The Product Coalition

MARCH 25, 2023

Speaking of markets, let’s take a look at the product management platform market. Within it, there is no shortage of products and services that claim they can help you optimize the organization, productivity and efficiency of your product development team’s performance.

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ProductPlan

NOVEMBER 11, 2019

There are many ways to build a roadmap and many types of roadmaps you can make. 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. Gather consensus around goals.

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ProductPlan

JULY 1, 2020

Unless your product management stack includes a crystal ball, all those goals and resolutions we made way back in January likely didn’t take global pandemics, fluctuating economies, and social unrest into account. Let’s begin this process by reflecting and reviewing. Did your roadmap change? Regular roadmap reviews.

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The Product Coalition

MARCH 29, 2018

I realize not every product person has to navigate sales stakeholders. But if you’re working on a B2B product with a sales force, odds are you know what I mean. I try to help product and sales teams succeed under the mantra “Easy to Sell, Easy to Renew.” Where do your teams agree on low scores?

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UX Planet

JUNE 9, 2025

From Raw Data to Clarity — Cleaning, Sorting, and Synthesising Insights Part 4 (of 5) of the UX Research Playbook series Synthesising qualitative data is similar to reaping the harvest after the diligent effort poured into research — it’s the step where hard work blossoms into meaningful insights. Context matters.

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ProductPlan

JANUARY 21, 2020

A few years ago, I was the acting product manager at a startup, developing an enterprise software product. Building the product was hard: it was taking longer to develop than everyone expected (of course). The product backlog I managed grew daily. Feature request? Add it to the backlog.

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ProductPlan

MARCH 7, 2019

Product managers interact with many parts of the organization on a regular basis, but it’s usually either asking for specific information or soliciting input on very discrete items. Roadmap presentations are the culmination of weeks, months, or possibly years of work. So, here are five mistakes you want to avoid.

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ProductPlan

JUNE 1, 2023

When your product can do more than it could do before, that sounds like a good thing. Added functionality, new capabilities, a more robust feature set…these are the talking points product marketers salivate over and executives search for on product roadmaps. Where are product teams getting their feature ideas?

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PMLesson's Ace the PM Interview

DECEMBER 14, 2020

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? Think about the complexity involved in developing and releasing a piece of software.

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ProductPlan

FEBRUARY 1, 2021

Product leaders don’t often get many chances for hiring product team members. Additions to the product team must ramp up quickly. There’s no perfect resume recipe or qualifying exam for product types. So, how can a product leader make sure they’re onboarding new hires with a good chance of success?

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UX Planet

DECEMBER 15, 2023

So, how do you ensure that UX gets its due in terms of investment? How do you plan to set aside a budget to enhance product performance and user satisfaction? It also helps in saving on directionless development costs. Have you prioritized the design problems to be solved in your product roadmap?

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ProductPlan

NOVEMBER 19, 2021

What is a Product Management System? As a product manager , you’ll want to answer a series of questions before you start work. And at least one dedicated software application to help you take your products from concept to launch. Who will we want to include in our cross-functional product team?

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ProductPlan

APRIL 22, 2024

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.

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ProductPlan

JULY 10, 2020

Thinking back, it’s surprising that it was only about five years ago that I had an important epiphany that would alter the trajectory of our company’s product strategy and my career. Or, while most of the customers raved about our support team, others expressed frustration around how long it took to get a response to their support requests.

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Intercom, Inc.

DECEMBER 2, 2021

From the process of disambiguation and the worst outage we ever had to our obsession with speed and how legal and engineering teams can work better together, Engineer Chats will give you a peek behind the engineering process at Intercom. It can be used for the entire building process at engineering and even product management.

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ProductPlan

MARCH 17, 2020

Do you find yourself continually diverted from your product’s itinerary to delve into your boss’s new favorite subject? Are you having to explain why your product’s not using blockchain or the Internet of Things or artificial intelligence? Executives are furthest from the customers and the product itself.

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ProductPlan

FEBRUARY 1, 2021

Product leaders don’t often get many chances for hiring product team members. Additions to the product team must ramp up quickly. There’s no perfect resume recipe or qualifying exam for product types. So, how can a product leader make sure they’re onboarding new hires with a good chance of success?

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The Product Coalition

MARCH 6, 2019

Working as a product manager can be a busy, unpredictable and octopus-like existence. Bringing team members together, organizing user research, product demos, road mapping and more. If you’re a mobile app product manager there’s a whole additional layer of complexity to add to that cake.

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Bain Public

OCTOBER 19, 2019

Here are the 3 roles Product Managers must perform to achieve roadmap leadership: The Diplomat It’s not our role to dictate through authority where the product should go. Everyone’s opinion matters, and when they trust that we’re listening, a culture of respect develops. What gaps are being uncovered in sales?

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ProductPlan

JULY 11, 2019

Product teams must not only create an amazing product, they also need to set the stage for the product getting the awareness it requires for trial and user adoption. If a new feature or product never gets used, it doesn’t matter how awesome it is… it’s gathering the same dust as every less great product on the market.

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Bain Public

APRIL 25, 2022

We had some insightful discussions and they confided in me the challenges the local startups and ecosystem were experiencing regarding their roadmap development. "I I bet you're the only guys in town who values product management as much as I do." - Paul Ortchanian. X Machina-AI Inc.

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Business of Software Conference

NOVEMBER 26, 2018

Yeah, and I forced our team to build a trebuchet – in retrospect, that was a very bad idea. He says, Product-Market Fit… You can always feel it when it isn’t happening. Press reviews are kind of blah, sales cycles take too damn long, but you can almost always feel it when it is happening.

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Intercom, Inc.

MARCH 29, 2022

Des Traynor laid out the six unique beliefs that guide our vision, mission, and roadmap here at Intercom. Paul Adams shared three incredible new products that will take your Intercom experience to the next level: Surveys, Switch, and our next-generation Inbox. Our level of investment in product and innovation sets us apart”.

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The Product Coalition

JANUARY 16, 2024

Golden rules for roadmap management. Everyone has a plan until they get punched in the mouth” — Mike Tyson I’ve wrestled with weak roadmaps — even some downright disasters. It was something that happened over time, a term I’ve coined ‘roadmap drift’. Our product was evolving rapidly and haphazardly.

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Product Talk

FEBRUARY 10, 2021

Teresa: For those of you that are Product Talk readers, Melissa writes our Product in Practice series where we’re sharing stories about teams doing great discovery work, so you may have seen her name there. It’s allowing each team to really find what’s going to work best for them. Tweet This.

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The Product Coalition

OCTOBER 19, 2020

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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ProductPlan

DECEMBER 4, 2019

As a product manager, you’re more likely to find yourself embroiled in these events since you sit at the nexus of so many activities and constituencies. We outlined the seven internal politics situations you’ll likely encounter at least once in your product management career and how you can handle them. Design Disputes.

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UserVoice

JUNE 18, 2018

No product leader should be surprised how much their new job features coffee meetings and impromptu chats. and while you may be the one given domain over the roadmap, your stakeholders take these peers’ opinions of your work into serious account. Conclusion.

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ProductPlan

MARCH 14, 2023

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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Department of Product

MARCH 28, 2022

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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DISQO

NOVEMBER 1, 2016

The ‘Lean’ movement has taken the corporate world by storm, but there are still countless barriers for product teams that seek to adopt its experiment-driven ethos and make decisions informed by customer data. Today, our clients include forward-thinking product teams from AT&T, Capital One, PwC, Aetna, and many others.

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DISQO

NOVEMBER 1, 2016

The ‘Lean’ movement has taken the corporate world by storm, but there are still countless barriers for product teams that seek to adopt its experiment-driven ethos and make decisions informed by customer data. Today, our clients include forward-thinking product teams from AT&T, Capital One, PwC, Aetna, and many others.

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DISQO

NOVEMBER 1, 2016

The ‘Lean’ movement has taken the corporate world by storm, but there are still countless barriers for product teams that seek to adopt its experiment-driven ethos and make decisions informed by customer data. Today, our clients include forward-thinking product teams from AT&T, Capital One, PwC, Aetna, and many others.

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