CONTEXT! CONTEXT! CONTEXT! Storytelling skills for product management and product marketing are essential because without them, the value context (why the market cares) of what you’re building, marketing and selling is completely masked. […]
On the surface, solving market problems versus addressing the needs of a market might sound like semantics. But the implementation of each practice in B2B organizations reveals a huge contrast between the two with a ripple effect that may be just as significant. Common Practice: Solving Market Problems You have a product that addresses [...]
Is there a way to quantify the extent to which our organization is truly market focused? […]
Here’s how to create business requirements that help product marketing and sales do a better job of positioning and selling value. First, remember that the reasons you build new products and features are the same exact reasons the market buys them. Zero difference! Context is the key. It not only gives design and development teams [...]
Your customers don’t care about integrated products as much as you think, but you’d never know it. They don’t miss an opportunity to tell you “your products need to be better integrated.” In reality, it’s just their way of telling you what they ultimately want – integrated workflows. […]
What is a Minimum Viable Product? A minimum viable product is a collection of product features and capabilities that are required (at a minimum) to deliver a solution the market is willing to pay for. The easier it is to quantify the value, the more likely the solution will succeed. An outcome-based minimum viable product [...]
The initial stages of product paralysis begin the moment your company has its second product. Two products, two markets, two sets of users, two sets of priorities, etc. Enter product management into the equation. Assuming your company deems the function of product management as something more than “the enhancement list department,” product management should be [...]
“What’s in the next version?” “What are the top priorities on the roadmap?” If you’re a product manager, you have to answer product questions like this all the time. When answered literally though, they rarely give people the information they’re looking for. Here’s how you can use non-product dialogues to answer product questions. Do it well [...]
If you’re managing products versus managing products to deliver solutions, three staples of product management take on completely new meaning. […]
All great products start with a well-defined need. But a lot of products miss the mark because they start and end with a business problem definition. When your business requirements consist of the problem statement only, it’s a big problem. Here’s why. […]
