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What does the agile roadmapping process look like in practice?

The Product Coalition

But in the context of planning, agile software development practitioners are wise to take Eisenhower’s words to heart. “In Eisenhower Why agile teams need a product roadmap There are many discussions out there on both the importance of, and lack of importance of agile product roadmaps.

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The Critical Role of Product Strategy When Money Is Scarce (Part 2?—?Rounds A, B, and Later)

The Product Coalition

When people (and VCs) aren’t spending money easily, you must be super sharp with your value proposition, positioning, product, marketing, and sales. While I understand this distinction, I believe that a company cannot reach real product-market fit without nailing down its GTM, and vice versa. Here is how it works.

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The Critical Role of Product Strategy When Resources Are Limited (Part 2?—?Rounds A, B, and Later)

The Product Coalition

If you’re just dealing with tough market conditions, the situation is different but the conclusion is quite similar: When people (and VCs) aren’t spending money easily, you must be super sharp with your value proposition, positioning, product, marketing, and sales. Here is how it works. What had changed?

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4 Product Management Certifications that are Worth Your Time

ProductPlan

According to PayScale , its product management certification is completed mostly by experienced and midcareer product professionals. The certification follows this six-step learning journey: Foundation : Explores the scope of activities necessary in product management and helps to define various PM roles (e.g.,

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From Product Management Back to Strategy

The Product Coalition

You had to walk a long way before you could enter product management, and when you did — it was a senior role already. As the product management profession matured, additional levels were naturally added to the career ladder, including junior ones.

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Before You Deem Your Product a Failure, Check Your Target Audience

The Product Coalition

For some reason, most of them want my product strategy and product-market fit lectures during May and June, every year. I gave my talk on “The Journey to Product-Market Fit” three times within a two week timeframe. Speed-Up the Journey to Product-Market Fit. Always keep an eye on the bigger picture.

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3 Pitfalls to Avoid When Setting Goals for Product Managers

The Product Coalition

‘s intentions were good: he wanted to set the expectations that product managers should be serious about writing great product requirements, but the measurement he set was way off and contradicted any productive form of agile development. My free e-book “ Speed-Up the Journey to Product-Market Fit ”?—?an