The Product Coalition

JUNE 14, 2023

Transcendent leaders rise above self-interest and ego and focus on uplifting others and positively impacting the world. In his book “Man’s Search for Meaning,” Victor Frankl imparts deep wisdom as he reflects on his experiences in the Nazi concentration camps. This article is about my journey to help yours.

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Bain Public

DECEMBER 14, 2021

Here are our top 11 best books to read as a product manager: The Making of a Manager: What to Do When Everyone Looks to You by Julie Zhuo This handbook is about the perfect book for those new to the job and want to learn how to become the manager you’ve always wanted. What better way to do so than by reading!

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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

DECEMBER 8, 2019

Highly effective Product Managers develop themselves in 5 key areas. In some jobs, you can get by with just Competence, but in the unkempt, fuzzy, team-oriented domain of Product Management, you need both. Here are 2 actions you can take to develop your Craft Competence: Craft Competence ?? and others feel that.

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Roman Pichler

JUNE 1, 2020

The first one carries the risk of being a feature broker and offering a product that has a weak value proposition, gives rise to a poor user experience, and consists of a loose collection of features. But do not accept inappropriate behaviour and do not allow people to treat you like a project manager, team lead, or personal assistant.

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Imaginary Cloud - Design

JULY 2, 2020

As the Lead Designer at Imaginary Cloud , I conduct most of the interviews for design positions. While interviewing a design candidate, I frequently ask about their preferred books on the subject of UI/UX or product design. It is not that those books are bad. Those books were an important step forward. Why is that?

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Mind the Product

NOVEMBER 16, 2017

Here’s what we learned about product leadership. Developing Your own Team. Product leaders have many questions – and even more answers – about how best to develop and empower their teams. Your first task as a leader is to set the vision of the team and make sure that the team is set up to deliver it.

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The Product Coalition

OCTOBER 20, 2020

It’s understandable that most of us don’t make time for personal development. Who wants to spend time after a hard day of work learning and developing when they could be kicking back with a beer and watching The Crown? A few months ago, I introduced a concept I have developed called the PM, or Product, Quadrants.

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Intercom, Inc.

AUGUST 15, 2018

At Reddit, he led a team of 35 – none of whom knew how to manage other engineers. He had to quickly determine which team members displayed a potential for leadership and teach them the fundamentals of management so they could make new hires and scale – without ruining the culture. Short on time? From there, it just snowballed.

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Roman Pichler

JULY 6, 2021

When you become a head of product, you move into a line management position. Consequently, your focus shifts from managing a product to looking after the product people on your team and empowering them to do a great job. Grow Your Leadership Skills. Ensure that Your Core Product Management Skills are Strong.

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The Product Coalition

NOVEMBER 13, 2023

In many cases, an economic downturn simply reveals your already existing weaknesses since they now have more impact. When people (and VCs) aren’t spending money easily, you must be super sharp with your value proposition, positioning, product, marketing, and sales. A great salesperson cannot develop that positioning by themselves.

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Userpilot

NOVEMBER 23, 2023

That’s what Dave Martin , a product leadership coach, has talked about in his talk at this year’s Product Drive Summit hosted by Userpilot. TL;DR Regular roadmaps kill outcomes by forcing teams to think in the categories of features and timelines. The thing is, users don’t need the majority of features that product teams build.

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The Product Coalition

DECEMBER 4, 2023

In many cases, an economic downturn simply reveals your already existing weaknesses since they now have more impact. The unique value proposition, the positioning of the product in the market, understanding exactly who would buy this product and why are all part of this core, without which any GTM playbook would be too generic.

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Mironov Consulting

MAY 16, 2020

A topic that’s come up several times recently in my product leader coaching sessions: how much to delegate to the (individual contributor) product managers on our teams – including different ways of building product skills and balancing personal empowerment against good results.

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The Product Coalition

JULY 25, 2021

Even people with a developed growth mindset?—?ones No one likes to see their gaps pointed to, and for people who don’t have a developed growth mindset, it’s twice as hard. There are two ways to do that: Positive motivation : explain to them why growing is good for them. To make such a continuous effort, one has to want it.

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PMLesson's Ace the PM Interview

MAY 14, 2021

An engineering management position is not on the typical path of an individual contributor (IC) software engineer. Engineering managers will frequently consult with other product managers, engineers, and their teams while spending time in meetings, answering emails, and delivering presentations to upper management.

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UX Studio: Product Management

MARCH 12, 2024

But titles in UX management and leadership vary a lot. The role is a combination of design and research team lead. years is eligible for the position. I raised my hand towards the end of 2020 and started in this position early in 2021. The biggest part of a manager or team leader’s job is building a great team.

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The Product Coalition

FEBRUARY 27, 2022

So you found a new position as a product leader, congratulations! I decided to write this article to help you, product leaders, with your new position. Even if you’re not starting a new position now, you probably won’t retire from your current company, so at some point, the tips in this article would surely be relevant for you?—?save

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Userpilot

JANUARY 8, 2024

Book a demo now to begin. 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. This could include tutorials, product demos, customer success stories, thought leadership, and any other related content.

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The Product Coalition

SEPTEMBER 2, 2022

The leadership team finally agreed on the vision. Clarity enables the team to translate the choices into a functional product that creates value. So as you make choices, package the strategy into a document, and share it with the product team, keep four words in mind?—?a A yes with a weak how or a no receives a zero.

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Modus Create

FEBRUARY 17, 2021

Servant leadership is a mainstay of corporate cultures worldwide. Like most leadership phenomena, it evokes both passionate adoration and scoffing. What is Servant Leadership? Servant leadership is a management philosophy in which the primary goal of the leader is to serve their direct reports. Origin and Adoption.

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Userpilot

DECEMBER 13, 2023

How do you develop a robust UX strategy? TL;DR UX strategy provides guidance to the UX design team on how to create and improve experiences that satisfy user needs. TL;DR UX strategy provides guidance to the UX design team on how to create and improve experiences that satisfy user needs. Book the demo!

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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. Product Management is a leadership role which is difficult to ‘start small’. What are the experienced chefs doing, and how does the kitchen work as a team?

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Atlassian

FEBRUARY 28, 2022

Creating a strong, cohesive team takes intention and planning. Researchers have been studying team dynamics for decades. There’s a significant body of knowledge about which organizational structures provide the best results given the circumstances, goals, and personalities involved in a team. 5-second summary.

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People-First Product Leadership

JANUARY 7, 2024

For me, I’m looking forward to applying what I learned in 2023 - which was in a large part due to People-First Product Leadership. For example, I’m a sharer of information and often try out the strategies I read about which resonate with people-first product leadership. The balanced leader is adaptive. Trust yourself.

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The Product Coalition

AUGUST 9, 2021

In one of my roles as an R&D manager, I inherited an employee from one of the other teams on the day I joined. Little did I know that “not always easy to manage” is an understatement, and that this developer actually didn’t want to be managed at all. I’ve seen and successfully handled tough cases before. How big is the gap?

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Intercom, Inc.

JULY 19, 2018

As up and coming engineers in Silicon Valley, Jean Hsu and Edmond Lau long sought more influence and impact in their respective positions – but they couldn’t shake the feeling of being stuck. But as Jean and Edmond will now tell you, following years of engineering leadership at Quip, Quora, Medium and more, that simply isn’t the case.

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Roman Pichler

APRIL 1, 2020

Here is why: We routinely interact with individuals who have different perspectives, interest, and needs, such as users, customers, stakeholders , development team members. Users don’t always have the same wants and needs as customers, and the ideas of the stakeholders and dev team may diverge.

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Roman Pichler

APRIL 1, 2020

Here is why: We routinely interact with individuals who have different perspectives, interest, and needs, such as users, customers, stakeholders , development team members. Users don’t always have the same wants and needs as customers, and the ideas of the stakeholders and dev team may diverge.

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The Product Coalition

APRIL 2, 2022

There is a framework for almost every stage of our Product development lifecycle, but one of the only transversal things is that we need people to make things happen. 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.

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Sachin Rekhi

JUNE 25, 2017

Most folks are looking for a pointer to a book or a class they can take on product management, but I always reply with a collection of blog posts from practitioners sharing their best practices. Spool Babe Ruth and Feature Lists - Ken Norton Using The Kano Model To Prioritize Product Development - Martin Eriksson Position, Position, Position!

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Intercom, Inc.

AUGUST 15, 2019

If an organization’s founders aren’t designers and don’t come from a background where well-designed products played a key role in their lives, it can often be the last discipline to be brought onboard the team. On a bad day, a lot more of it got thrown away. My responsibility was to build a design team in that new agile way of working.

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The Product Coalition

AUGUST 27, 2018

Agile vs. Being Agile Agile became popular shortly after ‘The Agile Software Development Manifesto ’ was published in 2001. Blindly adopting Agile is not a guarantee that a team will be agile , as these additional Agile rules are not essential to being agile. This is why one-size-fits-all Agile solutions are a bad idea.

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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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Imaginary Cloud - Design

JULY 2, 2020

As the Lead Designer at Imaginary Cloud , I conduct most of the interviews for design positions. While interviewing a design candidate, I frequently ask about their preferred books on the subject of UI/UX or product design. It is not that those books are bad. Those books were an important step forward. Why is that?

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The Product Coalition

JUNE 9, 2021

The initial steps of this framework took collaboration between business leadership and the product team to set a direction for development decisions. In the second half, the product team will work with the development team to tie actionable projects to business goals.

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ProductPlan

AUGUST 4, 2020

In my opinion, the definition of an MVP is often misunderstood, and I’ve seen entrepreneurs and product teams misinterpret it with unfortunate results. First, a shout out to Frank Robinson , a fellow product development pro in Santa Barbara who coined the term “MVP” about 20 years ago. And what it’s not. The Minimum Sellable Product.

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