The Product Coalition

DECEMBER 8, 2019

Highly effective Product Managers develop themselves in 5 key areas. Highly effective Product Managers (or what I call Exponential PMs) tend to be strong in all of these areas. This is based on studying, speaking with, and coaching PMs and product leaders. Craft Competence ?? Market Competence ?????

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Modus Create

APRIL 5, 2021

I’m currently a senior double majoring in Finance and Operations and Information Management (OPIM) in the McDonough School of Business at Georgetown University. Growing up in rural Maryland and being the only child to two Asian immigrants meant that I had no idea what finance entailed. My College Experience.

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Product Innovation Educators

MAY 22, 2023

When I met Maziar and he told me about his company, I asked why does the world need another roadmapping company given the abundance of current options to product managers. Summary of some concepts discussed for product managers [2:36] What problems have you ran into related to aligning business strategy and product work?

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Product Innovation Educators

JANUARY 23, 2023

How to get out of your organization’s routine and create real value – for product managers This episode is sponsored by PDMA, the Product Development and Management Association. PDMA is the longest-running professional association for product managers, leaders, and innovators, having started in 1976.

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The Product Guy

FEBRUARY 27, 2020

The wondrous product was used by less than five percent of our entire user base. The launch of the kiosks failed because we failed to realize how the product risks pose a threat to the success of a product. In addition, choosing the wrong product management framework added to the failure of the launch.

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UX Studio: Product Management

NOVEMBER 22, 2022

Besides working as a graphic design firm in the UK, their services include web development combining visual and technical skills in HTML5, CSS, and JavaScript. They merge the mentality of a smaller, independent agency with a major agency’s strategy, creativity, and technology. Together . Will Beeching founded Together in 2018.

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Product Innovation Educators

JUNE 5, 2023

Understanding the roles of product managers, project managers, and product owners Today we are talking about a frequently asked question, which is how are product and project management related. He is a product owner and entrepreneur, with NewGenP being his latest company.

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UX Studio: Product Management

OCTOBER 2, 2023

We’re employing agile methodologies that prioritize efficiency and effectiveness. As one of the best digital design agencies, Basic offers an ample number of services, from strategy and brand experience to content and technology solutions. Their services include UX/UI Design, Product Strategy, and Full-Stack Development.

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PMLesson's Ace the PM Interview

APRIL 9, 2020

CIO’s top 10 , taken from Switchup.org, a review and ranking guide which examined thousands of alumni reviews to rank coding bootcamps based on price, location, job support and instructor quality. Hot off the presses, Career Karma’s review was published only days ago and focuses on coding bootcamps with an online option.

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Mind the Product

MAY 9, 2019

In March last year, my colleague and Mind the Product’s Director of Training, Rosemary King, wrote about how the company departments working alongside a product team could better work together to meet their common goals and to improve working practices. All product managers love a good test. Test Everything.

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The Product Coalition

MARCH 13, 2019

As part of the tech community then you’ve probably already said the word “product” today. Your job may even have product your job title. What does it mean when you say “oh, Google is a product company but XYZ Telco is not”? Due to the rapid iterations, disciplined prioritisation often gets unintentionally forgotten.

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Modus Create

OCTOBER 13, 2020

So how did our tiny, fully remote, and distributed team managed to overcome these obstacles and take a new idea from birth to a fully functional product loved by thousands of users in just a few short months? It’s not a secret, and it has more to do with people than it does with technology. How It All Started. The Process.

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UX Studio: Product Management

JULY 9, 2021

One of them is location, so this time we reviewed the top companies to help you find the right UX agency in London. The team consists of experts in product management, strategic thinking, and agile transformation. Through their human-centred and agile approach, the strategists, designers, engineers.

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The Product Coalition

JUNE 10, 2018

Product management skills: what is this “influence” that everyone speaks of?—?and its been drilled into our heads that one of the key traits for success in product is “influence without authority”. there is someone talking about how important “influence” is to success as a product manager. and how can you get it?

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UX Studio: Product Management

JULY 14, 2021

IDEO partnered with the Rockefeller Foundation to reduce food waste, Toronto Pearson Airport to develop an agility mindset and deliver exceptional services at Canada’s busiest airport, and the Gates Foundation to develop better classroom technologies. Its client portfolio is diverse and impressive.

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Alchemer Mobile

NOVEMBER 10, 2022

You also might be reading this post thinking: “Who’s adding new tools to their tech stack right now?” Incorporating these tools into your customer experience tech stack will drive more engagement, gather high-quality customer feedback, and help inform your product roadmap. Supporting tech. This is a valid question.

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DISQO

JANUARY 8, 2018

In March 2015, Northwestern Mutual acquired LearnVest, a fast-growing New York-based startup with a personal finance tracking suite. Instead of fully integrating the technology and employees into itself, Northwestern Mutual saw value in maintaining LearnVest’s entrepreneurial and digital-first approach.

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DISQO

JANUARY 8, 2018

In March 2015, Northwestern Mutual acquired LearnVest, a fast-growing New York-based startup with a personal finance tracking suite. Instead of fully integrating the technology and employees into itself, Northwestern Mutual saw value in maintaining LearnVest’s entrepreneurial and digital-first approach.

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DISQO

JANUARY 8, 2018

In March 2015, Northwestern Mutual acquired LearnVest, a fast-growing New York-based startup with a personal finance tracking suite. Instead of fully integrating the technology and employees into itself, Northwestern Mutual saw value in maintaining LearnVest’s entrepreneurial and digital-first approach.

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The Product Coalition

MAY 26, 2018

And companies across the globe have spent a lot of time and effort over the last few months interpreting privacy policies and legal documents, assessing product, processes and marketing strategies, and reviewing vendor relationships to make their products and businesses complaint to the new regulation.

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Lenny Rachitsky

APRIL 30, 2024

Few managers: They hire self-driven ICs and actively avoid hiring people who are strongest at guiding other people’s work. A prediction for the future: Johnny said, “If I had to guess, technical PMs or engineers with product taste will become the most valuable people at a company over time.”

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Johanna Rothman

OCTOBER 8, 2018

I’ve noticed these challenges in companies who want to move to a more product-oriented approach: The reward system rewards resource efficiency, not flow efficiency. The company has a lot of managers: people managers, project managers, technical leads, architects. All of these people tell the teams what to do.

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The Product Coalition

DECEMBER 27, 2023

Building effective teams with people from different disciplines can be challenging due to various circumstances. In the product management discipline, cross-functional collaboration is more than a buzzword — it’s a critical strategy. ❌ Common Wrong Strategy: Escalating issues to higher management for decision-making.

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ProductPlan

MARCH 5, 2021

The product manager career path is an exciting one with lots of possible on- and off-ramps. According to LinkedIn, interest in product management has doubled in the United States in the past 5 years. What is the Product Manager’s Career Path? Typical Product Management Roles. Product Manager.

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Mironov Consulting

MAY 24, 2022

I’ve written a lot about the organizational and conceptual gap between product/engineering teams and the “go-to-market” or sales/marketing side of tech companies.  (See I think serious product discovery and end user validation may be stuck in this cultural/conceptual gap.  Product

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The Product HQ

APRIL 20, 2024

Becoming a director of product requires years of experience managing products and working with other product managers. That gives you the experience and expertise to get to the next level, where you start managing other product managers. Then you’ve come to the right place.

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ProductPlan

MARCH 5, 2021

The product manager career path is an exciting one with lots of possible on- and off-ramps. According to LinkedIn, interest in product management has doubled in the United States in the past 5 years. What is the Product Manager’s Career Path? Typical Product Management Roles. Product Manager.

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The Product Coalition

AUGUST 24, 2021

Many venture capital firms were interested in investments at comparatively high valuations in technology companies available around that era. Investment banking firms, substantially benefiting from initial public offerings (IPO), strongly encouraged investments into the technology sector. Startup funding was relatively easy to raise.

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Mind the Product

APRIL 4, 2017

What is Dual-Track Agile? Dual-Track Agile is an IT development methodology where figuring out what to build is as important as the building process. You start with a discovery track to find out if a product idea is good and if it makes sense to build. So how do you know if your product team has a good idea?

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The Product Coalition

MARCH 21, 2019

There may be a sales strategy, a marketing strategy, and product strategy, and operational strategy, an technology strategy, etc. Diffusion of Focus Product strategy is especially tricky because of the centrality of a product to any business. This is why product management exists?—?to Sales has to sell it.

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Roadmunk

AUGUST 10, 2017

The rise of the SaaS model in the product space has been swift, to say the least. So as product managers, knowing how to manage only traditional, on-premises software no longer cuts it. Here’s who we spoke with: Evan Michner , Principal Product Manager at Atlassian. Title: Principal Product Manager.

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ProductPlan

APRIL 23, 2019

How Product Managers can Leverage All-Hands Meetings to Foster Alignment. How Product Managers can Leverage All-Hands Meetings to Foster Alignment. It’s the perfect platform for raising the profile of the product management organization, and asserting its importance. Try it Free. Enterprise. Integrations.

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BrainMates

MAY 7, 2019

Further, The Asia Pacific Journal of Marketing & Management Review (2013) outlines that leadership is much more than instincts and skills. The Product Manager is often seen as the leader of a single product. Product Leader is a different flavour of leadership. However, the two are not the same.

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Mironov Consulting

MARCH 26, 2022

" "Here is another one-line ticket written by non-technical users who don't understand their problem or our system.  We'll  We'll need weeks of deep discovery from over-committed product/design/engineering staff to figure out WTF they really need. "That's not how agile works."

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UX Studio: Product Management

MARCH 31, 2019

Everyone in the tech industry knows this open secret. People living in the city have many good job opportunities in the tech sector, and this drives their salaries up. Big tech hubs and major cities have a higher density of this talent, but also greater competition for them. Tech hubs versus a global design talent pool.

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BrainMates

MAY 7, 2019

The Asia Pacific Journal of Marketing & Management Review (2013) outlines that leadership is much more than instincts and skills. A Product Leader is more than a Senior Product Manager. The Product Manager role is a cross-functional leadership role, often managing a single product.

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Business of Software Conference

AUGUST 1, 2019

And we participated in the transformation into the horizontal layers of technology linked together through open APIs and protocols. So this is what was the iconic new technology transformational vehicle for speculative excess in the late 1920s – The Radio Corporation of America.

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