The Product Coalition

DECEMBER 21, 2021

The answer presented by an entry-level or an experienced PM, or by a Group product manager (GPM) lies majorly between two parameters - execution & strategy. For instance, you have appeared for an interview for a mid to senior-level PM role in a high growth product company. Pro tips ??: Also, define some success measures too.

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Mixpanel

FEBRUARY 10, 2021

Why do smart product teams often build products with mediocre or no impact? Often, the answer is found in the discipline with which a product team measures the product. . Choosing your metrics: metrics categories. When selecting your metrics, you’ll want to consider a few different categories. Usage metrics.

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Roman Pichler

APRIL 3, 2018

Business Strategy vs. Product Strategy. It’s distinct from the product strategy : The business strategy states how the company will be successful, whereas the product strategy describes how a product will achieve success, as the following picture illustrates. It is therefore a key input for any product discovery work.

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Userpilot

AUGUST 30, 2023

This makes it more important than ever to create products people actually want to use. The expert speakers at Product Drive 2023 will answer these and many more questions. Product Drive is Userpilot’s FREE online event where experts from top companies come to share growth and marketing insights. But how do you do that?

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Product Innovation Educators

JUNE 14, 2021

How product managers can succeed in innovation leadership. Welcome to the Product Mastery Now podcast. You may know it as The Everyday Innovator, but after seven years of interviews, I have changed the name to better reflect our mission, which is to help you become a Product Master, creating products customers love.

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Product Talk

SEPTEMBER 1, 2021

If your sales team isn’t bought in, for example, they won’t want to sell your new product or feature. If you’re a longtime Product Talk reader (or if you’ve read Continuous Discovery Habits), Lisa’s name might sound familiar. This is a common tale and one that most product trios can learn from. Tweet This.

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Intercom, Inc.

JULY 13, 2021

The only thing harder than designing a product is designing your career. We’ve recently updated our product designer job levels to give our designers a map for advancing their careers at Intercom. Align with job levels for product management , engineering, and related roles. Focus on reality, not aspirations.

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ProductPlan

JULY 2, 2021

Our library of content helps thousands upon thousands of product people every month continue their education and understanding of the product space, thought-leadership, best practices, and trends, all for free. Similar to Google Search, you can search for anything product management-related. The Product Strategy Playbook.

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The Product Coalition

FEBRUARY 24, 2023

Without going into actual project-related detail, any sync I have in the AM would fall in the “catch-up,” “quick sync” or “review bad livesites” category. Sometimes I’ll still be in meetings, as there are occasional team or leadership calls scheduled for lunch. If I went into the office: 8:30 AM is when I wake up.

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Userpilot

NOVEMBER 23, 2023

Why do product managers need them? 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. Dave Martin on how product roadmaps kill outcomes. Build a product that users love by delivering value and a good product experience.

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The Product Coalition

FEBRUARY 19, 2022

If you didn’t catch part 1, it was on leadership?—? it’s worth taking a look at that piece first , as leadership is the foundation for putting the below stuff into place.) Your team needs to be able to look at a product from the point of view of the customer and really care about their experiences. That is where tools come in.

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Mind the Product

FEBRUARY 7, 2019

The product team decided to ship with this bug and we put it in our backlog to be fixed once we took care of a few other stories. Nobody likes shipping imperfect products, but at the same time we all know that we can’t hold off to wait for perfection. This happened to me recently. Yes, if you have a system in place.

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The Product Coalition

JANUARY 14, 2021

10 Types of Innovation Framework from Doblin When legendary design thinking firm Doblin released the 10 Types of Innovation Framework , they challenged product teams to think less about new features (“the easiest thing to copy”) and more about their overall experience and go-to-market strategy. Step 5: Future State The fun part!

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Sachin Rekhi

JUNE 7, 2016

Slides: Product Management Career Ladders. One of the areas I often mentor product managers on are the career paths available to them within the profession. Product organizations tend to be a small proportion of technology firm’s overall R&D teams, with ratios of up to 1 product manager to 10 engineers as common.

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Gainsight

MAY 31, 2023

Gainsight CS and Gainsight Digital Hub (formerly inSided), have earned awards in several categories from leader in Community, Experience Management, Momentum, Enterprise, Mid-Market, and Best Relationship. Gainsight CS, the company’s customer success platform, has earned accolades from G2 in two different categories.

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Product Management University

OCTOBER 28, 2019

That brings us to the subject of influence among product management and product marketing teams. What if product management and product marketing were more knowledgeable on the market collectively than all other disciplines combined? That influence is the key to strong leadership. We trust them. We learn from them.

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Mind the Product

DECEMBER 26, 2019

In this ProductTank Toronto talk, Richard Reiner , Executive Chairman at dfuse , takes us through various case studies and lessons learned from his experience building and marketing products in the cybersecurity space. His key points include: Creating a category at Assurent. Creating a Category at Assurent.

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Product Innovation Educators

JANUARY 11, 2021

The secret sauce product managers need for success. This podcast is getting a new name to better align with its purpose of helping product managers become product masters. That new name is Product Masters Now. Summary of some concepts discussed for product managers. [3:12] Lightweight teams for minor tweaks.

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Lenny Rachitsky

DECEMBER 7, 2023

Simplify security | Wix Studio —The web creation platform built for agencies — Anuj Rathi is the Chief Product and Marketing Officer at Jupiter Money, where he leads product management, marketing, design, growth, and analytics. He’s also one of the most beloved and respected product leaders in India.

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Mind the Product

AUGUST 6, 2019

In order to prepare for a talk I delivered at Mind the Product’s 2019 Leadership Forum in San Francisco I’ve spent the last couple of weeks applying the lens of psychological safety to the things I’ve experienced and witnessed in my product career. The product leader responded, without flinching: “Absolutely.”.

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Gainsight

JULY 11, 2023

But first, I want to thank the incredible Northpass team for building a leading company in a rapidly-emerging category over the past decade. A few years later, in 2012, my company was acquired by SPS Commerce (NASDAQ SPSC), and as part of that acquisition, I joined their leadership team. Neither were viable solutions for us.

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bpma ProductHub

APRIL 30, 2017

These words couldn’t be more relevant to product management. Such a trait is crucial to Product Management roles if you want sales, marketing and engineering to trust and follow your direction. With her background in product management and marketing, the lessons, stories and tips she has to convey will be very relevant to you.

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Tyner Blain

MARCH 31, 2024

Shaping a product strategy involves both. Your product won’t spring into existence fully formed and ready to compete like Athena emerging fully armored from the head of Zeus. Going to Market You will develop a go-to-market (GTM) approach which includes multiple releases of your product. “Now | next | not yet | never.”

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Alchemer Mobile

AUGUST 25, 2020

The worlds of marketing and product are colliding in new ways as customer experience takes center stage. For some brands, they’re moving the mobile app experience out from product and into marketing. With these new leadership roles comes a lot of organization-wide change. What are mobile product management responsibilities?

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Nulab

JANUARY 29, 2021

Another season has come and gone and that means another release of G2’s leadership reports. The wide range of categories that Backlog falls into shows off both how simple Backlog is to use and how adaptable it is for almost anything your team needs. We’re honored that you’ve enjoyed using Cacoo for all of your professional needs.

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Product Management University

JUNE 5, 2023

Most product managers know how to create a product vision, but that’s not the hard part. The extent to which stakeholders get behind your product vision has everything to do with how the product vision is articulated. What is a Product Vision? What is a Product Vision? Your product vision shouldn’t.

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Bain Public

AUGUST 10, 2022

(Montreal, Canada) – Paul Ortchanian , Founder and President/CEO of Bain Public joins Matt Green and Moshe Mikanovsky , the hosts of Product for Product podcast, where Paul discusses…. Paul Ortchanian is exceptionally knowledgeable and well-rounded in all aspects of product management. About the Episode. About Paul Ortchanian.

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Userpilot

JULY 13, 2022

Do you follow any product manager blogs? Would you like to discover new ones that will give you valuable insights into product management ? In our article, we introduce 20 of our favorite product manager blogs that every product pro should follow, regardless of their experience. Our favorite product management blogs.

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The Product Coalition

APRIL 10, 2022

It is a known fact that product people need to work well with others. But as a product leader, this can also become a problem. One example that comes to mind was that when I was in the 6th grade I was about to get an A in all categories except in sports. Our ability to succeed fully depends on it. It was never a problem for me.

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Gainsight

JUNE 2, 2022

We are about product-led growth. That couldn’t happen without impeccable leadership. Yancey Spruill is the CEO of DigitalOcean, known for its digital storage and networking products and solutions powered by cloud technology. Gainsight knows a thing or two about category creation. We are about CS Operations.

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Product Innovation Educators

AUGUST 1, 2022

How product managers can empower teams to create a winning product strategy. We hear a lot about strategy and that product managers need to create a product strategy. In practice, what does that mean and how does a product strategy help you be more successful? Product strategy is 100% focused on the customer. [7:23]

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Userpilot

AUGUST 31, 2021

I was only just starting to think about the first edition of Product Drive. A lot of Product Education, changes, growth, and 2,200 participants (yup, that’s how many we had on the first edition of Product Drive!) So ladies and gents – here’s Product Drive 2.0.! Product Drive 2.0. Product Operations.

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ProductPlan

APRIL 29, 2022

Launching a product is the pinnacle of days, weeks, months, or even years of work. It’s also the beginning of an equally pivotal point in a product’s trajectory. The period marks all that time and effort spent developing the product. There’s already an existing market being served with relatively similar products.

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Mixpanel

FEBRUARY 16, 2024

When you’re deep in product development, it can be surprisingly easy to overlook who you’re making your product for. This sounds pretty obvious, but understanding your product’s users is often easier said than done, especially when you’re building for multiple different personas.

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The Product Guy

OCTOBER 9, 2018

Guest Post by: Julian Dunn (Mentee, Session 6, The Product Mentor) [Paired with Mentor, Vikas Batra]. I became a product manager because I wanted to take a more strategic role at my company. Thus, I arrived at the Product Mentor program with ambitions to learn strategy development from a seasoned product mentor.

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The Product Coalition

OCTOBER 20, 2020

determining what kind of product manager you are, what kind you want to be and creating a development plan based on it. A few months ago, I introduced a concept I have developed called the PM, or Product, Quadrants. Based on the same role, my secondary quadrant is the Product Owner. This post is about just that?—?determining

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Centercode

APRIL 16, 2019

These are the types of questions that suddenly pop into the minds of product and program managers when an executive team comes looking for Key Performance Indicators (KPIs). His leadership team asked him to develop a framework for measuring the success of his beta team efforts. Measuring Beta Program Success.

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