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The Product Coalition
JULY 16, 2023
In my first official product role, which I got to after managing large dev teams and a business-related role, I managed alone a product with a development team of ~40 people. My personal passion is to bring back this very important dimension into product management and leadership.
The Product Coalition
JUNE 18, 2023
Photo by cottonbro studio on Pexels When I started Infinify, I told the world I am shifting to product consulting. I knew what I really wanted to do, and the way I understood the term ‘product consulting’ described it quite well. The market, however, understood it differently. That’s the whole reason VCs invest in startups.
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The Product Coalition
FEBRUARY 27, 2022
Only among my consulting customers , two companies recently hired a new VP of Product. By the way, while the tips here address specific challenges that product leaders face, many of them would apply to any kind of leadership position, and even to non-leadership positions, so feel free to forward it to friends who are currently on the move.
The Product Coalition
APRIL 18, 2021
On the on-site interview day, one of the interviewers asked me the following question: if you had all of Google’s resources and no other constraints, which product would you develop? My answer was: I would develop a voice interface for the computer (it was before the smartphone era). I was really afraid of this question.
The Product Coalition
MARCH 13, 2022
Because over time, the Structured Data group (that I was Head of Product at) developed smarter, AI-based systems, that were meant to replace the back-office work or make it more efficient and create a better product catalog at the same time using things only machines can do. The superpower became a weakness. We all do it all the time.
The Product Coalition
AUGUST 9, 2021
In one of my roles as an R&D manager, I inherited an employee from one of the other teams on the day I joined. Little did I know that “not always easy to manage” is an understatement, and that this developer actually didn’t want to be managed at all. How does having them around impact the team’s morale? trust me?—?I’ve
The Product Coalition
DECEMBER 19, 2021
Along with the founders (the CEO and CTO), most of the employees in the company at the time were developers. This is one of the most popular questions I receive from my consulting customers as well as CPO Bootcamp participants. Do not hire people with a bad attitude or if they are not team players. Here are my best tips.
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