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How useful is it to throw an idea into the market and hope it sticks?

If you offer more than a single product, you have everything you need to start managing your product portfolio. Product portfolio management (PPM) is used to create a more detailed and specific plan for the product mix as a whole. The management of these products makes space for prioritizing market leads, demand planning, and allocating resources wisely.

The average work week is 40 hours, but how much of that do you spend on repetitive tasks?

For decades, project management software has been straightforward—buyers knew very well what to expect from this type of software as most products potentially offered the same or almost similar features.

Most tasks we do at work are either process or project-based. Processes are made of repetitive tasks that we do repeatedly, with little to no variation. Project work can vary significantly from one project to another and can change based on internal or customer requirements. 

New technologies like the cloud have democratized project management software, making it accessible to everyone. Theoretically, a wide variety of options can be beneficial to buyers. Also, a competitive market means that vendors constantly try to outperform their competitors by improving their products. Does it mean that there are no issues in the project management software market? The only way to find out is to analyze feedback from more than 30,000 reviewers of project management solutions. 

In early December, The Verge published a tell-all piece on Away, a direct-to-consumer luggage company. Screenshots from the company’s Slack depicted a multitude of issues, and there’s lots to unpack.

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