The Product Coalition

JUNE 9, 2023

If you do things that are purposeful, you’ll eventually be successful.” — Howard Schultz Several years ago, I found myself in a heated discussion about product roadmaps with a client. This exchange unfolded over weak, black coffee in your typical, bland white-walled corporate conference room. Why not, indeed?

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ProductPlan

JANUARY 27, 2023

If you’ve been in a product for a while, you’ve almost certainly run into the problem of inconsistent documentation. This post will focus on the last example, product roadmaps. Why does roadmap inconsistency matter? This inconsistency is the most insidious sign of a poor product strategy.

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Userpilot

JANUARY 16, 2024

Perform a SWOT analysis, identify the strengths and weaknesses of your top competing products, etc. Use ChatGPT as a brainstorming partner for product ideas , feature ideas, product names, etc. Task ChatGPT with identifying and formulating the best pricing strategy for your industry.

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The Product Coalition

FEBRUARY 12, 2024

Early in the pandemic, this led me to resent virtual meetings, especially virtual product review meetings. This particular product review meeting was a breaking point. I struggled to figure out how to run the product review meeting effectively. As a result, the team struggled with how to prepare. Why was this prioritized?”

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Mind the Product

OCTOBER 1, 2019

I recently tweeted about timeline roadmaps saying they had to go. I even wrote about it in my Mind the Product blog post, Lean Strategies for Maturing Products. When I saw the results I thought it was worth saying on Twitter what I’ve said before: the timeline roadmap simply has to go (said Twitter thread caught fire!).

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The Product Coalition

FEBRUARY 21, 2020

Every software team out there uses some sort of planning system or tool to do product roadmaps and sprint plans, and yet many are unhappy with the tools, or frustrated at the lack of getting things done, or getting “pointless” things done, and the list goes on. What do the product roadmapping or planning tools offer us?

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Roman Pichler

FEBRUARY 2, 2021

Before the advent of agile frameworks like Scrum , a product person—the product manager—would typically carry out the market research, compile a market requirements specification, create a business case, put together product roadmap, write a requirements specification, and then hand it off to a project manager.

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Mind the Product

OCTOBER 4, 2018

Team issues can have a negative impact on a project and your people long term. There are a bunch of ways they might manifest themselves – and I’ve written them down as I’ve heard them over a decade of building digital products in cross-functional teams. But most of all don’t be a promoter of negative views in the team.

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Roman Pichler

FEBRUARY 11, 2020

Platforms offer several benefits: They can help grow a product portfolio faster and cheaper and they can help increase revenue. If the teams developing the different apps all created their own user-interface layers, there would be considerable code duplication, added development costs, and increased development time.

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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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The Product Coalition

AUGUST 23, 2023

A purpose we could share with the company’s leadership team, customers, and those working on the product. Through this, I learned a key lesson — don’t build a product solely based on a problem or motivated by profit. Products need purpose because purpose gives the product meaning and a reason for being.

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UX Planet

DECEMBER 15, 2023

These thoughtful considerations will ensure that you have the correct assessment of your company’s UX maturity , your product’s current standing, future needs, and your user requirements — all of which will form the foundation of your UX budget. It also helps in saving on directionless development costs.

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Roman Pichler

FEBRUARY 2, 2021

Before the advent of agile frameworks like Scrum , a product person—the product manager—would typically carry out the market research, compile a market requirements specification, create a business case, put together product roadmap, write a requirements specification, and then hand it off to a project manager.

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ProductPlan

MARCH 31, 2022

When it comes to the product team’s organizational structures and strategies, product operations is the hot new thing. More and more teams realize the value of having an operationally-focused professional. The role frees up time for product managers. This insight helps build trust with other teams.

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Bain Public

JANUARY 11, 2022

Let’s face it, most organizations have poor habits around roadmap completion — this is why getting leadership (or stakeholders) to develop consistent, stable and familiar routines reinforced through repetition and communication is valuable. Unfortunately, product leadership culture can get a little messy.

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The Product Manager Coach Blog

NOVEMBER 5, 2023

Managing stakeholders is such an important skill to develop. Steve Jobs This quote underscores a crucial aspect of product management: the power of rejection. It is about guiding your team and resources toward what truly matters for the product’s success and your company’s vision.

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The Product Coalition

DECEMBER 8, 2018

Your roadmap is one of the most important things you’ll produce as a SaaS company. It provides a glimpse into the future of your product and aligns everyone around the same goals. Who will you share the roadmap with: Just employees, or customers too? And your roadmap should change with them. Who Should See the Roadmap?

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Userpilot

MAY 19, 2022

Product excellence is a framework that relies on user feedback to inform product strategy and roadmap for faster delivery of products. Successful products satisfy user needs. A successful product manages to deliver value to customers. Kano model helps you prioritize feature development.

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ProductPlan

OCTOBER 29, 2019

The developers will handle it. Product managers don’t want to spend time worrying about security. Most often, it won’t matter if it’s not intentional or was initiated by a bad actor from outside the company, If things go sideways, it could even result in a permanent shutdown. Security is someone else’s problem.

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Bain Public

MARCH 14, 2022

But unfortunately, in many companies, the product leadership team can perpetuate a negative culture — setting up product managers to fail. There’s a lack of teaching that happens in the early stages of a product manager’s career, forcing people to make career decisions just to survive rather than thrive.

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Userpilot

MAY 5, 2022

Product managers lead interdisciplinary product teams to deliver products that bring value to customers. The product management process is a set of steps taking the project from the initial concept to the final product. The product development process is one aspect of the product management process.

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Userpilot

MARCH 8, 2022

User behavior analytics helps you flag underperforming features and modify onboarding experiences to improve feature discovery. 51% of users won’t return to a company if they’ve had bad experiences with it. User analytics also provide insights into how users interact with products at every stage of the user journey.

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Sachin Rekhi

JUNE 25, 2017

The following section includes posts that cover the fundamentals of what product management is, what the role entails, and gives you a high-level understanding of the skills you need to succeed as a product manager. Another incredibly important aspect for product managers to master is defining and iterating on your product's strategy.

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Department of Product

OCTOBER 23, 2022

Product Principles – Examples for Product Managers Make decision making easier with inspiration from top product companies Product principles are used by product teams to help guide decision making. Principles can help guide both strategic decisions and tactical decisions.

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ProductPlan

JANUARY 5, 2023

This trend has supported the emergence of the Data Product Manager as a role on the product team dedicated to the process of collecting, organizing, storing, and sharing data within an organization. Outcome-driven vs. feature-based roadmaps. On the other hand, outcome-driven roadmaps are very different.

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The Product Coalition

JULY 5, 2023

It forced me to question a belief, as a product leader, I treated as an absolute — that products always require roadmaps. My mentor and I started in our usual spot, talking about startups and new products in the healthcare industry. Do you think every company and product needs a roadmap?”

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ProductPlan

MAY 25, 2021

Product Strategy is Important. One of the most important roles of a product manager (PM) is setting the product strategy. The strategy, by way of a roadmap, is the document that drives team alignment. Well, let’s start by making sure you have a strategy that works first.

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Department of Product

OCTOBER 5, 2023

Designed by a small, independent product team, Reflect is a rather beautiful new way to capture your notes, thoughts and ideas. Speaking of which, Microsoft has revealed it is developing a new feature for Outlook that will allow users to keep track of any meetings they can’t attend in person. Enjoy the rest of your week!

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PMLesson's Ace the PM Interview

FEBRUARY 7, 2022

Community managers, sales teams, marketing managers, and more could provide much insight into a product's users. Without this first-hand knowledge and understanding of your product, you won't be able to develop or improve your product as much as possible. Spend time getting to know people from all sorts of teams.

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UX Studio: Product Management

SEPTEMBER 25, 2017

After our team at UX Studio started using product management tools, the time spent on communication surprisingly decreased. As a product manager, you know the drill. Coordinating designer and developer teams simultaneously while reporting to the boss via email becomes a drag. Collaboration tools. RealTime Board.

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The Product Coalition

MAY 28, 2018

Think of yourself as the gatekeeper to your teams time. Allow your development team to focus on the important tasks required to meet your long term goals. Evaluating the True Cost of Your Decision As a Product Manager it is important to understand the true cost of a request. Good products are an inch wide and a mile deep.

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The Product Coalition

JULY 29, 2019

Product managers act as the glue between multiple cross-functional teams and effective communication is the foundation of their success; from here the general sense that product managers can’t do their job productively unless they are co-located with their teams. But how does this apply to the PM role?

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ProductPlan

DECEMBER 3, 2020

Whether the industry is pharmaceuticals, furniture, or food, product managers representing all types of products share a few common high-level responsibilities. They develop a strategic direction and drive the development of their companies’ products. Developing a strategy. Coordinating development.

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Userpilot

JUNE 9, 2021

How to get your first Product Management job. How to get your first Product Marketing job. A Product Manager builds the product by identifying customer needs and creating specifications for developers. A Product Marketer’s role is to communicate the value of the product to the market.

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ProductPlan

DECEMBER 2, 2020

Whether the industry is pharmaceuticals, furniture, or food, product managers representing all types of products share a few common high-level responsibilities. They develop a strategic direction and drive the development of their companies’ products. Developing a strategy. Coordinating development.

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Roman Pichler

MAY 5, 2020

When I need to take a break from writing, I save the document. Word is the product. But the ability to save the document is a feature, a part of the overall product. To get a more complete picture of the Scrum product owner role, take a look at my product owner guide : Featur e Owner and Component Owner.

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PMLesson's Ace the PM Interview

FEBRUARY 11, 2019

I started my career as a software developer, working on database applications. I then worked at a startup as Manager of Customer Education, which oversaw Customer Training, Documentation and Support. I don’t think we do a good job at defining and hiring for the right skill sets for these teams.

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