The Product Coalition

MARCH 23, 2022

Vertical Integration for Startups In the past couple of years, I have worked with multiple startups in an advisory capacity and this has provided an opportunity to think about strategy in innovative ways. I apply this lens to a startup that develops solutions in the health-tech market. Beyond “Cheaper, Faster, Better”?—?Vertical

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Intercom, Inc.

AUGUST 18, 2022

You’re autonomous, your code is immaculate, and you have a deep understanding of building and shipping software. Then, four years ago, in 2018, she got a job at Algolia as a software engineer. She diligently rose through the ranks, finally growing into the individual contributor role of a staff engineer. I was all alone.

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The Product Coalition

JANUARY 27, 2022

At the beginning of any software development project, managers think of which methodology is between waterfall and agile. It’s essential to follow clearly defined processes or software development life cycle (SDLC) to ensure software development quality. Waterfall and agile: A smart method or bad solution?

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Intercom, Inc.

JANUARY 5, 2022

In today’s data-driven SaaS scene, these can affect hundreds of millions of users and cause damage in the billions of dollars, and as compliance frameworks become requirements to do business, businesses are turning to third-party services that can help expedite and facilitate the process. And that’s where people like Adam Markowitz come in.

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Gainsight

MARCH 20, 2023

By Tim Van Lew, Director of Customer Success Strategy, Gainsight Yes, it’s uncommon to see a year-in-review article in spring. At the core, our intent with Gainsight Essentials has been to help all companies—from startups to scale-ups and beyond—grow while giving them the tools to put their customer first.

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PMLesson's Ace the PM Interview

MARCH 21, 2022

Trying to better understand the software engineer career path? Software engineers have the option to stick to software development at higher and higher levels. Different software engineers work on different kinds of technical projects. This, too, can influence the potential career trajectory of a software engineer.

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Intercom, Inc.

NOVEMBER 20, 2018

In the early stages of most SaaS startups’ lives, the CEO or founder often acts as the initial head of sales. The “ Jobs to be Done ” framework is a useful resource to help frame the context from their side of the fence. As Jason Lemkin puts it , “The CEO/founder should close at least the first 10 (or 20 or whatever) customers.

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Modus Create

JUNE 18, 2021

More data and more code in more places increase your threat surface, creating opportunities for malicious actors online. . Here’s what a comprehensive security assessment looks like: Step 1 – Due Diligence. Source code of existing applications. SDLC (Software Development Life Cycle) of the organization .

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Mind the Product

JUNE 7, 2019

There are so many frameworks and tools to choose from, so how do you make them work in the real world? Jeff takes us through the basics of the three main frameworks – Agile, Lean, and Design Thinking – and then gives us a set of principles that can help us effectively meld them together. More code does not equal more value.

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The Product Coalition

SEPTEMBER 15, 2019

For new product managers or in startups with newly formed product teams, the building roadmap is their first kick at having the influence of the company direction. I have had a fair share of experience working at enterprise and startup level companies. So what can you do? But required to get executive approval on priorities.

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Mind the Product

MARCH 3, 2020

As Head of Product at Founders Factory , a corporate-backed accelerator and incubator for early-stage startups based in London, Seb Sabouné works with founders and teams to become more product led. Coaching Frameworks. Sebastian’s Product Coaching Framework piece at Mind The Product. Quote of the Episode. Product Coaching.

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Business of Software Conference

JULY 29, 2019

At every Business of Software Conference we record the talks so that you, the great people of the internet, can join in the feast of learning that our attendees get to gorge themselves upon. Want us to let you know about new talk videos, speaker AMAs, Business of Software Conference and other event updates? Upcoming Events.

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Split

JULY 27, 2023

But what is the best option for your project: a homegrown feature toggle solution or a software-as-a-service (SaaS) feature toggle? For enterprises, feature toggles provide a way to continuously deliver new features while maintaining the stability of existing code.

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The Product Coalition

APRIL 7, 2021

Fireart Studio Fireart Studio is a boutique design and software development company with a headquarter in Warsaw, Poland. The team offers a high-quality UI design, UX research and design, wireframing, prototyping, implementation in code, QA, software testing, and product deployment. It was established in 2008 in Poznan.

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The Product Coalition

APRIL 3, 2023

Product Management Technology If you’re unfamiliar with software development, you may not have heard of Scrum. Here’s how it works: Image Credits Scrum.org The Basics of Scrum Scrum is a framework for developing and sustaining complex products. The framework consists of Scrum teams, roles, events, artifacts, and rules.

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The Review by First Round

JUNE 17, 2021

Today’s episode is with Waseem Daher, co-founder and CEO of Pilot, a company that specializes in bookkeeping, tax prep, and CFO services for high-growth startups. Product pros also won’t want to miss learning from Waseem’s playbook honed over the course of building three companies. You can follow Waseem on Twitter at @waseem.

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The Product Guy

AUGUST 1, 2019

A startup development team consisting of a product manager and two offshore engineers was facing major challenges in meeting client deliverable deadlines – repeatedly. Since there was no active grooming or planning session with the engineers, daily standups played the role of requirement review meetings. THE CHALLENGE.

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Modus Create

APRIL 5, 2021

As an aspiring business leader and entrepreneur, I believe that not having a fundamental understanding of software development and data analysis weakens executive decisions that accordingly diminish long-term value creation. rating from 63 reviews on the App Store with over 500 users. Joining the Modus Create Team. Conclusion.

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The Product Coalition

FEBRUARY 14, 2023

You can learn many core product skills from internships, especially if you get a chance to intern at startups. Start by understanding some basic frameworks and evaluating past solutions of different case studies. Let’s begin: Tip 1: Internships This is hands down the best way to get a taste of experiential learning.

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Userpilot

JULY 9, 2021

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. The teams she coaches are from both early-stage startups and multinational enterprises in different industries. Overview of Eureka framework for user onboarding. Where to buy?

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Userpilot

OCTOBER 4, 2022

The Pirate Metrics Framework organizes the traditional funnel into five stages in the customer journey: Acquisition, Activation, Retention, Referral, and Revenue ( AARRR ). G2 is a business software and services review platform that relies on user-generated content to grow organically. Understanding the growth loops framework.

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Sachin Rekhi

JUNE 1, 2017

While most folks found value in this framework when thinking about career fulfillment, some wondered what was a viable process by which they could actually get there. I remember being ecstatic when I learned that programming computers was a profession and I knew what my calling was: I wanted to develop software that improved people's lives.

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Usersnap

MARCH 16, 2023

POM’s focus is on offering a frictionless payment experience in a multi-channel environment: Payment buttons QR codes Text messages Web portals Mobile apps Fintech Payments POM’s payments platform allows billers to integrate payment buttons into invoices sent via email or print unique QR payment codes on paper invoices.

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Userpilot

FEBRUARY 29, 2024

Hotjar is a product analytics software best known for its heatmaps and session recording tools. Totango is a customer analytics software focused primarily on customer success and churn reduction. UXCam is a product analytics software optimized for mobile customer insights. Starts at Silver’s $199/month.) Source: Totango.

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Userpilot

SEPTEMBER 12, 2022

It may be reading articles on your blog, engaging with ads, leaving reviews, contacting the support team, and so on. Group customer touchpoints by using the Pirate metrics framework. Acquisition stage: Engaging with your digital ads, reading reviews on product listing platforms, and booking a demo or signing up for a trial.

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Roman Pichler

FEBRUARY 2, 2021

Before the advent of agile frameworks like Scrum , a product person—the product manager—would typically carry out the market research, compile a market requirements specification, create a business case, put together product roadmap, write a requirements specification, and then hand it off to a project manager.

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Bain Public

APRIL 25, 2022

About four years ago, I met Claude Theoret and Daniel Drouet while they were continuing with their deep involvement in the Montreal startup ecosystem as investors, mentors and entrepreneurs. Claude, Daniel and I began to ideate on ways that we could collaborate by leveraging Daniel’s software.

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UX Studio: Product Management

NOVEMBER 24, 2020

Aplana is a privately held software development company that has been on the market for 20 years. Its offices are located in different countries, including the UK, US, and Germany for sales operations and Ukraine, Russia, Belarus for skilled software engineering teams. . Wandr studio. Echo & Co. Design First. Fuzzy Math.

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The Product Coalition

DECEMBER 25, 2023

To answer this question, we’ll use the “Jobs to be Done” (JTBD) framework. Why is change management in enterprise software so hard? Users want to use software that will make it easy to collect data. Software developers usually don’t want to work in Microsoft Sharepoint. What is the “job” of a McDonald’s Milkshake.

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UX Planet

FEBRUARY 1, 2024

Why this Industry The finance industry presents a compelling opportunity for designing applications due to the significant and widespread challenges outlined in the problem statement. Threats: Competition from both FinTech startups and traditional financial institutions. Threats: Intense competition from FinTech startups.

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The Product Guy

OCTOBER 9, 2018

First, I did not know how to frame, develop and present product strategy in a systematic way, and second, as a startup, my company has not historically had a good track record of strategy being developed outside of senior management (read: founder). This framework covers five major questions: What do we aspire to be? Where do we play?

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Product Talk

SEPTEMBER 9, 2020

I always felt if the software was bad, I had this physical pain and I really wanted to help. I always felt if the software was bad, I had this physical pain and I really wanted to help. I decided to join a smaller startup, which was a company called XING. It was an 80-person startup back then. Tweet This. Congratulations!

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Ask Benny

JANUARY 25, 2020

Agile is a concept with principles that helps us develop software better, validate it as soon as we can, and bring value to our customers faster. Scrum is just one of the software development frameworks that implement agile and there are many others including Kanban, extreme programming, lean software development and more.

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Product Talk

MARCH 2, 2016

The adoption of Agile has helped us deliver iterative chunks of code rather than waiting for the big reveal at the end of a long project. Continuous integration reduces the risk of large code conflicts that used to take days or sometimes weeks of testing to resolve. First, it doesn’t feel like real work—only writing code is real work.

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UX Studio: Product Management

JANUARY 25, 2022

As a global agency with over ten years of experience, we reviewed hundreds of design agencies in London, Berlin, New York, and San Francisco to create a curated list of agencies you can trust and work with. This time, we reviewed web design Manchester agencies and listed the five best design companies in Manchester 2022.

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The Product Coalition

SEPTEMBER 5, 2022

Taken from Teresa Torres’ blog, ProductTalk.org The Opportunity Solution Tree is a framework that breaks Product outcomes into opportunity streams so that stakeholders have a better understanding of what you are proposing and can better help you prioritize. Reader discretion is advised. What’s an Opportunity Solution Tree?

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Andrew Chen

DECEMBER 10, 2018

Dear readers, I’m often asked- so what kind of startups are you investing in at Andreessen Horowitz? How chain letters were invented and rethinking its effectiveness in the framework of viral growth. The most exciting new technologies coming around the corner, and how to evaluate them for producing new startups.

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