The Product Coalition

SEPTEMBER 27, 2022

“A good coach can change a game. A great coach can change a life.”?—?John John Wooden I still remember the day I met my college coach. Yet minutes in, the coach had calmed the team, taken command, and started setting the path forward. Throughout the season, the coach continued to both guide and mentor.

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Roman Pichler

NOVEMBER 2, 2021

But during today’s Daily Scrum meeting, you notice that the sprint progress has been worryingly slow: Plenty of tasks aren’t finished, and some stories haven’t even been started. Several tasks aren’t finished, and some stories haven’t been started. Let the Scrum Master Coach the Team. Do you think that’s true?”.

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Product Talk

JUNE 21, 2023

Meet Ellen Brandenberger , a product coach and consultant and Director of Product at Stack Overflow. Meet Ellen Brandenberger, a product coach and consultant and Director of Product at Stack Overflow. As I started doing research and talking to people, being in product management for educational products came to the top of that list.

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Mind the Product

JANUARY 5, 2023

For our first podcast episode to kick off 2023, we speak to Andy Polaine, Design Leadership Coach, about the ever-so-sweet language of product. The perfect topic to start the new year. [.] Welcome back to The Product Experience podcast!

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The Product Coalition

MARCH 3, 2022

Why our industry needs Product Coaches Photo by Jeffrey F Lin on Unsplash Something I’ve observed over the last couple of years has been the rise in product coaching, also referred to as Product Management Consulting or Product Leadership Coaching, among others. But, Why Coaching? This is where coaching comes in.

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Product Talk

JANUARY 13, 2021

All good discovery starts with a clear desired outcome. All good discovery starts with a clear desired outcome. When I first started my consulting practice, I had this goal in mind, but I had no idea how I would reach it. I knew I wanted to coach rather than consult, as I loved investing in product people. Tweet This.

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People-First Product Leadership

APRIL 5, 2024

I was reminded of a question I often receive while coaching - what do I need to do to be promoted? I recommend taking any career competencies framework as the starting point. Go beyond stop with your case using the organization’s career competencies as a starting point. Feel it’s your “time”?

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Johanna Rothman

MARCH 14, 2024

And even if you can find an agile coaching or Scrum Master job, the pay is so terrible, you don’t want to take it. That’s because these managers think agile coaching and Scrum Mastering is a staff job, not a line job. Rethinking is just the start of your changes. Worse, many staff jobs are commodity positions.

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Mind the Product

FEBRUARY 24, 2020

At Founders Factory we’ve created and implemented a framework for our product coaching practice based on the hypothesis I wrote about in Mind the Product last year for why product thinking needs to be the future of product management and why product coaching is how we get there. This is what we learned.

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Johanna Rothman

MARCH 21, 2024

I started this series by discussing why managers didn't perceive the value of agile coaches and Scrum Masters in Part 1, resulting in layoffs.) Integrate Agility Everywhere If you've been an agile coach or a Scrum Master, ask yourself how you can integrate agility into your work. Instead, walk the board. Limit your WIP.

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Product Talk

SEPTEMBER 20, 2023

Instead of relying on someone else (like a coach or leader) to tell them what to do next, product teams can use an opportunity solution tree to keep track of their desired outcome , the opportunities they’ve identified to chip away at that outcome, and the solutions they’re considering to address those opportunities.

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Product Talk

NOVEMBER 8, 2023

Product leadership coach Petra Wille became fascinated with the idea of Communities of Practice because in her experience, they were the differentiating factor between companies that had successful product orgs and those that didn’t. Tweet This Petra: Why did you decide to start your Community of Practice? I’ll invite them.

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Intercom, Inc.

FEBRUARY 25, 2021

Finally, and only when you have those two systems in place, you can (and must) start empathizing with them. When I first start working with clients, I’ll interview executives, employees, customers, and the employees. I see that you do quite a bit of work with Forbes as part of their Coaches Council. Annette: Sure.

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Product Talk

SEPTEMBER 9, 2020

I first met Petra Wille, a fellow product coach, at Mind the Product and was immediately impressed with her work. She’s put together a ton of useful resources, including her “ product coach in a box ” deck of cards. I’m here with Petra Wille, who is also a product discovery coach. Hello everybody.

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The Product Coalition

DECEMBER 11, 2023

Quite a few weeks have passed since I attended SVPG’s ‘Coach the Coaches’ session. I got to meet 50 great product coaches from all over Europe, and of course, got to meet and connect with Marty and his partners. Take the idea as a conversation started, and dig deeper to see what is it that they really want to say.

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Intercom, Inc.

SEPTEMBER 4, 2019

Every manager should know how to effectively coach their reps. This coaching helps them drive their team and their company to greater productivity and higher sales. I’ve been working to develop a sales coaching program that’s backed by one critical element: data. What is sales coaching?

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The Product Coalition

FEBRUARY 5, 2021

There are a few people in the product world who talk about the importance of coaching for product leaders. I was super-excited to see that he spends several chapters on coaching in his latest book, Empowered. So, you ask, what does coaching have to do with developing people and creating empowered teams? Why coaching?

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Product Talk

MAY 19, 2021

The book will teach you how to start with a clear outcome , interview to discover opportunities , and assumption test to quickly evaluate solutions. Her methods inspire rigor similar to a workout coach—product discovery is a regular, consistent practice, that’s measurable and impactful.” Tweet This.

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Johanna Rothman

DECEMBER 2, 2022

On the ANE panel last night, an agile coach asked, “What's my path forward as an agile coach? ” That's a great question and one each coach might ask, to make sure they continue to add value to the client. Internal or external, all coaches have clients.). Let's start with the levels. What do I do next?”

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The Product Coalition

DECEMBER 21, 2021

Let’s explore how the product management world can learn from the foodservice industry as we look at people starting out in their careers. Apprentices start small An Apprentice Chef has basic duties and does the grunt work in a busy kitchen. Product Management is a leadership role which is difficult to ‘start small’.

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Product Talk

MARCH 16, 2022

At the top, we start with a clear outcome. I started with my 12-week coaching program. I coached teams week-over-week in the context of their own work. But as I wrote in my January post , coaching doesn’t scale well. Defining Outcomes helps you choose the best outcome to start with. Today, it’s not perfect.

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Product Talk

APRIL 17, 2024

Let’s start with, tell me just a little bit about your role in your company. We’re a 14-year-old company that started off as an ads business, and we’re transitioning into a SaaS business. Stephanie: That’s where we started. That’s where it starts already. I’m excited as well.

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Mind the Product

FEBRUARY 1, 2021

In this talk to ProductTank Cardiff product management coach and one-time Google product manager Itamar Gilad looks at how to deal with uncertainty through lean product management. Itamar starts with a story from his former company Google and how it has dealt with social networking over the years. Read More.

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Product Talk

DECEMBER 20, 2023

You’re creating a regular habit of talking to customers , you’re identifying opportunities and assumptions and building out your opportunity solution tree and starting to run small tests to explore different ideas. They start by acknowledging the suggestion: “Oh, that sounds like a great idea! We can definitely explore that.”

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The Product Coalition

SEPTEMBER 21, 2023

And it started with the parents. They even ignored the coach. So the coach staged an intervention, and the most divisive parents were singled out and asked to leave. It starts with the right team. They set the game plan, but a coach alone doesn’t score goals — they need the team. The best place to start?

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Johanna Rothman

MARCH 13, 2024

Every day, I hear more stories of agile coaches or Scrum Masters losing their jobs. Agile coaches and Scrum Masters are staff positions, not “line” jobs. Agile coaches and Scrum Masters are staff positions, not “line” jobs. You might not like these ideas.

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The Product Coalition

FEBRUARY 5, 2021

As someone who’s been fortunate enough to have coached dozens of Product Leaders and have walked in their shoes, I have found that there are several under-appreciated ways things change when you move into a product leader role. Their #1 responsibility is to coach them, and the rest of their team, to be more effective in their role.”?—?

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The Product Coalition

FEBRUARY 18, 2024

Photo by Blake Cheek on Unsplash I once coached a very talented senior product manager. At this point, he started feeling helpless. But as it started limiting his ability to succeed in his own responsibilities, I knew he took it too far. Simply ask, and people will start sharing different perspectives. Here is how.

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Product Management University

APRIL 8, 2024

But products are the nucleus, and that means market leadership starts with product management. I’ve seen it in my practitioner career and even more so as a trainer and coach. Can you see how the chain reaction for success always starts with product management? It all starts with product management. Here’s the bottom line.

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Johanna Rothman

JANUARY 10, 2024

And don't get me started on how coaches tend to do life coaching instead of support for agility.) We have too many delays because we don't have enough of the right kind of people. That's not all. When I work with these teams or their managers, I realize they're not demoing or retrospecting on a regular basis.

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Product Management University

MAY 24, 2023

Play the role of coach with your account executives and show them some new tactics that will help both of you have more success throughout the sales process. As the SC/SE, you start asking about the prospect’s needs, problems, goals, etc. Unfortunately, it comes with the territory, but that doesn’t mean you should just accept it.

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Intercom, Inc.

MAY 18, 2018

People who enjoy or require structure and process make great hires for a larger organisation, but they’re usually not the best people to take on board from the start. They would need a lot of coaching, mentoring and time; something your tiny early stage team doesn’t have in abundance. Scaling up your hiring strategy.

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Intercom, Inc.

DECEMBER 1, 2021

As a sales manager, the most impactful thing you can do is coach your team. Study any sales coaching blog, podcast, or book and you’ll find plenty of advice on the best ways to coach your sales reps: join their calls, listen to recordings, apply a framework … the list goes on. Closing roles need email coaching too.

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Rahul Abhyankar

MARCH 30, 2024

Are you starting a new job and wondering what made you stand out from all the other equally great candidates? I had a coaching call earlier in the week with a person who is joining a global tech company as Head of Engineering for one of the businesses. We talked about things to learn and … Continue reading Why Me?

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Melissa Perri

JANUARY 4, 2020

They started to see the value. -- 2011: "Product reports to the VP of Engineering." We started seeing the need for product leadership, even at the largest of companies. -- 2011: "What is a user story?" We started to realized that product management was not just about specs. -- 2013: "We should build this because I said so."

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Product Management Unpacked

JULY 16, 2020

I turned introspectively to study why products fail – starting with my own products and then expanding to study other products by way of coaching and advising. I am passionate about creating the learning resources that I wish had been available to me when I started my product management career.”.

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