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Product Management Articles
Kevin Jankay
Recent Posts
Just Released: Open API for Customizable Integrations
Adding a new piece of software to your organization’s Tech Stack requires careful consideration. You want new tech to integrate with your existing systems, improve your processes, and provide helpful tools for your team. Some questions your tech team might ask are whether the provider offers guided set-up or training, and if you need a feature that doesn’t currently exist, are they willing to build it for you?
The MVP Blueprint: How Product Managers Turn Ideas into Impactful Products
Successful product managers understand that agility and a clear strategy are essential when technology and digital components are increasingly incorporated into physical products. One method to achieve this delicate balance is to follow the Minimum Viable Product (MVP) approach. Focusing on the MVP allows teams to validate ideas faster, reduce risk, and create products that truly resonate with users.
Just Released: KPI Sets and KPI Roadmaps
As a global product management leader, you now have access to the new KPI Sets and the KPI Roadmap, tools designed to help you measure and visualize the impact of your product roadmaps across regions and teams. With this update, Gocious empowers you and your teams to make data-driven decisions, ensuring your product portfolios align with global market demands and business objectives.
Unlocking Strategic Portfolio Management Excellence in Manufacturing
For large-scale manufacturers and companies managing complex product lifecycles, product management is often a daunting puzzle. Coordinating multiple teams, tracking dependencies, and ensuring strategic alignment across product lines is no small feat. Traditional tools often fall short in managing the intricacies of complex products within sophisticated product portfolios.
Transforming Strategic Product Portfolio Management: The Gocious Advantage
Introducing New Plan Templates and Task Management Features
At Gocious, we’re committed to creating an all-in-one solution for strategic portfolio management. With our latest updates, including plan templates and comprehensive task management features, we’re closing the gap toward a complete Product Lifecycle Management (PLM) tool that empowers product managers to connect siloed areas, manage tasks across the lifecycle, and streamline their strategic planning. Here’s how these new features work and how they can benefit your teams.
How to Keep Product Management Teams in Sync with Product Roadmap Software
Creating, producing, and managing products involves many important players, from product and engineering organizations to executive and go-to-market teams. One challenge is keeping all these stakeholders informed when it matters most. Part of this responsibility lies with product management teams, and with the right tools to help them, keeping each other and the rest of the organization in sync becomes easier.
Say Hello to the Product Lifecycle Roadmap
Does this sound familiar? Your team rolls out a plan for a software update, only to find it includes discontinued products or features that aren't launch-ready. Even well-aligned teams can struggle when vital lifecycle details are hidden away in their product management tools. Miscommunication happens—especially when product data isn't easily accessible to everyone who needs it.
How Electronics Companies Can Speed Time-to-Market with Strategic Roadmap Planning
Reducing time-to-market is a primary focus for electronic companies. Balancing the launch of innovative physical models on realistic but competitive timelines while continuously providing customers with new software features is not easy. Decreasing time-to-market runways requires more than bold declarations and shared targets. That's where strategic roadmapping and product roadmap software helps.
Agile Leadership in Product Management: Inspiring a Culture of Experimentation and Adaptability
The world of product development is competitive. Because of this, many companies have aligned their operations with Agile principles or a hybrid version. Agile leadership isn't just a nice-to-have for companies seeking to lead their industries—it's a must. While Agile leaders thrive on experimentation and adaptability, which are crucial for success, they must also inspire their teams to keep the organization aligned.
Integrating Design Thinking into Agile Product Roadmapping for Better Products
Staying competitive in product development requires out-of-the-box thinking. Having creative leaders in the company can lead to innovative thinking, while the methodologies and frameworks also help facilitate the other side of creativity. Combining methods from different disciplines can yield powerful results and spark new results from your teams.
Essential Software Tools for Agile Manufacturers
In the digital age, investing in software tools is necessary to streamline operations, enhance productivity, and maintain a competitive edge in the market. These software solutions offer various functionalities to benefit manufacturing businesses, from managing production processes to optimizing supply chains and analyzing product portfolios.
Agile Implementation Strategies for Manufacturing Excellence
Manufacturing companies that want to enhance their competitiveness, flexibility, and responsiveness are adopting Agile methods, at least in a hybrid framework. This switch enables their software and hardware teams to collaborate more effectively while enhancing their overall product development process. Following Agile principles also brings companies closer to their customers by studying their needs, incorporating feedback into prioritization processes, and encouraging innovation at all stages of development.