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#45: Connecting the Problem Space and Your Product Strategy - with Dan Olsen

100 Product Strategies

CHAPTER

Strategic Product Development: Understanding Customer Needs and Making Smart Decisions

This chapter delves into the strategic importance of understanding customer needs, focusing on essential features over competitors' feature lists, and making smart resource tradeoffs. It emphasizes aligning product strategy with problem spaces, using simple one-page frameworks for decision-making clarity, and determining features to support performance benefits. The discussion underscores the importance of narrowing down options by specific criteria, making informed bets with customer feedback validation, and strategically saying no in product development.

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