Userpilot

AUGUST 29, 2023

A project manager is focused on the completion of a specific project, whereas product managers focus primarily on the long-term vision and evolving a product to deliver value over time. Here’s why it’s important: Defines a product vision and aligns strategy with organization goals. Champions a customer-centric approach.

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The Product Coalition

JANUARY 12, 2023

Not enough people spend enough time on defining vision and purpose Most value propositions are weak Companies don’t adapt their team typology to make a product Very few products are indeed prioritized by value User Reasearch and UX are ofter used in the wrong way 1. Try and fill a product vision board. targeted and user centric.

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Mind the Product

OCTOBER 4, 2017

You therefore have to focus on reducing uncertainty, on better understanding your users’ problems, through test and learn. Learning and growing are antagonistic by nature, which is why many companies face the roadmap dilemma. Ways that the Roadmap Dilemma Presents Itself. Deconstructing the Roadmap Dilemma. Frictionless.

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The Product Coalition

MARCH 8, 2024

Think of digital transformation strategies as your roadmap to success in the digital age. The competitive landscape is fiercer With nimble startups and tech-savvy competitors emerging constantly, maintaining a competitive edge is crucial. Vision & goals Now, chart your course. What are digital transformation strategies?

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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. The standout component is our one-on-one time with the startup founders. Who is LUCA Theory?

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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

OCTOBER 1, 2019

I recently tweeted about timeline roadmaps saying they had to go. I tried a couple of searches while I was testing, including one of my favourites: search for “product roadmap” under the Images tab (whether in Google or Ecosia), and you’ll get a bunch of timelines. So here’s my FAQ on moving from a timeline roadmap.

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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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Product Innovation Educators

JULY 3, 2023

With us is David Rogers, an expert on digital transformation, a member of the faculty at Columbia Business School, and the author of five books, including The Digital Transformation Roadmap. Creating a new startup is a different challenge. Your vision must be rooted in your particular business and unique capabilities.

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ProductPlan

JULY 23, 2019

Product managers wear many hats, but one of the most uncomfortable ones they’re forced to occasionally don is that of the product vision “Gatekeeper.” The harder part is shooting things down that aren’t bad at face value, but don’t match up with the strategy, vision, and timeline of the overall product.

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The Product Coalition

OCTOBER 28, 2019

What No One Tells You About Being a Product Manager at an Early Stage Startup Over a year ago, I asked around, searched for books or articles, went to several talks but found very little advice on being a product manager at an early-stage startup. It’s important for an early-stage startup with limited resources. Be resourceful!

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The Product Coalition

FEBRUARY 26, 2018

Startups don’t starve, they drown. It was 2010 when I watched the online stream of the Startup Lessons Learned conference, initiated by Eric Ries. I went with the cofounder of my first startup, which we used as our own “industry project” for our masters, and a couple of other students to Birmingham.

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Userpilot

MARCH 24, 2021

It helps your entire team rally around a vision and a set of outcomes, making sure everyone is aligned in reaching those product growth goals. How do you set a product vision? How do you create a roadmap? Strategy is made up of three elements: your vision, objectives and roadmap. How do you set a product vision?

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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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Userpilot

NOVEMBER 8, 2022

The idea comes from the world of startups, where speed of learning and adaptation are critical to survival. An MVF approach helps you test specific ideas (you can think of them as a type of ‘experimental feature’). You can also adopt a ‘low effort’ version of an MVF by using fake door tests.

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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 also founded SaaS consulting firm, Sonderhouse , through which she teams up with other experts to provide sound education and coaching for SaaS startups.

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Mixpanel

JULY 22, 2020

As an engineering leader, startup co-founder, and former PM heading up supply growth at Airbnb, I’ve learned a lot about successful goal-setting. You’ve done the hard work to set a concrete goal that’s aligned with your mission and vision. The post A flight-tested framework for effective goal-setting appeared first on Mixpanel.

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Mind the Product

MAY 25, 2018

Initially JustGiving supported only registered charities on its website, but the founders’ vision was to support all good causes. 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.

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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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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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Userpilot

APRIL 6, 2023

To avoid falling into the trap, set clear and realistic objectives that are aligned with the product vision. Pick the right prioritization framework and make data-driven prioritization decisions to manage the roadmap. And it’s not only the extra time needed for writing code but also testing and quality assurance.

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PMLesson's Ace the PM Interview

MARCH 9, 2022

You are constantly considering potential and real problems, testing out solutions and evaluating those solutions for effectiveness. Are you willing to move to another company or a startup to ease the transition? Business goals for startups are dynamic and will give you plenty of opportunities to show off your skills.

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Usersnap

JULY 22, 2021

Managing a newly launched product and thinking about the vision and roadmap of your product isn’t that easy. And sometimes talking with colleagues, friends and your first users will make you even more doubtful about certain new features and your roadmap. Gathering product and user information using product feedback tools.

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The Product Coalition

JUNE 18, 2019

What to expect if you are a Product Manager in Enterprises vs Startups Startup vs Enterprise This article represents my opinions based on personal experiences working at large MNCs, mid-size companies as well as startups. startups Startups —?—?—?—?—?—?—? Priorities can change within a month.

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The Product HQ

APRIL 20, 2024

Test: Once the SaaS product management team creates the product, they then carry out tests that ensure that the product meets the requirements that the product manager established during the ideation stage. Create a fictitious startup within the SaaS industry. Work with real SaaS startups as an intern.

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The Product Coalition

MARCH 18, 2019

A/B test it. Today the universally accepted model for building products is Build, Test, Learn, Scale. We catch hypermetricemia when we focus on popular metrics to determine success, without giving sufficient thought to whether metrics indicate progress towards the vision. Profit should help sustain your vision, not lead it.

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The Product Cafe

MARCH 24, 2024

💜 Welcome to this week's edition of Product Café, your weekly cup of coffee for everything: product management, startups, AI, and more. Lack of Testing ❌ Finally, a critical pitfall is the failure to test and refine messaging. Hello, all you product-loving folks! As such, your messaging should not be static.

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The Product Coalition

OCTOBER 15, 2019

Test the waters first and get your idea validated. With so many stages for a tech product startup, it’s hard to decide on the right workflow. It helps to test the concept and build a base for an MVP. Here’s an easy breakdown of the main startup stages and an overview of how they influence a new tech company’s development.

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The Product Coalition

FEBRUARY 13, 2021

The executive sponsor communicates the vision, strategy and process of experimentation through all levels of the organization, creating a culture of transparency and trust. A well designed Experimentation System - The system includes a strategy, roadmap and prioritization methodology.

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PMLesson's Ace the PM Interview

DECEMBER 14, 2020

In other words, the development phases such as conception, initiation, analysis, design, construction, testing, implementation, and maintenance are all done one at a time in a downwards sequence. Considering Agile projects are continuously tested and developed, Agile products can be of higher quality with fewer bugs.

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The Product Coalition

APRIL 2, 2023

I have launched 3 different (successful) companies, I have sold my own products, I have helped 200+ startups launch theirs and I have designed many products for customers. A good Product Manager should challenge your vision, your decisions, your timing, your roadmap. that doesn’t mean that you cannot challenge them).

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Userpilot

MARCH 8, 2022

How product strategy uses a company's vision to fuel profitability. Andrea’s unique perspective and critical thinking have led her to contest a number of well-established notions in Product Management: from NPS, through KPIs and OKRs , Product Roadmaps , to Product Prioritization Framework – Andrea takes no prisoners.

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The Product Coalition

JULY 5, 2023

It forced me to question a belief, as a product leader, I treated as an absolute — that products always require roadmaps. My mentor and I started in our usual spot, talking about startups and new products in the healthcare industry. Do you think every company and product needs a roadmap?” What about a seed-stage startup?

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Userpilot

JULY 20, 2022

Public roadmaps communicate your feature development plans to your user community and allow them to provide feedback. In manufacturing, the production costs could be huge, so it’s important to test the manufacturing and assembly processes before you start. Use a customer-facing roadmap to gather insights. How do they work?

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The Product Coalition

MAY 11, 2020

Even though the interdependency part would mean greater requirement of precise testing since every building blocks are expected to have different behaviour. Scope of Team Responsibility On the early phase of startup, usually one team would be in charge on end-to-end process. If your company still have manual testing method.

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Bain Public

FEBRUARY 23, 2021

It’s all about exploring, evolving and executing — collaborating closely and roadmapping with your team as a whole. Bain Public’s value here isn’t in procuring the data — it’s in helping implement new roadmap initiatives based on the data. Do you have a solid strategy, focus and vision in place? Explore, Evolve, Execute.

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Mind the Product

JULY 1, 2019

Questions About the Product, Roadmap, and Industry. The goal here is to learn about the product vision. While it’s a simple question, it can help illuminate how set (or open) the high-level roadmap is, give insight into a company’s unique take, and illuminate the clarity of thought (or lack thereof) in a product strategy.

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