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Successful Roadmaps Avoid One Thing: Drift

The Product Coalition

Product managers and their teams start with enthusiasm, hit the ground running, and create a solid roadmap. And we now had a handful of committed customers in the new market. The same is true for your roadmap — it takes more than diligence. And if your vision and strategy are no longer working, revisit and revise them.

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A Tale of Two Roadmaps?—?And Why You Can’t Succeed With Only One

The Product Coalition

The first was a precise set of tasks, milestones, and deliverables for the diligent civil servants tasked with building — the engineers, designers, and product managers. The second was a simplified, big-picture version meant to guide the city’s council of stakeholders — a select panel of investors, business executives, and customers.

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Are you Solving Customer Problems or Just Building Features?

ProductPlan

But are you solving for actual customer problems? The danger, however, lies in mistaking new functionality for actually adding meaningful value to the customer experience. Where are product teams getting their feature ideas? Why do product teams become feature factories?

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391: Product VP of Wyze uses community for product innovation and you can too – with Steve McIrvin

Product Innovation Educators

How product managers can get customer insights from a community to create a competitive advantage. I wanted to learn how this company creates competitive products, differentiating on cost while offering comparative capabilities that equates to much higher value for customers. The leading brand cost about $150.

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Trapped in Product Death Cycle?

The Product Cafe

Have you ever wondered why, despite listening intently to your customers and diligently building the features they ask for, your product still struggles to gain traction? The Product Death Cycle emerges when we build features based on customer feedback but still see low usage. Are You Trapped in the Product Death Cycle?

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10 Reasons Your Product is Hurting Your Sales Team

The Product Coalition

I try to help product and sales teams succeed under the mantra “Easy to Sell, Easy to Renew.” It’s a principle that aligns the interests of product, sales and customers around value, simplicity, and competitive advantage. So I spoke with some of the best sales leaders I’ve known and some amazing product leaders to get their insights.

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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? Whichever methodology a team operates under will heavily influence how they work and communicate with one another.