The Product Coalition

OCTOBER 28, 2019

What No One Tells You About Being a Product Manager at an Early Stage Startup Over a year ago, I asked around, searched for books or articles, went to several talks but found very little advice on being a product manager at an early-stage startup. We didn’t have any documentation, processes, or guidelines to refer to.

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The Basics of Product Management

JUNE 21, 2020

These two questions form the basis of any good product roadmap. Learn how to create the best product roadmap. Learning how to build a product roadmap is a key requirement to break into product management. The ability to prepare a great roadmap is one of the must have skills for any Product Manager. Roadmap Guidelines.

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ProductPlan

NOVEMBER 11, 2019

There are many ways to build a roadmap and many types of roadmaps you can make. Some will delight and engage the executive team by taking a high-level approach and focusing on goals and strategy. Roadmaps for sales and marketing tout new functionality and minimize the time spent on technical debt and scalability.

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Antwak Blog

APRIL 8, 2021

Are you looking for some kind of inspiration for your first Product Roadmap (PR)? And wondering how to create a professional product Roadmap ? Are you planning to implement good practices in your product roadmap to get sustained growth? It helps you to design a successful Product Roadmap. Categories of Product Roadmap.

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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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The Product Coalition

DECEMBER 25, 2023

Everyone pokes fun at the user interface (UI), but it’s useful for document and content management, and it’s very easy to learn, especially for non technical users. I interviewed up to ten internal super users who would each review one hundred and twenty SharePoint documents a day. However, there was one big problem.

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Userpilot

AUGUST 30, 2023

What strategies can you implement to drive acquisition and retention faster? Get ready to dive into insightful discussions, practical strategies, and real-world examples that will empower you to create and manage products that meet user needs and leave them truly satisfied. But how do you do that? Product growth speakers.

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Lenny Rachitsky

APRIL 7, 2024

Document improvement: Approximately 30% of users utilize ChatPRD to enhance existing specs, PRDs, strategy docs, or roadmaps, indicating its effectiveness in refining and iterating on initial project documentation.

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The Product Coalition

AUGUST 23, 2023

Conveying purpose through your product roadmap Some recent conversations highlighted for me the need to state that product roadmap is not a plan, but a vehicle for communicating purpose. Instead, think about a product roadmap like a GPS for your product’s journey. Purpose motivates customers, stakeholders, teams, and companies.

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TechEmpower - Product Management

AUGUST 21, 2023

A technical review can help your development team adopt new processes and strategies to maximize their speed and efficiency. Outgrowing your stack: Your tech stack was just right for your startup. But is that the right strategy for your business? But as you’ve grown, it’s become cumbersome and constraining.

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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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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. 2—The Why and the What of Product Roadmap Planning. Where are the benefits?

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Bain Public

NOVEMBER 9, 2022

The DMZ is Toronto Metropolitan University's business incubator for early-stage technology startups. The DMZ helps startups build great businesses by connecting them with customers, capital, experts and a community of entrepreneurs and influencers. He is a pro in injecting strategies and tactics to monetize his client's businesses.

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UX Planet

DECEMBER 15, 2023

Curiously, many consumer startups allocate large ux budgets for the free parts of their products, & surprisingly little towards the ux journeys after initial conversion. Have you prioritized the design problems to be solved in your product roadmap? Have you defined your short-term and long-term product goals?

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Bain Public

SEPTEMBER 17, 2020

Most companies don’t have a clear picture of their roadmap. Bain Public’s SOAP™ methodology and tool offers a full picture of your product strategy, tactics, metrics and roadmap all in one place. It breaks product innovation in 3 steps -- Product Mission, Product Blueprint and Roadmap Pillars.

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Modus Create

MARCH 17, 2022

Failing fast might have become a startup cliché, but it has a lot to offer to agile leaders. For example, the marketing team can see the recruitment team’s project to understand hiring priorities and incorporate them in the social media strategy. You still need a roadmap. However, your roadmap should be able to adapt to change.

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ProductPlan

AUGUST 7, 2020

Working in startups and big technology companies, I’ve encountered one question more than most: “How do I make the switch from engineering to product management?”. Then, I started gravitating towards product strategy questions, like, “Why am I building products?, What makes startups fail or succeed in their mission?”,

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People-First Product Leadership

SEPTEMBER 17, 2023

I created an onboarding document to help frame the work, people, and history the new PM would encounter during their first 30, 60, and 90 days. Start the onboarding document by welcoming the new hire and setting the foundation for the information they’re about to consume. A new product manager is joining my team in a few weeks.

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Bain Public

OCTOBER 25, 2022

Though a startup, Connektica uses their combination of radio frequency expertise, software development, and determined entrepreneurs to arrive at the perfect time to tackle some of the issues of mass manufacturing of satellites. your product blueprint) Roadmap with your team (e.g. Connektica appears to be the latter.

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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. Let’s dive deeper!

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Bain Public

APRIL 17, 2020

Career Development Program Details: Whether you are a Founder or part of the Product, Engineering or leadership team, you need actionable strategies and impactful techniques that drive results today. Targeted to startups, scale-ups or SMB organizations It takes place over 12 weeks, live via Google Meet. Course Outline.

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Department of Product

SEPTEMBER 21, 2023

As larger companies roll out similar features, though, it’s becoming more difficult for startups to compete. Influencers use AI clones to power 24 / 7 streaming powered by Nanjing-based startup Silicon Intelligence. And Google’s latest launch is a testament to that. In this edition, chip maker Nvidia is the focus.

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Product Innovation Educators

OCTOBER 17, 2016

I’ve had some requests from listeners to explore product roadmaps, so I had a discussion with Jim Semick. He is co-founder of ProductPlan , which creates roadmap software for product teams. The best practices for constructing product roadmaps. Summary of questions discussed: What is the purpose of a roadmap?

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ProductPlan

OCTOBER 29, 2019

We’re just a startup, who’s going to want to hack us? But there’s another aspect beyond battening down the hatches, executing proper security protocols, documenting preventative measures, and dealing with the aftermath of a hack. Don’t think that your scrappy startup isn’t a target. Making Room for Cybersecurity on the Roadmap.

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Sachin Rekhi

JUNE 25, 2017

I then break down the resources into the way I think about what a product manager does, which is drive the vision, strategy, design, and execution of their product. Another incredibly important aspect for product managers to master is defining and iterating on your product's strategy.

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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?” What about a seed-stage startup?

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Bain Public

FEBRUARY 23, 2021

It’s all about exploring, evolving and executing — collaborating closely and roadmapping with your team as a whole. Bain Public’s value here isn’t in procuring the data — it’s in helping implement new roadmap initiatives based on the data. Do you have a solid strategy, focus and vision in place? Explore, Evolve, Execute.

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The Product Coalition

FEBRUARY 5, 2021

After attending a web development boot camp and working as a web developer at a small startup, she got the opportunity to become a product manager. Through this event, she found a three-month internship as a Web Developer at a startup that was developing an online insurance marketplace.

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Bain Public

AUGUST 22, 2022

As a Product analyst, you’ll work as part of a team of problem solvers engaging in planning the product roadmap while helping drive the scope definition and product development course of action. We help middle market companies and scrappy startups create new value with design- and technology-based products and strategies.

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Gainsight

DECEMBER 21, 2023

However, they’re constantly iterating—the product roadmap is in flux, and the customer base is in flux. Undefined Customer Experience Processes for onboarding, adoption, and every other stage of the customer journey are not in place, or at least, not documented and standardized. Startups are stressful and chaotic.

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Userpilot

JULY 17, 2023

Enterprise companies with multiple or complex products tend to have larger product teams made up of specialists, while startups often have to cope with smaller structures where members perform numerous roles. They are also in charge of building templates, developing documentation, managing the tool stack, and automating routine tasks.

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PMLesson's Ace the PM Interview

DECEMBER 14, 2020

Waterfall teams would use the documentation from the previous phases, such as customer personas or design documents, to help them verify the project. Large amounts of time are spent writing documentation, whereas there is less time building the product. As such, Agile roadmaps should be oriented around their goals.

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The Product Coalition

MARCH 19, 2023

Even when I created a strategic roadmap, it refined the already existing product and extended it, but it didn’t create a whole new thing. Over the course of a few weeks, we created a masterpiece document outlining the principles of the new catalog machine we wanted to create. Most product people start at this level.

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Bain Public

FEBRUARY 3, 2022

His job is to not only create and maintain a product roadmap according to the business ROI, but also lead the quarterly roadmap prioritization and help with development and go to market efforts. It breaks product innovation into three steps: Product Mission, Product Blueprint and Roadmap Pillars.

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Department of Product

NOVEMBER 16, 2023

Q&A is a new feature from the company which allows users to get answers about any document in a workspace through a conversational UI. In practice, this could mean coworkers being able to ask questions about product initiatives or upcoming roadmaps which would be incredibly helpful.

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Bain Public

JANUARY 24, 2022

As a Product analyst, you’ll work as part of a team of problem solvers engaging in planning the product roadmap while helping drive the scope definition and product development course of action. We help middle market companies and scrappy startups create new value with design- and technology-based products and strategies.

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Bain Public

JANUARY 24, 2022

As a Product analyst intern, you’ll work as part of a team of problem solvers engaging in planning the product roadmap while helping drive the scope definition and product development course of action. We help middle market companies and scrappy startups create new value with design- and technology-based products and strategies.

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