The Product Coalition

DECEMBER 11, 2023

With everything you have to do every day, it is so easy to neglect strategy. But much like code, your product strategy also requires maintenance. There is so much work to do, you don’t even have time to create a roadmap. Slowly, both the product and the roadmap reflect only what the customers are asking for.

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ProductPlan

JANUARY 7, 2022

Here’s how we define it in ProductPlan’s eBook, 100+ Product Management Terms You Should Know: Digital transformation refers to a company’s move to digital solutions to improve its operations or products. What’s Product Management’s Role in Digital Transformation?

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ProductBoard

DECEMBER 21, 2020

Introducing ProductExcellence.co, the product management community’s resource hub for all things Product Excellence, and Productboard’s most in-depth ebook yet. We call these the pillars of.

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The Product Coalition

DECEMBER 11, 2023

If you are the new product leader of your company, your company might be in product leadership debt. In such situations, you would typically be asked to come up with a strategy and roadmap ASAP, but you are still just learning the domain. Typically, the CEO will ask for a strategy or a roadmap.

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The Product Coalition

FEBRUARY 18, 2023

Every now and then, early-stage founders approach me to hear about their product idea and give them feedback. This mostly happens with products related to the product space itself — products for product managers and product teams. But in product management that is never true.

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ProductPlan

DECEMBER 9, 2022

With so many social media posts, blogs, videos, ebooks, and podcasts, it’s hard to keep up. 10 Great Questions Product Managers Should Ask Customers. It’s a tenet of Product Management 101 that PMs need to get out of the building and talk to real-live customers… even if it’s just over Zoom.

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The Product Coalition

MARCH 19, 2023

Product management is a creative job in the deepest sense: We create products. But the level at which we need to do so changes dramatically over the course of a product person’s career, and the transition is not always easy. Here are three levels — each relevant to a different stage in your career and your product.

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The Product Coalition

NOVEMBER 15, 2020

When we were working on building their strategic roadmap, he asked me a great question: “why do I need to start with the strategy, and specifically when presenting to management? It was management who set the strategy anyway, so they already know it”. My free e-book “ Speed-Up the Journey to Product-Market Fit ”?—?an

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Product Innovation Educators

APRIL 17, 2023

How organizations can empower product managers Today we are talking about what a product-led organization is, barriers that can prevent an organization from being product-led, and actions to create the product-led organization. I eventually got fired as a product manager.

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The Product Coalition

JANUARY 24, 2021

You set the company OKRs and then ask each member of the management team to create their own OKRs accordingly. But what about product and engineering? The path that many product organizations take is to convert their roadmap (which is usually a work plan and not a real outcome-based roadmap) into the OKRs format.

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The Product Coalition

DECEMBER 31, 2023

It’s a mature startup, with a number of products in the market, a leader in some categories and building up nicely in others. As is almost always the case, what seems to be execution gaps turn out to be product strategy gaps, and so we started with creating a clear product strategy.

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Bain Public

APRIL 17, 2020

We worked hard to help transform Wastacks's AI/IoT business, Bringing Product Management to the Next Level at Livescale The Story Behind our Work with Enkidoo.ai. About Bain Public: Bain Public is a Product consultancy that helps companies make smart decisions, and ship top-notch products that innovate and achieve business objectives.

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The Product Coalition

SEPTEMBER 6, 2021

Customer experience isn’t just for products. As an employee, you provide customer experience to your manager, your colleagues, and your own employees. the one you give personally, but not to your customers: to your manager, to your colleagues, and the people you manage. especially with your manager?—?change

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Revulytics

OCTOBER 12, 2018

An interesting question was recently posed to respondents of the Pragmatic Marketing 2018 Product Management and Marketing survey: “If you could say one thing to your CEO without fear of retribution, what would it be?”. By comparison, respondents said they spent nearly half the month managing email and attending meetings.

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PMLesson's Ace the PM Interview

APRIL 25, 2022

Have you recently been invited to a product marketing manager interview? One of the best and first things you should do is review the most common product marketing interview questions and answers. Product marketing managers play a critical role in bringing new products to market. If so, fantastic!

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Centercode

JUNE 4, 2019

Consider, for example, that the Oculus Quest has a hardware component, software component, the Oculus mobile app, and its own internal app store where players can purchase and manage their games. This is crucial for a VR product like the Oculus Quest, which may appeal to a broader audience than previous systems because of its portability.

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Userpilot

JUNE 29, 2022

Did you know that product storytelling increases the chances of your product being remembered by 2200% ? Customers are more likely to remember your product if you tell them a compelling story. But as a product manager , creating a story that will capture a customer’s attention might not be in your wheelhouse.

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The Product Coalition

JANUARY 8, 2023

A solid product strategy takes time to build. Here is the method I use for creating a product strategy that makes sense. When I talk to the startups I consult to , or with the CPO Bootcamp participants, I always say that building a solid product strategy isn’t like solving a math equation.

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Under 10 Consulting

JUNE 6, 2019

Drucker, American management consultant. In my first job in product management, I was based in DC and my developers were based in California. Even though I was in the marketing department, the product team and I were in sync; we shared a common set of goals and a shared understanding of our roles.

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The Product Coalition

NOVEMBER 8, 2020

Technical debt is always a hot discussion topic between product managers and engineers. My recommendation is that product managers own it like they own any other feature. Technical debt is an area that always causes heated arguments between product and engineering. But beware?—?with Are you ready for it?

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The Product Coalition

MAY 9, 2021

When I talk about roadmaps with younger product leaders, I often hear things like “we don’t need one, we are agile” or “why build a roadmap when things will surely change”. The roadmap sets the strategic direction of the company, and when built right it also doesn’t have to change that frequently, despite your agility.

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The Product Coalition

JANUARY 6, 2024

The competitive analysis itself is a major part of your product strategy efforts, and here is how to do it at the right level. In some cases, your manager would ask you about specific competitors. I know, a competitive analysis is not a roadmap presentation , but what I’m talking about here is not related to features.

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The Product Coalition

FEBRUARY 4, 2023

Influence without authority has always been the foundation of product management. As product leaders, this is even more important. Many product leaders who were formerly product managers, or even product group leaders in large organizations, suffer from the same issue. The team that they manage.

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The Product Coalition

JUNE 28, 2020

cioruk on Unsplash You just finished working on your strategic roadmap. You completed your planning and started applying the new roadmap to the upcoming sprints. You have a strategy, you are just unable to make progress with it. The alternative is not having a solid product strategy, and that’s a debt much harder to close.

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Under 10 Consulting

JANUARY 2, 2020

When a company is small, the product manager (by whatever title) is responsible for activities across the entire product life cycle—from ideation to market delivery and sales support. In these organizations, the product role is that of a generalist. . As the product team expands, we see specialized roles emerge.

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UX Studio: Product Management

AUGUST 17, 2018

Something can always improve the product, so don’t forget the lean UX cycle: think, make, check. Want to read more about the steps of the UX design process, and how to apply them to your product? Download our free ebook now! Experience: How do they use similar products? Have you downloaded our ebook yet?

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The Product Coalition

FEBRUARY 12, 2020

Highlights from my ProductX talk “The 24/7 Product Manager” Image by annca from Pixabay Raise your hand if you are not extremely busy. When you say that to a room of product managers, nothing happens. The old saying that the product manager is the CEO of the product seems to be in the heart of heated debate these days.

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ProductPlan

OCTOBER 26, 2021

Product professionals get paid to manage products and services. But this single-minded focus on helping others often leads to a lack of focus on ourselves and our career impact in the product field. And, unlike our products, no one’s getting paid to manage our careers on our behalf. Interesting.

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The Product Coalition

MAY 28, 2022

Photo by Kampus Production from Pexels I always try to practice what I preach. When I talk about product strategy, I apply the same methodologies to my own company although my product is not technological. When I talk about time management, I share with you the methods that worked best for me.

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Revulytics

AUGUST 8, 2019

Revulytics sponsors a series of Product Management Today webinars featuring innovative ideas from top software product management thought leaders. Steve Johnson is VP of Products at Pragmatic Institute , former CEO and founder of Under10 Playbook, and author of Turn Ideas into Products. Where do I start?

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Alchemer Mobile

MARCH 17, 2020

Mobile product managers no longer simply oversee the product backlog or just organize their team’s tasks. In 2020, PMs play a massive role in product strategy and determining the overall customer experience. Due to rapidly-changing technology, customers have high expectations for the products they use.

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The Product Coalition

JULY 5, 2020

My free e-book “ Speed-Up the Journey to Product-Market Fit ”?—?an an executive’s guide to strategic management is waiting for you at www.ganotnoa.com/ebook Originally published at [link] on June 29, 2020. Good luck to all the MC2020 finalists, may we all make a great impact in everything we do!

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