The Product Coalition

MARCH 5, 2023

Not only does this help them develop their skills and expertise, but it also ensures that your team is constantly improving and growing. With this in mind, I shall explain and provide examples, and I would love your feedback and questions. Provide regular feedback In recent years, managing has become a mentor’s game.

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Roman Pichler

JULY 6, 2021

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. For instance, you might show the individuals how they can make effective strategic product decisions, create an actionable product roadmap, and effectively use the right KPIs.

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UX Planet

FEBRUARY 21, 2024

As a Product Designer working in a high-performing software team, I am tasked and responsible for championing user value, ensuring that the end user's needs are met when using the product. It was a valuable growth for me to be deeply involved in assessing business values and technical feasibility with my team.

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Roman Pichler

MAY 11, 2021

But the value a product creates is ultimately determined by its users: No product will be successful in the long run if it does not solve a specific user problem, create a tangible benefit, or help the users achieve a specific goal. Myth #3: The product owner is responsible for the team performance.

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The Product Coalition

MARCH 28, 2022

Customer Empathy Saw a number of memes on this topic (Exhibit A above)?—?clearly, clearly, all of us know the importance of truly understanding the customer problem before we ship a product, testing something with customers perhaps in a lab setting or in a pilot before scaling. the market, competition, customer needs etc.).

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The Product HQ

MAY 10, 2024

Since product development is such a lucrative field, this is a crucial role for the company. This includes the project management of all of the activities done in product conceptualization, design, development, and marketing. Since the team is small, you will have to manage the technical aspects of product development.

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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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ProductPlan

JUNE 11, 2019

An outcome-based roadmap sounds like a good idea. Instead of a long list of context-free features and enhancements the roadmap is constructed to accomplish specific goals critical to the success of the business. The Problem With Outcome-Based Roadmaps. In reality, they end up with outcomes that fall short of expectations.

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PMLesson's Ace the PM Interview

MARCH 15, 2021

You’ve probably also been asked “what’s your greatest strength (or weakness)” once or twice while interviewing for jobs. You may have also read the famous article ‘Good Product Manager/Bad Product Manager’ by Ben Horowitz. Interview example: “I strive to be a data-driven decision maker for my teams.

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Mironov Consulting

DECEMBER 31, 2017

I get pulled into lots of discussions among product managers about the best ways to represent (and then present and present and present) roadmaps or backlogs, especially to internal sales/marketing/support audiences. Each functional group has its own product priorities, so each wants a different roadmap. Just sign here.”)

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Modus Create

MARCH 8, 2022

” or “which features will be released to our customers and when?” In Agile, a release is a group of software features that can be developed and deployed to the users in a given period. But there is danger in constantly deploying new product features as they are developed. What is Agile Release Planning?

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Gainsight

JULY 5, 2022

It is increasingly apparent that having a CS Ops team and leader is becoming a necessity. Customer success (CS) is evolving and moving outside the box it once inhabited. It affects so many parts of business because it is not exclusively about customer success or customer experience (CX) anymore. Defining a CS Ops Team.

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Modus Create

JANUARY 12, 2021

Never before has the customer been empowered with so many choices and information about those choices. Customers are savvy, informed, and ready to jump ship if a better product or service comes along. The three defining questions for any modern business are: How can we deliver more value to the customer?

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The Product Coalition

DECEMBER 8, 2018

Your roadmap is one of the most important things you’ll produce as a SaaS company. Who will you share the roadmap with: Just employees, or customers too? And then there’s perhaps the biggest question of all: “How do we decide what makes it on to our roadmap?” And your roadmap should change with them.

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Bain Public

NOVEMBER 4, 2020

While most of your roadmap initiatives support one tactic or another, each functional group will call out for new initiatives that match other objectives and they’ll want the entire development effort in the upcoming release. So how does a product leader develop great negotiating skills, deep empathy, and a backbone of steel ?

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Roman Pichler

JUNE 6, 2023

Here are four examples: Joe, the sales rep, has promised a feature to an important customer without first talking to you—the person in charge of the product. Sue, the Scrum Master , wanted to help the development team get better at sprint planning. But the team still over-commits and under-delivers.

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Userpilot

DECEMBER 11, 2019

Feedback collection (Typeform, Feedier). User testing (UserTesting, Userfeel). Feedback management (Canny, Airfocus, ProdPad). Roadmapping (Productplan, Casual, Roadmunk). You can customize your onboarding flows, analyze user behavior, and use in-app messaging to drive engagement.

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UserVoice

JULY 31, 2017

And, as the person who decides what’s in and what’s out of a product release or roadmap, a product manager is often the one who must say “no.”. Saying no isn’t a bad thing—if we didn’t say no our products would never be released because they would include thousand of features and support every use case imaginable. “An

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Mironov Consulting

JUNE 27, 2019

Defining my label carefully, a “product leader” is someone who manages a team of product managers. There may also be some designers or a few developers reporting into such roles, but I’m focused away from CTO and VP Engineering roles where the majority of staff are developers. . 2] Driving Strategy, Tooling and Outcomes. [3]

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Folding Burritos

FEBRUARY 22, 2016

The reason is that we often fail to be constructive and pedagogic; if we don’t try to change their mindset, we’re sentencing ourselves to be thought of as “those pesky Naysayers.”. You want the stakeholders’ input, but you need it to be (and need them to think) in terms of problems for you and your team to solve. features.).

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Roman Pichler

FEBRUARY 14, 2023

Listen to the audio version of this article: [link] 1 Complement Scrum with a Product Discovery and Strategy Process Scrum is a simple framework that helps teams develop successful products. Otherwise, you might ask the wrong people for feedback on the increments and hence draw the wrong conclusions. But don’t stop there.

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The Product Coalition

JULY 24, 2020

Check out more insightful sketches by Jono Hey on sketchplanations.com This article is part of a wider guide on how to establish a product discovery framework in your organization. It took a few years until the team felt the market for this product was mature enough. Any inaccuracies or misinterpretations are due to me.

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Userpilot

APRIL 25, 2024

If you’re seeking open-ended questions examples that elicit meaningful insights, this guide is tailored for you. We cut straight to practical, usable examples you can immediately incorporate into your user research or interviews. With bespoke logic and survey analytics, it’s the perfect solution for collecting in-app feedback.

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The Product Coalition

MARCH 15, 2020

If you are “doing prioritization”, that simply means you have too much you are trying to tackle, you are wasting time trimming down those ideas, and you are probably doing this in a series of internal discussions, i.e., you are not leveraging user testing to make evidence-based decisions to drive toward more innovative solutions.

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BrainMates

SEPTEMBER 23, 2020

We have developed a new leadership model – the Product Adaptive Leadership Model (PALM) that offers a path for Product Leaders to examine their current practices, apply new ways of solving problems, and improve their Product Leadership performance. This often goes unnoticed as the pace of development and deadlines increases.

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Bain Public

MAY 20, 2021

Without a diverse team and an inclusive, safe space, success will be much harder to achieve (in all aspects). We’d like to contribute to this conversation by sharing some tips on how product managers can alter their management style to encourage a more diverse and inclusive environment for their team and clients.

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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). From aviation’s decade-spanning aircraft design challenges to construction projects exceeding budgets and deadlines—the common thread is the struggle with unforeseen variables in the real-world.

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Izenda

JUNE 17, 2019

The new world order of communications has fundamentally changed the way organizations and users interact. It’s often lumped in with “poor-planning skills” and “control issues.” As they work with several teams throughout the product’s development, being firm on goals and expectations will teach each team to expect direction.

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Sachin Rekhi

JANUARY 9, 2017

For a SaaS business this may be specifically determining whether you can acquire a customer at a cost of acquisition (CAC) that is well below the customer's ultimate lifetime value (LTV), thus re-creating the "buy low" and "sell high" opportunity. But more broadly, I think it's important to leverage this mindset for all businesses.

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PMLesson's Ace the PM Interview

OCTOBER 6, 2021

This is especially true if you're looking to join the technical program management team. Those TPM candidates with a much deeper technical acumen will probably be better suited for the Infrastructure team. These are technical project retrospective , leadership & team collaboration , Facebook Values.

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BrainMates

SEPTEMBER 23, 2020

We have developed a new leadership model – the Product Adaptive Leadership Model (PALM) that offers a path for Product Leaders to examine their current practices, apply new ways of solving problems, and improve their Product Leadership performance. This often goes unnoticed as the pace of development and deadlines increases.

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Intercom, Inc.

OCTOBER 10, 2019

As the publisher and founder of Rosenfeld Media , he works with authors and speakers to try to make sense of the user experience and how it can make the world a better place. We will work with you over months iteratively to develop that idea. “These two pillars: the user research and diversity of perspective.

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The Product Coalition

FEBRUARY 26, 2022

Why have Product Managers stopped speaking to customers? Very sadly, most product managers I meet today no longer talk directly to customers regularly. If you ask; “How many customers did you speak to this week?” My view is that this evolution is bad for product management careers and the customers who benefit from what we do.

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Usersnap

JANUARY 18, 2024

Why do the most successful product managers always seem to pay attention to the power of a well-constructed NPS survey ? These leaders understand that a streamlined NPS tool distills vast customer sentiment into actionable data, guiding strategic decisions. It enables precise, actionable insights for enhancing business performance.

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Alchemer Mobile

AUGUST 27, 2020

Customer behaviors and preferences are shifting daily – as are their emotions. For many mobile product managers, their biggest goal is to create a realistic product roadmap and hit key milestones on time. Learning how to pivot quickly and adjust roadmaps is one of the most important skills a mobile PM can have.

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Intercom, Inc.

JANUARY 20, 2022

We surveyed and interviewed key people in our teams to understand how they worked and how they saw Intercom’s internal operations. And sure enough, the feedback was that things were starting to slow down. What we did was, for us, massively insightful, maybe more insightful than we ever realized going into it. Paul: Yeah.

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