The Product Coalition

AUGUST 3, 2023

A compelling product vision is a guiding light, providing direction and purpose to the development process. Meanwhile, a robust product strategy lays the roadmap to achieve that vision. It acts as a unifying force, ensuring that all team members share a common understanding of the product’s purpose and direction.

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Roman Pichler

OCTOBER 5, 2021

A few years ago, I was asked to help a healthcare company with their agile transition and its impact on product management. One of the challenges the agile transition team was concerned about was the choice of the right product backlog tool, which at first seemed odd to me. The Product Backlog is Too Big.

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Product Management University

MARCH 5, 2024

The definition of product management has been changing and evolving over the past 10 years and I’m not sure it’s for the better. I make it a regular habit to have conversations with product management directors and VPs. It keeps me current on the landscape of the product management profession without any slant or bias to what we do.

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Userpilot

APRIL 30, 2024

Marty Cagan is a popular name in the product management world. In many ways, he has shaped how successful products are built and how teams can be organized to work toward excellence. Marty Cagan is a well-known figure in the product management and technology industry. Who is Marty Cagan?

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Roman Pichler

APRIL 5, 2022

For product strategy and roadmap meetings, I recommend involving the key stakeholders , for example, someone from sales, marketing, support, and finance, as well as development team representatives—ideally members who know about the user experience (UX), architecture, and technologies. Close the meeting.

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Roman Pichler

MAY 11, 2021

Instead, you should engage the stakeholders, leverage their expertise, and generate as much buy-in as possible , as I explain in more detail in my article “ Stakeholder Management Tips for Product People.” ” But do not allow people to dominate and tell you what to do, and don’t agree to a weak compromise.

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Roman Pichler

JULY 11, 2016

Manage the Product, not the Team. Focus on your job as the product manager or product owner, and manage the product, not the team. Treat the Team as an Equal Partner. The team members are not your resources but the people who create your product. Assume that the team members want to do their best.

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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? I said that if the coach wanted to move up the hierarchy in the organization, the coach needed some form of management experience. Focus on business results, not agility per se. What do I do next?” Most cannot.

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The Product Coalition

DECEMBER 8, 2019

Highly effective Product Managers develop themselves in 5 key areas. Highly effective Product Managers (or what I call Exponential PMs) tend to be strong in all of these areas. Let’s tuck in… What makes for a highly effective Product Manager? ?? the craft of product management, creating customer and business value) 2.

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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. What are OKRs? This framework, which is widely common in medium?—?large

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Roman Pichler

MAY 11, 2021

Instead, you should engage the stakeholders, leverage their expertise, and generate as much buy-in as possible , as I explain in more detail in my article “ Stakeholder Management Tips for Product People.” ” But do not allow people to dominate and tell you what to do, and don’t agree to a weak compromise.

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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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Modus Create

MARCH 8, 2022

What is Agile Release Planning? In Agile, a release is a group of software features that can be developed and deployed to the users in a given period. Adding more plans and meetings to an Agile team can seem like a slowdown which feels scary given that Agile is all about speed and deployments.

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The Secret PM Handbook

AUGUST 4, 2017

The Secret Product Management Framework. Finally writing down the Secret Product Management Framework was a revelation for me. It put all the activities I do as a product manager into perspective. You Might Be Surprised Which Product Management Activity Is Most Important. How To Talk To Your Executives About Agile.

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Roman Pichler

NOVEMBER 12, 2019

I once worked with a telco company that was developing a brand-new commercial product. Product management and development were located at separate sites in different countries. The technical complexities were greater than anticipated and the development progress was slower than forecasted. To Collocate or Not.

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Roman Pichler

NOVEMBER 12, 2019

I once worked with a telco company that was developing a brand-new commercial product. Product management and development were located at separate sites in different countries. The technical complexities were greater than anticipated and the development progress was slower than forecasted. To Collocate or Not.

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ProductPlan

AUGUST 25, 2022

Let’s jump in with the bad news: No organization is immune to product vulnerability. However, great product leaders protect their product teams from exploiting weaknesses and vulnerabilities. However, these uncontrollable, unpredictable variables can create weaknesses that morph into opportunities for potential attacks.

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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. Seeing things in practice.

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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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The Product Coalition

OCTOBER 20, 2020

It’s understandable that most of us don’t make time for personal development. Who wants to spend time after a hard day of work learning and developing when they could be kicking back with a beer and watching The Crown? A few months ago, I introduced a concept I have developed called the PM, or Product, Quadrants.

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The Product Coalition

MARCH 8, 2024

Think of digital transformation strategies as your roadmap to success in the digital age. The important basis is the development of a strategy for short- and long-term digital transformation based on business results rather than technology. Involve them in strategy development, gather their input, and address their concerns.

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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. I would define a good roadmap as one that the team understands and feels ownership over.

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The Product Coalition

JULY 16, 2023

In recent years it seems that product management is all about execution and delivery. Photo by Kea Mowat on Unsplash When I moved into product management, almost 20 years ago, it used to be a very senior role. Photo by Kea Mowat on Unsplash When I moved into product management, almost 20 years ago, it used to be a very senior role.

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Mironov Consulting

FEBRUARY 28, 2024

An essential role of CPOs and other product leaders that’s never listed in the job description is giving organizational 'air cover' to product managers to postpone almost all new requests — so that their teams can finish work already underway.    “ How hard could it be? 

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The Secret PM Handbook

AUGUST 4, 2017

The Secret Product Management Framework. Finally writing down the Secret Product Management Framework was a revelation for me. It put all the activities I do as a product manager into perspective. You Might Be Surprised Which Product Management Activity Is Most Important. How To Talk To Your Executives About Agile.

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The Secret PM Handbook

AUGUST 4, 2017

The Secret Product Management Framework. Finally writing down the Secret Product Management Framework was a revelation for me. It put all the activities I do as a product manager into perspective. You Might Be Surprised Which Product Management Activity Is Most Important. How To Talk To Your Executives About Agile.

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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

AUGUST 1, 2019

What do you do when your team is working their socks off and yet they are getting little credit for the work being done, mainly because the team isn’t able to set concrete expectations with the stakeholder? This obviously reflected as a failure to deliver on part of the engineering team. THE CHALLENGE. THE CAUSE.

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Userpilot

MAY 5, 2022

What does the product management process involve? Why is it important for product managers to follow them? Product managers lead interdisciplinary product teams to deliver products that bring value to customers. The product development process is one aspect of the product management process.

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ProductPlan

MAY 22, 2020

It’s no secret that product management often looks different from one organization to the next. It’s not necessarily bad when product management adapts to each company’s specific needs. However, product management must be consistent within the same organization. What is Product Ops, Exactly?

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ProductPlan

JANUARY 5, 2023

Organizations that have more recently recognized the importance of product management to the success of their business are those that are transitioning from being “sales-led” or “customer-led” to “product-led.”. Agile vs. agile. Are you Agile, or are you agile?” Outcome-driven vs. feature-based roadmaps.

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UX Planet

DECEMBER 15, 2023

Understanding your organization’s UX maturity is the first, most crucial step toward recognizing the strengths and weaknesses of your organization. It also helps in saving on directionless development costs. Have you prioritized the design problems to be solved in your product roadmap?

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Mironov Consulting

FEBRUARY 12, 2022

But for calendars, the scarce resource is time rather than development capacity.  Just A Quick-and-Dirty Tabulation with Optional Color Coding Applying some Agile 101, it’s handy to understand a problem before we start fixing things.  Perhaps  Are fellow employees offended when I decline meeting requests?

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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. But it is greatly diminished when folks are betting on unrealistic results.

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Userpilot

JANUARY 21, 2021

Drawing a clear line between a product owner vs. product manager can be tough, given their varying roles from company to company. Despite any difference in roles, both the product manager and the product owner share a common goal: building products that create value for the stakeholders. In a hurry? Grab Our Bite-Sized Summary.

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Mind the Product

DECEMBER 23, 2017

Every week I curate the best product and design content from across the internet into our weekly product management newsletter Prioritised. Product Manager vs Product Owner. Melissa Perri unpacks the differences between product managers and product owners and how different philosophies teach them. Why Isn’t Agile Working?

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