The Product Coalition

MARCH 5, 2024

Challenging an emerging myth that Agile is dead, and providing insight on key principles & tactics to finding success with Agile-based product teams. Nowadays it seems to have an opinion of Agile product methods like Scrum. Agile methods like Scrum are not a one-size-fits-all framework.

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Johanna Rothman

NOVEMBER 9, 2023

Strategy and Product Feedback Loops Many of my middle-management and senior leadership clients want certainty about future work. That's one of the reasons they create huge backlogs and long roadmaps. Yet, even those backlogs and roadmaps don't offer certainty. Does that sound like an agile team to you?

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The Product Coalition

JULY 16, 2023

Add to that the agile revolution, which yanked product managers deep into the execution ( preparing a sprint every other week requires a lot of work! ), and you’ll see why two decades later the focus of product management had shifted. My personal passion is to bring back this very important dimension into product management and leadership.

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Roman Pichler

FEBRUARY 19, 2024

Listen to the audio version of this article: [link] Introduction To discuss empowerment in product management, I find it helpful to distinguish three main levels of decision-making authority, product delivery, product discovery, and product strategy, as the model in Figure 1 shows. [1]

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Johanna Rothman

DECEMBER 2, 2022

On the ANE panel last night, an agile coach asked, “What's my path forward as an agile coach? Focus on business results, not agility per se. Teams might feel pressure from a too-large backlog or too-long roadmap. Nobody wants to “be agile.” ” People want the results agility offers them.

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Johanna Rothman

AUGUST 19, 2021

So when does it make sense to customize your agile approach to gain a strategic advantage? They want an agile approach, so they started with Scrum. We don't think we need to be “religious” about our agile approach as long as we get the benefit. Then, they Built their agile approach based on their needs.

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Mind the Product

FEBRUARY 15, 2018

Much has been written about the process of creating product roadmaps, not least the six great articles written by my own team. I believe the actions of a product leader all too often are the root cause of a “bad” roadmap. Without thoughtful leadership around them, it may not be in product manager’s gift to achieve a “good” roadmap.

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Roman Pichler

MARCH 9, 2022

Additionally, an inspiring vision helps you apply a visionary leadership style and become a visionary leader—someone who guides others through a big, motivating goal. The board, shown in the picture below, captures the vision in the top section and the strategy in the four sections underneath it. The vision pulls you.”.

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The Product Coalition

OCTOBER 15, 2019

3 Different Types of Roadmaps Every PM Needs to Master Roadmapping is not easy. Every company demands different types of Roadmaps, and every PM has their own flavour. Here is a step by step process to create roadmaps so you can influence anyone in your company like a true Jedi. So what is Product Roadmap?

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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? Agile Transformation. Agile transformations and DevOps initiatives are complementary.

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The Product Coalition

NOVEMBER 13, 2023

The Critical Role of Product Strategy When Money Is Scarce (Part 2 — Rounds A, B, and Later) When you start selling your product, you feel great, but that doesn’t last for too long. A product strategy is often the missing link that would convert your efforts into actual revenue. Here is how it works.

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The Product Coalition

DECEMBER 4, 2023

The Critical Role of Product Strategy When Resources Are Limited (Part 2 — Rounds A, B, and Later) When you start selling your product, you feel great, but that doesn’t last for too long. A product strategy is often the missing link that would convert your efforts into actual revenue. An economic downturn, a war — you name it.

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Roman Pichler

MAY 4, 2022

Scrum is a popular agile framework. You might not know, for example, which marketing strategy is most appropriate or which sales channels are most effective. The marketer might have to create or update the marketing strategy; the sales rep might have to adapt the sales channels, for instance. Listen to this article: [link].

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Mironov Consulting

DECEMBER 5, 2023

  (For fun, let’s call those things strategies.) ” And this is usually wrapped around an organizational ownership fistfight about who “owns” company-level strategy.    (See omphaloskepsis ) Often the various departments are deadlocked , waiting for each other to make tough decisions.

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ProductPlan

AUGUST 7, 2020

Then, I started gravitating towards product strategy questions, like, “Why am I building products?, I worked with the product leadership to plan out a product strategy. Then, I created a product roadmap to move that strategy forward, which ultimately drove a 15% increase in revenue and a 20% increase in retention.

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Intercom, Inc.

OCTOBER 1, 2020

On this episode of Intercom on Product myself and Paul Adams, our SVP of Product, take a look at roadmapping. Knowing how and when to define a roadmap, who to include and how long to plan for are key elements to finding the balanced approach that you need. As you grow functions, the audience for your roadmap widens.

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Intercom, Inc.

OCTOBER 1, 2020

On this episode of Intercom on Product myself and Paul Adams, our SVP of Product, take a look at roadmapping. Knowing how and when to define a roadmap, who to include and how long to plan for are key elements to finding the balanced approach that you need. As you grow functions, the audience for your roadmap widens.

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The Product Coalition

JUNE 9, 2021

Part one of this article taught you how to align a roadmap with aspirational business goals. The initial steps of this framework took collaboration between business leadership and the product team to set a direction for development decisions. This step gets into what people think of when they ask for a roadmap.

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Agile Velocity

MAY 20, 2020

The recent Harvard Business Review (HBR) article “ The Agile C-Suite ” 1 and Forbes article “Agile Isn’t New: What’s New Is The C-Suite Embracing It” have prompted some good discussion around the Agile Velocity virtual water cooler. . However, the case being made in this article is that “Agile is primarily for innovation”.

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ProductPlan

JANUARY 21, 2021

That team’s collective work is often represented, at a high level, as features on the product roadmap. The Role Roadmaps Play in Managing Product Design. The roadmap can be a powerful tool in coordinating these efforts, including the product design team members. Avoid the Temptation for a UX Roadmap.

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Userpilot

NOVEMBER 23, 2023

Soft skills, like communication or leadership , are more general and can be used in different contexts. Agile is the most common development methodology, so PMs need to be well-versed in its principles. As roadmapping is a key part of the job, good PMs are competent users of product management applications that streamline the process.

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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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Roman Pichler

APRIL 19, 2017

Challenging situations are great opportunities to grow as a human being and by doing so, you increase your leadership power. You may want to combine reviewing the market development together with the product performance in form of regular strategy and roadmap review meetings (as I discuss in more detail in my book Strategize ).

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Mind the Product

OCTOBER 21, 2019

A strong product strategy is often neglected because of the absence of any strategic thinking in product teams. What can product managers do to make sure they give their product strategy the attention it warrants? Tanya shares her ideas for nurturing a strong product strategy from this year’s #mtpcon London Product Leadership Forum.

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Mind the Product

SEPTEMBER 5, 2018

so my investor said that I need a product manager to do our product roadmap?”. When I worked as a product management consultant clients would often talk about “needing a product roadmap ASAP”. In reality, asking for a product roadmap was shorthand for “please help me with my strategy”.

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ProductPlan

MARCH 13, 2024

I am deeply familiar with their common refrains of endless roadmap review meetings, repetitive PowerPoint presentations, and the strain of constant context shifting. Product teams are responsible for creating a strategy and explaining the “why” behind the product.

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The Product Coalition

MARCH 23, 2020

From objectives to roadmap, the strategy behind product development?—?Part Objectives key results (OKR) is a popular management strategy framework for defining and tracking objectives (goals) and their outcomes. See you in part II where I will cover the next steps the connection between OKRs, roadmap and agile process.

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Agile Velocity

FEBRUARY 12, 2020

When going through an Agile transformation, Agile teams often feel like they have a good handle on Agile and Scrum. But when asked about their progress toward the business outcomes their organization hopes to achieve by implementing Agile, their answer is not as confident. This is not unusual.

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Agile Velocity

FEBRUARY 12, 2020

When going through an Agile transformation, Agile teams often feel like they have a good handle on Agile and Scrum. But when asked about their progress toward the business outcomes their organization hopes to achieve by implementing Agile, their answer is not as confident. This is not unusual.

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Userpilot

AUGUST 29, 2023

The product management process starts with building an understanding of your users and the market, defining a vision and strategy , generating and prioritizing ideas that could solve user problems, articulating them in a clear roadmap, launching an MVP, and then gathering feedback to evolve it over time. Drives product success.

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ProductPlan

JULY 2, 2021

Our library of content helps thousands upon thousands of product people every month continue their education and understanding of the product space, thought-leadership, best practices, and trends, all for free. Of course, if you seek best practices for using ProductPlan’s roadmap platform, you’ll also find tips in the Learning Center. .

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Roman Pichler

APRIL 5, 2022

For example, a product strategy workshop might have the objective to identify the key changes required to achieve product-market fit. As a rule of thumb, avoid meetings with more than ten attendees when you have to make high-impact decisions and/or rework the product strategy , product roadmap , or product backlog.

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Amplitude

MARCH 11, 2020

Roadmapping is at the core of product strategy and product management. Output-focused product roadmaps provide a false sense of certainty, all while limiting product work to a few big bets, which may or may not pan out. We broke into pairs and then each pair developed a feature roadmap along a particular area of focus.

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The Product Guy

AUGUST 1, 2017

A product leader not only has to manage products but also to guide and direct the overall product strategy and team, and ensure that products are delivered to market. Holding regular Agile retrospectives can be very useful in this regard and allow a safer communication to happen within the team. Resource management.

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Userpilot

OCTOBER 26, 2022

Impact mapping is a collaborative strategic planning technique used by product managers, product owners , and senior technical leadership, who work mostly in Agile software delivery. Impact mapping allows businesses to make sure their product strategy is aligned with business goals and that all stakeholders are on the same page.

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ProductPlan

JANUARY 21, 2021

That team’s collective work is often represented, at a high level, as features on the product roadmap. The Role Roadmaps Play in Managing Product Design. The roadmap can be a powerful tool in coordinating these efforts, including the product design team members. Avoid the Temptation for a UX Roadmap.

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Mind the Product

JUNE 1, 2018

When we compare today’s agile product management in practice with what we have seen some 10 years ago, not much has changed: Agility is still mainly limited to UX labs and A/B testing, and misses the potential value that could be found between the initial idea and a working product. The post Lost in the Agile Jungle?

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