The Product Coalition

JULY 28, 2022

We discussed various entrepreneur challenges, and he mentioned that the hardest thing he encounters daily as a co-founder and CTO is understanding the organization’s physical mechanics. This piece is about my take on the physical mechanic’s manifestation in R&D management. Physics and Physical Mechanics First, let’s define physics?

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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 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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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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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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The Product Guy

MARCH 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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The Product Coalition

AUGUST 6, 2023

The rituals are loved and hated by product people around the globe, and it’s not the kind the activity that will go out of fashion anytime soon, so our best response is to discover ways to make these activities valuable, for everyone. What work and/or research will you do today? How do product managers lead standups?

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Usersnap

SEPTEMBER 29, 2022

Competitive analysis of current market offerings absolutely helps your SaaS company. However it isn’t the only thing, and perhaps a quite overrated approach to achieving SaaS growth. Not only is tracking the competition daunting, it doesn’t ensure the product chiseled and shaped will be used by YOUR user base. Let’s g(r)o(w)! ?

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The Product Coalition

SEPTEMBER 29, 2020

Anyone familiar with Product Management will recognize the immortal phrase ‘influence without authority.’ As a Product Manager, you’re a team player who guides product development along its chartered course, but you have to do that without being the literal captain of the ship. What Does ‘Influence’ Mean?

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The Product Guy

MAY 15, 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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Intercom, Inc.

FEBRUARY 28, 2018

Over the past year we have introduced new products, like our bot Operator and our live chat solution for sales and marketing teams, and new levels of automation and intelligence to help do this. That is why we are so excited to announce we are doubling the size of the Product teams at Intercom over the next 18 months.

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Hutwork

MARCH 9, 2018

Many entrepreneurs and product managers write about the skills they brought to the table and those they learned along the way. And as a product manager finding out how others made a strategy work, whether it was implementing a road-map software or avoiding other’s pitfalls can make or break your product’s success.

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Product Management Lessons from the Trenches

JULY 10, 2018

Two years ago this week, I started work as the first VP of Product Management at NTENT - a company with huge, rapidly growing market, world-famous CTO, seasoned executives and engineering team, and core technology that only a handful of companies in the world possess. Do your research. Work with the product.

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Mixpanel

FEBRUARY 16, 2024

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. Mixpanel is both a highly technical product and also one that anyone should be able to use. That’s our situation here at Mixpanel. Here are a few ways we do it.

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The Product Coalition

MAY 8, 2023

In a LinkedIn post, CTO of Basecamp David Heinemeier Hansson in the face of possible chagrin, challenges notions that offices represent outmoded ways of working, according to telecommuting advocates. The History of Office Design In light of David’s post, we wanted to surface a few events that led to our current ways of working.

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Product Management University

DECEMBER 2, 2022

If you’re in product marketing or product management, you’re likely familiar with the concept of user personas and buyer personas. These terms might even be used interchangeably in your organization to describe a product’s customers. There are four main types of user personas used in the product development world.

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The Product Coalition

DECEMBER 23, 2023

In a LinkedIn post, CTO of Basecamp David Heinemeier Hansson in the face of possible chagrin, challenges notions that offices represent outmoded ways of working, according to telecommuting advocates. In the eyes of architects and designers, it’s viewed as one of the most beautiful office campuses in the world.

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Gainsight

OCTOBER 12, 2021

It will be the product adventure of a lifetime. We are gearing up to support you in accelerating your product strategies and provide the tools you’ll need to level up your career in product. Our first track, Planning Your Route from PM to Product Leader, is all about helping you fast track career success.

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The Product Coalition

AUGUST 8, 2018

Michael will be joining us and 500+ product management, UX design and engagement executives at this years Open Mobile Summit (November 27–28 SF) to discuss ways in which to interact with and engage the connected consumers across all devices. Could you tell us a bit about your role as Chief Product Officer at Weight Watchers?

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The Product Cafe

JANUARY 30, 2023

🥰 Welcome to this week's edition of Product Café, your bi-weekly cup of coffee for everything product management, startups, and more. ☕ Thank you for reading Product Café’s newsletter ☕️ Subscribe for free to receive new posts every week! Why is it worth solving?

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Intercom, Inc.

DECEMBER 21, 2021

Will Larson , CTO of Calm. Des Traynor , Co-founder and CTO of Intercom. Paul Adams , SVP of Product at Intercom. And no one knows this better than Zanade Mann, founder and Managing Director of the Black Women’s Business Collective. But what if the manager role is not for you?

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BrainMates

JULY 3, 2018

According to The Product Management Body of Knowledge, Product Management is: “A discipline that provides managerial focus to products that in turn will generate measurable business benefits.”. Product Managers are often described as “the CEO of the product”. Product Management is hard.

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Roman Pichler

MARCH 12, 2024

Listen to the audio version of this article: [link] Introduction My first product management job wasn’t exactly what you call a success story: I was part of a team that was called in to help with a new product development effort, and I ended up working with the lead product manager. But that’s still not enough.

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Userpilot

MARCH 30, 2022

Take a look at your revenue – is your team able to still sell the product? Investigate support and development efforts on the existing platform. Make sure you understand “what” and “why,” you may be sunsetting the wrong product (or feature). Make sure you can gather and support it with the proper research behind it.

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Mind the Product

MAY 21, 2019

The command-and-control system most companies still cling to is, in fact, disempowering. Here are a few recommendations, based on my professional experience as well as my research for a forthcoming book, The Product Mindset: Succeed in the Digital Economy by Changing the Way Your Organization Thinks. Point Towards the Mountain.

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Bain Public

MAY 29, 2020

FUN FACT: It is actually thanks to the coaching service for innovative and technological SMBs (PMEit) administered by MAIN that we’ve been able to work with some of our incredible clients, Wastack , LiveScale , Blaise Transit and Enkidoo , and provide them with product management, consultancy and coaching support.

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BrainMates

APRIL 30, 2018

A bright and brave cross functional team of panellists were on hand to tackle an imagined (but realistic) Product Management scenario. The panellists were: Mark Cohen, CTO at Domain. Clive Lam, Consultant Product Manager at Brainmates. Jen Marshall: An executive in a large Telco has come up with a new product idea.

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Intercom, Inc.

JANUARY 27, 2022

More, while women have been taking more and more jobs among top technology executives, at big U.S. firms, only 18% of chief information officers or chief technology officers are women. In this episode of Inside Intercom, you’ll hear from: Nidhi Kamat , Product Manager.

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Amplitude

FEBRUARY 26, 2018

This is a guest post from Dillon Forest, cofounder, CTO & product manager at RankScience. One litmus test for this: if you’re working on your product and you hit a roadblock, and you can’t find a satisfactory answer to your question on Stack Overflow. Do some user research. Make some mockups.

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Mind the Product

NOVEMBER 28, 2019

He’s someone you’ll certainly have come across if you’re at all interested in any of the discussion around the thinking and theory behind product management. Currently, John is the product evangelist at San Francisco product analytics software developer Amplitude. I enjoy product.

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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. Conducting customer research. Product road-mapping.

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Mind the Product

MAY 29, 2018

Originally trained as a scientist, he’s had job titles ranging from scientist, to engineer, to product manager, to designer, and even professor. He has recently served as the Head of Product & Experience at Workbar, Chief Design Strategist at Fresh Tilled Soil, and Innovation Architect at Constant Contact.

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Usersnap

JULY 27, 2020

Tracking feature requests from customers is a blessing, and also a nightmare for Product Managers. We at Usersnap believe the voice of customers should be the driver of product development. But how to do that so that it’s frictionless for the users and manageable for you? I’m only kidding. via the API.

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Product Innovation Educators

FEBRUARY 4, 2019

Choose the right university partners to drive research and innovation. To explain how their system works and tips for implementing a partner program, Ed Krause joins us. He is the Global Manager External Alliances Research and Advanced Engineering at Ford Motor Company. It has to be a win-win at the alliance level.

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The Product Coalition

JUNE 9, 2020

The first value expressed in the Agile Manifesto is “Individuals and interactions over processes and tools.” In my opinion, this is absolutely key for a product team. There’s no standard academic path for product people. These two initiatives helped bring much more transparency to any decisions the management team made.

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Mironov Consulting

JUNE 27, 2019

Defining my label carefully, a “product leader” is someone who manages a team of product managers. That maps to titles like Director of Product Management, Group Product Manager, VP of Products, or Chief Product Officer. 2] Driving Strategy, Tooling and Outcomes. [3]

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Mind the Product

FEBRUARY 1, 2019

learning new software. getting a certification (be it scrum, agile, product, coaching … you name it). learning new software. getting a certification (be it scrum, agile, product, coaching … you name it). Approach goal: “Be more appreciative of my CTO’s actions.”. Avoidance goal: “Avoid arguing with the CTO.”.

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