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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. But as time passes, they’re hit with fire drills, ongoing discovery, reprioritization — the works. Our product was evolving rapidly and haphazardly. The same is true for your roadmap — it takes more than diligence.

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A Tale of Two Products: BigVision vs. HyperNarrowFocus

The Product Coalition

First, let me introduce our two products along with some context and background to set the scene. BigVision BigVision is a business (or product or department) that has a big, exciting vision. We just need to start with First Opportunity first as due to our market analysis and business modelling, this is the best one to tackle”.

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A Tale of Two Roadmaps?—?And Why You Can’t Succeed With Only One

The Product Coalition

A Tale of Two Roadmaps — And Why You Can’t Succeed With Only One “There is no one-size-fits-all product roadmap. Different businesses, different stages of product maturity, different audiences, and different goals might necessitate different roadmap formats.” — C. The product team, on the other hand, was shown the high-level roadmap.

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How Johannes Gutenberg Can Make You a Better Product Manager

The Product Coalition

The story of how the first product of the information age was created and found product/market fit. Because scribes display more diligence and industry than printers.” Source: Wikipedia Gutenberg’s Entrepreneurial Journey Under these conditions, imagine how hard it was to launch a world-changing product.

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10 Reasons Your Product is Hurting Your Sales Team

The Product Coalition

Is your B2B product easy to sell and easy to renew? I realize not every product person has to navigate sales stakeholders. But if you’re working on a B2B product with a sales force, odds are you know what I mean. But if you’re working on a B2B product with a sales force, odds are you know what I mean.

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To Ensure Project Success, Follow your Intuition and Ask for Clarity

The Product Coalition

I hope you find this helpful: Digital product development presents incredible opportunities for us to help our customers and our colleagues. I was in a meeting with the CTO and his staff one day when he laid out his vision. Part of his vision was “being agile”. Part of his vision was “being agile”.

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391: Product VP of Wyze uses community for product innovation and you can too – with Steve McIrvin

Product Innovation Educators

How product managers can get customer insights from a community to create a competitive advantage. I wanted to learn how this company creates competitive products, differentiating on cost while offering comparative capabilities that equates to much higher value for customers. Summary of some concepts discussed for product managers. [3:15]