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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Roman Pichler

JULY 6, 2021

When you become a head of product, you move into a line management position. Consequently, your focus shifts from managing a product to looking after the product people on your team and empowering them to do a great job. Carrying out the relevant product discovery work and taking into account product ethics.

User Testing 321

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Department of Product

JULY 29, 2022

Product Positioning for Product Managers Why an understanding of how your product is positioned is critical A key responsibility for Product Managers is to define how their products are positioned in the market. This is the result of unique product positioning.

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The Product Coalition

FEBRUARY 12, 2024

However, they are intended to guide and protect- to guide and protect the future of the product and the company. 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. Why share now?

Technical Review 117

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Mind the Product

OCTOBER 21, 2019

A strong product strategy is often neglected because of the absence of any strategic thinking in product teams. What can product managers do to make sure they give their product strategy the attention it warrants? But today many, if not most, product teams fail this very first test.

Product Strategy 133

Product Strategy Strategy Product Research User Testing 133

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.    (Agilists state this in the positive: “start less, finish more.”)   The corporate strategy, which the product strategy supports. 

Reporting Tools 105

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Roman Pichler

JULY 6, 2021

When you become a head of product, you move into a line management position. Consequently, your focus shifts from managing a product to looking after the product people on your team and empowering them to do a great job. Carrying out the relevant product discovery work and taking into account product ethics.

User Testing 156

User Testing Product Research Weak Development Team Customer Experience 156

Userpilot

AUGUST 29, 2023

The product management process starts with building an understanding of your users and the market, defining a vision and strategy , generating and prioritizing ideas that could solve user problems, articulating them in a clear roadmap, launching an MVP, and then gathering feedback to evolve it over time.

Data Visualization 99

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Ronke PM

MARCH 26, 2024

Product leaders must influence and engage all stakeholders, from sales and technical support to client success, design, research, marketing, and engineering. It is crucial to persuade these individuals to embody the product's concept through their coding, testing, branding, research, and design.

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Alchemer Mobile

MARCH 26, 2021

Typically, when brands claim this, it’s more of a marketing technique and less of an actual pillar in their product strategy. Most brands today may think they build products around their customers’ needs and feedback, but in reality, they only hear from less than one percent of their customer base.

User Testing 257

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Userpilot

NOVEMBER 20, 2023

Tech PMs work actively with product teams on the product vision and strategy. A big part of their job is managing the roadmap and prioritizing technical initiatives in the product backlog. Regular product managers are more customer-centric in their approach. Product vision. Product roadmap.

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Mind the Product

NOVEMBER 28, 2017

We’d spent weeks perfecting the roadmap presentation for our annual customer conference. It felt like people had overlooked all the greatness of our roadmap and were focused on the (relatively few) changes we’d made along the way. For many product people, this is the nightmare scenario of sharing their product roadmap.

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Userpilot

FEBRUARY 29, 2024

Increase product adoption and stickiness. Create data-driven product strategies. Product/feature adoption rate. A/B testing. Create data-driven product strategies : Understanding how users actually use your product prevents you from making decisions based on assumptions or what you think is best.

Data Visualization 93

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Userpilot

NOVEMBER 14, 2022

Product planning is the iterative process that prepares every stage of the product development life cycle, from the initial idea through launch and further development. Product planning focuses on the customer and business outcomes that the product should achieve. What is NOT product planning. Want to see how?

Product Research 97

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Roman Pichler

MAY 10, 2016

At the same time, I wanted to test that the product would create enough value for its readers before writing the actual book. My first MVP had little resemblance with the finished product: I used my product strategy and roadmap workshop as the initial minimum viable product.

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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. Goals are the specific UX objectives the product aspires to achieve, for example, improving usability. The plan, often depicted in a UX roadmap, outlines the work necessary to achieve the goals.

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PMLesson's Ace the PM Interview

MARCH 9, 2022

As a capable, experienced UX designer or UX researcher, you spend your time thinking about how a product affects the user experience. You are constantly considering potential and real problems, testing out solutions and evaluating those solutions for effectiveness. Successful product managers are ready for a creative challenge.

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Userpilot

SEPTEMBER 29, 2023

TL;DR The new product development process is the method of building new products or services and bringing them to market: everything from generating ideas for a product concept to prototyping to identifying a target market, to launch, and beyond. Step four is building a minimum viable product.

User Testing 99

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Roman Pichler

FEBRUARY 6, 2018

Their contributions are vital to design, implement, provide, and support a successful product. At the same time, you can’t tell the individuals what to do or assign tasks to them, and you are typically not in a position to offer incentives, like a bonus or pay rise. An example I like to use is healthy eating.

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Userpilot

SEPTEMBER 14, 2023

TL;DR Product managers define the overall product direction and oversee the entire product lifecycle. Their responsibilities include product discovery, developing product vision, prioritization , roadmapping , analyzing product performance and its iterative development, and leading the product team.

Product Research 89

Product Research User Testing Research Software Feedback Software 89

Mind the Product

APRIL 10, 2020

Part of the role of a product manager is to discover and help build products that have a high market impact. But how many of us can say that we launched a product or service that created a step-change in our industry? This in turn feeds project plans and feature roadmaps, and the micro-planning of an agile product team.

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The Product Coalition

JULY 28, 2020

Structure of Product and Engineering Teams The Product team helps drive all the product related decisions, working in tandem with the Business and Engineering teams as well as understanding the needs of users in order to prioritize various product modules. Upsell Strategy (upgrade, expand, replace) b.

Data Visualization 78

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Userpilot

AUGUST 13, 2023

To choose the right matrix for your team, consider your development framework, the product’s development stage, the organization’s values, available time, and the number of stakeholders involved. Next, put them on the roadmap , considering feature interdependencies and timelines. What is a feature prioritization matrix?

Data Visualization 93

Data Visualization User Testing Customer Experience Feedback Software 93

Userpilot

OCTOBER 21, 2022

Product managers carry out market research, lead product discovery , oversee the development teams as they are working on the solutions, and coordinate the product launch. 16 Product Management Best Practices. Product usage analytics shed light on how users engage with the product and how to help them achieve their goals.

Feedback Software 71

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Mind the Product

MAY 25, 2018

In 2012, when I was working as part of the JustGiving team responsible for innovative products and disruptive business models, we decided to test how people could raise money for non-charitable good causes. From there we put together a basic roadmap and started writing user stories. This is what we did.

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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. While it is a senior position, there are numerous career paths, such as Group Product Manager (GPM) and Principal Product Manager (PPM).

Product Management 52

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Userpilot

AUGUST 21, 2023

Looking for the right answers can give you a deeper understanding of how well applicants understand the product management role and whether or not they’re the ideal fit for the position. There’s a big difference in the impact of a good product manager versus a great project manager. What is product vision?

User Testing 88

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ProductPlan

MARCH 17, 2020

So, how does a product manager take ownership of more than just backlog management? 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. Product Strategy.

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Userpilot

AUGUST 30, 2023

This means product leaders are constantly exploring unfamiliar settings, and the traditional approach to marketing and scaling products won’t cut it. In this talk, Leah will show you: How to leverage PLG to navigate challenging markets and position yourself for success. Keys for dealing with the intricacies of niche products.

Customer Experience 103

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Roman Pichler

JANUARY 9, 2018

Explore the key assumptions and risks in your product strategy and business model by systematically testing and addressing them in an iterative fashion using, for example, observations, interviews, surveys, and prototypes. If that’s the case, kill it, and move on to another product idea.

Product Research 156

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ProductPlan

FEBRUARY 22, 2023

As a product manager, one of the toughest challenges I and my fellow PMs face is prioritizing the right features amongst an ever-increasing influx of data from customer feedback, product analytics, and the never-ending list of stakeholder requests. A successful product never sacrifices the user experience.

Customer Experience 59

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ProductPlan

JANUARY 5, 2023

At the time of writing this post, there were 525 postings on LinkedIn for positions in the U.S. When broadening the scope to include data scientists and data analysts, who often work closely with product managers to answer questions with data, the open positions swell to almost 7,000. Outcome-driven vs. feature-based roadmaps.

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ProductPlan

DECEMBER 9, 2022

Whether you’re writing a job description for a future hire, preparing for your first day at a new position, or simply investigating whether product management sounds like a good gig, you need a solid understanding of what the job entails. The Product Manager Career Path. Product Manager vs. Product Owner.

User Testing 52

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Userpilot

JUNE 30, 2023

This data allows product managers to make more informed product development and roadmap planning decisions. This, in turn, drives customer retention , reduces churn , and can even lead to positive word-of-mouth referrals. What do you think is the biggest challenge our product/service faces in the market?

Customer Feedback 94

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Userpilot

JANUARY 14, 2023

Successful SaaS products satisfy user needs and realize organizational business goals. Product success is necessary both for the product manager and for the organization to grow. To build successful products, make sure to align the product strategy with the product vision. Collect customer requests.

Feedback Software 96

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Userpilot

JULY 13, 2022

The Reforge blog helps product managers with topics like analytics , team management and development, product leadership , or product strategy. Women in Product aims to empower female product managers and the blog is one of the channels they use. Easy ways to avoid the product graveyard.

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Bain Public

DECEMBER 9, 2021

At Bain Public , we care about user problems and how products fit into everyone’s lives, working together to solve real pain points and launch market-tested, innovative products that have the power to transform the world. How else does Bain Public have a positive effect on the Canadian startup ecosystem? and much more!

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