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How to Leverage Conflict in Product Management

Roman Pichler

Listen to the audio version of this article: [link] Why Conflict Matters Conflict is often seen as something bad that should not occur. Think of the salespeople, marketers, and customer support team members, as well as the UX designers, architects, programmers, and testers you might interact with. But in fact, it’s perfectly normal.

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A Framework to Automate Rapport Building

The Product Guy

What about stepping up to lead a team while a coworker is out on leave or joining a new team and having to earn their trust in less than a month? . Using existing behavioral and habit formation research, I developed and employed a simple and effective framework. Have you ever had to talk a difficult customer down from the ledge?

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Customer satisfaction surveys: Everything you need to know 

Alchemer Mobile

This information empowers teams across your company to make informed decisions based on customer experiences and perceptions. It helps reveal how effectively a company meets its customers’ needs and expectations. This reinforces a positive experience and encourages future participation in surveys.

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10 Product Roadmapping Mistakes to Avoid

Roman Pichler

But it has the following three drawbacks: A feature-based roadmap can give rise to and strengthen a feature-factory mindset where adding features is more important than creating value and making a positive impact on people’s lives and the business. Your job is not to please the stakeholders, but to achieve product success.

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Everything You Need to Know about Product Portfolio Strategy

Roman Pichler

2] Figure 2: A Sample Product Portfolio Strategy If you are familiar with my work on product strategy , you’ll recognise the structure I’ve used in Figure 2: It is based on the Product Vision Board —the tool I’ve developed to capture a product vision and a product strategy. What’s more, it might cause poor alignment and weak buy-in.

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Establishing a Good Product Relationship with a Remote Engineering Team

The Product Guy

We had just hired a new VP of Product who was radically (and rapidly) changing our product development process, and our engineers – based remotely, in Argentina – were struggling to keep up. “To Second, and more important, it shows the demotivation and binary thinking that can result from bad or nonexistent communication.

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Common Product Vision Board Mistakes

Roman Pichler

Solution : Describe the ultimate purpose of your product, the positive change the product should bring about like “healthy eating”. Therefore, choose a specific market segment and develop a product for the few, not the many, as Steve Blank suggested , particularly when you manage a new or young product. Needs are Features.

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