The Product Coalition

JUNE 9, 2023

If you do things that are purposeful, you’ll eventually be successful.” — Howard Schultz Several years ago, I found myself in a heated discussion about product roadmaps with a client. This exchange unfolded over weak, black coffee in your typical, bland white-walled corporate conference room. Why not, indeed? That’s simply a byproduct.

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Roman Pichler

AUGUST 15, 2023

When that’s the case, a product is usually progressed based on the features requested by the users and stakeholders. This can result in a Frankenstein product, a product that has a horrible value proposition and offers an awful user experience instead of creating real value for the users and the business.

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Mind the Product

JUNE 19, 2017

The only part of it that ever made me cringe was when a question about the product roadmap caught me flat-footed: “Why is this on the roadmap?”. “Oh, It’s been on the roadmap for a while, but I’m not sure we’ll actually get to it…”. “Oh, Managing the “Shadow Product Team”. Oh, the CEO really wants to do this.

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People-First Product Leadership

DECEMBER 20, 2023

Part 1, we covered the “why” behind creating a strategy stack, with a focus on establishing the organization’s Mission, North Star, and Vision. Part 3 brings together the Product specific Vision, Roadmap and Goals. What is the vision for the future you want to create? What ground has been covered?

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Ronke PM

JULY 16, 2024

Table of Contents Understanding Customer Needs is the Path to Innovation Product and Research Partnership Research-driven leadership in product management Final thoughts Innovation thrives when we can seize opportunities in moments of struggle. Our customers exist independently of our products.

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Roman Pichler

APRIL 5, 2022

Contrast this with a sprint review meeting , which might help you determine if users can easily sign up for the product. But for sprint review meetings , you may also want to invite (selected) users and customers to collect their feedback. Discuss development progress and user feedback on the latest product increments.

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Roman Pichler

JULY 11, 2016

Manage the Product, not the Team. Focus on your job as the product manager or product owner, and manage the product, not the team. But let the ScrumMaster or coach tackle people, process, and organisational issues; let the development team figure out what needs to be done to implement the user stories and other product backlog items.

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Product Talk

SEPTEMBER 4, 2024

. – Tweet This The product team at Botify knows this all too well. While Chief Product Officer Christophe Frenet initially guided this transition, many members of the team stepped in to facilitate this process. However, Claire adds it wasn’t all bad. Along the way, they’ve given a lot of thought to this process.

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Roman Pichler

MAY 11, 2021

But the value a product creates is ultimately determined by its users: No product will be successful in the long run if it does not solve a specific user problem, create a tangible benefit, or help the users achieve a specific goal. Myth #3: The product owner is responsible for the team performance.

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Userpilot

JUNE 30, 2022

While everyone talks about product-market fit, finding product-customer fit is equally important when it comes to engaging the right customers and driving success. So, how can you determine customer fit and get the right user feedback to ensure customer success? What is customer fit?

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Product Bookshelf

APRIL 15, 2024

Martin Good Strategy, Bad Strategy by Richard Rumels Product strategy is a set of choices informed by product vision and company objectives. Strategy development requires imagination and creativity ; a good strategy is not the result of detailed analysis. ” is rivaled only by “What is a roadmap?”

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Roman Pichler

JULY 6, 2021

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. For instance, you might show the individuals how they can make effective strategic product decisions, create an actionable product roadmap, and effectively use the right KPIs.

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Userpilot

DECEMBER 13, 2023

How do you develop a robust UX strategy? TL;DR UX strategy provides guidance to the UX design team on how to create and improve experiences that satisfy user needs. TL;DR UX strategy provides guidance to the UX design team on how to create and improve experiences that satisfy user needs. What is a UX strategy?

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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. The Brave New Agile World.

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The Product Coalition

JANUARY 12, 2023

You can only experience it, make your own mistakes and share your insights with the community. Not enough people spend enough time on defining vision and purpose Everybody talks about Simon Sinek’s golden circle, about Ikigai, about purpose and other synonyms, but no one really puts a lot of effort on finding purpose and meaning.

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Userpilot

JANUARY 16, 2024

From analyzing market trends to churning user needs and technical feasibility into golden product ideas, there are many benefits of ChatGPT for product managers. TL;DR The machine learning-powered ChatGPT can help product managers generate ideas, conduct market and user research , analyze data (app store reviews, user feedback, etc.),

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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? It helps you find product-market fit and gives your team direction. How do you set a product vision?

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ProductPlan

DECEMBER 1, 2022

Customer feedback, feature requests, and new ideas born from your interpretation of your product strategy—can all be the starting point for your company’s next great opportunity. Specifically, we want to help product teams make better decisions. How are product teams managing their ideas today? They come from everywhere.

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The Product HQ

JUNE 1, 2024

The product management world relies on teams of product people who work in unison toward a central goal. For that reason, each person on the team needs to know exactly what they have to do and how. They work with typical product management software and also manage the product roadmap as well as the product team.

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Intercom, Inc.

OCTOBER 1, 2020

On this episode of Intercom on Product myself and Paul Adams, our SVP of Product, take a look at roadmapping. Knowing how and when to define a roadmap, who to include and how long to plan for are key elements to finding the balanced approach that you need. As you grow functions, the audience for your roadmap widens.

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Intercom, Inc.

OCTOBER 1, 2020

On this episode of Intercom on Product myself and Paul Adams, our SVP of Product, take a look at roadmapping. Knowing how and when to define a roadmap, who to include and how long to plan for are key elements to finding the balanced approach that you need. As you grow functions, the audience for your roadmap widens.

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Userpilot

MAY 30, 2024

Keep reading to discover his invaluable insights about aligning PMs and PMMs for product success. TL;DR Aatir Abdul Rauf, VP of Marketing at vFairs, shares valuable insights on aligning product managers and product marketing managers. Book a demo to learn about its engagement, feedback, analytics, and self-service features.

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Userpilot

APRIL 30, 2024

In many ways, he has shaped how successful products are built and how teams can be organized to work toward excellence. In this role, he drove the development of products that took eBay’s global e-commerce platform to new levels of success. Marty Cagan is a popular name in the product management world. Who is Marty Cagan?

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The Product Coalition

MARCH 8, 2024

Think of digital transformation strategies as your roadmap to success in the digital age. They involve integrating digital technologies and processes into every aspect of your business, from operations to customer interactions. Failure to meet these expectations can lead to customer churn and missed opportunities.

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Lenny Rachitsky

APRIL 28, 2024

Kayvon treated sacred cows like a “built-in roadmap” of innovations worth testing. Founders of acquihired companies led the teams behind Community Notes, Spaces, Super Follows, Fleets, Communities, Tipping, and more. Building 0 to 1 is extremely hard if the entire team isn’t bought into the vision.

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Agile Velocity

MAY 3, 2024

Agile has been shown to shorten time-to-market, increase quality, instill predictability, improve customer satisfaction, and create an overall happier working culture. Business agility encompasses aspects such as product innovation, customer-centricity, cross-functional collaboration, and adaptive strategy execution.

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The Product Coalition

AUGUST 15, 2022

that products always require roadmaps. Do you think every company and product needs a roadmap?” maybe not such a bad thing in this case. Then I thought further; maybe complete scenarios exist where roadmaps aren’t needed. When a company is in concept, seed stage, even Series A or the equivalent, roadmaps aren’t valuable.

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Userpilot

APRIL 6, 2023

Developing and releasing sophisticated products with all the bells and whistles imaginable might seem like a great idea. Overengineered products are difficult to use, filled with bugs, and instead of improving your users’ lives, they make them unnecessarily complicated. Poor prioritization and external pressure are also common causes.

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Userpilot

JULY 31, 2023

TL;DR Pendo is a product growth platform for product , marketing , customer success , and UX design teams. It enables businesses to analyze user in-app behavior , collect customer feedback to make data-led decisions, improve user onboarding, and communicate effectively with users.

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Userpilot

OCTOBER 25, 2022

In the article, we’re looking at the responsibilities of strategic product managers and how they can use data effectively to shape product strategy and deliver delightful experiences to users! They tell the product management team what they need to achieve. Measuring user sentiment with NPS surveys is easy.

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Ronke PM

MARCH 26, 2024

These leaders understand that bringing effective products, solutions, and services to market requires consensus building and engaging cross-functional teams in the journey. After all, the partner teams build products, not the product manager alone. We just execute differently, and sometimes we have a bad day or week.

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Userpilot

AUGUST 18, 2024

However, to learn more, you’ll have to listen to the man himself as he develops the topic at the 2024 Product Drive Summit. TL;DR Ant Murphy is a product coach and founder of Product Pathways who strongly believes that great product teams build great products. Ant Murphy is a product coach and founder of Product Pathways.

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Mind the Product

FEBRUARY 15, 2018

Much has been written about the process of creating product roadmaps, not least the six great articles written by my own team. I believe the actions of a product leader all too often are the root cause of a “bad” roadmap. I would define a good roadmap as one that the team understands and feels ownership over.

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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.

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Intercom, Inc.

JULY 28, 2022

Those line charts showing fast-rising user acquisition or explosive ARR have been synonymous with the industry over the past decade. By the time he left to join Google Cloud as EMEA VP of Operations and Customer Growth, Salesforce had around 17 billion dollars in revenue and almost 50,000 employees. A new chapter.

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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. The Brave New Agile World.

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The Product HQ

JUNE 1, 2024

Technical Skills As an AI product manager, not having a strong command of the technical aspects of product development is out of the question. You need to know what the product does, the role it plays, and how it improves its target customers’ lives. Working as a manager in a previous post helps you sharpen most of these skills.

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