The Product Coalition

SEPTEMBER 2, 2022

The Eight Core Elements of a Winning Product Strategy “The essence of strategy is choosing what not to do.”?—?Michael After what seemed like months of work, our product was emerging from stealth mode. However, we were at a crossroads when it came to the user base. No choices = no product strategy.

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Product Innovation Educators

AUGUST 22, 2022

Insights on product strategy and customer research for product managers. Today we are looking at product management work through the eyes of a CEO, exploring several topics together. The CEO joining us is Matt Young, CEO of UserVoice, the first product feedback and research tool for software companies.

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The Product Coalition

FEBRUARY 12, 2024

“Feedback is the breakfast of champions.” -Ken This particular product review meeting was a breaking point. I struggled to figure out how to run the product review meeting effectively. I worked in healthcare technology at the time. What outcome did it achieve for the user and the customer?” Ken Blanchard.

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Product Talk

FEBRUARY 12, 2020

Her exposure to the product team —and the departure of a previous product manager—sparked Lisa’s interest and led to her stepping into the product manager role right around the time that Teresa began working with the product team as a discovery coach. We realized we needed to build that trust into the product itself.”.

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The Product Guy

NOVEMBER 21, 2018

Truly understanding your customers and finding ways to improve your product is an overwhelmingly daunting task. Customer discovery is key to informing product strategy and there is a mountain of techniques and methods available for conducting customer discovery. Customer needs. Market knowledge.

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Roman Pichler

JULY 6, 2021

Consequently, your focus shifts from managing a product to looking after the product people on your team and empowering them to do a great job. But others find it hard to no longer be actively involved in making product decisions, regularly talking to users, engaging the stakeholders, and working with development teams.

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The Product HQ

MAY 10, 2024

You have to earn the necessary digital product management and lead skills and demonstrate them to potential employers with confidence. A product lead or the lead product manager is often an experienced senior professional who drives the product strategy, leading and supervising a product team.

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UX Studio: Product Management

JUNE 23, 2020

Zignaly is a cryptocurrency trading platform that helps investors make the right trades by either copying other traders (copy-trading) or receiving trade suggestions based on technical and fundamental analysis (signals). The problem. The team: a strategic collaboration. We collaborated in real-time on Miro to create personas and job stories.

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Bain Public

SEPTEMBER 15, 2021

Today’s most valuable companies, like Facebook, Amazon, Netflix and Google, are product-led and customer-driven. They owe their success to a unified product vision that is informed by feedback from customers, prospects, and colleagues. Creating discipline in product jobs will allow you to make better decisions!

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Ronke PM

MARCH 26, 2024

At the heart of an organization that creates product magic is a product leader who is an expert at leadership and coalition building. These leaders understand that bringing effective products, solutions, and services to market requires consensus building and engaging cross-functional teams in the journey.

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The Product Coalition

OCTOBER 2, 2022

They showed me that being a great product person was enabled with having a great attitude, having empathy for your customers, and influencing your peers with rational thinking. As a result, I became great at my job and I grew into senior product roles. You work with a product team. You talk with customers.

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The Product Coalition

FEBRUARY 11, 2023

Have you ever wondered why a Go-to-Market (GTM) strategy is required when you launch a product or service? How about this — how often do you see a problem around you, and then you decide to come up with an idea or solution? What is a Go-to-Market Strategy? Prioritise the product hypotheses.

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ProductPlan

FEBRUARY 1, 2023

Product teams don’t invest in new product tools without a good reason—we’ve got way too much on our plates to add something else unless we think it will have a meaningful impact. Why are your colleagues not using the new tool A multitude of reasons and excuses for not adopting a new tool exists.

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Userpilot

NOVEMBER 11, 2021

While browsing one of the online communities I am part of, someone commented that outcome-based roadmaps were just ‘regular roadmaps’ anyway, and that: “… Any product manager that knows what they’re doing doesn’t need outcome-based roadmaps. Feature roadmaps jump to solutions, have little focus on customers and their problems.

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The Product HQ

MAY 10, 2024

You will have to keep abreast with the latest frameworks used by product managers to keep the technical team engaged and motivated. Also, if the product you’re managing incorporates complex applied science, you will have to be knowledgeable about those specific types of technology.

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UX Studio

MARCH 11, 2024

With over 17 years of experience as a designer, he primarily assists others in their career growth by providing thoughtful, concise tips and tricks, whether related to tools or any form of communication. You have surface level: you’re completely dir ected, you are given a solution and you design the solution.

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ProductPlan

FEBRUARY 17, 2022

I’ll walk you through a few strategies I’ve found work well for turning a greenfield project into a successful product. The term greenfield gets its name from the construction industry. In product management, greenfield projects refer to products developed entirely from scratch. What Is a Greenfield Project?

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Tyner Blain

SEPTEMBER 18, 2023

.’ This is the reason the problem statement template distinctly calls out “Affects…” as a field, versus relying on product people to mention who is affected when describing the problem itself. Imagine road construction on your commute to work in the morning. Like the mobile app which crashes on the loading screen.

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Roman Pichler

JULY 11, 2016

Provide guidance on the product, including its market, value proposition, business goals, and key features. But let the ScrumMaster or coach tackle people, process, and organisational issues; let the development team figure out what needs to be done to implement the user stories and other product backlog items.

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The Product Coalition

DECEMBER 8, 2018

Your roadmap is one of the most important things you’ll produce as a SaaS company. It provides a glimpse into the future of your product and aligns everyone around the same goals. Who will you share the roadmap with: Just employees, or customers too? It’s safe to say that in the SaaS world, plans change.

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Intercom, Inc.

DECEMBER 21, 2021

Throughout the year, we’ve talked to business leaders, experts, and pioneers about all kinds of topics: from creating world-class customer experiences to the challenges of running a business during the pandemic, from being an ally and addressing gaps in diversity to building technical leadership careers. Will Larson , CTO of Calm.

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The Product Guy

NOVEMBER 9, 2017

Themes, Epics, User Stories. To start, break down any incoming feature requests into Themes, Epics, User Stories using the following suggestions. Themes are critical building blocks for your product’s strategy, each Theme is usually a statement describing an idea that is critical to the vision of your product.

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ProductPlan

JULY 13, 2020

As organizations grow and expand, keeping stakeholders and employees on the same page to drive alignment with your product strategy can be a big challenge. That’s because growth often brings culture shifts, new offices in different locations, and new hires with the different product vision. Build a Foundation of Trust.

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BrainMates

SEPTEMBER 23, 2020

These plans offer Product teams clarity, giving them direction, empowering them to select the important customer problems to solve, the new opportunities to harness, at a time when the market is ready and willing to exchange value. There are a number of useful, tried and tested tools to develop a Product Strategy (e.g.

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Roman Pichler

FEBRUARY 14, 2023

It achieves this by using sprints to create product increments, collecting feedback from users and stakeholders, and adapting the product with the insights gained. [1] Otherwise, you might ask the wrong people for feedback on the increments and hence draw the wrong conclusions. But don’t stop there.

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ProductPlan

APRIL 27, 2022

The term comes from real estate, where it conveys the image of a literal green-field site for development, undisturbed by previous construction. Product managers use greenfield to describe developing a new product, as opposed to enhancing or building on an existing product. The first product of its kind anywhere.

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Mironov Consulting

JUNE 27, 2019

Here are four sets of challenges that are different from managing individual products: [1] Designing, Building, and Nurturing a Product Team. [2] 2] Driving Strategy, Tooling and Outcomes. [3] 1] Designing, Building, and Nurturing a Product Team. See Melissa Perri’s product kata ). Hiring strategy.

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Bain Public

MARCH 20, 2021

We have listed below some useful tips on why effective product roadmaps are important agents of change: Aligning a product roadmap will sharpen your focus and create a new understanding of the market, industry and customer needs. If it wasn’t already obvious, product development is an investment.

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BrainMates

SEPTEMBER 23, 2020

These plans offer Product teams clarity, giving them direction, empowering them to select the important customer problems to solve, the new opportunities to harness, at a time when the market is ready and willing to exchange value. There are a number of useful, tried and tested tools to develop a Product Strategy (e.g.

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The Product Coalition

JUNE 4, 2016

Agile process is very common in fast-changing environment, within smaller teams, and when users are not that sensitive to change of plan and easy to communicate to. Usually the product manager is the product owner. Product owner doesn’t “own” a team, but needs to coordinate among different teams?

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Bain Public

FEBRUARY 4, 2021

Product managers play an important role in steering leadership to evolve the product strategy and corresponding tactics. During a recession, organizations that focus purely on maintaining a risk-neutral product management approach develop a culture that leads them to deny the gravity of the crisis.

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ProductPlan

MARCH 28, 2019

Today’s article is all about product management turnover, what causes it, and how to prevent it. When a product manager exits, it can derail major aspects of your product strategy due to their integral role and unique perspective on things.

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Userpilot

MARCH 6, 2020

As a team supporting diversity and women in tech – we decided to use the International Women’s Day as an opportunity to showcase some of the best talent in the industry – and interviewed the top female Product Managers, Product Owners and SaaS founders and CEOs. Women in SaaS. Women in Product.

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UX Studio: Product Management

AUGUST 17, 2018

Usability testing forms a user experience research method, usually a qualitative one, as the core of UX research. It mainly aims to check product ease-of-use and functionality. A typical (potential) user of any digital product should be able to interact with it without frustration, and easily accomplish set goals.

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Intercom, Inc.

JULY 19, 2022

At Intercom, we obsess about our customers’ success. . We study our customer’s wants, needs, and behaviors so we can deeply understand their problems and provide the right solutions. Feedback and collaboration. Tools and methods. Feedback and collaboration. We needed to build for high performance.

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Intercom, Inc.

JULY 25, 2019

Maybe it’s useful to actually to share some examples instead of talking about this in the abstract, but it’s basically about us having a predictable system. Obviously our goal, like any product and engineering team, is to ship great software that customers, love, value use, etc. We actually have a bit of a system.

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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. And also stay closely connected with UX and technology trends.

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