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519: Product verification, most important of the 19 activities of product management – with Nishant Parikh

Product Innovation Educators

He emphasizes that these activities vary based on context (large vs. small organizations, B2B vs. B2C, Agile vs. Waterfall). He emphasized the importance of role clarity and how the lack of it often leads to frustrated product managers leaving their positions.

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Starter KPIs for B2B/Enterprise

Mironov Consulting

I’m often asked what KPIs B2B/enterprise product folks should use, or what OKRs they should choose. Why KPIs from consumer companies don’t fit well with B2B/enterprise. Some B2B KPIs starting points, knowing that every company is different. [1] But I find they don’t map well to enterprise companies.

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A Decade of Product Management

Melissa Perri

Not every company has seen all these changes, but by and large I think it's been a positive push forward and I'm proud of where we've come from and where we have gotten to. -- 2014: "I do not need Product Managers, I can run my company myself,I have the strategy." How do we run it in B2B" Managers are less afraid of experimentation.

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How can Enterprise Product Managers Attain Maximum Insight From Limited Datapoints?

Mind the Product

Not surprisingly, when you’re looking for customer validation for B2B products, there simply aren’t as many datapoints to draw from in enterprise product management as there are for consumer products. Aspiring enterprise product managers often tell me that collecting a robust customer sample is difficult.

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Why Product Management for B2B Needs to be Different From B2C

Mind the Product

Is there a difference between developing an enterprise and a consumer product? In both cases your software product is used by humans, but an enterprise is a legal entity, while a consumer is a person. And the fact that an enterprise is a legal entity makes product management for enterprise products a little different.

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A Framework to Automate Rapport Building

The Product Guy

You could start with using DACI as a baseline: develop ways to quickly identify / guess at their DACI profile and how your DACI profile and theirs can interact positively. Form a high-level understanding of the alignment in your relationship (positive, negative, or neutral). Test See how that initial test works in the actual meeting.

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Defining Guidelines in Product Management

The Product Guy

A lot of them worked in other positions before moving to product management, like engineers, analysts, marketers and project managers, and learned by taking on extra responsibilities. Being a product manager in a B2B service company, the question was particularly difficult to answer. More About The Product Mentor. Better Decisions.