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Successful Roadmaps Avoid One Thing: Drift

The Product Coalition

“Everyone has a plan until they get punched in the mouth” — Mike Tyson I’ve wrestled with weak roadmaps — even some downright disasters. 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.

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Algolia’s Sarah Dayan on what sets a staff plus engineer apart

Intercom, Inc.

Sarah Dayan is a staff engineer at Algolia , a “Search-as-a-Service” platform that helps developers build index and search capabilities into their own platforms through an API, and the host of two tech podcasts: Developer Experience and Entre Devs. How would she provide the right technical direction for the company?

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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.” Too many potential investors, Gutenberg’s plan to build on technology more than a thousand years old lacked imagination. Maybe the snake oil of its time, either way, he failed due to timing. However, it was delayed due to a flood?—?leaving Fust prevailed.

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Are you Solving Customer Problems or Just Building Features?

ProductPlan

Where are product teams getting their feature ideas? Most concerningly, 19% of respondents reported that their top source of ideas comes from senior management, who are often disconnected from both customers and the product development process. Why do product teams become feature factories?

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Treat Your Career Like you Treat Your Products by Adam Warburton

Mind the Product

We all treat our products with care, respect, and diligence. A bad day in the office, a chance LinkedIn message, and before you know it, someone has moved jobs. Developing a long-term relationship with someone who can act as your mentor and provide advice and direction can help to get around this. Find a Mentor. The Roadmap.

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The Ultimate Product Strategy Checklist for your Mobile App

The Product Coalition

Bringing team members together, organizing user research, product demos, road mapping and more. You should know your company’s broader vision, objectives, target, and KPIs inside out and constantly view your product through the lens of this wider context. A mixture of approaches and resources will be useful here.

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Intercom on Product: How ChatGPT changed everything

Intercom, Inc.

In a recent episode, our Director of Machine Learning, Fergal Reid , shed some light on the latest breakthroughs in neural network technology. Our technology interfaces are gradually becoming more conversational, and we’re just starting to see the quality of natural language understanding get good enough to unlock them.

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