PRM (4) Articles

Product Management and the Need for Speed in the Digital Age

Products are becoming more complex, and understanding different market segments and personalizing products for each segment iteratively is on the rise. Providing different variations of the same platform and modules for different market segments is a way to enable personalization. But segments are shifting rapidly in the manufacturing space and keeping up with the pace of change and controlling this complexity requires new ways of working and new tools to support it. 

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How Gocious Goes Beyond Product Roadmap Management

Guiding a product from the drawing board to the marketplace requires a full-team effort, one in which everyone in the organization is working with the same information and aligned to the same goals. Historically, manufacturers and software development companies have coordinated this kind of product development using a product roadmap. However, while traditional product roadmap management software can be helpful, it’s also limited. Typically, product roadmap management software focuses on projects over products, meaning the emphasis is on individual tasks as opposed to the overall, bottom-line effect of the fully-realized product. Additionally, traditional product management software fails to account for full product portfolios, and for how multiple components work together. 

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What are the Best Techniques to Create a Product Roadmap?

What should manufacturers know about developing an effective product roadmap? And what are the best product roadmap software solutions for manufacturers to consider? Get insights in the latest post from Gocious, one of the foremost names in product roadmap management. 

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9 Effective Ways to Improve Collaborations in Product Development

Multi-stakeholder processes require collaborations to be effective. Think of your own company and all the different departments and teams involved in developing your products. You have your designers and engineers who create the ideas for the products or the new features that will be integrated. You have the entire production team that covers sourcing materials, manufacturing components, and assembly. Then, there’s the marketing team is in charge of promoting the end product. All these players have significant roles to fill that depend on each other, and no one can complete their work in isolation.

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7 Unique Advantages of Using a Strategic Product Management Tool

It's no secret that managing product development is a complex process. You may have dozens of team leads or executives to check in with and keep informed. You could be working with one prototype product or managing an entire portfolio of product lines from original models to brand new launches. 

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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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Insights to Actions: The 5-Step Product Management Method

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Just Released: Categorizing Product Lines

Organizations with many products or variants need a way to organize their team and products to be easily managed and analyzed. Using the Gocious platform, you can organize your products into product lines. Today we are happy to announce that, in addition, you can now group your product lines under different categories. With categories, you can view all your product line changes and launch roadmap grouped by category.

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Just released: Tracking changes of your product line configuration

We are excited to introduce the Change Report into the Gocious product portfolio management solution.  The Change report is a feature that enables the comparison of product line plan versions and increments to gain visibility into what has changed from one to the other, with just a click of a button.

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