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Product Strategy 101: It’s About Depth, Not (Just) Vision

The Product Coalition

Product strategy is one of the most important tasks of the product leader, and definitely one of the hardest things to do. This should be your first step into product strategy. Since product strategy is so hard, many companies simply skip it. in detail?—?which

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Insight From Marty Cagan’s Coach the Coaches Workshop (Part 2)

The Product Coalition

In part two of this summary, I am moving to talk about strategy and leadership insights. Today I will focus more on leadership and strategy. Strategy and Focus It almost doesn’t matter what drove a company to work with me originally, at some point we get to strategy.

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Setting a UX Budget? Answer These 6 Questions First.

UX Planet

It encompasses the quality and consistency of research and design processes, resources, tools, and operations, as well as the organization’s propensity to support and strengthen UX now and in the future, through its leadership, workforce, and culture. Have you defined your short-term and long-term product goals?

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Hiring Your First Product Manager

The Product Coalition

The first product manager in a startup is a critical role with immense impact on the startup’s success?—?both Photo by Tolga Ulkan on Unsplash When I joined Twiggle as their first VP Product I was the thirteenth employee. Shortly after I started, the CEO surprised me by saying I should hire a product manager.

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Product Roadmap Guide – Definition and Examples

The Basics of Product Management

The ability to prepare a great roadmap is one of the must have skills for any Product Manager. There are some guidelines that need to be kept in mind. We will cover these guidelines below. What Is Product Roadmap? The product roadmap is the foundational guiding document that defines the vision for the product.

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Building a Multi-Dimensional Roadmap

The Product Coalition

Understand Your Core Values The product roadmap in a product company (as opposed to a services company, for example) sets the strategic direction of everything going on. In startups, it is actually the company roadmap. As such, it cannot be limited to include only the product-related parts like features and product KPIs.

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It’s Never Black or White

The Product Coalition

Working in the startup nation, many of the product leaders I coach?—?either used to be engineers or even mathematicians before they shifted to product. The whole point in math is that there is a clear set of rules that defines the universe. Things are definitive. There is an answer that can be calculated.