The Product Coalition

SEPTEMBER 2, 2022

The Eight Core Elements of a Winning Product Strategy “The essence of strategy is choosing what not to do.”?—?Michael After what seemed like months of work, our product was emerging from stealth mode. The leadership team finally agreed on the vision. No choices = no product strategy. Choice made.

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The Product Coalition

JANUARY 28, 2024

Now that you understand the three layers of value, next week I’ll share a simple framework that allows you to assess it and gain insight about your customers. Stay tuned.

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The Product Coalition

FEBRUARY 5, 2021

As a result, I’ve come to value 5 different aspects of product leadership. Aspects which are more on the human skills end of the spectrum and vastly different from being a Product Manager. Shift #1: A leader of leaders The two top things I’ve head people reply to the question “how do I move into Product Leadership?”

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Mind the Product

OCTOBER 21, 2019

A strong product strategy is often neglected because of the absence of any strategic thinking in product teams. What can product managers do to make sure they give their product strategy the attention it warrants? But today many, if not most, product teams fail this very first test. Sound familiar?

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Bain Public

SEPTEMBER 17, 2020

Bain Public’s SOAP™ methodology and tool offers a full picture of your product strategy, tactics, metrics and roadmap all in one place. SOAP™ is a methodology that Bain Public created for product planning and roadmap prioritization based on principles of Product Strategy, Lean Startup, User-centered design, Data Science and more.

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People-First Product Leadership

JUNE 11, 2023

Be Curious Not Judgmental: In my course People-First Product Leadership , I do just that - I share how to put people on your team first. The author is anti-framework, yet ultimately provides a framework for product leaders to follow when creating a product vision. We have a Product team to lead.

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Mind the Product

APRIL 22, 2021

Read more » The post The PM Competency Framework: Making Product Management growth a team effort appeared first on Mind the Product. I had joined the Infrastructure and Operations ‘tribe’ as an Agile Coach and some of my fondest memories (both personally and professionally) were from working in my Agile Coach ‘chapter’.

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Roman Pichler

FEBRUARY 19, 2024

Listen to the audio version of this article: [link] Introduction To discuss empowerment in product management, I find it helpful to distinguish three main levels of decision-making authority, product delivery, product discovery, and product strategy, as the model in Figure 1 shows. [1]

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Dear Strategy

MARCH 15, 2023

Now what about the new framework? In the spirit of using the blog to announce new happenings at Strategy Generation Company , I am pleased to present the latest revision of our acclaimed Strategy Generation Framework! With this said, I found that too many of my clients tended to use these three terms interchangeably.

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The Product Coalition

DECEMBER 11, 2019

One of the biggest challenges product leaders face is convincing leadership of changes in product strategy. In addition, setting the proper expectations with leadership is a key element for managing your stakeholders. Use that framework to agree that these are the things you’re going to work on this quarter.

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Roman Pichler

MAY 4, 2022

Scrum is a popular agile framework. This team consists of a product owner , a Scrum Master , and several developers, which are also known as development team. But what Scrum lacks in my mind, is a way to involve the key stakeholders in strategic product decisions and the product discovery work.

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Melissa Perri

OCTOBER 31, 2019

If you’re enterprise, you typically have a large portfolio of products that all need work done to them, but it has to be balanced with your budget. You need to have a framework to know if they are the right choices for your business. You need this person to not just prioritize, but make a product strategy.

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The Product Coalition

AUGUST 1, 2022

Feature launches, product strategy presentations, workshops, and more Continue reading on Product Coalition ».

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The Product Guy

OCTOBER 9, 2018

I became a product manager because I wanted to take a more strategic role at my company. First, I did not know how to frame, develop and present product strategy in a systematic way, and second, as a startup, my company has not historically had a good track record of strategy being developed outside of senior management (read: founder).

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Mind the Product

OCTOBER 21, 2019

Held in the lovely Barbican Conservatory , this year’s #mtpcon London Product Leadership Forum brought together a group of senior product leaders for the type of conversations that can only happen behind closed doors. The Forgotten art of Product Strategy. Framework Fanatics. Agile is not a Strategy.

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The Product Coalition

MAY 21, 2024

Sometimes investing in deep tech requires truly innovative product management strategies and frameworks. Traditional product management often has the luxury of an existing problem and customer journey to anchor the product strategy. Are customers asking for it?

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Sachin Rekhi

AUGUST 4, 2021

So in 2020, I took a survey of all the available product management courses out there. There were plenty of courses introducing product management to those new to the role. There was even an emerging set of courses focused on product leadership. Take product roadmaps for example.

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The Product Coalition

DECEMBER 31, 2023

As you might have noticed from reading this blog, I share many stories related to my personal relationships as a means to talk about product leadership. Often it’s because so much of product leadership is about relationships. Identifying Bottlenecks I write here a lot about the pirates’ metrics framework.

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BrainMates

JULY 21, 2020

Stepping up into a leadership role is especially daunting. Product leadership is made even more challenging, as there are very few models (if any) that cover the complexities and requirements of this -broad role which varies significantly between organisations. A new Product Management leadership model.

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Product Innovation Educators

MAY 1, 2023

Before co-founding Product Growth Leaders, his product management consulting company, he was a Pragmatic Marketing lead instructor for over 15 years. Now he empowers product teams with training and coaching that remove the chaos from product strategy and planning.  Write it down.

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Amplitude

JULY 29, 2020

When it comes to product strategy, there is so much conflicting advice that getting started can be confusing. Some companies’ strategies are so generic that they could mean anything, or nothing at all—as perfectly illustrated in this product strategy madlibs , which fills in the blanks with buzzwords and jargon and calls it a strategy.

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The Product Coalition

MAY 19, 2022

Once the product-based revenue potential is rolled up across the portfolio, an enterprise number emerges to share with leadership. Of course, that product-driven revenue potential will be negotiated with leadership. In following this approach, you are taking an important and impactful step toward product-centricity.

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The Product HQ

MAY 10, 2024

You will also leverage your strategic thinking skills to create a product vision and its corresponding roadmap. A survey done for the Product Management Insights Report states that 84% of the product managers polled say their key activity is setting product strategy. Defining product vision.

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Bain Public

APRIL 17, 2020

Career Development Program Details: Whether you are a Founder or part of the Product, Engineering or leadership team, you need actionable strategies and impactful techniques that drive results today. The 3 steps to product innovation. I'm not very good at Product Management. Course Outline. Is this program for me?

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Product Innovation Educators

NOVEMBER 13, 2023

Summary of some concepts discussed for product managers [4:07] What are the characteristics of a good product team that is able to create great products for customers? Great product teams all understand the customer. Great products teams are not just focused on the how; they also understand the what and the why.

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Userpilot

NOVEMBER 23, 2023

This article explores both hard and soft skills that product managers need in their everyday work, so if you’re curious to learn more, dive right in. TL;DR Hard skills, like technical knowledge, are job-specific and enable product managers to perform their core responsibilities. Product manager skills: user path analysis.

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Userpilot

NOVEMBER 23, 2023

Why do product managers need them? That’s what Dave Martin , a product leadership coach, has talked about in his talk at this year’s Product Drive Summit hosted by Userpilot. Dave Martin on how product roadmaps kill outcomes. Build a product that users love by delivering value and a good product experience.

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The Product Manager Coach Blog

MAY 7, 2024

Two positions that often cause confusion are Staff Product Manager and Senior Product Manager. These titles may sound similar, but they encompass different levels of organizational expertise and leadership. Staff Product Managers often view products holistically, considering how each fits into the broader business strategy.

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The Product Coalition

DECEMBER 11, 2023

In part two of this summary, I am moving to talk about strategy and leadership insights. Today I will focus more on leadership and strategy. One thing Marty said in the workshop, however, made me quote this framework much more and use it when I help my customers understand where they should focus their energy.

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Lenny Rachitsky

DECEMBER 7, 2023

In this episode, we discuss: • How product management is different in India • How to rethink your approach to new users • How Anuj operationalizes the “working backwards” framework • Why Anuj thinks PMs should be more full-stack than they are • How to use Anuj’s “4BB” framework to get better (..)

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Bain Public

JUNE 4, 2020

As business advisors and executive coaches, we've worked with dozens of CEOs to help them build and grow their product leadership team as they scale their company. Getting external support, such as product management consulting, can help establish the product leadership team responsible for nurturing and guiding the product team.

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Userpilot

AUGUST 29, 2023

The product management process starts with building an understanding of your users and the market, defining a vision and strategy , generating and prioritizing ideas that could solve user problems, articulating them in a clear roadmap, launching an MVP, and then gathering feedback to evolve it over time.

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ProductPlan

JANUARY 11, 2024

Goal-Question-Metrics (GQMs) is a strategic framework used to define goals, ask relevant questions, and improve metrics. The GQM framework was originally created while evaluating project defects in NASA’s Goddard Space Flight Center. Define specific goals : Set specific and achievable goals in alignment with your product strategy.

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The Product HQ

MAY 10, 2024

There are established frameworks, approaches, best practices, and schools of thought that anyone seeking a career in this field needs to be familiar with. That is why as a product manager, you have to master the underlying principles of product management. If you don’t have them, you’ll know what you need to work on.

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ProductPlan

JULY 16, 2021

Product Manager’s Control of Employee Expectations. As a product manager, implementing an effective product strategy should remain a priority. Setting the Stage for Successful Context-Based Leadership. As any veteran product leader knows, there’s no better tool to facilitate that than the product roadmap.

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Product Innovation Educators

NOVEMBER 15, 2021

Summary of some concepts discussed for product managers. [1:49] 1:49] How do we formulate a product strategy? The four key competencies of product management are execution, product strategy, leadership, and leveraging customer insight. Strategy is a messy term. Learn about Product MBA.

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The Product Coalition

MAY 15, 2019

The agile manifesto turned eighteen this year, the Scrum framework is even older?—?have The rise (fall) of the Product Owner Trying to solve the organisational dysfunction of the dived between those building the product and those speaking with customers, Jeff Sutherland and Ken Schwaber proposed a new way to build products?—?a

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