs must cater to these two groups of people that are very different. Customers (or buyers) often don't use…
3 key differences separating the best product companies: How it views the role of technology : It's not a necessary expense that just serves…
Empowered product teams are cross-functional teams who are given objectives with a desired outcome and then are accountable to achieving…
Tags: product management product design Value is more important than usability or performance. If a product or feature doesn't bring…
In most companies, product teams are there just to deliver features. While they're still cross-functional, they are not empowered to…
When you talk to customers about a specific problem, both sides will overestimate the problem's importance. As customers "focus" on that…
There are four main risks that product teams have to deal with when building something: 1) Value risk: Will customers buy this and will…
The field of PM is farily young. It's also a very complex, operational job involving collaboration with many different teams and taking into…
The longer you spend building something without getting feedback from users, the bigger the risk that you won't be successful. MVP-approach…
Product teams should focus on producing outcomes instead of outputs. Outcome means achieving a business result. Output means releasing a…
PMs regularly need to report to executives. They need to be effective in the communication with them in order to have the execs' support for…
People naturally think and talk in terms of solutions instead of the underlying problems. When you talk to users about their problems, they…
There's an overlap between what a product designer and a product manager does. They mostly meet at research. They define use cases together…
Product discovery is a process in product development designed to mitigate the Four product risks . It's about figuring out what exactly…
The role of product leadership is to give empowered teams a focused and compelling product strategy that's grounded in qualitative and…
Product management is about collaboration and coordination of efforts. Product manager's job is to decide what to build next and then help…
A product manager is responsible for deciding what to build next in a product. In order to do that, the PM has to make sure that the feature…
Tags: product management Product managers have to have deep knowledge of customers. This is part of the four things that PM's need to have…
Product strategy describes how the organization (or its part) is going to reach the product vision. It should be focused. It needs to be…
Focus of product teams should be on outcomes (solving problems) instead of outputs (delivering features). This Outcomes over outputs…
The whole product team needs to understand the customer needs and business objectives. This context is needed for product teams to be really…
title: Product teams should prioritize opportunities, not solutions Product teams must be outcome-focused (see Outcomes over outputs…
Product vision is a way of communicating where we want the product to be in several years. It should inspire and motivate product teams. It…
Author: Productboard Type: #article Tags: product management Product manager's job is to decide what to build next . PM has to make sure…
Product leadership is crucial for making empowered teams work well. It is responsible for: Creating a strong product vision. Such vision…
Roadmaps are one of PMs most important outputs but their purpose and usage differ between external and internal roadmaps: External is partly…
Tags: product management Time to money – it typically takes several iterations to develop a product idea enough to deliver the necessary…
In addition to enthusiasm and energy, PMs need to build different types of knowledge in order to successfully ship good products…
Sales plays a crucial role in enterprise SW. The sales process is also complex. PMs need to have the understanding of that role and the…
We can't know in advance what will work for customers and users. We can mitigate the value risk by doing research – we discover the problem…
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