The Product Coalition

SEPTEMBER 2, 2022

The Eight Core Elements of a Winning Product Strategy “The essence of strategy is choosing what not to do.”?—?Michael After what seemed like months of work, our product was emerging from stealth mode. The leadership team finally agreed on the vision. No choices = no product strategy. Choice made.

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Intercom, Inc.

JANUARY 14, 2021

With a background in computer science and an MBA, he soon realized that understanding the markets and customers is as important as building the products. And so, in 2014, he founded Productboard , a product management system that incorporates customer feedback and insights to help product teams build better products.

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BrainMates

OCTOBER 10, 2023

Disrupting the Product - Strategy Questions Answered By DIANE SEXTON Even though periods of decline are a normal part of the economic cycle, there is no denying the enormous pressure these periods place on our organisations. I believe the best strategy is to really go back to your roots. What is the vision that you started with?

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Userpilot

SEPTEMBER 20, 2023

The eternal debate: product manager vs. project manager. In this article, we’re going to unpack the day-to-day activities of a product and project manager, describe the key areas of overlap and differences between these distinct roles, and, most importantly, cover how they can work together effectively.

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Mind the Product

OCTOBER 14, 2019

In this ProductTank San Francisco talk, Sam, now with that experience behind him and as Head of Product at Fivestars , outlines: What a good product strategy looks like. How to create a good strategy. What Is Good Strategy? Product strategy also doesn’t need to focus on product vision.

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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. In his talk, Jason talked about how product managers can upskill to meet the challenges in their daily work and how to make sure that their organizations value their work.

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Mind the Product

AUGUST 3, 2017

In working at Seedcamp and helping over 100 startups understand product thinking, Taylor Wescoatt has learned some valuable lessons he’d like to share, together with some real-world examples to drive the point home! It takes a while to reach that fit to the point that you can optimize business and product strategy independently!

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The Product Guy

MAY 7, 2020

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. . This article explores multiple aspects of product management. Understanding the Role Definition. Definition of PM role.

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Product Innovation Educators

NOVEMBER 16, 2020

The importance of an organizational game plan for product managers. I started a new series to explore the Product Development and Management Body of Knowledge. While it has since been updated many times, this is the body of knowledge I discovered in 2007 that led to many ah-ha moments for me as a product manager.

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Roman Pichler

MAY 4, 2022

But what Scrum lacks in my mind, is a way to involve the key stakeholders in strategic product decisions and the product discovery work. That’s understandable, as the framework is focused on the development of complex products. I believe that the first definition is more helpful, especially in an agile context.

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Userpilot

JULY 30, 2021

What exactly is the product manager role? And the role of a product manager can vary drastically depending on the type of product manager. That’s why we’ve put together a comprehensive post on everything you need to know about the product manager role, including: Responsibilities of a product manager.

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Product Management University

OCTOBER 11, 2023

Problem 2 The customer on-boarding team is no sooner out of the gate and they’re dealing with one product deficiency after another, running into issues at every turn. They’re bombarding product management with critical enhancement requests just to get the customer up and running.

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Product Innovation Educators

OCTOBER 30, 2023

Tips for creating customer use cases – for product managers Today we are talking about how to create and use customer use cases to guide product design. Our guest is Dr. Lilac Muller, VP of Product Management at Kymeta Corporation. 18:41] How does the use case impact product vision and decision-making?

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The Basics of Product Management

JUNE 21, 2020

Learn how to create the best product roadmap. Learning how to build a product roadmap is a key requirement to break into product management. Learn how to become a Product Manager. The ability to prepare a great roadmap is one of the must have skills for any Product Manager.

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Sequent Learning

DECEMBER 20, 2023

Introduction Embarking on the journey of understanding the multifaceted role of a product manager is akin to diving into a universe where strategies, visions, and market demands converge to sculpt the fate of a product’s success. Product Manager Responsibilities So what goes into the role of product manager?

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Userpilot

AUGUST 21, 2023

In this ultimate list of product manager interview questions, we have tried to simplify the process of hiring great product managers. Product management encompasses the entire SaaS lifecycle from ideation to launch and everything that follows. What to look for in product managers? Leadership.

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Userpilot

AUGUST 26, 2021

You know how when you log into a SaaS product, you often notice the UI has changed or there are new options that weren't there before? That's SaaS product management hustling in the background to give you the best experience. And you had to own all the servers. Nightmare, right?

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Sequent Learning

JULY 25, 2019

Start With A Vision. Your success as a product manager is pinned directly to the positive contributions to the firm’s bottom line. That means, your product’s business needs to hit the target in the market and fulfill your commitment to the bottom line of the company. Vision stems from passion for an idea, a cause, a goal.

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Userpilot

JULY 9, 2021

What are the best product management books to add to your 2021 reading list? We’ve put together a list for you with a few staples from every product manager’s bookshelf and some new releases too. New in – Best New Product Management Books in 2021. out of 5 stars. 54 global ratings. Where to buy?

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Mind the Product

AUGUST 19, 2019

What does it mean for us as product managers? We all use AI or machine learning (ML)-driven products almost every day, and the number of these products will be growing exponentially over the next couple of years. What does it mean for us as product managers? Source: Todd Wickersty, [link].

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ProductPlan

OCTOBER 11, 2022

Product owners play a crucial role in “by-the-book” Agile scrum, while product managers are largely absent. This article explores the product owner role and how it fits into the broader product team. The product owner’s role. Manage and prioritize the backlog.

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ProductPlan

MARCH 17, 2021

At its most basic level, a customer-led product strategy means that your customers are the top priority at all times. Product roadmaps are useful in planning and development and can be used to create alignment across the organization. Start with the product vision statement, then set out your goals and initiatives.

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The Product Coalition

JULY 29, 2019

Product managers act as the glue between multiple cross-functional teams and effective communication is the foundation of their success; from here the general sense that product managers can’t do their job productively unless they are co-located with their teams. You need to get access to the voice of customers.

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The Product Coalition

MARCH 21, 2019

Something that relates directly to your company’s vision. I want you to do it because I think we (the collective high-tech community) should be putting out “better” products. By my personal definition of better. You test the new checkout flow of your eCommerce site and you get a definitive answer to whether it increases revenue.

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Product Innovation Educators

JANUARY 13, 2020

How marketing and product management work together. That is what our guest did to investigate what people think about marketing and how it fits into the work product managers do. Our guest is Jill Soley, a Silicon Valley strategic product and marketing executive. The Creative Cloud was a definite risk.

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ProductPlan

MARCH 17, 2021

At its most basic level, a customer-led product strategy means that your customers are the top priority at all times. Product roadmaps are useful in planning and development and can be used to create alignment across the organization. Start with the product vision statement, then set out your goals and initiatives.

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Mixpanel

MAY 20, 2020

But how do product managers know they’re bumping up against normal day-to-day resistance versus creating bigger problems? That’s why I developed a new model for product-led engagement based on building adaptive product teams that, by definition, adjust their actions and behaviors to the organizational context.

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The Product Coalition

SEPTEMBER 8, 2022

And if you don’t hold to the management processes, no one will care. What is product lifecycle management (PLM)? Although there are many definitions of product lifecycle management (PLM), they all share common threads. Product Strategy. There are almost endless ways to describe the same thing.

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PMLesson's Ace the PM Interview

JANUARY 18, 2022

Many tech professionals follow a product manager career path because it blends responsibilities and exciting job duties. Product managers are often called "mini-CEOs" because of the influence they have at a company. They manage complex products and work with team members in all departments.

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The Product Coalition

MAY 15, 2019

One signal I’ve been giving much thought too of late is the collision of two roles, Product Management and Product Ownership. A topic of hot debate in the agile and product circles but with very few answers. Credit: DataKitchen Since its inception, Scrum and the Product Owner role has become widely adopted.

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ProductPlan

MARCH 21, 2019

If you’re a product manager, then you probably have a lot on your plate. Communicating the Vision. One of the most important things you can do as a product manager is regularly communicate the product vision to your team. Meeting deadlines. Making customers happy.

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ProductPlan

JANUARY 7, 2022

Here’s how we define it in ProductPlan’s eBook, 100+ Product Management Terms You Should Know: Digital transformation refers to a company’s move to digital solutions to improve its operations or products. What’s Product Management’s Role in Digital Transformation?

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Roadmunk

JUNE 15, 2017

I’ve been Roadmunk’s newest product manager for 120 days (give-or-take). I say peculiar for a couple of reasons: I joined a product organization as a product manager for a tool for other product managers. We (Product and Latif) have a weekly sync every Monday on product strategy.

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The Product Coalition

AUGUST 20, 2019

Google Product Managers help bring to fruition new products and features that impact millions of users every day. They act as general managers of their products, providing leadership across engineering, design and business teams. Openings for Product Managers appear every day. Product strategy ?—?Understand

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ProductPlan

OCTOBER 6, 2022

Start with your company and product mission and vision. ProductPlan is the product management platform that operationalizes product strategy and execution best practices and drives innovation, trust, and accountability. It isn’t built yet, but it definitely feels real.”. Use your beta wisely.

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Bain Public

JANUARY 30, 2023

We are so thrilled to announce our new Director of Product Managent -- Moshe Mikanovsky. Moshe is a leader in product management who started his career on the engineering side, specifically within the enterprise real-time B2B software space. Q] Do you think that company strategy and product strategy are the same?

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Userpilot

JUNE 9, 2021

Are you thinking about a career in product, but you’re not sure whether you should pursue Product Marketing or Product Management? To explain the difference in the simplest of terms: Product Managers build product features and Product Marketers promote them to their audience and users.

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