The Product Coalition

JUNE 17, 2019

For many years CSSSR has been developing IT systems for the biggest online banks, witnessing their success firsthand. This experience has led to several key insights: You Don’t Need a Large IT Department “We operate in small teams. To begin with, the development of new functionality requires considerable resources, including people.

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Intercom, Inc.

JULY 5, 2018

Previously, however, he ran sales productivity for teams at Google, Salesforce and Box. His time at the latter culminated in the title of Chief Storyteller, where he rewrote the script for how Box sales team talked to and about their customers. I help source and complete deals, and I perform due diligence on deals.

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Iteratively Blog

MARCH 15, 2020

It’s recorded bi-weekly where they feature in-depth analysis and a top-notch interview that highlights the people applying these technologies in real-life scenarios. ? Development. A large part of the reason is due to the fact that not everything is measurable. 1 Data Science Courses by Codecademy. Start the course. #2

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Gainsight

FEBRUARY 27, 2025

Driven by a passion for making data actionable, Cummings advanced through the ranks in Customer Success, working diligently to bridge the gap between raw analytics and meaningful human experiences. In tech, and especially in AI, the landscape is constantly evolving.

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People-First Product Leadership

MAY 14, 2025

As I waited to speak with the exec team, my mind buzzed with voices: You got this. In product, we constantly navigate user needs, tech constraints, and business goals. You're an internal team, each part with its own perspective and purpose. They work diligently to prevent pain or failure. The data is strong.

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ProductPlan

FEBRUARY 1, 2021

Product leaders don’t often get many chances for hiring product team members. Additions to the product team must ramp up quickly. Stage 1: Reviewing the applications. When hiring product team members I’m also looking for adjectives and verbs that convey patience, curiosity, and a humble style. Are they team players?

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Intercom, Inc.

JULY 5, 2018

Previously, however, he ran sales productivity for teams at Google, Salesforce and Box. His time a the latter culminated in the title of Chief Storyteller, where he rewrote the script for how Box sales team talked to and about their customers. I help source and complete deals, and I perform due diligence on deals.

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ProductPlan

JULY 1, 2020

Let’s begin this process by reflecting and reviewing. User behaviors changed a lot since January, so many of the key metrics companies and product teams care about have also been impacted. Regular roadmap reviews. They might have some powerful and valuable insights to share with the product team. Were KPIs met?

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PMLesson's Ace the PM Interview

DECEMBER 4, 2020

If you're interested in the field of technical program management, then the answer is, without a doubt, yes. As the name of the position suggests, program sense is an integral part of a technical program manager's day-to-day. They are responsible for ensuring technical processes can be completed according to their deadlines.

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ProductPlan

JULY 10, 2020

As the Director of User Experience, our team was tightly partnered with our product management counterparts to ensure we had baked-in practices and habits that enabled all of our development teams to deliver an exceptional product experience effortlessly. The Product Team’s Role in Customer Experience Strategy.

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The Product Coalition

MAY 18, 2016

My supervisors in different teams (I was in a management trainee rotational program) gave me two big projects. One project was about pre-IPO funding for which I had to do a lot of financial modeling, due diligence, and third party negotiation. Product manager is the title of a role in technology companies.

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Mixpanel

NOVEMBER 8, 2022

VCs look for signals that you have the right product, in the right market, at the right time, with the right team at the helm. ” Zach Berger, Technology Investor at Bain Capital. Of course, investors also fear user churn rates, or how often people use the product and never come back. Do people love this thing?

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ProductPlan

NOVEMBER 11, 2019

Some will delight and engage the executive team by taking a high-level approach and focusing on goals and strategy. Others dive into the specifics and make engineering teams happy since they’re so detailed. Roadmaps for sales and marketing tout new functionality and minimize the time spent on technical debt and scalability.

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ProductPlan

MARCH 17, 2020

Does your management team appear to occasionally have the attention span of a fruit fly in a farmers market? When SOS sets in, it creates a cascade of chaos, unleashing all sorts of problems for the product team. They don’t always have the same drive and commitment to the current strategy as the product team.

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ProductPlan

FEBRUARY 1, 2021

Product leaders don’t often get many chances for hiring product team members. Additions to the product team must ramp up quickly. Stage 1: Reviewing the applications. When hiring product team members I’m also looking for adjectives and verbs that convey patience, curiosity, and a humble style. Are they team players?

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ProductPlan

NOVEMBER 19, 2021

Who will we want to include in our cross-functional product team? How should we arrange the strategy, brainstorming, and planning meetings for this team? What mechanism will we use to review and weigh priorities on what to build? Though this is not a complete list, of course, you’ll ha. Team messaging and collaboration.

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Intercom, Inc.

MARCH 29, 2022

Over the course of the event, we explored our vision and beliefs for the future of customer engagement and communications, and heard from Intercom leaders like CEO Karen Peacock, Co-founder and Chief Strategy Officer Des Traynor, and Chief Product Officer Paul Adams, as well as some of our amazing customers. We’re here for you.”

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UX Studio: Product Management

MARCH 31, 2019

This article will guide you on how to spot the best user experience team to hire. I’m going to talk about choosing a team that will deliver you a great digital product experience. Why the best SF companies work with remote UX teams. These teams like to write about how they do design and hate to do music video–style showreels.

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Sequent Learning

FEBRUARY 2, 2021

JJ is also a serial entrepreneur, co-founding a healthcare technology company as well as a product development and talent management consultancy. It’s my job, of course, so I want to keep up with what’s happening in the PM world. How to manage tech debt. Listen to Masters of Product Management Podcast Episode 067.

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Business of Software Conference

NOVEMBER 26, 2018

One of the themes that emerged over the course of the conference was the importance of understanding the needs of customers and the metrics you can use to better understand and act on their real, rather than stated, needs. Yeah, and I forced our team to build a trebuchet – in retrospect, that was a very bad idea.

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PMLesson's Ace the PM Interview

JUNE 10, 2020

As Peter Thiel, founder of the data analytics company Palantir Technologies, once said, "'big data' really means 'dumb data.'" Many times data scientists are charged with communicating their findings with several other teams, many of whom may be as technical as they. This is often referred to by another name: data storytelling.

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Gainsight

AUGUST 31, 2020

It is a genuinely worthy lesson about willingness to learn, the ability to adapt successfully, the power of motivating team leadership, the benefits of making data-driven decisions from product usage insights, and the results produced from commitment. So I went from running product to running product and development.”

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The Product Coalition

OCTOBER 19, 2020

Of course, the lesson here is: innovate or die. This is a well known mantra among tech CEOs, especially Facebook’s Mark Zuckerberg. Alternative futures analysis is a structured analytic technique that helps teams predict how the future might unfold. What is Alternative Futures Analysis? Here are a few of my favorites.

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Intercom, Inc.

AUGUST 18, 2022

Sarah Dayan is a staff engineer at Algolia , a “Search-as-a-Service” platform that helps developers build index and search capabilities into their own platforms through an API, and the host of two tech podcasts: Developer Experience and Entre Devs. How would she provide the right technical direction for the company?

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Product Talk

FEBRUARY 10, 2021

Teresa: For those of you that are Product Talk readers, Melissa writes our Product in Practice series where we’re sharing stories about teams doing great discovery work, so you may have seen her name there. It’s allowing each team to really find what’s going to work best for them. Let’s go ahead and dive in.

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The Product Coalition

DECEMBER 8, 2020

There is a substantial amount of knowledge available on overcoming the technical hurdles?—?desirability, What’s fascinating is that often it’s not through lack of technical knowledge that new products struggle. Getting new products and new ventures off the ground in massive companies requires overcoming enormous hurdles.

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The Product Coalition

JANUARY 16, 2024

Product managers and their teams start with enthusiasm, hit the ground running, and create a solid roadmap. In our excitement, our roadmap drifted off course and left us stranded on an unfamiliar island. The same is true for your roadmap — it takes more than diligence. The issue wasn’t the beginning. Then we hit pause.

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PMLesson's Ace the PM Interview

MAY 12, 2020

This is a generalization, so it won’t apply to every company or every team in a company, but it’s generally the right idea. Teams at startups are smaller, so you might be pulled to help in different departments. This allows you to develop skills you might not otherwise get to experience. Ask why the position is vacant.

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Andrew Chen

SEPTEMBER 4, 2018

Most of the best businesses in the internet age of technology haven’t spent a ton on paid acquisition. And I think the similar kind of analysis you can do for B2B companies is for products that have different sized teams using it. I mean, of course, you wanna grow your customers.) Jeff: Yeah. What happens next?

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The Product Cafe

DECEMBER 12, 2023

Have you ever wondered why, despite listening intently to your customers and diligently building the features they ask for, your product still struggles to gain traction? In product development, the type of evidence we rely on to build our products can make or break our strategy. Are You Trapped in the Product Death Cycle?

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Intercom, Inc.

JUNE 3, 2021

That’s the advice of the Sequoia team in their last memo, “ COVID Accelerated the Future, Now Seize It ,” and for the last couple of months, that’s certainly been on the top of our minds here at Intercom. There have been two seminal memos that have, in a sense, rocked the tech industry. And then, of course, the speculation too.

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Business of Software Conference

NOVEMBER 28, 2019

Over 30 years Stephen has seen the evolution of software and tech companies with a fascinating career spanning computers, strategy, software , universities, chairing 8 companies, Government, and most recently in AI gaining a wealth of experience and some great insights to share. Stopped off at McKinsey along the way doing Tech strategy.

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