The Product Coalition

AUGUST 3, 2023

How to Achieve Success in Your Product Strategy In today’s rapidly evolving market, having a clear product vision and a well-defined strategy is essential for the success of any tech product. A compelling product vision is a guiding light, providing direction and purpose to the development process.

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Userpilot

SEPTEMBER 29, 2023

The product development process is part art, part science, and all important to the success of your SaaS. In this article, we've got a comprehensive review of the entire product development process. Use insight gathered from your first batch of users to make targeted improvements to your product before a wider launch.

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Roman Pichler

FEBRUARY 19, 2024

Listen to the audio version of this article: [link] Introduction To discuss empowerment in product management, I find it helpful to distinguish three main levels of decision-making authority, product delivery, product discovery, and product strategy, as the model in Figure 1 shows. [1]

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UX Studio

JUNE 30, 2023

We deliver impactful, user-friend, and unique solutions for ambitious ideas. USA; Europe $70 – $90 / hr Website design, UI/UX design, Research, Website Audit, Mobile App Design, Consulting, Expert Review Studio 22 Design Studio 22 Design is a creative design firm located in the San Francisco Bay area.

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Userpilot

JANUARY 31, 2022

All product managers share a base, common skillset, which includes problem-solving, strategic thinking, and empathy for others. The different specialization categories: core product manager, growth product manager, technical product manager, platform product manager, and innovation product manager.

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The Product Coalition

JULY 6, 2022

Nowadays, digital products are becoming more and more prominent in our lives, and it’s already part of our daily activities. The majority of such apps have undergone iterative and incremental development to enhance and improve their features. Most of our readers would have heard of Agile product management.

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Userpilot

OCTOBER 21, 2022

The product management role is very complex. Product managers carry out market research, lead product discovery , oversee the development teams as they are working on the solutions, and coordinate the product launch. 16 Product Management Best Practices. What is a product manager?

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Userpilot

MAY 5, 2022

Product managers monitor and control the product lifecycle while ensuring there is the right corporate environment for its development. Generally, the product manager is responsible for the product strategy while the project manager – for its implementation. What is product management?

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Roman Pichler

OCTOBER 6, 2020

How can the product be built? What architecture patterns and technologies may be used? In order to answer the questions above, you may want to use techniques such as direct observation, user interviews, prototyping, creating a strategy canvas or E-R-R-C grid , and you may capture some of them using a tool like my product vision board.

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Roman Pichler

MARCH 14, 2017

The confusion stems—at least partly—from the fact that Scrum is a simple framework focused on helping teams develop software. It does not cover common product management practices, such as, product strategy development, product roadmapping, and financial forecasting; and the only product management tool it offers is the product backlog.

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The Product Coalition

NOVEMBER 26, 2019

Departmental goals and incentives further push developers towards building robust, scalable, elegant software. Agile Development Things don’t necessarily get better with agile development. Agile dev did away with project waterfall?—?Specification users, market and business, fades into the background.

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Userpilot

NOVEMBER 14, 2022

What’s product planning? How do you apply your product management skills and knowledge to build a robust product plan? What tools do you have at your disposal? Product planning focuses on the customer and business outcomes that the product should achieve. What is NOT product planning.

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Userpilot

AUGUST 13, 2023

Instead of relying solely on your intuition, supplement it with insights from market and customer research or feedback to inform prioritization decisions. A feature prioritization matrix is a product management tool that helps teams decide what features to develop next. What is a feature prioritization matrix?

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Roman Pichler

JANUARY 9, 2018

I find it helpful to form a product discovery team that consists of: Development team members: user experience (UX) designer, developer, tester; Key stakeholders , for example, people from marketing, sales, and support; A ScrumMaster or agile coach. Focus on Problem Validation, not Solution Building.

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ProductPlan

OCTOBER 11, 2022

Product owners play a crucial role in “by-the-book” Agile scrum, while product managers are largely absent. This article explores the product owner role and how it fits into the broader product team. The product owner’s role. The product owner’s role. Manage and prioritize the backlog.

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CardBoard

AUGUST 24, 2023

Product Ops is the behind-the-scenes function that streamlines the journey from a product idea to its delivery in the market. Imagine a team that aligns your product strategy with your business goals, fosters communication between different teams, and sifts through data to provide valuable insights.

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Userpilot

APRIL 7, 2024

SaaS product management is about understanding user pain points, crafting features that solve real problems, and constantly improving the user experience. The approach to managing SaaS products is entirely different from traditional on-premise software. Develop the product roadmap. Problem-solving mindset.

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UX Studio: Product Management

JULY 14, 2021

UX studio is one of the global innovation design consulting firms focusing on UX design, research, and strategic consulting. We researched the top design consulting firms’ competency level, experience, and portfolio to define the most reliable design thinking companies you can trust and partner with in 2021.

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Userpilot

JULY 8, 2021

Best product manager courses for mid-career PMs in 2021. Best product manager courses for advanced/pro PMs in 2021. Product management guides the development of a product at the intersection of technology, UX, and business. What is product management? Agile, Scrum). Product Management Course (paid).

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Product Innovation Educators

JANUARY 13, 2020

That is what our guest did to investigate what people think about marketing and how it fits into the work product managers do. Our guest is Jill Soley, a Silicon Valley strategic product and marketing executive. 12:33] What marketing roles and resources can help us in our job? Innovation Quote.

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Userpilot

JUNE 9, 2021

A Product Manager builds the product by identifying customer needs and creating specifications for developers. They also ensure it fulfills the business’s wider objectives, do the initial research, user interviews, and collect user feedback and data. Landing pages for different solutions, features, use cases of the product.

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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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Bain Public

MAY 29, 2020

FUN FACT: It is actually thanks to the coaching service for innovative and technological SMBs (PMEit) administered by MAIN that we’ve been able to work with some of our incredible clients, Wastack , LiveScale , Blaise Transit and Enkidoo , and provide them with product management, consultancy and coaching support.

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UX Studio: Product Management

JULY 9, 2021

We are a UX design agency based in Europe with a decade of experience in UX design and research. Our international team of UX designers and UX researchers work with businesses from all over the world. . The team consists of experts in product management, strategic thinking, and agile transformation.

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Amplitude

SEPTEMBER 5, 2017

The relationship between manager and product is a tight one. As a mobile product manager, you have to stay abreast of the market and make adjustments quickly. With new apps and platforms, the face of tech is changing quickly. Does it flow and enhance the product or does it seem foreign and lack cohesion?

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The Product Coalition

JANUARY 26, 2024

Twenty five mini-research ideas for finding something meaningful to work on. In the perfect world, product managers have all the time, resources, and skills to do impeccable, in-depth market and user research. So let’s talk about mini-research. Think of research as digging for gold.

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Mixpanel

JUNE 10, 2020

As VP of Product at NerdWallet , I guide product decisions that drive maximum value for our brand and consumers—helping them break down complicated financial topics (e.g. This understanding of why we do what we do is core to our product strategy, and informs every decision we make. what the heck is a Roth IRA?),

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The Product Coalition

MARCH 18, 2018

An engineer, on the other hand, is someone who may have been interested in math and loved to find solutions for problems. My point of view is that they expect long term outcomes: Having great reviews in the app store, creating something innovative, shift the way users used to do something. Why designers measure such things?

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ProductPlan

NOVEMBER 13, 2018

” Let’s say you sell SaaS software. It could be from someone who’s simply poking around the industry for a potential solution. On the other hand, the feedback might be coming from someone in another department who deals with some aspect of your product. Requests from Prospects vs Actual Customers.

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The Basics of Product Management

JUNE 21, 2020

What Is Product Roadmap? The product roadmap is the foundational guiding document that defines the vision for the product. It is a product strategy document that is used as a source of truth by the product team, the development team, external stakeholders, etc. Product Roadmap Tools.

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Userpilot

MARCH 6, 2020

As a team supporting diversity and women in tech – we decided to use the International Women’s Day as an opportunity to showcase some of the best talent in the industry – and interviewed the top female Product Managers, Product Owners and SaaS founders and CEOs. Women in SaaS. Women in Product.

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The Product Coalition

JUNE 4, 2016

If you are also interested in the differences between B2C and B2B product management, here is a very concise article about it. Being a product owner Many B2B companies, especially small ones, follow agile/lean process. Usually the product manager is the product owner. Everyday’s tasks are different.

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ProductPlan

OCTOBER 30, 2018

Much like company culture, product culture is a shared mindset. Except in this context, the mindset applies specifically to the product. Often product culture leans on ideas and insights from agile, design thinking, customer centricity, and other product management and development principles.

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Pragmatic Marketing

SEPTEMBER 16, 2009

Barbara Nelson said in The Politics of Agile , “When product managers weren’t looking, the developers went agile.” ” Indeed, many Product Managers were taken by surprise at the speed of Agile’s adoption. Obviously, Agile should not be introduced with a ‘big-bang’ approach.

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Product Bookshelf

JANUARY 31, 2017

The book starts with Sean agreeing to be the first product manager at Alpha Technology Ventures. He is initially overwhelmed but quickly falls back on his product and customer knowledge along with building relationships with his new peers in Engineering and Project Management. He does discuss Agile but not in depth.

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The Product Coalition

MARCH 24, 2021

Narrowing Down the Battlefield Figure 1 shows the ‘Technology Adoption Life Cycle’ for discontinuous innovations. We can see that such innovations face a chasm between the early and the mainstream market. Crossing this chasm decides if the innovation will become a success or has to leave the market.

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The Product Coalition

JUNE 9, 2020

My first challenge was to create the product management function within the organization and take over a major app redesign. We managed to officially launch the new version of the app, now under the name Elium, and we raise a 4m€ Series A. This was an important step as the company also wanted to raise its Series A.

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