The Product Coalition

DECEMBER 21, 2020

Take, for instance, a food scientist who believes that a new flavour enhancer could improve consumer demand, or a pharmaceutical company that have developed a medication which they believe could relieve high-blood pressure. This is simply bad return on effort. If it sounds too good to be true, there is often a catch (or two).

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Gainsight

MARCH 19, 2020

Let’s start by acknowledging that Customer Success teams always have the coolest people in the company. Success leaders usually manage more revenue than anyone else at the company. They develop a deep understanding of the customer’s problems and how the company can offer a better overall solution.

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The Product Coalition

FEBRUARY 28, 2019

We had the opportunity to chat with Zoe Chaves, product manager at Splitwise, about the app and what makes it unique. In this Professional Spotlight interview, Zoe discusses her journey at Splitwise, the future of the finance app category , and the current growth challenges that mobile apps face. Check out what she had to say.

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Gainsight

MARCH 9, 2020

Let’s start by acknowledging that Customer Success teams always have the coolest people in the company. Success leaders usually manage more revenue than anyone else at the company. They develop a deep understanding of the customer’s problems and how the company can offer a better overall solution.

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The Product Coalition

JUNE 17, 2019

Today, people want to be able to manage their finances entirely online, a feature not every bank is currently able to provide. For many years CSSSR has been developing IT systems for the biggest online banks, witnessing their success firsthand. In-house resources were enough to develop and support these services.

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Intercom, Inc.

OCTOBER 1, 2020

Sales, marketing, finance, support, and R&D all use the roadmap for different thing. Sales want to sell it, marketing needs to plan for it, finance needs to model it, support needs to be able to explain it, and R&D needs to be excited about it. Getting this right allows your teams to work in lockstep together.

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Intercom, Inc.

OCTOBER 1, 2020

Sales, marketing, finance, support, and R&D all use the roadmap for different thing. Sales want to sell it, marketing needs to plan for it, finance needs to model it, support needs to be able to explain it, and R&D needs to be excited about it. Getting this right allows your teams to work in lockstep together.

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UX Studio: Product Management

JULY 5, 2021

As a client, you invest your time, energy, and limited resources into your digital product development. As a design agency that works with NYC companies , we have developed an effective remote collaboration process that helps us stay in touch with our partners despite time zone differences. Is there anything we can help you with?

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The Product Coalition

MARCH 15, 2023

If you’re a financial services product manager, you’ll know that crafting an effective fintech app onboarding process is no small feat. Ideally, with a great onboarding flow, when someone asks one of your customers what their favorite part of managing their finances is, they hold up their phone and say “the app I use.”

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Mironov Consulting

AUGUST 8, 2017

As a product manager, I think it’s my obligation to bring clarity and precision to discussions… so talking generically about customers or users can be exasperating. Being more specific also gives us an opportunity to connect our teams emotionally to our (ahem) users. We encourage our teams to focus effort where it matters most.

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Product Club

DECEMBER 20, 2016

On the 4th November the Product Manager Club attended JAM 2016 in London. How do product managers, designers and engineers make it all happen? The first presentation was an overview what goes on ‘behind the roadmap at Busuu’ and how the team create a well informed product roadmap. This product manager is well read!

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Business of Software Conference

FEBRUARY 16, 2021

Some of the BoS talks that had an impact on his company, including changing its name to Kevel. So, this was focused on software developers, specifically, for dotnet software developers, this very small ad network, I ran those ad networks for a couple years, and realized that that was a terrible business. 2:43 Mark: Yeah.

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The Product Coalition

MARCH 22, 2021

These fields include web design, mobile app development, SaaS, and even B2B products. With a relatively small team based in Omsk, southwestern Siberia, Purrweb has compiled an impressive portfolio. The company has 14 partners, and at any point in time, each one curates a separate project with its separate team. and Facebook.

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Userpilot

JANUARY 14, 2024

Are you thinking of a career in product management and wondering what the product manager career path looks like? In particular, we look at: What the product manager’s role involves Their main responsibilities Common product management positions Tips on how to advance your PM career Let’s dive in.

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Oren Steinberg

JULY 13, 2018

They are torn across seeking investors, continuing bootstrap and expanding the team. An early stage impact startup with zero resources, that developed a prototype product for 3 rd world countries, has been approached by a large global NGO to start a long and demanding process of collaboration. Not sure where to start. Start with Why.

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Mironov Consulting

JANUARY 17, 2021

Half of the calls I get from CEOs include requests for Product Management to boost productivity in Engineering (aka Development aka Makers). This reflects confusion about what product managers do (and how we really add value), and often poor role definition where product managers are also project/program managers or engineering leads.

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Andrew Chen

NOVEMBER 15, 2021

These frameworks are targeted at teams building new products, first and foremost. Everywhere you looked, there were reminders of the global scale of Uber’s business as well as the international heritage of the team driving it. How to get them started, how to scale them, and what it’s like to compete.

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The Product Coalition

DECEMBER 27, 2023

Building effective teams with people from different disciplines can be challenging due to various circumstances. In the product management discipline, cross-functional collaboration is more than a buzzword — it’s a critical strategy. Teams with multiple functions are instrumental towards staying competitive and succeed.

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Roman Pichler

JUNE 4, 2018

Recognise the Importance of Product Management. Embracing new technologies like machine learning, micro services, big data, and Internet of Things (IoT) is part of that change, as is the introduction of agile practices including cross-functional and self-organising teams, DevOps, Scrum, and Kanban.

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The Product Coalition

AUGUST 9, 2023

Opening the Blockchain Pandora’s Box: From Miners’ Reward to Global Revolution It all began with a mysterious figure named Satoshi Nakamoto. Beyond Bitcoin, it’s becoming evident that blockchain development applications are as diverse as the stars in the sky. This tag team ensures that data breaches become a thing of the past.

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Mironov Consulting

SEPTEMBER 14, 2020

Over the last three decades, across 10 full-time jobs and 150 consulting clients, I’ve headed up product teams 18 times (mostly as interim VP ) and helped another dozen companies choose their Head of Product. They don’t value experience running product management teams , instead overweighting narrow technical or market segment familiarity.

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The Product Coalition

FEBRUARY 26, 2022

Why have Product Managers stopped speaking to customers? Very sadly, most product managers I meet today no longer talk directly to customers regularly. I ran a survey with industry insiders and at least 50% of all product managers who responded haven’t spoken to a customer recently. most invariably say zero.

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Product Talk

SEPTEMBER 11, 2019

One of my goals at Product Talk is to showcase what good product management looks like. Today, I’m excited to introduce a new series, Product in Practice, where I’ll profile product managers doing great work. I met Rachel when she was a product manager at Arity (an Allstate company). You are a product manager.”

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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 Coalition

FEBRUARY 15, 2021

Fallacy #1: ‘Agile’ Equals More Bang for the Buck If you ask founders and managers of startups why they want to become an agile organization, they typically name reasons such as: Becoming more efficient in software delivery, Delivering faster, Improving the predictability of software deliveries. Taylorism?—?or

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The Product Coalition

JULY 17, 2018

to find this year’s top app development agencies. After reading a bunch of content from other app development professionals, journalists, tech bloggers and the like, we realized that there are many good companies out there, and that everyone has a different favorite. It develops for Android and iOS, but also for the web.

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nulab

NOVEMBER 5, 2021

Google, Facebook, and Apple are all household names. A flash Silicon Valley campus staffed by armies of developers, bazillions in the bank, and countless users. You need to understand their product team structure… And you need to learn how startups can adapt them for rapid scaling without losing sight of their goal.

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Userpilot

MARCH 7, 2024

So I talked to several female leaders in SaaS – about their experience with breaking into leadership positions in tech startups – what challenges they’ve faced, and how they managed to overcome them. My official title was the ‘COO’ but on Fridays, I made pancakes for the developers. Sima Banijamali – Sr.

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Alchemer Mobile

MARCH 18, 2021

This is going to be a fantastic presentation for both product managers, mobile marketers alike. However, if we run out of time, please be sure to leave your name with your question, and we will follow up with you directly with any answers that we have to your questions. So bear with my enthusiasm. We spend a lot of time with them.

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Intercom, Inc.

JANUARY 20, 2022

We surveyed and interviewed key people in our teams to understand how they worked and how they saw Intercom’s internal operations. Honest feedback can be hard to take, but it’s essential to develop the type of culture that encourages people to constructively criticize processes, leadership styles, or approaches. Paul: Yeah.

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Mironov Consulting

JUNE 28, 2018

I’m often asked by B2C product managers how B2B companies are different, or about switching between the two. Here are some thoughts on company-wide structural differences and how we product managers get our work done. Long Sales Cycles, Weak Attribution, Few Data Points. What’s B2B? What’s Enterprise? Digging in: 1.

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Sequent Learning

SEPTEMBER 4, 2019

Fundamentals of Product Management – For the Last Time. People often ask me why I write books and articles about product management. And these actions float down to the product managers who sometimes operate by the agendas of others, vs. the advocacy for the business of their products. That’s great news.

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Mixpanel

MAY 5, 2021

Teams are praised whenever they release a new feature (or product) to their customers. Employees on these teams likely felt proud to share something new with the world and maybe even posted their accomplishment on LinkedIn to spread the word and celebrate. Previously, he led growth and product teams at Instacart and Zynga.

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Business of Software Conference

AUGUST 30, 2019

Claire Suellentrop: So no shame in saying when I made that Twitter handle Twitter wouldn’t fit my first name and last name all into one handle. So I have talked about jobs to be done and how you can use it specifically for marketing as opposed to just for product development at a couple of conferences. Thanks Bob.

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svpg

SEPTEMBER 30, 2016

When I first decided to start The Silicon Valley Product Group, I had just left eBay and had some very strong opinions about what makes great product teams, and great product cultures, and while there were more than a few important thinkers and leaders on these topics, one area that I felt was under-represented was the role of product management.

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Mixpanel

AUGUST 11, 2020

After thousands of conversations with product teams evaluating Mixpanel, we sifted through the data to identify the questions that we see come up again and again. Here’s a summary of exactly what teams and objectives are best served by each: Marketing analytics (e.g. Product analytics (e.g. Source: Semetis.

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Mironov Consulting

FEBRUARY 6, 2020

Just as every organization needs a finance/accounting team that follows GAAP and tracks cashflow. So we should take the time to propose various metrics, review them with our teams, argue a bit, and consider our first choices as experiments rather than instant full-year commitments. But metrics aren’t generic.

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