The Product Coalition

DECEMBER 5, 2021

Last month, for example, I met a startup, which had a good indication from the market that their initial product direction was viable. That’s especially true if you need to go all-in with this single direction (which you should, it’s called focus and it’s critical for startup success ) and leave all other options aside. You should.

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Sachin Rekhi

FEBRUARY 16, 2020

I instead define a product manager as driving the vision, strategy, design, and execution of their product. Vision: Vision Narrative. Most product managers realize that defining a compelling vision for their product is a core responsibility of their role. Vision: Product Walkthrough.

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Product Talk

DECEMBER 6, 2023

How does an opportunity solution tree connect with a product vision? I could try to shoehorn these desires into needs—I need something to fill my time, I need nutrients, and I need to exercise. Company factors: How does each opportunity support your company mission, vision, and strategic objectives?

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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

SEPTEMBER 29, 2020

You could be a lone PM in a tiny startup with no Product Management team, meaning that you only report to the CEO, or maybe a CTO. From prioritization to vision, you need everyone on board and moving in the same direction. Be a keeper of the vision. Product Managers like to joke that ‘ with great responsibility, comes no power.’

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Mixpanel

FEBRUARY 23, 2021

It’s been a long-held notion in startup circles that lack of product-market fit will doom even the scrappiest of teams to fail. And beyond the anecdotal, an often-cited 2019 study CB Insights found that “no market need” was the leading reason most startups don’t succeed. ” Credit: The Lean Startup Playbook. In short, yes.

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Product Talk

JANUARY 10, 2018

Many teams use design studio exercises to quickly answer this question. Lean startups use landing page tests to assess the desirability of their services before they commit to building them. Thanks to the rise in popularity of The Lean Startup and design thinking , we have countless examples of prototyping to answer specific questions.

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Intercom, Inc.

JANUARY 24, 2019

Mike has been in and around startups for the better part of three decades: as a consultant, as a co-founder and now as the Managing Director of Salesforce Incubator, which propels new startups into the marketplace. He joined me for a chat that ranged from the role of AI to how they choose startups to incubate. Short on time?

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The Product Coalition

APRIL 19, 2018

The Big 3 ‘Lean Startup’ Mistakes Companies Still Make Are you spending a ridiculous amount of time working on a product, and getting nowhere? If this sounds like you, you’re probably stuck in the lean startup trap. The idea The problem in lean startup originates right at the first step. And you’re not the only one.

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The Product Coalition

OCTOBER 8, 2018

So the product management is the only one function that is offering business startups the significant advantages such as in setting up business objectives, targeting markets to deliver measurable products and services, and prioritizing the goals of startups. Still confused about the concept of product management?

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Sachin Rekhi

JUNE 16, 2019

The first philosophy is often characterized by first setting an overall vision; then coming up with mutually agreed upon goals, often in the form of objectives and key results (OKRs), and holding teams accountable to those results; and finally delegating and getting out of the way to allow the team to perform.

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Intercom, Inc.

SEPTEMBER 19, 2019

It’s a timely conversation for us, coming hot on the heels of the release of our book Intercom on Sales last month and Steli’s own book The 2020 Startup Sales Playbook this week. A lot has changed since Close started teaching people and startups how to sell. We’re not really a startup anymore. to Close.com.

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UX Planet

JANUARY 22, 2025

This is not just a design exercise; its the essence of building long-term trust, loyalty and engagement. Without a strong and consistent digital brand, financial institutions risk being overshadowed by nimble Fintech startups or tech giants like Apple and Google that excel in user experience.

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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. We ran through various exercises in the first week to give us direction, including user journey mapping , product in a box , and the speedboat game. The initial vision was to. This is what we did.

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Bain Public

OCTOBER 13, 2022

(Montreal, Canada) – The Bain Public team is hosting their first ever startup event in November called Product Dayz! Over the last 5 years, Bain Public has partnered with different accelerators, such as Centech , The Holt Xchange , and NEXT AI , to give expert product workshops to growing startups. Event Information.

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The Product Coalition

JANUARY 14, 2020

The Steps and Exercises of the Product Mindset Workshop The product mindset workshop comprises of seven steps, starting with the product vision to the business model to personas to ideation: 1. Product Vision We start the workshop with a recap of the product vision?—?why our product vision?—?is Show Me the Money?—?the

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The Product HQ

JUNE 1, 2024

Product managers who work at startups have their work cut out for them. Nowadays, sharpening your startup product manager skills has become more of a priority than they have ever been. Based on startup statistics shared by Embroker , around 90% of startups fail.

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The Product Coalition

MARCH 10, 2024

Take Apple’s Vision Pro for example. An Israeli startup, Sightful, uses a similar concept of screens displayed in space for another use case — productivity. It’s also a legitimate strategy, and had Apple seen Vision Pro more related to Mac than to iPhone it could have gone down that path too. That’s what this exercise is about.

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Business of Software Conference

MAY 18, 2020

In Times of Scarcity, Clear Vision Beats Rapid Iteration – Guest blog post from Radhika Dutt. In Times of Scarcity, Clear Vision Beats Rapid Iteration. Lean Startup changed how we built products when it was published in 2011 – it lowered the risk in innovation by shortening development cycles.

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Product Talk

DECEMBER 18, 2024

I remember working at a startup where we were striving to get to nightly builds so that we could ship software every day. They take all the opportunities they’re hearing from their interviews and they do an affinity mapping exercise where they group similar opportunities together. I think that was in 2004.

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Lenny Rachitsky

JANUARY 21, 2024

Strategies are fundamentally about what you’ll do in response to a challenge. Richard says you should replace the term strategy altogether and just call it an “action agenda.”

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The Product Coalition

OCTOBER 15, 2019

You are constantly using your roadmap to influence other departments and align their efforts to your product vision. This is a post on its own again, but check out this video in the meantime) Feature Mapping is a scoping exercise to help teams decide the MVP for your product 3. Your roadmap is used across the whole product lifecycle.

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Amplitude

MARCH 23, 2020

I looked into a variety of frameworks: Jobs to be Done , Lean Startup , Design Sprint , and Opportunity Solution Trees among others. We narrowed our focus to just nailing down our product vision statement. We focused on a North Star metric that is reflective of our vision. I wanted to start from the beginning.

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Mind the Product

FEBRUARY 5, 2018

As you might expect, a reasonable contingent attending the roundtable work in startups, businesses where the founder/CEO is still very much involved with the product. In team review sessions, the senior person should share at least one recent failing each time, alongside the learning – this normalises openness, uncertainty, curiosity.

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Userpilot

OCTOBER 16, 2022

A minimum delightful product is a variation of the minimum viable product (MVP) (popularized by Eric Ries in his book, ‘The Lean Startup’ ). Next, remember to keep your vision at the center of your product enhancements. Stick to your product vision and add features customers will love.

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Sachin Rekhi

JANUARY 27, 2013

Product management boils down to owning the vision, design, and execution of your product. Owning the vision for a product involves clearly formulating and then evangelizing the audience you are targeting, the distinct problem you are solving, and your unique solution by which you will win the market.

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The Product Coalition

NOVEMBER 24, 2020

Product discovery using the Design Thinking, Lean Startup, or Lean UX frameworks help. Sprint Planning with dysfunctional teams will only result in a futile and painful exercise. Read more: Retrospective Exercises Repository.) A productive Sprint Planning requires a healthy Scrum Team.

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BrainMates

APRIL 2, 2019

But first, Product Managers need to demonstrate to founders or executives that progress is happening, so that founders can trust that their vision is being nurtured. A Product vision is key to delivering great products. The folks at Aha describe a Product vision as: “ the core essence of its product or product line.

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The Product Coalition

MAY 11, 2022

Finally, “ Building for Business: Product Management in Enterprise Software ” is a truly B2B-focused Product Management book, written by Blair Reeves (Salesforce) and Benjamin Gaines (Adobe) for “all the ones who aren’t part of the Silicon Valley startup bread”. These problems indicate a “big opportunity” (i.e.,

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Intercom, Inc.

FEBRUARY 20, 2020

I had my own startup after Amazon for a few years. I’ve done this twice now where, after going through a lot of fast growth startups in Amazon and my own, I came back to it. Brian: Disagreement journal, that almost sounds like an exercise in from marital therapy or something like that. Five guidelines for disagreements.

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The Product Coalition

JANUARY 31, 2019

From the early days of our startup , I’ve been putting a lot of effort creating a culture of product shipping. Startups can announce a new version every few weeks but if no one uses it?—?that’s Shipping forces you to think harder Leading a product is more than building a vision. Is that shipping?

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Userpilot

JULY 9, 2021

Continuous Discovery Habits by Teresa Torres teaches you how to set up a continuous discovery system within your organization with actionable exercises. The teams she coaches are from both early-stage startups and multinational enterprises in different industries. How product strategy uses a company’s vision to feed the bottom line.

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Intercom, Inc.

FEBRUARY 22, 2018

How does a startup, particularly when you have users who derive value in different ways from a product, go about pinpointing what those should be? It’s about the temptation of many startups to focus on existing users rather new ones. Adam: Do you feel that startups ever underestimate the depreciation of onboarding?

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Intercom, Inc.

OCTOBER 1, 2020

If you’re setting out on your roadmap journey it’s important that it reflect the point of the journey that you’re on – having everyone in a startup of 5 or 6 sharing daily tasks each morning makes sense as they work together to build a feature but in a larger company it’s a recipe for chaos. Paul: No comments.

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Product Talk

MARCH 3, 2021

Another technique that I like to use—after we’ve done some more general understanding of the customer and their unmet needs and their context—is the “Spend $100 exercise.” Teresa : A lot of small companies like startups are founded by somebody who has a strong vision of a thing that should be in the world. Tweet This.

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The Product Coalition

JANUARY 22, 2019

This is supposed to be an open exercise: if you are in a management position, try and encourage usually silent voices to speak up. Whether you are at a startup or bigger organization, it is likely that your team is sacrificing a lot to complete the Sprint. Finally: keep morals high! Of course, we could add a Day 6. Let us know below !

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Intercom, Inc.

OCTOBER 1, 2020

If you’re setting out on your roadmap journey it’s important that it reflect the point of the journey that you’re on – having everyone in a startup of 5 or 6 sharing daily tasks each morning makes sense as they work together to build a feature but in a larger company it’s a recipe for chaos. Paul: No comments.

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