Visualizing Product Dependencies for Better Alignment
Modern product development has many moving pieces to oversee and align. The key to staying on top of product development is to use sophisticated product roadmapping tools that keep the relevant stakeholders up-to-date in real-time. A product roadmap management software that focuses on clear visuals and advanced filtering options creates transparency and alignment across the portfolio. Transparency is essential for many reasons, including informing executives on product progress, coordinating stakeholders on decision-making, and prioritizing ideas based on company goals.
Why it Pays to Track Customer Feedback in the Product Roadmap
Ideas for new products or product improvements come from a variety of sources. Sometimes, they result from a stroke of genius, while other times, it’s the reaction to market changes or competition changes. Other inspiration for product improvements comes directly from the customer. When the end-user of your product tells you how they would like to see the product improved or enhanced, and you follow through to deliver on that feedback, you’ll have an advantage at keeping loyal customers and growing your market share.
Physical Product Development 101: How to Design, Develop, and Manage Successful Products
Designing physical products is a thrilling experience, from sharing the initial concept with your team to watching the product take shape during manufacturing and finally having a positive impact on the customer's everyday life. Making physical products is also a lengthy and detailed process. Product managers must collaborate with market experts, engineers, designers, manufacturers, and many more stakeholders to see the product successfully through the launch. Physical product creation relies on experts, materials, technology, and artistry to come to life. Here’s what you should know about physical product development.
Just Released: Advanced Filters Provide Greater Insight into the Product Portfolio Roadmap
Having one central dashboard that allows you to see the entire product portfolio and their release milestones or major shared component adoptions across your products provides a great ability for stakeholders to understand how products come together and whether they are aligned across various teams.
How Does Product Roadmap Oversight Benefit Executives?
As the leaders of a company, executives share the same vision and goals that their teams do. However, executives are more concerned with the long-term strategy of the company than the day-to-day work. Without constantly checking in with their employees, it can be difficult for them to know the status of projects.
How to Lead Your Product Teams to Success in 2024
We're two months into 2024, and your Q1 product initiatives are likely well underway. Setting a strong cadence for effective team processes at the beginning of the year is crucial, especially when deliverables in the following quarters depend on the success of current projects. What can your teams do to ensure their projects continue to progress smoothly?
How to Use Your Product Roadmaps to Combat Market Saturation
Combatting market saturation requires strategic planning and innovation to differentiate your product and capture new market segments. Innovation helps keep your products relevant and competitive against other companies in your industry, while strategic planning and market research can open up new doors. These are just two strategies among many more that can help your company avoid market saturation before it has a major impact on your portfolio.
5 Ways to Keep Your Product Roadmaps Flexible Yet Focused
Traditionally, your product managers have spent large portions of their workweek checking in with each product team and their progress. They've struggled to update spreadsheets, create presentations, and share only the latest versions with you, the executive.
How Product Roadmapping Tools Make PLE More Effective & Efficient
Increasing efficiency within your organization's product development process does not come in a one-size-fits-all solution. Each industry has unique challenges to launching the next best product. The product development approach best suited to your organization will depend on the size of your company, the complexity of your product lines, and your mindset for success.
How the WSJF Formula Gives Your Product Teams Clarity
Leading product executives know that building great products is both an art and a science. Even if they don't directly participate in the product development process, most product executives are well acquainted with the challenges of managing a portfolio of products. While creativity and outside-the-box thinking are encouraged, prioritization frameworks are also necessary for consistency and alignment.
Just Released: Prioritizing Voice of the Customer Using Capability Scores
Your product teams consist of talented and capable individuals who are dedicated to creating amazing products. Their skills make it possible to produce and launch established models while generating consistent suggestions to improve future iterations.
Why Your Teams Should Build a Minimum Viable Product (MVP)
The manufacturing world is experiencing transformation, with an increasing number of companies adopting agile manufacturing practices. Adopting an agile framework requires a shift from creating fully-fledged prototypes for a specific stage of extensive testing to developing and continuously testing minimum-viable products (MVPs) instead.