The Product Coalition

OCTOBER 21, 2018

I believe this constant change is the reason that people have become frustrated with roadmaps, and in some cases have even went so far as to declare the roadmap dead. For many product people, the roadmap is their first taste of business strategy. But as they say: fail to plan, plan to fail.

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ProductPlan

MAY 11, 2021

Not every product manager is lucky enough to work with a purpose-built roadmapping tool. But those that do seldom return to their old methods of managing the product roadmap. The great benefits outweigh other roadmapping options such as spreadsheets and presentations.

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Bain Public

FEBRUARY 8, 2021

At Bain Public, we’re proud to offer free one-on-one sessions, discounted rates and lead pro-bono partnership efforts, donating company time to provide product-driven startups with expert advice and coaching about product management. In giving back, we’ve established a way to positively impact the Canadian startup ecosystem.

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Userpilot

JULY 18, 2023

Based on the research, PMs develop the long-term product vision and product strategy that are aligned with the overall business strategy. Next, they lead the ideation process and prioritize product and feature ideas. This is essential to build a roadmap that drives the product strategy.

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Mind the Product

JANUARY 21, 2020

Lily enjoys working as a consultant product manager with early-stage and growing startups and as a mentor to other product managers. Lily has spent 13 years in the tech industry working mainly with startups in the SaaS and mobile space. Use the #podcast channel in the Mind the Product Slack community. Talk to us.

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Mind the Product

OCTOBER 1, 2019

I recently tweeted about timeline roadmaps saying they had to go. I even wrote about it in my Mind the Product blog post, Lean Strategies for Maturing Products. When I saw the results I thought it was worth saying on Twitter what I’ve said before: the timeline roadmap simply has to go (said Twitter thread caught fire!).

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The Basics of Product Management

JUNE 21, 2020

These two questions form the basis of any good product roadmap. Learn how to create the best product roadmap. Learning how to build a product roadmap is a key requirement to break into product management. Learn how to become a Product Manager. Creating a roadmap is not a difficult task.

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The Product Coalition

OCTOBER 8, 2018

So the product management is the only one function that is offering business startups the significant advantages such as in setting up business objectives, targeting markets to deliver measurable products and services, and prioritizing the goals of startups. Still confused about the concept of product management?

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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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Bain Public

JANUARY 21, 2020

In collaboration with Notman House and chosen from a list of 13 startups, starting January 2020, we will be providing our Product Capability Building Program for Pre-Seed Founders, pro bono to LUCA Theory, a rising Montreal startup. We care about user problems and how products fit into their lives. Who is LUCA Theory?

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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.

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Userpilot

SEPTEMBER 14, 2023

AI product managers manage the implementation of AI technologies into software products. The UX product manager’s role is to develop intuitive , user-centered product experiences. Startup product managers are responsible for all aspects of the product development cycle in early-stage companies.

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ProductPlan

OCTOBER 3, 2019

But for every success story, there’s a graveyard of failed products laid low by bad product strategies. A bad strategy is hard to overcome. And if no one realizes it’s wrong or adjusts course quickly, a promising product can become a lost cause. What Does a Bad Product Strategy Look Like?

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The Product Coalition

APRIL 17, 2023

Collecting product feedback is one of the main tasks of Product Managers. It’s their job to try to understand what customers need, and put that together with a number of other considerations to create a thoughtful product strategy. Customer emails Email is a primary source of product feedback, especially for startups.

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Userpilot

NOVEMBER 8, 2022

The idea comes from the world of startups, where speed of learning and adaptation are critical to survival. So how does a minimal viable feature differ from the concept of ‘minimum viable products? An MVP helps you define your complete product strategy. You should also consider who you want to test your MVF toward.

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Sachin Rekhi

AUGUST 4, 2021

Some mentioned that while they had worked as a PM at startups for several years, they felt they still lacked the skills and tools to reach the next level in their career growth. Take product roadmaps for example. And yet there is incredible divergence in the quality of product outcomes that result from those roadmaps.

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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

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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Userpilot

JUNE 25, 2023

Hooked delivers insights into the psychology of user habits and engagement to design captivating products. Sprint presents a practical and efficient approach to problem-solving and innovation , empowering SaaS teams to test and validate ideas quickly. Product Rantz is an amusing read on ‘how to lose users and alienate your customers.’

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Roman Pichler

FEBRUARY 2, 2021

Before the advent of agile frameworks like Scrum , a product person—the product manager—would typically carry out the market research, compile a market requirements specification, create a business case, put together product roadmap, write a requirements specification, and then hand it off to a project manager.

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UX Planet

DECEMBER 15, 2023

Have you defined your short-term and long-term product goals? Curiously, many consumer startups allocate large ux budgets for the free parts of their products, & surprisingly little towards the ux journeys after initial conversion. Have you prioritized the design problems to be solved in your product roadmap?

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Mind the Product

JUNE 9, 2020

Moving away from roadmaps. Lily enjoys working as a consultant product manager with early-stage and growing startups and as a mentor to other product managers. She’s currently Head of Innovation at Go Compare and has spent 13 years in the tech industry working with startups in the SaaS and mobile space.

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Userpilot

JANUARY 11, 2024

Solution : create an outcome-based roadmap by identifying customer needs and wants. Solution : create a balanced product development roadmap focusing on optimization and innovation. This will help you create an outcome-based roadmap. Next, target them with a modal inviting them to take part in the test.

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Userpilot

JULY 13, 2022

The Product Collective blog offers lots of practical advice like early-career tips. Ken Norton offers lots of valuable insights based on years of experience in his Bring the Donuts product manager blog. Startup product managers will learn a lot from the Review – blog from the First Round.

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Bain Public

DECEMBER 9, 2021

We’re proud to say that we’ve given over 1000 hours of pro bono work since 2018 for young up and coming startups and entrepreneurs; we take corporate responsibility very seriously. As a business, we want to achieve success in ways that honour our ethical values as well as respect startups and accelerator communities.

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The Product Coalition

OCTOBER 2, 2022

Becoming a great product manager isn’t about acquiring hard skills. So what makes a great product manager? I remember when I joined an early stage startup and started to develop hard skills. It takes time to prioritize something in the roadmap, and it takes time to build products.

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UX Planet

JANUARY 22, 2024

Tangible outputs trump great ideas printed on a roadmap. In the 15 years I’ve been creating digital products, I’ve yet to see a roadmap that develops exactly as planned. Well, that’s how big companies usually plan their product strategies — they are basically writing a fiction story. You can ask Wile E.

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Userpilot

AUGUST 30, 2023

About the author – Else van der Berg Else has over a decade of experience working for startups and scaleups but is currently an interim Product Lead/Advisor at Value Rebels. She has a knack for strategic thinking and loves SaaS in general, especially product-led growth. Connect with Else on Linkedin.

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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. UX designers focus on the product development process.

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Userpilot

OCTOBER 20, 2023

The future of product management leans heavily towards data-driven decision-making, utilizing product analytics to extract actionable insights and conducting experiments like A/B testing. Product managers have to navigate increasingly complex ethical considerations related to issues like data privacy or AI bias.

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ProductPlan

OCTOBER 29, 2019

We’re just a startup, who’s going to want to hack us? Product managers don’t want to spend time worrying about security. The increased speed creates plenty of incentives to take shortcuts in both the development and then testing phases of every release. Don’t think that your scrappy startup isn’t a target. It’s up to IT.

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Lenny Rachitsky

DECEMBER 12, 2023

This post is now the single best way to find my best stuff across both the newsletter and podcast. 🎖️ The Best of Lenny’s Newsletter 1.

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The Product Coalition

FEBRUARY 27, 2023

It allows everyone on the YML/client team to understand what we are trying to accomplish with every design and, most importantly, shows the path of thinking that got us to the designs we share/test. Continual optimization, experimentation and roadmap development ensures we are always delivering the best experience for users and the business.

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ProductPlan

AUGUST 7, 2020

When I started my career as an engineer, I didn’t set my sights on becoming a product manager. Flash forward fifteen years later, and I’m the Director of Product Management at HG Insights. Then, I started gravitating towards product strategy questions, like, “Why am I building products?, Who am I building for?,

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Roman Pichler

FEBRUARY 2, 2021

Before the advent of agile frameworks like Scrum , a product person—the product manager—would typically carry out the market research, compile a market requirements specification, create a business case, put together product roadmap, write a requirements specification, and then hand it off to a project manager.

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Sachin Rekhi

JUNE 20, 2016

The builders are what most folks would classify as the classic product manager. As product managers are often seen as defining the what for their product, they are responsible for driving the roadmap for an existing product to build ever more useful, usable, and delightful experiences to serve the needs of their target users.

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Mind the Product

MARCH 20, 2018

It’s much more difficult to manage a product in its maturity or decline stages, so I wanted to tackle the challenges of a product that’s past its initial growth stage, and share some tips on: – How to avoid becoming a feature factory, while taming your beast of a backlog. The Product Lifecycle.

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