The Product Coalition

OCTOBER 5, 2021

Guest post by Angus McDonald, Senior Product Manager at Terem Technologies, and Kayla Li, Delivery Manager at Terem Technologies Word from Scott: Over the years we’ve helped many different teams uplift in different ways. These should be the basis of your product development technical practice.

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Mironov Consulting

APRIL 8, 2024

  The context: like this recent post , my coachee and I were talking about every product leader’s frustration that our go-to-market-side partners (GTM) and stakeholders have rampant “roadmap amnesia” and assume their next request is easy and are always trying to push 100 pounds more into our 5-pound R&D process. 

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The Product Coalition

SEPTEMBER 14, 2020

Between commercial, product, and engineering leadership, a potential anecdote to rebuild trust and transparency can be instituting a simple, scheduled Product Steering process. Align on Process for Roadmap Prioritization and Execution 3. Align on a Win-Win Agreement 2. Align on a Win-Win Agreement 2. Decide on the timing together.

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Agile Velocity

MAY 14, 2020

Did you know you can maximize your chances of achieving desired business outcomes by combining DevOps with an Agile transformation? When you hear “Business Outcomes,” “DevOps,” and/or Agile transformation” – what comes to mind? They are key inputs for your business and technology discussions around WHAT to work on.

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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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Product Innovation Educators

AUGUST 14, 2023

He is convinced that product is the single most important success driver for tech companies, which is why he founded Prodify to share what he learned from being an advisor to over 50 tech companies to realize their full potential. Ben has led successful technology products for the last 25 years. He

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Amplitude

FEBRUARY 11, 2021

As product managers (PMs), we spend a significant portion of our time talking to customers and understanding their experiences to shape our roadmap and strategy—you may have even done an interview with us! We’ve built the best analytics solution around, so, naturally, it’s a core part of our product management tech stack.

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Pragmatic Marketing

DECEMBER 13, 2016

Everyone wants to see the product roadmap. Sales wants to use it to drive bigger deals, engineering wants to know what is coming next to make technology decisions and other teams want to feel like they are part of a long-term strategy that will take the organization to the next level. Agile Loves Roadmaps and Plans.

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Mind the Product

NOVEMBER 29, 2017

From my experience of working directly with and solving problems for product management and delivery in a Fortune 100 financial services organization, I’d like to share my list of top grievances against bad product management, from an engineering perspective. Product managers are at the driver’s seat, not engineering teams.

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Mironov Consulting

MAY 24, 2022

 Yet somehow we don’t see this waste, or mis-attribute it to engineering process problems. I’ve written a lot about the organizational and conceptual gap between product/engineering teams and the “go-to-market” or sales/marketing side of tech companies.  (See

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The Product HQ

APRIL 20, 2024

These professionals come from various backgrounds, such as communications, engineering, and marketing, to name a few. That said, this position demands proficiency in both technical and social areas within the role. By enrolling in a product manager course, you have the opportunity to learn fundamental technical skills.

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Modus Create

FEBRUARY 16, 2022

After being disrupted by nimble, agile players for decades, large enterprises are fighting back with significant investments in digital initiatives. This is primarily due to increased departmental silos, making it difficult to strategize cross-functional digital initiatives. They just need to realize that. .

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ProductPlan

NOVEMBER 11, 2019

There are many ways to build a roadmap and many types of roadmaps you can make. Others dive into the specifics and make engineering teams happy since they’re so detailed. Roadmaps for sales and marketing tout new functionality and minimize the time spent on technical debt and scalability. Avoid vanity metrics.

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The Basics of Product Management

JULY 21, 2020

Smart Glasses are the latest craze in the world of wearable tech. We will review each smart glass available today, including the newest entrant, Jio Glass. However, the product roadmap continues to remain hazy. How can an oil company pivot to technology? And now, Reliance is pivoting Jio to become a tech major.

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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. engineers, designers, data engineers, simply don’t care, or lack “right culture”, but that’s actually rarely the case. In fact they may get worse. Specification

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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. They had spent a lot of time choosing the technological stack and discussing technical solutions with outside consultants.

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People-First Product Leadership

JULY 17, 2023

Similar to tech debt, there will be undesired consequences later on. For existing employees, when conducting performance reviews, consider if they listen with patience and go into situations seeking to understand or is their style to belittle, intimidate or control. In product companies, we live for these disruptive technologies.

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Pragmatic Marketing

NOVEMBER 7, 2016

Everyone wants to see the product roadmap. Sales wants to use it to drive bigger deals, engineering wants to know what is coming next to make technology decisions, and other teams want to feel like they are part of a long-term strategy that will take the organization to the next level. Agile Loves Roadmaps and Plans.

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The Product HQ

APRIL 20, 2024

Whether it’s in product management, product engineering, or any other relevant field matters little if you have a decent amount of experience backing you. At times, tech companies that require a master’s degree also accept people who are in the process of completing their master’s program. If you don’t, you need to start with one.

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Ronke PM

JUNE 21, 2023

Internal Sales and Customer Success/Relationship Management Quarterly Business Reviews (QBR) meetings. Customer Quarterly Business Reviews (QBR) meetings. Retrospective meetings with the engineering team. Daily Stand-up meetings with the engineering team. Engineering Demo Review Meetings.

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The Product Coalition

OCTOBER 19, 2020

Companies can slash operations costs because they no longer have to account for infrastructure, office space, seat costs and technology for the new team. Regardless of the stage the project is at, companies can hire remote engineering teams to create more agile workflows.

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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.    These are mostly seen as reasonable and technically sound.  Sales

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Mind the Product

APRIL 4, 2017

What is Dual-Track Agile? Dual-Track Agile is an IT development methodology where figuring out what to build is as important as the building process. With Dual-Track Agile, the development team participates in the discovery track – often led by the lead engineer, the UX designer, and the product manager.

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The Product Coalition

SEPTEMBER 20, 2020

TL; DR: 11 Proven Stakeholder Communication Tactics Stakeholder communication: It is simply not enough for an agile product development organization to create great code and ship the resulting product like a clockwork. is a critical success factor to step up the transformation game: You want to become agile, not “do agile.”

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Modus Create

JUNE 20, 2023

Technically, serverless isn’t really “server less” as there are still servers that run your application, but they are managed by your cloud provider (read: out of sight, out of mind.) Micro frontends have immense benefits, but it’s not a technology you can use off the shelf. It’s also an organizational change.

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The Product Guy

AUGUST 1, 2019

A startup development team consisting of a product manager and two offshore engineers was facing major challenges in meeting client deliverable deadlines – repeatedly. Each major release deadline created a high pressure environment with engineers working overtime in the weeks prior in order to meet delivery dates. THE CHALLENGE.

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Userpilot

SEPTEMBER 29, 2023

In this article, we've got a comprehensive review of the entire product development process. 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.

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Userpilot

NOVEMBER 23, 2023

TL;DR Hard skills, like technical knowledge, are job-specific and enable product managers to perform their core responsibilities. Agile is the most common development methodology, so PMs need to be well-versed in its principles. Soft skills, like communication or leadership , are more general and can be used in different contexts.

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Userpilot

JULY 30, 2021

A product manager’s responsibilities include evaluating ideas, setting product strategy, building and sharing product roadmaps, prioritizing features and documenting requirements, defining product releases, and analyzing and reporting on progress. Building and sharing strategic roadmaps. Sample product roadmap from roadmunk.com.

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Modus Create

JUNE 7, 2022

Application modernization is an initiative for assessing legacy applications and updating their infrastructure, architecture, and features to leverage recent technical innovations. Technically savvy customers gravitate to products that have the latest technologies and capabilities. Next, create a modernization plan and roadmap.

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Intercom, Inc.

FEBRUARY 26, 2018

by Rich Archbold, Senior Director of Engineering at Intercom. In this battle, I’ve found a secret weapon hidden within one of our core engineering strategies, an idea called Run Less Software. When I say “execute”, I don’t simply mean the engineering challenges of building something. The same is true in software.

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Product Innovation Educators

MAY 22, 2023

How product mangers can improve collaboration in cross-functional teams Today we are talking with Maziar Adl, the co-founder and CTO of Gocious, an organization that creates product roadmap management software. 6:52] Did you find a gap in the roadmapping tools that were available before you started Gocious?

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The Product Coalition

NOVEMBER 6, 2019

Product Roadmaps are some of the most important product tools. Learn how to create your product roadmap in 2019, including 5 templates you can get inspiration from. Roadmapping is one of the unsung heroes in the product arena. Perfect your roadmapping skills by learning from the examples below! Useful, right?

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Alchemer Mobile

APRIL 14, 2020

Here are some of the questions they’ll discuss: What’s the relationship between design, development, engineering, and product and your company? How deep does your understanding of the technology go as a PM? How do you manage executive expectations, customer expectations, and technical resources? Christy: All right.

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The Product Coalition

MARCH 18, 2021

E.g., you need to look for experience in the industry you target and the technology stack. We recommend you use the Agile software development methodology for this. He/she needs to document the architectural decisions, and this needs a structured review. You need to decide on a pricing model.

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ProductPlan

JUNE 11, 2019

An outcome-based roadmap sounds like a good idea. Instead of a long list of context-free features and enhancements the roadmap is constructed to accomplish specific goals critical to the success of the business. The Problem With Outcome-Based Roadmaps. Any company can create new technologies.

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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! , tools and technologies for product management).

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