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

The Product Coalition

The first was a precise set of tasks, milestones, and deliverables for the diligent civil servants tasked with building — the engineers, designers, and product managers. In the product team’s, err, I mean civil servants’ headquarters, the roadmap was a living document, evolving like a dynamic organism. The fallout was immediate.

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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. The same is true for your roadmap — it takes more than diligence. So without further adieu, here are some proactive tips to maintain excellent roadmap health — no flossing required: Continuously sync to the vision and strategy.

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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”. As a product person?—?when

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A Tale of Two Products: BigVision vs. HyperNarrowFocus

The Product Coalition

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”. HyperNarrowFocus tasks its research teams with performing a Discovery with First Opportunity in mind.

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How Johannes Gutenberg Can Make You a Better Product Manager

The Product Coalition

Because scribes display more diligence and industry than printers.” Maybe the snake oil of its time, either way, he failed due to timing. However, it was delayed due to a flood?—?leaving Due to Gutenberg’s lack of means to pay back, Fust received the machinery, type set and supplies. 1492, to be exact. Fust prevailed.

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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. So we do that for customers, and that’s the team I’m working on.

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Meet the Ampliteer Leading Our Global Solutions Consulting Team: Todd Vancil

Amplitude

I was impressed with the vision our CRO, Matt Heinz, and executive leadership outlined to assemble a world-class sales organization. The Solutions Consulting (SC) team is a vital part of that vision, and I’m thrilled to have a hand in making it come to pass. This is a team full of outstanding sales and technical sales athletes.