The Product Coalition

APRIL 2, 2022

Every time I navigate the ocean of Product Management frameworks, we are not tackling one essential part of our role: People and Ourselves. There is a framework for almost every stage of our Product development lifecycle, but one of the only transversal things is that we need people to make things happen.

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Userpilot

APRIL 6, 2023

Developing and releasing sophisticated products with all the bells and whistles imaginable might seem like a great idea. Overengineered products are difficult to use, filled with bugs, and instead of improving your users’ lives, they make them unnecessarily complicated. Why do developers overengineer software products?

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Ronke PM

AUGUST 16, 2023

Table of Contents Technical Support Customer Success/Relationship Managers Marketing Sales Team Data Scientist Finance UX Researcher UX Designer Content Designers and Conversational Designers Engineering Legal Security (IT) PMO (Product Management Office) (Bonus!)

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Roman Pichler

MAY 11, 2021

Instead, you should engage the stakeholders, leverage their expertise, and generate as much buy-in as possible , as I explain in more detail in my article “ Stakeholder Management Tips for Product People.” ” But do not allow people to dominate and tell you what to do, and don’t agree to a weak compromise.

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Good Product Manager

APRIL 28, 2019

Three Tips for Getting More Value From Product Enhancements. Many product teams – especially those working on software-as-a-service offerings – spend most of their time and energy enhancing existing products. Minimum Viable Products: I Do Not Think They Mean What You Think They Mean. What’s Hot on Twitter.

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Userpilot

APRIL 7, 2024

Analyze user behavior at different user journey stages Finding the Aha moment requires a deep understanding of user behavior and interactions with your product. To be more specific, when looking for the Aha moment, you want to identify user actions that lead to an activation or conversion event. To do so, conduct path analysis.

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Good Product Manager

SEPTEMBER 6, 2018

Product Management Planning for 2019. As we look ahead to 2019, we see increased recognition of product management as a key function, and growth in the discipline, though there are still challenges, and there is certainly room for improvement. Product Management Podcasts.

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Good Product Manager

APRIL 28, 2019

Three Tips for Getting More Value From Product Enhancements. Many product teams – especially those working on software-as-a-service offerings – spend most of their time and energy enhancing existing products. Minimum Viable Products: I Do Not Think They Mean What You Think They Mean. What’s Hot on Twitter.

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The Product Coalition

OCTOBER 11, 2022

Sun Tzu’s Art of War is considered a must-read for managers in any type of organization. The Art of War is arguably designed to help managers address challenges in regard to leading people, managing resources, quality, battling competitors and constant improvement in organizations. Product Success ? Product and Team ?

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Good Product Manager

SEPTEMBER 6, 2018

Product Management Planning for 2019. As we look ahead to 2019, we see increased recognition of product management as a key function, and growth in the discipline, though there are still challenges, and there is certainly room for improvement. Product Management Podcasts.

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Amplitude

OCTOBER 27, 2020

The power of product analytics becomes apparent when any team at a company—marketing, product, design, engineering—can quickly ask and answer questions about user behavior and customer journeys. But getting to that point requires an investment in product data management. What Is Product Data Management?

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Good Product Manager

SEPTEMBER 20, 2016

Product Management in 2017: What Does the Future Hold? Product management is sometimes referred to as a “next year” job. It’s usually around this time of year that product management leaders are well into planning for the following calendar year. Upcoming Events for Fall 2016.

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Good Product Manager

SEPTEMBER 20, 2016

Product Management in 2017: What Does the Future Hold? Product management is sometimes referred to as a “next year” job. It’s usually around this time of year that product management leaders are well into planning for the following calendar year. Upcoming Events for Fall 2016.

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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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Userpilot

NOVEMBER 30, 2023

How do product managers identify market gaps? A market gap can be caused by missing functionality or poor user experience. Canva identified a market need for a user-friendly graphic design tool for non-designers and DocuSign for a secure solution to sign and manage digital documents and contracts. Let’s get into it!

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Userpilot

SEPTEMBER 28, 2022

Are you tracking product management metrics to evaluate your product and monitor its progress? SaaS products are becoming increasingly data-driven which makes it critical to evaluate product growth using the right metrics. Here are the 3 best tools to improve product management metrics.

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Ask Benny

JULY 3, 2020

The role of the product manager is to focus the team even and especially in time of crisis Human Behavior. I do think however that whatever I say that is valid for the local product or organization is also valid for a wider scale. When we work on a product we have our strategy, our roadmap, and our plan.

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Roman Pichler

JULY 6, 2021

When you become a head of product, you move into a line management position. Consequently, your focus shifts from managing a product to looking after the product people on your team and empowering them to do a great job. For some people, that’s straightforward. Grow Your Leadership Skills.

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The Accidental Product Manager

MARCH 11, 2019

The end can come for a product manager when they least expect it Credit: Bill Selak. So here’s a quick question for you: what is the shortest time that you’ve ever worked at a product manager job? That’s why I was surprised when I got fired after two weeks on the job at my new product manager position.

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Ask Benny

APRIL 5, 2020

, The role of the product manager is to focus the team even and especially in time of crisis , Human Behavior. I do think however that whatever I say that is valid for the local product or organization is also valid for a wider scale. When we work on a product we have our strategy, our roadmap, and our plan.

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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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Mironov Consulting

FEBRUARY 12, 2022

For me, this is similar to the core product prioritization problem: an infinite set of demands that each individual requestor considers to be extremely important/urgent. But for calendars, the scarce resource is time rather than development capacity.  Just Can we sort events into a few piles and figure out where the time went?  

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Ask Benny

MARCH 17, 2020

The role of the product manager is to focus the team even and especially in time of crisis Human Behavior. I do think however that whatever I say that is valid for the local product or organization is also valid for a wider scale. When we work on a product we have our strategy, our roadmap, and our plan.

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Ask Benny

MARCH 17, 2020

The role of the product manager is to focus the team even and especially in time of crisis Human Behavior. I do think however that whatever I say that is valid for the local product or organization is also valid for a wider scale. When we work on a product we have our strategy, our roadmap, and our plan.

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Ask Benny

MARCH 17, 2020

I do think however that whatever I say that is valid for the local product or organization is also valid for a wider scale. It just might be someone else responsibility because there is no product manager in those areas and there are probably many many more parameters to consider. We actually have to protect this team.

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The Product Coalition

MARCH 23, 2020

I do think however that whatever I say that is valid for the local product or organization is also valid for a wider scale. It just might be someone else responsibility because there is no product manager in those areas and there are probably many many more parameters to consider. We actually have to protect this team.

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Roman Pichler

MAY 11, 2021

Instead, you should engage the stakeholders, leverage their expertise, and generate as much buy-in as possible , as I explain in more detail in my article “ Stakeholder Management Tips for Product People.” ” But do not allow people to dominate and tell you what to do, and don’t agree to a weak compromise.

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Department of Product

OCTOBER 23, 2022

Product Principles – Examples for Product Managers Make decision making easier with inspiration from top product companies Product principles are used by product teams to help guide decision making. Principles can help guide both strategic decisions and tactical decisions.

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Userpilot

APRIL 29, 2021

Then, repeat after me (or Andrew Chen of Andreessen Horowitz, to be precise): “The natural state of any new product is that no one’s using it :)”. Product Death Cycle by David Bland. And while most product managers think the users need more features to start using their product…the opposite is often true.

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The Product Coalition

MAY 25, 2020

During my career I have spent time working closely with Service Designers on a variety of projects and products, and I believe there are five key lessons from the Service Designer discipline that can help & enhance Product Management. Consider the steps and actions taken in the product, and the context the user is in.

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The Product Coalition

OCTOBER 29, 2018

“We just pushed it live,” the release manager belts out, to a team fresh off the battlefield that is software product development. I was fortuitously dropped into this arena, with not a hint of prior experience building and releasing products. While keeping those in mind?—?and Why are you embarking on this mission?

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Userpilot

MARCH 27, 2023

How can product analytics help product managers create better digital products and more satisfying user experiences? We start by looking at different kinds of analyses and the metrics to track and then explore some practical ways of using each of them to drive various product goals. Let’s get right to it.

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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.

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ProductPlan

MARCH 17, 2021

When you think of company-sponsored events, a few scenes may come to mind. When your team participates in video calls all day, the idea of an extended virtual gathering may fill your team with dread. Here at ProductPlan, we believe we’ve cracked the code on making these events fun, engaging, informative, and meaningful.

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The Product Coalition

JANUARY 30, 2019

What is the one skill that all product manager needs? Weeks ago I wrote about a product manager does not need to know how to code. During a conversation with a friend, he asked: “if it is not coding skills, what are the one skill a product manager must have”? Why Leadership? No one directly reports to him.

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ProductPlan

MARCH 17, 2021

When you think of company-sponsored events, a few scenes may come to mind. When your team participates in video calls all day, the idea of an extended virtual gathering may fill your team with dread. Here at ProductPlan, we believe we’ve cracked the code on making these events fun, engaging, informative, and meaningful.

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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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