The Product Coalition

NOVEMBER 13, 2023

In many cases, an economic downturn simply reveals your already existing weaknesses since they now have more impact. When people (and VCs) aren’t spending money easily, you must be super sharp with your value proposition, positioning, product, marketing, and sales. Your product makes sense for your first few customers.

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Mind the Product

NOVEMBER 21, 2019

As a product leader, you are the product manager for a leadership team, and the tricks you learned in product teams remain valuable, they just need a little tweak. Here, to help you, are five product management tricks and tools for every product leader. Value Proposition.

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ProductPlan

MAY 22, 2020

If you don’t have the data then you can’t make secure decisions and alter course.” ” A key insight shared by Melissa Perri, CEO of Produx Labs and author of Escaping the Build Trap during our “Getting Started with Product Ops” webinar series. What is Product Ops, Exactly?

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The Product Coalition

DECEMBER 4, 2023

In many cases, an economic downturn simply reveals your already existing weaknesses since they now have more impact. Product Strategy on Round A Responsibility: Founders with the leadership team Goal: Build the go-to-market playbook Toward round A you start seeing success (or it would be very hard to raise a decent A round).

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Mironov Consulting

JUNE 30, 2017

I’ve noticed a frequent executive-level misalignment of expectations across a range of software/tech companies, particularly in B2B/Enterprise companies and where Sales/Marketing is geographically far away from Engineering/Product Management. Let’s call it the software development deli counter problem.

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The Product Coalition

JANUARY 5, 2019

It’s always there, and it follows you around like a bad penny. Tech debt is all of the little things that aren’t quite right about your product behind the scenes. It’s all the workarounds that you’ve found to quickly make the product look and behave the way that it does.

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Ask Benny

JANUARY 25, 2020

Why should product managers involve themselves with prioritizing technical debt? When it comes to technical debt many product managers do not like to get involved. They see it totally as the domain of the development. Technical debt is not necessarily a bad thing. How is technical debt created?

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Ask Benny

JANUARY 25, 2020

, Why should product managers involve themselves with prioritizing technical debt? When it comes to technical debt many product managers do not like to get involved. They see it totally as the domain of the development. Technical debt is not necessarily a bad thing. How is technical debt created?

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The Product Coalition

DECEMBER 5, 2019

Why should product managers involve themselves with prioritizing technical debt? When it comes to technical debt many product managers do not like to get involved. They see it totally as the domain of the development. Technical debt is not necessarily a bad thing. How is Technical Debt Created?

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Ask Benny

DECEMBER 4, 2019

Why should product managers involve themselves with prioritizing technical debt? When it comes to technical debt many product managers do not like to get involved. They see it totally as the domain of the development. Technical debt is not necessarily a bad thing. How is technical debt created?

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The Product Guy

APRIL 9, 2019

Guest Post by: Eric Wang (Mentee, Session 8, The Product Mentor) [Paired with Mentor, Chris Butler]. The notion of a strategy in product management seems like something that only high-level stakeholders at the executive level should care about. Journey Into the World of Strategy. Simple task, right? First Attempt.

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The Product Coalition

MARCH 29, 2018

I realize not every product person has to navigate sales stakeholders. But if you’re working on a B2B product with a sales force, odds are you know what I mean. I try to help product and sales teams succeed under the mantra “Easy to Sell, Easy to Renew.” Where do your teams agree on low scores?

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The Product Coalition

JULY 6, 2022

Fifteen years ago Ben Horowitz published his now famous memo, “G ood Product Manager/Bad Product Manager ” in which he posits that “A good product manager is the CEO of the product”. A bad CEO takes the credit and passes on the blame. It’s a relative term?—?some

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Department of Product

OCTOBER 23, 2022

Product Principles – Examples for Product Managers Make decision making easier with inspiration from top product companies Product principles are used by product teams to help guide decision making. Yes, we’re B2B but are we targeting small businesses or enterprise?

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The Product Coalition

JUNE 18, 2023

But recently, I find myself clarifying this even further with the very confusing term product-led growth (PLG). That’s why I named my strategic product-led growth course ‘Unboxing PLG’. With sales-led, which is also a bad name, the model means giving each customer exactly what they want and following the money.

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PMLesson's Ace the PM Interview

JULY 13, 2020

Product Managers are often called “Product CEOs” or “Mini GMs”, but they rarely have direct control over the inputs that lead to successful products. Even if you answered no to all of these, taking a certified course may be worthwhile. No course is going to be a substitute for experience. And ultimately.

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Mind the Product

JULY 6, 2018

Failing is an eventuality in software development. And yet, the job of the product manager comes with a level of accountability and scrutiny that is unique. Product managers are asked to look after all facets of a product’s development, from conception to launch. Let’s do it over and over again!

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BrainStation Product Management

NOVEMBER 27, 2018

Though you may not have realized it, a Product Manager was most likely involved in the creation of your favorite product. To find out more, we spoke to a number of Senior PMs for some insight on how to get a job as Product Manager. Product management as a whole is the exact opposite.

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The Product Coalition

MARCH 11, 2020

The roadmap is much more than a directive document that tells teams what to do by when. It is ideally a galvanizing document to drive vision, bring teams into alignment and commitment, and lead them and your customers to your future, promised destination. You own it, but many other teams are gunning to influence it daily.

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The Product Guy

FEBRUARY 27, 2018

We had just hired a new VP of Product who was radically (and rapidly) changing our product development process, and our engineers – based remotely, in Argentina – were struggling to keep up. “To Second, and more important, it shows the demotivation and binary thinking that can result from bad or nonexistent communication.

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Product Management University

MARCH 1, 2017

It’s a common practice in all product companies to use marketing buzzwords and catchphrases in sales and marketing materials and in conversations with peers and colleagues. Are buzzwords bad? Your sales team will be more efficient with our solution. Your sales team will be more efficient with our solution.

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The Product Coalition

JANUARY 16, 2022

Of course, it would have been ideal to find someone who had had both extensive experience and amazing learning abilities, but there’s a reason unicorns are so rare. As such, it cannot be limited to include only the product-related parts like features and product KPIs. if you fail, what would you have done wrong?

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Pragmatic Marketing

OCTOBER 18, 2019

A Three-Question Process for Product Team Success. How do managers take what their teams have learned and turn it into something tangible? How do those team members take that knowledge and apply it to their roles? Listen to or download the original podcast here. What does success look like, and am I achieving it?

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Pragmatic Marketing

OCTOBER 18, 2019

A Three-Question Process for Product Team Success. How do managers take what their teams have learned and turn it into something tangible? How do those team members take that knowledge and apply it to their roles? Listen or download to the original podcast here. What does success look like, and am I achieving it?

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The Product Guy

APRIL 23, 2020

Guest Post by: Ralph Bautista (Mentee, Session 11, The Product Mentor) [Paired with Mentor, Chris Butler ]. There are several ways to get into Product Management, the majority of folks stumble upon it by choice or because their organization needed to fill that role and you were the best candidate at the time.

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Userpilot

FEBRUARY 21, 2023

In this article, we look at each product's key features, use cases, strengths, and limitations. TL;DR Heap is a digital insights platform that allows product teams to track user behavior in mobile and web-based applications. The majority of Heap's clients are large enterprises, like Uber or Salesforce.

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Userpilot

FEBRUARY 20, 2023

TL;DR Product analytics is the process of collecting and analyzing data about product usage and user behavior. Product analytics tools empower teams to make informed decisions on how to add more value and offer a better user experience. Pendo is a product adoption platform famous for high-quality analytics solutions.

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Userpilot

DECEMBER 11, 2019

The good news: You can tap into that growth with your product. Hopefully, the product management tools we’re going to cover will help you out! We’ve split the tools into different categories, so feel free to jump ahead to whichever kind of product you need. Feedback management (Canny, Airfocus, ProdPad).

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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. These evolving demands from enterprise customers bring with them different skillsets customer success managers need to hone.

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Modus Create

DECEMBER 16, 2021

Product development is exhilarating. There is something special about a team rallying around a vision and creating a product that users love. . However, it isn’t fun to redo a product every three years. Unfortunately, technical debt can do that to your team. How to Manage Technical Debt?

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ProductPlan

OCTOBER 1, 2020

Product managers, product leaders, and product executives have no shortage of educational opportunities. From books , podcasts , and blogs to earning certificates and joining online communities , there is truly an abundance of options (read the short Guide to Product Management Resources to learn even more).

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Userpilot

JANUARY 31, 2023

Winning new business is critical for any savvy product manager: a new client onboarding checklist template can help you systemize your path to a successful customer onboarding process. Used correctly, this sort of customer onboarding checklist can become an invaluable tool for any product manager.

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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. Francesca is a Product Manager.

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The Secret PM Handbook

MARCH 9, 2018

But if that skill is augmented with great product knowledge (provided by product managers) sales take off. Prospects may have all kinds of objections, and not all have to do with the product. There’s the monetary cost – usually substantial for an enterprise application or system. They might postpone the decision.

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Tyner Blain

AUGUST 10, 2023

Staying the course is drifting off course. When you don’t use problem statements to express your intent, there are no signals to help your organization stay on course. Let’s dig in to the third challenge – making teams more efficient by making them more effective. This continues to create cognitive dissonance.

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The Product Coalition

APRIL 6, 2020

For most companies it’s bad news?—?the The result are not what you’d expect: “One combination has the greatest likelihood of producing post-recession winners: the one pursued by progressive enterprises. In other words, trying to stay the course and fix the bottom line by firing people is self defeating. Of course not.

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Mind the Product

MARCH 7, 2019

This gives added incentive for a user to open the product, and use it for a longer period of time. While working on a knowledge management solution aimed at custom support and sales teams, we integrated with several customer support desks and CRM. Integration Types. Worst case, you’ll have to redesign your integration.

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