The Product Coalition

DECEMBER 29, 2021

This year I developed a new reading approach, in which I read several books in parallel, usually from different topics. Strategy is visible as coordinated action imposed on a system. It is an exercise in centralized power used to overcome the natural workings of a system. This reaction isn’t limited to people in power. “

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The Product Coalition

MARCH 29, 2018

I try to help product and sales teams succeed under the mantra “Easy to Sell, Easy to Renew.” I’ve struggled to find many examples detailing how to bond product and sales teams ( Antonia Bozhkova offers a good perspective ). Your teams will realign and strengthen their partnership as they see the product through each other’s eyes.

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Mironov Consulting

MAY 24, 2022

Everywhere I go, I see massive amounts of product waste : development work delivered on time/on budget that doesn’t drive sales or customer satisfaction or business improvement.  Yet  We shout past each other using secret keywords (“agile”) and assuming bad intent.  Project teams that ship v1.0

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The Product Guy

MAY 7, 2020

Hence it is critical that one is aware of the best practises of the role and develops his own philosophy which results into maximum positive leverage for the organization. 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. .

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ProductPlan

APRIL 25, 2023

Great teams assemble individuals with differing skill sets, perspectives, and experiences. For example, Iron Man and Captain America leading the Avengers or Superman, Batman, and Wonder Woman teaming up as the Justice League. Many product teams now have their own team of super-powered individuals banding together for a common cause.

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The Product Cafe

APRIL 14, 2024

You need to understand the strengths of your team members. Even with a talented team, success becomes unattainable if their goals diverge from yours. Even with a talented team, success becomes unattainable if their goals diverge from yours. Therefore, for you to be successful, your team needs to be aligned with your goals.

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ProductPlan

MARCH 18, 2022

For this reason, product teams need to develop a process for idea management. But grappling with the influx of ideas and instituting a system to handle them is essential because they sometimes have much to offer, even if it’s not right at the moment. But coming up with ideas is the easy part. There are no guarantees.

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Product Innovation Educators

JULY 17, 2023

Some companies will retreat and cut their spending by cutting bolder long-term innovations, and we saw in the recession around 2010 that was a bad strategy. Show the customer something in the first three weeks of development and repeat every four weeks. Have a good data system. You can create a computer simulation or animation.

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UX Planet

JANUARY 9, 2024

Myth #2: Creativity is a solo act History has done a bad job when it comes to crediting breakthrough inventions and striking creative works to a single individual, greatly neglecting any support systems or collaboration that influenced these great minds. Being creative is not about churning out new and unique things every single time.

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The Product Coalition

OCTOBER 8, 2019

An Eye-Opening Exercise Imagine you’re a Scrum Master and the line manager of your team believes that the best sign for a successful agile transformation is a steady increase in the Scrum Team’s velocity. Moreover, if the team fails to deliver on that metric something is wrong with the Scrum Team. Velocity?—?the

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Tyner Blain

AUGUST 10, 2023

The Jobs of the Problem Statement This article continues a series on the three critical flaws in most product development processes a problem statement exists to address. To reduce the confusion, delays, and waste teams face as a result of not knowing why something is being asked for and not knowing what good enough looks like.

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Modus Create

AUGUST 24, 2021

The time to fix these issues could’ve been used to build new features or optimize the existing system. Bear in mind that fixing bugs without running tests could also introduce new bugs into the system. Any developer can quickly look at your tests and know the purpose of your functions. It simplifies the debugging process.

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Tyner Blain

AUGUST 28, 2023

Knowing a good structure is necessary, but you also need to avoid filling the good template with bad content. It isn’t obvious to many people that too much of a good thing is in fact a bad thing. If you have a team who is new to customer-facing interface design or ecommerce, they won’t know how to begin.

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Userpilot

SEPTEMBER 4, 2023

Earn advocacy by exceeding expectations and proactively seeking referrals, reviews, testimonials, and feedback. This qualitative exercise empowers brands with customer insights. Effective journey mapping entails customer research, gathering cross-functional teams, brainstorming sessions, and refining maps based on data and feedback.

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The Product Guy

APRIL 9, 2019

In my company, we review a living document with our management chain on a quarterly basis to align business direction for the short-term (immediate one to two quarters) to the long-term (two to five years). The challenge to the product managers is to translate these into a more functional plan for our engineering team. First Attempt.

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PMLesson's Ace the PM Interview

MARCH 1, 2020

Hi I'm Kevin Wei, a product manager (aka an offering manager -- I can get into that in a bit) on IBM's data + AI team. We also use that time to work on an incubator project in small teams comprised of offering managers, developers, designers, and researchers. How did it go after you submitted your digital exercise?

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The Product Coalition

MARCH 2, 2020

Too bad, when nowadays diversity, autonomy, mastery, and purpose become the driving factors in a highly competitive environment where more of the same for everyone is no longer creating value. For managers, it means moving: From WIIFM (what-is-in-for-me syndrome) to team playing?—?the Abandoning yesterday’s game?—?and Nice try #1.)

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Intercom, Inc.

JULY 23, 2020

As the CEO of Flow , a flexible project management app for teams, Daniel is working to create a productivity tool that defies conventional metrics, meaning that it simply allows you to get your most important work done without monopolizing the time you spend in the software itself. billion in 2015. How will you stand out from the pack?

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Intercom, Inc.

JANUARY 31, 2019

As part of the process, we’ve spent a lot of time reviewing who we should be selling to these days, and how we should be selling to these customers. The process of defining your positioning strategy is not a one-and-done deal – in a crowded marketplace, it needs to be an ongoing exercise. They include: Close.io Speed is everything.

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Userpilot

JULY 9, 2021

Continuous Discovery Habits by Teresa Torres teaches you how to set up a continuous discovery system within your organization with actionable exercises. Product Mastery by Geoff Watts teaches you how to be a successful product owner within agile software development practices with the use of case studies. out of 5 stars.

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eG Innovations

MARCH 7, 2023

Consider the scenario – You are an SRE (Site Reliability Engineer) joining a team to take charge of their Java applications. 3: Work with your AppDev team on chaos engineering and game days to simulate edge cases. Some issues such as memory leaks do not become apparent until the system has been running for a while.

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PMLesson's Ace the PM Interview

JUNE 8, 2020

It is usually up to the product manager to develop this strategy for their product, because they know the most about the opportunities and threats that are present for their particular market. Weaknesses: This is usually the hardest section to fill out. Answer here: Apply Porter's Five Forces Model to a Product you have worked on 2.

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Userpilot

SEPTEMBER 4, 2023

Earn advocacy by exceeding expectations and proactively seeking referrals, reviews, testimonials, and feedback. This qualitative exercise empowers brands with customer insights. Effective journey mapping entails customer research, gathering cross-functional teams, brainstorming sessions, and refining maps based on data and feedback.

Data Visualization 52

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Atomic Spin PM

JANUARY 22, 2019

The “Hopes and Fears” Design Thinking exercise is a great way to foster discussion around our client’s worries and hopes about the project, especially early on in the process. For a recent project, I was researching ways to get more actionable output from the exercise. How bad would it be if this fear were realized?

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Atomic Spin PM

JANUARY 22, 2019

The “Hopes and Fears” Design Thinking exercise is a great way to foster discussion around our client’s worries and hopes about the project, especially early on in the process. For a recent project, I was researching ways to get more actionable output from the exercise. How bad would it be if this fear were realized?

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The Product Coalition

APRIL 14, 2020

Remote Agile (Part 5): Retrospectives with Distributed Teams TL; DR: A Remote Retrospective with a Distributed Team We started this series on remote agile with looking into practices and tools, followed by exploring virtual Liberating Structures, how to master Zoom as well as common remote agile anti-patterns.

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ProductPlan

SEPTEMBER 10, 2021

The OKR methodology can be a powerful motivator for high performance and product excellence within teams and companies. The focus then shifts towards outcomes and individual and team authority and ownership. Moreover, they boost employee engagement and nurture strong team collaboration. Develop a Work Environment Built on Trust.

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Intercom, Inc.

JANUARY 5, 2022

After working on NASA’s Space Shuttle Main Engine, he went on to develop Portfolium, a social networking platform that allows students and graduates to showcase skills beyond the traditional resume to potential employers. Portfolium was eventually acquired, but the team behind it never stopped thinking about a better way to do it.

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Intercom, Inc.

OCTOBER 5, 2022

Each person on your team has different needs, responds to feedback in different ways and evolves in different trajectories – and management should always reflect that. Even when you reach the perfect team dynamic – a new hire or budget cut can easily throw things off balance. Meeting your team.

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The Product Coalition

MARCH 15, 2020

In product development, necessary actions and emergent information is rarely obvious or clear, which is why we need inductive reasoning. Thus, rethinking the initial identification of a key problem area with more than one response to the stated problem is of utmost importance to those doing strategy work (a form of systems thinking).

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The Product Coalition

DECEMBER 12, 2019

The one thing an MBO system should provide par excellence is focus. The exercise of backlog prioritization forces us to diverge and analyze all the ideas and stories to achieve our objectives. It also gives visibility to the team and internal stakeholders nurturing our view with theirs. It’s extremely easy to say yes.

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Intercom, Inc.

JULY 11, 2019

But as the business becomes more successful – and there are resources to build a support team – additional layers begin to separate executives from their customers. Since 2010, he’s helped the company grow to more than 40,000 customers and helped scale the support team to more than 500 employees to assist those users. Short on time?

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The Product Coalition

JUNE 22, 2020

And you’re telling me you don’t have guidelines for how to conduct interviews, analysis exercises, and communicate findings? Establish a regular schedule for reviewing customer feedback To make use of feedback, it needs to be reviewed frequently. A lean product discovery framework can help make it all of this so much easier.

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Modus Create

JULY 1, 2020

I had been on a sort of health kick for a few years: I quit smoking, I started walking to get low impact exercise, and so on. I had been taking 2 Aleve each day (1 morning, 1 evening) because I had been developing arthritis in my hands. My immune system is so strong that my immune system attacks my healthy cells.

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Product Talk

FEBRUARY 10, 2021

Teresa: For those of you that are Product Talk readers, Melissa writes our Product in Practice series where we’re sharing stories about teams doing great discovery work, so you may have seen her name there. And that’s not a bad thing. It’s allowing each team to really find what’s going to work best for them.

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Intercom, Inc.

MAY 16, 2019

As our Design Lead Gustavs Cirulis shared recently, the development of the product did not come without its own challenges. It allows you to maximize a new feature’s value with minimal effort because the feature is part of this system or platform. Brian: It’s a huge challenge to get teams to do this and to do it well.

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Intercom, Inc.

JULY 19, 2018

I hosted Jean and Edmond on our podcast to get their take on the difference between leadership and management, the power of positive feedback, and why trust is the foundation of the most effective engineering teams. Jean: Especially with engineering teams. Then if you’re given the right tools, you can be more effective at doing that.

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