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The Critical Role of Product Strategy When Money Is Scarce (Part 1?—?Seed)

The Product Coalition

The Critical Role of Product Strategy When Money Is Scarce (Part 1 — Seed) A good product strategy is something every company needs. Here is how a product strategy can help you create business results, even when the market is not in your favor. Product strategy is such a vague term for most people.

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The Value Assessment Framework (Part 3)

The Product Coalition

Photo by Iain Kennedy on Unsplash When I was a product lead at Imperva, there was a feature that engineering kept telling me required a rewrite. But you know how it is  — temporary things tend to remain permanently , and engineering kept raising a flag that this feature needs more work. Some even need to be left untouched.

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How to Answer Hard Questions about your Product Strategy

ProductBoard

If an engineer at your company approaches you and asks why they’re working on a specific task, how confident are you that you’ll be able to quickly convince them that they’re not wasting their time? In our free eBook.

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432: Creating or improving the product-led organization – with Paul Ortchanian

Product Innovation Educators

He helps rapidly scaling early-stage startups craft their Product Strategy and everything related to it. He also helps middle market and scrappy companies generate new product strategies for significant, sustainable growth. Product managers often end up in organizations where they’re not being empowered.

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Four Fundamental Mistakes You Are Making With Product OKRs

The Product Coalition

But what about product and engineering? For example, I have seen product teams that create OKRs around meeting with customers, and engineering teams that created OKRs around closing the tech debt. And the former can only be answered when you think about the product as a whole?—?including

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How I Invented the Google Assistant

The Product Coalition

The technology was always demonstrated as part of a search engine, and that was what Twiggle’s founders originally thought of delivering as their product. But a search engine wasn’t a suitable product for Twiggle’s target market. My free e-book “ Speed-Up the Journey to Product-Market Fit ”?—?an

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3 Hidden Forces in Your Customers’ Ecosystem That You Must Be Aware Of

The Product Coalition

Alibaba, who was one of our investors, had about 1,500 engineers working on search. When I first joined Twiggle as VP of Product, when it had amazing technology but no product in the market, the founders thought our product should be a search engine. But even that wasn’t enough.