The Product Coalition

JULY 16, 2023

In my first official product role, which I got to after managing large dev teams and a business-related role, I managed alone a product with a development team of ~40 people. One of the first things I did, for example, was to work with the salespeople on how to sell the product.

Strategy 140

Strategy Product Management Product Manager Management 140

Mironov Consulting

SEPTEMBER 22, 2020

To delete the letters MVP from roadmaps and product charters. Almost without fail, I find that the “maker” side of software companies (developers, designers, product folks, DevOps, tech writers…) and the “go-to-market” side of software companies (sales, marketing, support, customer success.) Here’s why….

Technical Advisors 142

Technical Advisors User Testing Weak Development Team Customer Experience 142

ProductBoard

NOVEMBER 15, 2017

But we’d be remiss not to mention the growing number of roadmapping utilities and user feedback forums on the market. The former are designed to help product managers share attractive product plans with stakeholders and end users, but rarely help PMs decide what features should make it onto the roadmap in the first place.

Customer Feedback 45

Customer Feedback User Testing Weak Development Team Feedback Software 45

Bain Public

NOVEMBER 4, 2018

The challenges of product development are not about products. In some organizations, the strategy/decision making (roadmap) happens without product management. At times, that requires a lot of diplomacy and emotional agility. Earned social capital allows us to influence the success of product roadmaps. Be a good listener.

User Testing 40

User Testing Feedback Software Customer Experience Customer Feedback 40

The Product Bistro

MARCH 7, 2017

Often, product managers are expected to wear multiple hats, in particular to play Product Owner for the Scrum team, to be the business owner or the true Product Management function, and to be the outbound marketing expert and wear the Product Marketing hat. But it was never a primary focus. It is time to set the team up for success.

Outbound 150

Outbound Agile Messaging Roadmap 150

Mironov Consulting

DECEMBER 2, 2019

And recently, a product leader at Spotify shared that her group (and many others throughout her company) have evolved to very different organizational models than described in Henrik Kniberg’s 2012 Scaling Agile @ Spotify. It’s typical for professional services firms and custom development shops to have pro ject -based resource pools.

User Testing 80

User Testing Customer Experience Outbound Customer Feedback 80

Intercom, Inc.

JULY 9, 2020

Atlassian does not have an outbound sales team. It’s the idea that a product is instead of being sold tops-down, say you will sell to a CTO or a CFO or whoever on the C-suite, it is bottoms-up as in a developer would bring in an Atlassian product like Jira, and would use that. Land and expand in a nutshell is very simple.

Analytic Tools 199

Analytic Tools Research Software Data Visualization Technical Review 199