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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The Product Coalition

NOVEMBER 23, 2021

On the other hand, the strategy across the dimension should be flexible enough to respond to any changes. What are those 8 dimensions for startup onboarding strategy? I have defined the below dimensions as a cohesive framework. Further, measuring the impact of the strategies is a feather on the cap.

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The Product Coalition

FEBRUARY 12, 2024

Does it align with how your product will win in the market? For more on the topic strategy, here are two posts to review: Eight core elements of a winning product strategy Essential question that lead to a great product strategy Story —  Stories make the world go round.

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The Product Coalition

APRIL 22, 2021

Instead, we audition product managers (and Designers too for that matter) in the same way actors are auditioned for a movie. Design a new type of exercise equipment for people under the ages of 15. Within these 15 minutes, we coach people to follow the Circles framework ?—?as Maybe that's a good idea.

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Mind the Product

OCTOBER 7, 2019

Experience Mapping is a strategic exercise of identifying, capturing, and communicating the interactions of multiple brand touchpoints over space and time. It is a strategic exercise for getting omnichannel alignment. What is the framework for building an experience map? The experience mapping process. Types of Experience Maps.

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ProductPlan

SEPTEMBER 29, 2022

Ideation is an intentional exercise to generate a high volume of ideas for a business’s products, services, and customer experience. Unlike “free-for-all” brainstorming sessions, these exercises remain structured and guided by a product team member. What is ideation? What’s required for ideation?

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Product Management Lessons from the Trenches

JULY 24, 2018

The link between a product change and its impact to the bottom line should be clear and measurable; anyone working on the product should have a clear picture of how a feature (or even a bug) they are working on translates to success. I think you get the point of this exercise.

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ProductPlan

SEPTEMBER 20, 2022

This is why developing your product sense remains so important. This might lead some product professionals to bypass their own spidey senses in favor of simply facilitating prioritization exercises. Moreover, they may want to execute a product strategy created by the committee. Adopt an IMPACT mindset.

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People-First Product Leadership

JUNE 11, 2023

. - from “ Be Like Ted ” by Amy Edmondson (leading champion of psychological safety) ‘How-To’ Guide for Crafting Your First Product Vision If you follow Marty Cagan and have read Empowered, you’ve likely seen a diagram similar to the following: But, how do you create a Product Vision? Yep, twelve.

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The Product Coalition

OCTOBER 15, 2019

A great roadmap helps PM’s achieve the following: 1, It ensures the product team understand what they are working towards, by aligning the product to the company’s short term and long term goals. Image credit: ProductPlan Roadmapping sits in the Product Strategy phase of a Product Management It’s very different to a Product Backlog.

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The Product Coalition

AUGUST 4, 2021

Product Discovery is an exercise in working out whether there are customers that want the product (or feature) you’re working on and that you can deliver a solution to them. Product Discovery comes in different shapes and sizes, depending on the situation.

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Userpilot

JULY 9, 2021

Continuous Discovery Habits by Teresa Torres teaches you how to set up a continuous discovery system within your organization with actionable exercises. Product-Led Onboarding by Ramli John and Wes Bush is a new book about how to implement user onboarding for the ultimate customer retention. Geoff Watts, Author of Product Mastery.

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ProductPlan

SEPTEMBER 10, 2021

The OKR methodology can be a powerful motivator for high performance and product excellence within teams and companies. Implementing a goal-setting framework that sets the bar high sounds like a no-brainer, right? The objectives and key results framework establish direction and creates an opportunity for growth.

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The Product Coalition

JUNE 17, 2019

Later, as I begin to lead other Product Managers, I again revisited this desire for something a little more straight-forward so that I could coach those Product Managers in the growth of their career, beyond what our own company’s definition of Product might be. Originally published at [link].

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The Product Coalition

JUNE 11, 2022

This mapping exercise, along with empathy, will help calm their fears. Use the framework highlighted in this post as a guide. Make implementation part of your product and the best first impression possible. However, there will still be things to address that are unique to each company. You need to establish a one-team mindset.

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The Product Guy

MAY 7, 2020

There are many frameworks available on building products and the approach varies individual to individual. This section sets out my philosophy on how to build products. It contains subsections with steps that one should go through while building products. Product Strategy. Product Roadmap.

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Userpilot

OCTOBER 26, 2022

Impact mapping allows businesses to make sure their product strategy is aligned with business goals and that all stakeholders are on the same page. Impact mapping helps organizations develop product strategy and ensure its alignment with the business goals. Goal Setting Framework. Strategic planning.

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Sachin Rekhi

AUGUST 7, 2019

Positioning ultimately dictates the frame of reference that your customers leverage when evaluating your product. Positioning is in reality a business strategy exercise and thus product managers need to be deeply involved as effective positioning ultimately defines critical elements of your entire product strategy.

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Modus Create

APRIL 30, 2020

Modus Create, a disruptive consulting, product strategy and Agile development firm, today announced the release of Modus Kickstart, a structured, facilitated set of workshops and deliverables designed to help customers prepare for a successful software development project.

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BrainMates

JULY 31, 2023

This approach is a costly exercise and can be likened to ‘gambling’. The Aligned Goals of Innovation and Product Management The products that product managers launch and support in the marketplace exist in a dynamic and competitive environment.

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Roman Pichler

SEPTEMBER 11, 2023

To effectively staff the product team, I recommend including the people shown in Figure 1. [1] 1] Figure 1: The Product Team Members Let’s look at the product team members in Figure 1 in more detail starting with the person in charge of the product. To help you with this, I’ve created the framework shown in Figure 2.

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ProductPlan

DECEMBER 11, 2019

With your support, we dove into the most result-driven strategies, popular frameworks, and groundbreaking leaders who changed the product management landscape. Each product enhancement and initiative has measurable, predefined objectives, and the key results can be tracked accordingly. Employing Blended Frameworks.

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ProductPlan

JUNE 7, 2022

With so many impactful initiatives planned out for the year, we knew it was important to communicate with our customers and keep them updated on our product strategy. Through this exercise, we have uncovered helpful best practices and tips for creating your own customer-facing roadmap. Why we built a customer-facing roadmap.

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Amplitude

MAY 7, 2018

As a result, many modern product teams have decided to abandon personas altogether and adopt practices like user scenarios, user stories, or the “Jobs to be Done” framework instead. The quadrant even provided a framework to take our analysis to the next level. How personas impact product strategy. Here’s why.

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The Product Guy

MAY 3, 2018

User needs are what effectively drive your products value so it’s in understanding those needs that a team can create a product that is meeting those needs. The goal is to encourage experimentation learning as a key way to building a framework that tests assumptions freely. Sharing the win and owning the losses.

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The Product Coalition

FEBRUARY 5, 2021

Over 12 weeks, she got hands-on experience in a variety of programming languages and frameworks including JavaScript , React , and a little bit of Ruby on Rails. The role did not require a lot of experience in product management because it did not involve developing and managing a product roadmap.

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Intercom, Inc.

DECEMBER 19, 2018

Eoghan McCabe, CEO , and Matt Hodges, VP of Commercial Product Strategy. In the face of this technology, businesses have three options – ignore it, see adoption as a box-ticking exercise or embrace it and think long-term. a simple customer onboarding framework. Ruairí Galavan, Senior Manager, Product Education.

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ProductPlan

MAY 16, 2023

Five questions to answer For this exercise, we go all the way back to square one. The product team began by conducting a few internal and customer interviews to gather feedback on the 2022 roadmap. The product team began by conducting a few internal and customer interviews to gather feedback on the 2022 roadmap.

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Sequent Learning

NOVEMBER 12, 2018

Half of our two-day training is devoted to interactive exercises directly applicable to issues back at the office to help the information “stick”. Develop products, regardless of which development methodology is employed. Launch and commercialize new products. Track ongoing performance and balance the marketing mix.

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Department of Product

OCTOBER 23, 2022

When to consider re-evaluating your product principles Here’s some ideas on potential triggers for re-evaluating your product principles: Strategic triggers – a major product strategy decision has been made (i.e. A deep dive into the tools, frameworks and processes used by product managers from top companies.

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ProductPlan

MARCH 2, 2020

Product management communication skills were voted the most important skill, but just 40 percent of PMs are happy with their process for communicating product strategy. In our experience, satisfaction in how PMs communicate that strategy often depends on the roadmapping tool they use. Use roadmapping software.

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Roman Pichler

JUNE 6, 2023

Cindy who helps you manage the product started to come late to meetings. It can be tempting to ignore people issues and focus on product-related tasks like reviewing the product strategy , updating the product roadmap , and refining the product backlog. But this is hardly a recipe for success.

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Bain Public

MAY 24, 2019

At Bain Public, we have learned a lot in the many hours and conversations spent mentoring, advising and consulting in product management. Getting it wrong comes in two forms: building the wrong product and building the product wrong. Content pillars mean to provide a context and framework for planning and decision-making.

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Roadmunk

SEPTEMBER 21, 2017

Knowing when to pull the trigger on a product release is a necessary, albeit tricky, skill for PMs to develop. So Shopify’s Director of Product, Brandon Chu, developed a framework to streamline that decision-making process. so this post allows PMs to put on their product design hats and get thinking like a designer.

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Tyner Blain

DECEMBER 10, 2014

Christina Wodtke has a particularly useful and excellent article on including customers in the development of your roadmap. “Now, next, or later” is an outstanding framework for simultaneously getting prioritization feedback and managing the expectations of customers (and other stakeholders) about delivery. One Step Closer.

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ProductPlan

APRIL 29, 2020

It requires a combination of soft skills , understanding stakeholder types , and tying every decision back to the product strategy and goals. There are many prioritization frameworks to choose from. But regardless of which you choose, the output is just as dependent on what you value during those exercises as the methodology.

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Roman Pichler

MAY 5, 2020

If someone is referred to as product owner, then the individual should own the product in its entirety—like Word in the example—and not just a product part—such as the ability to save a document. SAFe Product Owner. The agile scaling framework SAFe uses its own product owner role, the SAFe product owner.

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