Are product managers really involved in strategic discussions, or are we just order takers? Â Adrienne Tan has poked the beehive and started a great discussion with this article. Â Joining in from here, hopefully adding folks to the conversation. Â Check it out, and chime in here or on the brainmates blog.
Why Do Products Fail?
Why do products fail? Â Trying to organize all of the reasons that your product might fail is a Herculean effort. Â Understanding how your product did, will, or might fail will help you focus on what you need to do next.
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Specializing Generalist
The ideal agile team is made up of specializing generalists – but what does that really mean? Â The goal isn’t to prevent functional silos of expertise, it is to allow people to cover for each other.
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Tally the Score – Comparing Products Part 8
After building an understanding of which problems are important to your each customer you want to serve, and rating each competitive product , you’re ready to tally the scores and see how your product compares with your competition. Â This tells you if you’re likely to crush it, and if not, lets you know where you should invest later. Â This series on comparing products starts here if you need to get caught up.
And now, on to the finale…
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Tagged comparing products, competitive analysis, lean, lean product management, Product Management
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Rating Your Competition – Comparing Products Part 7
At this point in the product comparison series, you know who your customers are, which problems are important to them, and which products compete to solve those problems. Â It’s time to score the competing products and see how the solutions your product provides (or will provide) will stack up. Â This is the latest in a series on comparing products, jump back to the start of the series if you came here first, but hurry up :).
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