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Successful Roadmaps Avoid One Thing: Drift

The Product Coalition

Product managers and their teams start with enthusiasm, hit the ground running, and create a solid roadmap. In our excitement, our roadmap drifted off course and left us stranded on an unfamiliar island. The same is true for your roadmap — it takes more than diligence. The issue wasn’t the beginning.

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Agile vs. Waterfall: Which Methodology is Right For Your Project?

PMLesson's Ace the PM Interview

A common question for product managers, project managers, technical program managers, and software developers alike is what methodology to use given a project. Which should you and your teams decide the utilize? Think about the complexity involved in developing and releasing a piece of software.

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Algolia’s Sarah Dayan on what sets a staff plus engineer apart

Intercom, Inc.

Sarah Dayan is a staff engineer at Algolia , a “Search-as-a-Service” platform that helps developers build index and search capabilities into their own platforms through an API, and the host of two tech podcasts: Developer Experience and Entre Devs. How would she provide the right technical direction for the company?

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Become a Product Visionary with Alternative Futures Analysis

The Product Coalition

Of course, the lesson here is: innovate or die. This is a well known mantra among tech CEOs, especially Facebook’s Mark Zuckerberg. Alternative futures analysis is a structured analytic technique that helps teams predict how the future might unfold. What is Alternative Futures Analysis? Here are a few of my favorites.

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Starting A Growth Team: Ten Key Lessons Learned

The Product Coalition

It was about 12 months ago when I was challenged by our CEO to dismantle our squad and create a growth team. Not being too sure what a growth team was, we started anyway. We got access to work completed by Andrew Chen & Brian Balfour , took a few courses from the Reforge series and started developing our growth loops.

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How Can Product Managers Recenter Goals for the Rest of the Year?

ProductPlan

Unless your product management stack includes a crystal ball, all those goals and resolutions we made way back in January likely didn’t take global pandemics, fluctuating economies, and social unrest into account. Let’s begin this process by reflecting and reviewing. Regular roadmap reviews. Were KPIs met?

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Product Manager: Seeking Help

The Product Guy

This article highlights a few ways to increase clarity and provide better role definition between a manager and a direct report as it pertains to daily situations involving escalations, blockers, and air cover. Given the split responsibility between manager and direct report, alignment and effective communication in these situations is key.