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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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A Tale of Two Products: BigVision vs. HyperNarrowFocus

The Product Coalition

BigVision BigVision is a business (or product or department) that has a big, exciting vision. We just need to start with First Opportunity first as due to our market analysis and business modelling, this is the best one to tackle”. They follow best practices in Discovery with a real focus on understanding customers.

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How Johannes Gutenberg Can Make You a Better Product Manager

The Product Coalition

Because scribes display more diligence and industry than printers.” Maybe the snake oil of its time, either way, he failed due to timing. However, it was delayed due to a flood?—?leaving Due to Gutenberg’s lack of means to pay back, Fust received the machinery, type set and supplies. 1492, to be exact. Fust prevailed.

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5 Ways Product Teams Can Drive an Exceptional Customer Experience Strategy

ProductPlan

As the Director of User Experience, our team was tightly partnered with our product management counterparts to ensure we had baked-in practices and habits that enabled all of our development teams to deliver an exceptional product experience effortlessly. And our success was evident in the feedback. Pat on back.

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Collect’s founder Alex Delivet on automating data collection

Intercom, Inc.

Whether it’s customer onboarding or just gathering information for an event, we’re often trapped in endless follow-ups and back-and-forth emails until we finally get the assets and can move on with other, more meaningful tasks. While in the early 2010s, the SaaS startup scene in France was not as developed as in the U.S., Liam: Yeah.