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.” Why not, indeed?

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Roman Pichler

JUNE 7, 2022

The value the product should create is not clearly understood : A validated product strategy and an actionable product roadmap are missing. A powerful stakeholder or line manager determines the KPIs —not the person in charge of the product. If this data is actioned, bad product decisions will be made.

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Roman Pichler

APRIL 19, 2017

Increase Your Referent Power. To boost your referent power, I recommend focussing on one virtue at a time and practicing it repeatedly—without expecting too much too quickly. Challenging situations are great opportunities to grow as a human being and by doing so, you increase your leadership power. Trust me.”.

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Roman Pichler

MAY 4, 2022

Note that the term product team is used in different ways by different people—much like other product management expressions. Some fellow authors include the stakeholders, for instance, Steve Haines in his book The Product Manager’s Desk Reference , whereas others don’t, for example, Marty Cagan in his book Inspired.

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Bain Public

MAY 26, 2022

Roadmapping has become a political problem. Over the last decade, there has been advancements in the product world where the CEO is no longer the only one who calls the shots; now, there is a Product Leadership Team (PLT) who is supposed to work collaboratively with the product manager on defining the next set of features of a product.

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The Product Coalition

FEBRUARY 12, 2024

I’ve been a product leader for over a decade. I’ve reviewed roadmaps for hundreds of different products. I’ve participated in more roadmap review meetings than I can remember. And until now, I never thought to share the view a product leader has on roadmaps — at least publicly. Why share now?

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Roman Pichler

JUNE 1, 2020

A stakeholder is anyone who has a stake in your product, who is affected by it, or who shows an interest in the offering. While this definition includes users and customers, I use the term in this article to refer to the internal business stakeholders. Involve the Stakeholders in Important Product Decisions.

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Sequent Learning

DECEMBER 20, 2023

They define product roadmaps, set priorities, and ensure smooth coordination among teams to meet deadlines. Beyond technical prowess, they possess strong leadership, communication, and problem-solving skills, making tough decisions to ensure the product’s success.

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Tyner Blain

MARCH 31, 2024

Shaping a product strategy involves both. Your product won’t spring into existence fully formed and ready to compete like Athena emerging fully armored from the head of Zeus. ” To tease apart the difference between shaping releases vs. sequencing work, it helps to contrast two different ways to think about timing.

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Bain Public

JANUARY 11, 2022

Let’s face it, most organizations have poor habits around roadmap completion — this is why getting leadership (or stakeholders) to develop consistent, stable and familiar routines reinforced through repetition and communication is valuable. Let’s dive deeper!

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ProductPlan

JANUARY 7, 2022

Here’s how we define it in ProductPlan’s eBook, 100+ Product Management Terms You Should Know: Digital transformation refers to a company’s move to digital solutions to improve its operations or products. So these product leaders make research and data the backbone of their plan for digital transformation.

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The Product Coalition

JUNE 26, 2023

A “blue ocean” refers to an untapped market space or industry that is not yet crowded with competitors. It presents a unique opportunity for companies to create and capture new market demand by offering innovative products or services that address unmet customer needs. But what exactly is a micro-delivery?

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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. The experience you gain is either formal or informal.

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Product Talk

FEBRUARY 12, 2020

Her exposure to the product team —and the departure of a previous product manager—sparked Lisa’s interest and led to her stepping into the product manager role right around the time that Teresa began working with the product team as a discovery coach. It can also get leadership buy-in to where a team is heading overall.”–

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Roman Pichler

NOVEMBER 6, 2018

But sustainable pace is equally important for you, the person in charge of the product. These include interviewing users, working on the product roadmap, updating the product backlog, engaging with the stakeholders, and working with the development team, to name just a few. Share the Work. Prioritise.

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Bain Public

OCTOBER 15, 2020

What happens here is that these expectations and this type of behaviour become the primary contributor to product strategy gridlock. Often people will become product managers by default rather than through decision. Product Mission : Once you’ve determined your BHAG and UVP, how do you create a roadmap ?

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ProductPlan

MARCH 17, 2020

How can you take responsibility for the vision and shape the future of your product when you don’t control strategy at the corporate level?”. Developing a Product Strategy. Product Vision. But product vision alone is not enough. Product Strategy. Read five steps to a winning product strategy.

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Product Management University

MARCH 18, 2019

Writes pure unfiltered business requirements that reflect how target customers see themselves from the top of the organization down (business goals and priorities), without any reference or bias to a product. Creates prioritized product plans and backlogs with scope that mirrors customer business goals and operational priorities.

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Bain Public

MARCH 20, 2021

The answer is simply: product roadmaps and product development ! Roadmap Development is a process of discovery, creativity and problem-solving. Strategy without tactics is the slowest route to victory. Tactics without strategy is the noise before defeat." - Sun Tzu. These details are indeed important!

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Product Bookshelf

FEBRUARY 13, 2017

Although the title makes is sound like a book for beginners, Product Management for Dummies has a lot to offer product managers at any level. Product management as a topic is vast. The breadth of knowledge you need to be an effective product manager is very complex. The Whole Product.

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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. Support from the senior leadership team also shot up. It’s not that different from the current design.

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Userpilot

NOVEMBER 21, 2022

On average, a product launch manager earns around $138,000. To be a good product launch manager, you need great project management and leadership skills. Userpilot helps product teams automate feedback collection with contextually-triggered in-app surveys , while the analytics layer enables them to track product usage data.

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Roman Pichler

SEPTEMBER 11, 2023

To effectively staff the product team, I recommend including the people shown in Figure 1. [1] 1] Figure 1: The Product Team Members Let’s look at the product team members in Figure 1 in more detail starting with the person in charge of the product. 4] As you may have noticed I didn’t list the product backlog.

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The Product Coalition

JUNE 28, 2022

There are a lot of resources online that can guide you through the process of creating this, but the most important thing at this point is to have it documented such that you and your team can reference often. Many of your vision documents will result in a variety of specific themes, goals, initiatives and strategies.

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Roman Pichler

MARCH 12, 2024

But this taught me an important lesson: There is no point in worrying about the product details if a sound product strategy is missing. As helpful as a product strategy is, it’s not enough. 1] While I hope that this makes sense to you, I find that in practice, the different strategies are sometimes confused.

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Mind the Product

APRIL 6, 2020

Product (and company) strategy is the backbone that guides product goal-setting and roadmap definition, although it’s sometimes overlooked or confused with having a vision. Without it, product teams become feature teams focused on outputs and not outcomes. It is the guiding principle for OKRs and roadmaps.

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Userpilot

AUGUST 26, 2021

In this ultimate guide to SaaS product management, we'll walk you through the benefits of SaaS over on-premise software and how you can build a successful product as a SaaS PM. One of the factors that drive the success of SaaS product management is how aligned the product team is with the customer success team.

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PMLesson's Ace the PM Interview

JANUARY 18, 2022

They assist other product managers on their team gather customer feedback along with other relevant product data. Using this data, APMs can help influence the product development roadmap, if need be. Together, they collaborate to drive development goals and actualize the product vision.

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ProductPlan

MARCH 31, 2022

Zack references the “storming” phase of Tuchman’s stages of group development to describe research and ideation at Rivian. During this phase, leadership and individual teams leverage as many creatives as possible to solve a problem, produce the best ideas, and prioritize the right items.

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Roman Pichler

APRIL 4, 2023

Listen to the audio version of this article: [link] The Head of Product Role in a Nutshell A head of product manages a group of product people —individuals who look after one or more products and who may be called product managers or product owners.

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Dear Strategy

JUNE 24, 2020

Back in Episode 92 , I talked about the 5 biggest product strategy pitfalls to avoid; one of which was making the assumption that you will be able to implement your strategy for free. It should come as no surprise, then, that I plan on referring to that exact same sentiment here again – but this time with a little added twist….

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Roadmunk

SEPTEMBER 21, 2017

The more complex you make your product, the higher the cost of altering that code afterwards. How many times I refer this post to new PMs still surprises me. There’s a common misconception in the product space that agile and planning don’t go hand-in-hand. Don’t just read about product management—get tactical with it!

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ProductPlan

AUGUST 23, 2022

But this just scratches the surface of the multitude of ways users will try using your team’s products. Despite these scenarios and use cases exceeding the initial product scope and vision, the rest of the world isn’t changing how it works just because your product strategy didn’t account for edge cases.

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The Product Coalition

FEBRUARY 4, 2023

But product management at the lower levels is still an individual sport, while product leadership at the highest levels is a team sport. They learned how to play the team sport called product leadership. Redefine the Team Many product leaders, when they speak about “their team”, refer to the product team.

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Usersnap

JUNE 30, 2022

That’s one of many examples of how Calendly approaches product-led growth. Check out this blog if you need more information on how to get the right product features on your roadmap. Detailed Understanding of Products 2. Dynamic Leadership Qualities 7. Dynamic Leadership Qualities. Stakeholder Management 8.

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Mironov Consulting

AUGUST 15, 2016

At many enterprise software companies, I see one or two outlier customers consuming an inordinate share of support time, product management attention, engineering cycles and roadmap focus – hugely out of proportion to their actual revenue or market value. Bi-weekly meetings, authority to drop committed roadmap items.

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PMLesson's Ace the PM Interview

APRIL 25, 2022

How would you measure the success of a go-to-market strategy? Tell me about a time when you influenced a product roadmap. Use data from your experience to talk to the efficacy of a product launch. How would you improve the Facebook login product? Who are you improving the product or feature for?

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