The Product Manager Coach Blog

SEPTEMBER 5, 2023

In the world of product management, where technical acumen, strategic vision, and people skills intersect, there’s an often underutilized asset that many PMs overlook: the power of networking. Plus, don’t forget to download the free guide, 10 Tips for Being a Better Product Manager , at the end of this post!

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DISQO

JULY 5, 2018

“It will win with the customer by doing a series of small bets that give it insight on how to build that long-term customer relationship.”. Whereas many organizations have deep and meaningful expertise doing large-scale market research, their findings are hitting critical limitations. Make small bets, via experimentation.

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DISQO

JULY 5, 2018

“It will win with the customer by doing a series of small bets that give it insight on how to build that long-term customer relationship.”. Whereas many organizations have deep and meaningful expertise doing large-scale market research, their findings are hitting critical limitations. Make small bets, via experimentation.

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Amplitude

APRIL 8, 2020

At Amplitude, we believe that product intelligence is a team sport—that analytics needs to be easy for the whole team to adopt. Many of our customers are also focused on driving adoption, so we often get asked how we use Amplitude to drive results. Many were even developing hacks to get around this problem.

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Product Innovation Educators

MARCH 27, 2023

Lessons for product managers from PDMA’s Outstanding Corporate Innovators Award Every year the Product Management and Development Association (PDMA) recognizes an organization with the Outstanding Corporate Innovators Award (OCI). Summary of some concepts discussed for product managers [3:04] Why was the OCI award created?

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Usersnap

FEBRUARY 19, 2019

You have developed your product sparked by brilliant ideas and are ready to go-live. The customer finding it could damage your reputation. Negative online feedback is just a finger’s swipe away. It’s nice to have your customers testing the application. You can have a variety of devices for testing.

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The Product Coalition

MARCH 27, 2020

Tamar Yehoshua, Chief Product Officer, Slack A few weeks ago, I reached my one year anniversary at Slack. We also have a public channel for every feature we develop that anyone in the company can peek inside to see the latest status and updates. It’s hard to believe it’s already been a year.

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ProductPlan

JANUARY 2, 2020

We write a lot about the skills that product managers need to be effective. But what are the most under-appreciated product management skills? But what are the most under-appreciated product management skills? To answer that question, we asked several product managers for their thoughts. Crowdsourced Picks.

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Product Innovation Educators

AUGUST 19, 2016

Each week I scour articles, wading through the dogs, and bringing you the best insights to help product managers, developers, and innovators be heroes. Another reminder why new products need a workable business model. Products (wrongly) get created this way – product first, customer second, revenue third.

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Alchemer Mobile

FEBRUARY 2, 2021

According to an InMobi survey , the number one challenge facing app developers today isn’t design or development. Without marketing, even the best apps struggle when it comes to customer acquisition and discovery. Now it’s time to put your app and positioning to the test. It’s marketing. The bad news?

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Intercom, Inc.

APRIL 22, 2021

If you’re a senior engineer and want to further your career, what skills should you develop? Write a draft, talk through it with your peers, your manager and other staff engineers – and don’t forget to ask for feedback. And Digg is an iconic brand, really amazing products in its time.

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ProductPlan

JUNE 29, 2023

ProductPlan has long been your single source of truth for the what , when , and how behind your product. More recently, we’ve helped you crowdsource new ideas from customers and stakeholders alike , and create a consistent GTM process for every new launch. Now, we want to help you capture your product strategy.

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Userpilot

SEPTEMBER 8, 2022

A help center is an in-app self-serve support system designed to help customers solve their problems inside the product. Having an in-app help center enhances customer satisfaction since customers don’t have to rush to contact customer support. Why do you need a help center for your product?

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ProductPlan

JUNE 29, 2023

ProductPlan has long been your single source of truth for the what , when , and how behind your product. More recently, we’ve helped you crowdsource new ideas from customers and stakeholders alike , and create a consistent GTM process for every new launch. Now, we want to help you capture your product strategy.

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Usersnap

JULY 17, 2020

As a business, we’re regularly trying new products and tools to help us with our software development. Especially when building customer-centric products, the software text matters. Providing software in our customer’s native language impacts the user experience a lot.

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Bain Public

OCTOBER 19, 2021

I know you’re probably wondering: what does this have to do with your product roadmap strategies ? When it comes to your product, a MOAT is about building defences to break away from the competition. It’s about setting broad goals for your product and defending your company against current or future competitors.

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Business of Software Conference

MAY 21, 2020

In this informative BoS Talk, Alex Yang and Elpie Bannister take us through the Simprints’ method of finding, hiring, nurturing, and developing top talent and explain a few of the processes they had to go through to hone this skill. Our current product is a biometric fingerprint scanner paired with an Android app.

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Lenny Rachitsky

DECEMBER 5, 2023

Each week I tackle reader questions about building product, driving growth, and accelerating your career. They launched the company back in 2019, while still students at the University of Pennsylvania, and today have scaled the app to millions of users and nearly 20,000 schools.

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Intercom, Inc.

MARCH 4, 2021

What began as a crowdsourcing initiative quickly evolved into an ecosystem where women can access funding, business training, and community building to help their businesses scale. ” And because of my background in business solutions, business development, marketing, communications, education, I’m used to planning.

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Business of Software Conference

APRIL 9, 2021

In this talk, Peldi and Natalie discuss the aspects of remote worklife that are different now for working at home in result of Covid-19 including productivity, schedules, prioritisation, focus, and much more. So I think one of the biggest question that people keep asking a lot is around productivity, and like how do you stay productive?

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The Product Coalition

JUNE 22, 2020

A new survey by the rapid consumer feedback platform Alpha sheds valuable light on the question. Alpha surveyed over 500 product leaders from large organizations and startups for its 2020 Product Management Insights Report. Product development moves fast, but customer preferences move faster.”?—?Alpha’s

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