The Product Coalition

JULY 16, 2023

In my first official product role, which I got to after managing large dev teams and a business-related role, I managed alone a product with a development team of ~40 people. One of the first things I did, for example, was to work with the salespeople on how to sell the product.

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Product Talk

JUNE 21, 2023

I was kind of adjacent to product in a lot of ways, but not quite in the field. I took a class on educational product development and I really loved it, so I started asking, “What’s the job that would allow me to do this full time?” Once they were acquired, they hired a VP of Product, who I worked with briefly.

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The Product Coalition

DECEMBER 10, 2023

However, provoking productive disagreements is a key leadership skill you want to master. Here is how fostering healthy debates is essential for effective leadership and better outcomes. If you see the connection between that skill and product leadership you are 100% right. We have so many of them regardless.

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The Product Coalition

NOVEMBER 13, 2023

When people (and VCs) aren’t spending money easily, you must be super sharp with your value proposition, positioning, product, marketing, and sales. While I understand this distinction, I believe that a company cannot reach real product-market fit without nailing down its GTM, and vice versa. Here is how it works.

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The Product Coalition

DECEMBER 4, 2023

If you’re just dealing with tough market conditions, the situation is different but the conclusion is quite similar: When people (and VCs) aren’t spending money easily, you must be super sharp with your value proposition, positioning, product, marketing, and sales. Here is how it works. What had changed?

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Lenny Rachitsky

JANUARY 23, 2024

When we decided to build our sales engagement product, for example, we reallocated some existing pods toward that goal. It is presented to the leadership team for high-level feedback. And in most cases, those products span multiple user types across a set of strongly connected workflows.

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The Product Coalition

JUNE 18, 2023

It took me time to understand that I need to present myself as a product leadership coach and product strategy expert rather than a consultant. It works when each customer is extremely large, but there’s a caveat: you do a lot of dedicated development (which means expensive resources) for each and every customer.

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The Product Coalition

APRIL 1, 2023

was the first product manager I ever hired. A brilliant guy, with many years of tech leadership experience, but none in product management. Still, he was one of the best hires I made in this area and he turned out to be a product star. Everything I said above holds for your other leadership relationships as well.

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People-First Product Leadership

JANUARY 7, 2024

For me, I’m looking forward to applying what I learned in 2023 - which was in a large part due to People-First Product Leadership. For example, I’m a sharer of information and often try out the strategies I read about which resonate with people-first product leadership.

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Business of Software Conference

OCTOBER 11, 2023

Notes from the Sigmacorns at BoS USA 2023. No amount of wordsmithing will get people excited if they are exhausted Questions to ask about To your leadership team: How confident the organization is focused on the right things To frontline managers: Is there anything you’re worried about being true that is starting to be true?

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Userpilot

AUGUST 29, 2023

In this article, we’re going to unpack what is product management , how it differs from traditional project management, the role it plays in building products that delight your users, and the skills a good product manager must demonstrate to succeed. What is product management? Drives product success.

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The Product Coalition

MARCH 19, 2023

Watching closely how my younger daughter’s creative process evolves, I noticed a few different skills that she develops over time. But understanding these levels and knowing what to expect can help you identify where you are at and which skills you need to develop to operate effectively at the next level. Are you up for the challenge?

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Mironov Consulting

MAY 18, 2024

Something that comes up periodically in my product leadership coaching sessions: “As a Director or VP of Product, how do I get folks outside my immediate span of control to make improvements or do their jobs better or take my advice?”    So how might a product leader offer advice and counsel? 

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The Product Coalition

DECEMBER 6, 2023

Going through these iterations is what I do when I work with founders personally or through the new product-market fit masterclass. Product strategy is a special kind of strategy. Unlike what most people think, the product strategy isn’t the strategy of the product department. That’s about strategy in general.

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The Product Coalition

DECEMBER 17, 2023

Even if their solution is not as good as yours, and they only provide a minimal solution, your customers might consider using theirs, because it’s already in place, or because one product that solves two problems is considered a better investment. In-House Development If you are selling to technical teams, this is a major competitor.

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Revulytics

DECEMBER 12, 2019

It is used by software providers and application developers to understand users’ behavior at various levels of aggregation — individual users, users within a customer account and users overall. of software publishers offer both public cloud and on-premise software (hybrid) and that percentage is expected to grow.

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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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The Product Coalition

DECEMBER 11, 2023

Gradually, Slack became the default tool for everyday communication between the two teams  — Leah’s product team and Sarah’s development team. With a strong commitment to Slack, the team expanded its usage by opening additional channels for specific discussions, such as product updates and A/B test results.

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Innovatemap

MARCH 22, 2023

Why Founders are Struggling In addition to having product-market fit, founders now have to prove that they can turn their idea into a successful business. In times like these, you have to identify what makes your product essential. It’s likely how you talk about your product in Q2 of 2023 is different than Q1 of 2022.

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Department of Product

AUGUST 22, 2022

Given the vast, expansive nature of ‘product’, it can mean anything from understanding the business model, the new domain you’re operating in, user engagement data or the overall strategic direction of the business. Figuring out the desirability of your product can be measured using product market fit metrics.

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Userpilot

JUNE 25, 2023

Escaping the Build Trap promotes outcome-driven product management to deliver real value to customers. Inspired offers valuable lessons and strategies for building successful products. The Lean Product Playbook is a comprehensive guide to lean product development. What you’ll learn? Where to buy it?

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The Product Coalition

MAY 20, 2023

For example, you may realize that in order to succeed at a certain front, you only need to keep the lights on and don’t need further development. The tradeoffs are built into the team’s work itself, freeing up the rest of engineering to work on developing that new product you want to focus on.

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The Product Coalition

DECEMBER 11, 2023

In one of my early career roles, I was brought into the company as a development team leader with a very specific task they wanted me to lead. As a good product-leader-to-be (although I didn’t know it at the time), I asked them why did they want to do it, and then performed market research to understand the problem better.

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Gainsight

APRIL 12, 2023

In February 2023, I hit my 10-year anniversary (or “Gainaversary,” as we say) of running Gainsight. But what I learned, after years of procrastinating on tough moves for our leadership team, is that the leaders’ teams suffer greatly through that inaction. Maybe they are misunderstood. Maybe they need more coaching.

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Userpilot

SEPTEMBER 4, 2023

Blue Ocean’s strategy sees market boundaries and structures as flexible and shaped by companies’ actions. The focus is on developing new demand and reconstructing market landscapes to make rivals obsolete. Develop creative “what-if” scenarios to design potential blue ocean offerings.

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Userpilot

SEPTEMBER 4, 2023

Blue Ocean's strategy sees market boundaries and structures as flexible and shaped by companies' actions. The focus is on developing new demand and reconstructing market landscapes to make rivals obsolete. Develop creative “what-if” scenarios to design potential blue ocean offerings.

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Userpilot

OCTOBER 20, 2023

As users engage with the product at multiple touchpoints inside, you also get access to lots of data to inform your product development decisions. Feedback and product usage data are easy to share which improves alignment between teams. Such rapid success was possible thanks to the product-led growth model.

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