The Product Coalition

JULY 23, 2023

The push for features is especially prevalent around annual budgeting in most companies that have yet to move to product-based budgeting and even in some that have. And even when a product manager pushes for outcomes, finance pushes back. Does anyone experience a conversation like this as a product manager?

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The Product HQ

MAY 10, 2024

Want to become an AI product manager? This guide shows you how to prepare for a career in AI product management. Today, more and more businesses are looking for product managers specializing in artificial intelligence and machine learning technologies. If so, then you’ve come to the right place.

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ProductPlan

FEBRUARY 8, 2022

Ask anyone in the technology world, “what is product management,” and you’ll get a fairly consistent answer. Ask this same cohort to define product operations—and how it differs from product management—and that consistency begins to fade. Many lack a clear picture of product operations’ role in general.

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The Product Coalition

NOVEMBER 19, 2020

Strategies for switching into a product management role when you don’t fit the cookie cutter qualifications. Getting into product when you’ve already started your career Product management requires, above anything else, good judgment. It shouldn’t be a prerequisite for product management jobs either.

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Mind the Product

JANUARY 17, 2018

A good product manager generally has a keen instinct for human behavior. However, the best product managers have learned how to incorporate the science of human behavior in a more rigorous way than just relying on instinct. A Good Behavioral Product Manager Applies Basic Human Behavior Principles to Product Principles.

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Mironov Consulting

DECEMBER 29, 2022

 But when I do product due diligence for SaaS-focused PE/VC firms, it's the very first thing I look at.  Let’s   Good salespeople do what we pay them to do (not what product managers want them to do), so “a dollar is a dollar” is a billboard-sized invitation to sell more custom work.

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UX Planet

JANUARY 11, 2024

If successful, there’s an interview with the product managers and maybe two more interviews. The whole effort of the application process without the position being filled because companies cannot find the right candidate with the necessary experience, due to the fact that too many junior designers apply.

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The Product Coalition

DECEMBER 8, 2019

Highly effective Product Managers develop themselves in 5 key areas. Highly effective Product Managers (or what I call Exponential PMs) tend to be strong in all of these areas. This is based on studying, speaking with, and coaching PMs and product leaders. Craft Competence ?? Market Competence ?????

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Lenny Rachitsky

APRIL 30, 2024

For more stories of how the best product teams operate, don’t miss my deep dives into Linear , Shopify , Figma , Notion , Duolingo , Ramp , Miro , Coda , Gong , and Snowflake. P.S. I’m collaborating with Perplexity on a deep dive into how product managers use Perplexity, and we’d love to hear from you.

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The Product Coalition

JANUARY 27, 2022

Waterfall project management is ideal for consistent and reliable results on software development projects or systems that don’t need rapid changes. The project managers will know their teams, testers, developers, and resources. Due to the covid-19 outbreak, remote work becomes normal.

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Product Innovation Educators

JUNE 5, 2023

Understanding the roles of product managers, project managers, and product owners Today we are talking about a frequently asked question, which is how are product and project management related. He is a product owner and entrepreneur, with NewGenP being his latest company.

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The Product Coalition

JANUARY 26, 2023

Together with 3 senior consultants, we have transformed a monolithic team into three autonomous squads, established dedicated product design functions, implemented a comprehensive & actionable design system, fostered a strong product culture throughout the entire organisation, and empowered the product team to become true agents of change.

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The Product Coalition

APRIL 5, 2020

They also do their best to hire specialists to build back end systems to ensure that the private information of the company and their clients are safe and secure. In a usability interview, I sit with Catherine, an accounting and compliance specialist representing the international finance industry.

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Product Innovation Educators

MAY 22, 2023

How product mangers can improve collaboration in cross-functional teams Today we are talking with Maziar Adl, the co-founder and CTO of Gocious, an organization that creates product roadmap management software. In product management, I often saw silos coming from top to bottom. It’s evolving so fast.

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The Product Coalition

FEBRUARY 15, 2024

In employee onboarding, Generative AI automates various aspects of the process, from creating training materials to facilitating smoother integration for new hires, enhancing overall workforce productivity and satisfaction. Finance and accounting: Generative AI brings automation and security to critical processes in finance and accounting.

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Mironov Consulting

MAY 24, 2022

I think serious product discovery and end user validation may be stuck in this cultural/conceptual gap.  Product Important to note that R&D is almost entirely people: salaries plus benefits for developers and designers and tech writers and product managers.  Hiring  We avoid setting clear success criteria.  Most

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Sachin Rekhi

JUNE 1, 2017

I actually ended up building their first "e-billing system", which converted traditionally paper bills into PDFs and emailed them to their customers for review. But along the way I ended up getting a concentration in finance at Wharton because it was what Wharton was most well known for. And I did exactly that.

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The Product Coalition

DECEMBER 8, 2020

The systems, people and processes at play that make these enormous feats of achievement possible have a way of wrapping their tentacles around new product ventures then slowing them down, impairing them and, sometimes, killing them off. You need to work out how to overcome the forces that are most likely to derail your new product.

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PMLesson's Ace the PM Interview

MARCH 1, 2020

An inside look at product management at IBM and the interview process. Kevin Wei is an Offering Manager at IBM managing Watson Knowledge Catalog and DataStage. In this Path to PM blog post, Kevin shares his journey breaking into a product role as a new grad hire at IBM. What is an IBM offering manager?

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Johanna Rothman

FEBRUARY 28, 2020

Later the next week, Finance returned my timesheet to me. The timesheet was due on Friday at 2pm. Note: As a manager in a company a decade or so later, I filled out timesheets for everyone in my group. A couple of finance people yelled at me. I asked them: did they want products done or timesheets done? I think 55.

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Alchemer Mobile

MARCH 18, 2021

Almost all apps experienced significant change in their DAU due to COVID-19. This is going to be a fantastic presentation for both product managers, mobile marketers alike. One of the things that is important to Apptentive and that we do enable is ratings and reviews. Transcript. So bear with my enthusiasm.

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Userpilot

MARCH 29, 2024

Tableau builds trust with potential customers on software review platforms. If finance is a problem, for example, you can opt for a virtual event or creative booth instead of an elaborate media campaign. Userpilot's AI launch on Product Hunt. Userpilot uses content marketing to increase brand awareness.

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Mind the Product

OCTOBER 19, 2016

How can a product manager make effective decisions about the direction of their product? Why should product managers be under any more pressure to make sound decisions than finance managers or sales and marketing teams? The pressure is on to get it right. The pressure is on to get it right.

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Bain Public

DECEMBER 19, 2022

As a smart Mobility start-up, they developed solutions to optimise and revolutionize public transport systems and services. They helped me and my team reduce a lot of our workload on the product management side, but obviously you still know your customers and industry best, so earmark some time to review things.

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Mironov Consulting

JULY 27, 2023

 This post lays out a related challenge: finding a scalable way for product management to support sales organizations rather than individual sales opportunities.  So a product manager might have 5% of their time in total for deal-specific sales support.  This is a must-close.”

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Mironov Consulting

MARCH 26, 2022

" At the leadership level, I see a fundamental disconnect between the folks defining/building software products and the folks marketing/selling them: The "maker" side of the house defines prioritization as committing to fewer things in order to finish the most important ones. Then Engineering has to support them.  Most

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Roadmunk

AUGUST 10, 2017

The rise of the SaaS model in the product space has been swift, to say the least. So as product managers, knowing how to manage only traditional, on-premises software no longer cuts it. Here’s who we spoke with: Evan Michner , Principal Product Manager at Atlassian. Title: Principal Product Manager.

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Userpilot

DECEMBER 6, 2022

Marketing Resource Management (MRM) refers to a set of marketing technologies and processes focused on streamlining and centralizing marketing assets, operations, workflows, and information into a single system. What is marketing resource management (MRM)? in a centralized file storage system like Zapier or Drive.

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ProductPlan

NOVEMBER 23, 2021

Effectively pricing products or services is more nuanced than just looking at profit margins. Moreover, the system provides an insight into competitor pricing, the overall value of a product or service, and a company’s financial stability. Economies of scale due to higher sales quantity and a lower cost per unit.

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Intercom, Inc.

AUGUST 25, 2020

Product marketing is almost a part of product. It’s very hard to actually draw firm lines between where a product manager’s job starts and ends and where a product marketing manager’s job starts and ends. “Product marketing is almost a part of product.

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NextBigWhat

DECEMBER 25, 2020

Product roadmap tools enable companies to manage their products, evaluate their life cycles as well as communicate the product’s goals and progress to their team members and management. They tend to provide an overview of the different phases of a product getting developed. URL – [link].

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Intercom, Inc.

JULY 21, 2022

What started as a series of interviews by co-founder Des Traynor soon bloomed into hundreds of episodes where we explore how businesses are driving growth through customer relationships and how to build successful products at scale. We use a multi-touch attribution system. What are the principles for how we build products?

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Mixpanel

MAY 5, 2021

Arguably, killing portions of a product is one of the most challenging aspects of leadership. Even the most experienced product managers have little to no experience and craft in reverting decisions after a feature has already made it live into production. ” Neil Rahilly – VP of Product and Design at Mixpanel.

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Usersnap

MARCH 19, 2019

As a product manager or a SaaS company owner, what is your main drive in building new products? Should the Voice of Customer influence product development? Many software and internet companies with great product ideas and rocket high initial growth rates have failed to achieve product/market fit.

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Mixpanel

OCTOBER 17, 2022

If you are a growing business, it’s common to add more people–more developers, more designers, more product managers. Because of this, our founder is aware that we need to invest in things like product analytics in order to be one of the best platforms in Europe. Aurélien Rayer, Chief Data Officer at Ornikar.

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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. 15 days in their IT queue for system access?

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Mind the Product

NOVEMBER 30, 2017

For example if a customer is refused insurance by an automated system they can call and ask for a manual review. Likewise your privacy policies and data protection policies may need to be reviewed. A product person should already have a good knowledge of data protection. What Does a Data Protection Officer do?

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