The Product Coalition

OCTOBER 30, 2023

It was another bad start to what seemed like Groundhog Day. “I This was the third conversation we were having about the product, an app that served our own company along with external customers. We went away from detailed, long-term, feature-committed roadmaps. But it’s not like we shut the product down.

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The Product Coalition

SEPTEMBER 21, 2023

Creating Product Outcomes: What I’ve Learned From The Soccer Pitch “Great things in business are never done by one person; they’re done by a team of people.” — Steve Jobs Soccer is more than just a game for me. It’s become a lens through which I’ve come to view much of my life, including my work in product management.

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Roman Pichler

JUNE 7, 2022

While common sense suggests that managing a product without the right measurements is not a sensible approach, I’ve seen product teams who did not use any KPIs. Consequently, these teams relied on: Anecdotal feedback : “Customers love our product, they told me so.” 3 Stakeholder or Big Boss Dictates KPIs.

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The Product Coalition

NOVEMBER 13, 2023

The Critical Role of Product Strategy When Money Is Scarce (Part 2 — Rounds A, B, and Later) When you start selling your product, you feel great, but that doesn’t last for too long. A product strategy is often the missing link that would convert your efforts into actual revenue. Here is how it works.

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The Product Coalition

DECEMBER 4, 2023

The Critical Role of Product Strategy When Resources Are Limited (Part 2 — Rounds A, B, and Later) When you start selling your product, you feel great, but that doesn’t last for too long. A product strategy is often the missing link that would convert your efforts into actual revenue. Here is how it works.

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The Product Coalition

JUNE 9, 2023

If you do things that are purposeful, you’ll eventually be successful.” — Howard Schultz Several years ago, I found myself in a heated discussion about product roadmaps with a client. This exchange unfolded over weak, black coffee in your typical, bland white-walled corporate conference room. Why not, indeed?

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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. Ensure that Your Core Product Management Skills are Strong.

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Roman Pichler

JUNE 1, 2020

The first one carries the risk of being a feature broker and offering a product that has a weak value proposition, gives rise to a poor user experience, and consists of a loose collection of features. A stakeholder is anyone who has a stake in your product, who is affected by it, or who shows an interest in the offering.

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Roman Pichler

MARCH 12, 2018

How do you best lead the stakeholders and development team as the person in charge of the product? Two of these styles, feature broker and product dictator, are shown in the picture below. Such a product typically has a weak value proposition, offers a poor user experience, and is therefore unlikely to become a success.

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Ronke PM

MARCH 26, 2024

These leaders understand that bringing effective products, solutions, and services to market requires consensus building and engaging cross-functional teams in the journey. After all, the partner teams build products, not the product manager alone. Product management is inherently awe-inspiring.

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Roman Pichler

JUNE 6, 2023

Here are four examples: Joe, the sales rep, has promised a feature to an important customer without first talking to you—the person in charge of the product. Sue, the Scrum Master , wanted to help the development team get better at sprint planning. But the team still over-commits and under-delivers. How are you doing?

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Mironov Consulting

FEBRUARY 28, 2024

An essential role of CPOs and other product leaders that’s never listed in the job description is giving organizational 'air cover' to product managers to postpone almost all new requests — so that their teams can finish work already underway.    “ How hard could it be? 

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ProductPlan

OCTOBER 7, 2020

Roadmaps are a unique tool for creating and maintaining stakeholder alignment, resource planning, and budgeting purposes. But what happens when you’re managing a product that is being continually updated? This is the situation for countless SaaS product management professionals lucky enough to manage products via this model.

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The Product Coalition

FEBRUARY 12, 2024

Early in the pandemic, this led me to resent virtual meetings, especially virtual product review meetings. This particular product review meeting was a breaking point. I struggled to figure out how to run the product review meeting effectively. As a result, the team struggled with how to prepare. Why was this prioritized?”

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Userpilot

JANUARY 14, 2024

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. They also manage the product launch and track product performance throughout its lifecycle.

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Userpilot

JUNE 30, 2022

While everyone talks about product-market fit, finding product-customer fit is equally important when it comes to engaging the right customers and driving success. You’ve achieved product customer fit when your product and its functionality help the user get their job done in the easiest and fastest way.

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Mironov Consulting

NOVEMBER 10, 2016

While sales teams stereotypically rally around contests, talk sports and drink coffee (which is for closers)… development teams may sit silently side-by-side-side most of the day engaging in multiple Slack conversations, taking breaks for air hockey or exchanging giphys , and critiquing each other’s code indents.

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The Product HQ

FEBRUARY 1, 2023

(Needs Images) Interested in learning the difference between product development and product management? Product development and product management may seem to be similar concepts, but in reality, they’re quite different. What is Product Development? Well, you’re in the right place!

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Userpilot

JANUARY 16, 2024

Perform a SWOT analysis, identify the strengths and weaknesses of your top competing products, etc. Use ChatGPT as a brainstorming partner for product ideas , feature ideas, product names, etc. Task ChatGPT with identifying and formulating the best pricing strategy for your industry.

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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. Ensure that Your Core Product Management Skills are Strong.

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Userpilot

AUGUST 21, 2023

Looking for the right answers can give you a deeper understanding of how well applicants understand the product management role and whether or not they’re the ideal fit for the position. There’s a big difference in the impact of a good product manager versus a great project manager. Communication skills. Leadership.

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Userpilot

OCTOBER 25, 2022

In the article, we’re looking at the responsibilities of strategic product managers and how they can use data effectively to shape product strategy and deliver delightful experiences to users! Product strategy defines who we are building for, what to build, and how to build it. What is product strategy?

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Intercom, Inc.

DECEMBER 4, 2019

More recently, however, I’ve realized that the technology industry at large struggles with such clarity and consistency – in marketing terms, there is often a difficulty developing a clear value proposition that aligns with product and brand identity. 1 Poor definition of value proposition and feature focus.

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ProductPlan

AUGUST 25, 2022

Let’s jump in with the bad news: No organization is immune to product vulnerability. However, great product leaders protect their product teams from exploiting weaknesses and vulnerabilities. Product vulnerability, defined as an exploitable glitch or flaw in a product, can happen to any product or service.

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The Product HQ

MAY 10, 2024

Startup Product managers are in charge of setting up the foundation for product management at a new company. Since product development is such a lucrative field, this is a crucial role for the company. According to Airfocus , an optimized product manager boosts profitability and sales, by 34.2

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Userpilot

DECEMBER 13, 2023

How do you develop a robust UX strategy? We also look at: What a UX design strategy is Why it’s important Its core principles and elements A practical example of a company with well-established UX strategies Let’s dive right in! Start designing your strategy by clarifying the business goals.

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Userpilot

DECEMBER 8, 2022

To avoid product failure, don’t launch without achieving product-market fit first. Good product positioning helps achieve customer fit and avoid customer dissatisfaction. Market research and customer discovery help validate ideas and make sure the market is ready for the product. Let’s look at these in more detail.

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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. This article explores multiple aspects of product management. It contains subsections with steps that one should go through while building products.

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Roman Pichler

FEBRUARY 6, 2018

But you can’t accomplish it on your own and rely on the development team and stakeholders. Their contributions are vital to design, implement, provide, and support a successful product. Part of the solution is to establish a set of shared goals —goals that people support and that help you progress your product.

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ProductPlan

MARCH 31, 2022

When it comes to the product team’s organizational structures and strategies, product operations is the hot new thing. More and more teams realize the value of having an operationally-focused professional. The role frees up time for product managers. This insight helps build trust with other teams.

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ProductPlan

JUNE 1, 2023

When your product can do more than it could do before, that sounds like a good thing. Added functionality, new capabilities, a more robust feature set…these are the talking points product marketers salivate over and executives search for on product roadmaps. Where are product teams getting their feature ideas?

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Mironov Consulting

JULY 28, 2022

Enterprise Sales and Solutions Teams… Are paid/rewarded/promoted for working with individual prospects or customers one at a time.  Sales  Sales teams get quota relief from closing individual deals, not market segments.  Integration  Where else can we make this product fit?

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ProductPlan

FEBRUARY 22, 2023

The pressure doesn’t let up even after you decide on your product strategy and communicate your vision on your roadmaps. Thankfully, the product development lifecycle doesn’t always have to exist in a pressure cooker. Thankfully, the product development lifecycle doesn’t always have to exist in a pressure cooker.

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Mind the Product

APRIL 10, 2020

But how many of us can say that we launched a product or service that created a step-change in our industry? Itamar highlights three types of product launches: Positive – where a product is launched and is incrementally improved upon. Negative – where launches are so bad they get rolled back.

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Bain Public

MARCH 14, 2022

But unfortunately, in many companies, the product leadership team can perpetuate a negative culture — setting up product managers to fail. There’s a lack of teaching that happens in the early stages of a product manager’s career, forcing people to make career decisions just to survive rather than thrive.

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The Product Coalition

OCTOBER 5, 2020

It’s even harder when product managers and engineers are bogged down with work that distracts them from their highest leverage activities of identifying problems and building products people want to use to solve those problems. What Is Product Operations? This is where product operations can help. Key Tasks Goal planning.

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PMLesson's Ace the PM Interview

MARCH 9, 2022

In a nutshell, yes, you can transition from being a UX designer to product management if you are prepared, have the right mindset and are willing to develop the right skills for the job. Many UX designers try to swap out their UX hat for a PM position instead. They can lead a team rather than just being part of a team.

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