The Product Coalition

JULY 16, 2023

In recent years it seems that product management is all about execution and delivery. Photo by Kea Mowat on Unsplash When I moved into product management, almost 20 years ago, it used to be a very senior role. The discussion was about whether or not someone is senior enough to move into product management.

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The Product Coalition

JUNE 18, 2023

It took me time to understand that I need to present myself as a product leadership coach and product strategy expert rather than a consultant. One other misunderstanding that was much harder for me to explain was related to how people understood the word ‘product’ in what I do. Not all markets want to buy this way.

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The Product Coalition

JULY 2, 2023

I’m sure you know this quote and see it a lot in product management. But the difference between theory and practice isn’t limited to product management theory  — mostly processes and methodologies. It’s much more than a UX exercise, it ties directly into your product strategy.

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The Product Coalition

DECEMBER 11, 2023

Photo by Alexas_Fotos on Unsplash When I was VP of Product at Twiggle, building the product from zero to one (and then one to ten and so on), I hired a technical writer freelance. Our product was an API, and we needed comprehensive technical documentation. Great marketing people can’t always market well either.

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The Product Coalition

SEPTEMBER 10, 2023

Leadership without authority is product management 101. But as a product executive, you must take it to the next level — and this time use it with the entire management team. Image by Denis Doukhan from Pixabay In the CPO Bootcamp we talk a lot about product strategy. You have what it takes to do it well.

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The Product Coalition

DECEMBER 11, 2023

Will 2024 be better or worse than 2023? You need to have a product strategy. As I said in the past, a product strategy has to make sense to you before you invest anyone else’s work in it. But how would marketing and sales know what to work on? Regardless of its origins, the downturn is here. For how long?

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The Product Coalition

DECEMBER 31, 2023

Photo by Pixabay I recently led a product-market fit workshop at a known company in the Israeli tech industry. It is a well-established company, a leader in its domain, but it still needs to deliver new products to the market so product-market fit is a very relevant topic.

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Department of Product

FEBRUARY 18, 2022

SaaS Pricing Models for Product Managers 6 ways to price your SaaS product using leading SaaS businesses as inspiration Pricing a product is a critical part of product management; it’s rarely something product teams will or should do themselves and will typically involve a blend of product, marketing and sales.

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The Product Coalition

MARCH 19, 2023

Product management is a creative job in the deepest sense: We create products. But the level at which we need to do so changes dramatically over the course of a product person’s career, and the transition is not always easy. Here are three levels — each relevant to a different stage in your career and your product.

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The Product Coalition

MARCH 12, 2023

We help them with their product strategy as well as building a strong product organization. That, of course, includes helping them hire the right people, and specifically the right product leader. That’s why they are looking to hire a product leader and not just a senior product manager.

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The Product Coalition

JULY 30, 2023

Are they struggling to convince management to secure a budget? Once you understand what is it exactly, you can formulate a strategy. For example, my strategic consulting clients usually need me when they realize they have a product strategy problem (even if they don’t call it that way). Do they still want to try alone?

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The Product Coalition

FEBRUARY 18, 2023

Every now and then, early-stage founders approach me to hear about their product idea and give them feedback. This mostly happens with products related to the product space itself — products for product managers and product teams. But in product management that is never true.

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The Product Cafe

JANUARY 18, 2024

Hello, all you product-loving folks! 💜 Welcome to this week's edition of Product Café, your weekly cup of coffee for everything product management, startups, AI, and more. ☕ Thanks for reading Product Café Newsletter ☕️! Don’t miss it!

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The Product Coalition

JUNE 9, 2023

Let’s get right to it: what are those things you can educate the market on, and where are you setting yourself to failure? The answer to this question is based on the “Product Circuit” model that I use to help companies get to product-market fit and presented here a while ago.

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Department of Product

MAY 22, 2020

Why Product Features Matter Product strategy, features and the value chain What outcomes are you trying to achieve? How does what we’re building align with the wider strategy of the business? Product managers and product leaders should have an inherent sense of what’s valuable to customers.

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The Product Coalition

AUGUST 13, 2023

Our free e-book “ Speed-Up the Journey to Product-Market Fit ” — an executive’s guide to strategic product management is waiting for you at www.infinify.com/ebook Originally published at [link] on August 9, 2023. Oh, and you’ll also enjoy the ride.

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Userpilot

JUNE 25, 2023

Which product management books do you have on your shelf (or Kindle)? Our guide introduces 23 must-reads, from timeless classics to hot-off-the-press publications that are creating waves in the market. Escaping the Build Trap promotes outcome-driven product management to deliver real value to customers.

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The Product Coalition

DECEMBER 11, 2023

As a good product-leader-to-be (although I didn’t know it at the time), I asked them why did they want to do it, and then performed market research to understand the problem better. With this understanding (and proof) I went to my manager and explained my line of thinking. In my case, it worked and I got the budget increase.

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The Product Coalition

JANUARY 8, 2023

A solid product strategy takes time to build. Here is the method I use for creating a product strategy that makes sense. When I talk to the startups I consult to , or with the CPO Bootcamp participants, I always say that building a solid product strategy isn’t like solving a math equation.

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Userpilot

JUNE 6, 2023

Product data analytics and product management are inseparable. Instead of relying on their hunches and anecdotal evidence, product teams should leverage data to make informed decisions. Our ultimate guide to product data analytics explores: The most relevant metrics teams should track.

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ProductPlan

JUNE 22, 2023

Nor does a company that adopts a product-led growth strategy necessarily have to be product-led in its organizational model. With that understanding, our focus shifts to the landscape for product-led organizations in 2023. Traditionally, product managers have reported to either engineering or marketing leaders.

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Usersnap

SEPTEMBER 12, 2023

You can employ manageable yet powerful approaches to drive your revenue growth. A pricing survey is a research method using surveys to obtain information that will drive your pricing and packaging decisions for your product or service. Pricing research is an act of investigation and validation of the market demand and supply.

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Lenny Rachitsky

DECEMBER 12, 2023

I want to accelerate my PM career Fundamentals 14 habits of highly effective product managers How to know if you’re doing a good job as a product manager What is product management How to get into product management (and thrive) Should I become a product manager?

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Business of Software Conference

OCTOBER 11, 2023

Notes from the Sigmacorns at BoS USA 2023. As usual, you really had to be there but here are the Sigmacorn notes… 9:00 Mark Littlewood: Opening remarks Welcome to BoS!

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ProductPlan

FEBRUARY 1, 2023

I have been fortunate to have joined the ProductPlan team as the SVP of Product Management in the latter half of 2022. As I experienced the whirlwind of onboarding and meeting my wonderful colleagues, I also spent much time thinking about the future of product management and the space at large.

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The Product Coalition

DECEMBER 17, 2023

I’m sure that your product, too, has a generic list of competitors. But when you define your product strategy, and your differentiation from the competition, it is important to understand what your real competition is.

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The Product Coalition

DECEMBER 11, 2023

The customer journey is such an important tool when building your product strategy. In product-led growth, its importance is even more significant. For instance, they invited their product manager, Leah, to join Slack. It must make sense for people to make even a single purchase.

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Userpilot

JULY 14, 2023

Step 1: Identify internal stakeholders for product analysis To start with, identify all the stakeholders inside your company that use product data to guide their work. Step 3: Choose important product analytics metrics to track Once you have set the goals, you need to choose the right metrics to measure your progress toward them.

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Department of Product

AUGUST 22, 2022

With that, we had a little discussion about what the best places for a product leader to focus on might be in the early days after joining a company – and how a leader in product might be able to conduct a ‘Product Health Check’. Which leads us nicely onto our final product health check marker: strategic health.

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The Product Coalition

FEBRUARY 4, 2023

Influence without authority has always been the foundation of product management. As product leaders, this is even more important. Many product leaders who were formerly product managers, or even product group leaders in large organizations, suffer from the same issue. The team that they manage.

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The Product Coalition

MAY 20, 2023

Managing companies, like households, come with an often overlooked mental load. It’s not just the physical act of renovating that’s giving us pause, but the mental load of managing it alongside everything else we have going on. It can manifest as decision fatigue, burnout, and decreased productivity.

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Product Talk

APRIL 17, 2024

We have five product managers, one UX researcher , five designers—one of them director of design, leading the design team. All product managers report to me, and we have five product teams up and running. It sounds like you are responsible for product, design, and research. And product marketing as well.

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ProductPlan

JUNE 1, 2023

When your product can do more than it could do before, that sounds like a good thing. 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?

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