The Product Coalition

JUNE 14, 2020

Using Sean Ellis Test For Measuring Your Product/Market Fit Sean Ellis, who is the author of “ Hacking Growth ,” as well as the first marketer at Dropbox and the guy who coined the phrase “ growth hacking ,” has a simple technique that helps product teams to measure whether they reached their product/market fit or not.

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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. This sort of hand-waving has been most prevalent in software companies, where the supposed price of strategy missteps is seen as low.

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The Product Coalition

AUGUST 14, 2022

Theoretically you would think that a consulting business isn’t impacted by the time of the year, but I learned that that’s not true. Since I deal with strategic consulting , many companies reach out to me when they start to think about next year, which happens sometimes in H2. That’s why the product strategy is so important?—?it

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Userpilot

MAY 1, 2024

Lenny is a newsletter writer, podcast host, angel investor, and product consultant. He also hosts a job board for product professionals and has created a GPT-4 chatbot, Lennybot, that is programmed to answer questions from Lenny’s newsletter and podcast. How did Lenny Rachitsky get started in product management?

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Userpilot

AUGUST 30, 2023

Get ready to dive into insightful discussions, practical strategies, and real-world examples that will empower you to create and manage products that meet user needs and leave them truly satisfied. Join us to learn from top experts and companies. Product marketing speaker. Connect with Else on Linkedin.

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The Product Coalition

NOVEMBER 19, 2020

John graduated college last year and has been working as bioengineer at a respected company. Almost all PM jobs require 3+ years of experience building products. John learned that a handful of big companies have associate product management (APM) programs. How do these people get into product?

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The Product Coalition

MARCH 2, 2022

When a company is first starting out, one of its main goals is to find the right product-market fit. Engagement used to be something that the company founders did?—?and You can start upping your engagement game with: A Customer Advisory Board A customer advisory board is an especially good idea for B2B product companies.

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The Product Coalition

JULY 2, 2023

Give you the theory but deal with reality and the real challenges that come with it in everything we do — our courses, the CPO Bootcamp , strategic consulting , and this blog. But the difference between theory and practice isn’t limited to product management theory  — mostly processes and methodologies.

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The Product Coalition

JULY 30, 2023

Photo by Angelo Pantazis on Unsplash As a CEO who takes herself and her company seriously, I am on a constant learning journey. Much of the learning is about the market and the needs you all have. They could be market changes — now is a great time to offer AI-related training services, for example. Here is what to look for.

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Userpilot

MARCH 8, 2022

Melissa Perri – Speaker, consultant, and teacher in Product Management. CEO of Product Labs. Melissa Perri is one of the most recognizable names in Product Management. She’s currently a consultant, speaker, and teacher in product management. How to create a scalable product organization.

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The Product Coalition

DECEMBER 11, 2023

With everything you have to do every day, it is so easy to neglect strategy. But much like code, your product strategy also requires maintenance. Unaware of it, you let it slide — and it grows and grows until the entire company is impacted. Note: everything I say here is true for mature product companies as well.

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Mironov Consulting

MARCH 9, 2024

  To be useful, Count The Digits and similar heuristics fit into a larger framework where we have strong customer insights and thoughtful goals/strategies/OKRs.   So our product focus in Q2/Q3 is on TTV (time to value) and highlighting a customer’s first big success.”

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The Product Coalition

MARCH 19, 2023

Level 1: Painting Within the Lines In my first official product role I joined Imperva, then still a relatively young company with ~100 employees, as the product manager of their database security product. The product was still young but already well-defined and deployed on customers’ networks.

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Userpilot

JULY 9, 2021

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. Inspired by Marty Cagan contains a little about everything in product management and is based on how the most successful tech companies in the world build products.

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The Product Coalition

MARCH 27, 2022

Creating a Solid Product Strategy One of the CEOs that I work with as part of my consulting services recently reflected with me on the process we went through for creating their new product strategy. It was a lengthy process, with quite a few trials and errors, until we found the right strategy.

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The Product Coalition

JULY 16, 2023

In recent years it seems that product management is all about execution and delivery. But you can’t really succeed this way, at least not the way your company needs you to. Photo by Kea Mowat on Unsplash When I moved into product management, almost 20 years ago, it used to be a very senior role.

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Mind the Product

JUNE 13, 2018

This collection established a design aesthetic for technology products that is tactile, bold, emotional and undeniably Google. In addition to his regular work, he has advised and invested in a small portfolio of companies looking to create compelling human experiences. Janice Fraser, Chief Product Officer at Bionic.

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Bain Public

JUNE 4, 2020

As business advisors and executive coaches, we've worked with dozens of CEOs to help them build and grow their product leadership team as they scale their company. Getting external support, such as product management consulting, can help establish the product leadership team responsible for nurturing and guiding the product team.

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The Product Coalition

FEBRUARY 18, 2023

Either way, I feel that many people are trying to solve the problems of product teams. My mission is to help product leaders and their companies grow, so I’m happy to see that others are contributing to this as well. The Product Manager’s Job Is to Think That’s what makes the role so great, and so hard.

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The Product Coalition

AUGUST 1, 2023

What Is Product Strategy Exactly? And Why It Matters Product strategy is a creative act, to “do something new,” approaching an opportunity from a different angle. — Self Self Attributed I sat daydreaming in the nondescript cafeteria of a Fortune 500 company, unprepared for what was about to hit me.

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The Product Coalition

DECEMBER 19, 2021

Photo by Tolga Ulkan on Unsplash When I joined Twiggle as their first VP Product I was the thirteenth employee. Along with the founders (the CEO and CTO), most of the employees in the company at the time were developers. Little did I know that creating a solid product strategy takes such a major chunk of the product leader’s time.

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Userpilot

AUGUST 26, 2021

One of the factors that drive the success of SaaS product management is how aligned the product team is with the customer success team. Data-driven growth is an important element of SaaS product management because it can inform your product strategy and also provides you with evidence to back up your decisions.

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The Product Coalition

JULY 10, 2020

While the buck stops with you when it comes to product decision making, the overall health of the company doesn’t rest on your shoulders. A Product Manager might be the internal face of a product, but they’re unlikely to be making big public statements about the company, or answer directly to investors or a board of directors.

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Product Management University

MARCH 14, 2017

The Body Part: Product Strategy & Planning. Many organizations use the product manager as a one-size-fits-all pad. The Body Part: Product Demos. The Protective Pad: Pre-Sales Consultant / Solution Engineer. In many companies, product demos are a second string job for anyone with product expertise.

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The Product Coalition

JANUARY 8, 2023

A solid product strategy takes time to build. Here is the method I use for creating a product strategy that makes sense. When I talk to the startups I consult to , or with the CPO Bootcamp participants, I always say that building a solid product strategy isn’t like solving a math equation.

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Bain Public

MARCH 20, 2021

I share my passion for product through workshops, published articles and speaking engagements. Bain Public is a product leadership firm that helps companies make informed decisions and deliver superior quality products that appeal to customers and achieve business goals. Interested in having me speak or attend an event?

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Bain Public

JANUARY 4, 2020

Paul’s unique experience brings together the necessity of great engineering and the beauty of product strategy. With this, he has identified an actionable process that enables him to offer concrete messages about product management and operations. For more information, visit bainpublic.com or call 514-442-8487.

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bpma ProductHub

APRIL 30, 2017

The decade long product experience from PM at DEC to VP of PM & Marketing established her in the foundational class of PM’s in Boston. In fact, she was among the very first class of the highly regarded Product Management certification from the Association of International Product Marketing and Management (AIPMM).

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The Product Guy

SEPTEMBER 27, 2016

Leonardo da Vinci Ladislav believes that success is in simplicity that’s why his aim is to help companies to make complex products simple for users. He lives in London, currently working as Product Manager at Gumtree.com, an Ebay company, previously led product at international startups and large organisations.

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The Product Coalition

JANUARY 16, 2022

When creating your roadmap, you need to consider what’s important to the company (not just to the product) and what is the best way to make progress across these multiple needs. What’s important to my company? In startups, it is actually the company roadmap. so moving quickly is essential for your company.

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The Product Guy

OCTOBER 25, 2016

Leonardo da Vinci Ladislav believes that success is in simplicity that’s why his aim is to help companies to make complex products simple for users. He lives in London, currently working as Product Manager at Gumtree.com, an Ebay company, previously led product at international startups and large organisations.

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The Product Coalition

FEBRUARY 5, 2019

She studied Computer Science at Stanford and joined the company in its early stages, way back in 2006. Starting as a Product Designer, she then became Manager, Director and finally VP. Josh Fetcher is an author and business consultant. He is very involved in content marketing discussions on his blog.

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The Product Coalition

OCTOBER 7, 2019

We use it to help understand the context products operate within. The best way to create a great overarching product strategy is to grow and evolve this document. It helps capture a product’s unique activities or the complex combination of actions.

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Amplitude

DECEMBER 23, 2020

Product development is all about maximizing stakeholder relationships. Your stakeholders are the people in and outside of your company who have a role in shaping your product and making it the best it can be. Stakeholders can include designers, engineers, analysts, product marketers, and the customers themselves.

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Product Innovation Educators

MARCH 19, 2018

Steve has been working within the high-tech arena since 1979 with experience in technical, sales, and marketing positions at companies specializing in enterprise and desktop hardware and software. His market and technical savvy allowed him to rise through the ranks from Product Manager to Chief Marketing Officer.

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UX Studio: Product Management

SEPTEMBER 16, 2021

UX studio is an expert design company that helps businesses worldwide design impactful digital products. Apart from working with established brands and startups, we assess the expertise of various companies and create our independent rating list of trustworthy design companies. What will you do?

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ProductPlan

JANUARY 5, 2023

Fortunately, many companies do eventually get through botched implementations and false starts. In full disclosure, placing this trend on the list of those affecting organizations early in their product management journey reflects a bit of a bias to which some may object. Product Ops: hero or villain? Failure is a great teacher.

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