The Product Coalition

JUNE 9, 2023

If you do things that are purposeful, you’ll eventually be successful.” — Howard Schultz Several years ago, I found myself in a heated discussion about product roadmaps with a client. This exchange unfolded over weak, black coffee in your typical, bland white-walled corporate conference room. Why not, indeed? That’s simply a byproduct.

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Roman Pichler

JULY 11, 2016

Manage the Product, not the Team. Focus on your job as the product manager or product owner, and manage the product, not the team. Treat the Team as an Equal Partner. The team members are not your resources but the people who create your product. Assume that the team members want to do their best.

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The Product Coalition

NOVEMBER 18, 2022

I’ve been on a journey when it comes to PM development frameworks. Strategy, roadmap, feature requirements and delivery Enabling capabilities A breakdown of some of the skills required to be better at the above. They are already fantastic, but I can bring the guidance that I never had to make them even better, even faster.

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The Product Coalition

MARCH 23, 2020

From objectives to roadmap, the strategy behind product development?—?Part If used correctly, OKRs can enable companies and teams to increase efficiency and focus their efforts so they can work together in one unified direction. they are meant to be expressions of success and represent progress towards the objective.

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The Product Coalition

JANUARY 16, 2022

When creating your roadmap, you need to consider what’s important to the company (not just to the product) and what is the best way to make progress across these multiple needs. These are the exact questions you need to ask when creating your roadmap. In startups, it is actually the company roadmap.

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ProductPlan

JANUARY 27, 2023

This post will focus on the last example, product roadmaps. Why does roadmap inconsistency matter? What are the problems that arise from having inconsistent roadmaps, starting with the most consequential? What are the problems that arise from having inconsistent roadmaps, starting with the most consequential?

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Roman Pichler

APRIL 5, 2022

For product strategy and roadmap meetings, I recommend involving the key stakeholders , for example, someone from sales, marketing, support, and finance, as well as development team representatives—ideally members who know about the user experience (UX), architecture, and technologies. 3 Have the Right Input Available.

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Roman Pichler

JUNE 7, 2021

Be Clear on When to Involve the Stakeholders and Development Teams. Complex and high-impact decisions, however, are best made together with the stakeholders and development teams. Additionally, include the development team members in product backlog decisions , and always choose sprint goals together.

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Alchemer Mobile

NOVEMBER 27, 2018

Keep reading for data supporting our analysis, as well as what the best of both worlds looks like. Further, Apple only allows three rating prompts in a 365 day period, so it’s critical to use them with precision, especially now that app developers can choose to keep or reset their current rating with a given release.

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Alchemer Mobile

JULY 13, 2021

Bad product experiences increase customer frustration, potentially creating resentment around having difficulty completing tasks within an application and increasing customer churn. Beforehand, make sure your team is aligned on: Their definition of product experience. The goals you hope to achieve by investing in product experience.

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Roman Pichler

NOVEMBER 12, 2019

I once worked with a telco company that was developing a brand-new commercial product. Product management and development were located at separate sites in different countries. The technical complexities were greater than anticipated and the development progress was slower than forecasted. To Collocate or Not.

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Roman Pichler

NOVEMBER 12, 2019

I once worked with a telco company that was developing a brand-new commercial product. Product management and development were located at separate sites in different countries. The technical complexities were greater than anticipated and the development progress was slower than forecasted. To Collocate or Not.

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Roman Pichler

AUGUST 15, 2023

What are the benefits the product should generate for the company developing and providing it? For example, the target group might be too big and diverse; there might be too many needs stated and they are too unspecific; the business goals might be unclear; or the standout features might be weak. What is its value proposition?

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The Product Coalition

AUGUST 15, 2022

that products always require roadmaps. Do you think every company and product needs a roadmap?” maybe not such a bad thing in this case. Then I thought further; maybe complete scenarios exist where roadmaps aren’t needed. When a company is in concept, seed stage, even Series A or the equivalent, roadmaps aren’t valuable.

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Amplitude

JANUARY 23, 2020

In my coaching work, I end up talking to lots of product development teams about data, KPIs, running experiments, and “measuring the team”. At at the end of the day, cultivating a learning culture (a prerequisite in my mind for the responsible use of data) isn’t something you install. Why does it depend?

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The Product Coalition

JANUARY 5, 2023

Dark periods are when a product team knows what to design and develop and go about doing it, but the work has yet to be exposed to users in any significant way. Product dark periods are when a product team’s commitment and culture are tested. Developers will be knocking out cards. The dark periods are challenging.

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Userpilot

JANUARY 16, 2024

TL;DR The machine learning-powered ChatGPT can help product managers generate ideas, conduct market and user research , analyze data (app store reviews, user feedback, etc.), Perform a SWOT analysis, identify the strengths and weaknesses of your top competing products, etc. Please put data in a tabular format.

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People-First Product Leadership

DECEMBER 20, 2023

Part 3 brings together the Product specific Vision, Roadmap and Goals. Product Vision puts a company’s Vision and Mission into action The Product Vision ensures the Roadmap reflects the priorities which matter the most to the company’s customers and to the company. Not every Product team in every company has a vision.

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The Product Coalition

DECEMBER 8, 2019

Highly effective Product Managers develop themselves in 5 key areas. In some jobs, you can get by with just Competence, but in the unkempt, fuzzy, team-oriented domain of Product Management, you need both. Here are 2 actions you can take to develop your Craft Competence: Craft Competence ?? and others feel that.

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Intercom, Inc.

JUNE 10, 2020

I hope this post allows people and teams to safely talk about Product Judgment. If you ever had to face a Manager, Director or Exec as they make bad product decisions and you’re struggling to persuade them otherwise, this post will help you. It takes years to build, and therefore ranges from very weak to very strong.

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Roman Pichler

JULY 6, 2021

Consequently, your focus shifts from managing a product to looking after the product people on your team and empowering them to do a great job. For instance, you might show the individuals how they can make effective strategic product decisions, create an actionable product roadmap, and effectively use the right KPIs.

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The Product Coalition

FEBRUARY 12, 2024

As a result, the team struggled with how to prepare. I made it no longer than three minutes into the presentation and got this subtle feeling that the team was unprepared. Yeah, I was seemingly in a bad mood. The team was shutting down. I apologized to the team and said we would pick it up next week.

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Alchemer Mobile

NOVEMBER 9, 2022

My team is too small. Speaking up might spur a conversation around how to adjust your role to better fit your needs, or better yet, to bring in another team member to share your workload. Limited team bandwidth. The more you know about customer usability expectations, the quicker you can make data-driven product decisions.

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Userpilot

JUNE 30, 2022

Without it, you’d find yourself implementing features for the wrong customers, distorting your value proposition, and leading your customer support (CS) team to burnout from dealing with bad-fit users. 75% of companies will break up with poor-fit customers, according to Gartner. Let’s go over the concepts. What is customer fit?

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Lenny Rachitsky

APRIL 28, 2024

Kayvon treated sacred cows like a “built-in roadmap” of innovations worth testing. Founders of acquihired companies led the teams behind Community Notes, Spaces, Super Follows, Fleets, Communities, Tipping, and more. Building 0 to 1 is extremely hard if the entire team isn’t bought into the vision.

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The Product Coalition

MARCH 8, 2024

Think of digital transformation strategies as your roadmap to success in the digital age. The important basis is the development of a strategy for short- and long-term digital transformation based on business results rather than technology. Data becomes a strategic asset In the digital age, data is power.

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The Product Coalition

MARCH 9, 2021

All you need is a company providing React Native services and an outstanding team of developers who know exactly what they’re doing. Before you start planning your budget, let’s see why Uber is so popular and discuss what you need to develop a React Native app like it. yeah, don’t forget to develop a version for drivers.

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The Product Coalition

MARCH 29, 2021

Personally, I think being open in realising when a feature has taken a toll is an art and unfortunately few teams depict the benefits behind it. Are you also one of the product teams where 80% of your roadmap or sprint is a stakeholder wishlist? Team member idea This one is a tricky one and I will explain why.

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ProductPlan

MAY 22, 2020

If you don’t have the data then you can’t make secure decisions and alter course.” It’s not necessarily bad when product management adapts to each company’s specific needs. Below is the discussion Melissa Perri had with John Cutler and Jim Semick on why teams that are scaling need product ops.

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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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Product Warrior

DECEMBER 7, 2022

To do this, we need to understand which decisions underperform rapidly and then course correct. If the product strategy is only articulated as a list of features against a schedule, then we have provided no method to evaluate the performance of strategic product development. The full series is listed below.

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ProductPlan

AUGUST 25, 2022

Let’s jump in with the bad news: No organization is immune to product vulnerability. However, great product leaders protect their product teams from exploiting weaknesses and vulnerabilities. However, these uncontrollable, unpredictable variables can create weaknesses that morph into opportunities for potential attacks.

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The Product Coalition

OCTOBER 29, 2018

“We just pushed it live,” the release manager belts out, to a team fresh off the battlefield that is software product development. I was new to it all, a team whose mantra was to create, build and release. In retrospect, it was probably the best place to start, given that external development teams are now more commonplace.

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Userpilot

JULY 31, 2023

TL;DR Pendo is a product growth platform for product , marketing , customer success , and UX design teams. It enables businesses to analyze user in-app behavior , collect customer feedback to make data-led decisions, improve user onboarding, and communicate effectively with users. Let’s get right to it! Who can use the Pendo app?

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Roman Pichler

FEBRUARY 2, 2021

Before the advent of agile frameworks like Scrum , a product person—the product manager—would typically carry out the market research, compile a market requirements specification, create a business case, put together product roadmap, write a requirements specification, and then hand it off to a project manager.

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The Product Guy

AUGUST 1, 2019

What do you do when your team is working their socks off and yet they are getting little credit for the work being done, mainly because the team isn’t able to set concrete expectations with the stakeholder? This obviously reflected as a failure to deliver on part of the engineering team. THE CHALLENGE. THE CAUSE.

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BrainMates

AUGUST 22, 2019

Don’t tolerate bad management if it’s making you miserable. The number one thing I see that undermines product and engineering teams’ success is senior executives who help too much,” adds Rich. Often, those executive interrupts are the top reason for roadmap slips.”. Pick your place.”. It’s more about marketing than selling.”.

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