The Product Coalition

FEBRUARY 11, 2023

Have you ever wondered why a Go-to-Market (GTM) strategy is required when you launch a product or service? How about this — how often do you see a problem around you, and then you decide to come up with an idea or solution? What is a Go-to-Market Strategy? How much are they willing to pay for a solution?

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Product Warrior

MARCH 9, 2023

How do you create confidence in your product strategy with those that approve investment i.e. c-suite or board members? Unfortunately, without anything better, many product leaders rely on the product roadmap to demonstrate their strategy. This is often referred to as empowered product development teams.

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Product Warrior

MARCH 9, 2023

How do you create confidence in your product strategy with those that approve investment i.e. c-suite or board members? Unfortunately, without anything better, many product leaders rely on the product roadmap to demonstrate their strategy. This is often referred to as empowered product development teams.

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Product Innovation Educators

AUGUST 22, 2022

Insights on product strategy and customer research for product managers. Today we are looking at product management work through the eyes of a CEO, exploring several topics together. The CEO joining us is Matt Young, CEO of UserVoice, the first product feedback and research tool for software companies.

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The Product Coalition

AUGUST 4, 2021

Product Discovery is an exercise in working out whether there are customers that want the product (or feature) you’re working on and that you can deliver a solution to them. Product Discovery comes in different shapes and sizes, depending on the situation. At this stage, you might come up with multiple solutions.

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ProductPlan

FEBRUARY 1, 2023

Product teams don’t invest in new product tools without a good reason—we’ve got way too much on our plates to add something else unless we think it will have a meaningful impact. Why are your colleagues not using the new tool A multitude of reasons and excuses for not adopting a new tool exists.

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Bain Public

FEBRUARY 13, 2023

Paul Ortchanian, CEO of Bain Public The SOAP™ approach uses product mission, product blueprint and roadmap pillars to create knowledge and build product strategies that add value, respect stakeholders' opinions while getting teams' buy-in optimizing product delivery through iterative releases.

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Product Talk

FEBRUARY 12, 2020

Her exposure to the product team —and the departure of a previous product manager—sparked Lisa’s interest and led to her stepping into the product manager role right around the time that Teresa began working with the product team as a discovery coach. Widening the Scope from Solutions to Opportunities.

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Ronke PM

MARCH 26, 2024

At the heart of an organization that creates product magic is a product leader who is an expert at leadership and coalition building. These leaders understand that bringing effective products, solutions, and services to market requires consensus building and engaging cross-functional teams in the journey.

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ProductPlan

FEBRUARY 17, 2022

I’ll walk you through a few strategies I’ve found work well for turning a greenfield project into a successful product. The term greenfield gets its name from the construction industry. In product management, greenfield projects refer to products developed entirely from scratch. Prepare to spend months on research.

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Roman Pichler

JULY 6, 2021

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. It means that you’ll have to deal with people issues on a regular basis, help and support the individuals who are on your team, constructively address problems and offer advice.

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The Product Coalition

FEBRUARY 12, 2024

This particular product review meeting was a breaking point. I struggled to figure out how to run the product review meeting effectively. I worked in healthcare technology at the time. Side Note: Asking why and how a roadmap was constructed in a certain way also makes a great product manager interview question.

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Roman Pichler

JULY 11, 2016

If your relationship with the team is poor, then your product is likely to suffer. Respect their UX/UI and technology decisions and their right to determine how much work can be done. Provide constructive feedback and share your concerns. This will not only lead to better technical decisions and a better product.

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The Product Coalition

DECEMBER 8, 2018

Your roadmap is one of the most important things you’ll produce as a SaaS company. It provides a glimpse into the future of your product and aligns everyone around the same goals. I wrote this guide to answer all of those questions, and tell you everything you need to know about roadmapping at a SaaS company. They change a lot.

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Tyner Blain

SEPTEMBER 18, 2023

.’ This is the reason the problem statement template distinctly calls out “Affects…” as a field, versus relying on product people to mention who is affected when describing the problem itself. Imagine road construction on your commute to work in the morning. Like the mobile app which crashes on the loading screen.

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Product Innovation Educators

JULY 19, 2021

Summary of some concepts discussed for product managers. [2:08] 2:08] What is the purpose of the Study of Product Team Performance and how was it different this year? The study researches the factors that differentiate successful product teams from the rest of the pack. 13% in consumer products. 4% in education.

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The Product HQ

MAY 10, 2024

In the conceptualization phase, product managers must identify the vision, mission, and requirements that will condition how a team builds out a product. To do so, startup product managers will need to conduct market research to maximize product-market fit. Sharpen your data collection and analytical skills.

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The Product Coalition

DECEMBER 19, 2019

Slowing labor-productivity heighten strains at times when aging economics depend on productivity gains to drive economic growth. Here, in this article, I shed light on the recent slowdown in labor-productivity in the United States and Europe (particularly the Western Europe).

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UX Studio

MARCH 11, 2024

With over 17 years of experience as a designer, he primarily assists others in their career growth by providing thoughtful, concise tips and tricks, whether related to tools or any form of communication. You have surface level: you’re completely dir ected, you are given a solution and you design the solution.

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The Product Guy

NOVEMBER 9, 2017

Guest Post by: Alex Hsu (Mentee, Session 4, The Product Mentor) [Paired with Mentor, Addi Regev]. A research conducted by Alpha UX found that 25% of Product Manager surveyed wished for a clearer product roadmap and strategy. Research article. Research article. Why do I need a framework?

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Mironov Consulting

OCTOBER 26, 2017

Head of Product: My CEO is a finance guy*, and is pushing the product team hard to prioritize all engineering work solely on ROI. ” So far, your CEO’s ROI tools have led him to success. The same applies here: we might try finance analogies to explain product strategy concepts. See my product pies.)

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Amplitude

SEPTEMBER 5, 2017

As a mobile product manager, you have to stay abreast of the market and make adjustments quickly. With new apps and platforms, the face of tech is changing quickly. Here we look at the skills every successful product manager needs in order to conquer the changing landscape. Understanding app release trajectories.

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Intercom, Inc.

DECEMBER 21, 2021

Productboard founder and CEO Hubert Palan on mastering product strategy. Far too many businesses rely on early-on hunches to inform their product strategies. Our very first guest of 2021 was Hubert Palan , the founder and CEO of Productboard , a company focused on product management.

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ProductPlan

APRIL 27, 2022

The term comes from real estate, where it conveys the image of a literal green-field site for development, undisturbed by previous construction. Product managers use greenfield to describe developing a new product, as opposed to enhancing or building on an existing product. The first product of its kind anywhere.

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Bain Public

MARCH 20, 2021

If it wasn’t already obvious, product development is an investment. Product development is where you’re translating product strategy into reality, namely the tactical decisions for a series of major roadmap initiatives. Each team member is a part of the product development team and has an equal stake in it.

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Mironov Consulting

JUNE 27, 2019

Here are four sets of challenges that are different from managing individual products: [1] Designing, Building, and Nurturing a Product Team. [2] 2] Driving Strategy, Tooling and Outcomes. [3] 1] Designing, Building, and Nurturing a Product Team. See Melissa Perri’s product kata ).

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Mironov Consulting

JANUARY 17, 2019

Many CEOs tell me that they (personally) are the best-informed people within their companies about what customers need , and they (personally) are best positioned to drive decisions on product priorities. Sales calls are not good research opportunities. To pitch what we have available. TO GET TO YES.

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ProductBoard

APRIL 18, 2018

CoConstruct, a software platform for custom homebuilders and remodelers, has always put the customer at the center of their product so the company wanted a tool that allowed the company to surface the right insights to build the right features and tools that their customers need.

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Userpilot

MARCH 6, 2020

As a team supporting diversity and women in tech – we decided to use the International Women’s Day as an opportunity to showcase some of the best talent in the industry – and interviewed the top female Product Managers, Product Owners and SaaS founders and CEOs. Women in SaaS. Women in Product.

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Roman Pichler

FEBRUARY 14, 2023

But it doesn’t tell you where to go and how to get there—that’s what the discovery and strategy work does. 2 Use Scrum for Products that Experience Uncertainty and Change Scrum is often seen as the standard way to create digital products, and I have met more than one company where the product managers were told to be agile and do Scrum.

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The Product Coalition

MARCH 18, 2018

Different ways of thinking in the workplace Working with somebody that sees things in a very different way than you do must be taken as a constructive challenge, not as an issue. An engineer, on the other hand, is someone who may have been interested in math and loved to find solutions for problems. Why designers measure such things?

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Intercom, Inc.

JULY 19, 2022

We study our customer’s wants, needs, and behaviors so we can deeply understand their problems and provide the right solutions. Research and data science play a major role in surfacing holistic insights about our customers and ensuring we’re building products that drive real value. Tools and methods. Research techniques.

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The Product Coalition

MARCH 26, 2019

Photo by Campaign Creators on Unsplash And no, I’m not just going to tell you to have an agenda and start on time Because Product Managers are optional in the land of technology (more on that here ), your success depends on the success of others. I started my career as a software engineer and did a brief stint in QA as well.

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The Product Coalition

JUNE 4, 2016

Product owner doesn’t “own” a team, but needs to coordinate among different teams?—?this this is why a critical skill of product owner is leadership without authority. Below is how to achieve each part: Curiosity: It’s very easy to have curiosity towards business side / front-end of the product. Everyday’s tasks are different.

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UX Studio: Product Management

AUGUST 17, 2018

Usability testing forms a user experience research method, usually a qualitative one, as the core of UX research. It mainly aims to check product ease-of-use and functionality. A typical (potential) user of any digital product should be able to interact with it without frustration, and easily accomplish set goals.

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Product Innovation Educators

APRIL 29, 2024

The PDMA Comparative Performance Assessment Study has identified factors consistent among high product innovation performers, organized into seven areas. Product Strategy Well-defined new-product strategy First-to-market or fast-follower strategy Focus on sustainability Intellectual property considerations Global business model [13:24] 3.

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Intercom, Inc.

JULY 25, 2019

Maybe it’s useful to actually to share some examples instead of talking about this in the abstract, but it’s basically about us having a predictable system. Obviously our goal, like any product and engineering team, is to ship great software that customers, love, value use, etc. What are our principles for how we build product?

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