The Product Coalition

MAY 27, 2021

The Most Common Product Management Interview Questions What do you see as a Product Manager’s main role within product development? How do you see your career developing in the next 5 years? What are your main strengths and weaknesses? What do you see as a Product Manager’s main role within product development?

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Userpilot

JANUARY 16, 2024

Perform a SWOT analysis, identify the strengths and weaknesses of your top competing products, etc. Idea creation : Use ChatGPT to generate new feature ideas , campaigns, blog post topics, product differentiation ideas, and more. You can also use it to craft engaging blog posts, write simplified product documentation, etc.

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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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Userpilot

APRIL 29, 2021

The Build Trap leads to spending more and more of your development resources on building and maintaining new features, rather than improving UX and feature adoption. This can make your product and team slower, make your UX more complicated, and overall – add little value for your customers. This can obviously backfire badly.

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UX Studio

SEPTEMBER 10, 2019

In this post we created a guide on the steps to take in developing your brand strategy. How to develop your brand strategy? This happens either because they don’t know how to start the process or keep the information updated and shared across their teams. They establish what you stand for as a team. Get specific!

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Usersnap

MARCH 19, 2019

Should the Voice of Customer influence product development? In Frost & Sullivan’s survey research on R&D/innovation and product development priorities, 84% of the respondents declare that they employ the voice of customers (VoC) in their product development cycle. Do you consider customer feedback?

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Userpilot

SEPTEMBER 12, 2022

It may be reading articles on your blog, engaging with ads, leaving reviews, contacting the support team, and so on. Consumer touchpoints help to evaluate the degree of customer satisfaction and timely spot friction points (product bugs, lousy customer experience, poor UX, etc.). Why are customer touchpoints important?

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Product Management Unpacked

APRIL 3, 2020

Stereotypes about what kind of work can or cannot be done remotely lead to unrealistic expectations and underperforming programs. The job of a product manager has many elements, but at its core is a responsibility to build relationships, especially with development, engineering, sales and sales leadership, as well as executive management.

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Lenny Rachitsky

APRIL 2, 2024

In the past five years, Sean’s team has grown Duolingo’s daily active users from 5 million to nearly 30 million today (over 6x!), Including development time, experiment rollout, and running the experiment for two weeks to get data, they ended up launching the port of Feature A 82 days later.

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Userpilot

NOVEMBER 12, 2023

Customer intent helps product teams understand customer needs and build solutions that delight users. Benefits of understanding customer intent Identifying the spoken and unspoken intent behind every interaction will position you to better service customers, improve their experience , and increase stickiness.

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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

AUGUST 29, 2019

The first type of partial product manager is a holdover from waterfall days when product design entailed a sequential process of researching, then documenting, then passing along requirements for development. The company often has unexpectedly low usage of newly developed products or features. Deal Chaser. Deal Chaser. Super Support.

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Userpilot

JULY 27, 2023

They also manage finances and supervise one or more engineering teams. Product Marketing Manager: This person is tasked with developing product marketing campaigns , crafting compelling marketing messages, and coming up with ideas to retain customers. A higher revenue growth rate generally indicates positive business performance.

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Userpilot

JANUARY 31, 2023

The main factors contributing to at-risk customers include poor onboarding process , lack of product value perception, lousy customer support, unfixed bugs, and no learning materials, resource center, and FAQs. When your customers are happy and satisfied, you can see a noticeable positive impact on overall customer success.

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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

MARCH 14, 2019

This is exceptionally strange because a bad PM can theoretically cause more damage than a great PM can produce success. This is because these negative qualities not only affect the success of a project but also adversely impact the work of other team members and departments. saying no is critical for ensuring productivity.

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Userpilot

MARCH 8, 2022

User behavior analytics helps you flag underperforming features and modify onboarding experiences to improve feature discovery. 51% of users won’t return to a company if they’ve had bad experiences with it. This will help you find areas of poor user experience. What is user analytics in SaaS?

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Userpilot

OCTOBER 6, 2022

Product teams collect and measure such customers’ activities to understand and act on customers’ behavior patterns. Moreover, consumer behavior analysis helps to identify positive behavioral trends and enhance in-app experiences. Poor customer service — leads to negative word-of-mouth, dissatisfaction, and churn.

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Userpilot

JANUARY 29, 2023

Developing features without validation results in bloated products and unnecessarily drives the cost of development up. Product teams should invest in validation when developing the MVP. If your users respond well to them, you can iterate on them and develop them incrementally.

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Userpilot

APRIL 7, 2023

When your product is catering to other businesses, it can be difficult for sales reps and other teams to understand the needs and experiences of the clients, especially if the client company sells multiple products. However, customer insights can help your teams understand all aspects of your B2B partners. An example is shown below.

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Userpilot

JUNE 20, 2023

TL;DR Product idea validation is a process during which product teams test and tweak the product concept to ensure it satisfies a real market need. Apart from testing the demand for the product, idea validation helps teams assess if they have the necessary expertise and resources to build the product. Let’s get straight into it!

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Userpilot

OCTOBER 25, 2022

Product differentiation and positioning are important aspects of strategic product management because they allow you to build a product that meets the needs of the right customers in the right market and stand out from the crowd. They tell the product management team what they need to achieve. What is strategic product management?

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The Product Guy

AUGUST 13, 2020

A lot of them worked in other positions before moving to product management, like engineers, analysts, marketers and project managers, and learned by taking on extra responsibilities. Now there are more and more resources, like blogs, books, online courses and even training programs for Product Management.

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The Product Coalition

JUNE 13, 2019

Sure, there are some junior positions out there that can be reached with a few months’ experience and a prestigious certification. However, most of the time professionals who undertake the transition aim to build the following story with their resume: their gradual acquisition of product skills across different positions and functions.

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The Product Coalition

SEPTEMBER 29, 2020

As a Product Manager, you’re a team player who guides product development along its chartered course, but you have to do that without being the literal captain of the ship. Influence without authority is the skill of driving product development and ‘telling people what to do’ without formally being authorized to do so.

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Gainsight

OCTOBER 19, 2018

Data science has found itself in the same position as plastic. developer acumen to deliver them. This critical overlay of business, statistics, and development drive data science’s universal applicability and market value. But, this can be challenging if your company lacks strong internal alignment across teams.

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Userpilot

APRIL 25, 2022

Function friction is primarily about users being blocked from reaching their product goals because of an error, poor UX, or other factors. Not all friction is bad. Friction logs can be created by the whole team. Positive vs negative friction. Not all friction is bad. Share information across multiple teams.

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Bain Public

MARCH 14, 2022

But unfortunately, in many companies, the product leadership team can perpetuate a negative culture — setting up product managers to fail. In essence, the product leadership team are those with influence on the product roadmap. Building and nurturing strong, cross-functional, co-located, empowered product teams.

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The Product Coalition

FEBRUARY 5, 2021

An unconventional view of what it takes to be a Product Leader Photo by Porapak Apichodilok from Pexels *Note: this is a revised and updated version of a guest blog I did for Department of Product, titled: ‘Unconventional advice for transitioning to Head of Product’ ?—?check is to either be more strategic or to develop more as a leader.

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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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Intercom, Inc.

APRIL 22, 2021

If you’re a senior engineer and want to further your career, what skills should you develop? Moving forward in your career, avoid the trap of doing work that feels high-impact, but it’s actually not , or work that makes you look good at the expense of the project and the team. How do people move into staff engineering roles?

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The Accidental Product Manager

AUGUST 21, 2023

The life sciences company had developed what they thought might be a cure for the dreaded Alzheimer’s disease. The Problem With A Blockbuster Drug So let’s all agree on one thing: it can take a very long time to develop a new drug. How Did The Mistake Happen So what happened during the development of this new drug?

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Userpilot

FEBRUARY 26, 2023

Startups use these surveys in the early stages of product development to measure the degree to which a product satisfies market demand. Add a picture of your team member to humanize it! In other words – NPS surveys enable you to identify and close the loop with dissatisfied customers , turning poor experiences into great ones.

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Amplitude

MAY 1, 2017

Out of thousands of different mental models, some apply uniquely well to helping teams building great products. Mental models you need for product development: 1. The causal loop model is a way of understanding the links between things by identifying positive and negative correlations. Causal loops. Jobs to be done.

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Userpilot

JANUARY 8, 2021

Before we get into what is considered a good NPS score, we have some good news and some bad news. The good news: having a positive NPS score (0-30) means you are on the right track. What Is Considered Good NPS Score, and What Is a Bad NPS Score? What is Considered a Good NPS score, and What Is a Bad NPS Score?

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PMLesson's Ace the PM Interview

DECEMBER 3, 2020

It’s been a wild adventure, so I wanted to share the end-to-end experience with you: how I prepared, mistakes I made, my hard-ball negotiation, the secrets behind compensation, and how my blog boosted Instagram’s interest. It took a week, but the feedback came back overwhelmingly positive. Three rounds total.

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Userpilot

OCTOBER 21, 2022

Minimum viable features are the set of product characteristics that you need to develop to satisfy a user's need. The development of the MVP and MVE should happen at the same time. Developing one is not possible without the other. This allows you to validate the idea and collect user feedback to inform future development.

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