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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The Product Coalition

MARCH 8, 2024

The important basis is the development of a strategy for short- and long-term digital transformation based on business results rather than technology. Agility and adaptability are paramount The business landscape is constantly evolving, and trends can shift rapidly. What is the importance of digital transformation?

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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 ?? and others feel that.

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Mironov Consulting

MAY 16, 2020

A topic that’s come up several times recently in my product leader coaching sessions: how much to delegate to the (individual contributor) product managers on our teams – including different ways of building product skills and balancing personal empowerment against good results.

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The Product Coalition

SEPTEMBER 4, 2020

I redesigned the internal and public web properties and was promoted into my first “product leadership” role. I became director of communications, leading the development of intranets and web applications. Challenges aside, I enjoyed the close-knit teams and easy access to upper management which enabled quick decision making.

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The Product Coalition

NOVEMBER 13, 2023

In many cases, an economic downturn simply reveals your already existing weaknesses since they now have more impact. When people (and VCs) aren’t spending money easily, you must be super sharp with your value proposition, positioning, product, marketing, and sales. A great salesperson cannot develop that positioning by themselves.

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The Product Coalition

DECEMBER 4, 2023

In many cases, an economic downturn simply reveals your already existing weaknesses since they now have more impact. The unique value proposition, the positioning of the product in the market, understanding exactly who would buy this product and why are all part of this core, without which any GTM playbook would be too generic.

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Mind the Product

APRIL 23, 2018

And leaders have an outsized impact on team performance. She shared some insights on human behavior, and how we as leaders can use our influence to build a culture of psychological safety, enhancing collaboration and problem solving in our teams. On the tactical front, we talked about the good and bad sides of data.

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Mironov Consulting

FEBRUARY 28, 2024

An essential role of CPOs and other product leaders that’s never listed in the job description is giving organizational 'air cover' to product managers to postpone almost all new requests — so that their teams can finish work already underway.    Lately, I’m calling this permission to stay focused.

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Agile Velocity

NOVEMBER 9, 2018

Today’s Agile leaders manage with a more complete arsenal of skills and techniques than leaders of the past who led fundamentally different teams. For Agile organizations, the days of top-down hierarchy and autonomous decision making have joined the floppy disk as obsolete and outdated concepts in modern business.

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The Product Guy

FEBRUARY 27, 2020

At JCDecaux, I led the development of an information kiosk for airport passengers. Passengers are also able to view hotel information and use the devices to speak to the sales team of the hotel. A risk is an uncertain event that may have both a positive or negative impact on a product. No one liked the product.

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Modus Create

FEBRUARY 17, 2021

Servant leadership is a mainstay of corporate cultures worldwide. Like most leadership phenomena, it evokes both passionate adoration and scoffing. What is Servant Leadership? Servant leadership is a management philosophy in which the primary goal of the leader is to serve their direct reports.

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BrainStation Product Management

OCTOBER 5, 2018

As one Forbes contributor puts it , Agile is “the world’s most popular innovation engine.” The goals include getting more bang for your buck quickly, while boosting adaptability and lowering development costs — and not running your team ragged in the process. Sure, that all sounds great.

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Intercom, Inc.

AUGUST 15, 2019

If an organization’s founders aren’t designers and don’t come from a background where well-designed products played a key role in their lives, it can often be the last discipline to be brought onboard the team. On a bad day, a lot more of it got thrown away. My responsibility was to build a design team in that new agile way of working.

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The Product HQ

FEBRUARY 1, 2023

Technical program manager (TPM) roles range from mid to senior-level positions that support organizations with their product goals. 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.

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The Product Coalition

JULY 6, 2022

Fifteen years ago Ben Horowitz published his now famous memo, “G ood Product Manager/Bad Product Manager ” in which he posits that “A good product manager is the CEO of the product”. A bad CEO takes the credit and passes on the blame. This is a classic leadership trap that many leaders (not just CEOs) often fall into.

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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. Value Proposition.

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Mind the Product

DECEMBER 11, 2017

I redesigned the internal and public web properties and was promoted into my first “product leadership” role. I became director of communications, leading the development of intranets and web applications. Challenges aside, I enjoyed the close-knit teams and easy access to upper management which enabled quick decision making.

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Mind the Product

MARCH 7, 2017

Or “ How to Manage Software Development in Teams who Think Nothing Like you “ Product management has two diversity problems. Cultural homogeneity in product teams is dead, welcome cultural diversity. Every day, I lead a product standup for a team of four engineers: Syrian, Chinese, Ukrainian, and Singaporean Chinese.

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The Product Coalition

DECEMBER 5, 2019

They run from ill-suited personal traits and the pursuit of individual agendas to frustration with the team itself. Read on and learn in this post on Scrum anti-patterns how you can identify if your Scrum Master needs support from the team. The Scrum Master is a servant-leader for the Scrum Team. Source : Scrum Guide 2017.

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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. Without thoughtful leadership around them, it may not be in product manager’s gift to achieve a “good” roadmap.

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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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The Product Coalition

JUNE 13, 2019

Sure, there are some junior positions out there that can be reached with a few months’ experience and a prestigious certification. However, most of the time professionals who undertake the transition aim to build the following story with their resume: their gradual acquisition of product skills across different positions and functions.

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ProductPlan

OCTOBER 1, 2020

The conference is structured around the “7 Ps of Product”—Problem, Purpose, Position, Price, Practice, Promotion, and Performance. The goal is to help product teams “rise above the day-to-day slog and truly think through what makes a successful Product and how to make it happen.”. Agile Leadership Summit.

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PMLesson's Ace the PM Interview

MARCH 2, 2022

While behavioral interviews are guaranteed for most tech positions, they're often overlooked in interview prep. " and seek to better understand your: Leadership Problem solving Communicating Teamwork Cross-functional collaboration and more. Leadership. Specifically, they want "emergent leadership."

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The Product Coalition

JUNE 9, 2021

The initial steps of this framework took collaboration between business leadership and the product team to set a direction for development decisions. In the second half, the product team will work with the development team to tie actionable projects to business goals.

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Mind the Product

APRIL 28, 2017

Ultimately, you’re always in a weaker position if you’ve not prepared the ground for what you hope to achieve. You can’t negotiate without starting from a solid, considered position because you will have no mechanism to push back against ideas that don’t align to your end goal, which is why… …Alignment is Crucial. Bullet dodged!

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bpma ProductHub

JULY 13, 2016

Being born and raised in New England, I’ve been a part of the Boston area development community for decades now — making a point to foster and support local professional organizations whenever I am able. Being in a leadership role, I get a great deal of satisfaction watching others succeed. How did you get involved with the BPMA?

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Bain Public

DECEMBER 14, 2021

How do you guarantee that your team is creating value for your customers in a way that creates value for your business? The Five Dysfunctions of a Team by Patrick Lencioni This book is all about the fascinating and complex world of teams. It explores the fundamental causes of organizational politics and team failure.

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Mironov Consulting

SEPTEMBER 22, 2020

Almost without fail, I find that the “maker” side of software companies (developers, designers, product folks, DevOps, tech writers…) and the “go-to-market” side of software companies (sales, marketing, support, customer success.) Some frequent bad outcomes from this confusion: We never finish our MVP. Here’s why…. What To Do?

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Product Innovation Educators

NOVEMBER 23, 2020

Meanwhile, I was working with other clients on positioning their products for survival through the pandemic, and I asked leaders, “How are you even trying to approach this?” Microsoft Teams had to figure out how to scale and service their product when its application was far greater than they had anticipated.

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Mind the Product

MAY 25, 2018

In 2012, when I was working as part of the JustGiving team responsible for innovative products and disruptive business models, we decided to test how people could raise money for non-charitable good causes. Initially we worked with a team from ThoughtWorks for 12 weeks. 2014 – Testing and Growing the Team.

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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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The Product Coalition

MAY 7, 2020

The stages of product development Using six questions we can determine the primary role of both product and project managers concerning product development. They do not, however, dictate the ‘how’, as this is determined by the development team. The 5 Why’s and How?—?often They align with different ways of working.

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Johanna Rothman

SEPTEMBER 28, 2018

In Part 1 , I suggested that when we organize by function, the recognition and rewards might prevent a successful agile transformation. Notice that each team has all the skills and capabilities it needs. It depends on how many feature sets and product teams the manager serves. The team might work differently.

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PMLesson's Ace the PM Interview

FEBRUARY 18, 2019

They also need sufficient technical knowledge for the product they are building and, generally, should be at least familiar with Lean methodology and Agile development. truly understanding the user’s position, needs, and pains. Identify Weaknesses Are you lacking skills for certain roles? How much do they overlap?

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PMLesson's Ace the PM Interview

FEBRUARY 18, 2019

They also need sufficient technical knowledge for the product they are building and, generally, should be at least familiar with Lean methodology and Agile development. truly understanding the user’s position, needs, and pains. Identify Weaknesses Are you lacking skills for certain roles? How much do they overlap?

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