The Product Coalition

DECEMBER 21, 2021

Unfortunately internal promotion isn’t always positive A quick disclaimer: I’m a huge advocate of career development and internal promotion. What are the experienced chefs doing, and how does the kitchen work as a team? Key considerations to build product capability within an organisational include: What is the team topology?

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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. Chances are, it might have been because the team wasn’t using the hypothesis-driven approach correctly. But with so many potential ideas to pursue, how do you know which ones are worth pursuing?

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The Product Coalition

MARCH 14, 2019

There are thousands of articles, books , videos , and conferences that discuss the traits necessary for you to become the greatest Product Manager ever. This is exceptionally strange because a bad PM can theoretically cause more damage than a great PM can produce success. saying no is critical for ensuring productivity.

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Johanna Rothman

OCTOBER 10, 2023

When I saw the McKinsey report on “developer productivity,” I shuddered. First, that makes no sense in a collaborative team. Second, there's no way to measure such a thing as developer productivity, despite what McKinsey says. I'm not linking to the report, because the advice is so bad.) Email newsletters.

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Business of Software Conference

DECEMBER 14, 2023

Cohen starts his presentation by telling a story about how he started blogging in 2009. As a coder and self-professed geek, he knew he didn’t have a great handle on blogging best practices. So, I decided, screw blogging. What does it mean that we have opposite rules, and yet we’re both [the blogging platforms and me] correct?

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The Product Coalition

DECEMBER 19, 2019

Three metrics of customer experience management Customer experience management: course of action How to develop a customer experience management strategy: the best practices Dividing your customers and conquering their emotions may sound like a sinister plan for world domination, but it isn’t. whose area of responsibility is that?

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Userpilot

JANUARY 8, 2024

Host product webinars to reach your target audience Develop webinar content that educates your audience on industry trends, common challenges, and how your product addresses these issues. For instance, use educational blog posts for awareness, case studies for consideration, and product demos for decision-making.

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Mind the Product

MARCH 24, 2020

We’re running this episode again to remind everyone to take a moment, engage your team, and think through both how the decisions you make now can help and how they can be misused – and then take action to mitigate the latter. Ethical frameworks for product development. Roisi’s blog post about intrusive thoughts.

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Good Product Manager

APRIL 28, 2019

Many product teams – especially those working on software-as-a-service offerings – spend most of their time and energy enhancing existing products. Many product teams apply the term MVP incorrectly, leading to confusion and frustration from colleagues and customers, as well as missed opportunities.

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Centercode

DECEMBER 22, 2020

This year has forced us to grow and change many, many aspects of our lives, from how we work (#remote), to how we communicate with our team (“Can you guys see my screen?”), How to Decrease Beta Testing Costs by 40% (Blog). How Defined Processes Are Shaping Success in 2020 (Blog). Other Highlights. Engaging Testers.

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Good Product Manager

APRIL 28, 2019

Many product teams – especially those working on software-as-a-service offerings – spend most of their time and energy enhancing existing products. Many product teams apply the term MVP incorrectly, leading to confusion and frustration from colleagues and customers, as well as missed opportunities.

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Mind the Product

OCTOBER 10, 2019

In this blog we’ll share our own personal experiences, and consider how mental health problems such as imposter syndrome, anxiety, depression, or stress affect us as product people. Lisa Rogoff shares how to be a better listener to our team members and customers. Talk to your team about their whole selves. Make it Safe.

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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. They’re also a great communication tool between you and your designers/tech teams, and they help you understand what it is you’re building.

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Intercom, Inc.

APRIL 19, 2018

It means reducing choices amongst engineering teams and standardizing technology, so our team can spend as much time as possible delivering value to customers. The concept was the foundation for his popular talk and ultimately his classic, long-form blog post. Enter our philosophy of Run Less Software.

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Mind the Product

OCTOBER 1, 2019

It’s something I’ve said in the past on conference stages, webinars, podcasts, Twitter, and elsewhere. I even wrote about it in my Mind the Product blog post, Lean Strategies for Maturing Products. Except that a smart investor knows that they are investing in a great team. It’s there to help the team coordinate delivery.

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Mind the Product

DECEMBER 18, 2017

Also at this year’s San Francisco conference, my co-founder Janna Bastow shared some of the tricks and tactics she’s found useful to employ when dealing with people – using open questions, games, telling stories and more. Product roadmaps are an evergreen challenge, and featured heavily as a topic on the Mind the Product blog this year.

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Under 10 Consulting

JANUARY 7, 2020

Product and marketing teams seem to love surveys. Do they read blogs, attend conferences, subscribe to podcasts. These will help you develop your promotion plan). Discovery helps you learn about problems; validation helps ensure you understand the problems and have developed the right solution. Helps with pricing).

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Good Product Manager

SEPTEMBER 6, 2018

My blog post Product Management Trends and Predictions for 2019 summarizes five of the key trends that product management leaders should focus on to enable improvements in the product management function – and the growth and success of the company – during the coming year. ” Upcoming Product Management Events.

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Intercom, Inc.

JUNE 21, 2018

Whether you’re at an early-stage startup that’s just made its first sales hires, or part of a fast-moving sales team in a large organization, the key to success often comes down to efficiency. That means your focus should be on building the right customer profile and developing precise messaging to reach them. Short on time?

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Amplitude

NOVEMBER 4, 2020

We’ve all had times when we’ve read an article or blog post and wondered if the company uses its own solution to drive its success. Our tool is fundamental to every stage of our product development process. At Amplitude, we’re big believers in aligning product teams to a standard North Star Metric.

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UserVoice

JULY 31, 2017

You have a customer who has already bought, downloaded, or signed up for your product and is getting ready to use it for the first time; they haven’t formed any bad habits, but they haven’t formed any good ones either–if you want a real “in the wild” look at how customers approach your product here it is. Think about it for a minute.

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Sequent Learning

DECEMBER 17, 2021

It’s a word that isn’t commonly favored by the Product community because Transformation Programs rarely allow Product Teams to autonomously decide how they’ll achieve their mission. Organizations arbitrarily issue new role titles such as Product Owner, Agile coaches are bussed in, and teams are organized in “squads”.

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Intercom, Inc.

AUGUST 18, 2022

Sarah Dayan is a staff engineer at Algolia , a “Search-as-a-Service” platform that helps developers build index and search capabilities into their own platforms through an API, and the host of two tech podcasts: Developer Experience and Entre Devs. Today’s guest has been through just that. How are you going to get there?

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Good Product Manager

SEPTEMBER 6, 2018

My blog post Product Management Trends and Predictions for 2019 summarizes five of the key trends that product management leaders should focus on to enable improvements in the product management function – and the growth and success of the company – during the coming year. ” Upcoming Product Management Events.

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Mind the Product

NOVEMBER 16, 2016

Lean Startup Week is a conference for teams and leaders interested in applying a Lean Startup methodology to their product and Tristan helped to organise the Lean Unconference that kicked off the week’s activities. Tristan recently published a blog which discusses the idea of ” assumptions vs. hypotheses.” see more here ).

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Hutwork

MARCH 9, 2018

Magazine reports that most CEOs read at least a book a week, and this doesn’t include blogs, articles, podcasts, and videos they devour, too. The Power of the Elastic Product Team—Airbnb’s First PM on How to Build Your Own. Learn how Airbnb created an elastic product team that helped them get to where they are today.

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PMLesson's Ace the PM Interview

SEPTEMBER 24, 2019

Be sure to mention any volunteer work you’ve done, conferences you’ve attended, etc. that demonstrate you’re desire to be involved in the space and to keep abreast of developments in the space. Usually companies are looking for culture fit and how you might resolve conflict within a team. Be authentic. Get experience.

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Intercom, Inc.

MAY 3, 2018

Here are five quick takeaways: Instead of relying on word of mouth to permeate the team, write things down. If Rohini’s team is making changes to the UI or the front end, they can test quickly and easily, but because their core product is payments-based, much more rigor is required compared to your typical software product.

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Good Product Manager

APRIL 21, 2015

Don’t Prioritize Features Based on Development Cost. I’ve seen dozens, if not hundreds, of different ones, and nearly all of them have one thing in common – there’s some input for development cost. It’s fairly common for product managers to come up with their own spreadsheets or formulas to do this evaluation.

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Business of Software Conference

OCTOBER 3, 2019

Each year at the Business of Software Conference, attendees hear insights from some of the smartest people in software, all willing to share their expertise with the community. These videos from a new conference came out on a forum and they were amazing. Do you find all these sessions are applicable to you and your team?

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Business of Software Conference

OCTOBER 3, 2019

Each year at the Business of Software Conference, attendees hear insights from some of the smartest people in software, all willing to share their expertise with the community. These videos from a new conference came out on a forum and they were amazing. Do you find all these sessions are applicable to you and your team?

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Userpilot

OCTOBER 29, 2020

In a sense, this brings the Product Marketer a lot closer to the Product Team than a ‘regular marketer’- so we can say that the product marketer acts as a bridge between the product and the marketing team. Even though Natalia works as a part of the Marketing Team, she is very close to the Product Team.

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UX Studio: Product Management

JULY 5, 2021

As a client, you invest your time, energy, and limited resources into your digital product development. As a design agency that works with NYC companies , we have developed an effective remote collaboration process that helps us stay in touch with our partners despite time zone differences. Is there anything we can help you with?

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Gainsight

APRIL 15, 2019

Click here to read last year’s Pulse recap blog and scroll down to the bottom. So we’re weeks away from Pulse 2019, and guess where I’m drafting this blog post? And in our 20/20 strategy, we introduce a particular focus on the most important partner in driving enterprise-wide CS—Product teams. I’ll wait!

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PMLesson's Ace the PM Interview

SEPTEMBER 24, 2019

Be sure to mention any volunteer work you’ve done, conferences you’ve attended, etc. that demonstrate you’re desire to be involved in the space and to keep abreast of developments in the space. Usually companies are looking for culture fit and how you might resolve conflict within a team. Be authentic. Get experience.

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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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The Product Coalition

JANUARY 10, 2019

Team structure, work patterns, timing, tool deployment… They are holistic in the way they seek to address your overall operations. One of the ways this is done is by aligning development with user needs. What is more, how can we streamline the whole product development process along with product discovery, process, and growth?

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