The Product Coalition

JUNE 9, 2021

You’ve got a clear vision for the future, and it looks bright! The initial steps of this framework took collaboration between business leadership and the product team to set a direction for development decisions. The bad news is that your roadmap is only as accurate as the information driving it.

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The Product Coalition

MARCH 8, 2024

In simple words, a digital transformation strategy is a thorough plan for utilizing digital technologies to enhance the physical components of your company, including engineering, production, and service. Agility and adaptability are paramount The business landscape is constantly evolving, and trends can shift rapidly.

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UX Studio: Product Management

JANUARY 11, 2021

At UX Studio , while we develop our products, uxfol.io and copyfol.io , we are mainly focused on agency work, meaning that we cooperate with several clients as external teams. This post was written from the perspective of designers, mainly intended for external teams and entrepreneurs. Five challenges and solutions.

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The Product Coalition

OCTOBER 20, 2020

It’s understandable that most of us don’t make time for personal development. Who wants to spend time after a hard day of work learning and developing when they could be kicking back with a beer and watching The Crown? A few months ago, I introduced a concept I have developed called the PM, or Product, Quadrants.

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Roman Pichler

MAY 11, 2021

” But do not allow people to dominate and tell you what to do, and don’t agree to a weak compromise. As the product owner, then you should own the product on behalf of the company and be empowered to have the final say, particularly if no agreement can be reached.

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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. Here are 2 actions you can take to develop your Craft Competence: Craft Competence ?? presence, awareness, state of mind) 5.

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The Product Coalition

FEBRUARY 24, 2023

The Scribe Product Owner A scribe is like a really poor waiter in a restaurant. A scribe just takes your order regardless, of whether it’s a good or a bad idea, they don’t add any value. What’s our vision? Co-creating that vision, but maybe creating it and, and then making sure everyone’s inspired. What is a product?

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PMLesson's Ace the PM Interview

JULY 1, 2020

When I interview a product manager to work in my team, I want to know that they understand the whole of the product cycle - how to make it happen, from concept to rollout and beyond, and most importantly what will make it successful. Product vision statement 5. You get extra points if Agile story format is used! Pain points 2.

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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. However, these uncontrollable, unpredictable variables can create weaknesses that morph into opportunities for potential attacks.

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Mind the Product

DECEMBER 21, 2017

Agile Died While You Were Doing Your Standup. The inimitable Nate Walkingshaw argues that despite the successes Agile has brought us, it’s time to take the things we have learned from Agile and move on. Understanding how Design Thinking, Lean and Agile Work Together. Dual-Track Agile: Why Messy Leads to Innovation.

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Mind the Product

MAY 17, 2018

Over the past year I’ve worked with hundreds of product managers in dozens of companies, and there’s been one question that has sounded like a persistent drum beat: “ What is the difference between the role of a product owner and a product manager? ”. In Agile that person is called the product manager.

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Userpilot

JANUARY 21, 2021

Drawing a clear line between a product owner vs. product manager can be tough, given their varying roles from company to company. Factors such as the adoption of Scrum, size of the company, the structure of departments, and others also come into play. In a hurry? a Product Owner. a Product Owner.

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Userpilot

APRIL 8, 2021

Especially if your SaaS company originated as (or still is!) UX debt affects high-growth SaaS companies in industries where time-to-market is mission-critical and bootstrapped startups without a design team most. Code-free workarounds can 2x your feature adoption despite bad UX. What is UX debt? Why does UX debt happen?

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The Product Coalition

JANUARY 3, 2020

The Hard Thing About Hard Things) At Latin American travel technology company Almundo , we believe that leaders are responsible for the people, whether that is via one-on-one meetings, career opportunities, company culture, or employee satisfaction. So, it was natural that we should want to develop a talent growth plan for our people.

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Mind the Product

FEBRUARY 15, 2018

Much has been written about the process of creating product roadmaps, not least the six great articles written by my own team. I believe the actions of a product leader all too often are the root cause of a “bad” roadmap. I would define a good roadmap as one that the team understands and feels ownership over.

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Intercom, Inc.

OCTOBER 1, 2020

If you’re setting out on your roadmap journey it’s important that it reflect the point of the journey that you’re on – having everyone in a startup of 5 or 6 sharing daily tasks each morning makes sense as they work together to build a feature but in a larger company it’s a recipe for chaos.

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Intercom, Inc.

OCTOBER 1, 2020

If you’re setting out on your roadmap journey it’s important that it reflect the point of the journey that you’re on – having everyone in a startup of 5 or 6 sharing daily tasks each morning makes sense as they work together to build a feature but in a larger company it’s a recipe for chaos.

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The Product Coalition

OCTOBER 5, 2020

Many teams and organisations jump into build mode too early. It often includes researching customers, researching the market, developing mockups, prototyping and sometimes developing rough working products. Some teams do this continuously, and others do it more like a project. Less likely to waste budget on bad ideas.

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The Product Coalition

MARCH 18, 2018

If you work in a product team or in a digital business, you’ve probably heard a lot about this topic, or might even have lost some sleeping nights due to the lack of it in your daily basis. I think that there is no doubt whether designers and product team should work together and if both of them are essential to achieving great results.

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The Product Coalition

MAY 17, 2019

The product team : This is the close-knit team that build the artifacts used to evolve the product (green layer). Ideally, this is a cross-disciplinary team working closely together in an iterative/agile kind of way. The team tend to operate in weekly / bi-weekly cadence. Your team is who you are in a way.

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Mixpanel

MAY 20, 2020

Do you ever feel, as a product leader, that you’re unpopular in your company? Having worked with many product leaders over the past 20 years, I’ve repeatedly heard that balancing the needs of users, engineering teams and the business—all while building a successful product function that drives innovation—is tough.

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The Product HQ

FEBRUARY 1, 2023

They work with leaders and their own teams across organizations. TPMs are responsible for communicating complex technical ideas to both technical and non-technical team members. As a technical program manager, you communicate with product managers, leadership teams, and external vendors.

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ProductPlan

SEPTEMBER 10, 2021

The OKR methodology can be a powerful motivator for high performance and product excellence within teams and companies. The focus then shifts towards outcomes and individual and team authority and ownership. The OKR methodology helps organizations measure success and stay on target with their strategy and vision.

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Userpilot

JULY 9, 2021

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. Inspired by Marty Cagan contains a little about everything in product management and is based on how the most successful tech companies in the world build products.

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The Product Coalition

SEPTEMBER 15, 2019

For new product managers or in startups with newly formed product teams, the building roadmap is their first kick at having the influence of the company direction. I have had a fair share of experience working at enterprise and startup level companies. Their immediate reaction was we cannot do this.

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Gainsight

SEPTEMBER 8, 2021

Organizations create Customer Success teams to increase Net Revenue Retention, and we’ve recently published research showing that NRR drives valuation. But, then, organizations find that the baseline impact of simply having a CS team eventually plateaus–your NRR stagnates. You may also look outside the CS team.

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The Product Coalition

MAY 15, 2019

A story of love, hate, oppression and triumph I’ll admit, I’ve started to fall out of love with agile over the past year or so?—?don’t I wholeheartedly believe that you need to be adaptable to survive today but the further I travel on my own journey the more I wonder if we as an industry are moving past agile. Enter agile.

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Mind the Product

JANUARY 22, 2018

It’s the foundation that, for instance, powers a website and allows developers to add pages and features. By the time they need to be replaced few, if any, people from the original team are still around and, in any case, and no one fully understands the IT in detail. Replacing them is an expensive and high-stakes endeavour.

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Userpilot

SEPTEMBER 12, 2022

The focus of product management is overseeing product development at all stages of its lifecycle. A product manager's role is to coordinate the work of various teams across the organization with the shared goal of developing products. SMART goals are Specific, Measurable, Achievable, Relevant, and Time-bound.

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Product Innovation Educators

JANUARY 13, 2020

She currently leads Product Management at Obo, where she is working on agile product management software that aims to reduce the high failure rates for new products. Also, we talk in the beginning about Jill’s experience developing the Adobe Creative Cloud; lots to learn just from that. The Creative Cloud was a definite risk.

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ProductBoard

NOVEMBER 15, 2017

productboard , the all-in-one product management solution, launched today on Product Hunt the Portal , an all-new interface that bridges the divide between the product teams and marketplace. There are shining examples of organizations that have succeeded — customer-obsessed companies like Invision, Zendesk, and Envoy.

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Product Talk

SEPTEMBER 9, 2020

While I tend to focus on helping teams, Petra’s work centers around helping product leaders—the people who manage product managers. She has a big focus on people development, helping product managers and product leaders get better at their craft. My next career step was to a proper company. Hello everybody. Tweet This.

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Amplitude

OCTOBER 4, 2017

Amplitude was founded on the belief that companies are about to enter a new era. And if you’ve been paying attention to the leaders of the world’s largest companies, you might share in this belief as well. All of these companies exemplify this new era that we’re entering – the era of the product-led company.

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The Product Coalition

MARCH 22, 2021

Nowadays, a company can’t compete on level ground with others in almost any field without hiring a UX/UX designer or collaborating with UX agencies. These fields include web design, mobile app development, SaaS, and even B2B products. The high number of UX companies makes it harder to find the one that suits your needs the most.

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Under 10 Consulting

JUNE 6, 2019

Only three things happen naturally in organizations: friction, confusion, and underperformance. In my first job in product management, I was based in DC and my developers were based in California. Instead, I flew to LA once a month and stayed for a week of development team meetings. Product management in Development.

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PMLesson's Ace the PM Interview

FEBRUARY 7, 2022

Community managers, sales teams, marketing managers, and more could provide much insight into a product's users. Without this first-hand knowledge and understanding of your product, you won't be able to develop or improve your product as much as possible. Spend time getting to know people from all sorts of teams.

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The Product Coalition

JUNE 14, 2020

Prototypes and Minimum Viable Products (MVP) are a critical part of product development. Sure, you could dive right in, spend months developing an expensive product with all the bells and whistles. They’re also a great communication tool between you and your designers/tech teams, and they help you understand what it is you’re building.

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