The Product Coalition

MARCH 23, 2022

While the use of the framework is evident at the execution stage, it is equally applicable during business prioritization to identify product-market fit, competitive differentiation, and strategic alignment. As a Product Strategist or a Manager, it is insufficient to only think about how differentiated your product is. Ecosystems? —?As

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The Product HQ

JUNE 1, 2024

Additionally, an agile mindset is essential to navigate the frequent pivots and rapid changes inherent to startup life. Agility is key to product management jobs as they adapt to changing priorities and pivot strategies based on dynamic market needs. They engage closely with customers to gather feedback and iterate quickly.

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ProductPlan

SEPTEMBER 15, 2020

See Jim Semick’s advice on product leadership in our Spotlights video: 2. Watch Carlos discuss adapting your business in our webinar on resilient leadership: 5. She’s a frequent presenter at industry events and practices her design thinking and Agile practices to the financial services industry. Adrienne Tan. Matt Bilotti.

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Mironov Consulting

DECEMBER 5, 2023

  Once-a-year planning lives at the intersection of “we can accurately predict the future in spite of all evidence” and “we’re an agile organization, so we can adapt to daily changes in our market even though we committed a detailed plan to the Board.”

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Mixpanel

APRIL 27, 2020

Neil Rahilly, Mixpanel’s VP of Product and Design, walks us through how product management leadership priorities change as you move from startup through scale up and all the way to enterprise. Startup: Set ruthless priorities. When you’re a startup and you’re looking for product-market fit, you need to be ruthless.

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The Product Coalition

DECEMBER 8, 2020

Three and a half centuries later companies have changed; self-organized, autonomous, agile teams are on the rise helping companies to leverage opportunities in fast-paced, complex markets. Porter differentiates between merely running in the same direction, s imple consistency, and working together to create synergy effects, reinforcement.

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Mind the Product

DECEMBER 18, 2019

We analyzed dozens of job descriptions from leading companies (Airbnb, Amazon, Booking, eBay, Expedia, Instagram, Intercom, LinkedIn, Netflix, PayPal, Spotify, among others) and we were able to differentiate hundreds of distinct skills and responsibilities. Agile : Product owner role, software development, team cadence, delivery.

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Amplitude

MARCH 11, 2020

Earlier last year, before we transitioned to outcome-based planning, the leadership team at Yesware did a thought exercise during an offsite. In an Agile, fast-moving and competitive environment, what you are frequently not able to achieve with output-focused product planning, however, are desired user and business results.

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Antwak Blog

JANUARY 29, 2021

Be a crisis manager – Diagnose the situation, identify hurdles and be agile in resolving them while the product is being tested in the market. Well, most experienced PMs emphasize on soft skills being the differentiator between a good and a great PM. Now, you’re aware of the roles you are likely to perform. . Go be a hustler!

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Mind the Product

JANUARY 16, 2020

Today, product might seem like a new field because of the growth of technology startups and the prevalence of lean and agile frameworks, but product roles have been around for a few decades. It’s clear that the need is there, and more and more people are becoming interested in filling these roles. Making the Transition to Product.

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Antwak Blog

APRIL 9, 2021

This ingrained behaviour needs to be consciously differentiated and changed when it affects hiring or promotions. These must be conducted with respect to genders in order to gauge the following – leadership roles, pay gap at different roles, paternity and maternity leaves etc. Read our other blogs on Learning Agility here.

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Userpilot

JULY 17, 2023

Navigating the corporate landscape to secure the leadership’s buy-in and resources is a big part of their job. This involves customer and market research , defining a differentiation strategy, identifying the best ways to reach out to potential customers, designing marketing campaigns, and monitoring their results.

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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. It was transformational for me because I had been working on smaller seed products, and for the first time I was in a leadership role on a major transformational project. [3:07]

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Izenda

JUNE 28, 2020

Company size differentiates the depth of thinking a product manager takes when developing the product strategy and roadmap. Knowledgeable of technical aspects and agile methodology. Able to maintain strong ownership/leadership of process. In a medium sized company, there is more likely a team dividing ownership.

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Mind the Product

MARCH 2, 2017

A new technique, such as an agile methodology or a better way to do a/b testing, will help you with a specific activity. Mental models can help people in positions of leadership make decisions. The mental model tools in this talk will help you *think* better. Which helps you make better decisions about *what* to do. You’ll learn a lot.

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Johanna Rothman

JULY 22, 2021

Worse, many of these managers also want business agility. Business agility requires change. Let's differentiate between the strategic and the tactical. See Leadership Tip# 10: Commit Coherent & Meaningful Work to a Team.). That leads to large and unchangeable roadmaps and a lot of emphasis on predictability.

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Mind the Product

JULY 16, 2019

I use agile values, principles, and practices to label the other axes. I’ve found it’s proven useful while the team is discussing the individual topics to differentiate between positive (green) and negative (pink) aspects, as well as general comments (blue). You can find them on the image below.

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Centercode

JUNE 26, 2019

As hardware and software development converge and agile environments promote faster releases, companies are looking to standardize their Customer Validation processes to keep up with the increasing demands on product managers. “We are excited to partner with the team at Centercode to help drive this next phase of growth and success.”.

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Centercode

JUNE 26, 2019

As hardware and software development converge and agile environments promote faster releases, companies are looking to standardize their Customer Validation processes to keep up with the increasing demands on product managers. “We are excited to partner with the team at Centercode to help drive this next phase of growth and success.”.

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BrainStation Product Management

FEBRUARY 28, 2019

In BrainStation’s survey, Product Managers ranked communication (71 percent), leadership (65 percent), and empathy (58 percent) as the most important skills for a Product Manager, ahead of research and project management, and far ahead of design (selected by only 20 percent of respondents).

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The Product Coalition

JANUARY 19, 2021

But as much as you’re probably fighting to differentiate your product from the competition is as much as you should do to shape your organisation and make it happen. The mistake, in my opinion, would be to blindly copy one. Of course, they are inspiring and a great starting point, like any cookbook you may read.

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Intercom, Inc.

OCTOBER 1, 2020

Once you start talking to customers and they start buying your product on the basis of what’s coming around the corner, you’re starting to lose a lot of agility. But you need to make sure that you’re aligned with the sales leadership. It’s tricky to successfully coordinate a customer-facing roadmap.

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Intercom, Inc.

OCTOBER 1, 2020

Once you start talking to customers and they start buying your product on the basis of what’s coming around the corner, you’re starting to lose a lot of agility. But you need to make sure that you’re aligned with the sales leadership. It’s tricky to successfully coordinate a customer-facing roadmap.

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The Product Guy

SEPTEMBER 27, 2016

He is passionate about Lean and Agile Product management, innovative business models and business and product strategies. She is a University of Melbourne Asialink Leadership Fellow and Asia Education Foundation Literacy Ambassador. James builds products and services which delight customers and differentiate companies.

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The Product Guy

OCTOBER 25, 2016

He is passionate about Lean and Agile Product management, innovative business models and business and product strategies. She is a University of Melbourne Asialink Leadership Fellow and Asia Education Foundation Literacy Ambassador. James builds products and services which delight customers and differentiate companies.

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Innovatemap

OCTOBER 31, 2019

120WaterAudit’s leadership team knew the importance of bringing user experience driven technology to the antiquated, paper-and-spreadsheet-driven industry of water quality management. And with this customer feedback alongside agile product design, we enabled the development team to bring 120WaterAudit’s product vision to life.

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Johanna Rothman

AUGUST 18, 2021

They think that the agile tools they use, such as boards, offer a strategic advantage. However, they adopt or “install” an agile framework or process without customization. Instead, agile organizations need flexibility, not rigidity. Instead, agile organizations need flexibility, not rigidity.

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BrainStation Product Management

FEBRUARY 28, 2019

In BrainStation’s survey, Product Managers ranked communication (71 percent), leadership (65 percent), and empathy (58 percent) as the most important skills for a Product Manager, ahead of research and project management, and far ahead of design (selected by only 20 percent of respondents).

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The Product Guy

JANUARY 5, 2017

He is passionate about Lean and Agile Product management, innovative business models and business and product strategies. She is a University of Melbourne Asialink Leadership Fellow and Asia Education Foundation Literacy Ambassador. James builds products and services which delight customers and differentiate companies.

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Product Warrior

JULY 15, 2018

Time and time again teams master process around lean and agile product development, but still fail see great outcomes. The reality is they are still clinging on to their trusted SOTP (seat of the pants) or BDUF (big design up front) approach, they have just mapped it onto lean agile ceremonies and artefacts.

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The Product Guy

FEBRUARY 18, 2017

He is passionate about Lean and Agile Product management, innovative business models and business and product strategies. She is a University of Melbourne Asialink Leadership Fellow and Asia Education Foundation Literacy Ambassador. James builds products and services which delight customers and differentiate companies.

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Roadmunk

SEPTEMBER 21, 2017

But I’ve always been fascinated with Spotify’s famous squad, tribe, Survivor-esque sounding setup—especially as agile becomes status quo for product orgs, and more companies shift to this specific engineering culture. Dear PMs, it’s time to rethink agile at enterprise startups. Author: Henrik Kniberg. a leader within your market).

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Agile Velocity

JUNE 14, 2023

We saw first-hand just how important agility is when reacting to massive disruption. But what is Business Transformation and how does it relate to, and differ from, other transformations like digital, product, and Agile? One, our CEO and CIO have said getting Agile right is our top priority as a company. a pandemic.

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The Product Guy

APRIL 4, 2017

He is passionate about Lean and Agile Product management, innovative business models and business and product strategies. She is a University of Melbourne Asialink Leadership Fellow and Asia Education Foundation Literacy Ambassador. James builds products and services which delight customers and differentiate companies.

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Balsamiq

JULY 13, 2018

I read 20-30 articles every day on my areas of interest namely Product Management, Agile Development, UX Design, and Leadership. I have honed the ability to differentiate between user needs and user wants. I have a carefully curated social media feed on Twitter and LinkedIn for my daily dose of reading.

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Mind the Product

APRIL 27, 2017

It’s a change in approach that’s driven by demands for more agility and greater velocity from the time a problem is identified to the time that a product is released. . Some product teams are moving away from written PRDs to visual artifacts like mockups and prototypes.

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The Product Guy

MAY 15, 2017

He is passionate about Lean and Agile Product management, innovative business models and business and product strategies. She is a University of Melbourne Asialink Leadership Fellow and Asia Education Foundation Literacy Ambassador. James builds products and services which delight customers and differentiate companies.

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