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Journey to Success: The Seven Pivotal Purposes of Product Roadmaps

The Product Coalition

As a communication tool, use roadmaps to: Convert your strategy into a tangible product, taking an essential yet abstract concept and giving it form. Foster mutual understanding by painting a shared vision of the future and the results achieved. Narrate the product’s story and journey, illustrating how it evolves.

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Relationship Series Part III: The Delivery Consultant – Our Partner in Learning

The People of Product Management

Their regular engagement with users gives them great insights into product improvements and makes them a product manager’s key partner in learning. In this post, which is part three of the Relationship Series, I unpack the relationship between the product manager and the delivery consultant. So why is this?

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A Day in the Life of a Product Manager: Consumer and Enterprise

PMLesson's Ace the PM Interview

In this post, an enterprise (IBM) and a consumer (Google) product manager describe a typical day in their life on the job. While there doesn't exactly exist a "typical" day in product management, you can expect to perform certain tasks based on the stage of your product. Our manager never attends this meeting.

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A Deep Dive into the Software Development Life Cycle (SDLC)

The Product Coalition

Good product and customer satisfaction come through from a great analysis phase. We product managers rock here. As we move forward, armed with our architectural design, we’re ready to bring our software vision to life in the next stages of the Software Development Life Cycle.

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Advice for successfully leading a distributed development team

The Product Coalition

“We just pushed it live,” the release manager belts out, to a team fresh off the battlefield that is software product development. We had successfully released our new feature to hundreds of thousands of users, after what seemed like an eternity?—?ten Why is the vision important?

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Six Types of “Product” Owners

Roman Pichler

A platform owner who manages a platform as a collection of shared software assets. The SAFe product owner who owns the product details. A portfolio owner who manages a group of (related) products. The strategic product responsibilities are taken on by another role, the SAFe product manager.

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Product Launch Manager

ProductPlan

What is a Product Launch Manager? A product launch manager coordinates all efforts across the company related to releasing new products to the market. In the lead-up to a product launch, many teams—product management, sales, marketing, development, customer success, etc.—will