The Product Coalition

NOVEMBER 2, 2021

My take on it: while I love ex-developer PMs, and find that their teams often execute better, this is by no means a requirement. However, if a non-techy PM meets a non-businessy team lead, things can go sideways pretty quickly. while the user name does have a unique id, the team and content do not. Why is this important?

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The Product Coalition

MAY 12, 2022

As a product leader who has consulted with, worked for, and sold products to large companies my entire career, it comes down to three essential actions tied to a feeling you need to evoke. And remember, even if you have sold the senior executive, their team still needs to become allies in the deployment of your product.

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Mixpanel

MAY 3, 2019

Throughout his career, Al has focused on helping companies develop and execute digital strategies to grow their business and stay ahead of the curve. Developing a mobile product is a daunting task. This Growth process is ongoing and ever-evolving, requiring your team to continuously iterate. Poor Data Integrity.

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Intercom, Inc.

SEPTEMBER 10, 2020

It’s an approach that’s served him well along the road to building the HubSpot sales team, where he was CRO for nine years. This has created large amounts of data for running teams. . And the teams now need a more defined structure. Instead, Mark advocates grouping teams by customer type or geography.

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Mind the Product

APRIL 3, 2019

A UK-based consultant, Joe Leech has built a reputation for managing change (for both users and stakeholders) and as the guy to call when a product launch has gone wrong. Troubleshooting a poor product launch. Troubleshooting a poor product launch. Just call him Mr Joe. Managing change with users and stakeholders.

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Mind the Product

MARCH 24, 2020

We’re running this episode again to remind everyone to take a moment, engage your team, and think through both how the decisions you make now can help and how they can be misused – and then take action to mitigate the latter. Ethical frameworks for product development. Quote of the Episode. The Black Mirror Test.

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The Accidental Product Manager

JANUARY 3, 2022

It turns out that their product managers forgot what was in their product development definition and made a product mistake that this has ended up having huge ramifications online where Gucci had been doing very well. These will include window displays at Saks Fifth Avenue in New York and events in the store. What went wrong?

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Product Talk

SEPTEMBER 9, 2020

While I tend to focus on helping teams, Petra’s work centers around helping product leaders—the people who manage product managers. She has a big focus on people development, helping product managers and product leaders get better at their craft. I know we’ve met a few times at different Mind the Product events.

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The Product Coalition

DECEMBER 2, 2020

He is working in the capacity of a technical consultant in his current assignment in Bangalore, India. His entire career seems to be in the e-commerce domain right from his career commenced in Software development. Scrum is a framework that thrives upon Self-managing teams. What Does the Scrum Master Do All Day?

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The Product Coalition

NOVEMBER 30, 2022

But many, many products are developed without knowing from the start that people want the solution, or even care about the problem. Jobs To Be Done has given us a better way to approach customer development. Teams who implement JTBD often come back with “ Problems To Be Solved.” Why does this happen? It seems so simple!

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Mironov Consulting

DECEMBER 17, 2023

  The upside (for the sales team) is huge, and the cost (for product/engineering/support) is diffuse.    Closing this $480k/year license deal is highly visible to the exec team and Board.   What events down the road might force us to “fix” this connector?   Far away. 

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Userpilot

FEBRUARY 3, 2021

Then, when you finally put together your user journey map and want to optimize your touchpoints and eliminate bad experiences, you can face two barriers: The Analytics Black Hole – Can’t see the forest before the trees. The Bottleneck -Your software developer who is too busy to take on every experiment you want to run.

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Gainsight

JUNE 11, 2021

Team Up with Sales to Drive Revenue with Kristen Hayer, Founder & CEO at The Success League. But both teams should be working together to drive more revenue than attacking the customer base separately. It begins with identifying and developing outcomes. Staff it properly and invest in a proper team.

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Intercom, Inc.

AUGUST 15, 2019

If an organization’s founders aren’t designers and don’t come from a background where well-designed products played a key role in their lives, it can often be the last discipline to be brought onboard the team. On a bad day, a lot more of it got thrown away. My responsibility was to build a design team in that new agile way of working.

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The Product Coalition

JANUARY 7, 2019

Bad facsimile credit: Myself Hi reader, Wait a sec, please don’t run away! So yeah, I’ve been working closely with developers for about 5 years now, without the aptitude of being able to (theoretically) join them, even for small/easy tasks. without a real way to influence the actual course of events. And I’m fed up with it.

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The Accidental Product Manager

MARCH 11, 2019

Product managers are generally considered to be valuable members of the product team who work on the product development definition and we can have a direct impact on the bottom line of the product project that we are involved in. Was I a bad person? I’m not 100% sure what the takeaway lessons from this event are.

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Userpilot

JULY 9, 2021

Product Mastery by Geoff Watts teaches you how to be a successful product owner within agile software development practices with the use of case studies. The Lean Product Playbook by Dan Olsen is a practical guide on implementing the Lean Product methodology based on years of Olsen’s consulting work. How to build an onboarding team.

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The Product Coalition

MAY 7, 2020

Source: Animated Times During my career, I have worked extensively as both a project manager and a product manager; within consulting and in multiple industries. The stages of product development Using six questions we can determine the primary role of both product and project managers concerning product development.

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Mironov Consulting

DECEMBER 5, 2023

Pure revenue may be helpful for the Sales organization, since they probably need to hire 35% more account teams each year.  ”  “Once product/engineering give us hard dates tied to exact feature definitions and use cases and Ideal Customer Profiles, Sales can form the right account-based selling teams.” 

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BrainStation Product Management

NOVEMBER 27, 2018

From the production of Red Dead Redemption 2 to the Adidas Yeezys, Product Managers (PMs) are an increasingly important component to the product development process, acting as the “ glue that binds user experience with technical and business requirements. ”. Know Your Industry and Develop a Diverse Skill Set.

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ProductPlan

OCTOBER 29, 2019

The developers will handle it. When we talk about the customer journey, it, unfortunately, must include these kinds of unfortunate events. Most often, it won’t matter if it’s not intentional or was initiated by a bad actor from outside the company, If things go sideways, it could even result in a permanent shutdown.

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The Accidental Product Manager

JULY 29, 2019

In order to stay current and retain customers, the Crate and Barrel product managers knew that their product development definition had to change. What this means is that Crate and Barrel is now seeking to develop a more inspirational approach to both their media catalog and their website. Blue Elephant Consulting –.

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Intercom, Inc.

MAY 13, 2021

Although Linda started her career in sales, she has spent the past twelve years scaling post-sales teams and moving hyper-growth companies like Zendesk, Slack, and now Gong upmarket into the enterprise realm. So how do you create a strong, enterprise-ready team? Not just support on steroids: How to build a customer success team.

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Under 10 Consulting

MAY 15, 2020

The roadmap is one of the most common tools requested of product teams by executives, development and operations, sales and marketing teams, and key customers. . ?. Unless something really bad happens, the stories will be completed in the next few iterations or sprints, typically within a quarter.

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Userpilot

NOVEMBER 15, 2021

Interactive help centers enable your business to support more customers and improve customer satisfaction without having to rely solely on your support team. Segmentation features aren't very intuitive and may require additional help from a developer. The poor UI design may actually slow your team down. Professional.

Analytic Tools 98

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Intercom, Inc.

APRIL 8, 2021

As face-to-face consultations were no longer an option for many healthcare providers, Joel and his team dropped everything and asked themselves: what could they build to help their customers (and their customers’ patients) adapt to the new normal? It was exciting, and the worst-case scenario wasn’t so bad.

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Business of Software Conference

JUNE 21, 2019

From page 1 of Obviously Awesome: How To Nail Product Positioning So Customers Get It, Buy It, Love It , it was clear that the team at Business of Software needed to read April Dunford’s new book. As an executive consultant, April Dunford brings 25 years of marketing experience to the table with this book. Upcoming Events.

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Amplitude

NOVEMBER 26, 2019

People in non-technical roles rely on data every day to make decisions, develop ideas or measure success. We can create empathetic, intuitive systems When everyone on the team is empowered to understand data, they can make more informed decisions and measure their own success. He’s been conditioned to not bother the data team.

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BrainMates

DECEMBER 12, 2019

The gap between rich and poor is widening, and this is causing an increasing disenchantment with the model which has been so successful. As a social entrepreneur with Full Time Lives and in my Product Management consulting work for Brainmates. Our world is in the midst of some seismic changes. Measuring more than profit.

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The Product Coalition

JUNE 21, 2021

Many worked from home on tasks ranging from organising team activities via Slack, analysing data and collaborating on documents via Google Docs, to discussing strategies via Microsoft Teams and coaching clients via Zoom. Motor: Weakness in how one can control their muscles, bones and joints. More on that later.

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BrainStation Product Management

AUGUST 28, 2019

Product Managers are increasingly important to the product development process and have been called the “unsung heroes of the tech world,” the “ glue that binds user experience with technical and business requirements, ” and the new dream job for MBA students. Know Your Industry and Develop a Diverse Skill Set.

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The Accidental Product Manager

SEPTEMBER 28, 2020

It sure seems like customers can very quickly become upset about something that wasn’t covered in your product development, definition and then fly off the handle and be in the streets waving signs and talking with television stations about how bad you are all in the space of a couple of hours.

Customer Experience 65

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The Product Coalition

MARCH 11, 2020

TL; DR: Development Team Anti-Patterns After covering the Scrum Master and the Product Owner, this article addresses Development Team anti-patterns, covering all Scrum Events as well as the Product Backlog artifact. Only members of the Development Team create the Increment. Source : Scrum Guide 2017.

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The Accidental Product Manager

JULY 29, 2019

In order to stay current and retain customers, the Crate and Barrel product managers knew that their product development definition had to change. What this means is that Crate and Barrel is now seeking to develop a more inspirational approach to both their media catalog and their website. Blue Elephant Consulting –.

Product Management 50

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Folding Burritos

SEPTEMBER 7, 2015

How can this kind of stress be any good for our teams in the long run? The good and bad parts are, however, separated by a very fine line. Deadlines can easily become impossibly heavy burdens that demoralize otherwise great teams. Also, in order to produce this output, you have a team/budget. Can we do this?

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Mironov Consulting

NOVEMBER 18, 2018

Not everyone on our teams expresses themselves clearly.). Maybe this is about a member of the team who’s been passed over for a promotion. A more honest (and productive) opening for the employee could be “I’m bored with what I’m doing” or “My team doesn’t listen to me” or “I thought I got the be the CEO of my product.”.

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ProductPlan

DECEMBER 4, 2019

As a product manager, you’re more likely to find yourself embroiled in these events since you sit at the nexus of so many activities and constituencies. Situation: You’ve painstakingly constructed a roadmap after consulting with various stakeholders, the development team, and your peers. Set clear expectations.

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