The Product Coalition

OCTOBER 30, 2023

So either we work together to understand your objectives, call them goals if you’d like, and the outcome you are looking for from the product, or we will end the discussion, and you won’t get a committed set of work on the roadmap.” We went away from detailed, long-term, feature-committed roadmaps. I explained this many times.

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The Product HQ

MAY 10, 2024

Today, more and more businesses are looking for product managers specializing in artificial intelligence and machine learning technologies. AI product managers share several responsibilities and functions with technical product managers. This is a plus when coordinating with the technical team.

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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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The Product Coalition

JANUARY 16, 2022

When creating your roadmap, you need to consider what’s important to the company (not just to the product) and what is the best way to make progress across these multiple needs. After reviewing over 50 candidates, 25 phone interviews, and 15 full interviews, I eventually had to choose between a few final contenders.

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Userpilot

NOVEMBER 21, 2023

TL;DR Product managers often don’t get the due recognition for their work and their role is often marginalized by frustrated leadership or other teams. Instead of staying in the zone of most competence, divide your attention across all aspects of the product, like the business, tech, and UX. Let’s dive in!

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The Product Coalition

MARCH 8, 2024

Think of digital transformation strategies as your roadmap to success in the digital age. They involve integrating digital technologies and processes into every aspect of your business, from operations to customer interactions. IT department They play a crucial role in selecting, implementing, and managing the technology solutions.

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Sachin Rekhi

AUGUST 4, 2021

There was even an emerging set of courses focused on product leadership. Or PMs at larger established tech firms might see great PMs at work within their company, but they struggled to reverse engineer just how to recreate their success for themselves. Take product roadmaps for example.

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The Product Coalition

OCTOBER 15, 2019

3 Different Types of Roadmaps Every PM Needs to Master Roadmapping is not easy. Every company demands different types of Roadmaps, and every PM has their own flavour. Here is a step by step process to create roadmaps so you can influence anyone in your company like a true Jedi. So what is Product Roadmap?

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Ronke PM

MARCH 26, 2024

At the heart of an organization that creates product magic is a product leader who is an expert at leadership and coalition building. Product leaders must influence and engage all stakeholders, from sales and technical support to client success, design, research, marketing, and engineering.

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Mind the Product

SEPTEMBER 5, 2018

so my investor said that I need a product manager to do our product roadmap?”. When I worked as a product management consultant clients would often talk about “needing a product roadmap ASAP”. In reality, asking for a product roadmap was shorthand for “please help me with my strategy”.

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PMLesson's Ace the PM Interview

OCTOBER 6, 2021

Being one of the largest tech companies on the planet, it should come as no surprise that landing a job at Facebook is not necessarily a walk in the park. This is especially true if you're looking to join the technical program management team. The questions are both challenging and Facebook-specific.

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Roman Pichler

DECEMBER 6, 2022

For instance, the marketing strategy, the user experience (UX) design and technology choices have to align to successfully acquire new users, increase conversion, or meet another product goal. Influence and Trust as Leadership Building Blocks. You might do this, for example, by running collaborative product strategy reviews.

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The Product Coalition

FEBRUARY 24, 2023

Without going into actual project-related detail, any sync I have in the AM would fall in the “catch-up,” “quick sync” or “review bad livesites” category. Sometimes I’ll still be in meetings, as there are occasional team or leadership calls scheduled for lunch. If I went into the office: 8:30 AM is when I wake up.

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Alchemer Mobile

AUGUST 25, 2020

With these new leadership roles comes a lot of organization-wide change. Due to rapidly-evolving technology, customers have high expectations for the products they use. For many mobile product managers, their biggest goal is to create a realistic product roadmap and hit key milestones on time.

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People-First Product Leadership

OCTOBER 1, 2023

I’ve been at a number of product events recently where conversations turned to fractional work, joining or launching a startup, or simply taking time off due to a lack of opportunity in one’s current situation. ” It’s not a roadmap of what to build. We came up with a few potential factors.

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Roman Pichler

APRIL 19, 2017

Challenging situations are great opportunities to grow as a human being and by doing so, you increase your leadership power. Additionally, keep an eye on market developments, new trends and technologies, and the competition. As Superman puts it, “You are much stronger than you think you are. Trust me.”. Strengthen Your Expertise.

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The Product Coalition

APRIL 23, 2020

Funding your Product Roadmap How do you ask for funding as you scale your product & team You have a product roadmap (annual / multi-year) in front of you, crafted by you after months of deliberation, discussions, conversations, stakeholder and leadership feedback and reviews.

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Userpilot

JULY 13, 2022

Startup product managers will learn a lot from the Review – blog from the First Round. Hacker Noon blog articles deliver a wealth of technical insights. The Reforge blog helps product managers with topics like analytics , team management and development, product leadership , or product strategy. First Round’s The Review.

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ProductPlan

MARCH 13, 2024

I am deeply familiar with their common refrains of endless roadmap review meetings, repetitive PowerPoint presentations, and the strain of constant context shifting. Their importance shouldn’t be overlooked or dismissed as not technical enough. Learning to pivot is not just a skill but a survival necessity.

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Agile Velocity

MAY 3, 2024

Gain Leadership Support : Agile Transformation is as much about culture as it is about processes. Leadership buy-in is crucial for driving cultural change, allocating resources, and removing organizational barriers. Once your transformation strategy is in place it is time to sequence the journey into a transformation roadmap.

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The Basics of Product Management

JULY 21, 2020

Smart Glasses are the latest craze in the world of wearable tech. We will review each smart glass available today, including the newest entrant, Jio Glass. However, the product roadmap continues to remain hazy. How can an oil company pivot to technology? And now, Reliance is pivoting Jio to become a tech major.

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Userpilot

NOVEMBER 23, 2023

TL;DR Hard skills, like technical knowledge, are job-specific and enable product managers to perform their core responsibilities. Soft skills, like communication or leadership , are more general and can be used in different contexts. They enable PMs to apply their hard skills effectively. What’s the difference?

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Mironov Consulting

DECEMBER 31, 2017

I get pulled into lots of discussions among product managers about the best ways to represent (and then present and present and present) roadmaps or backlogs, especially to internal sales/marketing/support audiences. Each functional group has its own product priorities, so each wants a different roadmap. Just sign here.”)

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ProductPlan

JANUARY 19, 2022

But those inspired ideas can’t go straight onto the roadmap. For example, they can do this through research and weighing the idea against other items already on the roadmap. And perhaps most importantly, before you add or remove anything, you should gain leadership consensus. Only great, vetted, and agreed-upon ideas can.

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Roman Pichler

NOVEMBER 2, 2021

Additionally, you’ve invited the senior management sponsor to the upcoming sprint review meeting to secure the individual’s continued support. An agile team is responsible for planning and tracking the work, reviewing the progress on a daily basis, and deciding how the work should be done to maximise the chances to meet the sprint goal.

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Roman Pichler

APRIL 5, 2022

Contrast this with a sprint review meeting , which might help you determine if users can easily sign up for the product. But for sprint review meetings , you may also want to invite (selected) users and customers to collect their feedback. Review and adjust product roadmap; check potential impact on the product strategy.

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Bain Public

MARCH 14, 2022

But unfortunately, in many companies, the product leadership team can perpetuate a negative culture — setting up product managers to fail. In essence, the product leadership team are those with influence on the product roadmap. Focusing on innovation on technology-enabled solutions. All resulting in a recipe for disaster.

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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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Split

MARCH 20, 2024

Without dependable deployment processes, teams face greater technical debt, production issues and risk of downtime, and delays in unlocking business value from code. With established release review procedures, code progresses to staging and production only after passing predefined quality checks and acceptance tests.

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The Product Manager Coach Blog

MAY 7, 2024

These titles may sound similar, but they encompass different levels of organizational expertise and leadership. In this article, I will review the differences between the Staff Product Manager and the Senior Product Manager roles, helping you gain clarity and make an informed decision about your career path. Which one is right for you?

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The Product Guy

AUGUST 1, 2017

A new leadership role is also a good opportunity to assess and evaluate whether you have the right skill sets and resource capacity in your team. By taking on more responsibilities, I need to demonstrate leadership and gain the confidence and trust of my stakeholders. Resource management. Stakeholder engagement. Educate stakeholders.

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Ronke PM

JUNE 21, 2023

Internal Sales and Customer Success/Relationship Management Quarterly Business Reviews (QBR) meetings. Customer Quarterly Business Reviews (QBR) meetings. Engineering Demo Review Meetings. 3iab (product manager, design lead, and tech lead) weekly sync. Customer Quarterly Business Reviews (QBR) meetings.

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The Product Coalition

DECEMBER 13, 2020

Having said that, I always find it useful to review the points below when I am in an objective state of mind in order to ensure the team is on the right track. It’s your job to communicate this regularly and to tailor the roadmap accordingly. Do not forget about technical debt. There is always technical debt. Clear focus.

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Mind the Product

JULY 23, 2019

At last week’s #mtpcon San Francisco Product Leadership Forum, senior product professionals got together to discuss the current hot topics of career paths, talent management, and psychological safety. Set expectations through your job architecture, hiring, performance reviews, and growth conversations. Be explicit and deliberate.

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Roy Madden

APRIL 4, 2022

In this article, we’ll show you how to use Feedly AI to: Track your competitors and their strategic moves Stay ahead of consumer trends and insights Scout technical innovation Identify business development opportunities Start free trial Before we look at those four examples, let’s start with a short overview of how Feedly AI works.

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The Product Coalition

SEPTEMBER 14, 2020

Between commercial, product, and engineering leadership, a potential anecdote to rebuild trust and transparency can be instituting a simple, scheduled Product Steering process. To rollout a Product Steering process, the leadership team collectively needs to follow these short steps: Steps to Sustainable Product Steering: 1.

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The Product Coalition

AUGUST 23, 2023

A purpose we could share with the company’s leadership team, customers, and those working on the product. Fairphone has already launched several models and continues to drive its purposeful mission, creating waves in the tech industry and among conscious consumers with over 400,000 phones sold in a hyper-competitive market.

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