The Product Coalition

DECEMBER 13, 2021

Many startups with an ordinary product make the way to growth and scalability whereas others with great products fail to survive. What is wrong with these startups? Both product and product strategy should fall in place to make the startup sustainable and help them to grow. What is S.M.A.R.T?

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Mind the Product

JANUARY 19, 2021

Startups are often talked about as if they’re all the same, as if experience in one is directly transferable to another. Georgie Smallwood, Chief Product Officer at Tier Mobility, joined us on the podcast to chat about the differences in working for earlier stage companies and those that are scaling up. She covers why she [.].

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Mind the Product

JANUARY 26, 2021

Everyone – or so we’re told – has the dream of joining or founding a hot startup and making their fortune, all while really proving their product chops. Though he’s now a Product Manager at Facebook, Karthik Suresh co-founded Altrest and grew Craft.io Finding product/market fit.

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The Product Coalition

MARCH 14, 2023

Lean product development is a methodology that aims to create products that are of high quality, meet customer needs, and are delivered on time and within budget. It is a continuous process that involves identifying customer needs, designing and developing products, and testing and refining them until they meet the desired outcome.

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Userpilot

APRIL 30, 2024

Marty Cagan is a popular name in the product management world. In many ways, he has shaped how successful products are built and how teams can be organized to work toward excellence. Marty Cagan is a well-known figure in the product management and technology industry. Who is Marty Cagan?

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The Product Coalition

OCTOBER 30, 2019

Being a Product Manager at an Early Stage Startup In my previous article , I reflected on a few things that I would tell myself if I could travel back in time and the concept of “three waves of changes.” In this post, I want to talk about the three most important lessons I have learned so far as a Product Manager at a startup.

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Mind the Product

OCTOBER 30, 2019

David Bland is the CEO and Founder of Precoil, an author, and a long-time practitioner of agile and lean startup. He joined us on the podcast to talk about how to create focus around what matters to your users by using different testing methodologies – a topic he and Alex Osterwalder cover in their book, Testing Business Ideas.

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The Product Coalition

MAY 25, 2021

The value of a test kitchen when creating a product is immense. The ability to test and iterate based on real usage with real users is invaluable to getting to the root of a problem, understanding a user’s existence, and removing friction. So, what does a product test kitchen look like?

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ProductPlan

JANUARY 21, 2021

In 2016 I gave a talk on lean market validation at the opening night of Startup Weekend at the University of California, Santa Barbara. In attendance were 200 eager students and entrepreneurs who wanted to learn how to build a startup in 54 hours. 10 Ways to Rapidly Test Your Startup Idea. So, What is Market Validation?

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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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Mind the Product

JANUARY 5, 2021

Dave Martin (co-founder of Right to Left) chatted with us about building great habits for product people, and how to make sure they stick. The post The Habits of Successful Product Managers – Dave Martin on The Product Experience appeared first on Mind the Product. He also tells us about [.].

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Product Innovation Educators

AUGUST 26, 2019

Know how to test a product by measuring risk through desirability, viability, and feasibility. We are discussing a valuable new book titled Testing Business Ideas. It is full of practical experiments we can do as product managers to help us with problem-solution fit. Order on Amazon , Testing Business Ideas.

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Userpilot

OCTOBER 9, 2023

TL;DR A pilot is a test release of a product or feature to a select group of users, designed to gather feedback and validate assumptions. A minimum viable product (MVP) is used to test the feasibility and viability of a new product idea. Imagine a startup building a new product management tool.

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Mind the Product

MARCH 24, 2020

These are situations that are fraught with the possibility for unintended consequences – something Roisi Proven covered in her great episode (and talk) about the Black Mirror Test. Ethical frameworks for product development. The Black Mirror Test. Kim Goodwin’s talk: How can we Build Human-Centred Products.

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The Product Coalition

SEPTEMBER 7, 2022

Minimum Viable Products: Why You Should Test Before Investing In Ideas Let’s analyze the advantages of MVP-based software development. If you look into the problem carefully, you’ll see that all the relevant reasons for failure : changing requirements, weak arrangement, insufficient investment and test activities?

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Mind the Product

FEBRUARY 6, 2019

When the opportunity came up to chat with him, we wanted to cover something new – the idea that startups are hiring too many product managers. Listen if you’d like to learn more about: When should you hire your first product manager? How should you organise a product team? Quotes of the Episode.

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Mind the Product

JULY 30, 2019

Roisi Proven is a true product person: she has a penchant for imagining the worst, which she’s turned into a superpower to put all of her product decisions through a rigorous ethics test. Ethical frameworks for product development. The Black Mirror Test. Ethical frameworks for product development. *

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Lenny Rachitsky

MARCH 10, 2024

Real product managers are creators and are responsible for both value (ensuring the product meets customers’ needs) and viability (ensuring the product aligns with the business objectives). Seek individuals with deep expertise, coaching abilities, and a contribution to comprehensive product strategy.

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Usersnap

FEBRUARY 9, 2024

For Product Managers and Developers, selecting the right, usability testing platform and tool isn’t just a task; it’s a crucial step in shaping your product’s success. The market offers a variety of usability testing tools, each varying in price, features, and research methods. Usersnap 2.

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The Product Coalition

AUGUST 9, 2021

All Product Roles Are Not Alike Photo by Lennart Nacke on Unsplash My first gig as a Product Manager was in a Startup. The Product I worked on did not exist. To top it off, I had no real Product Manager experience. But there is typically no one superhuman who goes around managing everything.

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The Product Coalition

JUNE 14, 2020

Using Sean Ellis Test For Measuring Your Product/Market Fit Sean Ellis, who is the author of “ Hacking Growth ,” as well as the first marketer at Dropbox and the guy who coined the phrase “ growth hacking ,” has a simple technique that helps product teams to measure whether they reached their product/market fit or not.

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The Product Coalition

JULY 28, 2020

The role of a Product Owner/Manager/Strategist is to help startups capture and transform customer insights into full product experiences that in turn increase customer satisfaction, loyalty, retention, and the business values. Quality Assurance/Testing l. Design Specifications i. Task planning j. Development k.

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The Product Coalition

OCTOBER 28, 2019

What No One Tells You About Being a Product Manager at an Early Stage Startup Over a year ago, I asked around, searched for books or articles, went to several talks but found very little advice on being a product manager at an early-stage startup. Be mentally prepared!

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TechEmpower - Product Management

JULY 24, 2023

At TechEmpower, we frequently talk to startup founders, CEOs, product leaders, and other innovators about their next big tech initiative. What are your key Startup Metrics ? eCommerce Does your startup run on a subscription model? Which devices will you test on specifically? Is there a need for A/B testing?

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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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The Product Coalition

MARCH 17, 2021

Who is a Product Manager?—?A the details/technicalities involved in a product. Focusing on high level product features). Testing value propositions. the details/technicalities involved in a product usually manages a third party developer program and is termed “ Technical Product Manager ”.

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Sachin Rekhi

AUGUST 4, 2021

For years now loyal readers have been asking me to package up my learnings on product management into a cohesive course on the subject. So in 2020, I took a survey of all the available product management courses out there. There were plenty of courses introducing product management to those new to the role.

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Userpilot

JULY 9, 2021

What are the best product management books to add to your 2021 reading list? We’ve put together a list for you with a few staples from every product manager’s bookshelf and some new releases too. New in – Best New Product Management Books in 2021.

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The Product Coalition

OCTOBER 9, 2022

Stable Diffusion Software Product Managers drive products to provide business value. Relating solely to the business and functional requirements- and neglecting to understand the technology behind the product- will cripple the Product Manager instead of empowering her. Created by author using NightCafe AI?—?Stable

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The Product HQ

APRIL 20, 2024

Looking to become a SaaS product manager? The need for SaaS product managers is skyrocketing with each passing year. More and more businesses develop Software as a Service (SaaS) products to remain relevant in their respective markets and grow their income streams. How to Become SaaS Product Manager?

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Usersnap

DECEMBER 10, 2023

User Acceptance Testing (UAT) is important for more agile software development teams. It’s the last stage in the software development life cycle, and it ensures every product meets the requirements and designations of the users. This is why the magic of the best user acceptance testing tools is crucial. Testsigma 2.

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PMLesson's Ace the PM Interview

JANUARY 31, 2022

Great product managers never stop learning. That's why we scoured our bookshelves to make a list of the best product management books we could find. Fortunately, there is a cornucopia of stellar books perfect for product managers who want to learn everything from user-centric design principles to advancing their career.

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The Product Coalition

MARCH 13, 2023

Product Development is the process of conceptualizing, designing, developing, testing and launching a new product or service. It involves a set of activities that are performed to bring a new product or service to the market. The process starts with an idea and ends with launching the product in the market.

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The Product Coalition

MARCH 16, 2021

I explained to him what Product Managers do. I told him that Product managers are responsible for guiding the success of a product and that they lead the cross-functional team that is responsible for building, scaling, and supporting it. In many ways, product managers are like movie directors. ????

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The Product Coalition

OCTOBER 2, 2022

Becoming a great product manager isn’t about acquiring hard skills. So what makes a great product manager? I remember when I joined an early stage startup and started to develop hard skills. When I started my career in product I looked up to the Google Product Manager. I was wrong.

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The Product Coalition

JANUARY 12, 2023

And What You Can Do to Avoid Them Disclaimer: I don’t really believe you can ‘teach’ Product Management. That’s what I did in 2022 and doing so, I also got to dig into a lot of clients’ products. Product Managers I work with often tell me that “the purpose” has been decided by top management “a while ago”.

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Userpilot

JULY 13, 2022

Do you follow any product manager blogs? Would you like to discover new ones that will give you valuable insights into product management ? In our article, we introduce 20 of our favorite product manager blogs that every product pro should follow, regardless of their experience.

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