Dear Melissa - Answering Questions About Democratizing User Research, Product Team Visions, and Too Many Features
September 1, 2021
In this Dear Melissa segment, Melissa answers subscribers’ questions about which part of an organization really owns user research, the scope of a product team’s vision and strategy, and how to tell when your product has too many features.
Q: How do you delineate the goals of product manager and product marketing research? [2:03]
Q: Should every product manager have a 2 to 10-year vision and strategy, or should each respective PM rather craft division and strategy only covering the current strategic intent? [7:27]
Q: How do you know when you have too many features in your product? Any suggestions on how to change the mindset that more is better? [13:26]
Resources
Melissa Perri on LinkedIn | Twitter
MelissaPerri.com
In this Dear Melissa segment, Melissa answers subscribers’ questions about which part of an organization really owns user research, the scope of a product team’s vision and strategy, and how to tell when your product has too many features.
Q: How do you delineate the goals of product manager and product marketing research? [2:03]
Q: Should every product manager have a 2 to 10-year vision and strategy, or should each respective PM rather craft division and strategy only covering the current strategic intent? [7:27]
Q: How do you know when you have too many features in your product? Any suggestions on how to change the mindset that more is better? [13:26]
Resources
Melissa Perri on LinkedIn | Twitter
MelissaPerri.com
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Previous guests include: Shruti Patel of US Bank, Steve Wilson of Contrast Security, Bethany Lyons of KAWA Analytics, Tanya Johnson Chief Product Officer at Auror, Tom Eisenmann of Harvard Business School, Stephanie Leue of Doodle, Jason Fried of 37signals, Hubert Palan of Productboard, Blake Samic of Stripe and Uber, Quincy Hunte of Amazon Web Services
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