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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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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Intercom, Inc.

OCTOBER 1, 2020

Sales, marketing, finance, support, and R&D all use the roadmap for different thing. Sales want to sell it, marketing needs to plan for it, finance needs to model it, support needs to be able to explain it, and R&D needs to be excited about it. That’s the dream, that’s the vision. Paul: No comments.

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Intercom, Inc.

OCTOBER 1, 2020

Sales, marketing, finance, support, and R&D all use the roadmap for different thing. Sales want to sell it, marketing needs to plan for it, finance needs to model it, support needs to be able to explain it, and R&D needs to be excited about it. That’s the dream, that’s the vision. Paul: No comments.

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Product Innovation Educators

DECEMBER 12, 2022

How product managers can align stakeholders on product projects. Today we are talking about the need for product leaders to manage stakeholders and the associated challenges this creates. Aligning the perspectives of stakeholders on a product project is desirable as well as difficult.

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Product Innovation Educators

MAY 22, 2023

How product mangers can improve collaboration in cross-functional teams Today we are talking with Maziar Adl, the co-founder and CTO of Gocious, an organization that creates product roadmap management software. In product management, I often saw silos coming from top to bottom. It’s evolving so fast.

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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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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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Modus Create

OCTOBER 13, 2020

This solution will eventually be a part of a full mission-based platform to help struggling American consumers manage their finances. We had already aligned on the overall vision, goals, and high-level opportunities to explore. Precise sizing is done in the Scrum method of Agile development in order to reduce timing uncertainty.

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Product Management University

MARCH 15, 2023

Don’t sweat it, product manager purists. Building a product management organization in this manner gets you into your dream job, the strategic product management role you’ve always wanted, and your new title reflects your actual responsibilities. You own the day-to-day care and feeding of your products.

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The Product Coalition

OCTOBER 5, 2020

IT, finance or even the CEO has specified what they want?—?“users Why Do Product Discovery? that is, if you don’t have the budget to do a Discovery then you don’t have the budget to do the build. “We We know the functionality we want”. This often happens when a team works inside-out (as opposed to outside-in).

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Mind the Product

JUNE 22, 2018

He speaks about his experiences of engineering innovative Kenyan payment systems such as M-Pesa and M-Shwari, and of reinventing how we manage asthma conditions using simple computing tools. The service lets customers manage their finances with their mobile phone. Be Faithful to Agile Principles.

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Radical Product

JUNE 19, 2018

Case study on Datank, offering Machine Learning as a service Traditionally we think about a “product” as a physical or digital thing ; an iPhone, an app, a sofa. But what is a “product”, anyway? We met Datank’s CEO, Eduardo Blanco, and Product Manager, Sandra Bermudez, when we were speaking at O’Reilly’s AI Conference in New York.

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UX Studio: Product Management

NOVEMBER 22, 2022

The agency is dedicated to bringing business visions to life using its expertise in design and marketing. Reactive works across multiple sectors, including property, e-commerce, and finance. They have experience with various sectors of the property market, B2B sector, private equity, and asset management companies.

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Product Culture

APRIL 4, 2015

What Is a Product Roadmap? A roadmap is your vision for how a product (or product line) will help achieve your organization's strategic goals. Stating what you will do and when makes it easy to judge when you fall behind schedule or get detoured by good ideas that just don't fit your strategic vision.

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UX Studio: Product Management

OCTOBER 2, 2023

We’re employing agile methodologies that prioritize efficiency and effectiveness. Their portfolio includes renowned clients such as IBM Global, AVON Global, VISA, and ICBC, spanning various sectors such as entertainment, banking, finance, crypto, insurtech, and retail.

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bpma ProductHub

SEPTEMBER 26, 2016

We find that Product Owners and development teams need advanced skills and training in backlog refinement. With a keen focus on value and conducting Structured Conversations using the 7 Product Dimensions, you greatly improve your ability to go from vision to value. Agile Conference, IEEE Conference Publications (2009): 333-337.

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UX Studio: Product Management

JULY 9, 2021

The team consists of experts in product management, strategic thinking, and agile transformation. The packages include short one-week sprints for defining visions and validating them with quick prototyping and longer packages for research services, branding, or design maturity audits.

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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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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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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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DISQO

JANUARY 8, 2018

In March 2015, Northwestern Mutual acquired LearnVest, a fast-growing New York-based startup with a personal finance tracking suite. Fortunately, the stakeholders recognized this and rallied behind a vision to move from a corporate website to a consumer website. The problem though is that it wasn’t cohesive,” he says. “It

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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. Fortunately, the stakeholders recognized this and rallied behind a vision to move from a corporate website to a consumer website. The problem though is that it wasn’t cohesive,” he says. “It

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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. Fortunately, the stakeholders recognized this and rallied behind a vision to move from a corporate website to a consumer website. The problem though is that it wasn’t cohesive,” he says. “It

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The Product Coalition

DECEMBER 27, 2023

In the product management discipline, cross-functional collaboration is more than a buzzword — it’s a critical strategy. Agile Boards It’s common for teams to use agile boards with columns like TO DO, IN PROGRESS, TESTING, READY FOR TESTING, DESIGN, DONE, DEPLOYED, etc. Challenge #2: Leadership versus Decision-Maker ?

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BrainMates

APRIL 2, 2019

We know Product Management is a tough gig. So many articles have been written about this multifaceted, multidimensional role encouraging us to continue to fight the good Product fight. But what about quitting Product Management? How does this relate to Product Management? So I let go of skiing.

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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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Lenny Rachitsky

APRIL 30, 2024

For more stories of how the best product teams operate, don’t miss my deep dives into Linear , Shopify , Figma , Notion , Duolingo , Ramp , Miro , Coda , Gong , and Snowflake. P.S. I’m collaborating with Perplexity on a deep dive into how product managers use Perplexity, and we’d love to hear from you.

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The Product Coalition

AUGUST 24, 2021

The importance of building products that customers valued and the limited amount of finances forced startups to take a different approach when building their products. New movements such as agile engineering and lean product management became the core philosophy of lots of successful startups around that time.

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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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The Product Coalition

MARCH 21, 2019

From a stakeholder’s perspective, why should they defer a critical strategy decision to a product manager who doesn’t share their same goals and objectives? This is why product management exists?—?to I’ve broken a Product Strategy down into four parts.

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BrainMates

MAY 7, 2019

As Jim Collins says, The highest level of leader “builds enduring greatness through a paradoxical blend of personal humility and professional will” A Product Leader is more than a Senior Product Manager. The Product Manager is often seen as the leader of a single product. Coach their team.

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Userpilot

JULY 6, 2021

Product marketing team criteria #2 – Can you justify the cost of a product marketing team? Product managers could write the release notes themselves or train new sales recruits. This diversified approach is necessary for startups and even advantageous in some situations since it keeps the team agile.

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Pragmatic Marketing

JULY 31, 2009

Product managers write horrid requirements that are littered with buzzwords, ambivalent language, and non-specific performance parameters. So product managers try to become more specific by writing what I call ReqSpecs. This is because most companies do not have product designers or architects. Agile is happening.

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Pragmatic Marketing

NOVEMBER 9, 2009

While software development teams have been moving toward agile methods for years, many product managers are only now becoming aware of it. An agile approach applies collaborative and continuous improvement concepts to software development. There is no single, definitive “agile method.” What is a product owner?

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BrainMates

MAY 7, 2019

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. Product Leader is a different flavour of leadership. For the Product Manager, leadership is established through collaboration.

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Business of Software Conference

MARCH 24, 2021

I graduated with a degree in finance, I didn’t want to work at a bank. That wasn’t my, I don’t know, I just got a degree in finance because I felt like I could I was good at it. But what we do is we we follow a system we built called shape up, which is our methodology for building products.

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