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Why Your Engineers Are Hungry for Your Product Vision.

The Product Coalition

Let’s talk about how to define a product vision, and why the lack of a product vision is so detrimental to your team. As I’ll explain below, the “why” and “where” form your product vision, and your product team (especially your engineers), not only want this from you, but need it in order to do their best work.

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

Intercom, Inc.

When you reach senior level on an engineering track, you’re expected to be optimal in your hard skill set. Despite not having a formal education in engineering, Sarah landed a job as a developer in the French consultant Grand Manitou. Then, four years ago, in 2018, she got a job at Algolia as a software engineer.

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Crafting a compelling product vision | Ebi Atawodi (YouTube, Netflix, Uber)

Lenny Rachitsky

Known for crafting a strong, unified vision, Ebi empowers her teams to achieve outsized outcomes.

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Product Vision: Speak Language People Will Understand

The Product Coalition

It’ll describe some points divided as follows: Setting the product vision Getting people onboard (stakeholder management) to make it happen How to talk with other areas to get to this vision Why is setting a Product Vision important? Alice Product Manager”- Without Product Vision, any direction will be taken.

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Successful Roadmaps Avoid One Thing: Drift

The Product Coalition

The whirlwind of change, driven by intense collaboration with design and engineering, was short-term focused — almost to a fault. Your product is heading in a direction divergent from the direction documented in the roadmap. As a matter of practice, review your vision and product strategy at the same time as you review your roadmap.

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Re-designing the Product Briefing Document from the Ground Up ???

The Product Coalition

Due to this increased communication overhead, we needed to re-think how we could improve communication, product workflows and handover documentation across our ever expanding teams. AKA Scope of Work (SoW), Product Spec, Product Requirements Document (PRD) or in Intercom’s case ‘ The Intermission ’. Side note: ??Drift

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If You Want to Become a Great Product Manager, Master These Three Meta-Skills

The Product Coalition

Refusing conventional treatments, he embarked on a mission to heal naturally, a journey that would cultivate not just health but a vision. This vision materialized as UMZU , a company born out of his unwavering determination to offer natural healing paths to others.