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Successful Roadmaps Avoid One Thing: Drift

The Product Coalition

Golden rules for roadmap management. Product managers and their teams start with enthusiasm, hit the ground running, and create a solid roadmap. In our excitement, our roadmap drifted off course and left us stranded on an unfamiliar island. The same is true for your roadmap — it takes more than diligence.

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What is Program Sense in Technical Program Management?

PMLesson's Ace the PM Interview

If you're interested in the field of technical program management, then the answer is, without a doubt, yes. As the name of the position suggests, program sense is an integral part of a technical program manager's day-to-day. A lot goes into successful program development and execution. Sounds simple enough, right?

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Agile vs. Waterfall: Which Methodology is Right For Your Project?

PMLesson's Ace the PM Interview

A common question for product managers, project managers, technical program managers, and software developers alike is what methodology to use given a project. Which should you and your teams decide the utilize? Think about the complexity involved in developing and releasing a piece of software.

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Algolia’s Sarah Dayan on what sets a staff plus engineer apart

Intercom, Inc.

There’s project management, mentorship and teaching, decision-making, relationship-building, and the value you bring to the company is no longer measured by the quality of the lines of your code but rather by driving the engineering org forward. How would she provide the right technical direction for the company? Unblock bottlenecks?

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Become a Product Visionary with Alternative Futures Analysis

The Product Coalition

Of course, the lesson here is: innovate or die. This is a well known mantra among tech CEOs, especially Facebook’s Mark Zuckerberg. Alternative futures analysis is a structured analytic technique that helps teams predict how the future might unfold. What is Alternative Futures Analysis? Here are a few of my favorites.

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Starting A Growth Team: Ten Key Lessons Learned

The Product Coalition

It was about 12 months ago when I was challenged by our CEO to dismantle our squad and create a growth team. Not being too sure what a growth team was, we started anyway. We got access to work completed by Andrew Chen & Brian Balfour , took a few courses from the Reforge series and started developing our growth loops.

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Product Management System Basics

ProductPlan

What is a Product Management System? As a product manager , you’ll want to answer a series of questions before you start work. Who will we want to include in our cross-functional product team? How should we arrange the strategy, brainstorming, and planning meetings for this team? We suggest two things: 1.