Welcome to the age of Product
Excellence

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Demystifying product management

Anand Subramani shares hard-earned product wisdom

Anand Subramani shares hard-earned product wisdom

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Why is product management hard?

Three factors all PMs must consider when making product decisions…

Three factors all PMs must consider when making product decisions…

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What can product managers learn from a 1920s newspaper pioneer?

Quite a bit, it turns out…

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What are your top-requested features over the past 7/30/90 days?

Here’s what’s new in productboard

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Product managers are turning to products to help them build solutions that matter

Reading the Sirius Decisions 2017 Product Management Tools and Technology Study this morning, I was struck by their finding that we are on the cusp of a major shift in how product leaders manage their products.

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Using product metrics to build the right features in the right way

It’s well understood that product leaders should use metrics to guide their efforts, so why do so many teams struggle to do so effectively?

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One piece of advice for PMs

Rejecting the cult of "we’ll-do-it-all"

Hubert Palan is one of the more curious and enthusiastic people I’ve met in this lifetime. He’s also spent much of the past five years speaking with hundreds of product managers, trying to learn what they’d expect a dream all-in-one tool for product managers to do. So when I asked Hubert recently what piece of advice he’d offer PMs, he did what he often does — responded with a story…

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Faster horses and the Model T

Flaws in the classic product manager’s adage

As product managers, we’ve all heard the adage that if Henry Ford had asked people what they wanted, they would have said a faster horse. And if he’d listened, the Model T might have been designed to gallop in exchange for carrots.

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What every PM needs to know about user segments

And how ignoring them leads to failure 😱

In a typical marketplace, not every user has the same needs. But you can usually identify several subgroups of users who have very similar needs to one another. We call these user segments.

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Set yourself up for success during prioritization

productboard gives you a map of your problem space, and a structure for organizing your feature ideas within it. It helps you identify the feature ideas with the greatest projected impact on users, and offers one-click access to the research, feedback, feature requests emails, and support tickets that inspired each feature idea in the first place.