The Product Coalition

JULY 9, 2023

.” — Satya Nadella Throughout my career, as a leader of product for both startups and Fortune 500 companies, I’ve had the opportunity to interview hundreds of product managers. This experience has given me a deep understanding of what differentiates an amazing product manager from an average one. So let’s dive in.

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Ronke PM

MARCH 26, 2024

After all, the partner teams build products, not the product manager alone. Product management is inherently awe-inspiring. Additionally, providing a safe space for them to share viewpoints and concerns, even in disagreement, is the essence of product management. We all have the best intentions.

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Alchemer Mobile

NOVEMBER 9, 2022

Product management is a challenging role, no matter what industry you work in. But with great challenges come great opportunities, and most product managers thrive on taking on new tasks and solving difficult problems. Product managers must live and breathe their product. The top challenges of product management.

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The Product Coalition

MARCH 5, 2023

Once you get into a senior product manager role, one of your key responsibilities is to mentor and manage your junior product managers. I do know this — I believe each person has a unique personality, and we should approach mentoring and managing based on the understanding that there’s no universal truth on how to do it.

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The Product Coalition

MARCH 28, 2022

I stumbled upon a bunch of product management memes while preparing for a talk. the conventional wisdom is that always building what upper management tells you to build is bad, and that ideas should be bottoms up and coming from those closest to the customer. I’ve written about how to critique design constructively here ?—?PMs

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Clint Padgett – Project Success

MARCH 12, 2024

Episode Information: Clint has a conversation with Dr. Ray Gallant, Vice President of Sustainability and Productivity at Volvo Construction Equipment. Gallant explains why it’s important to “bring out the child in everybody.” This is the first part of a two-part discussion.

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Roman Pichler

NOVEMBER 6, 2023

Listen to the audio version of this article: [link] Leading as the Person in Charge of the Product When you hear the term leadership , you might first and foremost think of a senior manager like the head of product, Director of Product Management, VP of Product, or Chief Product Officer.[

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Roman Pichler

JULY 6, 2021

When you become a head of product, you move into a line management position. Consequently, your focus shifts from managing a product to looking after the product people on your team and empowering them to do a great job. Feedback: You are able to offer constructive feedback so that the other person can receive it and benefit from it.

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Product Management University

APRIL 12, 2021

You’ve just landed your first VP of Product Management job and expectations are sky high. And all they’re going to do is give you the saltier version of what’s wrong with product management. VP of Product Management: Your 7-Point Plan for Playing Offense. Congratulations! No pressure! Meet Customers.

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Lenny Rachitsky

APRIL 14, 2024

They share many of their team meetings on YouTube, and they’ve grown from being an open-source code management product competing with GitHub to a multi-product platform that covers security, compliance, continuous integration, project management, and deployment tools, many of which are infused with AI magic.

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Product Talk

NOVEMBER 22, 2023

the product manager has the final say), instead of collaborating as a cross-functional team. As a result, some have come to believe that product managers own defining the problem and that designers and software engineers own defining the solution. A well-constructed opportunity solution tree does exactly this.

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Roman Pichler

APRIL 1, 2020

It ranges from carrying out product discovery and strategizing work to managing the product backlog ; from talking to users to meeting with marketing and answering questions from the support team—to name just a few examples. To constructively deal with difficult feelings, we must become aware of them and learn to accept them.

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Roman Pichler

APRIL 1, 2020

It ranges from carrying out product discovery and strategizing work to managing the product backlog ; from talking to users to meeting with marketing and answering questions from the support team—to name just a few examples. To constructively deal with difficult feelings, we must become aware of them and learn to accept them.

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Product Innovation Educators

JANUARY 29, 2024

How to become an emotionally fit product leader We are talking about mental health for product managers and leaders—specifically product managers moving into leadership roles and those who are already in leadership roles. Summary of some concepts discussed for product managers [2:55] What is emotional fitness?

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The Product Coalition

AUGUST 9, 2021

All Product Roles Are Not Alike Photo by Lennart Nacke on Unsplash My first gig as a Product Manager was in a Startup. To top it off, I had no real Product Manager experience. Contrary to most available literature in Product Management, the role spans across a very wide set of responsibilities, and no two roles demand the same.

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The Product Coalition

OCTOBER 2, 2022

Becoming a great product manager isn’t about acquiring hard skills. So what makes a great product manager? When I started my career in product I looked up to the Google Product Manager. I assumed this is what a great product manager was like. Being a great product manager isn’t about hard skills. I was wrong.

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Johanna Rothman

OCTOBER 24, 2023

FTE for full-time Equivalent (as in human beings!) “Resources” instead of the words: people, or human beings Construction metaphors, such as: build, which describes how we organize and create a usable product. The first time a manager asked me how many man-weeks my work would take, I said, “Zero.

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Roman Pichler

JULY 9, 2019

In order to grow your product management team, start by reviewing your product portfolio. Once you’ve identified the products, determine the skills required to manage each asset. Once you have identified your products together with the skills required to manage them, find out how many product people you need.

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Roman Pichler

JULY 9, 2019

In order to grow your product management team, start by reviewing your product portfolio. Once you’ve identified the products, determine the skills required to manage each asset. Once you have identified your products together with the skills required to manage them, find out how many product people you need.

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NextBigWhat

MARCH 3, 2024

Once upon a time, a decision was made to construct a road, envisioning the birth of a great city that would rival the best in the world. As the roads began to be built and streetlights were installed, entrepreneurs, investors, and professionals alike eagerly anticipated the myriad opportunities the new city would offer.

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280 Group

JANUARY 24, 2021

In this 3-part series, we will look at how to apply elements of systems thinking to the problems of resilience, sustainability, and leadership in Product Management. The year 2020 reminded Product Managers that our environments are extremely variable, and that surviving market, customer, and internal changes is no easy task.

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280 Group

JULY 8, 2019

However, when it comes to a career in Product Management, just focusing on strengths is not going to cut it. Product managers must think strategically about their skill sets and address their weakest areas to give their products the best chance of success. Requirement for Career Progression.

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The Product Coalition

NOVEMBER 23, 2021

APM (Associate Product Manager) Programs were a mainstay of the tech industry, especially in Silicon Valley, and were a reliable entry point for aspiring Product Managers. Are you an aspiring Product Manager looking for advice on getting an APM role? An APM role is the first step on the Product Management career ladder.

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Userpilot

MARCH 4, 2024

Incremental construction This behavioral design principle allows users to build or create something in a non-linear fashion, giving them the flexibility to approach tasks in a way that best suits their workflow. This not only speeds up the task management process but also enhances the user’s ability and motivation to continue engaging.

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Product Management University

JULY 18, 2023

The short and simple answer is no, but it’s highly dependent on how your product positioning is constructed. As a former product marketing manager, I know this all too well and was guilty in the first degree! Here’s what I can tell you now that I train product marketing managers and sales/pre-salespeople.

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Roman Pichler

JULY 3, 2017

I certainly find that as product managers and product owners, we sometimes have to deal with pushy, stressed, or unhelpful stakeholders and team members —with people who are just being difficult. If we reflect on the nature of our work, then this shouldn’t come as a surprise: Product management is as much about people as it is about products.

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Mind the Product

NOVEMBER 26, 2019

Bad time-management in product teams (or any team for that matter) is a source of pain for many but, by taking some simple actions you can ensure they’re a thing of the past. Here’s how you can support your team’s time-management as a product leader. Time management problems can be an indication of a bigger issue.

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The Secret PM Handbook

SEPTEMBER 16, 2016

In this part we dive into what you really came here for – product management-specific mental models. Why are product management-related mental models different? We have some great mental models in product management. Yet in my experience many product managers don’t know that a value proposition has a specific structure.

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Roman Pichler

JULY 6, 2021

When you become a head of product, you move into a line management position. Consequently, your focus shifts from managing a product to looking after the product people on your team and empowering them to do a great job. Feedback: You are able to offer constructive feedback so that the other person can receive it and benefit from it.

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Product Innovation Educators

JULY 19, 2021

Learn what sets successful product management teams apart. Today we are talking about a recent study that gives us insights into what’s going on in product management and product management teams. I’ve known Greg for several years, as we both volunteer with PDMA, the Product Development and Management Association.

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The Product Coalition

OCTOBER 21, 2020

Landing Page Constructs We examined a combination of popular landing page building tools and the templates they offer to arrive at a set of eleven common elements which current websites employ. this principle leverages on the concept of Loss Aversion whereby the fear of loss is always greater than the desire for gain. They are listed below.

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The Product Coalition

APRIL 5, 2020

When starting out, it’s difficult to know the elements that are needed to run a business, or even activities that are incorporated within tasks of the product managers. A mentor is there to honestly tell you the areas you should grow into and spot your weaknesses, always through constructive conversations.

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DevelopmentCorporate

FEBRUARY 28, 2024

Product managers can analyze their market competitively using the Marketecture tool, which quickly compiles critical company information from various free sources. An illustrative case involves constructing a Marketecture for a last-mile delivery management platform, demonstrating its practical application for informing business tactics.

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UX Planet

FEBRUARY 21, 2024

While we run as a fully autonomous software team in the construct of a balanced team , we are also responsible for planning and directing what happens in each of our disciplines. Your Product Manager will be able to reference your calendar and plan, estimate and adjust their priorities. Be kind and constructive when giving feedback.

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Intercom, Inc.

FEBRUARY 4, 2020

Having the right tools in place to manage, access, and analyze that data is critical to getting the right context on your customers, and without that context, relationships are incredibly hard to build. We have also grown an increasingly sophisticated team and infrastructure to help manage our numerous Elasticsearch deployments.

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The Accidental Product Manager

JULY 19, 2021

The life of a freezer product manager is generally fairly boring. How are freezer product managers going to deal with their new found popularity? To address concerns about equipment and storage capacity, hospitals are working with freezer product managers to create plans to buy special freezers. The Value Of Freezers.

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