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Build great digital products

We believe that great digital products enhance all our lives. How you build products, align teams, and measure results matters. Improve it with the Product Map.

How to build products

Finding Success in Product Development with the Key Principles: Prioritizing User Needs and Competent Execution.

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  • When you build the right thing right, you will be successful.

  • The right thing: users really care

  • The thing right: competent execution

  • Make sure to find the right thing first, before building it right.

“There is nothing quite so useless as doing with great efficiency something that should not be done at all.”

Peter Drucker

Speak the product language

Product Terminology

Understand the domain for effective communication. It ensures clarity, alignment, and collaboration throughout the product development lifecycle.

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Product Discovery

With Product Discovery you find out what will be of value

Problem

Identify and define user needs and pain points through research and analysis. It's about understanding the problems that the product should address.

Solution

Find features or products that directly tackle the problems identified in the problem space. It's about turning ideas into actionable solutions for users.

Market

The broader external environment. Factors like market size and dynamics are crucial to make informed decisions for ensuring its success.

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Product Delivery

With Product Delivery you find ways how to generate value

Prototype

Prototypes help to visualize and test ideas, gather feedback, and validate concepts. They are often low-fidelity and serve as a proof of concept.

MVP

An MVP is the most basic version of a product that contains just enough features and functionality to be released to early adopters or a limited user base.

Full Product

The full product represents the comprehensive and finalized version of a product that incorporates all planned features, functionalities, and enhancements.

Next level thinking

The Product Map

A visual representation summarizing the product cycle. Align stakeholders and ensure a shared understanding of the product development.

We are

  • Mathias Böhmer

    Digital Product Coach

    Mathias coaches organizations in digital product development. His specialty is product discovery - finding out what makes a good product in the first place.
    He is passionate about innovation and transformation. His experience ranges from coaching individual product teams to the digital transformation of entire business units.

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    Florian Wiech

    IT Consultant

    Florian helps organisations achieve desired outcomes by leveraging technology. You’ll find him in various departments asking a ton of questions, perhaps revealing root causes to business issues in the morning and preparing new business opportunities in the afternoon. His favourite pastime is analysing system behaviours to gain new insights and knowledge.

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