The Product Coalition

DECEMBER 11, 2023

In part two of this summary, I am moving to talk about strategy and leadership insights. Today I will focus more on leadership and strategy. Strategy and Focus It almost doesn’t matter what drove a company to work with me originally, at some point we get to strategy. Strategy is so hard to craft and too often overlooked.

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The Product Coalition

DECEMBER 11, 2023

Our product was an API, and we needed comprehensive technical documentation. No offense, but technical documentation is one of the tasks I used to hate most in product management. They need your help in the form of a clear value proposition and product strategy. Back to Twiggle. Here is how it works and what you can do about it.

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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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Usersnap

JULY 11, 2021

In these startup-driven times, where we build products people love using, we have the obligation to provide the best customer service. As a small company or startup, you probably deal with all kind of different things when starting your business. Use your documentation. Here’s how you get started. Be prepared for that.

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The Product Coalition

JANUARY 12, 2023

Not enough people spend enough time on defining vision and purpose Most value propositions are weak Companies don’t adapt their team typology to make a product Very few products are indeed prioritized by value User Reasearch and UX are ofter used in the wrong way 1. Try and fill a product vision board. targeted and user centric.

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The Product Coalition

NOVEMBER 19, 2022

In this article, We will tackle what goes wrong with today’s product roadmaps, and we will talk about how a fast-paced mid-size startup found exciting ways to create a roadmap that’s indeed achievable. Post-creation of this document, it will be shared with all the relevant stakeholders. They treat it as a static document.

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Userpilot

DECEMBER 12, 2023

A successful roadmap should include information on UX vision , strategy, goals, themes, milestones, and a timeline. It aligns the stakeholders on user experience goals, prioritizes UX initiatives, and provides a clear vision of how the product will evolve to meet user needs and business objectives. improving retention).

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Intercom, Inc.

AUGUST 18, 2022

As a staff engineer, a lot of your energy goes into cross-team collaboration for the vision and strategy. While onboarding, read as much documentation and speak with as many people as you can. Then, I moved to the startup world. Sharing context, working on strategy, that kind of thing. I would say 50/50.

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Roman Pichler

FEBRUARY 2, 2021

This is enabled by a closer, ongoing collaboration with cross-functional development teams, shifting from written documentation to face-to-face conversations, and using techniques such as user stories that reduce overhead—when applied correctly. Acquiring this information requires focused product discovery and strategy work.

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The Product Coalition

DECEMBER 25, 2023

However, I can certainly think of product or marketing professionals who use the term value when referring to cheap widgety dashboards and features aimed at novelty seekers, or following an industry trend with no real vision. I interviewed up to ten internal super users who would each review one hundred and twenty SharePoint documents a day.

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Mind the Product

FEBRUARY 5, 2020

He’s worked with businesses that have used plenty of other tools – like Amazon Narrative for example – to guide their communication and process: “You find they’ve spent weeks on these documents, whether they’re decks or narrative memos, so by the time these things are shared they feel so finished that people don’t give good feedback.

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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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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. One of the key responsibilities of a product manager is to define, articulate, and evangelize the vision for their product.

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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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Roman Pichler

FEBRUARY 2, 2021

This is enabled by a closer, ongoing collaboration with cross-functional development teams, shifting from written documentation to face-to-face conversations, and using techniques such as user stories that reduce overhead—when applied correctly. Acquiring this information requires focused product discovery and strategy work.

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Department of Product

OCTOBER 23, 2022

Since product development is often a blank canvas (particularly in startups) the sheer number of possible scenarios and opportunities you might want to explore can be overwhelming: Should we build a mobile app or not? An example outlined in their principles document is the employee pay stubs feature.

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Melissa Perri

JUNE 29, 2017

I was tasked with gathering the requirements from sales, coming up with a solution, designing it, and then shipping the specification document to development to be built. I wasn’t called a Product Manager until I bailed out of that and landed in a startup. With a Scrum team, you may be more focused on the execution of solutions.

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The Product Coalition

AUGUST 23, 2023

Product managers must articulate what success looks like for a product and rally a team to turn that vision into a reality. It’s a strategic document communicating the ‘why’ behind your product. It’s about understanding why you’re on this journey in the first place and ensuring everyone else on the journey with you understands it too.

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Mind the Product

FEBRUARY 15, 2018

It includes the right problems that are driving the company strategy and is useful to those both in and outside of the team. This can easily happen if your role is changing and you’re becoming less hands-on in a rapidly growing startup or simply if you’re new to a leadership role. Purpose, Vision, Mission and Strategy.

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Intercom, Inc.

DECEMBER 13, 2018

But as the college-dorm-room startup matures, there’s a fascinating twist to be found in the way it applies its new mission to Workplace, a B2B startup within the (former) startup. Different products require different visions. You really have to think of Workplace as a SaaS startup within Facebook.

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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.

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Department of Product

NOVEMBER 9, 2023

We’ve seen some examples of humorous takes on the 404 page in the past but a new startup thinks there’s a better use for them. What’s most intriguing though, is an AI-powered feature which will read third party API documentation for you and create the required integration specs which looks incredibly impressive.

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The Product Coalition

APRIL 2, 2023

I have launched 3 different (successful) companies, I have sold my own products, I have helped 200+ startups launch theirs and I have designed many products for customers. A good Product Manager should challenge your vision, your decisions, your timing, your roadmap. that doesn’t mean that you cannot challenge them).

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Bain Public

JANUARY 11, 2022

High-Level Strategic Baseline A high-level strategic baseline is a frequently revised document discovered collectively with leadership that covers the key foundational elements to steer growth, innovation and help stay abreast of changes in the market, industry, customers and competitors. Let’s dive deeper! We all make mistakes.

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Userpilot

JULY 27, 2023

Chief Technical Officer : Responsible for outlining the company’s technological vision, implementing technology strategies, and ensuring that the technological resources are aligned with the company’s business needs. Average salary: $196,172/yr. Average salary: $191,286/yr. Average salary: $151,254/yr.

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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. These are the short, iterative cycles in which specific progress is made.

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ProductPlan

AUGUST 2, 2022

In an idealized vision of product development in an Agile setting, product owners handle the tactical execution of product strategy while product managers concentrate on managing that strategy. If you work at a startup, fulfilling both responsibilities may not be uncommon. Make discovery a group effort.

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Antwak Blog

APRIL 8, 2021

A PR organizes and conveys a products’ vision to all stakeholders. Product roadmaps are created by the product owners and these roadmaps are effective top-notch documents. A product roadmap is given the highest consideration in the Product strategy stage. Business vision and targets alignment. If your answer is Yes!

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The Basics of Product Management

JUNE 21, 2020

The roadmap should not be a complicated document. The product roadmap is the foundational guiding document that defines the vision for the product. It is a product strategy document that is used as a source of truth by the product team, the development team, external stakeholders, etc. What Is Product Roadmap?

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The Product Coalition

OCTOBER 15, 2019

Image credit: ProductPlan Roadmapping sits in the Product Strategy phase of a Product Management It’s very different to a Product Backlog. You are constantly using your roadmap to influence other departments and align their efforts to your product vision. Your roadmap is used across the whole product lifecycle.

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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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UX Studio: Product Management

OCTOBER 9, 2021

Founder of a London and Budapest-based behavioural consulting startup. User insights are becoming the core of organisations’ strategy.”. By making user needs and pain points tangible, research results are becoming central to defining company strategy and longer-term vision. . Here is what we found .

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Amplitude

JANUARY 23, 2018

ranging from startups with only a handful of engineers to large enterprises with thousands of PMs. On testing and refining… Bad product teams lack a product strategy, or if they have one that strategy is not clearly delivered throughout their organization. Bad product teams use agile as an excuse to not have a vision.

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The Product Coalition

DECEMBER 9, 2019

You might use goals in your yearly and quarterly company strategy, your positioning, mission statement, company culture guide, financial projections, and other crucial business documents and initiatives. The right goals will align with your company vision, purpose, and long-term aspirations. R elevant?—?Is T ime-bound?—?Your

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The Product Coalition

NOVEMBER 9, 2018

There’s a startup product metaphor that bugs me. You’d gain customer requirements, document them in a Product Requirements Document, throw the spec over the wall, accept a Technical Requirements Document that was in alignment. Leading agile companies set the vision, goals and measures. The moon, if you will.

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Mind the Product

OCTOBER 1, 2019

I even wrote about it in my Mind the Product blog post, Lean Strategies for Maturing Products. Your roadmap is meant to be a human-readable document that communicates your product strategy. If a key date is part of that strategy, write it down. Remember, your product roadmap is a prototype for your strategy.

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Intercom, Inc.

AUGUST 1, 2019

. “Michael is the rare CFO who also leads up marketing, which makes him the perfect person to talk us through the company’s trajectory” As the head of Intercom’s Early Stage program for Startups, the fast-growing fintech startup is one company I’ve been keeping my eye on. From Wall Street to startup. billion dollars.

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