The Product Coalition

FEBRUARY 26, 2018

Startups don’t starve, they drown. It was 2010 when I watched the online stream of the Startup Lessons Learned conference, initiated by Eric Ries. I went with the cofounder of my first startup, which we used as our own “industry project” for our masters, and a couple of other students to Birmingham.

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bpma ProductHub

MARCH 20, 2017

Scenario two – startup has a grand idea. In a recent exercise with a product team, I challenged them to list the markets where the company could potentially sell. So before putting out your next roadmap, review the markets you are going after and pick the ones where you are most likely to succeed. Just remember to focus.

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Lenny Rachitsky

JANUARY 30, 2024

” Throughout the year, the Gumroad team marks certain tasks on their roadmap as “good for trialers” and then they assign these tasks to interview candidates. We’d reuse the same exercise across all levels and adjust expectations. So we just pay them to do it!

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Sachin Rekhi

AUGUST 4, 2021

Some mentioned that while they had worked as a PM at startups for several years, they felt they still lacked the skills and tools to reach the next level in their career growth. Take product roadmaps for example. And yet there is incredible divergence in the quality of product outcomes that result from those roadmaps.

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Mind the Product

JULY 1, 2019

In this post, I look at the value of asking great questions, cover a few strong sample questions and suggest some exercises to help you generate your own insightful questions. This is not a “one size fits all” exercise. Questions About the Product, Roadmap, and Industry. A Starter List of Solid Questions to Consider.

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Lenny Rachitsky

FEBRUARY 20, 2024

Nat Friedman (former CEO of GitHub) and Daniel Gross (former Y Combinator partner) are investing $100 million in a startup called Magic that’s looking to replace engineers. your roadmap), and then adjust the capabilities it can leverage to complete your task (e.g. Source: David Kreitmeir et al. ] Prominent engineers are worried.

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The Product Coalition

OCTOBER 18, 2022

Prioritizing others’ work, crafting a roadmap, ‘managing customers’, ‘leading by influence’, and storytelling- all this can get to their heads, and make them think they’re important. Scheduling is an exercise in masochism Because the act of scheduling is painstaking. Too important for menial administrative tasks.

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Mind the Product

APRIL 11, 2019

Last year I started my product management career full time, with a startup called Split Software. Creating empathy with your users helps you to develop a great product roadmap and build long-lasting acquisition and retention of customers. Working as a product manager in a fast-moving startup can feel overwhelming.

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Lenny Rachitsky

DECEMBER 29, 2023

His books have sold over 1 million copies in more than 30 languages; he has taught at Stanford’s Graduate School of Business and its Design School; and he has started and sold two startups since 2003. Turn your values into time by putting things in your calendar like prayer, meditation, and exercise.

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The Product Coalition

FEBRUARY 5, 2021

After attending a web development boot camp and working as a web developer at a small startup, she got the opportunity to become a product manager. Through this event, she found a three-month internship as a Web Developer at a startup that was developing an online insurance marketplace.

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Product Innovation Educators

APRIL 17, 2023

Paul acquired the breadth of experience through his leadership roles at San Francisco Bay Area startups and high-growth companies. He helps rapidly scaling early-stage startups craft their Product Strategy and everything related to it. Any VC-backed startup has a deck they need to show on a quarterly basis to the board members.

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Bain Public

AUGUST 22, 2022

As a Product analyst, you’ll work as part of a team of problem solvers engaging in planning the product roadmap while helping drive the scope definition and product development course of action. We help middle market companies and scrappy startups create new value with design- and technology-based products and strategies.

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Bain Public

DECEMBER 8, 2020

As a product manager, you may have already learned how to plan and prioritize a product roadmap. If you're a PM at an early stage startup, expect to work a lot. If you're a PM at an early stage startup, expect to work a lot. Unwind With Exercise. But how can you help yourself do the same? Make Smart Product Decisions.

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Bain Public

JANUARY 24, 2022

Interviewing at Bain Public Phone Screen Interview Communication & Listening skills Interview Technical & UX exercise Top-grading Interview. We help middle market companies and scrappy startups create new value with design- and technology-based products and strategies. Company Description. What to Expect.

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Bain Public

JANUARY 24, 2022

Interviewing at Bain Public Phone Screen Interview Communication & Listening skills Interview Technical & UX exercise Top-grading Interview. We help middle market companies and scrappy startups create new value with design- and technology-based products and strategies. Company Description. What to Expect.

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The Product Coalition

JULY 10, 2019

So, I thought it might be a worthwhile experiment to aggregate the previous meetups into a one-day immersive workshop on Liberating Structures for Scrum, built around climate change and MegaBrain.io, a struggling startup with little runway left and in desperate need of two successful Sprints. The Liberating Structures Immersive Workshop?—?The

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Bain Public

JANUARY 24, 2022

As a Product analyst, you’ll work as part of a team of problem solvers engaging in planning the product roadmap while helping drive the scope definition and product development course of action. We help middle market companies and scrappy startups create new value with design- and technology-based products and strategies.

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Bain Public

JANUARY 24, 2022

As a Product analyst intern, you’ll work as part of a team of problem solvers engaging in planning the product roadmap while helping drive the scope definition and product development course of action. We help middle market companies and scrappy startups create new value with design- and technology-based products and strategies.

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Bain Public

JANUARY 24, 2022

As a Product analyst intern, you’ll work as part of a team of problem solvers engaging in planning the product roadmap while helping drive the scope definition and product development course of action. We help middle market companies and scrappy startups create new value with design- and technology-based products and strategies.

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Amplitude

MARCH 23, 2020

I looked into a variety of frameworks: Jobs to be Done , Lean Startup , Design Sprint , and Opportunity Solution Trees among others. Throughout the discussions we utilized “silent brainstorming” and “note and vote” exercises to avoid the pitfalls of the first meeting. This forms a backlog of opportunities —not a roadmap.

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Mind the Product

MAY 25, 2018

We ran through various exercises in the first week to give us direction, including user journey mapping , product in a box , and the speedboat game. From there we put together a basic roadmap and started writing user stories. We prioritised our roadmap based on whichever lever we thought was the most important to pull at a given time.

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Bain Public

MARCH 20, 2021

There are many peer-reviewed studies compiled by the Product Development and Management Association (PDMA) that illustrates about half of all product development projects fail; this failure rate is especially much higher in smaller and startup companies. The answer is simply: product roadmaps and product development !

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ProductPlan

SEPTEMBER 26, 2020

There’s no direct, straight line between a research exercise and the balance sheet. For example, many startups don’t have much revenue in their early days, yet most of their spending may be on research and development. What your product roadmap can tell you about your R&D efficiency. Product Roadmaps.

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The Product Coalition

NOVEMBER 9, 2018

There’s a startup product metaphor that bugs me. Don’t get me wrong, there is extreme value in making plans and roadmaps. It’s an exercise in thinking through the vision, landscape and resources that creates shared understanding, assumptions and decided goals. They are used by a few to make and publish roadmaps for many.

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The Product Coalition

JANUARY 24, 2018

I can bring as examples the Design Thinking process, the Build-Measure-Learn from Lean Startup, the Double Diamond and so on… The point is that worklife in large organizations, or even startups, can bring to the table many factors that won’t allow you and your team to follow those steps and, yes, you have to live with this.

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The Product Guy

AUGUST 1, 2017

We started by defining the objectives I wanted to achieve over the course of my 6 months in the product mentor program, an important exercise at the beginning of any mentor partnership. This is a relative quick exercise and the matrix can be adjusted over time. Draft procedures to get commitment. Organize a product meeting.

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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. It’s a simple exercise that you can do as soon as you understand what each category means, you don’t need to dive deep into how you measure each and you surely don’t need to actually measure anything.

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ProductPlan

MARCH 26, 2020

Luckily product management provides lots of opportunities to do so that don’t come off as blatant self-promotion: Use all-hands meetings to present your roadmap. Include senior management in prioritization exercises. Create roadmap views and presentations specifically for executives.

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The Product Coalition

JULY 24, 2020

Those should be standardized formats as well for easier creation and analysis during exercises later on. There are a variety of exercises you can conduct to get the brain juices flowing to help assess information from different perspectives. this is a team exercise, and secondary stakeholders should participate here. guess what?

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People-First Product Leadership

OCTOBER 1, 2023

I’ve been at a number of product events recently where conversations turned to fractional work, joining or launching a startup, or simply taking time off due to a lack of opportunity in one’s current situation. ” It’s not a roadmap of what to build. I believe they do. We came up with a few potential factors.

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Radical Product

MAY 23, 2018

It was an interactive session where we presented elements of Radical Product thinking and interleaved it with exercises so each person could develop a measurement strategy for their product/ organization, that was grounded in their vision and strategy. The organization as a result would feel more like a nimble startup. “I

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The Product Coalition

FEBRUARY 5, 2021

He didn’t realize this at the time, but he was actually exercising a product manager mindset for the first time. Michael soon found a job at a management consulting firm as a Business Analyst working with different technology companies from startups to large enterprises.

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Roadmunk

SEPTEMBER 21, 2017

Throughout my career as both a product manager and startup founder, there’s been one severely underrated skill I credit for much of my success—and that’s reading. I’m constantly consuming articles on product management, product culture, startups and entrepreneurship to bolster my career as a product person and leader.

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The Product Coalition

JANUARY 22, 2019

This is supposed to be an open exercise: if you are in a management position, try and encourage usually silent voices to speak up. Whether you are at a startup or bigger organization, it is likely that your team is sacrificing a lot to complete the Sprint. Finally: keep morals high! Day 3 is D-day: decision day.

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Product Management and Strategic Marketing

JANUARY 6, 2017

Scenario two - startup has a grand idea. In a recent exercise with a product team, I challenged them to list the markets where the company could potentially sell. So before putting out your next roadmap, review the markets you are going after and pick the ones where you are most likely to succeed. Just remember to focus.

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Split

AUGUST 25, 2020

Our product team has built an incredible backlog management tool that allows us to see all feature requests and the associated roadmap items. I encourage all early startups to start this conversation and make the requisite changes early on. Adil – Your instincts are right. Trust yourself. Over the next five years?

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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? Yes, we’re B2B but are we targeting small businesses or enterprise? Take the example of the principle ‘ship to learn’.

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