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

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. Better Products. Meet the mentors….

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Mind the Product

JANUARY 24, 2019

MVP is a phrase that startup people love to throw around. Everyone believes their vision is really the Minimum Viable Product. You can simply declare “it’s not really minimum” if you want to do something less than their vision, or declare “it’s not really viable” if you want to do more! Most were crashing failures.

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Userpilot

JULY 27, 2023

In this article, we’ve outlined the major roles that move the needle in terms of product growth alongside their KPIs and current salary ranges. The different roles in SaaS companies: Chief Executive Officer : As the highest-ranking executive, this person ensures the company runs smoothly and employees are happy and engaged.

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Bain Public

MAY 29, 2020

It is a known fact that startups which are accompanied or coached, view their chances of success as being much higher compared to those that are not. of accompanied startups assess their chances of survival as strong, especially during the current uncertain climate. of startups rate their chances of survival as high, 13.5%

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Mind the Product

MAY 29, 2018

Mind the Product returns to Davies Symphony Hall in San Francisco on July 16-17 and promises to be one of our best product conferences yet, with a leadership forum, more workshops, more networking events around the conference, and more fun than ever before. He has experienced IPO, acquisition, rapid growth, and crushing failure.

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Usersnap

SEPTEMBER 29, 2022

Not only is tracking the competition daunting, it doesn’t ensure the product chiseled and shaped will be used by YOUR user base. You need to collect customer feedback , prioritize roadmaps , and ship features and products that offer a brilliant user experience. Create your vision and positioning 4. Types of SaaS Growth.

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The Product Guy

OCTOBER 25, 2016

In our a recent live stream from one of our mentors of The Product Mentor , Ian Moulton, lead a conversation around “Multiscreen Web Design”. We are always looking for more product mentors from all around the world. About The Product Mentor. Better Products. Better Product People. Signup to be a Mentor Today!

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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. Better Products. Better Product People.

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ProductPlan

OCTOBER 26, 2021

Product professionals get paid to manage products and services. But this single-minded focus on helping others often leads to a lack of focus on ourselves and our career impact in the product field. And, unlike our products, no one’s getting paid to manage our careers on our behalf. Interesting.

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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. It’s all geared to help you navigate the road to product success. You’ll hear from the best leaders in Product Management.

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Mind the Product

APRIL 3, 2017

Some years ago, I wrote a blog post noting that small teams are more creative and productive than big teams. I suggested that as someone in a position of leading a digital product team, you should always strive to make your team feel like they are in a band and not an orchestra. I’m now Chief Product Officer for FutureLearn.

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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”. Responsibilities of Product Management.

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The Product Guy

APRIL 4, 2017

In a recent live stream from one of our mentors of The Product Mentor , Chris Butler, lead a conversation around “Business Development vs. Product Management”. We are always looking for more product mentors from all around the world. About The Product Mentor. Better Products. Better Product People.

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Mixpanel

MARCH 7, 2021

As with many roles in the tech industry, there’s been a stubborn gap in female representation in product. According to TechTalent Charter , women make up only 19% of the tech industry and only 37% of UX and product roles. Another report by ProductPlan independently confirms women account for just 37% of product manager roles.

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People-First Product Leadership

MARCH 24, 2024

I recall the startup founder who literally bounced with excitement when we discussed the product being built. There was the CTO who recommended I take his job to align product, design, and engineering more closely. They're testing me." Subscribe now Looking back over your work life, what leaders stand out to you?

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Mironov Consulting

JANUARY 17, 2019

I work with a lot of CEOs, usually as an advocate for better product and development organizations. Many CEOs tell me that they (personally) are the best-informed people within their companies about what customers need , and they (personally) are best positioned to drive decisions on product priorities. First, some context.

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The Product Coalition

SEPTEMBER 9, 2018

Cartoon by Gapingvoid We’ve lost our way in Product Management. When the biggest problem Product Managers face is setting roadmap priorities based on market feedback, it’s symptomatic of the underlying practices and tools. Simply put, Products are Conversations. Great products are made of conversations.

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BrainMates

APRIL 30, 2018

In April 2018, Brainmates hosted a Product Talks Sydney Meetup based on the “hypotheticals” format popularised by Geoffrey Robertson. 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.

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The Product Guy

MAY 15, 2017

In a recent live stream from one of our mentors of The Product Mentor , Dustin Levy, lead a conversation around “Product Strategies for Non-Strategists”. We are always looking for more product mentors from all around the world. About The Product Mentor. Better Products. Better Product People.

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The Product Guy

FEBRUARY 18, 2017

In a recent live stream from one of our mentors of The Product Mentor , James Alexander, lead a conversation around “Finding Blue Oceans”. We are always looking for more product mentors from all around the world. About The Product Mentor. Better Products. Better Product People. Signup to be a Mentor Today!

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ProductPlan

JANUARY 21, 2020

A few years ago, I was the acting product manager at a startup, developing an enterprise software product. Building the product was hard: it was taking longer to develop than everyone expected (of course). The product backlog I managed grew daily. That’s typically enough for any product manager.

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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 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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The Product Guy

JANUARY 31, 2017

In our a recent live stream from one of our mentors of The Product Mentor , Marc Wendell, lead a conversation around “UX Design Tactics”. We are always looking for more product mentors from all around the world. About The Product Mentor. Better Products. Better Product People. Signup to be a Mentor Today!

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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. ” Being a Trusted Expert.

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The Product Guy

FEBRUARY 2, 2017

In our a recent live stream from one of our mentors of The Product Mentor , Dan Mason, lead a conversation around “Your Next Career Steps”. We are always looking for more product mentors from all around the world. About The Product Mentor. Better Products. Better Product People. Signup to be a Mentor Today!

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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. Productboard founder and CEO Hubert Palan on mastering product strategy. Far too many businesses rely on early-on hunches to inform their product strategies. Maggie Hott , Director of Sales at Webflow.

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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.

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The Product Guy

MARCH 2, 2017

In a recent live stream from one of our mentors of The Product Mentor , Nis Frome, lead a conversation around “Rapid Prototyping”. We are always looking for more product mentors from all around the world. About The Product Mentor. Better Products. Better Product People. Signup to be a Mentor Today!

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svpg

SEPTEMBER 21, 2015

In my prior article I discussed my favorite alternative to conventional product roadmaps. That article seemed to strike a chord in people, and I received quite a bit of very positive feedback. So I decided to sort through the feedback and write up an FAQ of your most common questions. Q: What if the CEO is the product person?

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svpg

SEPTEMBER 30, 2016

Article: Behind Every Great Product. I titled the paper, “Behind Every Great Product” and it was inspired by the classic Good Product Manager / Bad Product Manager by Ben Horowitz. The paper proved popular and helped many teams to get a better understanding of just what product was all about.

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Business of Software Conference

NOVEMBER 30, 2020

Startups often struggle to communicate the value of their products, particularly in sales meetings. From pitches that drown customers in a word-soup of features, to high-concept vision pitches that leave customers confused and sceptical – many companies struggle to connect authentically with customers in a way that generates deals.

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Intercom, Inc.

AUGUST 15, 2018

Leaders are people who provide a compelling vision for people to follow and believe in, and take responsibility for what happens next. I then went into natural language processing, machine learning, and ended working on business intelligence through a product called Power BI, which I became the general manager for.

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Business of Software Conference

JULY 2, 2019

Jane Austin, Director of Product Design, Babylon Health. Jane Austin (Director of Product Design, Babylon Health) – 10 Easy Ways To Irritate Your Design Team from Business of Software Conference. How can good design be integrated into your business profitably? Video, Slides, & Transcript below. Upcoming Events.

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Business of Software Conference

MAY 15, 2019

It was I think the biggest startup in corporate history at the time. So the iPhone was a 2G product. And this was an area where I was enabled to really flourish in terms of basically working out how we could try and solve them, and came up with quite a lot of products. It went from zero to seventeen hundred people in a year.

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Intercom, Inc.

JULY 21, 2022

What started as a series of interviews by co-founder Des Traynor soon bloomed into hundreds of episodes where we explore how businesses are driving growth through customer relationships and how to build successful products at scale. On today’s show, we’re going to hear a little bit from each of them. That just blows my mind.

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