The Product Coalition

NOVEMBER 23, 2021

I recently led a workshop for an organic tech farm startup that wanted to set its foot online for selling organic food to B2B customers. What are those 8 dimensions for startup onboarding strategy? These 8 dimensions will be pillars of driving the vision and business outcomes right after the launch.

Startups

The Product Guy

MAY 21, 2018

The big vision was clearly overwhelming – we wanted to change how customers interact on the site; we wanted to build the brand new structure to support a new type of customers, to build the internal admin functions to facilitate internal efficiency; and we wanted to holistically rethink everything to link all the above components.

User Friction

Product Talk

DECEMBER 27, 2023

Meet the Continuous Discovery Champion, Lily Smith Lily Smith is the Chief Product Officer at BBC Maestro , an independent, VC-backed startup with a close relationship with BBC Studios. She explains, “Having worked mostly in startups, I’ve been the sole product person in most companies. You can submit yours here.

User Testing

Intercom, Inc.

MAY 16, 2022

Product design workshops are an opportunity for a team to untangle a problem together by going through a series of group exercises designed to get to a specific outcome. Take the example of a multipart workshop we ran about the vision of our support products. Warm-up exercise. Exercises (30 min). Intro (5 min).

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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.

Startups

The Product Coalition

DECEMBER 5, 2021

Last month, for example, I met a startup, which had a good indication from the market that their initial product direction was viable. That’s especially true if you need to go all-in with this single direction (which you should, it’s called focus and it’s critical for startup success ) and leave all other options aside. You should.

Vision

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. The goal here is to learn about the product vision. A Starter List of Solid Questions to Consider.

User Testing

Sachin Rekhi

FEBRUARY 16, 2020

I instead define a product manager as driving the vision, strategy, design, and execution of their product. Vision: Vision Narrative. Most product managers realize that defining a compelling vision for their product is a core responsibility of their role. Vision: Product Walkthrough.

Data Visualization

Product Talk

JANUARY 10, 2018

Many teams use design studio exercises to quickly answer this question. Lean startups use landing page tests to assess the desirability of their services before they commit to building them. Thanks to the rise in popularity of The Lean Startup and design thinking , we have countless examples of prototyping to answer specific questions.

User Testing

ProductPlan

JULY 23, 2019

Product managers wear many hats, but one of the most uncomfortable ones they’re forced to occasionally don is that of the product vision “Gatekeeper.” The harder part is shooting things down that aren’t bad at face value, but don’t match up with the strategy, vision, and timeline of the overall product.

Vision

The Product Coalition

SEPTEMBER 29, 2020

You could be a lone PM in a tiny startup with no Product Management team, meaning that you only report to the CEO, or maybe a CTO. From prioritization to vision, you need everyone on board and moving in the same direction. Be a keeper of the vision. Product Managers like to joke that ‘ with great responsibility, comes no power.’

Product Management

Mixpanel

FEBRUARY 23, 2021

It’s been a long-held notion in startup circles that lack of product-market fit will doom even the scrappiest of teams to fail. And beyond the anecdotal, an often-cited 2019 study CB Insights found that “no market need” was the leading reason most startups don’t succeed. ” Credit: The Lean Startup Playbook. In short, yes.

User Testing

Intercom, Inc.

JANUARY 24, 2019

Mike has been in and around startups for the better part of three decades: as a consultant, as a co-founder and now as the Managing Director of Salesforce Incubator, which propels new startups into the marketplace. He joined me for a chat that ranged from the role of AI to how they choose startups to incubate. Short on time?

Analytic Tools

The Product Coalition

APRIL 19, 2018

The Big 3 ‘Lean Startup’ Mistakes Companies Still Make Are you spending a ridiculous amount of time working on a product, and getting nowhere? If this sounds like you, you’re probably stuck in the lean startup trap. The idea The problem in lean startup originates right at the first step. And you’re not the only one.

Startups

The Product Coalition

OCTOBER 8, 2018

So the product management is the only one function that is offering business startups the significant advantages such as in setting up business objectives, targeting markets to deliver measurable products and services, and prioritizing the goals of startups. Still confused about the concept of product management?

Startups

Sachin Rekhi

JUNE 16, 2019

The first philosophy is often characterized by first setting an overall vision; then coming up with mutually agreed upon goals, often in the form of objectives and key results (OKRs), and holding teams accountable to those results; and finally delegating and getting out of the way to allow the team to perform.

Technical Review

Intercom, Inc.

SEPTEMBER 19, 2019

It’s a timely conversation for us, coming hot on the heels of the release of our book Intercom on Sales last month and Steli’s own book The 2020 Startup Sales Playbook this week. A lot has changed since Close started teaching people and startups how to sell. We’re not really a startup anymore. to Close.com.

Weak Development Team

Mind the Product

MAY 25, 2018

Initially JustGiving supported only registered charities on its website, but the founders’ vision was to support all good causes. 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. The initial vision was to. This is what we did.

User Testing

Bain Public

OCTOBER 13, 2022

(Montreal, Canada) – The Bain Public team is hosting their first ever startup event in November called Product Dayz! Over the last 5 years, Bain Public has partnered with different accelerators, such as Centech , The Holt Xchange , and NEXT AI , to give expert product workshops to growing startups. Event Information.

Events

The Product Coalition

MARCH 10, 2024

Take Apple’s Vision Pro for example. An Israeli startup, Sightful, uses a similar concept of screens displayed in space for another use case — productivity. It’s also a legitimate strategy, and had Apple seen Vision Pro more related to Mac than to iPhone it could have gone down that path too. That’s what this exercise is about.

Entertainment

Lenny Rachitsky

JANUARY 21, 2024

Strategies are fundamentally about what you’ll do in response to a challenge. Richard says you should replace the term strategy altogether and just call it an “action agenda.”

Strategy

The Product Coalition

JANUARY 31, 2019

From the early days of our startup , I’ve been putting a lot of effort creating a culture of product shipping. Startups can announce a new version every few weeks but if no one uses it?—?that’s Shipping forces you to think harder Leading a product is more than building a vision. Is that shipping?

Customer Experience

Business of Software Conference

MAY 18, 2020

In Times of Scarcity, Clear Vision Beats Rapid Iteration – Guest blog post from Radhika Dutt. In Times of Scarcity, Clear Vision Beats Rapid Iteration. Lean Startup changed how we built products when it was published in 2011 – it lowered the risk in innovation by shortening development cycles.

Vision

The Product Coalition

OCTOBER 15, 2019

You are constantly using your roadmap to influence other departments and align their efforts to your product vision. This is a post on its own again, but check out this video in the meantime) Feature Mapping is a scoping exercise to help teams decide the MVP for your product 3. Your roadmap is used across the whole product lifecycle.

Roadmap

The Product HQ

JUNE 1, 2024

Product managers who work at startups have their work cut out for them. Nowadays, sharpening your startup product manager skills has become more of a priority than they have ever been. Based on startup statistics shared by Embroker , around 90% of startups fail.

Startups

The Product Coalition

MAY 11, 2022

Finally, “ Building for Business: Product Management in Enterprise Software ” is a truly B2B-focused Product Management book, written by Blair Reeves (Salesforce) and Benjamin Gaines (Adobe) for “all the ones who aren’t part of the Silicon Valley startup bread”. These problems indicate a “big opportunity” (i.e.,

Enterprise

The Product Coalition

SEPTEMBER 23, 2018

Also, it is paramount to know that features and deliverables are related to a bigger product and company vision. If your vision where to go is clear, that will make easier for you to refuse requests that are not related to it. One of the main good things about having a roadmap is the chance for collaboration that this exercise brings.

Roadmap

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. We narrowed our focus to just nailing down our product vision statement. We focused on a North Star metric that is reflective of our vision. I wanted to start from the beginning.

Framework

Mind the Product

FEBRUARY 5, 2018

As you might expect, a reasonable contingent attending the roundtable work in startups, businesses where the founder/CEO is still very much involved with the product. In team review sessions, the senior person should share at least one recent failing each time, alongside the learning – this normalises openness, uncertainty, curiosity.

Weak Development Team

Product Talk

MARCH 3, 2021

Another technique that I like to use—after we’ve done some more general understanding of the customer and their unmet needs and their context—is the “Spend $100 exercise.” Teresa : A lot of small companies like startups are founded by somebody who has a strong vision of a thing that should be in the world. Tweet This.

Product Research

Userpilot

OCTOBER 16, 2022

A minimum delightful product is a variation of the minimum viable product (MVP) (popularized by Eric Ries in his book, ‘The Lean Startup’ ). Next, remember to keep your vision at the center of your product enhancements. Stick to your product vision and add features customers will love.

User Testing

Sachin Rekhi

JANUARY 27, 2013

Product management boils down to owning the vision, design, and execution of your product. Owning the vision for a product involves clearly formulating and then evangelizing the audience you are targeting, the distinct problem you are solving, and your unique solution by which you will win the market.

Technical Advisors

The Product Coalition

NOVEMBER 24, 2020

Product discovery using the Design Thinking, Lean Startup, or Lean UX frameworks help. Sprint Planning with dysfunctional teams will only result in a futile and painful exercise. Read more: Retrospective Exercises Repository.) A productive Sprint Planning requires a healthy Scrum Team.

Data Visualization

BrainMates

APRIL 2, 2019

But first, Product Managers need to demonstrate to founders or executives that progress is happening, so that founders can trust that their vision is being nurtured. A Product vision is key to delivering great products. The folks at Aha describe a Product vision as: “ the core essence of its product or product line.

Product Management

Intercom, Inc.

FEBRUARY 20, 2020

I had my own startup after Amazon for a few years. I’ve done this twice now where, after going through a lot of fast growth startups in Amazon and my own, I came back to it. Brian: Disagreement journal, that almost sounds like an exercise in from marital therapy or something like that. Five guidelines for disagreements.

Data Visualization

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! Of course, we could add a Day 6. Let us know below !

User Testing

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. The teams she coaches are from both early-stage startups and multinational enterprises in different industries. How product strategy uses a company’s vision to feed the bottom line.

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