The Product Coalition

NOVEMBER 2, 2021

A Technical Exercise In this post, I’ll offer my idea of the sort of technical abilities expected from a product manager. This can be highly useful for hiring managers, as well as for PMs planning their roadmap. But is a surprisingly small amount of materials about the technical aspect of PM work. The Product Interview?—?A

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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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Roman Pichler

FEBRUARY 14, 2023

These are typically brand-new and young products as well as products that are experiencing a bigger change, for example, to extend their life cycle by addressing a new market segment or by replacing some of the technologies. Choose the next outcome on the roadmap as your product goal and copy it into the product backlog.

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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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Roman Pichler

APRIL 13, 2021

Then take into account the product goals on the product roadmap to discover additional KPIs. This, of course, assumes that you have a validated product strategy and a realistic product roadmap in place. Carefully select them by using the factors discussed above, and regularly review and adjust them.

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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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Roman Pichler

SEPTEMBER 7, 2021

Traditionally, product roadmaps are output-focussed plans that map features like registration, search, and reporting onto a timeline. Such a roadmap essentially states when a piece of functionality will be delivered. This makes the product roadmap more susceptible to change and it increases the effort to update it.

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Product Innovation Educators

JULY 4, 2022

His name is Steve McIrvin and we met a few years as we both had kids competing in Science Olympiad. A group of passionate users in our social media and forum communities drives our roadmap and and helps us understand the problems we need to solve. Wyze’s tagline is to make great technology accessible.

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Roman Pichler

SEPTEMBER 11, 2023

Listen to the audio version of this article: [link] Organise the Team around a Product As the name suggests, a product team is focused on a product. Additionally, the team should have ownership of the plans that contain the goals: the product strategy and the product roadmap , as shown in Figure 2 above. [4] This sounds simple enough.

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The Product Coalition

FEBRUARY 12, 2024

I enjoyed in-person meetings, especially in-person product review meetings. Early in the pandemic, this led me to resent virtual meetings, especially virtual product review meetings. This particular product review meeting was a breaking point. I struggled to figure out how to run the product review meeting effectively.

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Lenny Rachitsky

NOVEMBER 12, 2024

In the past few years, we’ve seen the “ great flattening ” of tech: rising expectations of fewer ICs to own larger swaths of the product and manage multiple teams while staying hands-on. Instead of spending valuable time after the meeting reviewing notes and drafting a summary, do the work in the meeting itself.

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Folding Burritos

JULY 5, 2015

Every idea, request, bug, maintenance chore, user story, you name it — gets included. Here’s how we do it: Our team follows a workflow heavily inspired by the one used at UserVoice ; We keep 4 main boards: Roadmap — it contains 2 or 3 lists, each representing the epics we’ll be working on over the next 2 to 3 quarters 3.

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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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Userpilot

APRIL 16, 2025

Your roadmap, now skewed by partial data, doubles down on solving the wrong problem. Instead of feeling understood, they feel like just another name in the system. Prioritize platforms that offer strong native integrations, support your full tech stack, and allow centralized control over data governance.

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Folding Burritos

OCTOBER 19, 2015

This structure can be reflected by 3 main boards: Roadmap , Epics and Kanban (the development methodology we use.) Each also shows the scope of work at its level, and the priorities among product areas (or timeframes in the case of most roadmaps.) Here are the links: Roadmap board. Each represents a level of granularity.

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Alchemer Mobile

FEBRUARY 2, 2021

If you’re ready to submit your app to the app stores next week, condense the most important elements of pre-launch into a one-week period and move the other items to your post-launch roadmap. Are there any bloggers or journalists whose names keep coming up? As always, we’d love to hear how you’d add to this list in the comments below.

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The Product Coalition

NOVEMBER 23, 2021

I recently led a workshop for an organic tech farm startup that wanted to set its foot online for selling organic food to B2B customers. it is the same as a car manufacture ally with software startup working on AI tech to develop autonomous eclectic car AI-based apps. I will mention these patterns separately unders each dimensions.

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UX Planet

JUNE 9, 2025

From Raw Data to Clarity — Cleaning, Sorting, and Synthesising Insights Part 4 (of 5) of the UX Research Playbook series Synthesising qualitative data is similar to reaping the harvest after the diligent effort poured into research — it’s the step where hard work blossoms into meaningful insights. Mural , Miro , etc.) is recommended.

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Product Talk

MARCH 2, 2016

This worked reasonably well when the role technology played within an organization was to service the business. Technology teams did little to test their assumptions about what the business needed, which resulted in solutions that didn’t quite work. Do you have a roadmap that lists features and dates? Deadlines were missed.

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ProductPlan

FEBRUARY 10, 2022

What is a Digital Transformation Roadmap? Above all, product teams can use a digital transformation roadmap to summarize the plan and goals for any move from a manual process to a digital one. What Purpose Does a Digital Transformation Roadmap Serve? How Do You Build a Digital Transformation Roadmap?

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Product Talk

FEBRUARY 28, 2024

Kelsey’s Introduction to Continuous Discovery In her time at Going, Kelsey says that their approach to building the roadmap was radically different each year. That essentially became a roadmap for how we were going to do product with him as our leader,” says Kelsey. Next, their tech lead created some lo-fi mockups in FigJam.

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Mind the Product

NOVEMBER 14, 2017

When I think of partnership, many examples come to mind, across many disciplines – tennis, criminal investigation, entrepreneurship and movie production, to name a few. Do product companies conduct due diligence to understand their channel partners before seeking alignment? Core Competencies and Innovation.

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Mind the Product

APRIL 16, 2020

The pitch went well and I was assigned a budget plus a single resource in a graduate named Venus (aka ‘the navigator’). We then identified and quantified the pain points around this core job to get our first cut and roadmap (see the process I’ve since developed here ).

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Lenny Rachitsky

MAY 6, 2025

And how can I best show up for [name other team member(s)]? She discovered that while they consistently delivered on their roadmap, their products weren’t creating customer enthusiasm. Information-source diversity: Review your research sources. Expand to industry forums, customer reviews, and first-degree connections.

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The Product Coalition

MARCH 18, 2021

E.g., you need to look for experience in the industry you target and the technology stack. Choose a software architecture pattern for the proposed SaaS app This part is more technical, so if you’re not a tech-experienced person, you can ask your architect about this. As you can see, this subject is about tech.

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PMLesson's Ace the PM Interview

DECEMBER 14, 2020

A common question for product managers, project managers, technical program managers, and software developers alike is what methodology to use given a project. It derives its name from its linear nature. Then, the developers must establish a physical design with specific hardware/software technologies. What is Waterfall?

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Amplitude

FEBRUARY 11, 2021

As product managers (PMs), we spend a significant portion of our time talking to customers and understanding their experiences to shape our roadmap and strategy—you may have even done an interview with us! We’ve built the best analytics solution around, so, naturally, it’s a core part of our product management tech stack.

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Modus Create

OCTOBER 6, 2021

That’s not to say that legacy technology isn’t a relevant factor anymore. Multiple industries employ outdated software in their core operations and only consider modernization when a critical technology in their stack becomes unsupported (for example, an older version of Java or PHP is sunsetted). Paying off technical debt.

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Roman Pichler

APRIL 13, 2021

Then take into account the product goals on the product roadmap to discover additional KPIs. This, of course, assumes that you have a validated product strategy and a realistic product roadmap in place. Carefully select them by using the factors discussed above, and regularly review and adjust them.

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Product Talk

JUNE 21, 2023

Today, we’re excited to share that we’ve added yet another instructor (and yes, her name is also Ellen!) By the way, it’s not a requirement that new instructors be named Ellen—just a fun coincidence! I then decided to pursue a Master’s of Education, which was focused on building online learning and technology.

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Intercom, Inc.

DECEMBER 4, 2019

More recently, however, I’ve realized that the technology industry at large struggles with such clarity and consistency – in marketing terms, there is often a difficulty developing a clear value proposition that aligns with product and brand identity. Mapping your product roadmap across the Brand Architecture Matrix. 3 Brand stretch.

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The Product Coalition

MARCH 9, 2021

Tech Support This option is necessary to stay connected with both passengers and drivers regardless of their rides. The tech support menu makes an application more ‘human’, it shows your user-focused attitude and real care. Messaging, ratings & reviews, booking history. Take care of the tech stack for push messages as well.

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Product Talk

SEPTEMBER 20, 2023

FigJam generates the outcomes I’m looking for, namely teams exposing their critical thinking and collaborating with ease. When I’m reviewing things with business stakeholders, I tend to go very low tech,” says Drew. “I The roadmap feature also allows you to chart solutions and opportunities on a Now Next Later roadmap.

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Mind the Product

MAY 25, 2018

JustGiving’s goal is to grow the world of giving, enabling more money to be raised for good causes through the use of technology. From there we put together a basic roadmap and started writing user stories. And for that, we needed a new name… Output of one naming brainstorm. 2016 – Accelerating Growth.

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Mind the Product

SEPTEMBER 6, 2018

Often when product managers are pulled into customer conversations, they are asked to either present the product roadmap or help out with an escalation, neither of which are ideal for learning about the customer. During product roadmap presentations, product managers are expected to appear knowledgeable.

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The Product Coalition

JANUARY 5, 2021

For example, institute regular meetings with each stakeholder or have stakeholders name product ambassadors, who then act as “liaison officers” and train them accordingly. Sprint Reviews and user interviews are also well suited to improve collaboration and communication over time. How do you communicate with uncooperative stakeholders?

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Userpilot

MAY 28, 2025

For example, a CRM tool might showcase different features based on user roles: Product managers see flows highlighting roadmapping and planning tools Customer success managers receive guidance on client communication features User segmentation in Userpilot. However, it requires significant technical expertise to use.

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