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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. So without further adieu, here are some proactive tips to maintain excellent roadmap health — no flossing required: Continuously sync to the vision and strategy.

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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. The fallout was immediate.

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Agile vs. Waterfall: Which Methodology is Right For Your Project?

PMLesson's Ace the PM Interview

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? Whichever methodology a team operates under will heavily influence how they work and communicate with one another.

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10 Reasons Your Product is Hurting Your Sales Team

The Product Coalition

I try to help product and sales teams succeed under the mantra “Easy to Sell, Easy to Renew.” I’ve struggled to find many examples detailing how to bond product and sales teams ( Antonia Bozhkova offers a good perspective ). Your teams will realign and strengthen their partnership as they see the product through each other’s eyes.

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391: Product VP of Wyze uses community for product innovation and you can too – with Steve McIrvin

Product Innovation Educators

We’re pushing the boundaries of computer vision and machine learning. For example, the Wyze Cam, a security camera, detects people, pets, and packages, and we’re beta testing face recognition. 8:00] Tell us more about how you’re developing your core capabilities, especially AI visual recognition.

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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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Customer Experience author Elizabeth Dixon on the CX that makes an impact

Intercom, Inc.

From the CEO and the management team to the intern fresh out of college, every employee or business owner has unique qualities that position them to bring excellent customer experiences to life. No, “I get to be a part of this team, and we get to make an impact on people.” Liam: That’s fantastic. ” That is huge.