The Product Coalition

MAY 26, 2021

AI technology in education develops your learning method properly. Artificial intelligence-based education apps are fulfilling an essential role in developing the process of education and preparation methods. We have previously explained how automating organizational businesses can lower down the activity of the office team.

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Mironov Consulting

FEBRUARY 12, 2022

 Can the executive team?  Are But for calendars, the scarce resource is time rather than development capacity.  Just playing part-time CPO and also part-time product manager) is a poor substitute for hiring the brilliant people we need.  Poor Dark blue: recruiting , candidate interviews, talent pipeline.

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Mironov Consulting

MAY 16, 2020

A topic that’s come up several times recently in my product leader coaching sessions: how much to delegate to the (individual contributor) product managers on our teams – including different ways of building product skills and balancing personal empowerment against good results.

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Atlassian

FEBRUARY 18, 2022

Psychologically safe work environments allow team members to feel that they can safely take calculated risks without fear of repercussions. On the journey to success, how your team members feel about their work environment may be just as important as the skills they bring to the table. 5-Second summary. What is psychological safety?

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DISQO

JUNE 30, 2017

Input from executives is only less common than input from product owners, engineering teams, and the product managers themselves. The challenge for product leaders is that ideas from the C-Suite often lack customer validation and therefore put teams at risk of investing resources in ideas that won’t be successful.

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DISQO

JUNE 30, 2017

Input from executives is only less common than input from product owners, engineering teams, and the product managers themselves. The challenge for product leaders is that ideas from the C-Suite often lack customer validation and therefore put teams at risk of investing resources in ideas that won’t be successful.

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Modus Create

APRIL 5, 2022

The fundamental issue remains not considering security while developing software. . This post aims to answer the eternal questions: Why do developers omit security? What can be done to increase security awareness while developing code? Silos in Development and Security. Is there a cure for that state of mind?

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Gainsight

APRIL 14, 2022

Expanding the team is not always the right answer to address scale and impact. Just as you wouldn’t expect to scale without a sales or marketing operations team, you can’t achieve the growth you dream of without a CS Operations team either. They are the driving force of any CS team. Team player. Why CS Ops?

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The Product Coalition

MAY 12, 2022

As a product leader who has consulted with, worked for, and sold products to large companies my entire career, it comes down to three essential actions tied to a feeling you need to evoke. And remember, even if you have sold the senior executive, their team still needs to become allies in the deployment of your product.

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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. Only four months after I joined, I gave a presentation in our annual sales kickoff about how to deal with things that our competitors are saying about us.

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Mind the Product

AUGUST 23, 2018

Product managers are only hired after the innovation or startup teams get concepts or funding approved. This means that product managers are thrust into developing a product or service concept they had no part in creating. A product manager is the leader and glue for the development team, from concept to launch.

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Intercom, Inc.

SEPTEMBER 10, 2020

It’s an approach that’s served him well along the road to building the HubSpot sales team, where he was CRO for nine years. This has created large amounts of data for running teams. . Those risks can be fatal: Mark has found a 75% failure rate for both Series A and Series C startups (as he presented during his 2019 SaaStr talk.).

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The Product Coalition

NOVEMBER 30, 2022

But many, many products are developed without knowing from the start that people want the solution, or even care about the problem. Jobs To Be Done has given us a better way to approach customer development. Teams who implement JTBD often come back with “ Problems To Be Solved.” Why does this happen? It seems so simple!

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Mironov Consulting

JULY 25, 2018

Many infrastructure development teams don’t have a product manager, or have a fractional product owner/analyst working primarily on detailed technical requirements. Said another way, great development teams want to work on great technical problems. Product managers and development teams solve different problems.

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Mironov Consulting

SEPTEMBER 22, 2020

Not to stop doing validation, discovery, prototyping or experiments they may associate that that acronym, but to remove the label from all of their docs and presentations and talks. Some frequent bad outcomes from this confusion: We never finish our MVP. To delete the letters MVP from roadmaps and product charters. Here’s why….

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Actuation Consulting

JULY 22, 2018

Each of these has its own strengths and weaknesses. Used in the right situation, both can help clarify how the product concept will work and get the team nearer its goals. A wide open path for the presentation of bold, fresh ideas that could dramatically improve the customer’s experience.

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The Product Coalition

JANUARY 26, 2022

Chris’s team worked for a logistics service that tracked the ocean containers coming in and out of the ports. Their team set up the infrastructure and prepared the environment waiting for prospective accounts, which never came. You can lose your confidence in the product while talking with some of the software developers.

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UX Studio

MARCH 1, 2024

We formulated a dedicated team consisting of three researchers and three designers. While some team members immersed themselves in articles and courses, others extensively tested AI tools within the given timeframe. Read on to get a sneak peek at our research team’s conclusions. What to pay attention to?

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The Product Coalition

MARCH 14, 2019

Photo by Emily Morter on Unsplash I quit my job running the Apple Maps PM team last year. As an MSOD (Masters of Science, Organization Development) student, I consulted at the International Monetary Fund (IMF) in May of 2018. When you consult, the first thing you do is “discovery” and “contracting”. Intimidating.

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PMLesson's Ace the PM Interview

MAY 14, 2021

These are: Managing technical team members Managing technical development (pushing product design, driving the development cycles, establishing strategy, and help solve technical challenges) SWEs who transition into EM may find that their time is spent differently in management than their IC days.

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Intercom, Inc.

APRIL 20, 2018

Processes have to serve the development of the product. No separate QA team. In this sort of environment, the processes have to serve the development of the product, rather than the product developing out of predetermined processes. Like habits, some processes are good, some are bad, and some outlive their usefulness.

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Gainsight

JUNE 11, 2021

Team Up with Sales to Drive Revenue with Kristen Hayer, Founder & CEO at The Success League. But both teams should be working together to drive more revenue than attacking the customer base separately. It begins with identifying and developing outcomes. Staff it properly and invest in a proper team.

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The Product Coalition

DECEMBER 11, 2023

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. But do they really need this ?

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Mixpanel

DECEMBER 7, 2021

Good product teams know their users inside and out. They get to know all of this by using data as a strategic asset—because good product teams are made up of good product analysts. Does this mean every product team should be packed with data science degrees? Asking developers to pull data isn’t an efficient use of their time.

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The Product Coalition

JUNE 17, 2019

Each individual phase of this life cycle presents unique challenges that can make or break any company. The secret to becoming a successful startup lies in knowing your strengths and weaknesses and overcoming all the obstacles you will face along your journey. Preparation is key. At this stage, it’s time to call in the experts.

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Userpilot

FEBRUARY 3, 2021

Then, when you finally put together your user journey map and want to optimize your touchpoints and eliminate bad experiences, you can face two barriers: The Analytics Black Hole – Can’t see the forest before the trees. The Bottleneck -Your software developer who is too busy to take on every experiment you want to run.

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Modus Create

JUNE 1, 2020

The news is filled with tales of hackers breaking into financial institutions, DDoS attacks on credit card companies, and data breaches due to poor software configuration. At Modus, this is a question that often presents itself when architecting a client’s application solution or aiding in building out infrastructure and DevOps pipelines.

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Under 10 Consulting

JUNE 6, 2019

Only three things happen naturally in organizations: friction, confusion, and underperformance. Drucker, American management consultant. In my first job in product management, I was based in DC and my developers were based in California. Instead, I flew to LA once a month and stayed for a week of development team meetings.

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Userzoom

DECEMBER 17, 2019

Some stakeholders need to see the effects on the team to really appreciate the value, which is where design sprints come into play. When new to a project or team, conduct key stakeholder interviews. Documenting, storing and sharing user research badly, often means new teams have to start from the beginning every time.

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Amplitude

NOVEMBER 16, 2018

ustwo pushed the traditional boundaries of the consultancy model, evolving beyond the paid for time agency model to build our own products such as Monument Valley, and pursuing venture-based ”ustwo pushed the traditional boundaries of the consultancy model, evolving beyond the paid for time agency model to build our own products.”

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Intercom, Inc.

MAY 13, 2021

Although Linda started her career in sales, she has spent the past twelve years scaling post-sales teams and moving hyper-growth companies like Zendesk, Slack, and now Gong upmarket into the enterprise realm. So how do you create a strong, enterprise-ready team? Not just support on steroids: How to build a customer success team.

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Intercom, Inc.

NOVEMBER 20, 2018

It is important that these friendly connections represent the target persona market you have outlined, as otherwise, the feedback loop is likely to be weak. Where do they look for solutions like yours (this can help inform your marketing team as to where they should be concentrating their marketing budgets.).

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PMLesson's Ace the PM Interview

MAY 14, 2022

As a solutions architect, you're the main technical resource for your company's sales team, and can provide a critical job function in a company's growth. You'll also have an interview that takes the format of a presentation, where you'll showcase a mock customer demonstration of a product you're familiar with.

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Product Innovation Educators

MAY 21, 2018

Most of these organizations are also using some form of stage-gate for the development of new products. Colin is a managing partner and co-founder of two innovation consulting firms — Innovation Framework Technologies and Bizmotion. Stage-gate is an approach for developing new products across industries. I hope you do as well.

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The Product Coalition

MARCH 23, 2022

I apply this lens to a startup that develops solutions in the health-tech market. Given that such partners have also built out a very strong 24x7 operational team across the country, it implied that the cost of maintenance was considerably lower than if we did this by ourselves. Considerations Every organization has a dominant logic.

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The Product Coalition

JUNE 21, 2021

Many worked from home on tasks ranging from organising team activities via Slack, analysing data and collaborating on documents via Google Docs, to discussing strategies via Microsoft Teams and coaching clients via Zoom. Motor: Weakness in how one can control their muscles, bones and joints. More on that later.

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Mind the Product

JULY 24, 2019

He also encourages us to let go of the need to be right (difficult for many product managers) and enlist our teams to help us answer: What problem are we solving? We always talk about the “Build – Measure – Learn” loop of lean product development. Who are we solving it for? How will we measure success? Mind the Platform.

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