The Product Coalition

OCTOBER 15, 2019

3 Different Types of Roadmaps Every PM Needs to Master Roadmapping is not easy. Every company demands different types of Roadmaps, and every PM has their own flavour. Here is a step by step process to create roadmaps so you can influence anyone in your company like a true Jedi. So what is Product Roadmap?

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Mind the Product

FEBRUARY 15, 2018

Much has been written about the process of creating product roadmaps, not least the six great articles written by my own team. I believe the actions of a product leader all too often are the root cause of a “bad” roadmap. Without thoughtful leadership around them, it may not be in product manager’s gift to achieve a “good” roadmap.

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The Product Coalition

MARCH 8, 2024

Think of digital transformation strategies as your roadmap to success in the digital age. The competitive landscape is fiercer With nimble startups and tech-savvy competitors emerging constantly, maintaining a competitive edge is crucial. Provides a flexible framework that adapts to your specific business context.

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Usersnap

NOVEMBER 10, 2023

In his book “Start with Why” , Simon Sinek boldly claims that the ‘Why’ behind your actions matters more than the ‘What’ This principle isn’t limited to leadership or personal motivation; it extends to every facet of the business, including product roadmaps.

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Userpilot

OCTOBER 4, 2021

Let go of the idea that a product manager is the "CEO of the product" Align your team around the roadmap with the help of a product manager. Help define the product roadmap to set direction and intention. Transitioning from many hats to single hats as your team scales up. What is a Product Manager and what do they do?

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Intercom, Inc.

OCTOBER 1, 2020

On this episode of Intercom on Product myself and Paul Adams, our SVP of Product, take a look at roadmapping. Knowing how and when to define a roadmap, who to include and how long to plan for are key elements to finding the balanced approach that you need. As you grow functions, the audience for your roadmap widens.

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Intercom, Inc.

OCTOBER 1, 2020

On this episode of Intercom on Product myself and Paul Adams, our SVP of Product, take a look at roadmapping. Knowing how and when to define a roadmap, who to include and how long to plan for are key elements to finding the balanced approach that you need. As you grow functions, the audience for your roadmap widens.

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Sachin Rekhi

AUGUST 4, 2021

There was even an emerging set of courses focused on product leadership. Some mentioned that while they had worked as a PM at startups for several years, they felt they still lacked the skills and tools to reach the next level in their career growth. Take product roadmaps for example.

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ProductPlan

MARCH 5, 2021

This article tackles one of the areas that gets the most interest from product managers: how can they use an essentialist approach to create and communicate better product roadmaps ? To ensure you’re adding the right features and initiatives to your product roadmap, I’ve outlined several suggestions here. Start with the product vision.

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The Product Coalition

SEPTEMBER 14, 2019

How NOT to manage a Startup As a product manager, I led 2 teams in my recent startup gig with a lot of uncertainty, distractions and constant changes that impacted the engineers. A startup that is trying to scale, there are good and bad times. We had grown more than 30% without proper guard rails and senior leadership.

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Userpilot

JUNE 25, 2023

TL;DR Continuous Discovery Habits is a guide for Teresa Torres’ discovery framework. The Lean Startup provides principles for continuous innovation and validated learning in the fast-paced and disruptive SaaS space. The Jobs To Be Done Playbook and When Coffee & Kale Compete are guides to the JTBD framework.

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Bain Public

FEBRUARY 8, 2021

At Bain Public, we’re proud to offer free one-on-one sessions, discounted rates and lead pro-bono partnership efforts, donating company time to provide product-driven startups with expert advice and coaching about product management. In giving back, we’ve established a way to positively impact the Canadian startup ecosystem.

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The Basics of Product Management

JULY 17, 2020

Choosing the right product strategy framework is very important for every product manager. The product manager is the one who takes the decision on which framework to use. Like everything else in the world of agile methodology , we need to be agile while choosing our frameworks. Product Strategy Frameworks. OKR Framework.

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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. Targeted to startups, scale-ups or SMB organizations It takes place over 12 weeks, live via Google Meet. Where do I manage the roadmap?

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Bain Public

JANUARY 21, 2020

In collaboration with Notman House and chosen from a list of 13 startups, starting January 2020, we will be providing our Product Capability Building Program for Pre-Seed Founders, pro bono to LUCA Theory, a rising Montreal startup. The standout component is our one-on-one time with the startup founders. Who is LUCA Theory?

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Usersnap

SEPTEMBER 29, 2022

You need to collect customer feedback , prioritize roadmaps , and ship features and products that offer a brilliant user experience. To effectively understand the growth rates for your SaaS company, the Pirate Flywheel Metrics (also known as the AAARRR framework, yes we at Usersnap employ it with an extra “A”. Make sense of your data.

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Userpilot

JULY 18, 2023

This is essential to build a roadmap that drives the product strategy. PMs collaborate closely with teams from across the organization, like the engineering team, and liaise with senior leadership. Finding your first gig may be easier in startups than in enterprise organizations. Roadmaps are essential communication tools.

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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. What we’ve noticed instead in the startup world, is a lot of people become product managers by default rather than design. What Is Product Management Consulting?

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The Product Coalition

JANUARY 21, 2017

When key influencers ask you to prioritize pet projects or add a superfluous list of features to the roadmap that doesn’t support the primary company objective you can explain to them why you can’t add that. A good strategy backed by a decision-making framework is critical. At least not right away.

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Userpilot

JULY 13, 2022

Startup product managers will learn a lot from the Review – blog from the First Round. The Reforge blog helps product managers with topics like analytics , team management and development, product leadership , or product strategy. OpenView Venture Partners’ blog offers insights into the financial side of running a startup.

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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. Roadmap template from Miro.

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Sachin Rekhi

FEBRUARY 16, 2020

In doing so I hope to help demystify what you actually do in the role, provide a framework for assessing what dimensions of the role you are already good at delivering against, and opportunities for improvement on each. Design: Product Roadmap. Probably the most visible aspect of the product manager role is driving the product roadmap.

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Userpilot

AUGUST 30, 2023

Product management and leadership From the struggle to balance innovation and market fit to maintaining a customer-centric approach to product development and navigating talks with business partners, product leaders face many challenges. Product management and leadership speakers. leadership to uphold your customer-centric focus.

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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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The Product Cafe

JANUARY 30, 2023

🥰 Welcome to this week's edition of Product Café, your bi-weekly cup of coffee for everything product management, startups, and more. Not going to lie, PMs do work alone on many occasions, from figuring out the roadmap to dealing with customers. The framework solved and improved the review process in 3 ways: a.

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The Product Coalition

APRIL 25, 2022

neither the product nor roadmap are ever static. Prioritization frameworks Gantt charts/roadmaps Documenting and organizing user research interview results Checklists and task management across teams Spreadsheets do have their drawbacks. No product tool or template can save you if you’re not killing it in these three areas.

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Bain Public

DECEMBER 9, 2021

We’re proud to say that we’ve given over 1000 hours of pro bono work since 2018 for young up and coming startups and entrepreneurs; we take corporate responsibility very seriously. As a business, we want to achieve success in ways that honour our ethical values as well as respect startups and accelerator communities.

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Bain Public

MARCH 10, 2022

In this episode, Paul talks about product innovation and teaches our SOAP framework : what is, how to use, and the reasons to use it. Paul talks about: Standardization of PM’s: SOAP Feasibility in Start-Ups Steps of 12 Week Program Business Cases Change in Leadership’s Mindset Most Challenging Weeks MVPs. Podcast Information.

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Bain Public

AUGUST 22, 2022

As a Product analyst, you’ll work as part of a team of problem solvers engaging in planning the product roadmap while helping drive the scope definition and product development course of action. We help middle market companies and scrappy startups create new value with design- and technology-based products and strategies.

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Johanna Rothman

AUGUST 19, 2021

Example 1: Startup/Small Organization with Few Products. LargerCo decided to Buy a well-known framework that was supposed to manage projects, programs, and the project portfolio. They tried to install that framework. The framework was too slow for what they wanted. So were the tools associated with the framework.).

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The Product Coalition

SEPTEMBER 23, 2018

I want to address such topics here and show how product roadmaps can help the team collaboratively gather the pieces of work and have a view of long term desired outcomes that afterwards are going to be broken down into sprints, not the other way round. It shows a long term planning for the specific product.

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The Product Coalition

OCTOBER 5, 2021

It is essential you consider and assess against great frameworks, use more than one as each may highlight different issues or areas for growth. Are the right mindsets promoted by the frameworks used and organisational structure? Conflicts and items that are not being managed can be readily identified by mapping roles to the framework.

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The Product Coalition

MARCH 23, 2020

From objectives to roadmap, the strategy behind product development?—?Part Objectives key results (OKR) is a popular management strategy framework for defining and tracking objectives (goals) and their outcomes. This framework, which is widely common in medium?—?large What are OKRs? button and follow me for more updates.

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Bain Public

DECEMBER 2, 2020

We created SOAP™ an actionable 12-week virtual workshop series to help you jump through the hoops of prioritization and roadmap planning by using a clear, measurable, reproducible process for prioritizing features and initiatives. Leadership in Product, Connect & Explore Workshop for Teams. Applies to Canadian Pre-Seed Startups.

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Bain Public

JANUARY 11, 2022

Let’s face it, most organizations have poor habits around roadmap completion — this is why getting leadership (or stakeholders) to develop consistent, stable and familiar routines reinforced through repetition and communication is valuable. Let’s dive deeper!

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Userpilot

MARCH 8, 2022

An iterative product framework for identifying and pursuing the right opportunities to create value. See more in Lena’s talk about building an innovation team and a “startup” within a larger organization on Product Drive or watch a shorter interview with her on that topic here: 6. How to create a scalable product organization.

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Bain Public

JANUARY 24, 2022

As a Product analyst, you’ll work as part of a team of problem solvers engaging in planning the product roadmap while helping drive the scope definition and product development course of action. We help middle market companies and scrappy startups create new value with design- and technology-based products and strategies.

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