The Product Coalition

JUNE 9, 2023

If you do things that are purposeful, you’ll eventually be successful.” — Howard Schultz Several years ago, I found myself in a heated discussion about product roadmaps with a client. So as he leaned across the table and looked me in the eyes, he demanded, “Explain why I need a product roadmap.” That’s simply a byproduct.

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The Product Guy

MAY 15, 2017

In a recent live stream from one of our mentors of The Product Mentor , Dustin Levy, lead a conversation around “Product Strategies for Non-Strategists”. We are always looking for more product mentors from all around the world. About The Product Mentor. Vikas Batra Product Management Leader, Alcatel-Lucent.

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The Product Coalition

NOVEMBER 23, 2021

I have some takeaways and learnings to share that I covered as a coach for their onboarding strategy. Create B2B onboarding strategy for a premium organic products for <Startup V> catering to niche user segment focused on wellness, health & lifestyle” Why was it needed to define the problem for onboarding strategy?

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Bain Public

FEBRUARY 13, 2023

The cohort will go through a 12-week process that includes workshop sessions every 2-weeks hosted by industry experts and in-house entrepreneurs. At Bain Public, we understand the importance of being able to visualize a product’s ecosystem to align product strategies.

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Mironov Consulting

DECEMBER 5, 2023

  (For fun, let’s call those things strategies.) ” And this is usually wrapped around an organizational ownership fistfight about who “owns” company-level strategy.    If another executive claims company strategy as their bailiwick , we gracefully back off and let them drive.]

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ProductPlan

OCTOBER 3, 2019

But for every success story, there’s a graveyard of failed products laid low by bad product strategies. A bad strategy is hard to overcome. And if no one realizes it’s wrong or adjusts course quickly, a promising product can become a lost cause. What Does a Bad Product Strategy Look Like?

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Bain Public

JULY 14, 2021

Bain Public acted as an Exclusive Product Advisor to OnDeck Canada in defining their roadmap. Since 2007, OnDeck has delivered over $2 billion to businesses all across the United States in more than 700 industries and has been lending in Canada since 2014. CLIENT ANNOUNCEMENT. Contact us. 514) 442-8487.

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Roman Pichler

JULY 6, 2021

Consequently, your focus shifts from managing a product to looking after the product people on your team and empowering them to do a great job. For instance, you might show the individuals how they can make effective strategic product decisions, create an actionable product roadmap, and effectively use the right KPIs.

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Bain Public

NOVEMBER 21, 2022

Bain Public’s associate product managers, Abigail Ramirez Villarroel and Tudor Gafiuc , attended the INDUSTRY: The Product Conference in Cleveland on September 20-21st, 2022. About INDUSTRY. About INDUSTRY's Fireside Chat. QUESTION 1: Do you think that company strategy and product strategy are the same?

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The Product Guy

MAY 7, 2019

There are many issues with having clients drive the roadmap. Firstly, it is impossible to be an industry leader when other people are telling you what you should build. Secondly, waiting for clients to drive the roadmap tends to puts companies in a situation where the backlog becomes too large to practically handle.

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The Product HQ

MAY 10, 2024

Additional areas include: Background or knowledge in Agile methodology Business skills Data analysis Market research skills Problem-solving Product roadmap development Solid communication skills Strategic thinking To get you started, check out our PMHQ Technical Product Manager Courses.

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The Product Coalition

AUGUST 15, 2022

that products always require roadmaps. My mentor and I started in our usual spot, talking start-ups, and new products in the healthcare industry. Do you think every company and product needs a roadmap?” Then I thought further; maybe complete scenarios exist where roadmaps aren’t needed.

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ProductPlan

APRIL 20, 2022

A product roadmap represents your strategic plan to solve a problem for your market. The reason to share your product roadmap plan with stakeholders is to create transparency and alignment across your company. But your roadmap does not represent an obligation or commitment to accomplish everything on it.

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Sachin Rekhi

AUGUST 4, 2021

Take product roadmaps for example. And yet there is incredible divergence in the quality of product outcomes that result from those roadmaps. This is due to the very process by which the roadmap is developed. Some teams do a team brainstorm and voting exercise to develop their roadmap.

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bpma ProductHub

APRIL 10, 2017

By Garima Painuly- One of the constant challenges a product manager faces is creating a focused product roadmap that is aligned with expectations of all stakeholders, and defending that roadmap against distractions. The discussion topics were inspired by a blog post from Fresh Tilled Soil on Building a Product Roadmap.

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Mironov Consulting

FEBRUARY 28, 2024

Said another way, this week’s new “must do” items look like a year’s worth of additions to the roadmap.  ” “Roadmap items X and Y specifically benefit your functional group, and were the ones that your directors prioritized as their top two.  roadmap updates from Product. 

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The Product Coalition

FEBRUARY 21, 2020

Every software team out there uses some sort of planning system or tool to do product roadmaps and sprint plans, and yet many are unhappy with the tools, or frustrated at the lack of getting things done, or getting “pointless” things done, and the list goes on. What do the product roadmapping or planning tools offer us?

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Intercom, Inc.

JUNE 2, 2021

Is this solution something we want to innovate on and own as an industry leader and differentiator, or is it table stakes where we want to be on par with the market? Our SVP of Product, Paul Adams, describes innovation as building something new, different, and better. Is this critical to the company and product strategy?

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Alchemer Mobile

DECEMBER 21, 2022

These groups all respond better to different engagement strategies, so you’ll have more success after splitting them up. You don’t have the same goals for all of these different groups, so why would your engagement strategy be the same? And no, simply targeting customers in your app rather than on the web isn’t enough of a strategy.

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Userpilot

FEBRUARY 13, 2024

ProductPlan and Chameleon’s training empowers product leaders to prioritize features and develop a more strategic product roadmap. Stanford's webinar offers aspiring product managers practical strategies to enter the field, featuring insights from Silicon Valley executives.

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Product Management University

AUGUST 15, 2023

The other key thing to remember here is that market data and research is far more available and reliable for specific market segments and product categories (the portfolio) versus individual products (modules of your platform) because, at that level of granularity, research can be difficult to find. In some cases, yes but not always.

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Userpilot

JULY 18, 2023

Fear not though, as our product management software guide will give you insights into some of the best-in-class applications that will boost your team performance and help you build successful products! Roadmapping software visualizes and plans product development over time, facilitating coordination and alignment across teams.

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The Product HQ

MAY 10, 2024

You have to earn the necessary digital product management and lead skills and demonstrate them to potential employers with confidence. A product lead or the lead product manager is often an experienced senior professional who drives the product strategy, leading and supervising a product team.

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Userpilot

MAY 1, 2024

How to create a great product experience for your digital products: Define your user persona and their needs. Develop and implement your digital experience strategy. Collect feedback, track product usage data, and iterate. Which team owns product experience in the software industry?

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Userpilot

JANUARY 16, 2024

Use ChatGPT as a brainstorming partner for product ideas , feature ideas, product names, etc. Task ChatGPT with identifying and formulating the best pricing strategy for your industry. ChatGPT can create broad multi-year roadmaps that prioritize the most critical feature requests , ideas, or improvements.

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Userpilot

AUGUST 29, 2023

The product management process starts with building an understanding of your users and the market, defining a vision and strategy , generating and prioritizing ideas that could solve user problems, articulating them in a clear roadmap, launching an MVP, and then gathering feedback to evolve it over time.

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The Product HQ

MAY 10, 2024

This is an advantage to you when you begin liaising with the technical team as well as other relevant stakeholders in the product management process. It also means that you stand a better chance of anticipating development deadlines and managing the product roadmap. This goes beyond the traditional SaaS industry.

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Roman Pichler

JULY 6, 2021

Consequently, your focus shifts from managing a product to looking after the product people on your team and empowering them to do a great job. For instance, you might show the individuals how they can make effective strategic product decisions, create an actionable product roadmap, and effectively use the right KPIs.

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Bain Public

FEBRUARY 4, 2021

Product managers play an important role in steering leadership to evolve the product strategy and corresponding tactics. Companies that are neglecting to take large roadmap bets to competitively capture markets, industries, and geographies will find that this recession will make gaps insurmountable.

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ProductPlan

JANUARY 19, 2022

Product managers can find inspiration for their products everywhere, and that’s great. But those inspired ideas can’t go straight onto the roadmap. A product manager first needs to subject a new concept to a process that involves making the case. Then your product leader sees it and says, “Huh?”

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ProductPlan

AUGUST 29, 2019

What are the pitfalls of focusing myopically on features while creating and communicating roadmaps? How do you avoid feature-fixation , and instead use themes and “ north stars ” as the guiding light for creating long-term value not only for customers but for product teams as well? Product Themes and North Stars.

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The Product Guy

OCTOBER 18, 2019

As product managers, we need to be skilled in a variety of areas from defining features and requirements to understanding customers, analyzing usage metrics, prioritizing features, managing releases, and the list goes on. In my experience as a product manager, strategy has been one of the toughest skills to develop.

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Userpilot

NOVEMBER 23, 2023

To validate ideas , choose the most effective versions, or improve the product , a product manager needs to know how to run experiments. As roadmapping is a key part of the job, good PMs are competent users of product management applications that streamline the process. Product manager skills: market research.

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Alchemer Mobile

DECEMBER 28, 2021

These groups all respond better to different engagement strategies, so you’ll have more success after splitting them up. You don’t have the same goals for all of these different groups, so why would your engagement strategy be the same? And no, simply targeting customers in your app rather than on the web isn’t enough of a strategy.

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Intercom, Inc.

SEPTEMBER 1, 2021

That’s why some of Intercom’s first marketing hires were product marketers and why we’ve had a “seat at the table” from the early days of the company. . This isn’t always the case across the industry. Luckily, we’re seeing some shifts in the industry. More and more, I see startups hiring PMMs as their first marketer ”.

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The Product HQ

MAY 10, 2024

Candidates learn the essential technical skills of the product manager’s role in a structured learning environment with the support of an instructor. Understanding the platform product management process helps PMs find quick and efficient solutions from the idea phase to the delivery and distribution of platform products.

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Mind the Product

NOVEMBER 28, 2017

We’d spent weeks perfecting the roadmap presentation for our annual customer conference. It felt like people had overlooked all the greatness of our roadmap and were focused on the (relatively few) changes we’d made along the way. For many product people, this is the nightmare scenario of sharing their product roadmap.

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