The Product Coalition

AUGUST 15, 2023

The first was a precise set of tasks, milestones, and deliverables for the diligent civil servants tasked with building — the engineers, designers, and product managers. In the product team’s, err, I mean civil servants’ headquarters, the roadmap was a living document, evolving like a dynamic organism. Enter the product team roadmap.

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Sachin Rekhi

OCTOBER 15, 2018

I've long believed that the most innovative products are built by teams who innovate on the very process by which they develop those products. And in doing so, it showcased how Apple's design and development process was different from traditional Silicon Valley companies in subtle yet incredibly important ways.

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The Product Coalition

JUNE 5, 2022

I hope you find this helpful: Digital product development presents incredible opportunities for us to help our customers and our colleagues. The project launched to realize his vision and his team went to work diligently. However, his team interpreted agile as implementing agile project management and development methodologies.

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The Product Coalition

JANUARY 16, 2024

Product managers and their teams start with enthusiasm, hit the ground running, and create a solid roadmap. The same is true for your roadmap — it takes more than diligence. As a matter of practice, review your vision and product strategy at the same time as you review your roadmap. Roadmaps are a team sport.

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Mind the Product

JUNE 14, 2019

We all treat our products with care, respect, and diligence. Developing a long-term relationship with someone who can act as your mentor and provide advice and direction can help to get around this. The outcomes I’ve looked for on my roadmap are about commerciality, building teams, and the underlying technology. Find a Mentor.

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The Product Coalition

OCTOBER 19, 2020

Alternative futures analysis is a structured analytic technique that helps teams predict how the future might unfold. With this knowledge in hand, teams can more effectively identify and exploit opportunities and adopt risk strategies. As you assemble your team, take special care to select a diverse group of subject matter experts.

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BrainMates

SEPTEMBER 7, 2021

When building a metadata platform, designed to power a new media business, a series of customer interviews with the content producers were conducted to understand the workflow and develop a solution more effective than the existing patchwork of tools. Comparing sessions often provides insights not gleaned by reviewing in isolation.

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UserVoice

JUNE 18, 2018

And this requires that we understand, even to a facile level, the different goals and motivations that other people and teams in the organization might have. Some of these are going to be obvious, based on the actual stated goals of the team or in some structured form like a compensation plan for Sales teams.

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Modus Create

MAY 3, 2023

Common misconceptions with UX and product development UX is a powerful and valuable tool, but misconceptions abound about what UX can do and how long it can take to reap the benefits. Engineering teams likely have a history of delivering features and delivering them very fast. Many designers started as developers. Not so fast.

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Intercom, Inc.

AUGUST 18, 2022

Sarah Dayan is a staff engineer at Algolia , a “Search-as-a-Service” platform that helps developers build index and search capabilities into their own platforms through an API, and the host of two tech podcasts: Developer Experience and Entre Devs. So we do that for customers, and that’s the team I’m working on.

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The Product Coalition

DECEMBER 8, 2020

Corporate forces deserve just as much attention and diligence as you would take to developing a Value Proposition or a Business Model. The tool had to be analysed by legal; he had to say what he was going to put on the web, and procurement had to get involved due to data privacy needs. like existing businesses?

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Intercom, Inc.

OCTOBER 27, 2022

After running the first editions of the conference by himself, Alex sold B2B Rocks and, in 2019, he founded Collect , a platform that helps businesses collect and manage client documents, in the hopes that by putting this process on autopilot, teams can be more productive and focus their energy on bigger things. Alex: I don’t know.

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The Product Coalition

MAY 10, 2021

We just need to start with First Opportunity first as due to our market analysis and business modelling, this is the best one to tackle”. This line of thinking is where success at achieving the First Opportunity and the BigVision begins to get derailed before you and your team have even started working. We’ll come back to these.

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ProductPlan

FEBRUARY 1, 2021

Product leaders don’t often get many chances for hiring product team members. Additions to the product team must ramp up quickly. Stage 1: Reviewing the applications. When hiring product team members I’m also looking for adjectives and verbs that convey patience, curiosity, and a humble style. Are they team players?

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Mironov Consulting

FEBRUARY 9, 2023

doesn’t change the fact that 275 of them will never make it into the product development queue. So each product manager will now spend 1120+ hours/week thoughtfully reviewing and prioritizing and responding to incoming requests.   And requesters really don’t just want any answer: they want a YES answer.

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The Product Coalition

AUGUST 8, 2022

Because scribes display more diligence and industry than printers.” Maybe the snake oil of its time, either way, he failed due to timing. However, it was delayed due to a flood?—?leaving Due to Gutenberg’s lack of means to pay back, Fust received the machinery, type set and supplies. 1492, to be exact. Fust prevailed.

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PMLesson's Ace the PM Interview

DECEMBER 14, 2020

A common question for product managers, project managers, technical program managers, and software developers alike is what methodology to use given a project. Which should you and your teams decide the utilize? Whichever methodology a team operates under will heavily influence how they work and communicate with one another.

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Modus Create

JUNE 1, 2020

The news is filled with tales of hackers breaking into financial institutions, DDoS attacks on credit card companies, and data breaches due to poor software configuration. Phase 1: Due Diligence and Discovery. Due diligence comes first but has its origins in other engagements Modus has conducted over the years.

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Intercom, Inc.

JUNE 3, 2021

That’s the advice of the Sequoia team in their last memo, “ COVID Accelerated the Future, Now Seize It ,” and for the last couple of months, that’s certainly been on the top of our minds here at Intercom. We’ve been focused mostly on looking at how we can grow our team and what might new teams do and what might new people do.

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Product Talk

MARCH 2, 2016

I love that Marty Cagan and Jeff Patton have long been advocates of dual-track development. If you aren’t familiar with dual-track development, it’s the separation of product discovery from product delivery. User stories and user story mapping help a team align around the top priorities and get clarity around what they are delivering.

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Usersnap

MARCH 19, 2019

Should the Voice of Customer influence product development? In Frost & Sullivan’s survey research on R&D/innovation and product development priorities, 84% of the respondents declare that they employ the voice of customers (VoC) in their product development cycle. Do you consider customer feedback?

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ProductPlan

JANUARY 21, 2020

A few years ago, I was the acting product manager at a startup, developing an enterprise software product. Building the product was hard: it was taking longer to develop than everyone expected (of course). I heard requests from customers, domain experts, consultants, our development team, and internal stakeholders.

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ProductPlan

APRIL 22, 2024

Let’s jump in and check out the latest and greatest updates from the past few months, brought to you by ProductPlan’s product team! We’re diligently prioritizing key areas to deliver the most impactful improvements for our users. At the heart of these updates is our unwavering commitment to elevating your experience with ProductPlan.

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The Product Coalition

MARCH 25, 2023

Within it, there is no shortage of products and services that claim they can help you optimize the organization, productivity and efficiency of your product development team’s performance. Luckily, I have a great team by my side to make it happen. Probably on par with “ speed to market.

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The Product Coalition

FEBRUARY 24, 2021

instead, carefully chosen tools and processes help PMs and their teams gain efficiency. Designed to streamline product development workflows, third-party APIs and SDKs make up one popular and powerful category of such tools. But no one can achieve such compressed time cycles just by working harder?—?instead,

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The Product Coalition

NOVEMBER 17, 2022

There are a plethora of platforms, databases, systems, teams, and other tools which serve as the key to unlock our world of content. Why not be part of a team of: development; product; design; marketing; advertising; sales; or any other role that still allows you to learn from a specific field you love?

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UX Planet

DECEMBER 15, 2023

So, how do you ensure that UX gets its due in terms of investment? It also helps in saving on directionless development costs. For example, You’re looking to design a brand-new product from scratch — your roadmap will contain a time-bound list of objectives, their success metrics, and the plan for when the team will accomplish them.

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The Product Coalition

APRIL 23, 2018

But, you do need some level of financial help from an expert, someone who can cast a trained eye on your cash flow, margins, key performance indicators, and overall profit picture while you concentrate on your team, your products, and your strategies for growth. If you run a midsize to middle market business, you probably have a CFO.

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ProductPlan

JUNE 1, 2023

Where are product teams getting their feature ideas? Most concerningly, 19% of respondents reported that their top source of ideas comes from senior management, who are often disconnected from both customers and the product development process. Why do product teams become feature factories?

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ProductPlan

JULY 10, 2020

As the Director of User Experience, our team was tightly partnered with our product management counterparts to ensure we had baked-in practices and habits that enabled all of our development teams to deliver an exceptional product experience effortlessly. The Product Team’s Role in Customer Experience Strategy.

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The Product Coalition

JUNE 17, 2019

For many years CSSSR has been developing IT systems for the biggest online banks, witnessing their success firsthand. This experience has led to several key insights: You Don’t Need a Large IT Department “We operate in small teams. To begin with, the development of new functionality requires considerable resources, including people.

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Mironov Consulting

DECEMBER 29, 2022

 But when I do product due diligence for SaaS-focused PE/VC firms, it's the very first thing I look at.  Let’s IMHO, software product companies are fundamentally different from software services/outsourcing/custom development companies.  Said   What BigCorp demands, BigCorp gets.  Hitting

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Intercom, Inc.

DECEMBER 9, 2022

And this is why we decided to bring you a special episode about these latest developments in the world of AI, what they mean, and whether it’s time to apply it in real-life scenarios such as customer support. ” Similarly, I see managers on Twitter saying, “Oh, that’ll make performance review season so much easier.”

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Product Talk

FEBRUARY 10, 2021

Teresa: For those of you that are Product Talk readers, Melissa writes our Product in Practice series where we’re sharing stories about teams doing great discovery work, so you may have seen her name there. It’s allowing each team to really find what’s going to work best for them. Let’s go ahead and dive in.

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Product Talk

JANUARY 13, 2016

Most teams make one of the following two mistakes: They either gate releases with an A/B test trying to understand whether or not the feature had the intended impact or they test variables blindly hoping to stumble upon a better variation. Dewey would advise us to diligently assess a collection of facts. – Tweet This.

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Sachin Rekhi

JANUARY 25, 2010

Though full scale development is usually left for after the EIR period is over. EIRs typically bring these companies in as potential deals for the VC firm and spends their time doing due diligence and vetting the startup as well as deciding if its a good fit for them. EIR serves as part of the investment team.

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Product Innovation Educators

NOVEMBER 14, 2022

When we met, we kept talking about team performance. The emotions associated with teams creating documentation, which is a conduit to sharing knowledge, were very negative. I reflected on my Uber experience, where I was on a launch operations team. During development, we had been creating a waitlist and had captured emails.

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