The Product Coalition

JUNE 21, 2021

A practical look at how and why software designers can ensure digital services can be used by everyone. Many worked from home on tasks ranging from organising team activities via Slack, analysing data and collaborating on documents via Google Docs, to discussing strategies via Microsoft Teams and coaching clients via Zoom.

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Intercom, Inc.

JANUARY 5, 2022

After working on NASA’s Space Shuttle Main Engine, he went on to develop Portfolium, a social networking platform that allows students and graduates to showcase skills beyond the traditional resume to potential employers. Portfolium was eventually acquired, but the team behind it never stopped thinking about a better way to do it.

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The Product Coalition

DECEMBER 8, 2019

Highly effective Product Managers develop themselves in 5 key areas. In some jobs, you can get by with just Competence, but in the unkempt, fuzzy, team-oriented domain of Product Management, you need both. Without training, it’s like being a trash collector sinking in quicksand, with lunatics lobbing stuff at you.

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The Product Coalition

JUNE 17, 2019

For many years CSSSR has been developing IT systems for the biggest online banks, witnessing their success firsthand. This experience has led to several key insights: You Don’t Need a Large IT Department “We operate in small teams. In-house resources were enough to develop and support these services. We execute.

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Userpilot

JUNE 22, 2021

To provide the best onboarding experience, you naturally need the best onboarding software for SaaS. In this post, we will very briefly discuss what to look for in the best onboarding software for SaaS for you, and then move on to analyzing the top 6 choices you may want to consider. Which is the best onboarding software for you?

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Modus Create

JUNE 18, 2019

When I first attended Scrummaster training, I went in wide-eyed and excited to learn all of the secrets behind this amazing “new” agile project-management strategy called Scrum. But my employer had just paid for me to go through the training, and I was expected to help improve their development processes.

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Mind the Product

DECEMBER 11, 2017

Three years later I became a web application engineer at a startup that built software for military and private industries. I became director of communications, leading the development of intranets and web applications. Designers vs Developers. Tension between designers and developers was palpable.

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The Product HQ

FEBRUARY 1, 2023

They work with leaders and their own teams across organizations. If defining project scopes, reviewing solutions, and generating reports interest you, this is the perfect career. As a technical program manager, you communicate with product managers, leadership teams, and external vendors.

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Gainsight

JULY 5, 2022

It is increasingly apparent that having a CS Ops team and leader is becoming a necessity. However, to completely leverage the expanding customer success effects, your CS leader needs an individual or team to help map out the where, when, and how customer success intersects your daily operations and transforms your customers’ journey.

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People-First Product Leadership

FEBRUARY 12, 2024

As you can likely guess if you’ve been following this newsletter, I fall on the side of favoring collaboration as being a key area of focus for performance reviews. Performance is considered at a team, scrum or project level. Introversion or extroversion are irrelevant as its the work of the team that does the talking.

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The Product Coalition

JUNE 8, 2018

Apptimize helps teams develop better digital products with easy to deploy SDKs and a centralized dashboard for all channels. The first thing mobile teams need to understand without a shadow of a doubt is the differences between a mobile website, a hybrid app, and a native app. You know that it’s not about just having an app.

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Mind the Product

MARCH 12, 2020

It defines, communicates, supports, and improves important operations which can be standardized, such as communication, planning processes, team gatherings, and training. How it’s become a critical function for scaling effective product teams. Developing and maintaining a continuing education program for product managers.

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Intercom, Inc.

NOVEMBER 20, 2018

Despite that value, however, there’s a drawback – a lack of formal sales training and sales process can seriously undermine those initial efforts. It is important that these friendly connections represent the target persona market you have outlined, as otherwise, the feedback loop is likely to be weak.

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Intercom, Inc.

JULY 29, 2021

And so, Mark Rudden and his team had to figure it all out by themselves. Fortunately, Mark had quite a bit of experience working and scaling teams in demanding, hypergrowth environments. It turns out that hypergrowth is less about hiring people and more about creating onboarding and training processes and opportunities.

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Userpilot

JULY 9, 2021

Continuous Discovery Habits by Teresa Torres teaches you how to set up a continuous discovery system within your organization with actionable exercises. 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. Plot summary.

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Userpilot

OCTOBER 30, 2022

Engagement: Ensure every interaction with your product or team solves user problems and leaves them happier. Implement a tracking system. Involve your team. You can use our software to create better onboarding experiences, track user behavior , and survey existing customers to gather valuable insights. Don’t overpromise.

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eG Innovations

MARCH 7, 2023

Consider the scenario – You are an SRE (Site Reliability Engineer) joining a team to take charge of their Java applications. Getting a replica environment up and running is usually simple on the cloud provided you have the right IaC (Infrastructure as Code) tools set up.

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Modus Create

JANUARY 12, 2021

So let’s dive into some old and new methodologies that companies use to implement, develop and balance the three pillars. I’ll review four methodologies: waterfall, Lean, design, and Agile. The outcome of a project is well defined, so there are few surprises in what the team delivers.

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Amplitude

NOVEMBER 26, 2019

Data is often not accessible unless you can write code. People in non-technical roles rely on data every day to make decisions, develop ideas or measure success. When tools and systems are not created with them in mind, they lose trust and understanding. He also knows the data team is really busy with more important projects.

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The Product Coalition

JUNE 18, 2019

It doesn’t matter if you’re managing a closed system desktop application or a SaaS web application , if people can’t use your system effectively, it will fail. Managing a system that’s grown organically and has become bloated leads to a whole host of problems. Why is it so important to get your application right?

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Mind the Product

OCTOBER 29, 2018

At every level of our careers, we are faced with unsolicited, opinionated and sometimes outlandish product feedback from our internal teams. As an example, I currently manage a small product team, and our client service and sales teams outnumber us 15 to one. The key team members share this information with their teams as a win.

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Userpilot

SEPTEMBER 15, 2022

Customer happiness dictates user loyalty based on how happy they are with your team or product. Customer happiness refers to the degree of satisfaction users have after interacting with your team and product. By developing customer loyalty, you can turn users into advocates who can help drive your product’s growth.

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Userpilot

OCTOBER 4, 2022

So, if you’re a product manager looking to significantly improve your UX efforts and provide actionable insights to your UX team, read on! Some examples of attitudinal UX KPIs are Feature Adoption Rate , Customer Satisfaction Score (CSAT), Net Promoter Score (NPS), System Usability Scale (SUS), and Customer Retention Rate.

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UX Studio: Product Management

JANUARY 11, 2022

This time, our UX experts reviewed dozens of Webdesign Wien companies to list the best Austria webdesign agencies to partner with in 2022. If you are looking for a web design agency in Vienna —Webdesign Wien Agentur in German — chances are you need help with product design, usability research, training, or consulting. Vienna Pixel.

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Mind the Product

NOVEMBER 21, 2019

As a product leader, you are the product manager for a leadership team, and the tricks you learned in product teams remain valuable, they just need a little tweak. Myths that an organisation tells itself can act as a reality distortion field that masks failing products and poor return on investment. Develop new opportunities.

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Tyner Blain

AUGUST 17, 2023

There are several different formats which have been developed for problem statements, and you could use free-form narrative as well. After hundreds of hours helping write and utilize problem statements with dozens of teams over the years, I’ve evolved the template I use and recommend; because it works better in theory and in practice.

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bpma ProductHub

OCTOBER 16, 2016

Currently at Pragmatic Marketing, Paul helps companies build product teams by teaching their managers and marketers how to become market-driven. Most companies and product teams have to find the right balance between investing in the new and supporting existing products. On Innovation vs. Execution in Product Management.

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The Product Coalition

MAY 18, 2016

I did what I should have, and was not bad at it, as numbers and analysis are not hard for me, but besides, I couldn’t say that I really enjoyed it. My supervisors in different teams (I was in a management trainee rotational program) gave me two big projects. It’s a tough job, but worth it!

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Usersnap

DECEMBER 19, 2023

TL;DR The article underscores the importance of 1 to 5 rating scale surveys & how it has helped me in my PM journey, exploring their simplicity, versatility, and impact on user-centric product development. Star Rating Ubiquitous in e-commerce and review sites, the star rating system is a visually engaging way to capture user opinions.

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ProductPlan

FEBRUARY 24, 2021

Why Do You Need Roadmapping Software? Roadmapping software has emerged as a core need for the modern product manager. While some software may try to cover the entire gamut of what a product manager might do on any given day, there are those tools that focus solely on roadmapping. This is for a good reason. Product Introduction.

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ProductPlan

FEBRUARY 24, 2021

Why Do You Need Roadmapping Software? Roadmapping software has emerged as a core need for the modern product manager. While some software may try to cover the entire gamut of what a product manager might do on any given day, there are those tools that focus solely on roadmapping. This is for a good reason. Product Introduction.

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Mironov Consulting

JULY 5, 2016

I’ve recently talked with several companies that are spending $1M/year or more to build generic software that is very similar to commercially available products. A quick review of commercial (off-the-shelf) partner/reseller SaaS apps confirms that our needs are truly special, and our unique requirement is too important to ignore.

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PMLesson's Ace the PM Interview

APRIL 26, 2022

Start Learning But as a data scientist or analyst whose position is in demand, those with formal training and little to no experience may still be able to find an excellent position. Data science will only continue to expand as well as more teams begin to use data to make decisions, not just engineering.

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Gainsight

MARCH 21, 2019

These are just as bad for business. But if your customers are here, achieving value while also having a poor experience, they’re usually not at risk of churn. Training new users and reengaging old ones should be happening continously. How to stop it: Come up with an early warning system. But you know that.

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Gainsight

SEPTEMBER 12, 2019

A big part of this is due to the amazing product experience from UI speed to keyboard shortcuts. And even when I received the videoconference link, I thought I’d be joining a multi-person training session. Unfortunately this process took several days due to Gmail limits. Lesson 3: Nurture from the CEO. Lesson 4: Off-Ramps.

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Intercom, Inc.

DECEMBER 21, 2021

Amanda Renteria , CEO for Code for America. Code for America’s Amanda Renteria on defining the citizen experience. Amanda Renteria, CEO of Code for America, is a firm believer in this idea. Later’s Farhan Virji on adapting B2C support strategies for B2B teams. Hubert Palan , founder and CEO of Productboard.

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Intercom, Inc.

JULY 19, 2018

I hosted Jean and Edmond on our podcast to get their take on the difference between leadership and management, the power of positive feedback, and why trust is the foundation of the most effective engineering teams. Jean: Especially with engineering teams. Then if you’re given the right tools, you can be more effective at doing that.

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