The Product Coalition

MARCH 5, 2023

Not only does this help them develop their skills and expertise, but it also ensures that your team is constantly improving and growing. This includes outlining their responsibilities, defining what success looks like, and providing them with a roadmap for achieving their goals. Create a 4-week onboarding schedule.

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Alchemer Mobile

NOVEMBER 9, 2022

My team is too small. Speaking up might spur a conversation around how to adjust your role to better fit your needs, or better yet, to bring in another team member to share your workload. Limited team bandwidth. The three most common challenges include: I have too many responsibilities. I don’t have enough time in my day.

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The Product Coalition

FEBRUARY 12, 2024

As a result, the team struggled with how to prepare. I made it no longer than three minutes into the presentation and got this subtle feeling that the team was unprepared. Yeah, I was seemingly in a bad mood. The team was shutting down. I apologized to the team and said we would pick it up next week.

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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. For instance, you might show the individuals how they can make effective strategic product decisions, create an actionable product roadmap, and effectively use the right KPIs.

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UX Planet

FEBRUARY 21, 2024

As a Product Designer working in a high-performing software team, I am tasked and responsible for championing user value, ensuring that the end user's needs are met when using the product. It was a valuable growth for me to be deeply involved in assessing business values and technical feasibility with my team.

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Product Warrior

MARCH 9, 2023

Unfortunately, without anything better, many product leaders rely on the product roadmap to demonstrate their strategy. What happens when you show a senior leader a roadmap? Product leaders need to create confidence by using the value drivers of their product strategy to frame the roadmap - or in some cases replace it.

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Product Warrior

MARCH 9, 2023

Unfortunately, without anything better, many product leaders rely on the product roadmap to demonstrate their strategy. What happens when you show a senior leader a roadmap? Product leaders need to create confidence by using the value drivers of their product strategy to frame the roadmap - or in some cases replace it.

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Roman Pichler

MAY 11, 2021

” But do not allow people to dominate and tell you what to do, and don’t agree to a weak compromise. The SAFe product owner is tactical in nature and focuses on working on the product backlog and guiding the development teams. Myth #3: The product owner is responsible for the team performance.

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The Product Coalition

MARCH 28, 2022

I think one of the ways to minimize the chance of this happening is to have an always on routine of talking to customers e.g. standing time to talk to customers that almost gets backed into the operating rhythm of the team. I think it makes sense to hear that opinion and factor that into the product development process. Of course?—?the

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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. In reality, they end up with outcomes that fall short of expectations.

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ProductPlan

DECEMBER 20, 2018

To understand the problem with technical debt roadmaps, we’ll start with a quote from renowned philosopher, Homer Simpson. When you create a dedicated roadmap for technical debt, you are removing the the problem from your immediate sight. In this article, we’ll discuss why technical debt roadmaps don’t work.

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Mironov Consulting

DECEMBER 31, 2017

I get pulled into lots of discussions among product managers about the best ways to represent (and then present and present and present) roadmaps or backlogs, especially to internal sales/marketing/support audiences. Each functional group has its own product priorities, so each wants a different roadmap. Just sign here.”)

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The Product Guy

DECEMBER 7, 2017

So, your boss’s boss walks into your office and changes your roadmap…. No, this is not a bad joke. Once you discover what the root problem is, you lead a team to making the solution a reality. It’s important to continually question priorities, identify solid wins, and develop a realistic timeline.

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PMLesson's Ace the PM Interview

MARCH 15, 2021

You’ve probably also been asked “what’s your greatest strength (or weakness)” once or twice while interviewing for jobs. You may have also read the famous article ‘Good Product Manager/Bad Product Manager’ by Ben Horowitz. Interview example: “I strive to be a data-driven decision maker for my teams.

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Roman Pichler

APRIL 1, 2020

Here is why: We routinely interact with individuals who have different perspectives, interest, and needs, such as users, customers, stakeholders , development team members. Users don’t always have the same wants and needs as customers, and the ideas of the stakeholders and dev team may diverge.

Customer Experience 253

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Roman Pichler

APRIL 1, 2020

Here is why: We routinely interact with individuals who have different perspectives, interest, and needs, such as users, customers, stakeholders , development team members. Users don’t always have the same wants and needs as customers, and the ideas of the stakeholders and dev team may diverge.

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Gainsight

JULY 5, 2022

It is increasingly apparent that having a CS Ops team and leader is becoming a necessity. However, to completely leverage the expanding customer success effects, your CS leader needs an individual or team to help map out the where, when, and how customer success intersects your daily operations and transforms your customers’ journey.

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Roman Pichler

JUNE 7, 2021

Be Clear on When to Involve the Stakeholders and Development Teams. Complex and high-impact decisions, however, are best made together with the stakeholders and development teams. Additionally, include the development team members in product backlog decisions , and always choose sprint goals together.

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Mironov Consulting

JUNE 27, 2020

On our side, we have expensive/talented/experienced sales teams that either close their few big deals this quarter or are put on notice. Roadmaps are shared. While we don’t know everything that’s been said during a 3-or-6-or-9 month sales effort, good sales teams will have briefed us on hot topics. Demos are shown.

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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. Who will you share the roadmap with: Just employees, or customers too? And then there’s perhaps the biggest question of all: “How do we decide what makes it on to our roadmap?” And your roadmap should change with them. They change a lot.

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Modus Create

MARCH 8, 2022

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. What is Agile Release Planning? How is the Release Plan Different?

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Bain Public

NOVEMBER 4, 2020

While most of your roadmap initiatives support one tactic or another, each functional group will call out for new initiatives that match other objectives and they’ll want the entire development effort in the upcoming release. So how does a product leader develop great negotiating skills, deep empathy, and a backbone of steel ?

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ProductPlan

SEPTEMBER 9, 2019

From the outside, a Product Manager (PM) is a resolute individual responsible for completing a product’s development. Product management leadership requires an ability to support their teams to victory! What are the 4 Phases of a Successful Product Team One-on-One? That’s a sign your team needs better communication.

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UserVoice

JULY 31, 2017

And, as the person who decides what’s in and what’s out of a product release or roadmap, a product manager is often the one who must say “no.”. Saying no isn’t a bad thing—if we didn’t say no our products would never be released because they would include thousand of features and support every use case imaginable. “An

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Folding Burritos

FEBRUARY 22, 2016

The reason is that we often fail to be constructive and pedagogic; if we don’t try to change their mindset, we’re sentencing ourselves to be thought of as “those pesky Naysayers.”. You want the stakeholders’ input, but you need it to be (and need them to think) in terms of problems for you and your team to solve. features.).

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Modus Create

JANUARY 12, 2021

The construction and reconstruction of these pillars must be done continuously, in tandem, and requires effective dialog between all stakeholders in an organization. How do you define those pillars for your company and turn the metaphorical into the physical, and actually construct them?

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ProductPlan

APRIL 3, 2021

Great products come from great product teams—not from frameworks. Using the right product framework can help guide a team’s work. As a product leader, I encourage my teams to use whichever product frameworks they find helpful. Give your team the right tools to complete their work efficiently. It’s not the work itself.

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Roman Pichler

JUNE 6, 2023

Sue, the Scrum Master , wanted to help the development team get better at sprint planning. But the team still over-commits and under-delivers. It can be tempting to ignore people issues and focus on product-related tasks like reviewing the product strategy , updating the product roadmap , and refining the product backlog.

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Mironov Consulting

JUNE 27, 2019

Defining my label carefully, a “product leader” is someone who manages a team of product managers. There may also be some designers or a few developers reporting into such roles, but I’m focused away from CTO and VP Engineering roles where the majority of staff are developers. . What does your team and company need?

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Mironov Consulting

MAY 2, 2019

But product management and development processes that work well for long-lived hardware can handicap software organizations. 1] For industrial hardware, the development/design cycle is separate from the manufacturing cycle. For software products, the development and design process *is* the manufacturing process.

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The Product Coalition

MARCH 15, 2020

Note: Many people go from some desired growth metric (which is not a strategy) to define outputs (features) and then build a roadmap (vanity tactics as they are void of discovery efforts/evidence/data) and head straight for delivery to build those solutions using expensive resources/occupying the attention of precious talent.

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ProductPlan

DECEMBER 4, 2019

Situation: You’ve painstakingly constructed a roadmap after consulting with various stakeholders, the development team, and your peers. Soft skills” aren’t always part of their repertoire, not to mention loads of “ developer-speak.”. An Executive Needs a Feature *Now*. Set clear expectations. Minimize the damage.

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BrainMates

SEPTEMBER 23, 2020

We have developed a new leadership model – the Product Adaptive Leadership Model (PALM) that offers a path for Product Leaders to examine their current practices, apply new ways of solving problems, and improve their Product Leadership performance. This often goes unnoticed as the pace of development and deadlines increases.

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Bain Public

MAY 20, 2021

Without a diverse team and an inclusive, safe space, success will be much harder to achieve (in all aspects). We’d like to contribute to this conversation by sharing some tips on how product managers can alter their management style to encourage a more diverse and inclusive environment for their team and clients.

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Userpilot

DECEMBER 11, 2019

Roadmapping (Productplan, Casual, Roadmunk). This is way more efficient than relying on your already-busy dev team. You can add interactions so that other team members can see the functionality. You can also use InVision to gather feedback from other team members, and collaborate with them on your designs. Userpilot.

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PMLesson's Ace the PM Interview

OCTOBER 6, 2021

This is especially true if you're looking to join the technical program management team. Those TPM candidates with a much deeper technical acumen will probably be better suited for the Infrastructure team. These are technical project retrospective , leadership & team collaboration , Facebook Values.

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Izenda

JUNE 17, 2019

It’s often lumped in with “poor-planning skills” and “control issues.” As they work with several teams throughout the product’s development, being firm on goals and expectations will teach each team to expect direction. Think about the technical product’s development life cycle. The Reactive Product Manager.

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