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From Product Management Back to Strategy

The Product Coalition

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. One of the first things I did, for example, was to work with the salespeople on how to sell the product.

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Product-Led Growth Is a Misleading Name

The Product Coalition

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. I talk about it a lot when I speak about product strategy and in the CPO Bootcamp.

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Hiring Your First Product Manager

The Product Coalition

Along with the founders (the CEO and CTO), most of the employees in the company at the time were developers. Eventually, he managed the entire product from the execution standpoint, while I focused on the strategy and long-term planning. It turned out that hiring him long before I thought I would need him was a great thing.

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Strategic Debt Is the Silent Killer of Startups

The Product Coalition

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. They always need something you haven’t developed yet. Unlike what one might think, this is a really bad sign. And nothing else. Because your customers aren’t product leaders.

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Building a Multi-Dimensional Roadmap

The Product Coalition

As a product leader who is creating this roadmap, you need to treat it as a compass and plan not only for your team and the technology team but rather as the direction that the entire company needs to go in. So, having a great platform but poor content won’t really help them. if you fail, what would you have done wrong?

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Do Your Customers Really Want to Pay Less?

The Product Coalition

While I was writing this article, one of my consulting clients called me to talk about this dilemma exactly: as their product is getting more mature and allows more functionality, their UX which was something they were super proud of up until now is getting slightly more complex. Any decision can be the right one, depending on the situation.

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How to Settle In Your New Job as a Product Leader

The Product Coalition

Only among my consulting customers , two companies recently hired a new VP of Product. It will also help you develop intuition , which has a bad name in a data-driven world but is actually a super important tool for you to use. Here are my tips for getting your job off to a great start. What worked best so far?