The Product Coalition

JUNE 1, 2019

Too many times people confuse agile and scrum. Agile is a concept with principles that helps us develop software better, validate it as soon as we can, and bring value to our customers faster. Scrum is a valid and very popular framework for agile development. Agile is just a means to an end.

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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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Sachin Rekhi

JANUARY 22, 2016

One aspect of startups that the ecosystem is getting better at is designing our startups for learning from our customers to find product/market fit. But what I've found surprising is that these learnings haven't been readily applied to the development process and they definitely should be.

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Oren Steinberg

JULY 13, 2018

The biggest asset any startup has is the time of its entrepreneurs and key talents. The success or failure of the startup often hinges on their ability to focus their efforts on the critical path at any given time. As the startup grows and faces scalability and growth challenges the issue of focus becomes even more challenging.

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The Product Coalition

NOVEMBER 23, 2021

When planning the product managers’ goals, this challenge can translate into taking the wrong direction altogether. Here is a new way to look at product management goals, and make them a useful tool for both you and your team. was the COO of a Series C startup. So if you need the team to focus on a certain area?—?say

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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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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. Summary of some concepts discussed for product managers. [0:38] 7:06] How do you describe marketing?

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The Product Coalition

FEBRUARY 2, 2023

As product managers, it’s our job to develop solutions that solve real problems for our customers and create value for the business. One effective approach is to use a hypothesis-driven product validation framework to ensure that your efforts are focused on the most important questions at the right time.

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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

OCTOBER 15, 2019

Are you willing to shape it and head straight to the development process? Many companies struggle to decide whether creating an MVP (minimum viable product ) or MMP (minimum marketable product) or any other type of a minimum product is the right way to start. Why do you want to launch your product?

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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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Userpilot

JULY 5, 2022

Small but regular improvements are a more reliable way to achieve product-market fit. As a result, it helps you develop only the features that they need and avoid falling into the feature fallacy trap and creating the consumption gap. This makes the product loved by our users ( check G2 reviews ).

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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. A prototype is also a lightweight early-version of your product. The meaning of MVP is Minimum Viable Product.

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Roadmunk

SEPTEMBER 21, 2017

Throughout my career as both a product manager and startup founder, there’s been one severely underrated skill I credit for much of my success—and that’s reading. I’m constantly consuming articles on product management, product culture, startups and entrepreneurship to bolster my career as a product person and leader.

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UX Studio: Product Management

SEPTEMBER 16, 2021

UX studio is an expert design company that helps businesses worldwide design impactful digital products. Apart from working with established brands and startups, we assess the expertise of various companies and create our independent rating list of trustworthy design companies. Our client portfolio is rich and diverse.

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PMLesson's Ace the PM Interview

MARCH 2, 2022

Google Product Manager Interview Guide Google Engineering Manager Interview Guide Google Software Engineering Interview Guide Google APM Interview Guide Google Technical Program Manager Interview Guide Google Product Marketing Manager Interview Guide Does Google Ask Behavioral Interview Questions? Leadership.

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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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Business of Software Conference

APRIL 17, 2020

Today, more and more teams are discovering the benefits and flexibility that remote working provides; and in an ever changing world, could remote working become the new normal? So actually, when I made the title of like creating like effective remote teams, I think there’s like a lot of stuff that goes into it.

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Userpilot

JULY 13, 2021

The point of a walkthrough in this instance is to get the new user to experience the value of the product first-hand before they get bored and lose interest. Given how much time and money you’re spending developing new product features, it would be a great shame to have nobody want to use them. Speed is of the essence here.

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The Product Coalition

FEBRUARY 26, 2022

I’ve asked friends who do the job at social events and got the same answer, and frequently asked members of my own teams, who struggled to find the time to do it. To compensate, I’ve seen UX researchers & designers pick up the mantle a lot more, and the design teams have really leaned into this space.

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Mind the Product

MARCH 20, 2018

The Product Lifecycle. We all know the product lifecycle chart. While many of us are familiar with the uphill battle and the grind involved in getting traction and any growth towards product/market fit, the launch and growth phases represent a small fraction of the overall life of a product. Product Lifecycle.

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The Product Coalition

MARCH 23, 2018

I was then told I need to understand product market fit , if I was to truly appreciate how the lean model is applied throughout the product lifecycle. To me, it feels more like a fad and one that will ultimately be beaten in the market by more informed approaches, including Disciplined Agile.

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Revulytics

OCTOBER 9, 2019

In his webinar, leading product development consultant Sam McAfee , author of Startup Patterns identifies problems product development organizations often face in measuring their efforts , and offers practical advice for tackling them. Product managers have a dizzying array of analytics tools.

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Pragmatic Marketing

AUGUST 12, 2015

There are plenty of discussions in the agile community about how agile teams work and develop over time. Often neglected or poorly understood is how that work makes its way from the customer to the team. Product Backlog Flow Overview. These flows deliver customer pains and problems to the agile team.

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Business of Software Conference

JULY 26, 2016

Mikey Trafton: How To Manage Your Badass Team. Bethany Pagels-Minor: The Many Flavors Of Agile – What’s The Right One For Your Team? Matt Wensing: 1 Startup In 10 Years vs 1,000 Startups in 10 Minutes. Rahul Vohra: The Product-Market Fit Engine. Eric Ries: The Startup Way.

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The Product Coalition

MARCH 21, 2019

A Clear Product Strategy has Four Levels Getting lost in the maze of “strategy” can be very distracting for product managers. It’s not often clear how much time that a product manager should be spending on influencing or developing one, or at what level. I’ve broken a Product Strategy down into four parts.

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Roadmunk

OCTOBER 26, 2017

The ebook explores the Burndown framework that Drift’s product team has adopted for product development. Think of Burndown as a more iterative and flexible version of agile that’s heavily influenced by user feedback. What are its key components and how do you roll it out to a small team? Latif: Fantastic.

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Business of Software Conference

MARCH 24, 2021

So before we get into product, and I think there are two or three things that keep coming up in in questions. One is that some stuff around product and team and building a new, a new breakout, very different product to the one that you’ve got. There are some questions around marketing. That’s great.

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Business of Software Conference

JULY 2, 2019

You will probably recognise most of these techniques in action in your own organisation… Watch, and learn how to integrate design into your team effectively. Jane Austin (Director of Product Design, Babylon Health) – 10 Easy Ways To Irritate Your Design Team from Business of Software Conference. Upcoming Events.

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Business of Software Conference

OCTOBER 23, 2019

In this talk Product guru Bruce McCarthy arms you with his battle-tested approach to prioritizing your most critical initiatives that will increase your organization’s focus by increasing confidence in your prioritization decisions. I’ve been a product guy for a long time, for most of my career. Maybe I’m a Renaissance man.

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Intercom, Inc.

MARCH 29, 2022

Paul Adams shared three incredible new products that will take your Intercom experience to the next level: Surveys, Switch, and our next-generation Inbox. We are dedicated to building the best, most innovative products on the market to drive the most impact for you, our customers. We’re here for you.”

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Userpilot

DECEMBER 22, 2021

2022 will be the year of data in product – Product Managers will become more and more data-driven in their decision-making, and will offer more personalized product experiences based on user behavior data. Company Values and Culture – a 2022 Product Trend to Watch Carefully. As Natalia Kimli?ková

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Product Talk

MARCH 3, 2021

A few months ago, fellow Product Talk coach Hope Gurion and I sat down to discuss why there’s no single right way to do discovery. Teresa and I have worked together for a number of years and when I was heading up product teams at a couple of different companies. Hope led product teams at two different large companies.

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Userpilot

AUGUST 28, 2019

If I asked you to think of the most important aspects of creating a successful SaaS product, you’ll probably think of solving a need, user onboarding techniques, and the all-important product-market fit. It may sound obvious but ensuring that your users fully adopt your product is essential to its success.

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