The Product Coalition

APRIL 25, 2022

No product tool or template can save you if you’re not killing it in these three areas. That’s why we’ve listed 12 tools that the best product managers use to do their jobs better? and not the best product management tools. Product managers (PMs) are ninjas of aligning people, management, and processes.

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Reveal

OCTOBER 14, 2021

In today’s digitalized and technology-oriented world, customers require much more than static data visualization or simple reporting. Continue reading to find out what a modern embedded analytics solution is and how it can replace your legacy system by decreasing operational costs and increasing annual revenue.

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Intercom, Inc.

OCTOBER 5, 2022

Your solution is only as good as your understanding of the problem. One of the reasons that many fail – particularly in earlier stages – is because they didn’t offer a compelling solution to a real problem that exists for customers. All too often, companies jump quickly from the problem to a single solution that they fall in love with.

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Roman Pichler

FEBRUARY 9, 2022

What’s more, it’s not uncommon in my experience that product owners have to do their job without the support of a Scrum Master or agile coach. For example, I’ve seen organisations where the Scrum Masters work with HR and the development teams to recruit new team members. So why is the role important?

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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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Usersnap

JUNE 11, 2019

Agile QA approach and user experience driven development (UXDD) have taken modern software development and testing by storm. Amazon has reported deploying thousands of times per day. And over 50 % of software firms have daily new releases. Risk of QA failure in the agile workspace. New QA mindset.

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The Product Coalition

JUNE 17, 2020

We manage everything from product launch, forecasting, planning to product marketing and sales and when things change drastically Product Managers are expected to be agile and stay on top of technology tools to save the day. To serve content, Content Management System (CMS) is on the rise.

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Modus Create

JANUARY 26, 2021

Adopting Agile sounds as simple as taking the SCRUM master certification tests and pushing them down the framework to a team of developers. Usually, we find that the challenge of becoming agile is way larger than most companies like to admit. Situations like this are not uncommon. Situations like this are not uncommon.

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Agile Velocity

FEBRUARY 8, 2021

Value stream mapping is a common practice in the Agile space because it allows leaders and stakeholders to see where the flow of value delivery is slowing down and exposes opportunities to create better alignment across teams. Then it becomes a tool to help diagnose a problem (which is usually when Agile coaches are called in). .

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The Product Coalition

DECEMBER 27, 2023

Building effective teams with people from different disciplines can be challenging due to various circumstances. Teams with multiple functions are instrumental towards staying competitive and succeed. Conversely, to rely solely on a single-function team for brainstorming is a recipe for failure.

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The Product Coalition

OCTOBER 12, 2020

TL; DR: Why Agile Turns into Micromanagement Agile turns into micromanagement as a result of the middle management’s resistance to change. Self-organizing, empowered teams often conflict with the middle management’s drive to execute personal agendas, self-preservation being one of them. be it tech or legacy.

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Userpilot

MAY 26, 2024

It is crucial to choose a tool that allows the import of Google Analytics data to retain and back up important data during migration. Our review presents a variety of analytics platforms, from privacy-focused to feature-rich, ensuring you’ll find the right tool that respects user data, integrates easily, and scales with your SaaS business.

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Usersnap

AUGUST 4, 2020

Especially when looking at the tool-side of project management. I see new tools popping up every other day. With Jira and Trello – we looked at two major project management tools, their benefits and drawbacks and most importantly their main differences. Project management tools. The basics of Jira.

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UX Studio: Product Management

SEPTEMBER 25, 2017

After our team at UX Studio started using product management tools, the time spent on communication surprisingly decreased. Coordinating designer and developer teams simultaneously while reporting to the boss via email becomes a drag. Collaboration tools. As a product manager, you know the drill.

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Userpilot

NOVEMBER 15, 2021

In this blog post, we’re going to break down the pros and cons of using UserGuiding as an onboarding and engagement tool for SaaS and give you the best alternatives that may fit your specific needs and use cases. UserGuiding is a no-code tool for user onboarding. The tool can get a bit buggy. Let's get started!

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The Product Coalition

MARCH 11, 2020

TL; DR: Development Team Anti-Patterns After covering the Scrum Master and the Product Owner, this article addresses Development Team anti-patterns, covering all Scrum Events as well as the Product Backlog artifact. Only members of the Development Team create the Increment. Source : Scrum Guide 2017.

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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. Product vulnerability, defined as an exploitable glitch or flaw in a product, can happen to any product or service.

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Mironov Consulting

MAY 24, 2022

Everywhere I go, I see massive amounts of product waste : development work delivered on time/on budget that doesn’t drive sales or customer satisfaction or business improvement.  Yet  We shout past each other using secret keywords (“agile”) and assuming bad intent.  Project teams that ship v1.0

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Mironov Consulting

NOVEMBER 2, 2018

But it’s easy for B2B/enterprise companies to fall into a sales-led development model where the majority of work is for individual customers – starving the core product of innovation, new features, quality improvements and technical resilience. Good estimation and busy technical team are the keys to success. Let’s dig in….

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Mironov Consulting

JUNE 30, 2017

I’ve noticed a frequent executive-level misalignment of expectations across a range of software/tech companies, particularly in B2B/Enterprise companies and where Sales/Marketing is geographically far away from Engineering/Product Management. Let’s call it the software development deli counter problem.

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The Product Coalition

DECEMBER 29, 2020

The way business was done changed drastically in the 90s, and not just because of the rapidly-improving technology. Corporations started re-structuring so that teams were self-managing, and were given more autonomy and ownership. This is when companies started applying consumer PM principles to software PM.

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Mironov Consulting

SEPTEMBER 14, 2020

Over the last three decades, across 10 full-time jobs and 150 consulting clients, I’ve headed up product teams 18 times (mostly as interim VP ) and helped another dozen companies choose their Head of Product. They don’t value experience running product management teams , instead overweighting narrow technical or market segment familiarity.

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Mironov Consulting

AUGUST 29, 2023

Imagine we’re a SaaS company selling logistics software that helps companies track their shipments, warehouse inventory, goods reordering, and time-versus-shipping-cost analytics.  Our rent rent rent rent We’re in the HR software business rent build? and then the next.

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The Product Coalition

NOVEMBER 24, 2020

On the other hand, the Scrum Master theses also cover, for example, the relationship with the Product Owner, they deal with agile metrics, and how to kick-off an agile transition, thus moving beyond the original framework of the Scrum Guide. Scrum Team working independently of other teams is an ideal scenario.

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eG Innovations

JUNE 21, 2022

To support this initiative, we offer flexible licensing options that meet the needs of clients regardless of the solution they choose to employ. However, poor ISV (Independent Software Vendors) licensing options are often a blocker to adopting circularity. Circular IT and Zero Waste Strategies are vital goals for eG Innovations.

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The Product Coalition

JANUARY 26, 2024

In the perfect world, there is time not just to talk to people but to observe them, immerse in their lives, and co-design solutions with them. The real world has limited resources, unrealistic deadlines, and new teams that have not been able to do research at all. How well is the solution doing in all of those categories?

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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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The Product Coalition

OCTOBER 8, 2019

TL; DR: Faking Agile Metrics?—?An An Eye-Opening Exercise Imagine you’re a Scrum Master and the line manager of your team believes that the best sign for a successful agile transformation is a steady increase in the Scrum Team’s velocity. Cooking the Agile Books?—?A Velocity?—?the in my experience?—?delivers

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The Product Coalition

MARCH 29, 2021

TL; DR: Product Backlog Defense Make no mistake: Your Product Backlog is the last line of defense preventing your Scrum Team from becoming a feature factory; hence Product Backlog defense is vital: Figure out a process that creates value for your customers. Moreover, have the courage?—?and and the discipline?—?to to defend it at all costs. ??

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Mironov Consulting

JULY 28, 2022

Apologizing in advance: I’m intentionally exaggerating the differences between two broad corporate groups: wildly oversimplified roles and attitudes and reward systems.  Each Especially in B2B/enterprise software companies, I see two dramatically divergent ( incompatible ) worldviews that IMO explain a lot of corporate behavior.

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The Product Coalition

APRIL 26, 2021

TL; DR: Data-Informed Retrospectives In their book Agile Retrospectives , Esther Derby and Diana Larsen popularized the idea that a Sprint Retrospect comprises five stages. The second stage refers to gathering data so that the Scrum Team can have data-informed Retrospectives. Shall I notify you about articles like this one?

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The Product Coalition

APRIL 14, 2020

Remote Agile (Part 5): Retrospectives with Distributed Teams TL; DR: A Remote Retrospective with a Distributed Team We started this series on remote agile with looking into practices and tools, followed by exploring virtual Liberating Structures, how to master Zoom as well as common remote agile anti-patterns.

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The Product Coalition

SEPTEMBER 14, 2020

That was the key question I posed in my Agile Cincinnati keynote recently. It thwarts organizations efforts to scale agile product development. Everyone in your product development ecosystem should have a shared, consistent, and coherent answer to the fundamental question, “What is your product?”

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The Product HQ

FEBRUARY 1, 2023

They work with leaders and their own teams across organizations. If defining project scopes, reviewing solutions, and generating reports interest you, this is the perfect career. As a technical program manager, you communicate with product managers, leadership teams, and external vendors.

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PMLesson's Ace the PM Interview

APRIL 4, 2022

Connecting with the right software engineering recruiter to help you land your next job is invaluable. It's common practice for companies to use recruiters (either contractors or in-house) to help them keep up with industry trends and find qualified software developers. However, job recruiters have a bit of a bad rap.

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The Product Coalition

JUNE 25, 2018

Agile is an awesome approach when done right, but is your team making these common mistakes? Most people will agree that the adoption of agile is now mainstream. This adoption is rightfully so, as agile can be an excellent framework for building software. The longer a team goes without validating (ie.

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ProductPlan

MAY 22, 2020

It’s not necessarily bad when product management adapts to each company’s specific needs. Below is the discussion Melissa Perri had with John Cutler and Jim Semick on why teams that are scaling need product ops. Processes & Practices: The more product teams grow and multiply, the less homogenous they get.

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