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7 Headaches Every Product Manager Understands (And How to Make Them Disappear!)

 

The role of a product manager is a rewarding one, even if it's not always glamorous. You're busy balancing the opinions and priorities of different departments, trying to keep everyone on the same page while maintaining ambitious timelines. Still, despite these challenges, seeing a new product or variation on a feature launch into the real world from the ideation stage to the sitting-on-a-shelf stage is incredibly satisfying. 

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Manage Product Definition with a Single Source of Truth (SSOT)

As a product manager, you know that your success depends on capturing and having access to accurate product definitions. But keeping track of all that data can be tricky– it's easy for information to get scattered across different files, databases, and teams. The problem gets more complex as your market grows and you want to extend your current products to new or adjacent markets. This can make it challenging to efficiently have all the information at your disposal to make informed decisions about your product.

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Use a Product Roadmap to Drive Your Product Strategy

As a product manager, you need a clear strategy to drive your product forward. Without a solid plan, you'll struggle and make little progress.  

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Webinar replay: Gocious product roadmap management

There are plenty of product roadmap tools out there today. Still, our research has shown there is a clear need to improve product roadmaps to ensure teams of teams are aligned, the entire portfolio meets strategic business objectives, and there is efficiency in re-using components and increasing innovation. Many roadmap platforms today:

  • Organize teams around one product at a time, not your entire portfolio
  • Are more focused to meet the needs of developing software rather than physical products
  • Can force you into specific ways of working rather than being flexible enough to adapt to the unique requirements different manufacturers do have

Struggle to understand the dependencies of product content across your product teams and your overall organization

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To Agile or Not to Agile: That is the Question for Manufacturers (Part 3 of 3)

PART 3
The impact on your org and how to be successful

To catch up with this series, please see here for Part 1: product planning for durable goods; and here for Part 2: getting started in our new integrated world.  

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To Agile or Not to Agile: That is the Question for Manufacturers (Part 2 of 3)

PART 2
Getting started in our new integrated world 

Please read Part 1 of this 3-part series on the move to Agile here: product planning for durable goods.

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To Agile or Not to Agile: That is the Question for Manufacturers (Part 1 of 3)

PART 1
Product planning for durable goods 

Seeing first-hand what our durable goods manufacturing clients face daily as they aim to update their processes got us thinking about what it really means to effect change in their environment. What tangible and intangible factors must be considered. How to approach an endeavor that they perceive will append their entire product management operation. Naturally, we mean the “switch” from more traditional Waterfall models to newer Agile ones.

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Insights to Actions: The 5-Step Product Management Method


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Product Management tools: today and tomorrow

Product Management plays a key role inside companies driven by their products; it’s instrumental for organizational growth and strategic market advantages. 

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Just released: Controlling changes in shared product features

It was a big effort, but we are finally here! Today we announce the general availability of change control for features. With this set of new capabilities at your disposal, you will be able to collaborate with your team more efficiently and run scenarios on your plans before publishing them across your product lines. You will also enjoy higher transparency as Gocious will highlight what features have changed since the last plan submission. 

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What’s in a name? The different shades of Product Manager.

Product leaders as revenue growth drivers

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Webinar replay: Tools for modern product management

The function of product management is evolving within manufacturing companies.  Senior leadership is pressing for more growth, more innovation, more diversification, more market expansion.  All of this falls in the lap of product management to figure out the path forward. It is more important than ever for product management to revisit the tools in their proverbial toolbox.

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