The Product Coalition

MARCH 11, 2020

NAVIGATING THE NATURAL TENSION AMONG STAKEHOLDERS This is the first in a series on product roadmaps. The first post describes why roadmaps matter and who relies upon them. The roadmap is much more than a directive document that tells teams what to do by when. Battleground The product roadmap. These include: Engineering?—?What

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Userpilot

AUGUST 29, 2023

TL;DR Product management describes the continual process of overseeing the development of a product across its entire lifecycle. A project manager is focused on the completion of a specific project, whereas product managers focus primarily on the long-term vision and evolving a product to deliver value over time.

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Userpilot

FEBRUARY 4, 2023

You can develop and execute strategic initiatives with the OKR framework. A strategic initiative is what can help your company achieve its long-term vision. With these initiatives, you will have a strategic plan and roadmap for continuous improvement and the possible evolution of the market. What are strategic initiatives?

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Userpilot

NOVEMBER 20, 2023

TL;DR Technical product managers work with engineering and development teams on the technical performance of software products. While product managers are more customer and business-centric, technical PMs focus on the technical development and implementation of solutions.

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ProductPlan

AUGUST 10, 2023

Where charismatic leaders rally the troops around an ambitious vision with a massive potential payoff. A clear product vision Every business and product needs a vision to guide everything that follows, from strategy to staffing to roadmaps. The product vision defines where the business wants the product to be.

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Roman Pichler

APRIL 5, 2022

For product strategy and roadmap meetings, I recommend involving the key stakeholders , for example, someone from sales, marketing, support, and finance, as well as development team representatives—ideally members who know about the user experience (UX), architecture, and technologies. Assess product strategy and adjust if necessary.

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Alchemer Mobile

JULY 13, 2021

Retention analysis to validate your product roadmap, gauge how long it takes customers to find value, and set benchmarks for long-term retention goals. You can do this through in-app surveys, one-to-one messages, targeted notes, and tracking real-time shifts in sentiment. Gather and act on customer feedback. Promote product-led growth.

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Userpilot

NOVEMBER 19, 2022

Product service management is a marketing function whose objective is to keep track of customer and market need fluctuations and inform product development. That’s because a big part of the role involves collecting and analyzing market and consumer data to guide product development. Want to see how? Book the demo!

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Userpilot

JUNE 21, 2022

We often fall into product development fallacies. That, my friends, is one of the biggest fallacies of product development. Understanding product development fallacies. Messages need to tell the story in a contextual way and guide users to see the value of each. Feature : Roadmap. But, hey, this is good though!

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UX Studio

NOVEMBER 3, 2017

Working on a product without a decent product vision resembles going into the street with eyes closed. This article will show how a product vision should look, how to create it and communicate it to all stakeholders in play. What is Product Vision? Product vision imagines a product direction in the long-term.

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Gainsight

JULY 11, 2023

Our team’s vision, focus, talents, and hard work were central to achieving this milestone. The options were HR-focused LMSs or expensive DIY development projects. So around this time last year, we revisited and sharpened our vision. I knew forging a partnership with Gainsight would significantly accelerate Northpass’ vision.

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The Product HQ

JUNE 1, 2024

An eCommerce product manager is involved in key areas of the business, including strategic planning, product roadmap development, and execution. To convey your message, you need to know how to communicate in a language not specific to customer preferences or audience. Still, in a way, everyone understands what your message is.

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ProductPlan

JULY 23, 2019

Product managers wear many hats, but one of the most uncomfortable ones they’re forced to occasionally don is that of the product vision “Gatekeeper.” The harder part is shooting things down that aren’t bad at face value, but don’t match up with the strategy, vision, and timeline of the overall product.

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Gainsight

MAY 14, 2019

A product roadmap is a high-level, visual representation of the direction your product offering will take over time. A good product roadmap will provide your colleagues and stakeholders with the “why” behind your product and should serve the following purposes: Lay out the overarching strategy. Executive-level product roadmaps.

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Userpilot

SEPTEMBER 20, 2023

Key responsibilities include setting out a clear product vision , building a product roadmap, organizing releases , and conducting continuous market research and analysis. A project manager focuses on organizing the development team, tracking the progress of work (i.e., Build a product roadmap. using a Gantt chart, etc.),

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Mind the Product

JUNE 14, 2019

A bad day in the office, a chance LinkedIn message, and before you know it, someone has moved jobs. It’s like a chance bit of customer feedback that we end up devoting a two-year roadmap to. Developing a long-term relationship with someone who can act as your mentor and provide advice and direction can help to get around this.

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Roman Pichler

JANUARY 8, 2019

A great way to answer this question is to create a Strategy Canvas, as I describe in my article “ Make Your Product Stand Out with the Strategy Canvas “ Additionally, give the development team members the opportunity to carry out some technology exploration to ensure that the redeveloped product will be built in the right way.

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Product Talk

FEBRUARY 12, 2020

Lisa began her career in data science and spent four years as a data scientist at Airship , a marketing and messaging automation company. Lisa explains that “Orchestration is a catch-all term that refers to orchestrating messages across different channels—sometimes referred to as cross-channel orchestration.” Tweet This.

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Userpilot

SEPTEMBER 14, 2023

Their responsibilities include product discovery, developing product vision, prioritization , roadmapping , analyzing product performance and its iterative development, and leading the product team. Product marketing sits between product development and the market. What are the responsibilities of product managers?

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Product Management Unpacked

JULY 9, 2020

Pendo offers a platform of tools that allows product managers to make their products better —whether they are at the beginning of their product roadmap deciding what to build or want to validate the direction for how their product evolves. Such level of involvement offers CPOs another important benefit — the ability to develop their team.

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ProductPlan

MAY 5, 2020

Here at the ProductPlan blog, we advocate strategic roadmapping for product managers in every field. But for the video game industry, in particular, product roadmaps take on added importance. In this post, we’ll offer several strategic reasons that you should embrace your roadmap as a gaming product manager. Ready, player one?

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Intercom, Inc.

APRIL 6, 2018

Marketing needs to develop its own line of enquiry into “why” – why does the product exist? To keep the discussion aligned with the product, which might not even exist at that point, I start from the features on the roadmap and regroup them by the area of the problem they address, rather than chronologically.

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ProductPlan

APRIL 29, 2020

Our job entails creating product roadmaps based on what’s doable and gives the product the most bang for its buck. But how can we be sure we’re making the right calls and roadmapping what matters most? In order to roadmap what matters, it means limiting what gets attention and energy. That’s what they pay us for. Just say no.

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Userpilot

JULY 18, 2023

Roadmapping software visualizes and plans product development over time, facilitating coordination and alignment across teams. They provide you with insights essential to make informed decisions about the product direction and help you define the product’s vision, goals, and strategic initiatives.

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The Product Cafe

FEBRUARY 4, 2024

Building Habits Every morning, my routine starts with the automatic scroll through Instagram or a quick glance at Slack messages and emails. Whether you're a business stepping into the world of product development or one that's ace at acquiring customers but struggles with keeping them, the Hook Model is your playbook.

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ProductPlan

AUGUST 10, 2023

Where charismatic leaders rally the troops around an ambitious vision with a massive potential payoff. A clear product vision Every business and product needs a vision to guide everything that follows, from strategy to staffing to roadmaps. The product vision defines where the business wants the product to be.

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Hutwork

MAY 23, 2019

Product roadmap planning has become a huge success in getting products to market efficiently. Often companies find themselves asking, why roadmap? This brings us to our top 12 reasons for product roadmap planning and why it’s essential. 1—Clear Vision. 1—Clear Vision. Where are the benefits? Click To Tweet.

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ProductPlan

SEPTEMBER 20, 2022

This is why developing your product sense remains so important. But before we dig into how to best develop that product sense, we should first define what it is. A well-developed product sense may feel like you’ve got great intuition, but no one is born with this quality. Tips for developing your product sense.

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Userpilot

MAY 15, 2024

Airship is a customer engagement platform that uses Amplitude analytics to segment users for personalized messaging across channels. You can use it to collect customer feedback and create onboarding flows or guide users with in-app messages. Amplitude integrations: Userpilot. Amplitude integrations: Slack.

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The Product Guy

FEBRUARY 13, 2020

Decision-making process for PMs: No common process, standardized No journey from OKRs to problems and solutions No articulation of the roadmap with uncertainty Not ahead of the needs Problems for making streamlined decisions, for articulating decisions. Low accountability Limited visions of the product by PMs. Low transparency.

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The Product HQ

MAY 10, 2024

Since product development is such a lucrative field, this is a crucial role for the company. This includes the project management of all of the activities done in product conceptualization, design, development, and marketing. Since the team is small, you will have to manage the technical aspects of product development.

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Userpilot

JULY 31, 2023

Roadmaps are a new Pendo feature for communicating and sharing product vision. Pendo is currently developing AI features to enhance experience personalization , product discovery and accelerate product-led growth. While Roadmaps are designed for internal use, you can export them as images and share them with customers as well.

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The Product Coalition

JANUARY 5, 2023

The second biggest risk is misalignment between teams, and with your company vision. Great tasks: support research, translate strategy, write vision statements, roadmaps, and user stories. I’ll message you in 6 weeks to check if you stick to your commitment. To solve that you need to focus on the problem space. ?

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Userpilot

JULY 31, 2023

Chances are you already know their broad responsibility is to develop and implement a marketing strategy roadmap for a specific product. We will also point our readers toward some amazing resources for development. A product marketing manager (PMM) is responsible for a product’s positioning, messaging, and branding.

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Alchemer Mobile

AUGUST 25, 2020

Between interfacing with multiple teams, coordinating release schedules, prioritizing customer happiness, driving the mobile product roadmap, messaging product announcements internally and externally, and myriad other activities, the list of “to-do’s” for mobile product managers may seem endless, and the job is ever-changing.

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Product Innovation Educators

JULY 3, 2023

With us is David Rogers, an expert on digital transformation, a member of the faculty at Columbia Business School, and the author of five books, including The Digital Transformation Roadmap. Your vision must be rooted in your particular business and unique capabilities. Where do we see our world, context, customers, and industry going?

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Userpilot

JUNE 29, 2022

As part of the development process, product stories are derived from the user stories and product roadmaps created by the product manager. Select a story medium that’s more relevant to your audience and close out your message with an appropriate call to action. Explain the product vision. They buy why you do it.”

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