The Product Coalition

MARCH 4, 2023

Being a product manager is truly wonderful and diverse job. Here are several questions you should ask yourself before considering a Product Management career. Only you carry the vision and belief of what your product can become. Building a product is a marathon. They manage the product.

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Product Innovation Educators

APRIL 2, 2018

How product managers can challenge ideas to achieve long-term success. We can learn a lot from examining the journey of a product and this interview looks at the product story of Badger Maps, the market-leading route planning app for field salespeople. Ways to form the vision for a product.

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Userpilot

JULY 27, 2023

Engineering Manager: In charge of planning, designing, and overseeing projects. They also manage finances and supervise one or more engineering teams. Product Manager : In charge of creating product strategy and overseeing the design process, among other things. Average salary: $151,254/yr.

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The Product Guy

SEPTEMBER 27, 2016

Each Session of the program runs for 6 months with paired individuals… Conducting regular 1-on-1 mentor-mentee chats Sharing experiences with the larger Product community Participating in live-streamed product management lessons and Q&A. Jordan Bergtraum VP Product Management, ServiceChannel.

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The Product Guy

OCTOBER 25, 2016

Each Session of the program runs for 6 months with paired individuals… Conducting regular 1-on-1 mentor-mentee chats Sharing experiences with the larger Product community Participating in live-streamed product management lessons and Q&A. Jordan Bergtraum VP Product Management, ServiceChannel.

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The Product Guy

JANUARY 5, 2017

In our a recent live stream from one of our mentors of The Product Mentor , Vikas Batra, lead a conversation around “Emotional Intelligence for Product Managers”. We are always looking for more product mentors from all around the world. About The Product Mentor. Ladislav Bartos Product Manager, Gumtree.com.

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Revulytics

DECEMBER 16, 2019

2019 was a great year to be in product management. LinkedIn listed Product Designer and Product Owner in the 10 most promising careers of 2019 , with 80 percent more job openings year-over-year and a career advancement score of 9 out of 10. Industry, The Product Conference, Cleveland, OH. Mind the Product.

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Business of Software Conference

FEBRUARY 9, 2021

If you don’t have a Head of Product you may suffer from: narrow focus on engineer/development productivity; underpowered product management teams; customer benefits misaligned with actual features; and lack of a realistic product strategy. But it’s hard to hire a Head of Product.

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The Product Coalition

AUGUST 6, 2023

How do product managers lead standups? The above mentioned sounds simple enough, yet, we still find many stories online and on social media about challenges product leaders face when it comes to leading daily standups successfully. Keren: Begin with the market voices.

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Pragmatic Marketing

SEPTEMBER 18, 2018

Product management and product marketing professionals shouldn’t tell marketing teams how to generate leads; they should focus on problems in product growth and let marketing design the appropriate campaigns. Hiring an RFP coordinator (preferably in sales operations) to manage the process.

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Pragmatic Marketing

SEPTEMBER 18, 2018

Product management and product marketing professionals shouldn’t tell marketing teams how to generate leads; they should focus on problems in product growth and let marketing design the appropriate campaigns. Hiring an RFP coordinator (preferably in sales operations) to manage the process.

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Mind the Product

JANUARY 24, 2019

But MVP is a key concept in product management. That’s the tug of genuine market enthusiasm. Then we met a man who had developed the technology to personalise marshmallows. “ Internal opinions should be disregarded with a degree of ruthlessness, ” says Mo Khan, product manager at TransferWise.

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The Product Coalition

OCTOBER 26, 2020

I would argue that even if you are beyond that spot, and as a product leader you do much more than UX, you and the company might still not realize what is your primary responsibility as a product leader. Why This Happens Product management is a unique role in so many ways.

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Roadmunk

SEPTEMBER 21, 2017

Throughout my career as both a product manager and startup founder, there’s been one severely underrated skill I credit for much of my success—and that’s reading. I’m constantly consuming articles on product management, product culture, startups and entrepreneurship to bolster my career as a product person and leader.

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Izenda

APRIL 29, 2019

In some organizations, the role of a product manager can be a murky one. Product managers don’t have full authority over all of the aspects that make products a success, such as user and data research, marketing, sales, or support. Product road-mapping. Conducting market assessments.

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The Product Coalition

NOVEMBER 7, 2021

After a while, I started feeling more comfortable in the cybersecurity world and was able to talk intelligently about my product and the market. I remember that at some point, I was debating with the CTO and Co-Founder?—?one But don’t ask them to make the product decisions for you, either explicitly or implicitly.

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Mironov Consulting

SEPTEMBER 14, 2020

They don’t value experience running product management teams , instead overweighting narrow technical or market segment familiarity. Let’s carefully define a “Head of Product” as someone who directly supervises a team of product managers including hiring, work assignments, mentoring, and resolving cross-product disputes.

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ProductPlan

OCTOBER 26, 2021

Seeing the big-picture vision and possessing versatility enables product managers to impact, even when the spotlight falls on others instead. Variety is the Spice of Life and the Bane of Product Management Careers. There appears to be a lack of shared understanding of what Product has to offer and why it’s so necessary.

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The Product Guy

JANUARY 27, 2017

In our a recent live stream from one of our mentors of The Product Mentor , Krishna Madhuvarsu, lead a conversation around “Product Management in Startups vs. Enterprises”. We are always looking for more product mentors from all around the world. About The Product Mentor. Signup to be a Mentor Today!

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The Product Coalition

FEBRUARY 1, 2021

Product management requires so many diverse skills that most likely your people are more experienced than you at least in some of them. If the people reporting to you know better how to do their job, what is your role as a manager? It can be a full-blown CPO responsibility or a CTO who runs both product and technology.

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The Product Guy

JANUARY 31, 2017

Each Session of the program runs for 6 months with paired individuals… Conducting regular 1-on-1 mentor-mentee chats Sharing experiences with the larger Product community Participating in live-streamed product management lessons and Q&A. Jordan Bergtraum VP Product Management, ServiceChannel.

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Mironov Consulting

APRIL 15, 2023

 One group (sales, implementation/customer success, professional services, account-based marketing) is trained and paid and rewarded to focus on one customer at a time , with current-quarter timelines.   ( Cassandra who was probably a product manager.) Get it done, and move on.

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Usersnap

SEPTEMBER 29, 2022

Competitive analysis of current market offerings absolutely helps your SaaS company. Not only is tracking the competition daunting, it doesn’t ensure the product chiseled and shaped will be used by YOUR user base. Now let’s look at the three product-led growth go-to-market types for SaaS companies. Types of SaaS Growth.

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The Product Guy

FEBRUARY 2, 2017

Each Session of the program runs for 6 months with paired individuals… Conducting regular 1-on-1 mentor-mentee chats Sharing experiences with the larger Product community Participating in live-streamed product management lessons and Q&A. Jordan Bergtraum VP Product Management, ServiceChannel.

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Under 10 Consulting

DECEMBER 19, 2019

What is product management? The industry continues to be confused by the titles, roles, and responsibilities in product management. . Product management focuses on. problems to be solved for a market full of customers. If you’re determining what campaigns to run, you’re not a product manager.

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ProductPlan

JUNE 22, 2023

Product-centric organizations focus on product innovation for its own sake without necessarily considering customer needs. In the process, it may get disconnected from the market it is serving. A product-centric organization is the opposite of a customer-centric organization. Understanding these distinctions is important.

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Mixpanel

FEBRUARY 16, 2024

When you’re deep in product development, it can be surprisingly easy to overlook who you’re making your product for. This sounds pretty obvious, but understanding your product’s users is often easier said than done, especially when you’re building for multiple different personas. Try it for free.

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Userpilot

MARCH 30, 2022

Asses Product-Market Fit before sunsetting a product. Numbers and data are important – but talking to customers and gathering feedback can provide you with a new page on your product’s sunsetting story. Is it that there’s no product-marketing fit, or that you’ve spent too much time working on the wrong things?

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PMLesson's Ace the PM Interview

JANUARY 9, 2019

In this Path to PM post, we discuss the importance of connecting with a product's users and the tough aspects of product management. Tell us about how you broke into product management. Before Pendo, I was a VP of product at Rally Software. At that startup, I was arguably the CTO and head of product.

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The Product Coalition

JUNE 9, 2020

In my opinion, this is absolutely key for a product team. There’s no standard academic path for product people. This is especially true when your product team is composed of different roles such as product management, product marketing, and product design. Here are my 4 key takeaways: 1.

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Business of Software Conference

MARCH 8, 2021

Bruce founded Product Culture to help communicate the key principles underlying consistently successful product-focused organizations and helps companies like Vistaprint, Localytics, Huawei, Nuance, and Zipcar achieve their product visions through workshops, mentoring, and team coaching. Get Weekly Advice From Software Experts.

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Gainsight

OCTOBER 12, 2021

Our first track, Planning Your Route from PM to Product Leader, is all about helping you fast track career success. You’ll hear from the best leaders in Product Management. Slack lives on the phones and desktops of over 10 million users, and we’re lucky to be joined by Ilan Frank , their VP of Product.

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The Product Guy

FEBRUARY 18, 2017

Each Session of the program runs for 6 months with paired individuals… Conducting regular 1-on-1 mentor-mentee chats Sharing experiences with the larger Product community Participating in live-streamed product management lessons and Q&A. Jordan Bergtraum VP Product Management, ServiceChannel.

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Mironov Consulting

JANUARY 17, 2019

Bare metal startups don’t have a product management team, just as they don’t have a sales/marketing organization or support group or a business analytics squad. A not-yet-generating-repeatable-revenue company of 6 people might have one architect/CTO, one designer, three other developers, and a CEO. First, some context.

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svpg

SEPTEMBER 30, 2016

When I first decided to start The Silicon Valley Product Group, I had just left eBay and had some very strong opinions about what makes great product teams, and great product cultures, and while there were more than a few important thinkers and leaders on these topics, one area that I felt was under-represented was the role of product management.

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Business of Software Conference

FEBRUARY 16, 2021

And we also learned that kind of the market we’re in wasn’t the best. And so, it’s like a six-month lag between when we make that first conversation, maybe you’re spending money on marketing, or whatever, and then six months until we get a check in the bank. And just a slow, gradual growth. SEEDSTRAPPED.

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Business of Software Conference

JULY 2, 2019

So I’m here to tell you some things that companies do that really irritate designers so you can learn from their mistakes and you can succeed in hiring and retaining talent in this really competitive market. This means you have product managers who just obsess about prioritizing features instead of thinking about outcomes.

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