The Product Coalition

OCTOBER 30, 2023

So either we work together to understand your objectives, call them goals if you’d like, and the outcome you are looking for from the product, or we will end the discussion, and you won’t get a committed set of work on the roadmap.” We went away from detailed, long-term, feature-committed roadmaps. I explained this many times.

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Userpilot

DECEMBER 12, 2023

Want to learn how to create a robust UX roadmap for your UX team ? We also discuss the benefits of UX roadmaps, present different types, and share top tips for building them. TL;DR UX roadmap is a strategic plan outlining UX initiatives and guiding the UX design process. What is a UX roadmap? UX roadmap.

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Gainsight

DECEMBER 21, 2023

However, they’re constantly iterating—the product roadmap is in flux, and the customer base is in flux. At Pulse Europe 2023, Fiona Sibley, Head of Customer Success at Vertice , explained several best practices for implementing Customer Success in early-stage companies.

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Bain Public

FEBRUARY 13, 2023

During the in person workshop, Paul will lead a group of early stage startup founders through the process of revisiting and assembling their value proposition, establishing their product mission and strategies, and completing their product roadmap. They will then have access to even more guidance for the next 2 years!

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Bain Public

DECEMBER 19, 2022

They monopolized the summer & fall to double down on their client efforts, market strategy and planning for new features for the next set of cities they targeted in 2023. We’ve helped provide them with the product leadership consulting, coaching, advice and support they need to bring their entire technical roadmap to the next level.

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Gainsight

MAY 18, 2023

Your leadership is truly transformational, Mike! Congratulations, 2023 GameChangers! The post Drumroll, Please … Announcing Our 2023 GameChanger Awardees appeared first on Gainsight Software. As a direct result of the process changes, the company’s churn rate has plummeted to 6%.

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Lenny Rachitsky

NOVEMBER 12, 2023

Brought to you by Sidebar —Catalyze your career with a Personal Board of Directors | Jira Product Discovery —Atlassian’s new prioritization and roadmapping tool built for product teams | Eppo —Run reliable, impactful experiments — Brian Chesky is the co-founder and CEO of Airbnb.

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The Product Coalition

JULY 16, 2023

My personal passion is to bring back this very important dimension into product management and leadership. Product Leadership Is a Business Role I make a distinction between product management and product leadership. Product management is the name of the profession and also a description of what some levels do.

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ProductPlan

FEBRUARY 9, 2023

Is the senior leadership at your organization constantly ordering you to work on the top 10 priorities that change every other day? ProductPlan’s 2023 State of Product Management Report found that 54% of roadmaps are designed around outputs. Our 2023 State of Product Management Report gave some clear indicators.

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Bain Public

FEBRUARY 13, 2023

During the in person workshop, Paul will lead a group of early stage startup founders through the process of revisiting and assembling their value proposition, establishing their product mission and strategies, and completing their product roadmap. This ensures long term growth and success of any company and their products!

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Bain Public

FEBRUARY 13, 2023

During the in person workshop, Paul will lead a group of early stage startup founders through the process of revisiting and assembling their value proposition, establishing their product mission and strategies, and completing their product roadmap. This ensures long term growth and success of any company and their products!

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Product Talk

JUNE 21, 2023

I was the first PM on the team, so that role involved everything from setting up product processes to building a roadmap and doing discovery. It’s foundational to leadership and product in an outcomes-based world. It’s foundational to leadership and product in an outcomes-based world.

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ProductPlan

FEBRUARY 1, 2023

So, I am honored to share some highlights from The 2023 State of Product Management Report. Cross-functional alignment is one of product management’s most significant challenges for 2023 Across various industries, product leaders often need help aligning their product strategy with organizational goals.

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ProductPlan

MARCH 21, 2024

We get it–your days are packed with roadmap review meetings, brainstorming sessions, and making (what sometimes feels like) too many PowerPoint presentations. Calling busy product professionals! That’s why we’re here to lend a helping hand.

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Business of Software Conference

OCTOBER 11, 2023

Notes from the Sigmacorns at BoS USA 2023. Instead fund your roadmap. On-the-Ground Pulse Check Part 2 Recalibrate how “chilly” the wind is to your team Hold 1:1 meetings to clear things up/get teams perspectives Questions to ask about To your leadership team: Based on our new focus, what else should we prioritize, cut, or adjust?

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UX Planet

DECEMBER 15, 2023

It encompasses the quality and consistency of research and design processes, resources, tools, and operations, as well as the organization’s propensity to support and strengthen UX now and in the future, through its leadership, workforce, and culture. Have you prioritized the design problems to be solved in your product roadmap?

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Mironov Consulting

MAY 18, 2024

Something that comes up periodically in my product leadership coaching sessions: “As a Director or VP of Product, how do I get folks outside my immediate span of control to make improvements or do their jobs better or take my advice?”  With Sales leadership, it’s all about upcoming quarters. 

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Department of Product

JUNE 27, 2022

Besides that, the triad leadership can either report to the CEO, Chief Product Officer (CPO), or a VP/Head of Product Development. Who does technical leadership? I worked at a company where leadership wasn’t happy with how projects were managed. I’d say I was going to set up a local leadership meeting.

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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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The Product Coalition

NOVEMBER 13, 2023

Product Strategy on Round A Responsibility: Founders with the leadership team Goal: Build the go-to-market playbook Toward round A you start seeing success (or it would be very hard to raise a decent A round). There is a lot to do there: team topology, work plans (which people often mistakenly call roadmaps), agile processes, and so on.

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The Product Coalition

DECEMBER 4, 2023

Product Strategy on Round A Responsibility: Founders with the leadership team Goal: Build the go-to-market playbook Toward round A you start seeing success (or it would be very hard to raise a decent A round). There is a lot to do there: team topology, work plans (which people often mistakenly call roadmaps), agile processes, and so on.

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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. But the point I want to make today isn’t about relationships, and still, that’s what the story is about.

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Gainsight

JULY 11, 2023

By Steve Cornwell, July 11, 2023 This morning, we announced that Gainsight acquired Northpass in the most exciting moment in my 20 years of company building and the most defining moment in the history of Digital Customer Education. And after meeting Gainsight’s leadership team, it was clear that our companies shared many of the same values.

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ProductPlan

JUNE 1, 2023

Added functionality, new capabilities, a more robust feature set…these are the talking points product marketers salivate over and executives search for on product roadmaps. Noisy customers When it comes to your product roadmap, the customer is most definitely NOT always right , especially when they ask for specific features.

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ProductPlan

MARCH 23, 2023

Helps you get the right items on your roadmap and keep the wrong items off it. Product strategy in practice According to The 2023 State of Product Management Report , the most significant influence on product strategy (46%) is business goals and objectives. Guides your product decisions.

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The Product Coalition

FEBRUARY 18, 2023

If teams don’t communicate well, for example around the roadmap and plans, putting all the information in a tool won’t solve the problem. If there is bad blood between departments, it impacts your ability to achieve your own goals, etc. Tools cannot change any of that. That’s a very different situation.

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The Product Coalition

MARCH 19, 2023

Even when I created a strategic roadmap, it refined the already existing product and extended it, but it didn’t create a whole new thing. I even remember that after the successful IPO in 2011, I told my husband that this was the first time that I felt my stock options and their value were truly related to the work I did.

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The Product Coalition

JANUARY 8, 2023

By the way, it also works for other strategic decisions like a roadmap, OKRs, or deciding on a new org structure. Once you have a new version of the product strategy (or roadmap, or OKRs) it is important to start telling it from the top again. It works for lice and it would work for your product strategy, trust me.

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The Product Manager Coach Blog

DECEMBER 11, 2023

A year-end retrospective can help you make the most of your successes, identify areas for improvement, and chart the roadmap for the year ahead. This post was updated on November 19, 2023. Before you can set goals, though, you need to know where you’re starting from. Here’s how to conduct a year-end retrospective: 1.

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Userpilot

OCTOBER 11, 2023

All of that can help inform future strategies for you and your engineering team to consider when pulling together your product roadmap. Userpilot’s advanced A/B testing functionality will be available in Q4 of 2023 – one powerful hub to design, build and launch tests. A plan should include: Type of testing (i.e.,

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Department of Product

AUGUST 22, 2022

Sure, this is similar to other C-level tech leadership roles, but COOs, CTOs and Chief Revenue Officers are, I’d argue, a little less nebulous in their scope than ‘Product’.

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Product Talk

MARCH 15, 2023

This is a challenge that comes up a lot in our work, and I’m going to talk with Hope about it in particular because she does both leadership coaching—so she gets to work with leaders on this on a regular basis—and she also teaches our Defining Outcomes class, so she gets to see it from the individual contributor side as well.

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Product Talk

SEPTEMBER 6, 2023

In addition to delivering a keynote at the Product at Heart conference (in case you missed it, you can find the video and transcript of that presentation here ), conference co-organizer Petra Wille also invited me to participate in a fireside chat at the Leadership Forum event. Introduction: What Is Product Discovery? Build these things.

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Product Talk

APRIL 17, 2024

Teresa: One of the things I think I’ve written in the past is if your backlog or your roadmap or your idea log—whatever you’re going to call it—isn’t changing based on what you’re learning in discovery , there’s a disconnect there. You had five product teams , a user researcher who was new to the role.

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Product Talk

AUGUST 2, 2023

The messy middle is when your organization, your leadership team has said, “Let’s work this way.” You might work in a feature factory if your leaders are asking for a 12-month roadmap with delivery dates. Here’s How was first posted on August 2, 2023 at 6:00 am. It’s genuinely hard.

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Product Talk

MAY 10, 2023

In the time that I’d been with the company over the previous number of years, we had iterated on how to do product roadmap discussions as our company grew from 5 when I started to 40, 50, 60 people and growing the engineering team and trying out different ways to have the “What do we work on next? Where did it go from there?

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