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Building a Strong Product Vision and Strategy: A Roadmap to Success

The Product Coalition

A compelling product vision is a guiding light, providing direction and purpose to the development process. The Importance of a Strong Product Vision A compelling product vision is a guiding star that aligns everyone involved in the product development process.

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Successful Roadmaps Avoid One Thing: Drift

The Product Coalition

Golden rules for roadmap management. Everyone has a plan until they get punched in the mouth” — Mike Tyson I’ve wrestled with weak roadmaps — even some downright disasters. Product managers and their teams start with enthusiasm, hit the ground running, and create a solid roadmap. Roadmaps are a team sport.

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Becoming a Product Manager: The Road Less Traveled

The Product Coalition

Product Management can be an intimidating role. Traditionally Product Managers come from a design or development background, find they are good with people, and evolve their role into a Product Manager position. Team orientated. A Product Manager is the Swiss army knife of the team.

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How to Develop, Articulate, and Sell Product Strategy

The Product Guy

I became a product manager because I wanted to take a more strategic role at my company. First, I did not know how to frame, develop and present product strategy in a systematic way, and second, as a startup, my company has not historically had a good track record of strategy being developed outside of senior management (read: founder).

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Defining Guidelines in Product Management

The Product Guy

When I first researched about product management, I asked seasoned product managers how they started and they gave me very different kinds of answers. A lot of them worked in other positions before moving to product management, like engineers, analysts, marketers and project managers, and learned by taking on extra responsibilities.

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Market Gaps: 10 Ways to Spot Untapped Customer Needs

Userpilot

How do product managers identify market gaps? A market gap can be caused by missing functionality or poor user experience. Canva identified a market need for a user-friendly graphic design tool for non-designers and DocuSign for a secure solution to sign and manage digital documents and contracts. Let’s get into it!

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Technical Women Are Software Managers

Johanna Rothman

One of my reviewers for the Modern Management Made Easy books asked a fascinating question: I've never seen this many women in management or in senior leadership positions. Too many of these educated people had no idea how to work as a collaborative team. They acted as if they were indispensable or 10x developers.