The Product Coalition

OCTOBER 20, 2020

It’s understandable that most of us don’t make time for personal development. Who wants to spend time after a hard day of work learning and developing when they could be kicking back with a beer and watching The Crown? A few months ago, I introduced a concept I have developed called the PM, or Product, Quadrants.

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The Product Coalition

AUGUST 23, 2023

More than anything, I wanted to maintain the team’s motivation. So I did what every well-trained consultant knows to do — I asked a question. A purpose we could share with the company’s leadership team, customers, and those working on the product. What does the product mean to you?” Problem solved, or so I thought.

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Under 10 Consulting

MAY 15, 2020

Your roadmap is a plan, not a commitment . "We We allocate 100% of our resources to the roadmap. We plan to use the other 100% of our resources for special projects." — Johnson's Roadmapping Conundrum. ?. But here’s the rub: A roadmap is not a task list or project plan. That’s not a roadmap; that’s a release plan. ?.

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The Product Coalition

NOVEMBER 6, 2019

Product Roadmaps are some of the most important product tools. Learn how to create your product roadmap in 2019, including 5 templates you can get inspiration from. Anything from working as a team or long-distance communication can be improved with the right application. Besides, a bad plan can really damage you in the long run.

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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. TL;DR Product managers often don’t get the due recognition for their work and their role is often marginalized by frustrated leadership or other teams.

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The Product Coalition

DECEMBER 20, 2018

You are supposed to coherently navigate the development, design, and marketing of a product. Anything from working as a team or long-distance communication can be improved with the right application. Roadmapping is one of the unsung heroes in the product arena. Besides, a bad plan can really damage you in the long run.

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ProductPlan

OCTOBER 6, 2021

Time management remains an essential theme for product teams because there aren’t enough hours in the day. It all starts with a commitment from leadership that strategic thinking and planning are worth the time and makes it a core tenet of the team’s approach. Time Management. More features = More time with confusing value.”

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Mind the Product

JANUARY 21, 2019

As product managers our job description is pretty simple: to make all of our software development projects succeed. In fact, I would go so far as to say any failures or successes of the team are failures or successes of product management. Without defining success, it is quite likely the team may work towards different objectives.

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Gainsight

SEPTEMBER 8, 2021

Organizations create Customer Success teams to increase Net Revenue Retention, and we’ve recently published research showing that NRR drives valuation. But, then, organizations find that the baseline impact of simply having a CS team eventually plateaus–your NRR stagnates. You may also look outside the CS team.

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ProductPlan

JUNE 20, 2019

As a product leader, face time with the company’s executive team is to be expected. Although product managers may not regularly attend management meetings, they will frequently have opportunities to demonstrate features, share customer learnings, and present roadmaps to the higher ups in the company. Know your audience. Board members.

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Mixpanel

OCTOBER 20, 2020

This post is written by TWG, a product consultancy specializing in modern application development , data engineering, and product growth. Depending on your budget, the size of your technical team, and the vision for the future of your data, you can choose the solution that feels the best for you. All you need.

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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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Product Talk

SEPTEMBER 9, 2020

While I tend to focus on helping teams, Petra’s work centers around helping product leaders—the people who manage product managers. She has a big focus on people development, helping product managers and product leaders get better at their craft. I was a technical consultant back then, traveling to a lot of clients all over Europe.

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Mixpanel

MAY 20, 2020

Having worked with many product leaders over the past 20 years, I’ve repeatedly heard that balancing the needs of users, engineering teams and the business—all while building a successful product function that drives innovation—is tough. Lifting & shifting: the common pitfall of product teams.

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Bain Public

MAY 29, 2020

The right mentoring and coaching support facilitates a startup’s transformation and enables roadmap planning and execution, without straying from the ultimate vision and goal. MAIN: Developing Entrepreneurship in Quebec. of startups assess their chances of survival as weak. When looking at the latest numbers, 75.5%

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Gainsight

AUGUST 2, 2021

At the same time, strategy, process planning, and content creation are geared towards ensuring teams are adequately enabled to execute similarly to ensure a seamless customer experience. Building the proper foundation early on will set your team up for success in the long run. Getting the right people in early on is half of the battle.

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Mind the Product

MARCH 18, 2019

As a product consultant and trainer, I hear a lot of similar questions over and over. How should I manage my roadmap?” “Do If something is not working properly while you are developing functionality, or something you just built has now broken something else, it’s not a bug. Then I prioritize my roadmap work. Fix it now.

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ProductPlan

OCTOBER 24, 2019

Highly Effective Product Managers Prioritize their Roadmaps According to Value (Not Features). They develop their roadmap as a list of features, rather than using the roadmap to communicate the value they expect the product to deliver. A customer-centric attitude is a habit every PM is well advised to develop.

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PMLesson's Ace the PM Interview

FEBRUARY 7, 2022

Community managers, sales teams, marketing managers, and more could provide much insight into a product's users. Without this first-hand knowledge and understanding of your product, you won't be able to develop or improve your product as much as possible. Spend time getting to know people from all sorts of teams.

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Usersnap

JANUARY 12, 2022

In short, the CPO oversees all aspects of a product’s vision, design, and development. However, their (and all product team members’) superpowers and role in SaaS growth is invaluable! Activities of a Product Team Tactical activities Strategic activities Operational activities. Developing product vision.

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Under 10 Consulting

JUNE 6, 2019

Only three things happen naturally in organizations: friction, confusion, and underperformance. Drucker, American management consultant. In my first job in product management, I was based in DC and my developers were based in California. Instead, I flew to LA once a month and stayed for a week of development team meetings.

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The Product Coalition

JANUARY 26, 2024

The real world has limited resources, unrealistic deadlines, and new teams that have not been able to do research at all. Strategy questions When building a roadmap from scratch, the search area for meaningful user problems to solve has to be narrowed down first. The perfect world does not exist, though. There is only the real world.

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PMLesson's Ace the PM Interview

FEBRUARY 18, 2019

Core Competencies All product managers must be good at communication, analysis, prioritization, breaking down complexity, vision, and managing a roadmap. They also need sufficient technical knowledge for the product they are building and, generally, should be at least familiar with Lean methodology and Agile development.

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PMLesson's Ace the PM Interview

FEBRUARY 18, 2019

Core Competencies All product managers must be good at communication, analysis, prioritization, breaking down complexity, vision, and managing a roadmap. They also need sufficient technical knowledge for the product they are building and, generally, should be at least familiar with Lean methodology and Agile development.

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Bain Public

MARCH 31, 2020

Where’s the vision? Roadmapping is one of the keys to gaining product focus. It’s shocking to see that 57% of product managers say they don’t spend enough time on roadmapping and goal-setting. This is why roadmaps are essential in giving organizations direction and product focus. This isn’t exactly much to go on.

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Amplitude

MAY 30, 2018

A career in finance, another in consulting and a stint in freelance laid the stepping stones for David to find product. We are thrilled to have David as a panelist at ROADMAP | NY Product Summit in May 31, 2018. I had a short stint as a consultant, where I took on a few projects in technology, but nothing really clicked.

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Mind the Product

OCTOBER 24, 2019

Product managers can make better decisions if they’ve built transparency and trust with their team. Strategic decisions provide direction and focus for your product, guide product development action, and ensure alignment within your product ecosystem. You may also reduce trust in your team. A culture of trust develops.

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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.”. Be sure they’re aligned with the vision and goals for the product.

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The Product Coalition

MARCH 15, 2020

Product strategy should help you decide which problems need to be solved to make your product vision a reality. Strategies are more designs than they are decisions, i.e., they are more constructed than they are chosen (they are not to be confused with making plans/roadmaps). Do this often to reorient teams where and when necessary.

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BrainMates

DECEMBER 12, 2019

The gap between rich and poor is widening, and this is causing an increasing disenchantment with the model which has been so successful. As a social entrepreneur with Full Time Lives and in my Product Management consulting work for Brainmates. Our world is in the midst of some seismic changes. Measuring more than profit.

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The Product Coalition

FEBRUARY 8, 2020

Hence, if you recognize some anti-patterns in your daily work, why don’t you ask the rest of the Scrum Team for support? The Role of the Product Owner According to the Scrum Guide “The Product Owner is responsible for maximizing the value of the product resulting from work of the Development Team.” Source : Scrum Guide 2017.

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Business of Software Conference

OCTOBER 11, 2023

As usual, you really had to be there but here are the Sigmacorn notes… 9:00 Mark Littlewood: Opening remarks Welcome to BoS! How will we win?

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PMLesson's Ace the PM Interview

FEBRUARY 11, 2019

Transformation Labs is an advisory and consulting firm that helps enterprise and technology companies accelerate their path to product success. I started my career as a software developer, working on database applications. I also ran my own consulting business for a few years. Saeed Khan is the founder of Transformation Labs.

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The Product Coalition

MARCH 21, 2019

When working with external “corporate strategy” consultants, I found the level of strategic work to be all over the place ranging from high level M&A recommendations to low level project management / implementation support, driven by the functional strategy of whoever was paying the consultant.

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Intercom, Inc.

NOVEMBER 7, 2019

As Head of Sales for Spendesk, Nico was initially inspired by the vision of founder Rodolphe Ardant who had spotted a gap for ‘spend management’ in the B2B market based on personal banking trends. So they created a software that provides control, visibility, and payment methods for corporate finance teams. Nico: Correct.

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Intercom, Inc.

APRIL 8, 2021

As face-to-face consultations were no longer an option for many healthcare providers, Joel and his team dropped everything and asked themselves: what could they build to help their customers (and their customers’ patients) adapt to the new normal? It was exciting, and the worst-case scenario wasn’t so bad.

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PMLesson's Ace the PM Interview

MARCH 25, 2021

As the name suggests, cross-functional partnerships are the working relationships that TPMs form with various team members involved in implementing their program. These are engineering, product management, data, and design teams, among others. Engineering Teams Photo by Charles Deluvio / Unsplash ?It Let's get to it!

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