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How Merging Purpose With Profit Redefines Product Roadmaps And Product Success

The Product Coalition

Founded in 2006 with a unique social mission: for every pair of shoes sold, they would donate a pair to a child in need, an initiative they called “One for One.” However, despite a strong, socially motivated purpose, TOMS struggled due to a lack of focus on business value and product differentiation. You need both.

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Upcoming Speaking Engagements

Bain Public

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Top 75+ Resources for Product Managers

Sachin Rekhi

Another incredibly important aspect for product managers to master is defining and iterating on your product's strategy. A compelling strategy details exactly how you'll dominate your market and is constantly refined until you find product/market fit.

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Product Discovery Anti-Patterns Leading to Failure

The Product Coalition

, every organization needs to acquire a holistic understanding of an agile product creation process: A vision leads to a strategy that (probably) results in a portfolio of products (and services). This core agile product creation process is agnostic to the product delivery framework, be it Scrum, XP, or any other framework.

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What Makes Amazon’s Product Strategy So Sticky?

ProductPlan

How did Amazon’s product strategy fare during the pandemic? Short answer: Amazon’s product strategy example lead the way). Amazon’s product strategy example has rewritten the book on convenience, easy access, and speed, and in doing so, embedded itself in the daily lives and routines of consumers.

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The Ultimate List of Product Leaders You Must Follow (UPDATED)

The Product Coalition

29 Product Leaders You Must Follow Julie Zhuo is Product Design VP at Facebook. She studied Computer Science at Stanford and joined the company in its early stages, way back in 2006. Starting as a Product Designer, she then became Manager, Director and finally VP. he is currently VP of Product at Patreon.

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Coda’s Shishir Mehrotra on rethinking docs from scratch

Intercom, Inc.

It started in our R&D team using it for roadmap planning and goal tracking. Just yesterday, someone in the product marketing team shared a Coda doc with me that’s acting as the entire project plan and content repository for another whole of our marketing site we’re working on. The maker generation in action in Coda.