The Product Coalition

JANUARY 5, 2021

Or that Chicago’s Ventra card is a reference to its nickname as the ‘windy city’? New York’s MetroCard, however, is not a reference to anything. Now that MTA is basically a startup bro, they are employing a genius strategy for the OMNY rollout: a test and learn phase with strategic checkpoints. Well, now you do.

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The Product Coalition

JUNE 26, 2023

A “blue ocean” refers to an untapped market space or industry that is not yet crowded with competitors. It presents a unique opportunity for companies to create and capture new market demand by offering innovative products or services that address unmet customer needs.

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Product Management University

JUNE 5, 2023

In the simplest terms, a product vision defines the long-term mission of your product. In other words, it’s the answer to the question, What do I ultimately want my product to be known for? Why is a Product Vision Important? Product managers often refer to their product vision as “my north star.”

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UX Studio: Product Management

NOVEMBER 24, 2020

Our clients are growing startups and established brands like HBO, Google, Netflix, or Wizz air. Get in touch with us , and let’s discuss your current product design challenges. The Wandr studio is a young product strategy and design company headquartered in Los Angeles, USA. Wandr Studio.

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Userpilot

JANUARY 31, 2022

Before I take a dive into these different product management specializations you should be looking at when building up your product team , it’s worth noting that at their very core, all product managers have the same set of responsibilities and skills. Growth Product Manager. The Business Approach, in comparison. “is

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Userpilot

JULY 9, 2021

Teresa Torres is an internationally acclaimed product discovery coach, speaker, and author. She coaches teams on how to collect meaningful customer input and use it to make product decisions on a daily basis. The teams she coaches are from both early-stage startups and multinational enterprises in different industries.

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Userpilot

JULY 27, 2023

Product Manager : In charge of creating product strategy and overseeing the design process, among other things. UX Designer: Responsible for understanding the unique needs and requirements of SaaS users and designing the user interface and experience of SaaS products. Come up with product and new feature ideas.

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Department of Product

OCTOBER 23, 2022

Since product development is often a blank canvas (particularly in startups) the sheer number of possible scenarios and opportunities you might want to explore can be overwhelming: Should we build a mobile app or not? A deep dive into the tools, frameworks and processes used by product managers from top companies.

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Product Management Lessons from the Trenches

AUGUST 21, 2018

That’s where having an operational dashboard that provides “real-time” view of key KPIs is critical to ensure you are making product decisions that align with your users and business goals. What’s a critical event and how to set out to find it? It aligns with your core value prop).

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Roadmunk

SEPTEMBER 21, 2017

Throughout my career as both a product manager and startup founder, there’s been one severely underrated skill I credit for much of my success—and that’s reading. I’m constantly consuming articles on product management, product culture, startups and entrepreneurship to bolster my career as a product person and leader.

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The Product Coalition

FEBRUARY 12, 2019

Close your eyes for a minute and imagine a strategy. Are you imagining a simple, specific document you refer to for helpful guidance that summarizes your company’s north star? In Michael Porter’s books, or anywhere else, I haven’t been able to find many examples of what a strategy should look like. product strategy”).

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The Product Coalition

FEBRUARY 18, 2019

… And what that means for startups and innovators today [We were] just sentient puppets on God’s stage: indeed, our taskmaster was merciless, merciless, so long as our bruised feet could stagger forward on the road … so very brief and sore was life with us. Startups, though, are vaporous?—?they Lawrence (i.e.

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PMLesson's Ace the PM Interview

APRIL 13, 2022

If you're new to product management, this type of work won't help you accelerate your growth to thinking about products more holistically. Anton decided to instead find work at a startup and improve his product management skills. Eventually, you'll grow into a larger and larger product team.

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Bain Public

JANUARY 11, 2022

The Real-World Product Finally, we have the real-world product — your foundations of customers, users, alpha-beta testers (sometimes referred to as reference customers), your partners and competitors. Their efforts include anything that has to do with launch planning, onboarding, support and growth in user engagement.

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The Product Coalition

MARCH 7, 2023

Many companies expect product managers, designers and other roles to be able to deliver good user interviews, but the training is often by trial-and-error. I compiled this guide back when I was training product managers on my team to be able to run user interviews.

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Bain Public

OCTOBER 15, 2020

Many CEOs will tell you that they’re the best-informed people when it comes to knowing what customers need — and that they’re in the best position to drive decisions on product priorities. What happens here is that these expectations and this type of behaviour become the primary contributor to product strategy gridlock.

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Userpilot

JULY 20, 2022

Select the features that are consistent with the product strategy and solve the problems of the majority of your users. The ultimate goal is to ensure that the process is capable of delivering the product to the agreed specifications and quality. The other risk that product teams face is the 1% trap.

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Antwak Blog

APRIL 8, 2021

A Product Roadmap is a visual mechanism to ideate, plan, and convey the development of a product over a long period. Product roadmaps are created by the product owners and these roadmaps are effective top-notch documents. A product roadmap is given the highest consideration in the Product strategy stage.

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Roadmunk

JUNE 15, 2017

Don’t judge me for the boy band reference. We (Product and Latif) have a weekly sync every Monday on product strategy. Each sync I define a weekly goal for the product team to align on and achieve. As PMs, we should be a wealth of product knowledge—especially at startups. Staying n’sync.

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Roman Pichler

MARCH 12, 2024

But this taught me an important lesson: There is no point in worrying about the product details if a sound product strategy is missing. As helpful as a product strategy is, it’s not enough. 1] While I hope that this makes sense to you, I find that in practice, the different strategies are sometimes confused.

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Mind the Product

DECEMBER 12, 2017

Startups, small and mid-size companies are becoming more technologically sophisticated. Indeed startups are often launching with or driving the development of new technologies. One great experience can outweigh previous negative ones. Emotions are what make us different and mark us out as individuals. Social Media and Brand Reputation.

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Mind the Product

MAY 25, 2018

After the 12-week build, a team of three was tasked with validating and growing the product: myself, and two talented marketers. This forced us to think and act more like a startup, with JustGiving’s CEO in the role of angel investor – and we knew funding would be cut if we didn’t produce results.

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Bain Public

MARCH 20, 2021

There are many peer-reviewed studies compiled by the Product Development and Management Association (PDMA) that illustrates about half of all product development projects fail; this failure rate is especially much higher in smaller and startup companies. The answer is simply: product roadmaps and product development !

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Userpilot

FEBRUARY 13, 2020

The term is a bit elusive: user experience refers to any experiences your users have when engaging with your brand. Product experience is effectively one of those touchpoints. It specifically refers to the experience people have when they use your product. This is usually the Product team’s domain.

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PMLesson's Ace the PM Interview

MAY 15, 2022

Specifically, UX designers sit at the intersection of product design, market research, interaction design, product strategy, human computer interaction, visual design, and more! He first referred to the discipline as "user-centric design," but the overall concept and goal was the same.

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The Product Coalition

DECEMBER 11, 2023

Your goal here is to make those customers happy, as well as convert them into paying customers who ideally would recommend your product to others (that’s a great signal that they are truly happy with it, aside from the additional value of having a reference customer or some product virality).

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ProductPlan

FEBRUARY 17, 2022

In product management, greenfield projects refer to products developed entirely from scratch. Instead, imagine your company is a startup. That is, they’ll be building on a green field with no infrastructure already in place. Adding a science lab to an existing college campus, by contrast, would be a brownfield project.

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Roman Pichler

FEBRUARY 14, 2023

To successfully manage your product and maximise value delivery, you should use additional artefacts including the following five: An inspiring vision that describes the ultimate reason for offering the product; A validated product strategy that captures your approach to realise the vision and make the product successful.

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Mind the Product

OCTOBER 1, 2019

A timeline on your product roadmap does just this, and that’s why you need to ditch them. Your roadmap is meant to be a human-readable document that communicates your product strategy. If a key date is part of that strategy, write it down. Remember, your product roadmap is a prototype for your strategy.

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UX Studio: Product Management

MAY 13, 2024

Our experiences range from large tech firms to startups, each partnership has carried unique challenges and experiences. When there is uncertainty about the product’s compliance with accessibility standards, an expert designer can conduct an audit, offer suggestions, and provide accessibility standards training.

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The Product Coalition

MAY 15, 2019

this was the creation of the Product Owner role. When I created the Product Owner role, I gave it more responsibility for product strategy and revenue generation than a Product Manager. I specifically pulled the best Product Manager Easel Corporation had out of Product Marketing and retrained him.

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The Product Coalition

JUNE 13, 2019

It is obvious to say that a small daring startup will not be expecting your application to resemble that of an IBM. That is, they make it seem as if you have been “visiting” departments without really tying these interventions with an overall product strategy. There is a larger issue here when it comes to “product people”.

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The Product Coalition

MAY 5, 2018

Do you know which is the most important asset for all those things that Product Management deals with? Creating new business models are not a matter of innovation anymore, but rather a matter of survival.

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Product Talk

JANUARY 9, 2019

First, if you ask me for something that I can’t do, I very likely will refer you to this article. I will always do my best to refer you to someone who can help. I won’t help you with your product strategy, be an interim product leader, or otherwise help with your business challenges, other than developing your product teams.

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ProductPlan

NOVEMBER 11, 2019

Roadmaps for established, enterprise-grade products differ significantly from one for a startup. Make sure you’re selecting a timeframe and scope that fits your product’s current state. If someone wants to know how you came up with a particular item, reference customer input, surveys, metrics. Match your maturity.

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Intercom, Inc.

JUNE 3, 2021

If you’re short on time, here are a few quick takeaways: You can’t balance short-term and long-term investments without considering the existing product strategy. If the product isn’t in good shape, R&D needs to prioritize getting it up to speed before focusing on the next thing. But you can overthink this thing, for sure.

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Userpilot

DECEMBER 8, 2022

SaaS companies often struggle to identify user problems worth solving, differentiate their products, and get the pricing right. Entering immature markets and devising a relatable product vision are also serious challenges. Over 90% of SaaS startups fail, only 35% get past the 10-year mark, and only 40% of these ever become profitable.

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