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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.

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To Fund or Not to Fund: 5 Helpful Questions to Ask About a Struggling Product Line

In the lifecycle of any product portfolio, there comes a time when certain products underperform, leaving decision-makers with a difficult question: Should you continue to fund or phase them out? Underperforming product lines can drag down your portfolio's overall performance, siphon resources, and reduce profitability. Yet, there's also the potential that, with the right adjustments, these products could regain their footing. So, how do your product teams make this decision?

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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.

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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. 

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Interval Roadmaps: Product Roadmap Innovation at Your Fingertips

Our new Interval Roadmap converts our dashboards into a streamlined vertical roll-up, clearly displaying product plans by time intervals.

Now, your product management teams can easily understand and monitor their development plans by month, quarter or year, over a 1-, 3-, or 5-year timeframe.

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The Best Roadmapping Tool for Platform Organizations

With platform organizations, having a clear and cohesive strategy is paramount for success. Navigating complex product configurations, aligning cross-functional teams, and maintaining transparency across diverse stakeholders can be challenging. This is where roadmapping software for complex products  come into play. 

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The Ultimate Guide to the Evolution of Agile Product Roadmapping in Manufacturing

The manufacturing process is complex in scope, strategy, and systems. While innovation can transform every process step from the manufacturing floor to the products themselves, it also adds to the complexity of physical product development. Products require the involvement of more stakeholders than before, bringing together many different opinions, timelines, roadmaps, and requirements. 

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How Manufacturers Can Leverage the Role of the Product Marketing Manager

When it comes to leadership in the manufacturing world, product marketers and product managers are like two peas in a pod. Both positions require a thorough understanding of the product and their ideal customer's preferences and pain points. The day-to-day of both positions requires strategic planning and cross-functional collaboration to drive customer success. 

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What Is a Platform Product Manager?

Most customers don’t realize the number of people behind the complex products in their lives. From the product owners and managers to the team leads to the skilled technical employees, it takes a large, cross-collaborative team to design and build complex products. One of those important roles is the platform product manager.

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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. 

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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?

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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. 

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