The Product Coalition

MAY 16, 2021

Since its establishment in 2014, the company has been delivering full-stack product development services for businesses globally. Besides app development, the company offers strategy, consulting, design, and product development services.

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Intercom, Inc.

JUNE 20, 2018

As Intercom’s customer base moved upmarket, it became increasingly obvious to us in Sales that what worked well in our product for early-stage startups didn’t for larger companies. To fix it, we had to change how we worked with our product team. Where does sales fit in at a company driven by product strategy?

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Roman Pichler

MAY 10, 2016

At the same time, I wanted to test that the product would create enough value for its readers before writing the actual book. My first MVP had little resemblance with the finished product: I used my product strategy and roadmap workshop as the initial minimum viable product. Minimum Viable Product #2.

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Userpilot

NOVEMBER 17, 2021

In 2013/2014, the company began scaling rapidly and moved to India to accelerate its growth. is the umbrella organization for 5 successful enterprise products: BizTalk360, Document 360, Severless360, Atomic Scope, and Cerebrata, which the business acquired in 2019. Every product operates as an independent entity led by a product owner.

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Mind the Product

AUGUST 30, 2018

The Root Causes of Product Failure by Marty Cagan. 5 Psychological Principles of Persuasive Product Design by Nathalie Nahai. A Girl’s Guide to Product Management by Amanda Richardson. Building a Winning Product Strategy from the Kano Model by Jared Spool. Managing Conflict in Product by Rochelle King.

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Roman Pichler

JUNE 14, 2016

Interestingly, features and components can become products in their own right. The messenger feature used to be part of the main Facebook app until it was unbundled in April 2014. Take the Facebook Messenger app for example.

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Mind the Product

DECEMBER 5, 2017

Your Product is Already Obsolete – How to Survive by Des Traynor. 5 Psychological Principles of Persuasive Product Design by Nathalie Nahai. A Girl’s Guide to Product Management by Amanda Richardson. Building a Winning Product Strategy from the Kano Model by Jared Spool. Where do Great Products Come From?

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The Product Coalition

AUGUST 23, 2023

They focused relentlessly on creating an intuitive, visually appealing product that integrated seamlessly with other tools and streamlined communication. Their commitment to their purpose paid off; upon its launch in 2014, Slack was quickly embraced by teams around the globe.

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bpma ProductHub

APRIL 30, 2017

Christine Riordan in her 2014 Harvard Business Review (HBR) article, “Diversity Is Useless Without Inclusion” illustrates the importance of making the workplace more inclusive for all to achieve a diverse workforce. Cute puns aside, there is truth to these issues even today.

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Mind the Product

JULY 1, 2019

While it’s a simple question, it can help illuminate how set (or open) the high-level roadmap is, give insight into a company’s unique take, and illuminate the clarity of thought (or lack thereof) in a product strategy. What is the most contentious feature the product team currently debates building?

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The Product Coalition

JUNE 9, 2023

So, when you make your roadmap, make it clear to the team who your user is, the value they’re getting, why they should care about what’s being delivered, and where, how, and when they’ll use the product. If you’ve spent time on your product strategy, this should come from the user-centered value story.

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Roman Pichler

JUNE 6, 2017

You should, of course, do the opposite: retire products that are no longer sufficiently beneficial. The product was rightly discontinued in 2014 after it had experienced a continued decline in sales. Take the iPod Classic, Apple’s original and iconic MP3 player. Clinging to Question Marks.

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Mind the Product

NOVEMBER 19, 2019

But I also worked with an online publisher that pivoted its decades-old product strategy to become category leader within eight months, and a hotel metasearch company that transformed its product offering to get on a new channel which helped it grow 100% year-on-year.

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Mind the Product

DECEMBER 13, 2018

Before SoundCloud, Nicholas led product innovation at Lab1886/DaimlerX – the newly created Daimler Innovation Lab – as Chief Product Officer, drawing on his experience in product strategy, innovation management, big data, analytics and location intelligence to renew and expand Daimler’s product portfolio.

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The Product Coalition

APRIL 10, 2018

The Trends and Benchmarks in Product Management Report states that most PMs are only 3–5 years in their present positions even if they have around 10–20 years work experience. But some of these tasks could be taken on by other roles such as marketing, project manager, business analyst, technical product manager, etc?

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UX Studio: Product Management

OCTOBER 2, 2023

The digital website design agency specializes in solving complex digital product challenges and driving outstanding results. Their expertise lies in accelerating product growth, enhancing team culture, and delivering exceptional customer experiences. Their services include UX/UI Design, Product Strategy, and Full-Stack Development.

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Department of Product

MAY 22, 2020

Why Product Features Matter Product strategy, features and the value chain What outcomes are you trying to achieve? How does what we’re building align with the wider strategy of the business? At the time, back in 2014, this was so much easier than having to navigate around using Google Maps.

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The Product Coalition

DECEMBER 19, 2019

For example, merely 4 percent of sectors in the United States were declared as jumping in 2014, compared with an average of around 18 percent in the last two decades. The distinct lack of jumping sector is consistent with an environment where digitization and its paybacks for productivity are happening slowly and unevenly.

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Mind the Product

APRIL 18, 2017

Josh led Greylock’s investment in SmartThings (acquired by Samsung in 2014) and Jelly (acquired by Pinterest in 2017). Most recently Jeff co-founded Neo Innovation (sold to Pivotal Labs) in New York City and helped build it into one of the most recognized brands in modern product strategy, development and design.

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ProductPlan

APRIL 12, 2022

Slack’s product strategy put it on a trajectory for success. Let’s explore the company’s product strategy to see what makes it different. Product strategy: slip into the customers’ shoes. The pandemic’s influence on product strategy.

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Mind the Product

MAY 25, 2018

Creating a sub-brand also meant that if the product never took off, it could be quietly discontinued without harming the parent brand. 2014 – Testing and Growing the Team. We were growing, able to show user need and demonstrate the product’s potential, so the board agreed to further investment. The Yimby homepage, 2013.

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The Product Coalition

MARCH 21, 2019

When I first joined Apple Maps in November 2014, I was handed the feature list for the year. Prioritization: better than business metrics My favorite framework for prioritization involves rating features against their ability to impact weighted goals that relate to product strategy. Why are we doing feature [feature name]?”

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PMLesson's Ace the PM Interview

JULY 13, 2020

Product School's Product Management Certification Founded in 2014, Product School boasts a community of 1 million+. Industry leaders from Microsoft, Google, and Airbnb (to name a few) will teach you the basics of product management. Location: Online Online Available?:

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Intercom, Inc.

SEPTEMBER 28, 2021

This is a natural evolution for many SaaS tools as they move towards a healthier economic model, as captured in Christoph Janz’s seminal 2014 blog. The challenge for product managers is ensuring that your product evolves to meet the needs of your new customers without leaving long-term, smaller customers behind.

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UX Studio: Product Management

JULY 9, 2021

A strong team of inventors, experimenters, and creatives with the mission to create digital products that transform lives. The team of Studio Graphene set off in London, where they are still headquartered, in 2014. The three main services they can help their clients with are strategy, design, and development.

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Gainsight

JULY 7, 2021

Meanwhile, Pulse the conference graduated from a ballroom in 2013 to a full takeover of the Intercontinental Hotel in 2014 , San Francisco’s Pier 48 in 2015 , the Oakland Convention Center in 2016 and 2017 , the San Mateo County Events Center in 2018 , and finally to the venue it was truly meant to call home, San Francisco’s Moscone Center, in 2019.

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Roman Pichler

APRIL 2, 2019

This allows you to find out how you have to evolve your practices to succeed with the distributed setup, including collaborative product strategy review and product backlog refinement sessions held via videoconferences. 8 Consider Unbundling Features and Creating Product Variants. Growth is a funny thing.

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Intercom, Inc.

FEBRUARY 7, 2019

I spent about six years there – mostly running YouTube products. Then I left Google in 2014 to start Coda. Tell me, though, what’s the underlying product strategy at play here? I worked on Office, then Windows, then SQL Server. Then I moved back to the Bay Area and joined Google. Matt: Incredibly impressive.

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Mixpanel

MAY 5, 2021

no longer aligns with company strategy and direction example: Dropbox’s 2014 foray into photo sharing, through their Carousel product. Clarify what’s cooking by having a clear product strategy. The product strategy is the logical plan for how the product will drive its part of the company strategy.

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Business of Software Conference

JULY 26, 2016

Talks from BoS USA 2014. Des Traynor: Product Strategy is About Saying “No” Revisited. Talks from BoS EU 2014. Jack Lang: Changing the Way we do Software with Open Source Hardware. Stephen Allott: Building a $7 billion Software Company – How to Scale Up. Tony Ulwick: Customer Centred Innovation.

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Intercom, Inc.

JULY 21, 2022

Rachel Hepworth: In 2014 and 2015, Slack had this incredible growth, but it was growth off a small base, based on very early adopters. This idea of “not now” is really powerful because saying no is critical to any kind of product strategy and product execution. Here’s Rachel.

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Revulytics

DECEMBER 16, 2019

Organized by The Product Collective founded in 2014, INDUSTRY brings together product managers to build a community - especially outside of Silicon Valley. A good mix of 2-3 conferences every year can take you in new directions, inspire a new product strategy or introduce you to awe-inspiring mentors.

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Tyner Blain

JANUARY 8, 2017

When it comes to developing a product strategy – or even making decisions about how best to create a product, one of these assumptions is likely to be what causes us to fail. Laura Klein spoke at the Lean Startup Conference about identifying risky assumptions and her talk was published in Dec 2014.

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Intercom, Inc.

JANUARY 25, 2023

With a background in computer science and a knack for building products, Mickey co-founded Insightera in 2014, a real-time targeting and personalization platform that was later acquired by Marketo, where he led the global engineering team as a GVP for almost three years. Liam: Where does the B2B customer journey come into this?

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ProductPlan

FEBRUARY 20, 2019

According to Lynch, by 2014, the product team was getting increasingly frustrated with its inability to get time with the CTO for feedback and approvals on decisions. At this point, another product manager at Dropbox, Anand Subramani suggested a basic framework for reviews during each stage of a project.

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Roadmunk

DECEMBER 21, 2017

Marc: I’m one of the founders of Hotjar, and we started back in 2014. This early-access list launched in July of 2014 and by August we already had close to 20,000 emails. Eleni: Can you start by telling us a little bit about what Hotjar does, your role there and how it’s evolved since you guys first started?

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Intercom, Inc.

JANUARY 10, 2019

I remember when I wrote that blog post in 2014, Google Now had just been announced. I don’t know when Stripe was founded, but in 2014 they weren’t very mature. Google Now looks a lot like it did in 2014. Again, that’s something I would have thought in 2014 was happening imminently. But it exists now.

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