The Product Coalition

JUNE 28, 2022

Let’s talk about how to define a product vision, and why the lack of a product vision is so detrimental to your team. Review design. As I’ll explain below, the “why” and “where” form your product vision, and your product team (especially your engineers), not only want this from you, but need it in order to do their best work.

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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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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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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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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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Agile Velocity

MAY 3, 2024

Create a Vision : Develop a compelling vision for the future state of the organization post-transformation. 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.

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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. Given this, they’re being trusted with more and more responsibility to push the brand vision forward and maintain focus throughout quickly-changing priorities.

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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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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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Userpilot

MAY 30, 2024

Leadership support , shared ownership of outcomes, cross-functional training, and celebrating collaboration can encourage PM-PMM alignment. Project management software, visual collaboration tools, roadmap software, shared Slack channels, and customer feedback and analytics tools can facilitate collaboration between PMs and PMMs.

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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. Conducting market research As a product manager, your job is to shape the product vision and strategy.

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The Product HQ

MAY 10, 2024

In the conceptualization phase, product managers must identify the vision, mission, and requirements that will condition how a team builds out a product. On one hand, this entails coming up with possible design concepts that capture the vision, mission, and goals of a given product.

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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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ProductPlan

AUGUST 10, 2023

Where charismatic leaders rally the troops around an ambitious vision with a massive potential payoff. It’s not sexy and won’t land the leadership team any TED Talks. That means doing your homework regarding market intelligence, product-market fit, technical feasibility, and the like. So you want to make those chances count.

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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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Userpilot

DECEMBER 13, 2023

UX vision is a clear and inspiring statement that guides the long-term design strategy and keeps teams and stakeholders on the same page. The plan, often depicted in a UX roadmap, outlines the work necessary to achieve the goals. Include the desired outcomes in the roadmap along with who will realize them and roughly when.

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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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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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Roman Pichler

FEBRUARY 6, 2018

The Product Leadership Conundrum. The development team and stakeholders then use these goals to determine the work they have to do—be it creating a marketing strategy, investigating a new technology, or preparing the distribution channels. As this example shows, the vision is an inspirational, visionary goal that cannot be measured.

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Userpilot

JULY 30, 2021

A product manager’s responsibilities include evaluating ideas, setting product strategy, building and sharing product roadmaps, prioritizing features and documenting requirements, defining product releases, and analyzing and reporting on progress. Product leadership style. Building and sharing strategic roadmaps.

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Roman Pichler

JULY 9, 2019

In order to grow your product management team, start by reviewing your product portfolio. For example, an internal product like a platform is likely to require in-depth technical skills—unlike an end-user facing offering, which is likely to require a thorough understanding of the market and business model, for example.

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Roman Pichler

JULY 9, 2019

In order to grow your product management team, start by reviewing your product portfolio. For example, an internal product like a platform is likely to require in-depth technical skills—unlike an end-user facing offering, which is likely to require a thorough understanding of the market and business model, for example.

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ProductPlan

MARCH 21, 2024

We get it–your days are packed with roadmap review meetings, brainstorming sessions, and making (what sometimes feels like) too many PowerPoint presentations. Calling busy product professionals! That’s why we’re here to lend a helping hand.

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Sachin Rekhi

JUNE 25, 2017

I then break down the resources into the way I think about what a product manager does, which is drive the vision, strategy, design, and execution of their product. One of the key responsibilities of a product manager is to define, articulate, and evangelize the vision for their product.

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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. Be concise about what the squad objectives are and how they align with the company vision. It’s your job to communicate this regularly and to tailor the roadmap accordingly.

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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. Product managers must articulate what success looks like for a product and rally a team to turn that vision into a reality. Instead, think about a product roadmap like a GPS for your product’s journey. Are you in yet?

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Product Innovation Educators

MAY 22, 2023

How product mangers can improve collaboration in cross-functional teams Today we are talking with Maziar Adl, the co-founder and CTO of Gocious, an organization that creates product roadmap management software. 6:52] Did you find a gap in the roadmapping tools that were available before you started Gocious?

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People-First Product Leadership

DECEMBER 4, 2023

If you missed Part 1, we covered the “why” behind creating a strategy stack, with a focus on the Mission, North Star, and Vision. The Vision evolves over time, and is an inspirational guide for the company's future. Looking ahead, Part 3 brings together the Product specific Vision, Roadmap and Goals.

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Agile Velocity

MAY 14, 2020

They are key inputs for your business and technology discussions around WHAT to work on. An Agile transformation is a rethinking and reworking of how your organization engages technology, people, and processes to achieve specific business outcomes. Reference: Harvard Business Review Analytic Services Survey, Sept 2018).

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Roman Pichler

JULY 11, 2016

Respect their UX/UI and technology decisions and their right to determine how much work can be done. Developing a successful digital product requires more than technical knowledge. This will not only lead to better technical decisions and a better product. Be aware that collaboration requires leadership.

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The Product Coalition

APRIL 2, 2022

This article is not intended to be a book review, but I used the skills described in this bestseller to link them with our day-to-day Product Management life. You can read more reviews and even buy the book with my affiliate link: [link] 1. I hardly imagine Product Managers with autocratic leadership thriving in this environment.

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ProductPlan

AUGUST 10, 2023

Where charismatic leaders rally the troops around an ambitious vision with a massive potential payoff. It’s not sexy and won’t land the leadership team any TED Talks. That means doing your homework regarding market intelligence, product-market fit, technical feasibility, and the like. So you want to make those chances count.

Reporting Tools 52

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Bain Public

JULY 13, 2020

Since meeting at Techstars Montréal AI Accelerator in 2019, we’ve worked with Blaise Transit to provide them with the product leadership consulting, coaching, advice and support they need to bring their entire technical roadmap to the next level. The Product Strategy: How We’ve Helped Blaise Transit.

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The Product HQ

FEBRUARY 1, 2023

Product managers are responsible for establishing a product’s vision and long-term business strategy while ensuring that all stakeholders are aware of said strategy. This includes the development and review of the product roadmap to guide the product team toward achieving the company’s objectives. Then look no further.

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Bain Public

OCTOBER 19, 2019

Here are the 3 roles Product Managers must perform to achieve roadmap leadership: The Diplomat It’s not our role to dictate through authority where the product should go. How big is our technical debt? We hold quarterly high-level prioritization meetings to help the company’s leadership define the roadmap priorities.

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Bain Public

MAY 29, 2020

The right mentoring and coaching support facilitates a startup’s transformation and enables roadmap planning and execution, without straying from the ultimate vision and goal. They determine the vision and build a roadmap that will lead their team on a path to achieving goals. In fact, 83.9% Did you know 16.2%

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ProductPlan

OCTOBER 6, 2021

Hence the need to have young and innovative minds who follow the trends of the industry to come up with these strategic thoughts while the senior leaders review and align it with the organization’s business goals.”. Moreover, the most critical projects may not cover every use case and contingency due to poor planning.

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