The Product Coalition

NOVEMBER 26, 2019

The team is forever busy with engineering and design projects (some visible and some well hidden), while business-critical projects are dragging on at a snail’s pace. When a long-awaited product or feature finally launches, it often comes well short of the needs. Agile dev did away with project waterfall?—?Specification

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ProductPlan

SEPTEMBER 8, 2021

How did Amazon’s product strategy fare during the pandemic? Short answer: Amazon’s product strategy example lead the way). Amazon’s product strategy example has rewritten the book on convenience, easy access, and speed, and in doing so, embedded itself in the daily lives and routines of consumers.

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Mironov Consulting

FEBRUARY 28, 2024

Said another way, this week’s new “must do” items look like a year’s worth of additions to the roadmap.  ” “The CRO and I agreed that Sales gets one unplanned 'magic bullet' each quarter  – that will take no more than one engineer-week. 

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Good Product Manager

JANUARY 28, 2018

In the meantime, I’ve been busy blogging… Helping Product Managers Triumph in an Agile World: The SiriusDecisions Agile Engine for Product Management. Sales Is Trying to Change My Product Roadmap! Sales Is Trying to Change My Product Roadmap! ,

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Good Product Manager

JANUARY 28, 2018

In the meantime, I’ve been busy blogging… Helping Product Managers Triumph in an Agile World: The SiriusDecisions Agile Engine for Product Management. Sales Is Trying to Change My Product Roadmap! Sales Is Trying to Change My Product Roadmap! ,

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Userpilot

AUGUST 29, 2023

While the product manager’s role may differ from one organization to the next, they will still work with dedicated product owners, engineering and design teams, data analysts, and product marketing managers. Drives product success. Different roles within a product team. But what’s the difference?

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The Product Coalition

FEBRUARY 21, 2020

Every software team out there uses some sort of planning system or tool to do product roadmaps and sprint plans, and yet many are unhappy with the tools, or frustrated at the lack of getting things done, or getting “pointless” things done, and the list goes on. What do the product roadmapping or planning tools offer us?

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The Product Guy

NOVEMBER 9, 2017

A research conducted by Alpha UX found that 25% of Product Manager surveyed wished for a clearer product roadmap and strategy. While salary increase is a complex subject with variables outside of our control, I believe that having a clear product roadmap and strategy is every Product Manager’s responsibility.

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ProductPlan

APRIL 12, 2022

Slack’s product strategy put it on a trajectory for success. Let’s explore the company’s product strategy to see what makes it different. Product strategy: slip into the customers’ shoes. The pandemic’s influence on product strategy. Slack response to the pandemic.

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The Product Guy

MAY 15, 2017

In a recent live stream from one of our mentors of The Product Mentor , Dustin Levy, lead a conversation around “Product Strategies for Non-Strategists”. We are always looking for more product mentors from all around the world. About The Product Mentor. Jonathan Berg Director of Product Management, Schoology.

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Amplitude

MARCH 11, 2020

Roadmapping is at the core of product strategy and product management. As a product person, and the VP of Product at Yesware , I’ve never come to fully embrace the discussion of what each team would deliver, in what sequence and within a long timeframe. Output-Based Planning. You can align on direction.

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The Product Coalition

JULY 6, 2022

Nowadays, digital products are becoming more and more prominent in our lives, and it’s already part of our daily activities. Most of our readers would have heard of Agile product management. In fact, the biggest advantage that you can leverage from a startup perspective is Lean product management (‘Lean’ or ‘LPM’).

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Tyner Blain

MAY 24, 2017

Taking agile, a process otherwise optimized for small, cross-functional, collaborative teams and making it work at scale is fascinating. Over the next few years my career evolved through people-management, pre-sales, and program management roles into product management. Both were then uncommon, and both are still important.

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ProductPlan

NOVEMBER 11, 2019

There are many ways to build a roadmap and many types of roadmaps you can make. Some will delight and engage the executive team by taking a high-level approach and focusing on goals and strategy. Others dive into the specifics and make engineering teams happy since they’re so detailed. Gather consensus around goals.

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Antwak Blog

APRIL 8, 2021

Are you looking for some kind of inspiration for your first Product Roadmap (PR)? And wondering how to create a professional product Roadmap ? Are you planning to implement good practices in your product roadmap to get sustained growth? It helps you to design a successful Product Roadmap.

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Agile Velocity

DECEMBER 4, 2023

Recently, Dave Gipp partnered with Adam Mattis of Scaled Agile to discuss strategic planning. Titled, “Mastering the Art of Integration: Strategic Planning with SAFe ® for Agile Organizations”, the webinar explored the challenges many companies face when bridging the gap between strategy and execution.

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Product Management University

MARCH 15, 2023

Product Owners If you’re a hands-on, love-my-product, into-the-details person, this is where you belong, and your title accurately reflects what you do. You own the day-to-day care and feeding of your products. Keeping engineering teams in-the-know on user jobs, outcomes and obstacles. Sprint planning and backlogs.

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The Product HQ

APRIL 20, 2024

However, the most important aspect is a good understanding of product management, regardless of your background. Common skills among eCommerce product managers include being able to do market research, run an online store, craft a product strategy, and develop customer journey roadmaps for websites.

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Userpilot

NOVEMBER 23, 2023

To validate ideas , choose the most effective versions, or improve the product , a product manager needs to know how to run experiments. Agile is the most common development methodology, so PMs need to be well-versed in its principles. Product manager skills: user path analysis. Product manager skills: prioritization.

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Userpilot

JULY 18, 2023

Based on the research, PMs develop the long-term product vision and product strategy that are aligned with the overall business strategy. Next, they lead the ideation process and prioritize product and feature ideas. This is essential to build a roadmap that drives the product strategy.

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The Product HQ

APRIL 20, 2024

That gives you the experience and expertise to get to the next level, where you start managing other product managers. Over time, potential product directors need to show an ability to lead the entire product team. On top of that, they need to show success in every product strategy they own.

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The Product Coalition

JULY 28, 2020

Product Management in an inter-disciplinary role which tries to marry Business strategy and Marketing with Design and Engineering, hence making better products that users need. Upsell Strategy (upgrade, expand, replace) b. Analysis of Share of Voice (how consumers perceive the product) 4. User Retention c.

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Userpilot

SEPTEMBER 29, 2023

You can do that with innovations like 'fake door tests' Once you know you've got something valuable, you need to test your concept and plan your roadmap so you and your team have a clear strategic plan. Step four is building a minimum viable product. Prioritize and plan a roadmap of features.

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Mind the Product

AUGUST 3, 2017

Being the first product manager at a startup typically means being the 10th or 15th employee, and recognizing that – although product management has both tactical and strategic components – you’ll initially be more focused on tactics. Dual Track Agile. How do we do These Things?

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Mixpanel

MAY 20, 2020

Do you ever feel, as a product leader, that you’re unpopular in your company? Having worked with many product leaders over the past 20 years, I’ve repeatedly heard that balancing the needs of users, engineering teams and the business—all while building a successful product function that drives innovation—is tough.

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Userpilot

APRIL 7, 2024

TL;DR SaaS product managers oversee the entire product lifecycle from product strategy to development and decline. Step-by-step guide for the product management process Identify user needs with market research. Develop the product roadmap. Specify product vision and create the product strategy.

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ProductPlan

APRIL 1, 2020

This legacy of outdated product versions lingering on laptops, smartphones, and servers means it’s super important every release works well, has some staying power, and advances the product strategy—even if you keep cranking out updates. So how do product roadmaps help ensure this remains the case?

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The Product Coalition

OCTOBER 5, 2021

Taking a holistic view of product development across product, delivery, and technology can help a health check identify otherwise hidden issues. To help get multiple perspectives, we typically do a Product Development Health Check with a product manager, a delivery manager and a lead engineer.

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Mind the Product

DECEMBER 13, 2018

He works as a coach, consultant, and keynote speaker helping companies bridge the gaps between business agility, digital transformation, product management, and human-centred design. Todd Lombardo, Head of Product & Experience. Rapid Experimentation for Product Managers.

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ProductPlan

OCTOBER 11, 2022

Product owners play a crucial role in “by-the-book” Agile scrum, while product managers are largely absent. This article explores the product owner role and how it fits into the broader product team. The product owner’s role. The product owner’s role. Manage and prioritize the backlog.

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Mironov Consulting

DECEMBER 5, 2023

  But it’s of zero help to Product, Engineering, Marketing, or other organizations that need to make choices about the few critical things we’ll do next year.  ” And this is usually wrapped around an organizational ownership fistfight about who “owns” company-level strategy.

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Userpilot

JULY 30, 2021

The product manager role is responsible for understanding what customer problems to solve and what success looks like for a product. The different types of product managers include the traditional product manager, the product owner, the growth product manager, the technical product manager, and the platform product manager.

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CardBoard

AUGUST 24, 2023

Product Ops is the behind-the-scenes function that streamlines the journey from a product idea to its delivery in the market. Imagine a team that aligns your product strategy with your business goals, fosters communication between different teams, and sifts through data to provide valuable insights.

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ProductPlan

JULY 3, 2019

Creating a product roadmap containing both sets of plans might result in a document that’s super specific on the left while being fuzzy and amorphous on the right, which might be confusing to some viewers. That’s why trying to cram everything into a single artifact might not be the best approach to mapping out your product’s future.

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The Product Coalition

MARCH 9, 2023

These multi-product organizations need a way to make economically rational choices regarding managing their product portfolios. This article lays out strategies for portfolio planning. A portfolio strategy is a complex, dynamic, and iterative process that involves multiple inputs, outputs, and stakeholders.

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Mironov Consulting

JULY 28, 2022

The Product/Development side of the organization [product, engineering, design, first-line support, product marketing] deals with cumulative impact across all customers and prospects , including everyone who is still paying to use any version of any products.     Aggregate outcomes.  Total

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The Product Coalition

DECEMBER 8, 2020

The following 58 Product Owner theses describe the PO role from a holistic product creation perspective. They cover the concept of the Product Owner role, product discovery, how to deal with external and internal stakeholders, product portfolio and product roadmap planning, and the Product Backlog refinement.

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