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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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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ProductPlan

MARCH 7, 2019

One of the few times a product manager really gets to take center stage and show the fruits of their labor is when they’re presenting the product roadmap. Roadmap presentations are the culmination of weeks, months, or possibly years of work. A compelling roadmap can inspire the company and set a positive tone for the future.

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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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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

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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ProductCraft

JULY 25, 2019

What I am referring to is the sales and business development data stored in the company’s CRM and diligently maintained by the sales operations team. Why not take your product roadmap to the next.

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UserVoice

JUNE 18, 2018

and while you may be the one given domain over the roadmap, your stakeholders take these peers’ opinions of your work into serious account. 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.

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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. Just like a product roadmap shouldn’t simply be a list of to-do items , I’m looking for outcomes and objectives in this context. Are they team players?

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ProductPlan

JUNE 1, 2023

Added functionality, new capabilities, a more robust feature set…these are the talking points product marketers salivate over and executives search for on product roadmaps. Where are product teams getting their feature ideas? Why do product teams become feature factories? But are you solving for actual customer problems?

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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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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. Have you prioritized the design problems to be solved in your product roadmap? A product roadmap is a guiding document that details how your product strategy is to be transformed into a reality.

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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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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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The Product Coalition

FEBRUARY 24, 2021

Today’s rapidly evolving tech landscape favors short feedback loops and requires roadmap flexibility to pivot and solve customers’ most pressing problems as they arise. instead, carefully chosen tools and processes help PMs and their teams gain efficiency. But no one can achieve such compressed time cycles just by working harder?—?instead,

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ProductPlan

JULY 1, 2020

Let’s begin this process by reflecting and reviewing. Did your roadmap change? It doesn’t take a virus to derail a roadmap. It doesn’t take a virus to derail a roadmap. User behaviors changed a lot since January, so many of the key metrics companies and product teams care about have also been impacted.

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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.

Customer Experience 71

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ProductPlan

DECEMBER 4, 2019

Situation: You’ve painstakingly constructed a roadmap after consulting with various stakeholders, the development team, and your peers. Soft skills” aren’t always part of their repertoire, not to mention loads of “ developer-speak.”. Dropping the news that something is late on the day it was due is doing you no favors.

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The Product Coalition

JUNE 26, 2023

A Five-Step Methodology to Incorporate Generative AI into Business Strategy Developers, technologists, and innovators across enterprises are already using the new tools to boost their individual productivity at work and at home. You should invest in new technologies or upskill your team to implement generative AI successfully.

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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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ProductPlan

AUGUST 12, 2024

As a proven solution for more than a decade, ProductPlan has helped 1000s of companies build more than 700,000 roadmaps and plan more 8,000,000 initiatives. Book a Consultation Enterprise Growth Platform Capabilities Unlimited Roadmaps Easily collaborate, share, and transfer between users. A straightforward solution. Proven results.

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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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Intercom, Inc.

DECEMBER 2, 2021

From the process of disambiguation and the worst outage we ever had to our obsession with speed and how legal and engineering teams can work better together, Engineer Chats will give you a peek behind the engineering process at Intercom. The legal team isn’t there to slow R&D down. That is an ambiguous problem.

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Product Innovation Educators

JULY 4, 2022

A group of passionate users in our social media and forum communities drives our roadmap and and helps us understand the problems we need to solve. 8:00] Tell us more about how you’re developing your core capabilities, especially AI visual recognition. For the last few months, I’ve been sharing our roadmap.

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ProductPlan

NOVEMBER 19, 2021

Who will we want to include in our cross-functional product team? How should we arrange the strategy, brainstorming, and planning meetings for this team? What mechanism will we use to review and weigh priorities on what to build? The steps include the following: Building your cross-functional team. Product roadmapping.

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ProductPlan

MARCH 17, 2020

Does your management team appear to occasionally have the attention span of a fruit fly in a farmers market? When SOS sets in, it creates a cascade of chaos, unleashing all sorts of problems for the product team. They don’t always have the same drive and commitment to the current strategy as the product team.

Technical Review 69

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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. Just like a product roadmap shouldn’t simply be a list of to-do items , I’m looking for outcomes and objectives in this context. Are they team players?

Development Team Review 52

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The Product Coalition

JUNE 24, 2021

In this article, we want to tell you about what happened behind the scenes, including the deck we presented to the Benchmark team. This is what happened again with the Benchmark team. Airbyte essentially makes them autonomous; they are no longer dependent on the priorities of the data or software engineering team.

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The Product Coalition

MARCH 6, 2019

Bringing team members together, organizing user research, product demos, road mapping and more. They also said they wished they had a clearer product roadmap strategy. Review any existing feedback you have as well as additional direct channels such as chat bots, surveys, focus groups, and interviews.

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Oren Steinberg

DECEMBER 27, 2017

A nice starting point is to define the Role of Business Development as Filtering and Building partnerships that further the organization towards its goals. You first need to plan what type of partnerships your business needs, and only then you can engage the market and review the partnerships’ opportunities.

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Gainsight

MARCH 19, 2020

And that’s driven thousands of customer success professionals who were used to seeing their clients and teams every day to learn the ins and outs of “virtual” CS. Thanks to many, including Marco Innocenti and the team at Zoom, as well as Jay Nathan. We hosted a webinar with Slack on this topic. Watch the recording here! Turn On Video.

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Split

MARCH 20, 2024

By optimizing release management flows, teams can facilitate on-demand deployments that enhance business agility without compromising stability. Understanding precisely how to improve release management is key for more efficient software development. Effective release management is pivotal for agile software development.

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ProductPlan

AUGUST 12, 2024

As a trusted solution for over a decade, ProductPlan has empowered thousands of companies to build more than 700,000 roadmaps and plan over 8,000,000 initiatives. Unlimited Roadmaps Easily collaborate, share, and transfer between users. Customizable Views Create views and filters of roadmaps for specific audiences.

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ProductPlan

MARCH 14, 2023

Regardless of their scale and scope, they’re all products with production schedules, marketing plans, sales teams, logistics specialists, and—in most cases—product managers. All of that factors into creating comprehensive project schedules and product roadmaps , which then inform the far more complex go-to-market tactics for this industry.

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Bain Public

OCTOBER 19, 2019

Here are the 3 roles Product Managers must perform to achieve roadmap leadership: The Diplomat It’s not our role to dictate through authority where the product should go. Everyone’s opinion matters, and when they trust that we’re listening, a culture of respect develops. What gaps are being uncovered in sales?

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Modus Create

JUNE 18, 2021

Here’s what a comprehensive security assessment looks like: Step 1 – Due Diligence. SDLC (Software Development Life Cycle) of the organization . During the initial development phase of applications, engineers occasionally make errors that can cause security issues down the line. The Security Assessment Process.

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Gainsight

SEPTEMBER 6, 2022

It’s about aligning everyone from product development to marketing to sales teams around the outcomes customers seek, not the technology or services you’re selling. Because churn is a slippery slope, most investors now perform due diligence on customer retention as much as any other part of the business.

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