The Product Coalition

FEBRUARY 12, 2024

I’ve been a product leader for over a decade. I’ve reviewed roadmaps for hundreds of different products. I’ve participated in more roadmap review meetings than I can remember. And until now, I never thought to share the view a product leader has on roadmaps — at least publicly. Why share now?

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PMLesson's Ace the PM Interview

MAY 5, 2020

So, what’s the difference between a Product Manager (PM) and a Product Marketing Manager (PMM)? Both Product Managers and Product Marketing Managers often work very closely together and share project ownership, they generally have different sets of responsibilities that require different skill sets.

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Bain Public

SEPTEMBER 17, 2020

Most companies don’t have a clear picture of their roadmap. This is the reason why many businesses fail, so the question to many business owners out there is this: are you confident that your engineering team is building the right features? Step 1: Your Product Mission Step 2: Your Product Blueprint Step 3: Your Roadmap Pillars.

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Userpilot

AUGUST 29, 2023

While the product manager’s role may differ from one organization to the next, they will still work with dedicated product owners, engineering and design teams, data analysts, and product marketing managers. Engineering teams write the code and build the product from the bottom up.

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Intercom, Inc.

JULY 28, 2022

Sanj started working at Salesforce back in 2005, when the company had around 1,000 employees and a few hundred million in revenue, and he was a part of its growth for 14 years, holding several leadership positions in multiple markets in EMEA. It’s very transparent, very collaborative, and filled with really smart, amazing people.

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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.

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Userpilot

AUGUST 30, 2023

Product Drive talks categories This year’s edition comes with four talks categories to give you insights and inspirations into different aspects of Product. Product management and leadership speakers.

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The Product Coalition

JULY 22, 2021

that’s not me, I always talk to leadership about my plans and their buy-in is crucial to anything I do as a product manager. Leadership are the ones who can make or break your initiatives internally, they have power. think sales (engineers), account managers, customer success, product marketing.

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Bain Public

JUNE 4, 2020

As business advisors and executive coaches, we've worked with dozens of CEOs to help them build and grow their product leadership team as they scale their company. Getting external support, such as product management consulting, can help establish the product leadership team responsible for nurturing and guiding the product team.

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Usersnap

SEPTEMBER 29, 2022

In 2022, the competitive strategy is not as much about analyzing the market opportunities but focusing on the satisfaction of customers. You need to collect customer feedback , prioritize roadmaps , and ship features and products that offer a brilliant user experience. Disruptive products are low priced and high volume.

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bpma ProductHub

JUNE 12, 2017

By Garmia Painuly – No matter what the product, our goal as product managers is to deliver value to customers. How do we quantify and measure the value, and incorporate the findings into our product plans and roadmaps? Use minimal engineering effort, or even manual and non-scalable methods for the test.

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Mind the Product

MARCH 12, 2020

How it’s become a critical function for scaling effective product teams. What Product Managers do. Our product squads at InVision usually consist of a product manager, designer, engineering manager and four to seven engineers. How Product Ops Resolved the Problem. Product Operations: An Emergent Need.

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Userpilot

JULY 17, 2023

A well-structured product team requires a product leader – either a product manager or a product owner. In larger organizations, they may work side by side with QA engineers, product marketers , data analysts , or product ops managers. They play an important role in product launches.

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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. Each section covers the best practices for each of these four dimensions of product management. Design is the third critical dimension of product management.

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Product Talk

FEBRUARY 12, 2020

Principal Engineer Todd Johnson walks the team through orchestration based on the results of the exercise. Lisa soon realized that her team was turning to her for guidance on the orchestration roadmap. This vision could then be broken down into parts that could be prioritized and fed into the roadmap. Part 1: The Design Sprint.

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The Product Coalition

AUGUST 6, 2023

Did you identify bugs and coordinate with engineering, etc? Do we need to escalate any critical issues to company leadership? How do product managers lead standups? Keren: Sometimes, when times are stressful or deadlines draw near, especially for the engineers, we do the standups offline. Are you about to run out of work?

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Userpilot

JULY 30, 2021

The product manager role is responsible for understanding what customer problems to solve and what success looks like for a product. The different types of product managers include the traditional product manager, the product owner, the growth product manager, the technical product manager, and the platform product manager.

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Userpilot

MARCH 8, 2022

Andrea’s unique perspective and critical thinking have led her to contest a number of well-established notions in Product Management: from NPS, through KPIs and OKRs , Product Roadmaps , to Product Prioritization Framework – Andrea takes no prisoners. Susan’s largest contributions to the Product Management field.

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Product Innovation Educators

OCTOBER 20, 2017

Each week I scour articles, wading through the dogs, and bringing you the best insights to help product managers and innovators be heroes. 6 steps to product-market fit. (1) While many product managers come from a marketing or engineering background, half or more come from other disciplines. More at [link].

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Userpilot

JULY 13, 2022

The Reforge blog helps product managers with topics like analytics , team management and development, product leadership , or product strategy. Women in Product aims to empower female product managers and the blog is one of the channels they use. Product Collective. First Round’s The Review.

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Mind the Product

FEBRUARY 20, 2019

Mind the Product returns to San Francisco and the famous Davies Symphony Hall on July 15-16. 2019 promises to continue our run of amazing conferences, with a pre-conference Leadership Forum, even more workshops, more networking events around the conference, and more fun than ever before. See you in July!

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Usersnap

DECEMBER 8, 2021

That’s why I prefer the word “leaders” over “management” in the context of product development: true product leaders don’t just manage a product; they envision great products, foresee what customers will want, how the industry is moving and what opportunities may appear.

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Bain Public

OCTOBER 19, 2019

Here are the 3 roles Product Managers must perform to achieve roadmap leadership: The Diplomat It’s not our role to dictate through authority where the product should go. We hold quarterly high-level prioritization meetings to help the company’s leadership define the roadmap priorities.

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Bain Public

JUNE 3, 2018

Despite the proliferation of tools designed for road mapping, prioritization remains the most difficult part of the product. Without a process for roadmap reinforcement, it just won’t stick. Over the years, as a Product Manager, I established an effective product management process. Week 6, Roadmap prioritization.

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Bain Public

MAY 24, 2019

It is no secret that a product manager needs momentum in areas such as product development, product sales and customer adoption in order to succeed. As a product leader, you need momentum to gain executive buy-in as well as engineering and marketing resources so that you can create interest and awareness around your product.

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The Product HQ

FEBRUARY 1, 2023

Each career track is available to product managers and are dependent on aspirations, experience, and a deep understanding of the primary responsibilities. What Does A Group Product Manager Do? This includes the development and review of the product roadmap to guide the product team toward achieving the company’s objectives.

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ProductPlan

DECEMBER 2, 2020

I believe that great products don’t happen by accident—it’s exceptional leadership and customer engagement that genuinely makes a difference. As such, I’m passionate about sharing my experience with future product leaders to build successful products that solve real customer problems. They’re available to read here: .

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Bain Public

MARCH 21, 2020

Demand for Product Management thought leadership is still growing. Here’s a list of our product-centric articles that got syndicated across publishers judged to be the best representative of Product Management thinking. Originally published on ProductCoalition.com What Goes Into a Good Product Roadmap?

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ProductPlan

DECEMBER 2, 2020

I believe that great products don’t happen by accident—it’s exceptional leadership and customer engagement that genuinely makes a difference. As such, I’m passionate about sharing my experience with future product leaders to build successful products that solve real customer problems. They’re available to read here: .

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Mind the Product

DECEMBER 6, 2019

Kate begins by referencing a theory from physicist and engineer Charles Riborg Mann in 1918 – that 85% of success is down to soft skills. It was a time when engineering was on the ascendant, applied sciences and maths were being taught, and people wanted to assess how well they were prepared for times ahead. Hire people.

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Bain Public

JANUARY 4, 2020

(Montreal, Canada) – Paul Ortchanian, Founder, CEO, Head of Product of Bain Public, is honoured to be leading an expert workshop in collaboration with AIESEC, the world's largest youth-run organization that provides young people with leadership development. A well understood product roadmap aligns behaviours within the business.

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Product Innovation Educators

DECEMBER 12, 2022

Aligning the perspectives of stakeholders on a product project is desirable as well as difficult. Previously, Bruce joined us for a three-part series on creating and using product roadmaps. He is the co-author of the book Product Roadmaps Relaunched: How to Set Direction While Embracing Uncertainty.

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Product Innovation Educators

MARCH 21, 2022

My last role at Facebook was as a product manager in the Facebook Reality Labs, which is now Meta. The go-to-market (GTM) process involves many different teams, including engineering, product, marketing, and management. We worked with teams across Facebook to launch the product.

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ProductPlan

JANUARY 6, 2023

The Silicon Valley Product Group isn’t just a bunch of product peeps that happen to have a 415 area code. The SVPG remains at the forefront of thought leadership in product development. But he also digs into some fundamentals, including creating strong product cultures and figuring out the ideal PM-to-engineer ratio.

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Bain Public

JUNE 7, 2020

Paul’s unique experience brings together the necessity of great engineering and the beauty of product strategy. With this, he has identified an actionable process that enables him to offer concrete messages about product management and operations. Title: Women’s Founder Project: Product/Market Fit. Date: June 27th.

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Mixpanel

APRIL 27, 2020

Neil Rahilly, Mixpanel’s VP of Product and Design, walks us through how product management leadership priorities change as you move from startup through scale up and all the way to enterprise. When you’re a startup and you’re looking for product-market fit, you need to be ruthless.

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Bain Public

MARCH 21, 2020

Paul Ortchanian recognized this inconsistency, and it sparked the creation of what is now known as Bain Public: a company dedicated to helping local companies make smart product decisions through an organizing principle for allocation of resources: the roadmap. What Does it Mean to Adopt a Product Mindset? Building Roadmaps.

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