The Product Coalition

FEBRUARY 24, 2023

Thousands of “day in the life” videos generate millions of views across various social platforms, most notably TikTok. I myself have been guilty of producing one on the aforementioned app, but there are several factors which I never called out : I chose a really busy day to make the video. Me at the Microsoft office in Bellevue, WA.

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Usersnap

JULY 16, 2021

Google’s tech alone didn’t build them into a top company; User Research matters too! Critical for their expansion, doing so also established current tech trends. Like Amazon and Yahoo, Google’s platforms dually sought to net casual users and facilitate the growing “web 2.0” Definitely not!

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Product Talk

NOVEMBER 17, 2021

It’s no wonder we end up with software that doesn’t work for our customers. When a product manager, a designer, and a software engineer work together to decide what to build and they engage directly with customers themselves, we avoid this game of telephone. Align around specific solutions by story mapping the possibilities.

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Mixpanel

APRIL 18, 2024

Further, most B2B tools are productivity-boosting tools, which means when you do launch a new feature, you don’t always want to try to drive adoption with what could be noisy in-product messaging or tours. Writing up the press release for your theoretical new feature can be a helpful exercise here. Who is it designed for?

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UX Studio

SEPTEMBER 20, 2018

In this case study, we show how we enhanced the user experience and gave solutions to reduce the churn rate for Xeropan. A gamified language learning application, Xeropan helps people learn English with fun exercises such as interactive videos, chatbot conversations and weekly lessons. People had accessibility issues using the app.

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Userpilot

SEPTEMBER 8, 2021

Product tours are an essential way to onboard users in your app. Yet, all too often, SaaS businesses see their customers not completing the product tour, or even churning during the onboarding stage. Using product tour software is a better decision. The best product tour software on the market is Userpilot.

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Usersnap

APRIL 12, 2019

Google’s tech alone didn’t build them into a top company, User Research matters too! Critical for their expansion, doing so also established current tech trends. Like Amazon and Yahoo, Google’s platforms dually sought to net casual users and facilitate the growing “web 2.0” Definitely not!

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The Product Coalition

SEPTEMBER 4, 2020

Example: App prototype, Video to test new offering, etc. You should also prepare an insight report on current solutions and competing products. Ideal team size is 6–8 people, which includes participants from Business, Sales & Marketing, Technology, Product and Design teams and any key leadership related to the product.

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Product Innovation Educators

JULY 17, 2023

Besides his best-selling books Winning at New Products and Portfolio Management for New Products , he has published more than 130 articles on R&D and innovation management. On the other hand, there are all kinds of new technologies like AI, biosciences, and new opportunities in the medical field. How do you estimate likelihoods?

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The Product Coalition

APRIL 22, 2021

On top of that, there are now huge volumes of research from academic circles, as well as popular journals like Harvard Business Review , INC.com , and Forbes ?—?all The people who have been through it, however painful, have given me positive feedback, so I share this with the world in the hope it helps others trying to hire great people.

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Roadmunk

SEPTEMBER 21, 2017

I’m constantly consuming articles on product management, product culture, startups and entrepreneurship to bolster my career as a product person and leader. This list is not the be all end all; there are countless ‘must-read’ articles for PMs. I’ve hand-picked articles that specifically helped me during key moments in my career.

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UX Planet

DECEMBER 11, 2023

Where would the world be without the lasting impact of Voice Tech Global? The goal of this post is to provide facts, links, pricings, and compiled feedback (when available) for the courses that are active today (or soon!), CDI Student Review(s): My friend Aliena Cai featured a review of CDI on her youtube channel last year.

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The Product Coalition

JULY 10, 2020

TL; DR: Agile Laws and Remote Agile On numerous occasions in the recent past, working with distributed agile teams has amplified existing organizational, technical, and cultural challenges in many organizations. Do you want to get this article in your inbox? You can sign up here and join 26k other subscribers.

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PMLesson's Ace the PM Interview

DECEMBER 1, 2021

Product management is one of the fastest-growing jobs in tech today, and that growth doesn't look to be slowing down anytime soon. At the end of the day, being a PM at a major tech company can be one of the most fascinating and fulfilling careers for many people. For this reason, product managers are often called "mini-CEOs."

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The Product Coalition

OCTOBER 2, 2019

Why Truly Multidisciplinary Teams Can Lead to Building Better Products Every discipline needs a seat at the table By Adam Talcott , Software Engineering Manager , YML Photo by Pascal Swier on Unsplash Imagine yourself as a software architect or tech lead, and a project manager brings you in to a new software project.

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Intercom, Inc.

JULY 11, 2019

Move away from this concept and toward the idea of a flywheel instead: feeding energy back into the system instead of success rates diminishing over time. That team, to me, has gotten a lot more interesting over the last three or four years because of that explosion of automation technology. Speak the customer’s language.

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People-First Product Leadership

OCTOBER 1, 2023

My career coach, Sabrina Braham, shared an article with me titled “ Majority Of Americans Would Rather Fire their Boss Than Get A Raise ” It’s from 2012, so I did what anyone would do, I asked ChatGPT if there were more recent figures. I provided the following guidance: Step 1 - Ask for feedback.

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Userpilot

JULY 9, 2023

If you’re a UX designer or product manager wondering how to deliver a better product in terms of usability and user experience, this is the article for you. Regularly collecting and analyzing customer feedback is essential for monitoring usability and identifying areas for improvement. In-app survey built in Userpilot.

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The Product Guy

JUNE 25, 2018

This article highlights a few ways to increase clarity and provide better role definition between a manager and a direct report as it pertains to daily situations involving escalations, blockers, and air cover. As you become more established and comfortable navigating in your position, consider trying out your solution to problems that arise.

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Userpilot

MARCH 3, 2022

This article will help you develop and finetune your product manager resume, present your skills in the most favorable light, win the attention of the hiring managers, get interviews, and ultimately land your dream job. Product managers with technical skills such as SQL or technical stack are in high demand, so highlight them in your resume.

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The Product Coalition

APRIL 2, 2022

This article is not intended to be a book review, but I used the skills described in this bestseller to link them with our day-to-day Product Management life. You can read more reviews and even buy the book with my affiliate link: [link] 1. Self-Regulation Managing one’s internal impulses and resources.

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The Product Coalition

DECEMBER 31, 2023

Here is a simple tool that will help you create clarity and lead to alignment and better decisions. Photo by Pixabay I recently led a product-market fit workshop at a known company in the Israeli tech industry. The tool I want to give you today is to force yourself to turn the shades of grey into black and white.

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PMLesson's Ace the PM Interview

APRIL 19, 2020

After working in consulting, many management consultants desire to exit into and work at a tech company. If you want to learn more about the consulting role vs the product role, read this article on the topic. Technical Skills While not always needed, technical skills are very much desired for most PM roles.

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PMLesson's Ace the PM Interview

APRIL 19, 2020

After working in consulting, many management consultants desire to exit into and work at a tech company. If you want to learn more about the consulting role vs the product role, read this article on the topic. Technical Skills While not always needed, technical skills are very much desired for most PM roles.

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Agile Velocity

MAY 20, 2020

The recent Harvard Business Review (HBR) article “ The Agile C-Suite ” 1 and Forbes article “Agile Isn’t New: What’s New Is The C-Suite Embracing It” have prompted some good discussion around the Agile Velocity virtual water cooler. . HBR article setup. Balance from the Top. that allow us to respond to change.

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Modus Create

APRIL 4, 2019

In the last article , we discussed how to work with “silent geniuses” — people who have great input, but don’t voice that input. In this part of the series, we’re talking about “swoop-and-poopers” — people who provide late round feedback that sends you back to the drawing board. A Cautionary Tale.

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The Product Coalition

JUNE 4, 2016

Spectacular & Dangerous Road on Earth- Tianmen Mountain Road, Zhangjiajie, China ( [link] ) When we talk about product management in tech, usually we don’t explicitly distinguish between B2C and B2B. In this article, I would like to share my understanding of B2B product management. Inside B2C / B2B, it can still be very different.

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The Product Coalition

FEBRUARY 22, 2021

If you take away nothing else from this article, then note this: if you think of Agile as just another method that project folks do, you’re missing a trick. If you think of it as a tool for embracing uncertainty , then you’re on the right track. And note that this applies to any project, software or not. the Why of Agile.

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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. Muting/unmuting is used?—?beyond

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The Product Coalition

JULY 24, 2020

Check out more insightful sketches by Jono Hey on sketchplanations.com This article is part of a wider guide on how to establish a product discovery framework in your organization. Any inaccuracies or misinterpretations are due to me. Up until this point in the blog series, the focus has been all about establishing the framework.

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Bain Public

MARCH 20, 2021

There are many peer-reviewed studies compiled by the Product Development and Management Association (PDMA) that illustrates about half of all product development projects fail; this failure rate is especially much higher in smaller and startup companies. Create the User Interface Design (UI) on top of reviewed and green-lit wireframes.

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The Product Coalition

JULY 28, 2020

Do you want to get this article in your inbox? Hence share everything, for example, from Retrospective exercises to information resources (newsletter, blog posts, etc.) All of my Professional Scrum training classes are now live virtual training classes with excellent feedback from the students. Download the ‘Agile Transition?

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The Product Coalition

AUGUST 7, 2020

If the app is the output, the outcome is the fleet of users (both drivers and passengers) which is essential to the business. A useful exercise in understanding the outcomes of a modern-day business, particularly in Silicon Valley, is to examine companies in this way. Spotify, as a music-streaming platform, doesn’t actually make music.

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The Product Coalition

AUGUST 29, 2019

Get everyone out of the office once a week for lunch, take a brainstorming session outside of the office, get some exercise. About Tech. Build in 30 minutes a day to read an article, a chapter in a book, a product teardown. Keep your ears and eyes open, and always encourage feedback and be genuine and respectful.

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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. This is because at surface level they may not seem as hard to answer as Google's technical interview questions. For starters, your first interview at Google will be a phone screen with a recruiter. Leadership.

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Surya Suravarapu

FEBRUARY 27, 2020

It is wanting more that pushes humanity to seek improvements, develop new technologies, and reach for a higher level." The users themselves, if they can, may build new solutions: the DIY types. More often than not, they can't build it by themselves due to various constraints and look to hire a product for the job.

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ProductPlan

JUNE 5, 2020

Now, we’ve evaluated top picks based on course content, reviews, communities/groups around the certifications, and industry recognition. The course covers basics like assessing target opportunities, building software products, and how to launch a great product. But how do you know which ones are worth your time and money?

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