The Product Coalition

AUGUST 14, 2022

Bad Feedback Doesn’t Always Mean Your Product Is Bad Bad product feedback is a bummer. But contrary to what you might think, it doesn’t always mean your product is bad. Here is a quick guide to strategic thinking about product feedback. The feedback on all three talks was great.

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UX Planet

FEBRUARY 26, 2024

Being a product designer does not mean you can’t draw from architecture, graphic design, or type design. Steve Jobs Archive — Ebook If you don’t know this lovely book website by now, where have you been? Abbots, a Copenhagen-based stylist & creative consultant. Article — A digital tool built like a physical product?

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The Product Coalition

MARCH 12, 2023

Hiring a product leader is never easy. Here are a few things to consider when you seek your next product leader. Photo by Mark Rabe on Unsplash When I started Infinify five years ago, I announced that I am offering product consulting services. That’s what the word ‘product’ meant to most of them.

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The Product Coalition

OCTOBER 25, 2021

Defining the right product metrics is a common challenge for product leaders. the research articles, the important topics and revelations, and as you move towards the end, the articles become lighter: interviews with celebrities, lifestyle pieces, and so on. As I’m going through exciting changes in my business?—?opening

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The Product Guy

SEPTEMBER 12, 2017

Guest Post by: David Parmelee, Digital Strategy Consultant. As you study the people who use your product or might use it, patterns start to emerge. A marketer or market researcher may view patterns in terms of demographics and buying activity. User personas stand in for users throughout the design of your product.

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The Product Coalition

JULY 30, 2023

Your product might be awesome, but if there is no significant need on the other side, it wouldn’t succeed. It happens through applying strategic product discovery processes (the same ones I advise my clients to use) and constantly listening to the market. Here is what to look for. It’s pivot time.

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The Product Coalition

DECEMBER 11, 2023

The journey to product-market fit might seem random, but it actually has a well defined high-level structure. Here is part two of the guide that will help you find your way to product-market fit. Photo by Quang Nguyen Vinh on Pexels When I first started my consulting business , I attended a sales coaching workshop.

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Mixpanel

NOVEMBER 8, 2021

Let me jump right in: With product analytics, customer retention isn’t just something you measure after the fact; it should be something you can learn to predict (and then improve). How could a product manager possibly dig into the data and pull up something that’s genuinely useful for activation and retention? With product metrics.

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The Product Coalition

MAY 1, 2022

I realized that this is something that I do whenever I’m helping my consulting customers or the CPO Bootcamp participants to make strategic decisions. about the market, the customers, the product, the business, the plans ahead? One of the ways to test your numbers is to ask yourself what would happen if you don’t meet them.

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The Product Coalition

MARCH 27, 2022

This little gardening exercise and the patience it required led me to think about the things in our daily work as product leaders that simply take time, and there is nothing we can do to speed up the process. The thing to remember is that the right product strategy is not a binary outcome that you either have or not.

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The Product Coalition

JULY 31, 2022

If you are on the journey toward product-market fit, you know it’s not easy. Every new product has its own fit to find. One of the hardest challenges of any product and any startup is of course reaching product-market fit. The good news is that product-market fit, like people, and cars, have their own “operating system”.

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ProductPlan

JUNE 16, 2022

In the years leading up to the pandemic, there was already a notable increase in demand for product managers. And as organizations pivoted to digital spaces, this hunger for product management expertise grew ravenous. Organizations across sectors invested much in the way of building out product teams. Growth PM Explainer.

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Centercode

MARCH 4, 2020

You’ve invested hours into crafting creative test topics , and you’re following best practices for a comprehensive and approachable communication strategy. But somehow, only a fraction of your testers are submitting feedback. Centercode Product Director Austin Meyer often cites an example from early in his CV career.

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The Product Coalition

DECEMBER 11, 2023

There are times, products, and audiences when optimizing for minimum cost and effort (even with the trade-off on benefit) is the right thing to do. Another example is product-led growth, which combines lower prices with a self-service approach. didn’t give me this option (and didn’t even know how to phrase it), while B.

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The Product Coalition

APRIL 10, 2022

It is a known fact that product people need to work well with others. But as a product leader, this can also become a problem. Helping product leaders and founders succeed had such a strong appeal to me that it made me get out of my comfort zone. Our ability to succeed fully depends on it. Here is how to stop impeding yourself.

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The Product Coalition

DECEMBER 11, 2023

But much like code, your product strategy also requires maintenance. Note: everything I say here is true for mature product companies as well. So they do all sorts of validations and deep analysis processes: market research, business plan, competitive analysis, and so on. Because your customers aren’t product leaders.

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Userpilot

JUNE 13, 2022

We covered the best blogs on SaaS growth, product marketing , UX analytics, venture capital, and sales. The Userpilot blog provides well-researched, in-depth articles on user onboarding, product growth, product growth, user experience, and so much more. User onboarding and Product adoption – Userpilot.

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The Product Coalition

DECEMBER 10, 2022

As product leaders, we constantly struggle to balance between getting guidance from above and setting the direction ourselves. Both as an employee and as a consultant working with CEOs closely for 5 years already, I have seen it happening time and again. But that’s exactly your expertise as a product leader, isn’t it?

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Under 10 Consulting

JANUARY 15, 2020

Before you start running the financials, ask yourself, “Is this product idea a good fit for my organization?”. So you’ve got an idea for a company or a product. But before you start running the financials, ask yourself, “Is this product idea a good fit for my organization?”. Research revealed people wanted to buy DVDs by mail.

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Centercode

AUGUST 27, 2019

If you’ve attended a QA or testing conference recently, it seems as though manual testing is a dying discipline. Due in part to the speed of development, test automation, and artificial intelligence, a greater proportion of test management is now influenced or even controlled by developers.

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Modus Create

JUNE 30, 2021

Transformational CMOs Will Own Product Innovation. We had stated that in 2021, transformational CMOs would own product innovation and leverage omnichannel product strategies to not only understand how they fit in the marketplace but transform customer interactions for the better. And no consulting firm can ignore it anymore. .

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Intercom, Inc.

NOVEMBER 7, 2019

Creating a new product category also creates a plethora of challenges – from spotting the right market niche to convincing customers that yours is a service they need. If people aren’t looking for your solution, you have to educate them about the problem your product solves. We have a great product, and customers love using it.

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Gainsight

OCTOBER 14, 2022

These are just a few of the questions that customer success (CS) experts explored in a recent episode of CS Essentials by Gainsight: Talking About ROI , a Success League Radio production. The Gainsight team identified six pain points through research and conversations with industry leaders: Visibility. Customer Experience .

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The Product Coalition

APRIL 18, 2021

Where do big creative ideas come from, and how important is this skill for product leaders? Some takeaways for you from a product interview I had at Google many years ago. Photo by John Tekeridis from Pexels When I decided to move into product management I interviewed, among other companies, for a product management role at Google.

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The Product Coalition

AUGUST 29, 2019

Liberating Structures also provide an excellent toolbox to handle Product Backlog refinements or improving the Definition of Done of an engineering organization. The Scrum Anti-Patterns Guide Join 5,300-plus agile peers: This ebook covers over 160 Scrum anti-patterns, and it is available for free right here.

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UX Studio

JANUARY 7, 2019

I also remember my anxiety on first having to conduct a usability test on it and my happiness at finishing on Friday, getting feedback for my “first project” at UX studio. If you get through our recruiting process and we hire you – as a designer or researcher – you won’t get any projects during your first week.

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Johanna Rothman

NOVEMBER 6, 2020

If you think the bulk of your revenue is from the business stream around the book, you might just leave the book on the torrent site—for discovery purposes. Rights to publish in all formats: Ebook, print, and possibly audiobooks. All the rights to ancillary products, including workshops, talks, and more.

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Gainsight

NOVEMBER 20, 2019

To truly excel in product management, you need to have a respect for design, an understanding of countless processes, a passion for problem-solving, excellent communication skills—the list goes on and on. Books for Product Managers. Blogs for Product Managers. Slack Groups for Product Managers. Books for Product Managers.

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Under 10 Consulting

JUNE 6, 2019

Drucker, American management consultant. In my first job in product management, I was based in DC and my developers were based in California. I showed them what I’d been working on and they showed me new product features that were waiting for my approval. I’m often asked where product management should sit in the organization.

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Gainsight

MARCH 29, 2019

became the basis for Newton and Leibniz’s discoveries. they learned two things: The services could be deployed by many different teams—Solutions Consultants, Services, CSMs, Support, etc. Moving from product-centric to customer-centric models. This trend is near and dear to my heart as a former product manager.

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Under 10 Consulting

DECEMBER 28, 2019

You’re in your first days as a product manager. Before the demands of others overwhelm you, you need to prepare yourself to be the business and market liaison to the product team. Your role as a product manager or product owner is to make the best business decisions for the product, working from the best available information.

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Iteratively Blog

MARCH 15, 2020

They offer a total of 6 analytics courses which primarily tell you how to use their products. It’s a Coursera course that was created by the renowned audit & consulting firm, PwC. ? If you like to research on topics such as data science, AI, ML, data mining, etc., It’s more of a research conference than an analytics event.

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UX Studio

FEBRUARY 18, 2019

Working with the right UX consultant could be added to your list of healthy, relaxing habits. UX consulting can keep you, your team and your product healthy. In this post, you will find the most important traits to look for in a UX consultant. In this article we discuss: What a UX consultant does.

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UX Studio

MAY 24, 2019

But using continuous research and idea validation, you can keep your design efforts moving in the right direction. They expected in-depth research and idea validation to support our design efforts and to find the best possible solution. It definitely made for an interesting experience from a UX researcher perspective.

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The Product Guy

AUGUST 10, 2017

Guest Post by: David Parmelee, Digital Strategy Consultant. As Marc Wendell described in a Product Mentor video, the foundation of success in both product management and user experience (UX) is solving a problem for a specific user. A software product could overemphasize a feature that its own team just wanted to build.

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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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The Product Coalition

DECEMBER 11, 2023

There comes a time with every product when there is a focus on sales. That was the case with Infinify, my product leadership academy, when I decided to “give it a try” while I always have the option to go back to a CPO role in the industry. One of these places that I get to work with companies on, is how to sell their product.

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