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Product Management Articles
How to Effectively Prioritize Ideas for Your Products
When it comes to creating new products, it is vital to have a clear strategy in mind. You need to consider how the product will meet the needs of the consumer, not just the things they say they want. In other words, what are their pain points, and how will you go about resolving them?
Just Released: Streamline Your Product Development by Capturing and Visualizing Events on Your Roadmap
Are you tired of missing important deadlines and struggling to align your team around your product milestones? Do you want to communicate key dates outside your team’s control and raise awareness of their impact on your roadmap? If so, you'll be excited to learn about the new "Events" feature on your roadmap.
What Is a Product Roadmap?
A product roadmap is a specialized management tool that a product manager uses to communicate the product vision and plan to internal company stakeholders. A roadmap will relay the desired outcome and define the steps that are needed to meet this goal within a specified time frame that can encompass several months to several years.
Just Released: ISO 27001 Certificate
As a provider of product roadmap management (PRM) software, we at Gocious are proud to announce that we have obtained the ISO 27001 certification. This is a significant milestone for us, as it demonstrates our commitment to protecting our customers' data.
How to Know the Difference Between a Product Feature and a Customer Need
Products are built with a multitude of different components and features. When we think about the selling factors of a laptop, the experts look at the specs, such as the operating system, screen size, weight, memory, screen resolution, processor type, touchscreen capability, and battery life. But what about the average customer? Their concerns are more focused on questions about how they benefit from the product. With a laptop, a consumer may ask the following questions:
Creating and Leveraging a Product Roadmap
A product roadmap is an important tool that helps to outline the product development process. From product conception through to product completion, it defines all of the steps that are needed to build the finished product.
How Gocious Product Roadmap Management Software Can Help Electronic Companies Be More Agile
In the modern era, it's safe to say that electronics are well on their way to ruling the world. After all, society has been wired to rely on instant access to information, maps, people, and more, all from the palm of their hand, which is wrapped around the latest smartphone on the market. This dependence on electronic devices means that electronic manufacturers must stay on top of market trends, customer feedback, and competing companies to stay relevant.
Top Mistakes to Avoid When Scaling a Product Team
When your manufacturing business starts to grow, it is important to scale production to meet that growth. This can include investing in more production capacity but in the product management space it means new products or expansion of current products to meet new segments needs. While these strategies are all essential to meet this new demand, the ability to grow also comes with the need to scale your product team.
How Effective Roadmaps Can Save You Time
There's no doubt product management is a complex process. First, you have to identify great products that will perform effectively so you can meet your company goals. Then you have to manage the functions that will get the product built efficiently and on time.
How to Cut Through the Noise When Creating a Product Development Strategy
Having a well-defined product strategy can help your team work toward your company goals when ideas flood in or complications arise. It's your guiding compass in product decisions. As a product manager, you know that your product strategy is vital to both your department's and company's success. But how do you get clear on the essentials of your strategy and cut through the noise of ideas and excess information? Let's dig into your basic necessities to establish and follow your product development strategy.
How the Right Product Roadmap Management Software Can Help Electronics Companies Create Better Products
Any product manager knows that getting organized is not always easy. Staying on top of everything is always a challenge with all the moving parts involved in creating high-quality products, especially in the electronics industry. From ideation to product release, organization is critical to any company's success.
The Easiest Way to Manage Your Entire Product Portfolio
As the product manager, it is your responsibility to manage the product portfolio to ensure that your product offering remains relevant and that all products are aligned with the long-term goals of the company.