The Product Coalition

MARCH 12, 2023

You are looking for a partner to join your team and take a significant leadership role. 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. It’s someone else’s job”.

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The Product Coalition

APRIL 18, 2021

They want to consult with me on whether or not product management is the right profession for them since they feel that they don’t know how to come up with these big ideas, and feel that it is needed in order to be able to lead. For example, one of the most innovative ideas I had throughout my career was Twiggle’s product.

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Userpilot

AUGUST 30, 2023

Get ready to dive into insightful discussions, practical strategies, and real-world examples that will empower you to create and manage products that meet user needs and leave them truly satisfied. Product management and leadership speakers. leadership to uphold your customer-centric focus.

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The Product Coalition

JULY 30, 2023

When I realized that consulting isn’t a one-time gig for me and that it’s what I want to do moving forward (it was a few months after I started doing it, before the CPO Bootcamp was even created) I immediately understood that I need to up my game in order to build a sustainable business. But when it happened, it immediately led me to action.

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Userpilot

NOVEMBER 21, 2023

If so, you should definitely watch the talk that Jason Knight , a product consultant and advisor, gave at this year’s Product Drive hosted by Userpilot. In his talk, Jason talked about how product managers can upskill to meet the challenges in their daily work and how to make sure that their organizations value their work.

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Userpilot

JULY 9, 2021

The Lean Product Playbook by Dan Olsen is a practical guide on implementing the Lean Product methodology based on years of Olsen’s consulting work. New in – Best New Product Management Books in 2021. Product Management Books #1 – Continuous Discovery Habits [NEW! ]. Versatile leadership style.

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Product Innovation Educators

SEPTEMBER 6, 2021

Today we are talking about how market segmentation is done and how it impacts product pricing. To help us with the details, a product strategy and pricing expert is joining us, Dan Balcauski. Product Tranquility , a consulting firm based in Austin, Texas. Summary of some concepts discussed for product managers. [2:05]

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ProductPlan

JULY 16, 2021

Product Manager’s Control of Employee Expectations. As a product manager, implementing an effective product strategy should remain a priority. For example, let’s say you have a disgruntled customer bugging you to add a new feature. The request falls within the domain of an associate product manager.

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The Product Coalition

MARCH 27, 2022

Here are three examples of areas that usually take longer to demonstrate results, but progress happens whether you see it or not. Here are 3 such examples. It was a lengthy process, with quite a few trials and errors, until we found the right strategy. But some things?—?especially especially the impactful ones?—?cannot

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Mironov Consulting

APRIL 30, 2020

Topic: Covid19’s Impact On Your Product Strategy. But now many of us in product or development organizations are shifting attention to how this crisis changes priorities and product plans. Rich will talk through some examples of shifting needs and short-term crisis adjustments. Hosted by: Synerzip.

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The Product Coalition

DECEMBER 11, 2023

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. For example, let’s say your goal is $1M in ARR, and today you have $180K. Ask yourself what would make your product worth that higher price. How would you make the $1M?

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Product Management Unpacked

SEPTEMBER 5, 2018

I sat in a meeting about business strategy recently and one of the pieces of advice I gave the leadership team was that strategy was a lot about deciding what we were not going to do – what we were going to say ‘no’ to. We had acquired it several years earlier, and the product never achieved its sales goals.

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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.

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bpma ProductHub

APRIL 30, 2017

Up Your Game,” she walks through real-life examples and tips to think more confidently. Such a trait is crucial to Product Management roles if you want sales, marketing and engineering to trust and follow your direction. Her consulting work, personal life events and her business partner emphasized that the lessons as “Ms.

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Intercom, Inc.

DECEMBER 21, 2021

Throughout the year, we’ve talked to business leaders, experts, and pioneers about all kinds of topics: from creating world-class customer experiences to the challenges of running a business during the pandemic, from being an ally and addressing gaps in diversity to building technical leadership careers. Climbing the leadership ladder.

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Mironov Consulting

DECEMBER 5, 2023

  (For fun, let’s call those things strategies.)   That might be the CPO/Head of Product, who has the smallest staff but often excellent understanding of the end-to-end business.   A good corporate strategy, wherever it comes from, is necessary for a good product strategy. Dwight Eisenhower

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Mironov Consulting

OCTOBER 19, 2022

Product management doesn’t run Engineering; Engineering runs Engineering. And at least in public, Engineering and Product leadership need to be shoulder-to-shoulder , actively supporting each other at every turn. become a professional services/custom consulting company.  We can accidentally (but rapidly!)

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Roman Pichler

JULY 11, 2016

You should therefore help the team acquire the relevant market and domain knowledge—for instance, by involving the team in research and validation work, inviting them to join you when you visit customers— and ensure that they are aware of the product strategy and product roadmap as well as the business goals and KPIs.

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The Product Coalition

AUGUST 23, 2023

So I did what every well-trained consultant knows to do — I asked a question. What does the product mean to you?” A purpose we could share with the company’s leadership team, customers, and those working on the product. A product roadmap is, therefore, more than a checklist of features and timelines.

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The Product Coalition

FEBRUARY 18, 2023

This is what I tell the founders that consult with me  — that to really solve the problem that they are looking to solve, a tool is not enough. The Product Manager’s Job Is to Think That’s what makes the role so great, and so hard. Tools, for example, can highlight correlations, but not causations. Here are a few reasons why.

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Bain Public

OCTOBER 15, 2020

What happens here is that these expectations and this type of behaviour become the primary contributor to product strategy gridlock. Often people will become product managers by default rather than through decision. What is the product’s reason for being or the goal for its operations? Driving Key Results.

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Mind the Product

JANUARY 21, 2020

Examples of good corporate sustainability initiatives from Stripe and Google. The Product Experience is hosted by Lily Smith and Randy Silver. Lily enjoys working as a consultant product manager with early-stage and growing startups and as a mentor to other product managers. Sign the AWS open letter.

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Userpilot

AUGUST 26, 2021

One of the factors that drive the success of SaaS product management is how aligned the product team is with the customer success team. Data-driven growth is an important element of SaaS product management because it can inform your product strategy and also provides you with evidence to back up your decisions.

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The Product Coalition

JUNE 11, 2022

What every great consultant does?—?I I got the leadership team together in front of a whiteboard. Provide examples of how other clients worked through each of the steps. I lead an enterprise software company in the healthcare space. I finally have a chance to do something about dreaded implementation experiences. What did I do?

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Mind the Product

DECEMBER 13, 2018

Garry Prior has been in and around the technology industry for more than 20 years, largely in product management / product leadership roles. She also helps to organise the Product Management Festival which takes place in Zurich every November. Sophie Manton – Independent Consultant.

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Roman Pichler

SEPTEMBER 11, 2023

To effectively staff the product team, I recommend including the people shown in Figure 1. [1] 1] Figure 1: The Product Team Members Let’s look at the product team members in Figure 1 in more detail starting with the person in charge of the product. This shows how important the role is.

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The Product Coalition

OCTOBER 7, 2019

The Service Blueprint is a key component of Bain Public’s product management process. We use it to help understand the context products operate within. The best way to create a great overarching product strategy is to grow and evolve this document.

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Gainsight

JANUARY 18, 2021

Chris revealed that as CPO, he sees his role as having accountabilities for ALL the product strategy, product roadmap, and product execution. He believes his job entails everything outbound through product marketing into the field organization. It’s a classic story of what management consultants do,” Chris said. “I

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The Product Coalition

JANUARY 16, 2022

Understand Your Core Values The product roadmap in a product company (as opposed to a services company, for example) sets the strategic direction of everything going on. As such, it cannot be limited to include only the product-related parts like features and product KPIs. an actual coach quality.

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The Product Coalition

FEBRUARY 5, 2019

Starting as a Product Designer, she then became Manager, Director and finally VP. Therefore, she provides a great example of a stable product management career path: staying within the company, and evolving both vertically and horizontally. Josh Fetcher is an author and business consultant. Check out her Medium profile !

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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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ProductPlan

FEBRUARY 18, 2020

But the discipline has matured, and more organizations value what dedicated product management has to offer. Product strategy has now become the primary focus of the job. Product strategy is a high-level plan for the product. It ties overall business objectives to the product. Metrics that Matter.

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Mind the Product

AUGUST 19, 2019

Spam engines are the most famous example here but there is much more. To identify these issues , you would need to do a very thorough risk analysis and understand the potential implications for your product. For example, if I need to write an email, there is an autocomplete feature that enables me to do it faster.

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The Product Coalition

MARCH 17, 2019

And that nothing will be changed until the project is shipped… That’s a silly comparison, many will say, and pull out the obvious examples: Google, Facebook, Instagram and even the the iPhone. Not the monstrous product you are connected to on all of your devices. 4 time CEO, numerous product lead positions, lecturer, writer and mentor.

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The Product Coalition

DECEMBER 11, 2023

Another example is product-led growth, which combines lower prices with a self-service approach. I’ve included examples to help you out. For example, if you need to make a presentation to the board of directors, your tendency might be to show everything in a positive light — you might feel that the CEO needs it to be this way.

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ProductPlan

FEBRUARY 21, 2019

Considering the leap from being a product manager to a leadership role, but not sure what’s involved in managing product managers? The responsibilities of product leadership and the skills required, are very different those of a product manager. What does managing a product team entail?

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Mind the Product

AUGUST 9, 2017

While the Amazon Echo Show is an impressive addition to the repertoire of voice and video monitoring systems in this growing market, it’s not the product features that are drawing attention. Rather, it is Amazon’s smart home product strategy. Have an integration strategy. Your job doesn’t end with the sale, though.

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