The Product Coalition

DECEMBER 31, 2023

As you might have noticed from reading this blog, I share many stories related to my personal relationships as a means to talk about product leadership. Often it’s because so much of product leadership is about relationships. Identifying Bottlenecks I write here a lot about the pirates’ metrics framework.

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Bain Public

JANUARY 21, 2020

In collaboration with Notman House and chosen from a list of 13 startups, starting January 2020, we will be providing our Product Capability Building Program for Pre-Seed Founders, pro bono to LUCA Theory, a rising Montreal startup. The standout component is our one-on-one time with the startup founders. Who is LUCA Theory?

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Usersnap

SEPTEMBER 29, 2022

In this article, you’ll evaluate different SaaS growth models. To effectively understand the growth rates for your SaaS company, the Pirate Flywheel Metrics (also known as the AAARRR framework, yes we at Usersnap employ it with an extra “A”. Here are the five essential steps for any SaaS company seeking market leadership.

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Bain Public

JUNE 4, 2020

As business advisors and executive coaches, we've worked with dozens of CEOs to help them build and grow their product leadership team as they scale their company. What we’ve noticed instead in the startup world, is a lot of people become product managers by default rather than design. What Is Product Management Consulting?

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People-First Product Leadership

APRIL 5, 2024

I recommend taking any career competencies framework as the starting point. If you’re a leader reading this article, remember part of your role is to help set up your team for advancement as well - whether it be to the next level or to a new opportunity. Plus here are two articles which introduce alternative viewpoints.

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Userpilot

DECEMBER 12, 2023

Look no further as this is exactly what this article covers! Having identified the problems, use a framework like RICE or ICE to prioritize those that will make the biggest impact on user experience when solved. Unfortunately, that’s not how many startup teams work. The Value vs. Effort Framework.

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Mind the Product

FEBRUARY 12, 2019

Building products for big corporates, small startups and scale-ups. What I have seen, is that both startups and big corporates have issues in understanding how to be more product-led without the right mindset and framework. In 2015, Martin Eriksson wrote an article about the history of product management. The Hypothesis.

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Bain Public

DECEMBER 9, 2021

We’re proud to say that we’ve given over 1000 hours of pro bono work since 2018 for young up and coming startups and entrepreneurs; we take corporate responsibility very seriously. As a business, we want to achieve success in ways that honour our ethical values as well as respect startups and accelerator communities.

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Bain Public

JANUARY 11, 2022

Let’s face it, most organizations have poor habits around roadmap completion — this is why getting leadership (or stakeholders) to develop consistent, stable and familiar routines reinforced through repetition and communication is valuable. Saying no isn’t always easy, but it plays a big part in contributing to a healthy product culture.

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Bain Public

MARCH 10, 2022

In this episode, Paul talks about product innovation and teaches our SOAP framework : what is, how to use, and the reasons to use it. Paul talks about: Standardization of PM’s: SOAP Feasibility in Start-Ups Steps of 12 Week Program Business Cases Change in Leadership’s Mindset Most Challenging Weeks MVPs. Podcast Information.

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Mind the Product

JANUARY 16, 2020

Product roles are becoming increasingly important in many companies, from the unicorn startups to older more established firms. Today, product might seem like a new field because of the growth of technology startups and the prevalence of lean and agile frameworks, but product roles have been around for a few decades.

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Userpilot

AUGUST 29, 2023

In this article, we’re going to unpack what is product management , how it differs from traditional project management, the role it plays in building products that delight your users, and the skills a good product manager must demonstrate to succeed. In a small startup, a product manager might oversee everything.

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Bain Public

DECEMBER 2, 2020

SOAP™ is a methodology that we developed for product planning and roadmap prioritization based on Product Strategy, Lean Startup, User-centered design, Data Science and more. Leadership in Product, Connect & Explore Workshop for Teams. Applies to Canadian Pre-Seed Startups. Curious to know more? All prices are in CAD.

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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. Without thoughtful leadership around them, it may not be in product manager’s gift to achieve a “good” roadmap. But there has been surprisingly little written about a product leader’s role in the process.

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Bain Public

AUGUST 22, 2022

Client Contribution & Handling Manage the development of high-quality client deliverables, playing a key role in deploying SOAP TM framework to deliver client product roadmaps. We help middle market companies and scrappy startups create new value with design- and technology-based products and strategies.

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The Review by First Round

MARCH 18, 2021

After starting out in the Marine Corps, Russ made his way into the world of startups, joining Google in 2005 where he led teams for 7 years and was recognized as one of the company’s best managers. In today’s conversation, we dig into how startups can drive employee engagement and develop high-quality managers.

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The Review by First Round

DECEMBER 22, 2020

In today’s conversation, Dave gives us an inside look at how the business was built and what other startups can learn from its early days. We also dive into his “management by exception” philosophy, what he learned from Google, how he runs his leadership team, and why he leans on references, not interviews, when hiring execs.

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The Product Coalition

MAY 15, 2019

The agile manifesto turned eighteen this year, the Scrum framework is even older?—?have Scrum came about even earlier than the agile manifesto almost a whole decade to be exact (although you can traces origins earlier back to 1986 with the article The New New Product Development Game ). are they one role, two roles?

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Bain Public

DECEMBER 14, 2021

Its host, Michael Luchen, explores how to do product management the best in terms of product strategy and vision, product development frameworks, customer research, and startups. You can listen to Paul Ortchanian, CEO and Founder of Bain Public, speak about product leadership teams here ›. Article written by Jessica Scandaliato.

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The Product Coalition

JULY 21, 2020

Product Managers are a multidisciplinary bunch, with interests and specialities ranging from leadership to design, tech to marketing. Product Coalition This Medium publication features articles from a wide variety of product professionals, giving you an unbiased 360 view of the product world today. Highlight: Embracing the Unknown 8.

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Bain Public

JANUARY 24, 2022

Client Contribution & Handling Manage the development of high-quality client deliverables, playing a key role in deploying SOAP TM framework to deliver client product roadmaps. We help middle market companies and scrappy startups create new value with design- and technology-based products and strategies.

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Bain Public

JANUARY 24, 2022

Client Contribution & Handling Manage the development of high-quality client deliverables, playing a key role in deploying SOAPTM framework to deliver client product roadmaps. We help middle market companies and scrappy startups create new value with design- and technology-based products and strategies.

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Bain Public

JANUARY 24, 2022

Client Contribution & Handling Manage the development of high-quality client deliverables, playing a key role in deploying SOAPTM framework to deliver client product roadmaps. We help middle market companies and scrappy startups create new value with design- and technology-based products and strategies.

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Userpilot

JULY 17, 2023

This is the main question we discuss in this article, so if you’re after the answer, you’re in the right place! Enterprise companies with multiple or complex products tend to have larger product teams made up of specialists, while startups often have to cope with smaller structures where members perform numerous roles.

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Bain Public

DECEMBER 14, 2021

The authors identify the forces that cause managers to make bad decisions as they package and shape new ideas—and offer new frameworks to help create the right conditions, at the right time, for a disruption to succeed. Article written by Jessica Scandaliato. Rather than fighting over scraps of the pie, we can expand the pie instead.

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The Basics of Product Management

APRIL 27, 2020

This may be a common practice in startups, but it is practically unheard of in large, traditional corporates. This is also a good time to get familiar with the OKR Framework. Given the current uncertainties with COVID-19 or Coronavirus, product management becomes difficult. How do you continue to be an effective Product Manager?

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Bain Public

MARCH 21, 2020

Montreal is rife with burgeoning startups and midsized tech firms. A few years ago, after an 8-year stint working as a product manager for startups in Silicon Valley, Paul realized something about the tech organization ecosystem in his hometown of Montreal: many of them had poor product culture. Transitionary Leadership.

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Intercom, Inc.

FEBRUARY 26, 2018

Innovative startups. The first army are innovative startups. Frameworks like Ruby on Rails, Node, Angular, Ember, React etc. In 1963 Peter Drucker published his article, Managing for Business Effectiveness , where he said: “There is surely nothing quite so useless as doing with great efficiency what should not be done at all.”.

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Bryce York

SEPTEMBER 19, 2023

When approaching a project, whether a hackathon, feature, or a whole new startup, it’s important to start with your riskiest assumptions and go from there. The tutorial covered exactly what I needed but used the ‘wrong’ framework. in 3 Days appeared first on Bryce York - Startup Product Leader. Thanks for reading!

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PMLesson's Ace the PM Interview

DECEMBER 3, 2020

In 2017, a friend intro’d me to a tiny startup called Indigo Fair. Final round: 3 sets of 45-minute interviews with PMs Same interview format as previous round, with an additional one on leadership & drive to see how you lead and work with others. Here’s an article I wrote about how to handle metric-related questions.

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Bain Public

FEBRUARY 23, 2021

define key metrics, decision-making framework ) User experience strategy (e.g. Leadership in Product, Connect & Explore Workshop for Teams : Our virtual workshop provides actionable strategies, tools, processes, and skills product leaders need to create innovations, adapt to market shifts, and anticipate what’s next. Book your slot ?.

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The Product Coalition

JANUARY 19, 2021

There was not a particular framework that made the difference; it was their willingness to find the best approach for their organisation and workers. In your current company’s framework, do you have enough ways to reward your people and recognise their work? Reward, Recognition and… Firing I’ve always felt that hiring is easy.

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Product Innovation Educators

SEPTEMBER 2, 2016

Each week I scour articles, wading through the dogs, and bringing you the best insights to help product managers, developers, and innovators be heroes. Using the “jobs-to-be-done” framework for better products. create a path to executive leadership. Read this article to learn the 7 actions they (and you) need to take: [link].

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Usersnap

NOVEMBER 10, 2023

In his book “Start with Why” , Simon Sinek boldly claims that the ‘Why’ behind your actions matters more than the ‘What’ This principle isn’t limited to leadership or personal motivation; it extends to every facet of the business, including product roadmaps. So how to create and present roadmaps effectively?

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The Product Coalition

FEBRUARY 15, 2021

TL; DR: How to Make Agile Work in Fast-Growing Startups For years, I worked in several Berlin-based, fast-growing startups in my capacity as Scrum Master, agile coach, and Product Owner. including Scrum as a framework?—?work work in a fast-growing startup. Shall I notify you about articles like this one?

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The Product Coalition

JANUARY 10, 2021

When I go to leadership meetings to talk about the product, I’m occasionally asked how long things are taking, or what is stopping us shipping X by Y date, or what is preventing us from reaching a key OKR by the end of the year? In bigger organisations the level of operational complexity is usually worse than a newly formed startup.

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DISQO

MARCH 28, 2019

According to an article in Harvard Business Review, a study of 57 reorgs found that fewer than one-third produced any meaningful improvement in performance: “Most had no effect, and some actually destroyed value.” The one thing that reorganizations have going for them is that they are definitionally supported by company leadership.

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