The Product Coalition

MARCH 27, 2022

This little gardening exercise and the patience it required led me to think about the things in our daily work as product leaders that simply take time, and there is nothing we can do to speed up the process. It was a lengthy process, with quite a few trials and errors, until we found the right strategy.

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Mind the Product

OCTOBER 7, 2019

Gerard Dolan is a Customer/User Experience and Product Design Consultant. Experience Mapping is a strategic exercise of identifying, capturing, and communicating the interactions of multiple brand touchpoints over space and time. It is a strategic exercise for getting omnichannel alignment. The experience mapping process.

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The Product Coalition

APRIL 22, 2021

Instead, we audition product managers (and Designers too for that matter) in the same way actors are auditioned for a movie. Design a new type of exercise equipment for people under the ages of 15. As a candidate, you want to think like a management consultant here. The analytical question Frankly this is is the painful one?—?and

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Mironov Consulting

FEBRUARY 28, 2024

”)  Building software is a complex intellectual team exercise, not simply reading specs or typing.    The corporate strategy, which the product strategy supports.    (Agilists state this in the positive: “start less, finish more.”)

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Userpilot

JULY 9, 2021

Continuous Discovery Habits by Teresa Torres teaches you how to set up a continuous discovery system within your organization with actionable exercises. Product-Led Onboarding by Ramli John and Wes Bush is a new book about how to implement user onboarding for the ultimate customer retention. Key learnings. 566 global ratings.

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The Product Coalition

FEBRUARY 12, 2019

In Michael Porter’s books, or anywhere else, I haven’t been able to find many examples of what a strategy should look like. Here’s a proposal: open any book on strategy and go to the Index. Lookup “Strategy, an example of”. A product strategy can be covered in 4 parts (1) Buyer + $ value pool. product strategy”).

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The Product Coalition

DECEMBER 5, 2021

I see my consulting customers having to make the exact same decisions. Last month, for example, I met a startup, which had a good indication from the market that their initial product direction was viable. Oh, I forgot to mention that my number one advisor above is my dear husband ?? This dilemma is not unique to my business.

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The Product Coalition

JUNE 11, 2022

What every great consultant does?—?I This mapping exercise, along with empathy, will help calm their fears. I lead an enterprise software company in the healthcare space. I finally have a chance to do something about dreaded implementation experiences. What did I do? I got the leadership team together in front of a whiteboard.

Customer Experience 138

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The Product Coalition

DECEMBER 11, 2023

They don’t always understand either I use this technique a lot in my strategic consulting services. It often doesn’t happen as part of a big meeting where a specific decision is made, but rather in strategic discussions with the CEO, the founders, or the product leaders. To build a solid strategy, you need to “sleep on it”.

Strategy 78

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ProductPlan

JANUARY 18, 2023

After the exercise, regardless of exactly what shape your roadmap is in, everyone should have a better idea of what success looks like and how to get there together. Connect to the company vision Annual planning provides an opportunity to take a beat and ensure that each product and the company are still moving in the same direction.

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The Product Coalition

DECEMBER 19, 2021

Eventually, he managed the entire product from the execution standpoint, while I focused on the strategy and long-term planning. Little did I know that creating a solid product strategy takes such a major chunk of the product leader’s time. Most companies hire a product manager (and other positions) too late.

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UX Studio

FEBRUARY 15, 2024

With a background in Business Administration, Management, and Leadership, he has vast experience as a Business consultant, Product strategist, and now as an Innovation Portfolio Lead. Then later on, I did some management and digital consulting as well. And it was a really good workshop for us and also an exercise for us.

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Mind the Product

FEBRUARY 19, 2019

It’s obvious that some companies see digital transformation as little more than a marketing exercise so that they can be seen as in touch with modern thinking. With 72% of executives experiencing competitive pressure to transform , according to Capgemini Consulting, there is huge interest in how to accomplish such wide-ranging change.

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Modus Create

APRIL 30, 2020

Modus Create, a disruptive consulting, product strategy and Agile development firm, today announced the release of Modus Kickstart, a structured, facilitated set of workshops and deliverables designed to help customers prepare for a successful software development project.

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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).

Data Visualization 78

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PMLesson's Ace the PM Interview

MAY 13, 2020

Optional Buy: The Product Manager Interview: 164 Actual Questions and Answers by Lewis C. This book contains simple and helpful exercises that can help you get started on your PM interview prep journey. For this, you might need the The Product Manager Interview: 164 Actual Questions and Answers to do the exercises.

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The Product Coalition

JANUARY 26, 2024

In an ideal world, strategic insights would cascade down from the larger product strategy. In which case, here are some quick starts to consider: Trouble Metrics: Examine all accessible high-level business and product metrics. However, we do not always live in an ideal world.

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The Product HQ

FEBRUARY 6, 2023

Senior product managers are executive-level professionals who fulfill an important role in large companies developing products and bringing them to market. As product leaders, a senior product manager’s main responsibilities center around defining, communicating, refining product strategy, and overseeing product planning and execution.

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BrainMates

APRIL 2, 2019

In start-ups, Product Managers often report that founders don’t allow them to steer the Product Strategy and Roadmap. But first, Product Managers need to demonstrate to founders or executives that progress is happening, so that founders can trust that their vision is being nurtured.

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Product Talk

MAY 10, 2023

To learn more about how real product leaders are approaching this challenge, I recently sat down with fellow Product Talk instructor Ellen Juhlin (who’s also a product coach, consultant, and Senior Director of Product Management at Orion Labs ). Product strategy board. Ellen: Yes.

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Userpilot

MARCH 6, 2020

Carlotta Basile – Associate Product Manager at Bruel & Kjaer UK Ltd – company offering acquisition and vibration software, transducers, ear simulators, sound level meters, measurement exciters, noise mapping, and positioning systems. So I ended up working in Telco, on bt.com products for a few years!

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Usersnap

JUNE 15, 2023

Whereas in smaller teams, product managers don’t have much help. They’re in charge of driving the entire product management process themselves. Nevertheless, some core roles and responsibilities of a product manager are: Develop product strategy and vision. Gather and prioritize product requests.

Feedback Software 52

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Mironov Consulting

MARCH 26, 2022

 Architecture, ongoing support and product strategy be damned.  If this is a viable product, we have work to do – and exec-level agreements to make.  We break up the problem, reduce the cognitive load, and get bits of buy-in on partial solutions.  

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Userzoom

APRIL 23, 2020

Question: How would you suggest leading with metrics when testing a new product/feature with no benchmarks to measure against? Answer: Testing a new product/feature and gathering the right metrics requires a solid understanding of the product strategy and what drove the initiative.

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Roadmunk

AUGUST 10, 2017

Ramin Shokrizadeh , Senior Product Manager at Zendesk. Allison Burnett , Principal Product Manager at Oracle. Olexandr Prokhorenko , Director of Product Management at Zuora. Sue Raisty , Product Management Consultant and CEO at Sure Product Consulting. Title: Principal Product Manager.

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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. There are 4 critical components (S.O.A.P) that contribute to good content pillars.

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ProductPlan

APRIL 23, 2019

, Marissa Mayer would use regularly scheduled all-hands meetings to share how and why product decisions were being made. “We We do deep dives on new products and talk about current events which are affecting the company. The product team can demonstrate how the product strategy is getting you there.

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ProductPlan

APRIL 16, 2019

But, it should be a collaborative exercise to agree on what qualifies as “done.” Without input and approval from product, quality assurance, and other stakeholders, there won’t be widespread acceptance of whether something is actually done or engineering just says it is. Putting it into practice.

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Tyner Blain

MAY 24, 2017

As a consultant, I am comfortable there will never be an organization at scale which can avoid coordination and planning. You can run a powerful exercise, called a premortem, to help discover in advance what is wrong with your plan. Because things change. Everyone Has a Plan until… “Everyone has a plan, until they get hit.”

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Roadmunk

APRIL 3, 2018

Up next to share her real-world, practical stories of navigating the human-related aspects of the product space is Melissa Perri , CEO and founder of Product Institute and Produx Labs. As a product consultant and founder of a product school, Melissa has trained over 2,000 PMs across her career.

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