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The Secret to a Successful Product Launch: Tying Your Launch to Your Roadmap Strategy

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Product professionals spend countless hours researching, prioritizing, and planning, all in the name of creating a successful product launch. To add more complexity to this issue, these teams handling the launch processes typically coordinate their efforts in a tool that is entirely separate from the product roadmap.

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Product Launch Manager Role – Everything You Need to Know

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What does the product launch manager do? Does your organization really need such a role if you already have a product manager ? The product launch manager coordinates the work of cross-functional teams and supports the product manager during product launches. What is a product launch manager?

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How to Navigate a Complex Product Launch

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After all that hard work building a product, no one wants to stumble at the finish line. But the big reveal is too often accompanied by chaos and frustration behind the scenes, especially with a complex product launch. But with an intentional, comprehensive approach, you can tame even the trickiest product launches.

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What Is Product Management? Roles, Process, Tools, and More

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The main difference between product management and project management is the focus. A project manager is focused on the completion of a specific project, whereas product managers focus primarily on the long-term vision and evolving a product to deliver value over time. Champions a customer-centric approach.

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From Sketchpad to Strategy: Design Alchemy in Product Management

UX Planet

As I reflect on my unique professional journey, I find myself at a juncture where the roles of Design Strategist and Product Manager converge, unveiling the potential for a powerful synergy. When I later transitioned into a Product Manager role, this customer-centric approach became invaluable.

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How bad Ideas get on the Roadmap

Mind the Product

Having a captive audience eager to learn about the product is red meat to me. The only part of it that ever made me cringe was when a question about the product roadmap caught me flat-footed: “Why is this on the roadmap?”. “Oh, It’s been on the roadmap for a while, but I’m not sure we’ll actually get to it…”. “Oh,

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Strategic Product Management: The Role of a Strategic Product Manager

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Product managers conduct primary and secondary market and customer research to find the target market and identify opportunities that existing products don’t satisfy. They tell the product management team what they need to achieve. Market research, differentiation, and positioning are necessary to prepare for the product launch.