The Product Coalition

OCTOBER 13, 2022

Credit: Austin Distel Startups reading the wrong resources waste months with the wrong methods. How to write a user interview: “Lean startups” chapter 2 only (Eric Ries) The second most important thing is to understand how to ask questions. Time goes by, runway decreases. Eventually they run out of cash and shut down.

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Userpilot

JUNE 12, 2024

They manage software development teams by correctly interpreting the product manager’s vision into actionable tasks. It’s used to document product requirements, share information, and facilitate team cohesiveness. They manage software development teams by correctly interpreting the product manager’s vision into actionable tasks.

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The Product Coalition

SEPTEMBER 29, 2022

Write up questions, assumptions, directions for a vision. Capture their vision If the outgoing product manager has a roadmap and vision, great. At first, they had more passion, a bolder vision. Get written resources Ask for documents sent now. Do a brainstorm with yourself. Not sure where to start?

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The Product Coalition

DECEMBER 25, 2023

However, I can certainly think of product or marketing professionals who use the term value when referring to cheap widgety dashboards and features aimed at novelty seekers, or following an industry trend with no real vision. I interviewed up to ten internal super users who would each review one hundred and twenty SharePoint documents a day.

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The Product Coalition

JANUARY 14, 2020

The Steps and Exercises of the Product Mindset Workshop The product mindset workshop comprises of seven steps, starting with the product vision to the business model to personas to ideation: 1. Product Vision We start the workshop with a recap of the product vision?—?why our product vision?—?is Show Me the Money?—?the

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The Product Coalition

OCTOBER 15, 2019

You are constantly using your roadmap to influence other departments and align their efforts to your product vision. Document these goals in a roadmap tool like Aha , ProductBoard , Product Plan , or Trello Now that you have everyone’s ideas, goals, and a backlog full of great initiatives, it’s time to prioritise.

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ProductPlan

AUGUST 2, 2022

According to Agile and Scrum best practices, product owners and product managers should be two different people. In an idealized vision of product development in an Agile setting, product owners handle the tactical execution of product strategy while product managers concentrate on managing that strategy.

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The Product Coalition

NOVEMBER 9, 2018

There’s a startup product metaphor that bugs me. You’d gain customer requirements, document them in a Product Requirements Document, throw the spec over the wall, accept a Technical Requirements Document that was in alignment. Along came agile development, which embraced change and the chance to learn.

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Melissa Perri

JUNE 29, 2017

I was tasked with gathering the requirements from sales, coming up with a solution, designing it, and then shipping the specification document to development to be built. I wasn’t called a Product Manager until I bailed out of that and landed in a startup. Scrum came on the scene just before the Agile Manifesto was written in 2001.

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The Product Coalition

MARCH 16, 2021

Directors create the overall vision through which a film eventually becomes realized or noticed. Similarly, Product Managers write the product requirement documents (PRD) after doing user research, interviews, competitive research, conceptual planning for product ideas, and wireframing. ? What does a Film Director do?

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Userpilot

APRIL 8, 2021

a high-growth bootstrapped startup – you will know the pain of not always being *able* to make the best design decisions. UX debt affects high-growth SaaS companies in industries where time-to-market is mission-critical and bootstrapped startups without a design team most. A startup founder who wished to remain anonymous).

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The Basics of Product Management

JUNE 21, 2020

The roadmap should not be a complicated document. The product roadmap is the foundational guiding document that defines the vision for the product. It is a product strategy document that is used as a source of truth by the product team, the development team, external stakeholders, etc. What Is Product Roadmap?

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Amplitude

JANUARY 23, 2018

ranging from startups with only a handful of engineers to large enterprises with thousands of PMs. They set an aggressive 10x vision , but give the teams closest to the customer autonomy to figure out how to achieve that vision. Bad product teams use agile as an excuse to not have a vision.

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Antwak Blog

APRIL 8, 2021

A PR organizes and conveys a products’ vision to all stakeholders. Product roadmaps are created by the product owners and these roadmaps are effective top-notch documents. They can be categorized as Waterfall or Agile product roadmaps dependent on the product growth strategy. Business vision and targets alignment.

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Mind the Product

FEBRUARY 15, 2018

This can easily happen if your role is changing and you’re becoming less hands-on in a rapidly growing startup or simply if you’re new to a leadership role. The “agile onion” and the layers that you as a product leader should be in. Purpose, Vision, Mission and Strategy. What is your role?

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Userpilot

JULY 17, 2023

Enterprise companies with multiple or complex products tend to have larger product teams made up of specialists, while startups often have to cope with smaller structures where members perform numerous roles. They are also in charge of building templates, developing documentation, managing the tool stack, and automating routine tasks.

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The Product Coalition

JANUARY 22, 2019

In order to do this, you need teams who are familiar with methods like “agile “ , which facilitate collaborative teams and a quickfire approach to problem-solving. Any documents tracking progress across functionalities cannot be a secret : they must be shared with everybody and updated correspondingly. Finally: keep morals high!

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The Product Coalition

OCTOBER 15, 2019

They must, therefore, be able to effectively communicate and disseminate their vision to all. Product leaders influence numerous groups?—?from from customers and sales staff to teams of marketing, finance and engineering. So what skills are required for a Product Manager?

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Product Innovation Educators

OCTOBER 17, 2016

A product roadmap is usually a visual document and communicates the why behind what you’re doing. Some startups, for example, use a Kanban-style roadmap, which is simply putting what you’re going to be building into certain buckets: what is planned, what is approved, what’s in development, and what’s been delivered.

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ProductPlan

NOVEMBER 11, 2019

But while each roadmap for a specific audience serves a particular purpose, there are times when we need everyone to gather together and agree on a singular vision for the product. Placate the Agile zealots. For the stakeholders that have drunk the Agile Kool-Aid, a product roadmap’s very existence can spark outrage.

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The Product Guy

MARCH 14, 2017

Agile development doesn’t just mean faster turnarounds and sprints. In an agile product team everyone is aware of the customer’s problem we solve, and everyone can make decision and react on issues. We have to know the vision we have behind the product, which means who do we design it for and what problems do we solve with it?

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The Product Coalition

JUNE 7, 2019

This means, roughly, “I will fulfill my product vision, but I’m not talking to customers”. After a couple of years, I got a job at a startup in Brazil. Bruno’s goal with Product School was to extend his insights beyond immediate concerns; he sought to gain an overall vision of the whole product challenge.

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PMLesson's Ace the PM Interview

FEBRUARY 11, 2019

I then worked at a startup as Manager of Customer Education, which oversaw Customer Training, Documentation and Support. Both companies had a strong long term vision of where they wanted to go and stayed obsessively focused on it. That means being able to rally people around your vision of the future.

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The Product Coalition

OCTOBER 15, 2019

With so many stages for a tech product startup, it’s hard to decide on the right workflow. In this article, we’ll help you distinguish the starting and end points for the product development and guide you through the MVP, MMP, MLP, MDP, and MAP startup stages. Let’s find out what it is and why your startup needs one.

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The Product Coalition

FEBRUARY 5, 2019

She is currently running the “Product Popcorn” podcast and blog where she seeks to, in her words, “document [her] rants and share them with you”. You can also take a look at his Eugene’s Twitter profile if you want a shorter, up-to-date window into his vision of the current product scene. Check out his Twitter too!

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Product Bookshelf

JANUARY 31, 2017

Geracie traces the product manager’s role from developing the product vision, through business planning, to leading cross-functional collaboration to build the product, and finally establishing and reporting on metrics. different skills are needed in startups than in mature companies).

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The Product Coalition

NOVEMBER 24, 2020

On the other hand, the Scrum Master theses also cover, for example, the relationship with the Product Owner, they deal with agile metrics, and how to kick-off an agile transition, thus moving beyond the original framework of the Scrum Guide. Product discovery using the Design Thinking, Lean Startup, or Lean UX frameworks help.

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The Product Coalition

AUGUST 24, 2021

Startup funding was relatively easy to raise. Due to the growing tendency of backing technology businesses, a software startup could raise millions of dollars of funding in their earliest stages of development. This entire chain of changes and new approaches empowered the lean startup era.

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The Product Coalition

JUNE 9, 2020

I was attending a very small startup event where Gregory Culpin presented the company and its market vision. I built a new operating company with two passionate people with a sound vision of the HR industry future, Thibault Halbrecq and Arthur Roose. I first heard of Elium , formerly known as Knowledge Plaza, in 2011.

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The Product Coalition

DECEMBER 8, 2019

Product vision, strategy, goal setting User experience. Iterative development, scrum/agile/kanban, product roadmaps, QA Technology. Then document your key takeaways so you can revisit them. Clarity on what product management is, product frameworks, product process, how all the elements fit together Setting direction. Next up… 2.

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The Product Coalition

OCTOBER 21, 2019

As a project manager at an IT company working with many non-technical startup founders, our clients, I often get to resolve a variety of interesting issues that relate to technology and communication. But after having had a closer look at their vision of the product, it appeared there were a lot of undefined elements. Let’s begin.

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Product Innovation Educators

AUGUST 14, 2023

 He is also the co-author of Build What Matters: Delivering Key Outcomes with Vision-Led Product Management. A lot of companies have a mission statement that they think is a strategy or vision. The vision is where you intend to be in several years. A lot of work that goes into a vision. It provided a lot of clarity.

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Sachin Rekhi

FEBRUARY 16, 2020

I instead define a product manager as driving the vision, strategy, design, and execution of their product. Vision: Vision Narrative. Most product managers realize that defining a compelling vision for their product is a core responsibility of their role. Vision: Product Walkthrough.

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PMLesson's Ace the PM Interview

FEBRUARY 11, 2019

I then worked at a startup as Manager of Customer Education, which oversaw Customer Training, Documentation and Support. Both companies had a strong long term vision of where they wanted to go and stayed obsessively focused on it. That means being able to rally people around your vision of the future.

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DISQO

JANUARY 8, 2018

In March 2015, Northwestern Mutual acquired LearnVest, a fast-growing New York-based startup with a personal finance tracking suite. Fortunately, the stakeholders recognized this and rallied behind a vision to move from a corporate website to a consumer website. The problem though is that it wasn’t cohesive,” he says. “It

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DISQO

JANUARY 8, 2018

In March 2015, Northwestern Mutual acquired LearnVest, a fast-growing New York-based startup with a personal finance tracking suite. Fortunately, the stakeholders recognized this and rallied behind a vision to move from a corporate website to a consumer website. The problem though is that it wasn’t cohesive,” he says. “It

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DISQO

JANUARY 8, 2018

In March 2015, Northwestern Mutual acquired LearnVest, a fast-growing New York-based startup with a personal finance tracking suite. Fortunately, the stakeholders recognized this and rallied behind a vision to move from a corporate website to a consumer website. The problem though is that it wasn’t cohesive,” he says. “It

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