The Product Coalition

FEBRUARY 18, 2024

Especially in product management, where authority is limited, you need to act beyond the limits of formality. Photo by Blake Cheek on Unsplash I once coached a very talented senior product manager. Challenge Upwards The CEO, startup founders, or your management chain up to the CEO, have authority over you.

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Product Management University

SEPTEMBER 10, 2023

As the customer success manager (CSM) role evolves into more of a strategic customer leadership role versus a tactical reactionary role, it’s critical to build relationships with customer executives, and in most cases, it’s not as difficult as you think. Kudos if you’re already there. Contact us to learn more.

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The Product Coalition

DECEMBER 19, 2021

The first product manager in a startup is a critical role with immense impact on the startup’s success?—?both Photo by Tolga Ulkan on Unsplash When I joined Twiggle as their first VP Product I was the thirteenth employee. Shortly after I started, the CEO surprised me by saying I should hire a product manager.

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The Product Coalition

FEBRUARY 5, 2021

We’re well overdue a conversation about Product Managers and technical skills. It doesn’t seem to matter how many times the industry tries to reassure newcomers that you don’t need to be a full stack software engineer to be a good Product Manager. That being said, Product Managers are still part of the tech industry.

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The Product Coalition

SEPTEMBER 29, 2020

Anyone familiar with Product Management will recognize the immortal phrase ‘influence without authority.’ As a Product Manager, you’re a team player who guides product development along its chartered course, but you have to do that without being the literal captain of the ship. What Does ‘Influence’ Mean?

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ProductPlan

JUNE 5, 2020

Product management is certainly no exception. Product managers and leaders need to find ways to keep learning and growing in an ever-evolving product environment. There’s an abundance of books, podcasts, as well as events at your disposal that cover various product management topics.

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The Product Coalition

JULY 25, 2021

Product management requires you to master so many different skills, that there always seems to be a gap between what you do well and what you need to do well to succeed. As a manager of product people, it is your job to help them with this continuous growth, but it’s not always easy. The answer is, of course, yes?—?most

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Bain Public

APRIL 17, 2020

Career Development Program Details: Whether you are a Founder or part of the Product, Engineering or leadership team, you need actionable strategies and impactful techniques that drive results today. I'm not very good at Product Management. We work with you as partners by sharing product leadership best practices.

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The Product Coalition

AUGUST 9, 2021

As their managers, we always need to coach our product managers toward their next level. Photo by Jess Bailey on Unsplash I was a manager long before I was a product manager. In one of my roles as an R&D manager, I inherited an employee from one of the other teams on the day I joined.

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The Product Coalition

DECEMBER 10, 2023

However, provoking productive disagreements is a key leadership skill you want to master. Here is how fostering healthy debates is essential for effective leadership and better outcomes. If you see the connection between that skill and product leadership you are 100% right. We have so many of them regardless.

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Product Innovation Educators

FEBRUARY 22, 2021

How product managers can work backwards to amazing products. In a few weeks, the name of this podcast will be changing to Product Masters Now. To be a better product manager, it is worthwhile to examine organizations known for their product management capabilities. Amazon is such a company.

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Product Management University

JUNE 5, 2023

Most product managers know how to create a product vision, but that’s not the hard part. The extent to which stakeholders get behind your product vision has everything to do with how the product vision is articulated. What is a Product Vision? Why is a Product Vision Important?

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The Product Coalition

DECEMBER 11, 2023

In part two of this summary, I am moving to talk about strategy and leadership insights. Today I will focus more on leadership and strategy. Product Leadership Last but not least, is my favorite topic of the role of the product leader. You are an inspiration for a better product world.

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Product Innovation Educators

APRIL 17, 2023

How organizations can empower product managers Today we are talking about what a product-led organization is, barriers that can prevent an organization from being product-led, and actions to create the product-led organization. I eventually got fired as a product manager. Not really.

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The Product Coalition

DECEMBER 11, 2023

If you are the new product leader of your company, your company might be in product leadership debt. I had already been blogging for a while when she was born, so some of you might remember me writing about how I applied product management practices in the many decisions I needed to make around her birth , for example.

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The Product Coalition

APRIL 18, 2021

Some takeaways for you from a product interview I had at Google many years ago. Photo by John Tekeridis from Pexels When I decided to move into product management I interviewed, among other companies, for a product management role at Google. Instead, it is all about risk management.

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The Product Coalition

DECEMBER 31, 2023

As you might have noticed from reading this blog, I share many stories related to my personal relationships as a means to talk about product leadership. Often it’s because so much of product leadership is about relationships. At work, things are much more complex.

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The Product Coalition

MARCH 12, 2023

Hiring a product leader is never easy. You are looking for a partner to join your team and take a significant leadership role. Here are a few things to consider when you seek your next product leader. That’s why they are looking to hire a product leader and not just a senior product manager.

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The Product Coalition

OCTOBER 30, 2022

It’s All About Leadership Last but not least, prioritizing at the right level not only helps you think, but also helps you explain how you think to others?—?your your colleagues in the company management, all the relevant employees, and higher up in the organization, all the way to the CEO and the board of directors.

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The Product Coalition

FEBRUARY 27, 2022

By the way, while the tips here address specific challenges that product leaders face, many of them would apply to any kind of leadership position, and even to non-leadership positions, so feel free to forward it to friends who are currently on the move. and in product leadership positions there is so much of it!

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The Product Coalition

FEBRUARY 1, 2021

Product management requires so many diverse skills that most likely your people are more experienced than you at least in some of them. If the people reporting to you know better how to do their job, what is your role as a manager? It can be a full-blown CPO responsibility or a CTO who runs both product and technology.

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The Product Coalition

APRIL 10, 2022

Having the courage to speak up is one of the things that we are talking about in the leadership workshop that opens the CPO Bootcamp , for example. Throughout our career as product people, working well with others was probably one of the most effective skills we all had to master.

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Gainsight

NOVEMBER 20, 2019

To truly excel in product management, you need to have a respect for design, an understanding of countless processes, a passion for problem-solving, excellent communication skills—the list goes on and on. Books for Product Managers. Blogs for Product Managers. Slack Groups for Product Managers.

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The Product Coalition

NOVEMBER 13, 2023

And it doesn’t stop there — even after you have found product-market fit with your first product, product strategy is still the main glue that helps keep a (now large) company together and aligned on the same goals and direction. Your product makes sense for your first few customers. Here is how it works.

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The Product Coalition

APRIL 22, 2023

Product leadership seems to require nonstop negotiation with everyone you work with. Our free e-book “ Speed-Up the Journey to Product-Market Fit ” — an executive’s guide to strategic product management is waiting for you at www.infinify.com/ebook Originally published at [link] on April 18, 2023. Here’s how.

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Product Innovation Educators

JULY 31, 2023

He joined Amazon in 1998—four years after its founding—and spent the next 12 years as part of Amazon’s senior leadership team. Summary of some concepts discussed for product managers [2:07] Where did “working backwards” originate? To give us the details on this approach, Colin Bryar is with us.

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The Product Coalition

MAY 1, 2022

But that’s where your leadership comes to a test. To lead the company effectively, management needs to make tough decisions. It will create clarity and help focus everyone, and it will also build people’s confidence and trust in management. My free e-book “ Speed-Up the Journey to Product-Market Fit ”?—?an

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The Product Coalition

DECEMBER 4, 2023

And it doesn’t stop there — even after you have found product-market fit with your first product, product strategy is still the main glue that helps keep a (now large) company together and aligned on the same goals and direction. Your product makes sense for your first few customers. Here is how it works.

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Mixpanel

NOVEMBER 8, 2021

How could a product manager possibly dig into the data and pull up something that’s genuinely useful for activation and retention? Simple: Product analytics tools have become super easy to set up and use. Now, I encourage product managers to just start getting their hands dirty with the data and see what they come up with.

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The Product Coalition

DECEMBER 11, 2023

There is so much built-in uncertainty in product management, and the higher up you go, the more uncertainty you encounter. Be a great manager and give your team the support as well as the boundaries and leadership that they need. Striving for a unanimous decision in these cases is risky for two reasons.

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The Product Coalition

FEBRUARY 18, 2023

Every now and then, early-stage founders approach me to hear about their product idea and give them feedback. This mostly happens with products related to the product space itself — products for product managers and product teams. But in product management that is never true.

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The Product Coalition

NOVEMBER 15, 2020

Instead, my recommendation is to start by adding a strategic layer when you plan the product and roadmap so that you will be closing the strategic gap while doing what you were asked to do. Your leadership role doesn’t end when the CEO gives you a general direction and expects you to follow. In some ways, it only starts there.

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The Product Coalition

JUNE 18, 2023

It took me time to understand that I need to present myself as a product leadership coach and product strategy expert rather than a consultant. I really wanted to coach and mentor and help people think, not take hands-on projects upon myself. It’s scary, but you don’t have to do it alone. We are here to help you.

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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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The Product Coalition

MARCH 19, 2023

Product management is a creative job in the deepest sense: We create products. But the level at which we need to do so changes dramatically over the course of a product person’s career, and the transition is not always easy. Here are three levels — each relevant to a different stage in your career and your product.

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The Product Coalition

DECEMBER 21, 2020

Problem-solving is one of the core characteristics of product managers. Photo by Xavi Cabrera on Unsplash When I was head of product at eBay I participated in an executive leadership training program. By doing so you will be helping your customers, the company, the management, and yourself.

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The Product Coalition

FEBRUARY 11, 2024

As a product manager or leader, you should always create your own customer advisory board , just less formally. Our free e-book “ Speed-Up the Journey to Product-Market Fit ” — an executive’s guide to strategic product management is waiting for you at www.infinify.com/ebook Originally published at [link] on February 8, 2024.

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