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10 Reasons Your Product is Hurting Your Sales Team

The Product Coalition

I try to help product and sales teams succeed under the mantra “Easy to Sell, Easy to Renew.” I’ve struggled to find many examples detailing how to bond product and sales teams ( Antonia Bozhkova offers a good perspective ). Your teams will realign and strengthen their partnership as they see the product through each other’s eyes.

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How Do You Know You’re Hiring a Good Product Team Member?

ProductPlan

Product leaders don’t often get many chances for hiring product team members. Additions to the product team must ramp up quickly. So hiring managers must assess candidates based on a few interactions, a curriculum vitae, and some reference checks. Stage 1: Reviewing the applications. Are they team players?

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How Do You Know You’re Hiring a Good Product Team Member?

ProductPlan

Product leaders don’t often get many chances for hiring product team members. Additions to the product team must ramp up quickly. So hiring managers must assess candidates based on a few interactions, a curriculum vitae, and some reference checks. Stage 1: Reviewing the applications. Are they team players?

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Algolia’s Sarah Dayan on what sets a staff plus engineer apart

Intercom, Inc.

There’s project management, mentorship and teaching, decision-making, relationship-building, and the value you bring to the company is no longer measured by the quality of the lines of your code but rather by driving the engineering org forward. But going into staff plus roles is another beast entirely. How are you going to get there?

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7 Internal Politics Situations You’ll Encounter as a Product Manager

ProductPlan

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. We outlined the seven internal politics situations you’ll likely encounter at least once in your product management career and how you can handle them. Set clear expectations.

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Planning and Execution in a Time of Change

The Product Coalition

For most companies it’s bad news?—?the Google, still just a scale-up in 2001, managed to come out stronger from the dot com bust and made a successful IPO in 2004. We ask you to keep calm and to follow the plans you are given diligently. These teams work towards business goals? But not for all.

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From Awareness to Adoption: Keys to a Successful New Feature Launch

ProductPlan

Product teams must not only create an amazing product, they also need to set the stage for the product getting the awareness it requires for trial and user adoption. To avoid an unsuccessful launch and weak usage, product teams and their product marketing counterparts must be in lockstep. User adoption is not the end.