The Product Coalition

OCTOBER 20, 2020

It’s understandable that most of us don’t make time for personal development. Who wants to spend time after a hard day of work learning and developing when they could be kicking back with a beer and watching The Crown? A few months ago, I introduced a concept I have developed called the PM, or Product, Quadrants.

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Business of Software Conference

APRIL 24, 2020

Claire Lew // CEO, Know Your Team. In this BoS Talk, Claire discusses how n o one sets out to be a bad boss, but it’s easy to become one. Learn how to ask your team the right questions, why trust is important, and why being nice can be a bad thing. My name is Claire Lew and I’m the CEO of Know Your Team.

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UX Planet

JANUARY 16, 2024

The last thing you need is to stumble into the abyss of bad branding, a place where countless others have lost their way. They believe so strongly in their vision that they assume it’s universally appealing. Lack of research skills: Conducting effective research requires specific skills and tools. It’s a worthwhile investment.

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The Product Coalition

AUGUST 23, 2023

More than anything, I wanted to maintain the team’s motivation. So I did what every well-trained consultant knows to do — I asked a question. A purpose we could share with the company’s leadership team, customers, and those working on the product. What does the product mean to you?” Problem solved, or so I thought.

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Mind the Product

OCTOBER 30, 2018

By gaining insight from your experiences, you can develop principles on which to base your leadership style. Your team will work out which are important to you so you need to have a good appreciation of them. In order to develop as a person, you have to understand your weaknesses and which parts of your personality you want to amplify.

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Mind the Product

APRIL 28, 2017

The Vision as a Tool. At a minimum, a good vision needs to identify three things: the problem you are trying to solve, who you are trying to solve it for and what outcomes you want to meet (evidenced by a solid, meaningful KPI). The outcomes should be clear in the vision you have, as we saw above. Bullet dodged!

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Mixpanel

OCTOBER 20, 2020

This post is written by TWG, a product consultancy specializing in modern application development , data engineering, and product growth. Consider that there are more than 7,000 tools in the marketing technology landscape along—up from 150 just 8 years ago. Here’s where a product analytics tool like Mixpanel fits in.

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Gainsight

SEPTEMBER 8, 2021

Organizations create Customer Success teams to increase Net Revenue Retention, and we’ve recently published research showing that NRR drives valuation. But, then, organizations find that the baseline impact of simply having a CS team eventually plateaus–your NRR stagnates. You may also look outside the CS team.

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The Product Coalition

JULY 2, 2022

When I participated in the live discussions about the same topics, I realized that some of the gaps are due to perspective: So many of the companies I work with (either the few that I am personally consulting to, or among the CPO Bootcamp participants) are startups or scaleups, and only a small number are larger corporations.

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Product Talk

SEPTEMBER 9, 2020

While I tend to focus on helping teams, Petra’s work centers around helping product leaders—the people who manage product managers. She has a big focus on people development, helping product managers and product leaders get better at their craft. I was a technical consultant back then, traveling to a lot of clients all over Europe.

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Gainsight

AUGUST 2, 2021

At the same time, strategy, process planning, and content creation are geared towards ensuring teams are adequately enabled to execute similarly to ensure a seamless customer experience. Building the proper foundation early on will set your team up for success in the long run. Getting the right people in early on is half of the battle.

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Userpilot

JULY 9, 2021

Product Mastery by Geoff Watts teaches you how to be a successful product owner within agile software development practices with the use of case studies. 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. How to build an onboarding team.

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Bain Public

MAY 29, 2020

The right mentoring and coaching support facilitates a startup’s transformation and enables roadmap planning and execution, without straying from the ultimate vision and goal. MAIN: Developing Entrepreneurship in Quebec. of startups assess their chances of survival as weak. The foundation of any successful team is their leader.

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Usersnap

JANUARY 12, 2022

In short, the CPO oversees all aspects of a product’s vision, design, and development. However, their (and all product team members’) superpowers and role in SaaS growth is invaluable! Activities of a Product Team Tactical activities Strategic activities Operational activities. Developing product vision.

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The Product Coalition

JANUARY 26, 2024

The real world has limited resources, unrealistic deadlines, and new teams that have not been able to do research at all. Future-Backwards Exercise: Bring relevant stakeholders together to imagine the best and worst possible futures that could happen given the company’s current vision, strategy, and market conditions.

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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. How to identify and use the right kinds of tools and resources to implement these priorities? resource. “An

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PMLesson's Ace the PM Interview

FEBRUARY 18, 2019

Core Competencies All product managers must be good at communication, analysis, prioritization, breaking down complexity, vision, and managing a roadmap. They also need sufficient technical knowledge for the product they are building and, generally, should be at least familiar with Lean methodology and Agile development.

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PMLesson's Ace the PM Interview

FEBRUARY 18, 2019

Core Competencies All product managers must be good at communication, analysis, prioritization, breaking down complexity, vision, and managing a roadmap. They also need sufficient technical knowledge for the product they are building and, generally, should be at least familiar with Lean methodology and Agile development.

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Mind the Product

OCTOBER 24, 2019

Product managers can make better decisions if they’ve built transparency and trust with their team. Strategic decisions provide direction and focus for your product, guide product development action, and ensure alignment within your product ecosystem. You may also reduce trust in your team. A culture of trust develops.

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Amplitude

MAY 30, 2018

A career in finance, another in consulting and a stint in freelance laid the stepping stones for David to find product. As product managers, it’s our responsibility to make informed decisions about where to take our product and get the team fired up about executing on that vision.”. How did you get to where you are today?

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Revulytics

OCTOBER 9, 2019

In his webinar, leading product development consultant Sam McAfee , author of Startup Patterns identifies problems product development organizations often face in measuring their efforts , and offers practical advice for tackling them. Finally, a lot of teams – especially in larger organizations -- are misaligned on priorities.

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Bain Public

MARCH 31, 2020

Where’s the vision? Holes in communication Lack of communication and collaboration between teams can result in the overall failure of your product delivery - which can ultimately lead to not being able to reach your business objectives. This isn’t exactly much to go on. Where’s the communication? Where’s the direction?

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Under 10 Consulting

MAY 15, 2020

The roadmap is one of the most common tools requested of product teams by executives, development and operations, sales and marketing teams, and key customers. . ?. A roadmap is a vision document showing where the product might be headed over the next few months or years. ." — Johnson's Roadmapping Conundrum. ?.

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PMLesson's Ace the PM Interview

FEBRUARY 7, 2022

Community managers, sales teams, marketing managers, and more could provide much insight into a product's users. Without this first-hand knowledge and understanding of your product, you won't be able to develop or improve your product as much as possible. Spend time getting to know people from all sorts of teams.

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The Product Coalition

MARCH 15, 2020

Product strategy should help you decide which problems need to be solved to make your product vision a reality. In product development, necessary actions and emergent information is rarely obvious or clear, which is why we need inductive reasoning. Do this often to reorient teams where and when necessary.

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Business of Software Conference

OCTOBER 11, 2023

As usual, you really had to be there but here are the Sigmacorn notes… 9:00 Mark Littlewood: Opening remarks Welcome to BoS! How will we win?

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Intercom, Inc.

NOVEMBER 7, 2019

As Head of Sales for Spendesk, Nico was initially inspired by the vision of founder Rodolphe Ardant who had spotted a gap for ‘spend management’ in the B2B market based on personal banking trends. So they created a software that provides control, visibility, and payment methods for corporate finance teams. Nico: Correct.

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The Product Coalition

NOVEMBER 6, 2019

Product Roadmaps are some of the most important product tools. Tools are like the anchors that serve to rein in inspiration, focus and achieve your goals. Anything from working as a team or long-distance communication can be improved with the right application. Besides, a bad plan can really damage you in the long run.

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Mind the Product

AUGUST 19, 2019

Secondly, as great product managers are also great capacity builders for their teams, you should start looking for opportunities that AI can present for your product. That’s why it’s incredibly important to develop a good level of empathy and user understanding, not only for yourself, but for the whole team.

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PMLesson's Ace the PM Interview

APRIL 4, 2022

It's common practice for companies to use recruiters (either contractors or in-house) to help them keep up with industry trends and find qualified software developers. Whether you're a junior developer or a senior software developer, having some reliable recruiters in your corner will never be a bad thing.

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The Product Coalition

JULY 30, 2020

This incentive allowed us to charge the doctors a subscription fee to be in the platform (after initial vetting) and still pay a % fee on each consultation. My suggestion is to have a vision for monetization and document the assumptions and goals before building the product. and new bookings at 0.5%. LTV/CAC ratio of 0.05?—?we

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The Product Coalition

DECEMBER 20, 2018

You are supposed to coherently navigate the development, design, and marketing of a product. Tools are like the anchors that serve to rein in inspiration, focus and achieve your goals. Anything from working as a team or long-distance communication can be improved with the right application. Some tough waters indeed!

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Intercom, Inc.

APRIL 8, 2021

As face-to-face consultations were no longer an option for many healthcare providers, Joel and his team dropped everything and asked themselves: what could they build to help their customers (and their customers’ patients) adapt to the new normal? It was exciting, and the worst-case scenario wasn’t so bad.

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Roadmunk

APRIL 3, 2018

As a product consultant and founder of a product school, Melissa has trained over 2,000 PMs across her career. I think with some of the other courses that I’ve seen or have been a part of, they teach people the tools. They know how to use a tool, but they don’t know how to use it within the system.

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PMLesson's Ace the PM Interview

MARCH 25, 2021

As the name suggests, cross-functional partnerships are the working relationships that TPMs form with various team members involved in implementing their program. These are engineering, product management, data, and design teams, among others. Engineering Teams Photo by Charles Deluvio / Unsplash ?It Let's get to it!

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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. We often recommend looking up your interviewer on LinkedIn to understand them a bit better, and reviewing public vision documents produced by the company.

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Gainsight

JUNE 10, 2021

Giving your CS team is dependent on your company values and needs. As Customer Success Operations becomes central to most companies, the growth of the CS team and professional role is leading to an opening of the profession. They carefully chose the talent on their teams to suit their needs. Complex and fast?

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