The Product Coalition

NOVEMBER 15, 2020

Fortunately for us product leaders, this is not the case. Unfortunately, many product leaders haven’t thought this through and feel more bounded by the CEO’s guidelines than they should be. Switching your point of view on strategy can go a long way in helping you become more strategic , so here is a quick guide.

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The Product Coalition

NOVEMBER 14, 2023

Just as a well-drafted blueprint, an experienced contractor, and a solid foundation provide the ingredients required to build a house, a consistent, well-thought-through product lifecycle enables product strategy through execution. What the heck is a Product Lifecycle Management (PLM) anyway?

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The Basics of Product Management

JUNE 21, 2020

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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The Product Cafe

MARCH 3, 2024

She emphasized that storytelling in product management is akin to data analysis—it's a tool that can significantly elevate your product's impact. But how do you effectively integrate storytelling into your product strategy? Here are some priceless insights from the conversation: 1.

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The Product Coalition

DECEMBER 11, 2023

Strategy and Focus It almost doesn’t matter what drove a company to work with me originally, at some point we get to strategy. Strategy is so hard to craft and too often overlooked. This is especially true with product strategy, which is still an artifact that most CEOs haven’t seen a great one in action before.

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UX Planet

DECEMBER 15, 2023

guidelines, following a suit filed by a blind individual ( source ). Not to say that companies require lawsuits to open their eyes to obvious flaws in their product, but it’s always a good idea to avail of a comprehensive UX audit to know where your product stands.

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Mind the Product

NOVEMBER 13, 2017

Jordan Bergtraum is a management consultant with over ten years of experience in the B2B SaaS industry, mostly as a head of product for various organizations in the legal, education, facilities management, and pharmaceutical spaces. He has been responsible for product strategy, UX, and teams consisting of product and project managers.

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Melissa Perri

JANUARY 21, 2015

Product Managers spend much of their time thinking up and documenting unvalidated features. As Lean Product Managers, we focus on running experiments using MVPs, getting solid data from customers, and then making decisions on product strategy. Customer value roadmaps over feature roadmaps.

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Johanna Rothman

JANUARY 12, 2021

” Here's my guideline for when to do information update meetings: When you want to make sure everyone knows the overarching goal for the work. If you're a PO or a product manager, you might need to explain this product's strategy now. Or, for this project (interim release) for this product now.

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Ask Benny

NOVEMBER 30, 2018

As a product manager your role is to make sure the discussion is productive and generate the right results. In this article I will try to give some guidelines on how to better achieve that. Start from Vision and Strategy A roadmap must be connected to the company vision and product strategy. Don’t go there.

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The Product Coalition

DECEMBER 19, 2021

Eventually, he managed the entire product from the execution standpoint, while I focused on the strategy and long-term planning. Little did I know that creating a solid product strategy takes such a major chunk of the product leader’s time. Most companies hire a product manager (and other positions) too late.

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Ask Benny

JANUARY 25, 2020

As a product manager your role is to make sure the discussion is productive and generate the right results. In this article I will try to give some guidelines on how to better achieve that. Start from Vision and Strategy A roadmap must be connected to the company vision and product strategy. Don’t go there.

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ProductPlan

NOVEMBER 15, 2018

As product managers, the product roadmap is at the core of everything we do. The product roadmap is a key point of reference to keep product strategy, business objectives, and execution aligned. They’re also an important part of the narrative around your product roadmap. Know your audience.

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ProductPlan

DECEMBER 3, 2020

In fact, many product roles in the pharmaceutical industry have more technical titles—for example, Scientific Product Manager, Drug Discovery Product Manager, and Pharmacy Product Solutions Manager. Toymakers, for example, must build products using materials free of hazardous substances.

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Ask Benny

JANUARY 25, 2020

As a product manager your role is to make sure the discussion is productive and generate the right results. In this article I will try to give some guidelines on how to better achieve that. Start from Vision and Strategy. A roadmap must be connected to the company vision and product strategy. Don’t go there.

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Modus Create

MAY 12, 2022

So, the team kickstarted the project to develop a mobile application from scratch — from product strategy and CX to end-to-end development and release, all in six weeks. So, our team of three developers, with support from the product, QA, and engineering departments, kicked off the project. . Product Strategy and Design.

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The Product Coalition

FEBRUARY 28, 2021

This should also be your guideline when you are asking for anything?—?it Tie It to Results, Not Resources With my marketing budget, it was hard for me to make a decision since I couldn’t tie the investment I would be making to clear and coherent results. it all starts with being super clear on what you are trying to achieve with it.

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Mind the Product

MARCH 30, 2020

Currently based in Amsterdam John-Simon spends the majority of his time with various stage startups throughout AsiaPac, consulting as an expert-in-residence, supporting product strategy and execution. Andy Willshaw is IBM’s Executive Search and Integration Practice Lead for Asia Pacific, Japan and Greater China.

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The Product Coalition

JANUARY 16, 2022

This quality translates to many different features and serves as a guideline for many nuances in the product as well as marketing materials. Another example is a security product I worked on that had to be as plug-and-play as possible?—?a an actual coach quality.

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Lenny Rachitsky

APRIL 2, 2024

0:-) To ensure that we’re moving quickly and striving for growth without sacrificing quality, we use these guidelines that you can also apply at your org: Make a decision as soon as you’re confident you have the data to do so. At Duolingo, our strategic advantage is that our users want to build a habit.

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The Product Coalition

SEPTEMBER 11, 2022

In the product world, when we create customer profiles and solve for them, it might not cover the needs of each and every customer, but it would help us cover most of the world with a few clear guidelines.

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The Product Coalition

AUGUST 15, 2022

If you need to talk with an audience about your product, you need a roadmap at some level. While these are loose guidelines, I believe they can help you decide if your company and product are roadmap worthy. Your audience might be sales, marketing, company leadership, or investors.

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The Product Coalition

OCTOBER 12, 2020

In our world, this would have been considered a great product strategy. As you are reading this, replace Ford’s car with your own product. Are you following these guidelines, or are you making avoidable mistakes? What people usually call strategy is in many cases just a general direction. reliability for example?—?and

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Ask Benny

FEBRUARY 26, 2019

As a product manager your role is to make sure the discussion is productive and generate the right results. In this article I will try to give some guidelines on how to better achieve that. Start from Vision and Strategy A roadmap must be connected to the company vision and product strategy. Don’t go there.

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UX Studio: Product Management

JUNE 23, 2020

We kicked off the project by running multiple UX workshops in order to gain a deeper understanding of our client’s problem and close the knowledge gap regarding its market, customers, and broader product strategy. We collaborated in real-time on Miro to create personas and job stories.

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ProductPlan

DECEMBER 2, 2020

In fact, many product roles in the pharmaceutical industry have more technical titles—for example, Scientific Product Manager, Drug Discovery Product Manager, and Pharmacy Product Solutions Manager. Toymakers, for example, must build products using materials free of hazardous substances.

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Good Product Manager

JANUARY 28, 2018

On an almost daily basis, I’m talking to product management leaders who find that agile is causing their product managers to focus too much on short-term tactical activities that are isolated from the broader product strategy and lifecycle. Product #innovation processes should be FUNNELS not TUNNELS.

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Good Product Manager

JANUARY 28, 2018

On an almost daily basis, I’m talking to product management leaders who find that agile is causing their product managers to focus too much on short-term tactical activities that are isolated from the broader product strategy and lifecycle. Product #innovation processes should be FUNNELS not TUNNELS.

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The Product Coalition

DECEMBER 1, 2018

As a product manager your role is to make sure the discussion is productive and generate the right results. In this article I will try to give some guidelines on how to better achieve that. Start from Vision and Strategy A roadmap must be connected to the company vision and product strategy. Don’t go there.

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Mind the Product

OCTOBER 6, 2017

Even the “facilitator” is really being led by the Sprint process and the guidelines of the book. This avoids the infinite debate that we’ve likely all been part of: a discussion around an issue so divisive that even getting to the point of deciding to test something can be a never-ending cycle of meetings and emails.

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Product Culture

NOVEMBER 2, 2014

Vanessa is a savvy and technical senior product manager, currently driving product strategy forward at Kendall Square startup Leaf. Check out ProductHub and tune in to what the Boston product community is learning, as we learn it. Check out the contributor guidelines. Vanessa Ferranto. Rob Savitsky.

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BrainMates

MAY 28, 2019

Product Strategy and Lifecycle Management : how to monitor and increase the return on investment after launch, including: Product performance : to monitor leading indicators to ensure the business gets benefits from the customer experience with the product. Step 2: Make room for Product Management.

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PMLesson's Ace the PM Interview

APRIL 22, 2019

This article will disambiguate multiple avenues to transition into a career in product management when starting with an engineering background. Note for folks in other roles: Because my background is in software, this article will focus heavily on software engineering, although these general guidelines should also apply to other roles.

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PMLesson's Ace the PM Interview

APRIL 22, 2019

This article will disambiguate multiple avenues to transition into a career in product management when starting with an engineering background. Note for folks in other roles: Because my background is in software, this article will focus heavily on software engineering, although these general guidelines should also apply to other roles.

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UX Studio

JUNE 30, 2023

Their areas of competence include but not limited to digital product strategy, design systems, application design, and user interface. Clients can enjoy services such as brand strategy, art direction, copywriting, and more. They focus on creating user-friendly products that meet needs users didn’t even know they had.

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ProductPlan

APRIL 3, 2021

As a product leader, I encourage my teams to use whichever product frameworks they find helpful. ProductPlan has written about frameworks to help with product prioritization , frameworks to develop an effective product strategy , and some of our favorites for UX designers, including Google’s HEART framework.

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Folding Burritos

DECEMBER 4, 2019

Well, th at’s the role of a product strategy. My favorite definitions of strategy are the simplest I’ve found. The one I use most is this: a strategy is what we choose to do. A simple representation for our product strategy. Every release or sprint can use it as a guideline.

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