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Successful Roadmaps Avoid One Thing: Drift

The Product Coalition

Golden rules for roadmap management. Everyone has a plan until they get punched in the mouth” — Mike Tyson I’ve wrestled with weak roadmaps — even some downright disasters. It was something that happened over time, a term I’ve coined ‘roadmap drift’. The roadmap provided no answer. The issue wasn’t the beginning.

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How Do You Know You’re Hiring a Good Product Team Member?

ProductPlan

Product leaders don’t often get many chances for hiring product team members. Additions to the product team must ramp up quickly. Here are some ways I vet product management candidates to weed out poor fits and spot the diamonds in the rough. Stage 1: Reviewing the applications. Are they team players?

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Are you Solving Customer Problems or Just Building Features?

ProductPlan

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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Setting a UX Budget? Answer These 6 Questions First.

UX Planet

So, how do you ensure that UX gets its due in terms of investment? Understanding your organization’s UX maturity is the first, most crucial step toward recognizing the strengths and weaknesses of your organization. It also helps in saving on directionless development costs. Have you envisioned a timeline for your design project?

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10 Reasons Your Product is Hurting Your Sales Team

The Product Coalition

I try to help product and sales teams succeed under the mantra “Easy to Sell, Easy to Renew.” I’ve struggled to find many examples detailing how to bond product and sales teams ( Antonia Bozhkova offers a good perspective ). Your teams will realign and strengthen their partnership as they see the product through each other’s eyes.

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How Do You Know You’re Hiring a Good Product Team Member?

ProductPlan

Product leaders don’t often get many chances for hiring product team members. Additions to the product team must ramp up quickly. Here are some ways I vet product management candidates to weed out poor fits and spot the diamonds in the rough. Stage 1: Reviewing the applications. Are they team players?

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A Tale of Two Products: BigVision vs. HyperNarrowFocus

The Product Coalition

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.