The Product Coalition

OCTOBER 20, 2020

It’s understandable that most of us don’t make time for personal development. Who wants to spend time after a hard day of work learning and developing when they could be kicking back with a beer and watching The Crown? A few months ago, I introduced a concept I have developed called the PM, or Product, Quadrants.

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Johanna Rothman

NOVEMBER 16, 2020

One of my reviewers for the Modern Management Made Easy books asked a fascinating question: I've never seen this many women in management or in senior leadership positions. Up until the mid-1980s, women comprised about 1/3 of the technical people I worked with. The idea of a code review or a design review?

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Roman Pichler

FEBRUARY 11, 2020

Different people have suggested different definitions for the term software platform. If the teams developing the different apps all created their own user-interface layers, there would be considerable code duplication, added development costs, and increased development time. Treat the Platform as a Product.

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Alchemer Mobile

NOVEMBER 9, 2022

My team is too small. Speaking up might spur a conversation around how to adjust your role to better fit your needs, or better yet, to bring in another team member to share your workload. Limited team bandwidth. The three most common challenges include: I have too many responsibilities. I don’t have enough time in my day.

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Johanna Rothman

MARCH 5, 2020

This series is about helping a team create a less brittle environment—more resilience. Neither did the team. In this case, the project team had no automated tests. The team called the product people “product owners.” Neither did the developers. These developers had no built-in feedback mechanisms.

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Userpilot

NOVEMBER 21, 2023

If so, you should definitely watch the talk that Jason Knight , a product consultant and advisor, gave at this year’s Product Drive hosted by Userpilot. TL;DR Product managers often don’t get the due recognition for their work and their role is often marginalized by frustrated leadership or other teams. Let’s dive in!

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Roman Pichler

APRIL 5, 2022

Contrast this with a sprint review meeting , which might help you determine if users can easily sign up for the product. But for sprint review meetings , you may also want to invite (selected) users and customers to collect their feedback. Discuss development progress and user feedback on the latest product increments.

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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. And they’re right.

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The Product Coalition

OCTOBER 15, 2019

Often people stumble into the Product Management career without any Technology background. I never had to deal with developers on a day to day basis?—?the the only ‘Technical’ person I spoke to was my content Producer. I had no idea what I was doing and how I could lead a dev team. Get to know your Tech Lead well.

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The Product Guy

MAY 7, 2020

Hence it is critical that one is aware of the best practises of the role and develops his own philosophy which results into maximum positive leverage for the organization. As I strive towards becoming a product leader, I wanted to understand the best practises in product management and in the process develop my own product philosophy. .

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The Product Guy

AUGUST 1, 2019

What do you do when your team is working their socks off and yet they are getting little credit for the work being done, mainly because the team isn’t able to set concrete expectations with the stakeholder? This obviously reflected as a failure to deliver on part of the engineering team. THE CHALLENGE. THE CAUSE.

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PMLesson's Ace the PM Interview

JULY 6, 2020

Today, there's a rather substantial talent gap in the tech industry. As the 21st century continues to roll on, an increased need for tech and computing professionals will continue to grow, widening the tech talent gap even further. So this begs the question: is Lambda School worth the money, in the end?

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The Product Coalition

OCTOBER 30, 2023

It was another bad start to what seemed like Groundhog Day. “I An outcome-oriented approach helps teams remain focused on the bigger picture, ensures efforts go toward delivering meaningful value to customers, and gives them the freedom to figure out the best way instead of having ‘the way’ committed well before discovery.

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Intercom, Inc.

AUGUST 18, 2022

Sarah Dayan is a staff engineer at Algolia , a “Search-as-a-Service” platform that helps developers build index and search capabilities into their own platforms through an API, and the host of two tech podcasts: Developer Experience and Entre Devs. How would she provide the right technical direction for the company?

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The Product Coalition

JANUARY 26, 2022

Table of Contents The Story Begins in Iowa ; Joining the Family Business ; Creating the Solution ; Making the Product ; Technical Challenges ; Moving To the Market ; Founder Tips ; Conclusion. Chris’s team worked for a logistics service that tracked the ocean containers coming in and out of the ports.

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The Product Coalition

DECEMBER 14, 2019

However, in time, this procedure has become a widespread methodology in technology product development too. Code and Fix (often known as Cowboy coding ) is considered the simplest product development process and is the default method for prototyping software-oriented technology solutions.

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ProductPlan

FEBRUARY 1, 2021

Product leaders don’t often get many chances for hiring product team members. Additions to the product team must ramp up quickly. Here are some ways I vet product management candidates to weed out poor fits and spot the diamonds in the rough. Stage 1: Reviewing the applications. Are they team players?

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UX Planet

FEBRUARY 19, 2024

Firstly, this is definitely what a recruiter is going to read and evaluate first as a potential indicator to whether they should hire you. A bad first impression could ultimately hurt your chances of landing a dream job. People see selling as a bad word but it ultimately makes life easier if you know how to do it.

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ProductPlan

APRIL 9, 2019

A lack of trust from developers and engineers creates endless second-guessing, challenges and sometimes even a refusal to follow through on requests, which becomes a huge timesuck and morale destroyer. If the executive team doesn’t have faith in product management, ideas are likely to be ignored, plans overruled and cachet denied.

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nulab

MARCH 11, 2020

And while it definitely has a place, it shouldn’t be your guiding light. You can also collect customer feedback via reviews, surveys, interviews, or focus groups. As part of this, you should also review your suppliers and distributors (if applicable), as well as the tools and software you use. Suss out the competition.

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ProductPlan

FEBRUARY 1, 2021

Product leaders don’t often get many chances for hiring product team members. Additions to the product team must ramp up quickly. Here are some ways I vet product management candidates to weed out poor fits and spot the diamonds in the rough. Stage 1: Reviewing the applications. Are they team players?

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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. A bad CEO assumes they have the best idea in the room.

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Userpilot

DECEMBER 9, 2021

In the competitive world of SaaS products, product positioning is definitely something your product marketing team can’t afford to ignore. This enables the marketing team to set clear expectations from the very beginning of the marketing campaign. Strong positioning makes the work of the marketing and sales teams easier.

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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. Others celebrated birthdays and had weddings via Facebook and Zoom. District Judge Robert Scola Jr.

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The Product Guy

FEBRUARY 27, 2018

So, I’ll start with this: a little while ago, I was having a difficult video call with my tech lead. 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 I furrow my brow incredulously.

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Product Talk

FEBRUARY 2, 2022

This is only natural: Through years of bad habits, many of us have shown engineers that we only value them for the code they can write. This is because they have a depth of knowledge of what’s possible technically. Engineers are often reluctant to participate in discovery. Engineers often generate the best solutions. Tweet This.

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svpg

OCTOBER 16, 2016

Recently I gave a keynote address to the Mind The Product Conference in London , and in that talk I wanted to illustrate, by example, the essential role that very strong product managers play for their team and their company. And ultimately, should more product teams work harder to actively bring in women product managers?

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Modus Create

JANUARY 12, 2021

The speed at which the economic landscape shifts has been increasing since the industrial revolution and the emergence of consumer technology. From the point of view of technology, manufacturing, and/or the ability to deliver a service, what is possible? I’ll review four methodologies: waterfall, Lean, design, and Agile.

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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. Myths that an organisation tells itself can act as a reality distortion field that masks failing products and poor return on investment. Develop new opportunities.

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The Product Coalition

JANUARY 21, 2021

I began the year working in Almundo, an Argentinian tech travel company that had been acquired by CVC (biggest travel company in Brazil). Things were already tough merging teams from multiple companies to launch a unified platform in Latam when countries started closing their borders. 2020 was a shitty year. And it makes sense.

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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. Inspired by Marty Cagan contains a little about everything in product management and is based on how the most successful tech companies in the world build products. Plot summary.

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BrainMates

JULY 31, 2023

Organisations that do consider innovation tend to focus on new technological gambles that are dubbed to be ‘innovative’ but fail to deliver a commercial return. Organisations with poor product management practices have misguided expectations. Why Bother Innovating? Every product has a lifecycle.

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Mironov Consulting

SEPTEMBER 15, 2019

We’ve known forever that we (product managers) must include our developers and designers in the earliest stages of problem definition and solution ideation. Piping in real users’ voices and challenges motivates the whole team. Less appreciation of commercial software development pressures. We versus They.

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Mind the Product

AUGUST 19, 2019

Secondly, as great product managers are also great capacity builders for their teams, you should start looking for opportunities that AI can present for your product. That’s why it’s incredibly important to develop a good level of empathy and user understanding, not only for yourself, but for the whole team.

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Nulab

AUGUST 25, 2021

Whether you’re an Olympic runner, an app developer, or a wealthy big-city bachelor, getting to know what’s going on in the world around you is a smart thing to do. from marketing and sales to product development and community building. Plotting their strengths and weaknesses (and your opportunities and threats).

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The Product Coalition

JULY 13, 2022

Best teams on a budget who need the basics. Advanced record and playback tools enable customer experience (CX) teams to capture user sessions across browsers, interfaces, and devices. While FullStory works for mobile apps, the web/mobile hybrid platform doesn’t cover every framework, particularly with non-native tech stacks (e.g.

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Intercom, Inc.

JANUARY 5, 2022

After working on NASA’s Space Shuttle Main Engine, he went on to develop Portfolium, a social networking platform that allows students and graduates to showcase skills beyond the traditional resume to potential employers. Portfolium was eventually acquired, but the team behind it never stopped thinking about a better way to do it.

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