The Product Coalition

JANUARY 4, 2021

Everyone knows educating the market is hard to nearly impossible, but people always bring up examples like Facebook or the iPhone whenever I discuss it in my lectures. So what can and cannot work when you want to educate the market? It’s all about what you want to educate them on. the product, the solution, and the problem.

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The Product Coalition

JANUARY 13, 2021

Educating the market is hard enough as is, but there is one thing without which you cannot succeed. By the way, it wasn’t like I was thinking to myself: “I feel bad, let’s try Facebook because they are supposedly the solution”. Of course, you will see different features in the product for these companies.

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Mind the Product

MARCH 7, 2017

Or “ How to Manage Software Development in Teams who Think Nothing Like you “ Product management has two diversity problems. Cultural homogeneity in product teams is dead, welcome cultural diversity. It simply doesn’t work. We’re Trapped in our Cultures. How’s that for a mini-UN?

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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. Teresa Torres, Author of Continuous Discovery Habits.

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Alchemer Mobile

JULY 13, 2021

A good product experience is the primary driver behind product differentiation and ultimately, lasting customer satisfaction (measured through CSAT and NPS ) and loyalty. Beforehand, make sure your team is aligned on: Their definition of product experience. The goals you hope to achieve by investing in product experience.

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The Product HQ

FEBRUARY 1, 2023

A product manager’s core responsibilities include working with a team to design, build, ship, and continuously improve a product. During product manager interviews, most companies love to hone in on your ability to execute against these responsibilities by asking how you might think about designing a product.

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The Product Coalition

AUGUST 8, 2022

With Gutenberg’s take on the printing press and a growing community of users, printing finally took off and found its product / market fit. The growing demand for knowledge amongst an increasingly educated population. Not bad for a man who faced challenges at every turn?—?raising Source: Wikipedia So how does the story end?

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The Product Coalition

JANUARY 3, 2020

You have no idea about product management? to achieve your goals when it comes to building your first prototype with the ultimate goal to find product-market fit. There is no educational starting place for people who want to understand the basic concepts of product management. as an entrepreneur?—?to

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Ronke PM

JULY 14, 2023

Why is Psychological Safety Important in Product Management? Foundations of Psychologically Safe PM Cultures Final Thoughts We need to develop a multiculturally diverse partnership across our organization to build products that will impact humanity for the better and change lives. What is Psychological Safety?

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Intercom, Inc.

MAY 24, 2022

Whether you’re an individual contributor, manager, or director, you can leverage your own skills – and those around you – to influence growth across your team, org, and company. Mentorship is defined simply as the guidance provided by a mentor, especially an experienced person in a company or educational institution.

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Userpilot

SEPTEMBER 14, 2023

What customer discovery questions should product managers ask to accurately identify the unsatisfied needs of potential customers and validate ideas? TL;DR Customer discovery questions enable product teams to better understand customer needs and problems so that they can build products that the potential customer truly needs.

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Intercom, Inc.

JUNE 10, 2020

The truth is that Product Judgment is a complex topic, and in my opinion, one that is very poorly understood by many. I hope this post allows people and teams to safely talk about Product Judgment. No one starts out with strong Product Judgment. It takes years to build, and therefore ranges from very weak to very strong.

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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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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. Also unsurprisingly, education hasn’t kept up with growth. There’s no set skillset or formal certification for PMs like there is for Project Management (PMP).

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Userpilot

JUNE 20, 2022

Anyone even remotely involved in product management will tell you that! In this article, we’ll explain what A/B testing is, why it matters for product managers, and how product teams should plan and run a test. Split testing starts with developing a hypothesis that you want to verify.

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ProductPlan

SEPTEMBER 24, 2019

Why Product Managers are More Susceptible to Imposter Syndrome. Product managers (PM) are particularly vulnerable to experiencing imposter syndrome. There a few reasons why product managers might be more susceptible to the feeling. First, no one gets a degree in “product management.”

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Userpilot

OCTOBER 4, 2022

So, if you’re a product manager looking to significantly improve your UX efforts and provide actionable insights to your UX team, read on! User experience (UX) involves all aspects of user interactions with your product. A KPI is any metric used to measure the success of your product’s objectives.

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PMLesson's Ace the PM Interview

MARCH 9, 2022

An obvious next career step could be moving over to product management to focus solely on the products themselves. But how easy is it to transition from being a UX designer or UX researcher to product management (PM)? Start Learning Can You Transition from UX to Product Management?

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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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Mind the Product

MARCH 12, 2020

How does it help modern product management organizations to scale effectively? Similar to the emergence of design ops in the last five years, product operations fulfills a need to streamline a scaling function. What product ops is. How it’s become a critical function for scaling effective product teams.

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ProductPlan

AUGUST 25, 2022

Let’s jump in with the bad news: No organization is immune to product vulnerability. However, great product leaders protect their product teams from exploiting weaknesses and vulnerabilities. Product vulnerability, defined as an exploitable glitch or flaw in a product, can happen to any product or service.

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Mixpanel

JANUARY 21, 2020

Hi, I’m Mike and I’m a product manager. The product I manage? Product managers. If you, too, are responsible for your company’s product managers, the start of the new year might represent a chance to renew and strengthen your team. Customer focus. That’s a better indicator.

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ProductPlan

MARCH 28, 2019

Today’s article is all about product management turnover, what causes it, and how to prevent it. When a product manager exits, it can derail major aspects of your product strategy due to their integral role and unique perspective on things. Why Product Managers Leave Their Jobs.

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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

FEBRUARY 5, 2021

Often we talk more about the technical skills, like, portfolio management, being more strategic, etc but being good at those things mean nothing if you can’t build a culture conducive to good product management practices. As a result, I’ve come to value 5 different aspects of product leadership. How do I build alignment?

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BrainStation Product Management

AUGUST 28, 2019

Product Managers are increasingly important to the product development process and have been called the “unsung heroes of the tech world,” the “ glue that binds user experience with technical and business requirements, ” and the new dream job for MBA students. Product management is the opposite.

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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. Ellen is the Senior Director of Product Management at Orion Labs , a B2B company that offers voice communication to teams in industries like hospitality, retail, transportation, logistics, and security.

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The Product Coalition

JULY 10, 2019

© Knowledge Officer Product management is one of the most leading professions nowadays. If you are a junior product manager or someone who is inquiring about the role, you might find the role duties a bit confusing as the role won’t seem to have any precise or consistent definition. © Knowledge Officer 1- UpGrad Duke.

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Userpilot

JUNE 27, 2022

What is developer marketing, and what is the point of it? As the name suggests, developer marketing is marketing to developers. In short, developer marketing is more than just capturing the attention of software developers and getting them to use your product. What is developer marketing?

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The Product Coalition

DECEMBER 14, 2018

by Ashley Sefferman , Head of Content at Apptentive When Ben Horowitz published his thoughts on the idea that product managers are the CEO of their products in “ Good Product Manager/Bad Product Manager ” nearly two decades ago, the concept was profound, but divisive.

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The Product Coalition

JUNE 13, 2019

Un)fortunately, Product Management is not really an entry-level job. However, most of the time professionals who undertake the transition aim to build the following story with their resume: their gradual acquisition of product skills across different positions and functions. Don’t abuse jokes, aphorisms or exaggerations.

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Mind the Product

JANUARY 17, 2017

A few years ago, I wrote a couple of blog posts about working as a consultant in product management. At that time in London – we’re talking 2011/2012 – it was, dare I say, a bold step to leave a full-time, good product position to go freelance. New year, new you, right? Find Your Flow.

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Mind the Product

OCTOBER 8, 2018

We can and should learn product management lessons from a diverse range of environments. It’s absolutely worth looking to the likes of Google’s Sundar Pichai, but it’s also worth looking to less celebrated entrepreneurs, outside of the multinational mega-corporations, to learn about lean front-line product management.

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Mind the Product

APRIL 26, 2019

In this entertaining and insightful talk from Mind the Product Singapore 2019, Sherif Mansour, Distinguished Product Manager at Atlassian, shares some common misconceptions about the product management craft, how we need to think differently about those issues, and what we should be doing instead.

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DISQO

FEBRUARY 26, 2018

Every year, we survey 150+ digital product managers to benchmark and highlight their activities, preferences, and perceptions. Today, there are more conferences, resources, and tools than ever to support product management. There’s a disconnect between aspirational product management and actual product management.

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ProductPlan

FEBRUARY 7, 2023

After deciding to implement a new prioritization framework, many teams find themselves defaulting to certain bad habits. These bad habits can impede your product team’s ability to launch a product effectively. At ProductPlan, we understand the need for a sound product strategy.

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Amplitude

OCTOBER 10, 2017

Most organizations that start hiring to build out the product team have not exhausted the potential on their current team. Growing your team from within is harder and requires more effort, but I believe it also helps you build a fundamentally stronger team in the long-run. A tracker for growing our team.

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