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Avoid ‘Product’ Ground Hog Day: Unlocking Success When Crafting an Outcome-Driven Roadmap

The Product Coalition

It was another bad start to what seemed like Groundhog Day. “I An outcome-oriented approach helps teams remain focused on the bigger picture, ensures efforts go toward delivering meaningful value to customers, and gives them the freedom to figure out the best way instead of having ‘the way’ committed well before discovery.

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3 Ways To Educate the Market That Actually Work

The Product Coalition

Photo by Oleg Magni from Pexels Educating the market has a bad reputation, and rightfully so. The reason that educating the market is considered a bad idea lies in the context: the term “educating the market” usually comes up right after the problematic claim that “they just don’t get it”.

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Product-Led Growth Is a Misleading Name

The Product Coalition

and moreover, that the most common interpretation was not at all what I wanted to deal with, and definitely not where I believe (to date) most entrepreneurs need help. With sales-led, which is also a bad name, the model means giving each customer exactly what they want and following the money. If you are only beginning, it’s clear why.

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We Have To Support Every Line of Production Code Forever

Mironov Consulting

  The upside (for the sales team) is huge, and the cost (for product/engineering/support) is diffuse.    Closing this $480k/year license deal is highly visible to the exec team and Board.  Their market strategy team realizes they need one more field mapped.    Far away.    Hard to see. 

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Embracing the New: How Green Nail Polish Became My Catalyst for Optimism in 2024

People-First Product Leadership

For me, I’m looking forward to applying what I learned in 2023 - which was in a large part due to People-First Product Leadership. In 2023, I realized the importance of being true to my leadership beliefs and keeping the associated practices in the mix even when challenged. I’ll take what is behind door (b).

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Do Your Customers Really Want to Pay Less?

The Product Coalition

In one of my early career roles, I was brought into the company as a development team leader with a very specific task they wanted me to lead. To sum things up, this post is not about good and bad decisions. Today’s situation is definitely challenging and calls for rethinking many things.

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Why Product Features Matter

Department of Product

by definition, it won’t please everyone (and if it’s a reimagination of a 30yr old popular/global product, will displease many) pic.twitter.com/LaJ6oJlwcD — scott belsky (@scottbelsky) November 7, 2019 The feedback on the first version of the app was brutal. And the product team responsible got some pretty brutal reviews in the process.