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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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. Having a clear framework helped me develop an ok answer. Suddenly, I could see myself joining the team.

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The Product Coalition

OCTOBER 8, 2019

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. Moreover, if the team fails to deliver on that metric something is wrong with the Scrum Team.

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Mind the Product

SEPTEMBER 1, 2017

And while blogs, talks, and books can help us to pick up hard skills, it’s not a great way to learn soft skills – which are often, ironically, harder to learn. “I’ve spotted a trend: a bad roadmap is a symptom of underlying issues in the company. Rebooting teams. Roadmaps are stories.

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PMLesson's Ace the PM Interview

JANUARY 16, 2019

Despite my initial concerns about working on ads, I found that AdWords was a spectacular team to work on, mainly because it had great people. You also need to work on minimizing your weaknesses. In my own personal case, I was naturally very strong on product sense and extremely weak on execution. to an AdWords PM at Google.

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PMLesson's Ace the PM Interview

MARCH 1, 2020

In this Path to PM blog post, Kevin shares his journey breaking into a product role as a new grad hire at IBM. Hi I'm Kevin Wei, a product manager (aka an offering manager -- I can get into that in a bit) on IBM's data + AI team. If the recruiters deem you to be a good fit, you'll receive a digital video exercise.

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The Product Coalition

NOVEMBER 25, 2019

The Scrum Master encourages the Scrum Team to improve, within the Scrum process framework, its development process and practices to make it more effective and enjoyable for the next Sprint. By the end of the Sprint Retrospective, the Scrum Team should have identified improvements that it will implement in the next Sprint.

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Intercom, Inc.

OCTOBER 5, 2022

Each person on your team has different needs, responds to feedback in different ways and evolves in different trajectories – and management should always reflect that. Even when you reach the perfect team dynamic – a new hire or budget cut can easily throw things off balance. Meeting your team.

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The Product Coalition

JULY 24, 2020

Up until this point in the blog series, the focus has been all about establishing the framework. Identifying and answering the most important questions Launching a socially responsible investing product was something the Nutmeg team wanted to do for a long time. Additional information is never a bad thing at this point.

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Department of Product

OCTOBER 23, 2022

Product Principles – Examples for Product Managers Make decision making easier with inspiration from top product companies Product principles are used by product teams to help guide decision making. Principles can help guide both strategic decisions and tactical decisions.

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Intercom, Inc.

DECEMBER 19, 2018

Intercom, the product, continued to develop at a fast pace with hundreds of new features big and small – from an entirely reimagined Messenger to a thriving Intercom App Store to next generation chatbots, Custom Bots and Answer Bot. The best of the blog. Significant digits: 240 blog posts, 18 videos. Eoghan McCabe, CEO. “We

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Mind the Product

MAY 25, 2018

In 2012, when I was working as part of the JustGiving team responsible for innovative products and disruptive business models, we decided to test how people could raise money for non-charitable good causes. Initially we worked with a team from ThoughtWorks for 12 weeks. Initially we worked with a team from ThoughtWorks for 12 weeks.

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Bain Public

DECEMBER 8, 2020

As a product manager, you have to define product management for yourself and develop a plan with which you’ll take ownership of a portion of your company's growth. Are you encouraging cooperative communication within the team? It helps set expectations within your team and organization. Unwind With Exercise.

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Mind the Product

APRIL 24, 2018

Setapp provides Mac users with a way to use and discover new apps, and developers with a new way to reach customers and generate extra revenue. We didn’t know know if our sales predictions were good or bad. Problems with Customer Development. Early numbers indicated that our growth predictions were very wrong.

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The Product Coalition

APRIL 26, 2021

The second stage refers to gathering data so that the Scrum Team can have data-informed Retrospectives. As I have observed in practice, many Scrum Teams either limit the data gathering part of the Retrospective, thus lacking vital information. The Scrum Team identifies the most helpful changes to improve its effectiveness.

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Product Management 2.0

OCTOBER 31, 2016

Getting a product management team up to speed is a big commitment and investment. Furthermore, if team members don’t get to put that new information into practice, they will struggle to retain even that small fraction. This isn’t the fault of the product managers or team leaders. What does success look like for the team?

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Atomic Spin PM

JANUARY 22, 2019

The “Hopes and Fears” Design Thinking exercise is a great way to foster discussion around our client’s worries and hopes about the project, especially early on in the process. For a recent project, I was researching ways to get more actionable output from the exercise. How bad would it be if this fear were realized?

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Atomic Spin PM

JANUARY 22, 2019

The “Hopes and Fears” Design Thinking exercise is a great way to foster discussion around our client’s worries and hopes about the project, especially early on in the process. For a recent project, I was researching ways to get more actionable output from the exercise. How bad would it be if this fear were realized?

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The Product Coalition

NOVEMBER 12, 2019

Answering this question in a collaborative effort of the Scrum Team as well as internal (and external) stakeholders is the purpose of the Sprint Review. The Development Team, the Product Owner, and the stakeholders need to figure out whether they are still on track delivering value to customers. An alignment?—?did

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Amplitude

OCTOBER 4, 2017

And what about the product team?? They were using the same manufacturing techniques that Henry Ford created at the beginning of the 20th century: waterfall “assembly line” development cycles packaged up onto physical disks. And the marketing team? Yes, they sell exercise equipment, but what they really sell is an experience.

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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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PMLesson's Ace the PM Interview

MARCH 2, 2022

If you're applying as a Google product manager , this means you'll need product management experience with leading user research, implementing features, and working with software teams to build deliverables. " At Google, you'll typically be working in cross-functional teams. What are your strengths and weaknesses?

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Userpilot

JULY 9, 2021

Continuous Discovery Habits by Teresa Torres teaches you how to set up a continuous discovery system within your organization with actionable exercises. Product Mastery by Geoff Watts teaches you how to be a successful product owner within agile software development practices with the use of case studies. out of 5 stars. Where to buy?

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Sequent Learning

NOVEMBER 12, 2018

How can they develop more innovative products and services? Regardless of industry, product managers navigate similar obstacles as they work towards common objectives with their cross-functional teams. It offers practical tips for guiding cross-functional teams as they: Cultivate market insights.

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The Product Coalition

MARCH 15, 2020

In product development, necessary actions and emergent information is rarely obvious or clear, which is why we need inductive reasoning. Do this often to reorient teams where and when necessary. Only product teams should get objectives (not individual managers across functions).

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Modus Create

APRIL 5, 2021

Now Elon Musk is trying to create a greener Earth and take civilization to Mars, while I’m writing this blog post in my college living room listening to the Beatles. Joining the Modus Create Team. In other words, making big decisions and not knowing how technology works is bad for business.

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The Product Coalition

OCTOBER 29, 2018

I’m also constantly up-to-date on the newest and hottest tech companies via tech blogs and influencers. I don’t recommend these because I’ve had bad experiences with some boutique firms. People and Culture A company’s home page and Crunchbase are quick references to find out who is on the board and executive team. AngelList ?—?AKA

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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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The Product Coalition

MARCH 11, 2019

But luckily for you, I read a ton of leadership books and decided to blog about how they apply to PMs. This acronym popped up a while back in Organization Development circles and when I heard it the first time I thought… uh yeah, that’s all high-tech. Any mistake made by the team is the fault of the leader. Usability is bad.

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Andrew Chen

OCTOBER 31, 2016

Growth is an emerging field, and there’s hardly a playbook on how to ace your growth interview (whichever side of the table you’re on), and yet hiring and team could be the most important “growth hack” of all. A lot of people try to understand a candidate’s weaknesses, but Elena Verna wants to know your superpower.

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Amplitude

NOVEMBER 12, 2018

Whether they are the principles of behavior science, experiment design, or team function, I believe what’s going on can be observed, understood, tested, and taught. ”I When you are advising teams, how do you make sure they don’t go too far down the rabbit hole? In the explore phase, teams are usually looking to get wider samples.

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Obo

JANUARY 17, 2019

In this blog, we are using the term “features” broadly – they could be called epics, capabilities, initiatives, projects, etc. depending on your development approach. This exercise is typically done collaboratively, with senior-level approval. Ideally, those scores help you prioritize the best features to work on.

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Intercom, Inc.

OCTOBER 1, 2020

Getting this right allows your teams to work in lockstep together. Today we’re going to talk about the wonderful work of fiction that every product team has known as the roadmap. And I remember when we came in, we’d raised the Series A, or you guys raised the Series A and I inherited the success of that, we started hiring teams.

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Intercom, Inc.

OCTOBER 1, 2020

Getting this right allows your teams to work in lockstep together. Today we’re going to talk about the wonderful work of fiction that every product team has known as the roadmap. And I remember when we came in, we’d raised the Series A, or you guys raised the Series A and I inherited the success of that, we started hiring teams.

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The Product Coalition

SEPTEMBER 21, 2018

Cem is the Senior Product Manager for Duolingo’s Monetization and Growth teams. Let’s read Cem’s interesting take on things… Hannah: In short, describe your role/responsibilities as a Senior Product Manager for Duolingo’s Monetization and Growth teams. Today, we are shining the spotlight on a particular Duolingo trailblazer: Cem Kansu.

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Intercom, Inc.

JULY 26, 2018

Remarkably, the team stuck around with few exceptions. About five years ago, I had a couple other SaaS products in the survey space, and at the time getting things related to SaaS metrics was an exercise in futility with lots of Excel spreadsheets or hacking to get these little internal tools. This is a bad situation.”

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Roadmunk

NOVEMBER 23, 2017

He’s been a part of Square’s product team since 2015 when Fastbite, the company he co-founded, was acquired. So, he decided to get them all together to come up with a singular definition of what it means to be part of their product team. It’s not a bad thing. And they created what Aman calls a PM culture guide.

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