The Product Coalition

MARCH 11, 2020

Product discovery encompasses all the research and decisions on the product, whether that’s planning your next feature, or testing your latest product proposition. Challenge definition A challenge could be responding to customer feedback, introducing a proposition, or overcoming a technical problem. What is product discovery?

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Userpilot

MARCH 3, 2022

This includes market research (potential employers), understanding product strengths (your value to the customer), iterative development (subsequent drafts), or refining the UI (formatting). Product managers with technical skills such as SQL or technical stack are in high demand, so highlight them in your resume. Yes, you do!

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BrainStation Product Management

FEBRUARY 28, 2019

In BrainStation’s survey, Product Managers ranked communication (71 percent), leadership (65 percent), and empathy (58 percent) as the most important skills for a Product Manager, ahead of research and project management, and far ahead of design (selected by only 20 percent of respondents). Technical Skills for Product Management.

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The Product Coalition

APRIL 2, 2023

Being a Product Manager (PM) in a IT (Information Technology) services company may seem complicated. Still, we have a duty to advise what’s best for the product. The upside is : doubt is the engine of progress. I’ll need to speak and work with stakeholders, customers, experts, researchers, customer support and senior management.

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BrainStation Product Management

FEBRUARY 28, 2019

Speak to a Learning Advisor. In BrainStation’s survey, Product Managers ranked communication (71 percent), leadership (65 percent), and empathy (58 percent) as the most important skills for a Product Manager, ahead of research and project management, and far ahead of design (selected by only 20 percent of respondents).

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PMLesson's Ace the PM Interview

APRIL 19, 2020

If you have advised any of these people with tasks like product growth, pricing strategy, or market sizing, be sure to note that on your resume! Technical Skills While not always needed, technical skills are very much desired for most PM roles. Many companies have a bias towards PMs coming from a technical background.

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PMLesson's Ace the PM Interview

APRIL 19, 2020

If you have advised any of these people with tasks like product growth, pricing strategy, or market sizing, be sure to note that on your resume! Technical Skills While not always needed, technical skills are very much desired for most PM roles. Many companies have a bias towards PMs coming from a technical background.

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The Product Coalition

MARCH 1, 2024

Decode A Job Posting from Spotify: Senior Product Manager — Playlist Platform Spotify is an innovative business that changes the surrounding reality: almost everyone you see on the street or in a café wearing headphones listens to music on Spotify. What technical knowledge does Spotify expect from a candidate? Know what our users want?

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Mind the Product

JANUARY 10, 2017

While there are a large number of tools which claim to help you to create value, for me, quite frankly, it boils down to only a few secret weapons which do not (most of the time) involve buying fancy software or subscribing to the latest project management doodads. This should not be confused with technical documentation.

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The Product Coalition

MAY 15, 2019

—?have they stood the test of time? Scrum and the agile manifesto were created in a time where we used to still package and ship software physically. The principles which sit behind the manifesto were largely created by engineers and vastly aimed at fixing organisational dysfunction and making their lives better.

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Effective Roadmap Planning and Development Process for Enterprise Products

AUGUST 2, 2018

Market Research : Adopt Primary and Secondary research techniques to gather intelligence on the market. Internal Feedback : Sales, Marketing, Support, Engineering and other stake holders. I typically advise the below format. Define the problem space and test the commercial viability of the solution.

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Alchemer Mobile

APRIL 14, 2020

Here are some of the questions they’ll discuss: What’s the relationship between design, development, engineering, and product and your company? How deep does your understanding of the technology go as a PM? How do you manage executive expectations, customer expectations, and technical resources? Christy: All right.

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The Product Coalition

OCTOBER 21, 2019

Here I aim to show how experience, respect for discipline, and an insistence on following good project management practices can go a long way to help to develop successful software projects in spite of many challenges. To be clear, we will not discuss how to start a software development project or which steps you should take to kick it off.

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Usersnap

JUNE 15, 2023

Building a powerful SaaS product takes way more than just an idea. For instance, in large companies like Google and Facebook, product managers collaborate with dedicated researchers, analysts, and marketers who assist them in different stages of the product lifecycle. Conduct market and competitive research.

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Mixpanel

MAY 5, 2021

Imagine the internal ‘pat on the backs’ and recognition that occurred when Gmail fully launched dark mode for the mobile app, Figma released multi-account to switch between personal and work design spaces, or Apple announced their M1 chip. He advised companies like Tinder, Hipcamp, Reddit, Canva, and Pocket. Tech costs.

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UX Studio

JANUARY 24, 2024

She has an extensive background in Customer Experience and Telecommunications fields, with more than 15 years of experience working both as a designer and researcher, while also leading large teams. But I also advise designers not to oversee the business side of the relationship. Karthik: That’s amazing.

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eG Innovations

AUGUST 11, 2022

Recently, we hosted a great Citrix Monitoring Masterclass presented by George Spiers (Citrix CTP and Independent Citrix Architect) and Nanda Kumar (Director of Solution Delivery, eG Innovations). Integrating Citrix monitoring with ITSM help and service desk tools such as ServiceNow. 1 About Citrix Monitoring Tools.

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Product Talk

AUGUST 10, 2016

It’s easy for teams to work along both dimensions of product discovery—working to understand their customer’s context and iteratively testing their ideas—but that doesn’t mean they know how to connect the two sets of activities. Over time, I started to reframe the two dimensions as discovering opportunities and discovering solutions.

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Business of Software Conference

JUNE 29, 2020

Teresa Torres is a Product Coach at ProductTalk.org advocating strong critical thinking practices to ensure there is a strong connection between what teams are learning in their research with the product outcomes that they are making. So, there’s this concept from decision making problem solving research called ill-structured problems.

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Department of Product

JUNE 27, 2022

Each function (Engineering, Product, and Design) has their own reporting structure and organization. Organize cross-functionally within engineering, embed product and design It is common for Engineering to organize along functional lines. Define what type of Engineering Manager you have (company expectations vary significantly).

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The Product Coalition

MARCH 21, 2018

A mentor advised me to think about three broad categories?—?the Understand the technical architecture for the product : Get an engineer to sit down with you and explain how the product works under the hood and which major technologies and frameworks have been used. OKRs are a great tool to drive alignment across the team.

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Product Talk

APRIL 7, 2021

In this third and final conversation in the series, we discussed two core principles of continuous discovery : why it’s essential to set up compare and contrast decisions and surface and test assumptions. I am a former chief product officer and now coach and advise product leaders and teams. It comes from decision-making research.

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Roadmunk

DECEMBER 7, 2017

Most recently, Ellen left Lola to launch her own startup that will make it possible to build a complete scalable app in an afternoon. She’s essentially creating a brand new programming language that aims to bring the ability to write software to a billion people. In particular, I really like helping people make software.

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