The Product Coalition

NOVEMBER 22, 2022

How long an activity takes can have a huge impact on success or the perception of success when developing products. More often than not, teams are overly optimistic on the timeline that will be required to complete an activity. You can put unnecessary pressure on your team. You might design your organisation or team poorly.

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The Product Coalition

MARCH 11, 2021

Quality assurance supports software companies to meet their client demands and expectations. And also is a way of preventing errors and defect bugs in the software development process. It involves testing requirements during the development process until the project is completed.

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The Product Coalition

DECEMBER 23, 2021

“If you think good design is expensive, you should look at the cost of bad design,” Ralf Speth, a former Jaguar Land Rover CEO. The study by the Design Management Institute analyzed the performance of design-led organizations that place influential design decisions at the top as compared to the Standard & Poor’s index over 10 years.

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Lenny Rachitsky

APRIL 21, 2024

Brought to you by: • Paragon —Ship every SaaS integration your customers want • Lenny’s Talent Team —Hire the best product people. Mihika likens the role of a 0-to-1 team within a large company to that of Hestia in Greek mythology, who is the “keeper of the hearth.”

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Roman Pichler

OCTOBER 5, 2021

A few years ago, I was asked to help a healthcare company with their agile transition and its impact on product management. One of the challenges the agile transition team was concerned about was the choice of the right product backlog tool, which at first seemed odd to me. The Product Backlog is Too Big. Third, they can be tested.

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Product Management University

FEBRUARY 21, 2024

Competitive demos are stressful, especially when you’re operating on very little knowledge or hearsay information about your competitor’s weaknesses. Here’s the thing about focusing on your competitor’s weaknesses. Sometimes, they just don’t like your competitor’s sales team. There’s no answer for that!

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Product Bookshelf

APRIL 15, 2024

Martin Good Strategy, Bad Strategy by Richard Rumels Product strategy is a set of choices informed by product vision and company objectives. Strategy development requires imagination and creativity ; a good strategy is not the result of detailed analysis. Playing to Win by A.G. Lafley and Roger L.

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Mironov Consulting

DECEMBER 5, 2023

We’re in the Silly Season: companies of all sizes are doing annual planning — intending to lock down 12 months of iron-clad commitments, non-negotiable delivery dates, major organizational changes, and accurate predictions of revenue.    I’m not against planning.  ” What To Do?

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Mind the Product

JUNE 19, 2017

Managing the “Shadow Product Team”. Responsibility for defining the roadmap may officially rest with the product team, but there are others in the organization who can directly influence it. However it’s a problem when those disruptions become more frequent or the product team loses control of the strategy.

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People-First Product Leadership

SEPTEMBER 4, 2023

Throughout my career I have found product politics breeds a competitive environment that makes long-term individual and product team success precarious at best. Why compete against your product triad colleagues (product, design, engineering) when you are part of the same team? They're done by a team of people.”

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Roman Pichler

NOVEMBER 1, 2022

If you say yes to every request, you are in danger of creating a Frankenstein product—a product that is a collection of unrelated features, offers a weak value proposition, and gives rise to a poor user experience. But a product roadmap with unrealistic goals can turn the development effort into a “death march.”

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The Product HQ

APRIL 20, 2024

Wondering what it takes to become an amazing agile developer? This post outlines all the traits, essential skills, and soft skills that characterize what it means to be an amazing agile developer. 8 Steps to Become a Rockstar Agile Developer Here is a step-by-step process on how to become an agile developer: 1.

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Intercom, Inc.

MAY 24, 2022

Whether you’re an individual contributor, manager, or director, you can leverage your own skills – and those around you – to influence growth across your team, org, and company. Crafting a culture of mentorship across your company. There are three overarching areas to consider: Leveraging mentorship across your team.

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Mind the Product

DECEMBER 18, 2019

At Latin American travel technology company Almundo , we believe that leaders are responsible for the people, whether that is via one-on-one meetings, career opportunities, company culture, or employee satisfaction. So, it was natural that we should want to develop a talent growth plan for our people. This is how we did it.

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Userpilot

DECEMBER 13, 2023

How do you develop a robust UX strategy? We also look at: What a UX design strategy is Why it’s important Its core principles and elements A practical example of a company with well-established UX strategies Let’s dive right in! The strategy should also have information about the UX team, processes, and guidelines.

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BrainMates

NOVEMBER 1, 2021

Developing and launching a product only to have it fail is the complete antithesis of the “Fail Fast” innovation motto. You have just invested 1000s of work hours and millions of dollars in developing & launching this product. Most companies are in reality reviewing and failing several orders of magnitude less ideas than this.

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Roman Pichler

MARCH 12, 2018

How do you best lead the stakeholders and development team as the person in charge of the product? A feature broker is a product person who relies on others—the stakeholders, development team, management, users, or a customer—to come up with ideas and make product decisions.

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Roman Pichler

NOVEMBER 12, 2019

I once worked with a telco company that was developing a brand-new commercial product. Product management and development were located at separate sites in different countries. The technical complexities were greater than anticipated and the development progress was slower than forecasted. To Collocate or Not.

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Roman Pichler

NOVEMBER 12, 2019

I once worked with a telco company that was developing a brand-new commercial product. Product management and development were located at separate sites in different countries. The technical complexities were greater than anticipated and the development progress was slower than forecasted. To Collocate or Not.

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UX Planet

FEBRUARY 13, 2024

Prescriptive Agile frameworks make it hard for designers to add valuable contributions to the team. I designed every detail in Photoshop before handing the mockups to the developers. After failing to convince my manager to change our waterfall methodology, I joined a company where Agile was deeply ingrained in the culture.

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Pragmatic Marketing

JANUARY 12, 2017

In a recent Pragmatic Marketing webinar , Paul Schwada, managing partner of Locomotive Solutions and author of 8 Blocks: The Critical Realities for Growing Any Business , shared where to find the weak leak in your growth funnel (hint: it’s often in the math) and how to strengthen it. So what’s the weak link in your growth funnel?

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ProductPlan

JANUARY 10, 2020

Today, your customers are using this same pattern-seeking skill to turn their product experiences into beliefs about your company and your products. What Happens to Your Customers After Bad Product Experiences. That frustration can lead to negative beliefs about your products, which can turn those users against your entire company.

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ProductPlan

MARCH 12, 2019

Cultural fit is a relatively new concept in hiring and team building. Companies now realize just how important corporate culture is to their ability to grow, adapt, react, and thrive. This has given hiring managers the confidence to reject prospects who look perfect on paper, but might not mesh with the existing team and company norms.

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Product Talk

FEBRUARY 15, 2023

For years, I’ve shared that Product Talk’s outcome is to increase the number of teams who adopt the continuous discovery habits that I outlined in my book. But I can’t say X out of Y teams have adopted the continuous discovery habits. I do believe that discovery is a team sport and should be equally applicable to all of these roles.

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Mironov Consulting

NOVEMBER 10, 2016

But the symptoms aren’t so obvious to the outbound (and extroverted) part of the company. Motivation and engagement look different on the tech side of the room: the outbound team often can’t tell whether Engineering is emotionally engaged. Some Engineering teams are unmotivated, though. And first prize is a Cadillac.

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Alchemer Mobile

NOVEMBER 27, 2018

Further, Apple only allows three rating prompts in a 365 day period, so it’s critical to use them with precision, especially now that app developers can choose to keep or reset their current rating with a given release. For more on gathering customer feedback at-scale, reach out to your Customer Success Manager or a member of our Sales team.

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svpg

JANUARY 11, 2016

I normally write about how to evolve your organization from a weak product org to a strong one. But in this article I want to talk about a pattern that I see in many companies that are actually doing really well, growing aggressively, yet they will sometimes, over time and unintentionally, replace their good behaviors with bad ones.

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Roman Pichler

AUGUST 11, 2020

It can also result in a large product backlog and high development cost: The greater the number of people who should benefit from your product is, the more diverse their needs are likely to be, and the more features are usually required to address them. Instead, they require tough strategic decision and clear focus. Needs are Features.

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The Product Coalition

JANUARY 16, 2024

“Everyone has a plan until they get punched in the mouth” — Mike Tyson I’ve wrestled with weak roadmaps — even some downright disasters. Product managers and their teams start with enthusiasm, hit the ground running, and create a solid roadmap. Facing a company funding deadline, we pivoted to a new market with more potential.

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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 ?? presence, awareness, state of mind) 5.

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Business of Software Conference

SEPTEMBER 6, 2021

Elizabeth O’Neill, People & Culture expert, BoS participant and this year speaker, explains the difference between having one bad meeting and creating a culture of silence in this guest blog post. One Bad Meeting Can Create a Culture of Silence. Excitedly, he pulls together his small team and describes his idea. .

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The Product Coalition

JULY 12, 2022

Here are cases for when the cooperation between the product team and the client brakes down for objective reasons. Here I have tried to reveal the most common cases when the cooperation between the development team and the entrepreneur fails for reasons beyond the control of all parties involved. So I wrote this article.

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The Product Coalition

JANUARY 5, 2023

Dark periods are when a product team knows what to design and develop and go about doing it, but the work has yet to be exposed to users in any significant way. Product dark periods are when a product team’s commitment and culture are tested. Developers will be knocking out cards. The dark periods are challenging.

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Product Innovation Educators

AUGUST 14, 2023

He is convinced that product is the single most important success driver for tech companies, which is why he founded Prodify to share what he learned from being an advisor to over 50 tech companies to realize their full potential. We have identified several different areas where companies typically struggle when it comes to product.

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UX Studio: Product Management

JANUARY 11, 2021

At UX Studio , while we develop our products, uxfol.io and copyfol.io , we are mainly focused on agency work, meaning that we cooperate with several clients as external teams. This post was written from the perspective of designers, mainly intended for external teams and entrepreneurs. Five challenges and solutions.

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Intercom, Inc.

JUNE 1, 2021

As brick-and-mortar businesses closed worldwide, companies and customers alike had to pivot to digital-first ways of doing business. Most support teams have seen an influx of support queries since COVID-19 hit – and those issues are more complex than ever. Challenge #1: Limited team bandwidth, resources, and budget.

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Usersnap

JANUARY 8, 2024

The engineering team from Lockheed Martin used imperial units (pounds-force), while NASA’s team used metric units (newtons). As we explore the subsequent sections, we will uncover how this iterative approach to product development has revolutionized the way products are conceived, developed, and refined. Planning 2.

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