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Why is Idea Management Important?

ProductPlan

But coming up with ideas is the easy part. For this reason, product teams need to develop a process for idea management. The two biggest challenges for idea management are efficiently and consistently recording and organizing ideas followed by actually making good use of them. Ideas are fleeting.

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Centralized vs Decentralized Idea Management

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But if you aren’t careful, that steady stream of ideas can quickly become a flood that inundates your team and makes it impossible to get anything done. Without idea management , you’ll quickly find that you spend more time wading through ideas than creating a winning product. Who does it? What do they use?

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Product Leadership in Scrum

Roman Pichler

While the three roles exercise different leadership, the people involved must effectively collaborate to achieve product success and align product strategy, roadmap, backlog, design and technology, and process decisions—without losing focus of their respective core responsibility. [1]. Lead the Product.

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How We’re Turning Feedback into Strategic Product Decisions

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There is no shortage of product ideas. Customer feedback, feature requests, and new ideas born from your interpretation of your product strategy—can all be the starting point for your company’s next great opportunity. For an idea management solution to work for product teams, it must separate the idea from the opportunity.

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Idea Backlog

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If an idea for a product seems viable, why would the team place it in an idea backlog rather than start working on it right away? The idea doesn’t fit the company’s current strategy. The software compiles call data and generates reports to help these departments manage their call queues more efficiently.

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Idea Crowdsourcing 101: Inviting Users Into Your Product Strategy

The Product Manager

These smart user-centric idea generation tactics can help you shape your roadmap around the features your users really care about. The post Idea Crowdsourcing 101: Inviting Users Into Your Product Strategy appeared first on The Product Manager.

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The Idea Generation Machine: Strategies for Transforming Your Ideation Sessions

The Product Manager

Great ideas are hard to come by—especially under pressure. The post The Idea Generation Machine: Strategies for Transforming Your Ideation Sessions appeared first on The Product Manager. Use these tactics to light up your product team's ideation sessions.