The Product Coalition

APRIL 19, 2018

The Big 3 ‘Lean Startup’ Mistakes Companies Still Make Are you spending a ridiculous amount of time working on a product, and getting nowhere? If this sounds like you, you’re probably stuck in the lean startup trap. The idea The problem in lean startup originates right at the first step. And you’re not the only one.

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The Product Coalition

MARCH 8, 2024

The competitive landscape is fiercer With nimble startups and tech-savvy competitors emerging constantly, maintaining a competitive edge is crucial. Agility and adaptability are paramount The business landscape is constantly evolving, and trends can shift rapidly. Vision & goals Now, chart your course.

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The Product Coalition

SEPTEMBER 9, 2022

This explanation should not be as detailed as what would go in a product requirements document (PRD) Market Requirements Document (MRD) Example Let’s say you’re the product manager for a SaaS startup that produces marketing automation tools. Vision statement ?—?The Do agile product teams use MRDs? Target market ?—?Describe

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The Product Coalition

OCTOBER 13, 2022

Credit: Austin Distel Startups reading the wrong resources waste months with the wrong methods. How to write a user interview: “Lean startups” chapter 2 only (Eric Ries) The second most important thing is to understand how to ask questions. Time goes by, runway decreases. Eventually they run out of cash and shut down.

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PMLesson's Ace the PM Interview

JULY 1, 2020

A product manager that I hire needs to always keep in the mind the product vision and key success factors, and emphasize them through all of the discussions with company teams that seek to limit their own team's effort, expenditure, or risk, and will blindly limit the product's potential. Product vision statement 5. Product Vision 4.

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Userpilot

APRIL 30, 2024

Offering insights on structuring teams, discovering the right products , and fostering a strong product culture, Cagan provides a blueprint for success for both startups and established companies alike. This best-seller remains a must-have resource for tech product managers seeking innovation and customer engagement.

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Bain Public

MAY 29, 2020

It is a known fact that startups which are accompanied or coached, view their chances of success as being much higher compared to those that are not. of accompanied startups assess their chances of survival as strong, especially during the current uncertain climate. of startups rate their chances of survival as high, 13.5%

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Userpilot

AUGUST 29, 2023

A project manager is focused on the completion of a specific project, whereas product managers focus primarily on the long-term vision and evolving a product to deliver value over time. Here’s why it’s important: Defines a product vision and aligns strategy with organization goals. Champions a customer-centric approach.

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The Product Guy

JANUARY 27, 2017

In our a recent live stream from one of our mentors of The Product Mentor , Krishna Madhuvarsu, lead a conversation around “Product Management in Startups vs. Enterprises”. He lives in London, currently working as Product Manager at Gumtree.com, an Ebay company, previously led product at international startups and large organisations.

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Oren Steinberg

JULY 13, 2018

The biggest asset any startup has is the time of its entrepreneurs and key talents. The success or failure of the startup often hinges on their ability to focus their efforts on the critical path at any given time. As the startup grows and faces scalability and growth challenges the issue of focus becomes even more challenging.

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Product Club

JUNE 10, 2017

Across the globe, companies are investing in Agile transformations primarily for two reasons — to increase speed, and improve the quality of their technical product delivery. We’ve all been sold “Agile” for over 10 years, told to treat “waterfall” as a curse word to be uttered with disgust in boardrooms.

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The Product Coalition

MARCH 7, 2023

Meanwhile, if they’ve read the Lean Startup, have a certification, spend their days tagging JIRA tickets, painstakingly created a product roadmap based on user votes without talking to anyone, and have a spreadsheet with RICE columns per JIRA ticket… they’re a plain-Jane-boring-old-builder.

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The Product Coalition

SEPTEMBER 29, 2022

Write up questions, assumptions, directions for a vision. Capture their vision If the outgoing product manager has a roadmap and vision, great. At first, they had more passion, a bolder vision. About the author I’m a UX Designer turned Product Manager, with experience in startups, freelance, and agile B2B2C companies.

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The Product Coalition

JANUARY 19, 2021

Mission and Vision Are your company’s mission and vision well defined? In many organisations, the mission and vision are not clearly defined. And even though the mission and vision are well defined, if your organisation isn’t designed appropriately, your key people won’t be able to embrace them or share them with their team.

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The Product Coalition

JANUARY 14, 2020

The Steps and Exercises of the Product Mindset Workshop The product mindset workshop comprises of seven steps, starting with the product vision to the business model to personas to ideation: 1. Product Vision We start the workshop with a recap of the product vision?—?why our product vision?—?is Show Me the Money?—?the

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The Product Guy

JUNE 4, 2024

Product leaders who successfully evangelize product management often employ several key strategies: Building alignment around a shared product vision. Effective product leaders rally teams around a compelling vision of the future. Consider the example of a product leader at a fast-growing e-commerce startup.

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The Product Coalition

APRIL 7, 2021

The company has collaborated with startups, small businesses, medium-sized ventures and global names like Google, Huawei, Bolt, MyTaxi, Pipedrive, ZoomEngage, Atlassian, and Codio. Fireart ranks as the leader among Top Mobile App Development Companies for Startups on MobileAppDaily on a global scale. sk and Bia?ystok.

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Intercom, Inc.

JANUARY 14, 2021

Looking at how the best companies operate, Hubert and his team boiled down product excellence to three key areas of action: vision, strategy, and execution. A segmentation matrix can help product teams be laser-focused on both the long-term vision and the day-to-day plan. Use it to make better product decisions. ” So we did that.

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Userpilot

JULY 9, 2021

Product Mastery by Geoff Watts teaches you how to be a successful product owner within agile software development practices with the use of case studies. The teams she coaches are from both early-stage startups and multinational enterprises in different industries. How product strategy uses a company’s vision to feed the bottom line.

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The Product Coalition

OCTOBER 1, 2020

Roman Pichler Roman has his own website which is well known within the product and agile development communities, but he still has a decent amount of content on Medium. Jens-Fabian Goetzmann Jens-Fabian is a top writer in the ‘leadership’ and ‘Startup’ categories for good reason. Don’t believe me? Check them out for yourself!

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The Product Coalition

JANUARY 5, 2023

The second biggest risk is misalignment between teams, and with your company vision. Great tasks: support research, translate strategy, write vision statements, roadmaps, and user stories. If you’re a product manager at an early-stage startup, then this is your chance to increase your focus and make an impact. 2023 just started.

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Mixpanel

APRIL 27, 2020

Leading a product team in a startup—where it’s basically you, or maybe you and one other person—is far different from leading a large product management team for a well-established company. Startup: Set ruthless priorities. When you’re a startup and you’re looking for product-market fit, you need to be ruthless.

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The Secret PM Handbook

SEPTEMBER 16, 2016

It rests on another critical mental model, which also underlies “agile” – this is the idea that focusing on the most important thing first is the best use of your time. The y-axis represents "ability to deliver," while the x-axis represents "completeness of vision." Here are a few of my favorites: Stack ranking.

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Userpilot

APRIL 8, 2021

a high-growth bootstrapped startup – you will know the pain of not always being *able* to make the best design decisions. UX debt affects high-growth SaaS companies in industries where time-to-market is mission-critical and bootstrapped startups without a design team most. A startup founder who wished to remain anonymous).

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Product Innovation Educators

OCTOBER 29, 2018

Empowering product teams to create an agile culture with a customer focus. He has created products and led product teams for Fortune 500 companies including Cisco and Capital One, advised several small and medium businesses, and founded a Product Innovation, Design Thinking and Agile coaching practice called 5D Vision.

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Product Innovation Educators

JUNE 21, 2021

One is using Agile with Scrum, taking the best of both practices. Teams meet frequently and communicate, and the vision and work are visualized using Scrum. Eric Reis’ Lean Startup. One is using Agile with Scrum, taking the best of both practices. Identify and remove bottlenecks and speed everything up. [13:40]

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The Product Coalition

SEPTEMBER 15, 2019

For new product managers or in startups with newly formed product teams, the building roadmap is their first kick at having the influence of the company direction. I have had a fair share of experience working at enterprise and startup level companies. Launch: after launch, hoping to see metrics change but it doesn't happen.

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ProductPlan

MARCH 31, 2021

After a decade of working with others to launch successful SaaS products, I took the plunge to launch a startup in 2013. Startups fail more often than not. As a product manager at early-stage startups, my prior experience taught me that a business is more than a product or a set of features. We understand how to prioritize.

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Business of Software Conference

NOVEMBER 3, 2020

Radhika Dutt is an entrepreneur and product leader who has participated in four acquisitions as a result of the products she built and advises organisations from high-tech startups to government agencies on building radical products (ones that create a fundamental change instead of optimising the status quo).

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ProductPlan

MARCH 31, 2021

After a decade of working with others to launch successful SaaS products, I took the plunge to launch a startup in 2013. Startups fail more often than not. As a product manager at early-stage startups, my prior experience taught me that a business is more than a product or a set of features. We understand how to prioritize.

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Bain Public

SEPTEMBER 8, 2021

Michael explores how to do product management the best in terms of product strategy and vision, product development frameworks, customer research, and startups. As an agile coach and technologist, Michael enjoys helping teams improve their collaboration to analyze and solve complex problems. About the Episode.

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Mixpanel

MARCH 24, 2022

Here’s Yamini on everything from operationalizing NPS to empowering employees with autonomy as you scale past the startup size. The move made perfect sense for us since HubSpot was founded on the vision and philosophy that you have to provide value to customers before you can extract it. This is the biggest challenge. I want red tape.

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Amplitude

MARCH 23, 2020

We’re “agile” (mostly). I looked into a variety of frameworks: Jobs to be Done , Lean Startup , Design Sprint , and Opportunity Solution Trees among others. We narrowed our focus to just nailing down our product vision statement. We focused on a North Star metric that is reflective of our vision. I read all the blogs.

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The Product Coalition

FEBRUARY 22, 2021

You can sign up here for the ‘Food for Agile Thought’ newsletter and join 30,000-plus other subscribers. Hands-on Agile #30: Making Your Scrum Work?—?The The wave of agile transition projects, particularly in large, established organizations over recent years, has provided those frameworks with a tremendous tailwind.

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Innovatemap

JULY 21, 2021

Kristin Hess (Principal, Product Marketing & Brand), Lacey Lavies (Executive Partner, Product Strategy & Client Experience), Piyush Dawande (Product Designer) and team worked closely with Josh to optimize Boost’s product and brand, build credibility, and get his vision to market.

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The Product Coalition

NOVEMBER 9, 2018

There’s a startup product metaphor that bugs me. Along came agile development, which embraced change and the chance to learn. High performing agile teams can move a story through design, development and implementation with awesome velocity, tool and process discipline. Leading agile companies set the vision, goals and measures.

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Amplitude

JANUARY 23, 2018

ranging from startups with only a handful of engineers to large enterprises with thousands of PMs. They set an aggressive 10x vision , but give the teams closest to the customer autonomy to figure out how to achieve that vision. Bad product teams use agile as an excuse to not have a vision.

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