Johanna Rothman

SEPTEMBER 14, 2023

I offer a 6-week writing workshop to do just that. There's a reason I called the book and the workshop “Free Your Inner Nonfiction Writer.” There's a reason I called the book and the workshop “Free Your Inner Nonfiction Writer.” Up until now, I offered this workshop with a real-time meeting component.

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The Product Coalition

JUNE 21, 2023

Doing so has a ton of benefits, including: More competitive edge: Concerted efforts around creativity and innovation allow your teams to develop new products/services that better meet customer needs and help keep you ahead of the competition. Want to cultivate a more dynamic, engaged, and successful organization? Who doesn’t!

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The Product Coalition

AUGUST 17, 2023

If you’re a workshop leader or meeting facilitator, at some point you’ve probably observed the not-so-fun energies of resistance and aversion among your participants. The truth is, the workshop experience is going to be a waste of time if it isn’t grounded in a well-thought-out design.

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Roman Pichler

SEPTEMBER 11, 2023

But in practice, organising teams around products can be challenging, especially when a company lacks a clear understanding of what a (digital) product is and if it does not embrace a product-led way of working. A first step to form effective product teams is therefore to identify the products in your organisation. But what is a product?

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The Product Coalition

JANUARY 20, 2024

I would like to thank Tremis Skeete, Executive Editor of Product Coalition for his valuable contributions in the research, development and writing of this article. I also thank Product Coalition founder Jay Stansell, who has provided a collaborative product management education environment. MTP is one of the best conferences for Product managers. ‍4.

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Product Management University

JANUARY 10, 2024

Meet Your Target Customers in Their Comfort Zone. The Product Positioning School of Hard Knocks Early in my pre-sales demo career, I had some demos where my audience was totally engaged and it felt like I hit it out of the park. Then there were others where I just couldn’t get buyers fully engaged. It was an aha moment.

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Roman Pichler

AUGUST 16, 2022

Imagine that John is a sales rep and a key stakeholder who hardly ever attends the product strategy workshops you’ve invited him to. But act in an empathic way: Find out first what’s going on with John and try to understand why he missed the meetings. Listen to this article: [link]. What is Empathy and What is It Not?

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Roman Pichler

NOVEMBER 1, 2022

Traditional product roadmaps are usually output-focussed plans that map a list of features, like registration, search, and reporting, onto a timeline. Such a roadmap essentially states when a piece of functionality will be delivered. This can be reassuring for customers and stakeholders. 2 Roadmap Goals are Features in Disguise. I don’t think so.

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Johanna Rothman

FEBRUARY 6, 2023

Strategy and Product Feedback Loops About 20 years ago, I taught a project management workshop to IT people. During that workshop, the participants all had the same question, “How do we engage our stakeholders? See Customers, Internal Delivery, And Trust for a recent post about demos and trust.) Every other day at worst.)

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Roman Pichler

JUNE 1, 2020

As the person in charge of the product, your aspiration should be to lead the stakeholders in order to create value together and achieve product success. In reality, however, some product people either aim to please the stakeholders by saying yes to their requests or by brokering compromises. But neither of these two approaches is desirable.

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The Product Coalition

DECEMBER 13, 2022

In a recent poll, many of my fellow facilitators shared that the most challenging part of designing a workshop lies in picking the right methods and activities to apply, then pacing against them. In my experience, most workshops follow a common arc from beginning to end, with five very distinct chapters along the way. Hey, I get it!

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The Product Coalition

FEBRUARY 25, 2023

Source: [link] Green/Red Voting If you facilitate meetings, you may be curious about how valuable attendees perceive them. As the meeting ends, ask attendees on the way out to drop a green (the meeting was valuable) or red (meeting not valuable) card into the bag. 1 represents no buy-in, and 5 illustrates full support.

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Roman Pichler

SEPTEMBER 13, 2022

An effective product strategy is key to successfully create, enhance, and manage a product. There is no point in worrying about the product details and writing user stories if a sound product strategy is missing. But what exactly is a product strategy? How does it differ from a product roadmap and how do the two plans relate? Four Artefacts.

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Product Management University

FEBRUARY 21, 2024

From the initial discovery meeting or demo (many times it’s the same meeting), do your best to build a strong rapport with someone that seems to favor your solution. And finally, every company does its best to sell their strengths from the first meeting. Here’s the thing about focusing on your competitor’s weaknesses.

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The Product Coalition

AUGUST 22, 2023

Where To Start Collecting customer insights is critical to building something that will meet your users’ expectations and also ensure that your business aligns with the demands of the market. User journey mapping sessions: I like to facilitate this exercise during workshops to help the team work through the current customer experience.

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Product Management University

OCTOBER 10, 2023

Is it easier for your company to meet its strategic and financial goals by executing 10 individual product strategies for example, or executing one holistic market strategy for all 10 products that’s intended to drive growth in the most lucrative market segments for your portfolio (the company) as a whole? Here’s the thing.

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The Product Coalition

JUNE 14, 2023

When you release yourself from the notion of needing to have all the answers, or being the “boss” of the meeting, it allows you to step more confidently into the role of a listener and guide. You can see why it’s so important to the field of facilitation: we facilitators listen to people all day long! Ask clarifying questions, and paraphrase.

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Product Talk

OCTOBER 20, 2021

For this first post, we spoke with Rebecca Klee , a UX Researcher at Optimal Workshop. Meet the Continuous Discovery Champion, UX Researcher Rebecca Klee. Her work helps Optimal Workshop understand how to improve their existing tools and identify opportunities that they might tackle in the future. Tweet This.

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Roman Pichler

NOVEMBER 3, 2020

Enter the Cycle. Traditionally, strategy and execution are often viewed as separate, sequential pieces of work that are carried out by different people. For example, a product manager might determine the product strategy and one or more development teams might be tasked with executing it.

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Roman Pichler

SEPTEMBER 7, 2021

Note that the features depend on the outcomes: Each feature must help meet a goal and achieve the desired benefit. Traditionally, product roadmaps are output-focussed plans that map features like registration, search, and reporting onto a timeline. Such a roadmap essentially states when a piece of functionality will be delivered.

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Product Management University

OCTOBER 20, 2020

Join me for a 3-hour live (web meeting) demo workshop on November 12th. Product Demo Workshop November 12, 2020. 3-hour live workshop via web meeting. This month we look at the impact on product management and product marketing. It’s big, or maybe that’s just the way it should have always been.

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The Product Coalition

APRIL 7, 2022

Workshops for the sake of workshops on an operative level are not the big thing. A broken wheel can’t get any faster There is not much that is more challenging than managing a team, a business or a company. There are a lot of factors, that have a high influence on your success. So agile and lean are two major keys.

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The Product Coalition

NOVEMBER 11, 2022

You know that really long follow-up email that goes out after most meetings? Enter time horizons : an activity I do at the end of any strategic workshop, Design Sprint, or big meeting as a way to organize what will happen next, and who will be responsible for doing it by when. I’d love to hear how it went!

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Roman Pichler

APRIL 4, 2023

For example, ensure that the individual’s role and responsibilities are clear; help the person grow as a product professional, be it by coaching and mentoring them or by encouraging them to attend training courses; offer clear and helpful feedback and hold them accountable for meeting agreed goals. Second, develop the product management team.

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Product Management University

AUGUST 3, 2020

Outcomes (success metrics) the customer is experiencing as a result of our solutions and how they’re helping the customer organization meet its strategic goals. Contact us about a hands-on workshop (via web meeting) or enroll in Product Management University On-Demand and learn whenever and wherever it’s convenient for you.

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Product Management University

OCTOBER 2, 2023

Product managers and product marketing managers, if you’re into data driven decisions, forecasting revenue is one of the more difficult things you’re tasked with, especially for each product/module. There’s a good reason it’s so difficult. With that as the backdrop, here’s how most of you play it, and understandably so. Here’s the funny thing.

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Product Management University

OCTOBER 2, 2023

Product managers and product marketing managers, if you’re into data driven decisions, forecasting revenue is one of the more difficult things you’re tasked with, especially for each product/module. There’s a good reason it’s so difficult. With that as the backdrop, here’s how most of you play it, and understandably so. Here’s the funny thing.

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The Product Coalition

JANUARY 26, 2021

You’ve got to think….what what was driving those employees to get out of bed each morning and slog out 15 hours a day, week after week? I’m sure it helped a bit. Fear of punishment? As outlined by Dan Pink in his landmark book Drive, what really moves us are three core drives? autonomy, mastery and purpose. “At a clear and compelling vision.

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Product Management University

MARCH 23, 2023

If you’re a pre-sales solution consultant or sales engineer, falling into the trap of telling vs selling can happen before you even know it, even though your intentions are always on the mark to start the demo. Here’s how to avoid the trap. You’re probably not going to make the shortlist and it’s easier to ghost you than deliver the bad news.

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freshtrax

AUGUST 9, 2022

Along with the meetings focusing on topics such as Diversity, Inclusion, and Belonging, we have brainstorming sessions for improving company culture. in Japanese at the end of meetings. (5) At btrax, our San Francisco and Tokyo offices work seamlessly to support the global expansion of our clients’ businesses and services.

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The Product Coalition

NOVEMBER 11, 2021

During the Definition process, a series of workshops are conducted to review the specific problem to be solved (or Job-To-Be-Done), understand what can be done to fix it, design the physical and technical solution, and prepare for the development sprints to start. What is Definition? Why do Definition?

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Product Management University

MARCH 21, 2023

The end game is shorter sales cycles where your products and services are the clear choice. What is a Sales Playbook? A sales playbook is a collection of sales tools that help salespeople usher buyers through the sales process with simplicity and greater credibility. There a handful of common situations salespeople encounter with every buyer.

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Product Management University

DECEMBER 5, 2023

While meeting those goals is critical to your organization’s success, financial goals themselves aren’t the same as strategic goals. Here’s the easiest way to marry company strategy and product strategy. The first order of business is to make a clear distinction between your company’s financial goals and strategic goals. Impossible!

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The Product Coalition

SEPTEMBER 19, 2021

Watch out for the “participation trap” We often solicit input in interactive workshops where some personalities participate more than others. If we’re not careful, we end up listening to whoever felt comfortable talking the most in the meeting , rather than soliciting the right expert opinions on the particular topic.

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The Product Coalition

DECEMBER 11, 2023

But every now and then, for example, when I share the insights with my customers (many of them wanted to use our time together to simply hear how it was), I remember what a great privilege it was to attend this workshop, and I feel truly grateful. In part two of this summary, I am moving to talk about strategy and leadership insights.

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Product Management University

OCTOBER 25, 2021

Also on tap this month, overcoming a few myths behind product marketing and the importance of the agenda for a demo discovery meeting. Get a personalized workshop for product management or pre-sales to learn the art of creating great user stories that make for great demos. Enjoy our October issue. In This Issue. Product Management.

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Product Management University

JANUARY 18, 2023

In order to meet their objectives, the responsibilities of customer success managers have expanded well beyond those of an account manager. Facilitating strategic planning meetings and creating customer roadmaps. Facilitating strategic planning meetings and creating customer roadmaps. What is a Customer Success Manager?

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