Our redesigned board layouts (grid, timeline, column) are faster, more flexible, and come with enhanced filtering and grouping so that your teams can operate efficiently with precision. Also, weâre introducing new templates and the ability to instantly switch between layouts, to further remove friction so your teams are empowered to run.
The 2022 Product Excellence Report contains insights from 1400+ product managers and leaders
We excited to announce The Dangerous Animals of Product Management, a new video series by Productboard about challenging stakeholders you may come across in your day-to-day product management process.
For companies looking to achieve Product Excellence, there are valuable lessons to be learned from this move. First, it’s crucial to have a clear vision of how new features can enhance your productâs value proposition. This begins with understanding your users and their needs. Never underestimate the power of seamless integrationâusers want solutions that fit naturally into their existing workflows without adding complexity. Second, establish a crystal clear product strategy. Know precisely how and in what sequence you will deliver your product to the market. Finally, execute your roadmap and plan with precision.
With todayâs launch of Productboard AI 2.0, featuring new fully-automated feedback categorization, true continuous product discovery is finally within reach. Now you can build what customers really need, increase product manager productivity, and ship even faster with the next generation of AI for product teams, fully integrated into your product
10 essential product management skills can be broken into five “soft” skills and five “hard” skills. Product management “soft” skills underpin what makes a good product manager, while the âhardâ product management skills help drive each phase within the product management lifecycle.
Soft Skills: Communication, empathy, leadership, adaptability, and organization
Hard Skills: Conducting interviews, prioritizing ruthlessly, experimenting with prototypes, analyzing and interpreting data, and leveraging AI tools
In an Agile team, the product owner maintains the product backlog. Their responsibilities include defining user stories, prioritizing backlog items, and aligning the backlog with stakeholder needs and business objectives. The product owner serves as the bridge between stakeholders and the development team, ensuring alignment among all parties and clear communication of the product vision.
A product strategy is a high-level plan for keeping your team aligned and working on the right things. It is a crucial artifact for any product-led organization.
When it comes to an enterprise product strategy, the stakes are even higher. Here, product managers are dealing with multiple product lines, a complex network of stakeholders, and customer personas with various needs. However, by weaving the principles of a strong product strategy with the specific challenges and opportunities of the enterprise domain, product teams can set themselves up for success.
Product portfolio management is a strategic approach employed by businesses to oversee and optimize their collection of products and servicesâknown as their product portfolio. It involves evaluating and prioritizing the allocation of resources across various products to ensure alignment with organizational goals, market demands, and profitability objectives. Through this process, companies can make informed decisions regarding which products to develop, maintain, or retire, thus maximizing the overall product portfolio value and enhancing competitiveness in the market.
Agile product management is a methodology that applies agile principles to product development, focusing on iterative building, continuous feedback, and rapid adaptation to change.
Continuous product discovery emphasizes ongoing exploration, learning, and adaptation to meet the evolving needs of users and the market, even after your product launches.Â
Why is product feature prioritization necessary? Because the reality of building products is that you simply canât do everything. There are many different ways to prioritize, but, at the end of the day, the goal is to eliminate wasteful practices and deliver customer value in the quickest possible way, given a variety of constraints.
Crafting effective product discovery questions requires clarity, specificity, and an unbiased approach to avoid leading respondents to a particular answer. By designing questions that resonate with your target audience, you can elicit meaningful and actionable insights.
To improve product management workflows:
1. Center your product management workflow around customers
2. Establish unified criteria for better product prioritization
3. Streamline communication and collaboration across the organization
4. Effectively leverage automation and tools
5. Regularly evaluate and iterate on your product management workflowÂ
