The Product Coalition

OCTOBER 5, 2020

From Product Vision to User Stories to Roadmap Tools In my experience, product roadmaps work best as an extension to the Product Backlog. In my experience, this approach has its merits if you keep the following first principles of product roadmaps in mind: You don’t have a product Vision? not just once a year.

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The Product Coalition

SEPTEMBER 29, 2020

You somehow have to bring together a rowdy bunch of tech professionals (data scientists, UX and UI designers , software engineers, etc) and make a valuable and functional product happen. From prioritization to vision, you need everyone on board and moving in the same direction. Be a keeper of the vision.

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Userpilot

JULY 9, 2023

Start improving user experience and usability with user research. Next, generate and prioritize ideas for improving the usability and user experience you’ve identified in the research. A/B tests allow you to identify the best versions of your UI and in-app content. Which techniques can you use for your customer research ?

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The Product Coalition

MAY 5, 2020

It validates your vision, gives you a clearer picture of user needs, and gives you key answers to roadmap-building questions. Will our solution work? Not just the vision for the product itself, but how it fits in with the company goals. This is some of the most useful data for creating your product vision and User Journey maps.

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Sequent Learning

JULY 25, 2019

Start With A Vision. Successful products begin life with a spark of inspiration and a vision. Vision is, considered a non-negotiable for a CEO, and is often non-negotiable for a product manager. Being a leading solutions provider, or striving for excellence, or being number one just doesn’t cut it.

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The Product Coalition

JANUARY 14, 2020

The Steps and Exercises of the Product Mindset Workshop The product mindset workshop comprises of seven steps, starting with the product vision to the business model to personas to ideation: 1. Product Vision We start the workshop with a recap of the product vision?—?why our product vision?—?is Show Me the Money?—?the

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Roadmunk

AUGUST 17, 2017

Roadmapping isn’t an exercise reserved solely for product teams—or rather, it shouldn’t be. Roadmaps are communication tools and are perfect vehicles for teams of all kinds to share their priorities and goals with the rest of the organization. Lay out your vision and mission-critical business objectives with our strategic roadmaps.

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Userpilot

MARCH 3, 2022

This includes market research (potential employers), understanding product strengths (your value to the customer), iterative development (subsequent drafts), or refining the UI (formatting). Competence in using product analytics tools is a must for product managers, and the recruiters will be looking for them in your resume.

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Userpilot

JUNE 21, 2022

Make sure that whatever feature you are considering building actually suits their needs and provides them with a viable solution to a problem, and that you’re not building for a one-time use case nobody else has. In-app communication is really important here. Let’s pretend we’re building a product management tool.

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The Product Coalition

OCTOBER 15, 2019

To me, strategies are just solutions to problems. And any solution can be labeled as a “strategy” once its scope includes understanding of competitors and the tactics to beat them. So if you are a PM aspiring to think more “strategically,” try this simple exercise of asking “why” to everything you do. Curious to learn more?

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Amplitude

NOVEMBER 12, 2018

Holly Hester-Reilly has a fascinating, experiment-driven meets systems-thinking perspective on product management. Prior to jumping into product roles at Shutterstock and Media Math, Holly studied chemical engineering, and practiced research science for several years. Why science? I think the best product managers are like scientists.”

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The Product Coalition

SEPTEMBER 28, 2020

20 Questions from New Scrum Master to Product Owner The Questionnaire: From New Scrum Master to Product Owner This set of questions is intended for the first talk between the Product Owner and a new Scrum Master without involving the whole Scrum team: What is the product vision and the corresponding go-to-market strategy? Roadmap planning?—?as

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Amplitude

OCTOBER 4, 2017

But then online came along and with it, a new software distribution model emerged (SaaS). But the products being developed, the websites and applications, were essentially marketing tools – glorified digital brochures. Today, however, websites and apps are the product. And now we could measure things.

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The Product Coalition

JANUARY 29, 2019

Everything we know about work changes with technology. Then, the invention of technology and modern work required the development of management processes. Projects have explicitly defined targets, along with an exhaustive description of timeframes, tools, teams and any other elements that are required. Fourth: indicators !

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The Product Coalition

JANUARY 22, 2019

The biggest success stories, from Amazon to Google, are examples of ventures into new markets from established solutions; thanks to their ability to improvise and reap gains from innovation. This is supposed to be an open exercise: if you are in a management position, try and encourage usually silent voices to speak up.

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The Product Coalition

JANUARY 26, 2024

Twenty five mini-research ideas for finding something meaningful to work on. In the perfect world, product managers have all the time, resources, and skills to do impeccable, in-depth market and user research. The real world has limited resources, unrealistic deadlines, and new teams that have not been able to do research at all.

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Bain Public

DECEMBER 8, 2020

Unfortunately, it’s often common for companies without a product vision or plan to have a hard-driving unhealthy 24/7 work culture. Look beyond short-term goals and set your sights on a long-term vision. What happens if you simply jump into work without a clear vision of what you’re trying to accomplish? Unwind With Exercise.

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PMLesson's Ace the PM Interview

MAY 4, 2020

In the define stage, you are planning the MVP by sharing your vision with your engineering and product design counterparts. Enterprise Product Manager (IBM) I'm Kevin Wei, a product manager at IBM working on data integration tools. I've synced my work emails and calendar with the email and calendar app on my phone for my convenience.

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Intercom, Inc.

AUGUST 13, 2019

Many of us in the design and technology community pride ourselves on being tool builders, creating products that others can use to get things done. Tools are part of who we are. We all have a very fundamental relationship with the tools we use. We all have a very fundamental relationship with the tools we use.

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Roadmunk

APRIL 17, 2018

So my team is responsible for our design system and our audience-facing experience across all of our edit networks. And as far as other tools, not voice-related in this space, there were a few Slack bots here and there. I think we’re still trying to figure out if this is the right platform for news. Sanette: ?

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Folding Burritos

DECEMBER 4, 2019

Technical debt can be valued in terms of “future change” outcomes like improved delivery velocity or better platform scalability, for example. A lot of our product work requires discovery, which is why the Opportunity-Solution-Experiment concepts in Teresa Torres’ tree are ideal. However, other types of work don’t need that.

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Sequent Learning

NOVEMBER 12, 2018

Often due to poorly defined roles or inconsistent processes, their days are consumed by tasks that belong elsewhere, leaving them with little time for the customer research and strategic thinking that should be among their highest priorities. They may even be unclear about who their ideal customers are.

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Product Bookshelf

AUGUST 22, 2016

The solution is to develop an emotional ‘hook’ that fundamentally changes user behavior. Transform yourself into an ‘idea person’ by looking for inspiration with everyday activities and creative-thinking exercises. Find the solution to the smallest component, then work your way up. Blog post submitted by Lewis C.

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PMLesson's Ace the PM Interview

MARCH 2, 2022

Google Product Manager Interview Guide Google Engineering Manager Interview Guide Google Software Engineering Interview Guide Google APM Interview Guide Google Technical Program Manager Interview Guide Google Product Marketing Manager Interview Guide Does Google Ask Behavioral Interview Questions? Leadership.

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Roadmunk

AUGUST 10, 2017

The rise of the SaaS model in the product space has been swift, to say the least. So as product managers, knowing how to manage only traditional, on-premises software no longer cuts it. SaaS product managers) to find out how their role differs from an “old-school” software PM—and more importantly, what it really takes to be a SaaS PM.

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UX Studio

FEBRUARY 15, 2024

The Challenges faced, specifically about the detailed insights and learnings from the 50 user interviews conducted, discussing how this data helped shape the core design and functionalities across the app in a user-centric manner. Should we do research? What type of research should we do? I also support our sales team.

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Usersnap

JUNE 15, 2023

Building a powerful SaaS product takes way more than just an idea. For instance, in large companies like Google and Facebook, product managers collaborate with dedicated researchers, analysts, and marketers who assist them in different stages of the product lifecycle. Conduct market and competitive research.

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Roadmunk

APRIL 3, 2018

It’s about synthesizing a lot of information, understanding the system, trying to piece together what is the problem, breaking it down into small manageable chunks so you can analyze it, and then figuring out what is the right solution from there. The same thing goes for solution exploration or really iterating on a concept.

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Intercom, Inc.

NOVEMBER 23, 2022

Behind closed doors, negotiations are dragged on for months while founders and executives figure out ways to eliminate friction and create a synergy that can drive the most value of their shared cultures, processes, and systems. If you think about subscription growth, probably 85% of blog posts and content have to do with sales and marketing.

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ProductPlan

MAY 30, 2019

They explore why other solutions aren’t cutting it, and how they’re solving things for the customer with their not-yet-built product. Looking at Apple’s slick and popular product line, it’s obvious they were listening when Steve Jobs said “you have to start with the customer experience and work backwards towards the technology.”.

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Intercom, Inc.

FEBRUARY 22, 2018

It’s less a question of getting people from A to B in your app and more from A to B in their lives. The two major tools I’ve seen to do that are notifications within a mobile app and lifecycle email. We researched how often people did that. You need to go find people where they are and entice them back in.

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The Product Coalition

NOVEMBER 24, 2020

Sprint Planning with dysfunctional teams will only result in a futile and painful exercise. Bugs, refactoring, and research requires regular attention to avoid building-up technical debt. Read more: Retrospective Exercises Repository.) especially if a report is readily available in the project management software being used.

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The Product Coalition

MARCH 2, 2020

In both situations, the incentive structure of an organization most likely still fosters a predictable behavior that contradicts the organization’s goals at a system level. The following list of Scrum stakeholder anti-patterns addresses Scrum events, system-related issues as well as issues of individual players.

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Business of Software Conference

JUNE 20, 2019

In 2018, Balsamiq celebrated its 10th Birthday – an impressive achievement for any SaaS company. Founder Peldi has attended Business of Software every year since 2010, and has 5 BoS talks to his name. Want us to let you know about new talk videos, speaker AMAs, Business of Software Conference and other event updates?

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Roadmunk

NOVEMBER 9, 2017

Listen below: In this episode we have Evan Michner , Principal Product Manager at Atlassian —specifically for their chat tools, Stride and HipChat. I remember sitting down with the designer at the time saying, please tell me what the difference is between a graphic designer and a software developer. Is it a protection thing?

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Intercom, Inc.

FEBRUARY 20, 2020

“The things that really excite me and have continuously excited me throughout my career have been how we use technology to make lives better” Buster: Yeah, I have spent the last 22 or so years – since graduating college in ’98 with a creative writing degree – in the tech world. How has your career unfolded?

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Sequent Learning

JULY 30, 2018

The first exercise we do in our product management essentials workshops is to have the participant teams (there are typically 4-5 teams grouped by tables) list the challenges that a product manager faces and then draw a picture of a Product Manager. Art: collaboration, vision, creativity, storytelling, leadership, positioning.

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