Mind the Product

JANUARY 21, 2020

Examples of good corporate sustainability initiatives from Stripe and Google. The Product Experience is hosted by Lily Smith and Randy Silver. Lily enjoys working as a consultant product manager with early-stage and growing startups and as a mentor to other product managers. Sign the AWS open letter. Talk to us.

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The Product Coalition

DECEMBER 13, 2021

Many startups with an ordinary product make the way to growth and scalability whereas others with great products fail to survive. Both product and product strategy should fall in place to make the startup sustainable and help them to grow. This strategic roadmap basically keeps high-level business outcomes.

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The Product Coalition

DECEMBER 11, 2023

With everything you have to do every day, it is so easy to neglect strategy. But much like code, your product strategy also requires maintenance. There is so much work to do, you don’t even have time to create a roadmap. Slowly, both the product and the roadmap reflect only what the customers are asking for.

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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? And your roadmap should change with them. Who Should See the Roadmap?

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Mixpanel

MAY 20, 2020

Many product managers come in fully intending to transform the business, but too often they struggle to properly engage with other teams and to evangelize product management as a function, which in turn causes innovation to come to a standstill. Lifting & shifting: the common pitfall of product teams. About Tanya Cordrey.

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The Product Coalition

DECEMBER 10, 2020

but we had no previous training on strategy. Furthermore, there is no clear path to learn product strategy and no agreed-upon “go-to” resource to start developing this muscle. Understanding how to differentiate based on particular attributes to better serve particular segments is nowadays a common practice in product strategy.

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Userpilot

JANUARY 14, 2024

TL;DR A product manager leads the product management team and is responsible for overseeing all stages of the product development process. Typically, product managers are responsible for market and user research, product discovery , feature prioritization , and roadmapping. SMART goal-setting framework.

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The Product Coalition

AUGUST 23, 2023

So I did what every well-trained consultant knows to do — I asked a question. What does the product mean to you?” Product managers must articulate what success looks like for a product and rally a team to turn that vision into a reality. Instead, think about a product roadmap like a GPS for your product’s journey.

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ProductPlan

OCTOBER 19, 2023

It’s how the two concepts work together and help you build a successful product. To understand what that really means, it’s helpful to explore these concepts individually and then look at how you can use the two ideas in harmony to build your roadmap and guide your work. Start with a roadmap with Now – Next – Later columns.

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Userpilot

JANUARY 11, 2024

Solution : create an outcome-based roadmap by identifying customer needs and wants. The Ivory Tower : teams that stop consulting customers build products that don’t meet market needs. Solution : create a balanced product development roadmap focusing on optimization and innovation. .’

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ProductPlan

JULY 16, 2021

Product Manager’s Control of Employee Expectations. As a product manager, implementing an effective product strategy should remain a priority. For example, let’s say you have a disgruntled customer bugging you to add a new feature. The request falls within the domain of an associate product manager.

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Johanna Rothman

MAY 11, 2022

Finishing a story creates a new decision point, for both the product and the corporate strategy. Here's an example. The product owner asks the team to finish 5 stories in this iteration. The team finishes 3 stories and as the PO reviews the product's progress, the PO realizes 3 stories is enough for now.

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The Product Coalition

FEBRUARY 18, 2023

This is what I tell the founders that consult with me  — that to really solve the problem that they are looking to solve, a tool is not enough. The Product Manager’s Job Is to Think That’s what makes the role so great, and so hard. Tools, for example, can highlight correlations, but not causations. Here are a few reasons why.

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Userpilot

AUGUST 30, 2023

The expert speakers at Product Drive 2023 will answer these and many more questions. Get ready to dive into insightful discussions, practical strategies, and real-world examples that will empower you to create and manage products that meet user needs and leave them truly satisfied. Connect with Else on Linkedin.

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The Product Coalition

OCTOBER 5, 2021

project managers or SMEs guiding roadmaps) A Product Development Health Check can help identify issues in your product development practice, find the underlying causes and give you ideas about how to address them. 5 Key Elements to Check A single product issue may reflect multiple underlying causes.

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Roman Pichler

APRIL 19, 2017

For example, take three deep breaths before answering a question from a difficult team member, or be firm but kind with the challenging stakeholder and communicate without any aversion or ill-will. Do regular research, attend trade shows and conferences, and consult journals, magazines, and user forums, for example.

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Bain Public

JUNE 4, 2020

Getting external support, such as product management consulting, can help establish the product leadership team responsible for nurturing and guiding the product team. What Is Product Management Consulting? Consulting doesn’t mean instructing a CEO and the product leadership team how to run the company.

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ProductPlan

OCTOBER 29, 2019

They often don’t have proper education, coding examples, or guidelines to follow. Making the case for cybersecurity on your roadmap. Making Room for Cybersecurity on the Roadmap. The assessment might be a task for an outside consultant than someone who’s been on the payroll. Next Steps for Your Cybersecurity Roadmap.

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The Product Coalition

JULY 16, 2023

While I was deeply involved in the details of the product and as a perfectionist by nature wanted to control every little detail, I had to focus on more than just the product development to succeed. One of the first things I did, for example, was to work with the salespeople on how to sell the product.

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ProductPlan

FEBRUARY 8, 2022

Product management owns the product roadmap, and their most important stakeholder is the product’s users/customers. As product management has evolved, so has the scope and scale of the role. Product management owns vision and strategy. Currently, they do more today than ever before.

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Mironov Consulting

APRIL 30, 2020

Topic: Covid19’s Impact On Your Product Strategy. But now many of us in product or development organizations are shifting attention to how this crisis changes priorities and product plans. Rich will talk through some examples of shifting needs and short-term crisis adjustments. Hosted by: Synerzip.

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Bain Public

MAY 24, 2019

At Bain Public, we have learned a lot in the many hours and conversations spent mentoring, advising and consulting in product management. Getting it wrong comes in two forms: building the wrong product and building the product wrong. A well-understood product roadmap aligns behavior within the business.

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ProductPlan

MARCH 5, 2021

In terms of day-to-day work, associate product managers do everything a product manager does, but on a smaller scale. In other words, you may not set the product strategy or own the product roadmap , but you will set priorities for your projects. Do you always start as an Associate Product Manager?

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Userpilot

AUGUST 26, 2021

One of the factors that drive the success of SaaS product management is how aligned the product team is with the customer success team. Data-driven growth is an important element of SaaS product management because it can inform your product strategy and also provides you with evidence to back up your decisions.

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ProductPlan

FEBRUARY 8, 2022

To understand where product operations add value, think about everything required to maintain a well-connected and smoothly running product team that isn’t product management. In addition, product operations can take on many ancillary responsibilities that don’t need a product manager.

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Mind the Product

AUGUST 9, 2017

While the Amazon Echo Show is an impressive addition to the repertoire of voice and video monitoring systems in this growing market, it’s not the product features that are drawing attention. Rather, it is Amazon’s smart home product strategy. Have an integration strategy. Effective Smart Home Product Delivery.

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Johanna Rothman

AUGUST 24, 2021

You might want to review the examples for SmallCo in that post.). Can a standard team board support the organization's or product's strategy? A standard team board only might support tactical questions: Which products or services do we want to offer for those customers? And each team might have its own unique context.

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Mironov Consulting

MARCH 9, 2024

First, some context-free examples to demonstrate the math: If this new feature is intended to drive upsell from our entry tier to a higher-priced tier.   (Remember, we’ll only put 3 or 4 major things onto the roadmap, so any list longer than 15 is wasted effort.    That’s our #1 challenge for 2025.”

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Amplitude

MARCH 21, 2019

Slalom is a modern consulting firm focused on technology, strategy and business transformation. Slalom believes that product analytics is a critical centerpiece at every stage of product development. These techniques vary by where you are in the product development life cycle.

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Userpilot

JULY 30, 2021

The product manager role is responsible for understanding what customer problems to solve and what success looks like for a product. The different types of product managers include the traditional product manager, the product owner, the growth product manager, the technical product manager, and the platform product manager.

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The Product Coalition

MARCH 19, 2023

Even when I created a strategic roadmap, it refined the already existing product and extended it, but it didn’t create a whole new thing. Most product people start at this level. In your first product role, you are most likely to work on an existing product and on relatively small changes.

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Roman Pichler

JULY 11, 2016

You should therefore help the team acquire the relevant market and domain knowledge—for instance, by involving the team in research and validation work, inviting them to join you when you visit customers— and ensure that they are aware of the product strategy and product roadmap as well as the business goals and KPIs.

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The Product Coalition

MARCH 15, 2020

Product strategy, discovery, and delivery: These are the three general dimensions for which product managers are responsible to optimize in a customer-centric organization. Product strategy exists outside the well defined guideposts of dual-track agile (a product discovery and delivery methodology).

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Userpilot

NOVEMBER 21, 2023

If so, you should definitely watch the talk that Jason Knight , a product consultant and advisor, gave at this year’s Product Drive hosted by Userpilot. In his talk, Jason talked about how product managers can upskill to meet the challenges in their daily work and how to make sure that their organizations value their work.

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Product Management Unpacked

SEPTEMBER 5, 2018

I sat in a meeting about business strategy recently and one of the pieces of advice I gave the leadership team was that strategy was a lot about deciding what we were not going to do – what we were going to say ‘no’ to. It was actually funny because I said it almost without thinking about it. The customer was upset.

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ProductPlan

MARCH 5, 2021

In terms of day-to-day work, associate product managers do everything a product manager does, but on a smaller scale. In other words, you may not set the product strategy or own the product roadmap , but you will set priorities for your projects. Do you always start as an Associate Product Manager?

User Testing 98

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ProductPlan

FEBRUARY 18, 2020

But the discipline has matured, and more organizations value what dedicated product management has to offer. Product strategy has now become the primary focus of the job. Product strategy is a high-level plan for the product. It ties overall business objectives to the product. Metrics that Matter.

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