The Product Coalition

SEPTEMBER 21, 2020

10 guidelines to design high impact experiments. Often, other functions such as Marketing and Sales also use experimentation to identify target segments, optimize campaign performance and trial pricing strategies. Here are 10 guidelines to design high impact experiments. And when are experiments invalid?

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Ask Benny

JANUARY 25, 2020

How to build a roadmap while staying agile and lean, and why so many product teams do agile wrong. Bottom to Top Agile In many companies that make a transition to agile, the move is initiated by engineering, which is focused on execution and efficiency. Long sprints or sprints defined by scope rather than timeline.

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Melissa Perri

JANUARY 21, 2015

Over the past few months I have been working with people in the Lean and Agile community to figure out how we can communicate the benefits of a Lean approach to Product Management. As Lean Product Managers, we focus on running experiments using MVPs, getting solid data from customers, and then making decisions on product strategy.

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ProductPlan

OCTOBER 29, 2019

In the go-go environment of Agile , continuous delivery , and SaaS, code is getting cranked out and deployed faster than ever. They often don’t have proper education, coding examples, or guidelines to follow. Making the case for cybersecurity on your roadmap. Making Room for Cybersecurity on the Roadmap. Well, it depends.

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Ask Benny

FEBRUARY 26, 2019

How to build a roadmap while staying agile and lean, and why so many product teams do agile wrong. Bottom to Top Agile In many companies that make a transition to agile, the move is initiated by engineering, which is focused on execution and efficiency. Long sprints or sprints defined by scope rather than timeline.

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The Product HQ

FEBRUARY 1, 2023

TPMs must communicate strategies, roadmaps, and program issues with all key stakeholders. They also partner with business stakeholders to prioritize tasks and roadmaps while achieving organizational objectives. Thus, the TPM develops its program’s strategies and roadmaps while leading all the teams that execute them.

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The Product Coalition

JULY 17, 2018

How to build a roadmap while staying agile and lean, and why so many product teams do agile wrong. Bottom to Top Agile In many companies that make a transition to agile, the move is initiated by engineering, which is focused on execution and efficiency. Long sprints or sprints defined by scope rather than timeline.

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Ask Benny

JULY 16, 2018

How to build a roadmap while staying agile and lean, and why so many product teams do agile wrong. Bottom to Top Agile In many companies that make a transition to agile, the move is initiated by engineering, which is focused on execution and efficiency.

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Bain Public

DECEMBER 14, 2021

This book provides advice for the business decisions crucial to achieving truly disruptive growth and proposes guidelines for developing your own disruptive growth engine. Here, Achor offers five strategies - the SEEDS of Big Potential--for lifting the ceiling on what we can achieve while returning happiness and meaning to our lives.

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Johanna Rothman

JULY 22, 2021

That leads to large and unchangeable roadmaps and a lot of emphasis on predictability. Worse, many of these managers also want business agility. Business agility requires change. Strategy Occurs At Several Levels. Product strategy, to define the value the products offer to the product's users/customers.

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ProductPlan

FEBRUARY 15, 2022

Beyond the usual screening questions about strategy, culture, processes, and values, product operations professionals may also want to ask some of the more pertinent questions below during the interview process: How does the product team define successful product operations? Such as roadmap planning, feature requirements, and retrospectives.

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The Product Coalition

MAY 9, 2021

When I talk about roadmaps with younger product leaders, I often hear things like “we don’t need one, we are agile” or “why build a roadmap when things will surely change”. The roadmap sets the strategic direction of the company, and when built right it also doesn’t have to change that frequently, despite your agility.

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UX Studio

JUNE 30, 2023

They blend strategy and creativity in their user-friendly designs. San Francisco, CA $100 – $149 / hr Digital Design, Integrated Marketing, Brand Strategy, User Research, Web Development, Interaction Design Niftic Agency Niftic is a smaller full-service design agency working with brands all over the world.

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Intercom, Inc.

FEBRUARY 26, 2018

It’s even harder if you don’t know all of the armies on the field, their strategies and weapons, or even who’s a friend and who’s a foe. In this battle, I’ve found a secret weapon hidden within one of our core engineering strategies, an idea called Run Less Software. The same is true in software. Innovative startups.

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ProductPlan

APRIL 3, 2021

ProductPlan has written about frameworks to help with product prioritization , frameworks to develop an effective product strategy , and some of our favorites for UX designers, including Google’s HEART framework. Let’s says your team has no fixed stages or guidelines during the development process.

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UX Studio

APRIL 6, 2023

They merge the mentality of a boutique agency with a marketing agency’s strategy, creativity, and technology. They can do whole projects from end-to-end including doing web style searches, writing brand books and guidelines, creating motion graphics, then developing the whole website in WebFlow. This is how 500 Designs was born.

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UX Studio

APRIL 6, 2023

They merge the mentality of a boutique agency with a marketing agency’s strategy, creativity, and technology. They can do whole projects from end-to-end including doing web style searches, writing brand books and guidelines, creating motion graphics, then developing the whole website in WebFlow. This is how 500 Designs was born.

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UX Studio

JULY 27, 2022

Whether it’s because of new management, a new logo, or just changes in market strategy. Based on this meeting we’ll prepare a roadmap, which is tailored to your business needs, both time and budget-wise. We see our future clients as partners, so it’s important that the roadmap of the website redesign is suitable for them.

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Amplitude

APRIL 4, 2017

The Product Manager is responsible for creating a roadmap and prioritizing development work. Designers get a feel for the brand and any UI guidelines. It is important that the technical requirements are identified upfront and communicated with the team so they can be included in the roadmap from the start.

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Johanna Rothman

NOVEMBER 18, 2022

Create a yearly budget as a guideline for our specific goals, but manage that budget every week and month to manage our risks. I'm not talking about changing the strategy more often than the teams can deliver. Most of us don't take the absolute maximum mortgage we can afford because of the risks, but something a little less.

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BrainMates

MAY 28, 2019

Product Strategy and Lifecycle Management : how to monitor and increase the return on investment after launch, including: Product performance : to monitor leading indicators to ensure the business gets benefits from the customer experience with the product. Iterate on business, market and product strategies (Product Strategy).

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ProductPlan

SEPTEMBER 15, 2021

Their product teams are small and agile. These professionals can easily communicate , stay aligned, and present a cohesive product strategy to the team. Many teams fail to understand the importance of a roadmap. They fail to understand how it can help to standardize roadmaps to align your team. Choosing the right tool.

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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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The Product Coalition

FEBRUARY 12, 2019

OK, everybody knows Agile is one of the best product methodologies out there. Well, for those who are unsure about what Agile Product Development means, this post will refresh their memory first. Indeed, it has been a while since Agile was first popularized by a manifesto from product developers. Well, the answer is, it depends.

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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. Strategy: Product/Market Fit Hypotheses. A compelling strategy delineates exactly how your product will dominate its market. And that's what refining your strategy is all about. Design: Customer Discovery Insights.

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The Product Coalition

DECEMBER 20, 2018

Roadmapping is one of the unsung heroes in the product arena. The principles of creating a Product Roadmap First of all: as PMs, you are assumed to hold an ability to improvise. That said, a Product Roadmap is a good tool to actually anticipate mistakes. What should we include on a Product Roadmap? Useful, right?

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The Product Coalition

JUNE 28, 2020

cioruk on Unsplash You just finished working on your strategic roadmap. You completed your planning and started applying the new roadmap to the upcoming sprints. You have a strategy, you are just unable to make progress with it. The alternative is not having a solid product strategy, and that’s a debt much harder to close.

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Johanna Rothman

DECEMBER 11, 2020

Strategy and Product Feedback Loops. The product roadmap). What's your estimate for this item on the roadmap? My guideline is 3 acceptance criteria, as Given-When-Then. Many teams and POs need to change the roadmap more frequently than they expected. How Long Are Your Roadmap Feedback Loops? Team cycle time.

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Usersnap

JANUARY 18, 2024

This question effectively captures a full customer base’s overall sentiment towards a company, helping businesses identify their strongest advocates and areas needing enhancement, thereby playing a pivotal role in shaping customer experience strategies and fostering business success.

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ProductPlan

MAY 30, 2019

Product Strategy. / This not only gives clear guidelines to product development; it also provides QA with precise things to look for during their testing and gives a head start for sales and marketing since they know what they’re getting. If the mitigation strategy isn’t obvious, a sub-team can be assigned to each outstanding item.

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ProductPlan

FEBRUARY 20, 2019

And while this advice can generally help your team be more agile, it may not apply 100% of the time. In many cases, as was the case with Dropbox, a formalized process actually helped the team be more agile by eliminating several layers of red tape. So, don’t be afraid of all processes.

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Alchemer Mobile

APRIL 14, 2020

And I wanna set some ground rules and kinda guidelines for how this is gonna work today because this is our first ever panel that we’ve done remotely. And product managers have more opportunities to have large, long lasting impacts at companies, and to play an integral role in overall strategy. Their goals are different.

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The Product Coalition

FEBRUARY 12, 2020

It could be because the market is always moving faster than we can, and we are constantly chasing it, or because to make an impact we are 100% dependant on other people (as much as I hate to admit it, even an amazing product strategy document won’t make an impact unless people adopt and implement it). Write down your to-do list.

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Business of Software Conference

APRIL 7, 2020

Most marketing talk, or business strategy meetings, emphasizes the importance of ‘customer first’. So, when it comes to how we approach our analytics or what we review and what we look at when we talk about even qualitative data collection there has to be some sort of guidelines. That’s what it used to be like.

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Userzoom

JUNE 6, 2019

So, when teams wanted to do research by themselves, they were mostly on their own, without any guidelines or any support on best practices. And if we plan a strategy and coach others, we can massively scale the number of user needs and pain points to solve. Let’s imagine this for a minute.

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