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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. In the product team’s, err, I mean civil servants’ headquarters, the roadmap was a living document, evolving like a dynamic organism.

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How Johannes Gutenberg Can Make You a Better Product Manager

The Product Coalition

The story of how the first product of the information age was created and found product/market fit. Because scribes display more diligence and industry than printers.” Source: Wikipedia Gutenberg’s Entrepreneurial Journey Under these conditions, imagine how hard it was to launch a world-changing product.

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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. The same is true for your roadmap — it takes more than diligence. As a matter of practice, review your vision and product strategy at the same time as you review your roadmap.

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How Our Cross-Functional Teams Decide What to Build at Whispir

The Product Coalition

I wrote a variation of this for the various product teams at Whispir recently and then as fate would have it, a CEO I know reached out to me on LinkedIn asking the same thing?—?so with very little effort but a huge amount of diligence and thought, and you can do it in 15 minutes if you have access to all the research already.

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Product Management in Healthcare

ProductPlan

Regardless of their scale and scope, they’re all products with production schedules, marketing plans, sales teams, logistics specialists, and—in most cases—product managers. Who’s the customer for healthcare product managers? For those contemplating moving into the $4.3 It begins with what’s at stake.

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Why Product Request SLAs Fail

Mironov Consulting

” GTM leaders typically ascribe this situation to lack of attention, poor work ethic, or weak understanding of customers on the part of product management – i.e. personal failures best addressed by replacing or upgrading product staff.  Or by only hiring “ hard core ” folks willing to sleep under their desks.

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ProductPlan Platform Recap: Q1 2024

ProductPlan

Let’s jump in and check out the latest and greatest updates from the past few months, brought to you by ProductPlan’s product team! We’re diligently prioritizing key areas to deliver the most impactful improvements for our users. With this in mind, we’re committed to creating a uniform experience across all product areas.