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Become a Product Visionary with Alternative Futures Analysis

The Product Coalition

Alternative futures analysis is a structured analytic technique that helps teams predict how the future might unfold. With this knowledge in hand, teams can more effectively identify and exploit opportunities and adopt risk strategies. As you assemble your team, take special care to select a diverse group of subject matter experts.

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First, Do No Harm by Mariah Hay

Mind the Product

Product managers are problem finders and problem solvers. In her talk from #mtpcon San Francisco, Mariah Hay , VP of Product at Pluralsight, challenges us to think about our ethical responsibility as product managers. It is crucial for us to understand ethics in the context of product.

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Client care service: the mindset is essential

The Product Coalition

Care Your help desk team may be all domain experts, diligent and responsible people doing their best to resolve the issues to the claimant’s satisfaction and as fast as possible. That is why besides effectiveness, your help desk team should care about the experience the client gets from every interaction with your company.

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37 Roadmap Tips to Align Stakeholders

ProductPlan

Some will delight and engage the executive team by taking a high-level approach and focusing on goals and strategy. Others dive into the specifics and make engineering teams happy since they’re so detailed. Don’t out map your team’s capabilities. Work with the engineering team and figure out just how long each item should take.

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How to Keep on top of Trends that Matter to Product Managers

Department of Product

How to Keep on top of Trends that Matter to Product Managers Decide when to care about trends and when to sit back and watch what happens next Trends and the product lifecycle Imagine your product strategy stayed exactly the same for the next 10 years. What would happen? Others will fail. And not all trends matter.

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14 Corporate Forces Affecting New Products & Ventures

The Product Coalition

Corporate forces deserve just as much attention and diligence as you would take to developing a Value Proposition or a Business Model. You need to work out how to overcome the forces that are most likely to derail your new product. He needed to run landing page experiments to test the desirability of their product.