The Product Coalition

MARCH 15, 2021

I wrote a variation of this for the various product teams at Whispir recently and then as fate would have it, a CEO I know reached out to me on LinkedIn asking the same thing?—?so with very little effort but a huge amount of diligence and thought, and you can do it in 15 minutes if you have access to all the research already.

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The Product Coalition

NOVEMBER 9, 2020

It was about 12 months ago when I was challenged by our CEO to dismantle our squad and create a growth team. Not being too sure what a growth team was, we started anyway. We got access to work completed by Andrew Chen & Brian Balfour , took a few courses from the Reforge series and started developing our growth loops.

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Product Talk

MARCH 2, 2016

I love that Marty Cagan and Jeff Patton have long been advocates of dual-track development. Their efforts have helped to shape the ongoing conversation about the evolution of product discovery. If you aren’t familiar with dual-track development, it’s the separation of product discovery from product delivery. – Tweet This.

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Lenny Rachitsky

MAY 6, 2025

A bunch of my trusted friends have been raving about Jacob Warwick , a full-time negotiation coach for executives. The difference isn’t skill, experience, or even negotiation tactics. annual package—nearly four times the upper limit. Timing is everything. This approach is targeted at leaders (e.g.,

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The Product Coalition

JUNE 26, 2023

Generative AI has the potential to create economic impact within sales, marketing, software engineering & IT, customer operations, and R&D functions across various verticals. Industries such as high tech, banking, pharmaceuticals and medical products, education and telecommunications, healthcare, and insurance stand to gain immensely.

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BrainMates

SEPTEMBER 7, 2021

Observation is an important part of mixed methods user research. Whether observing people using a technology or system in the workplace, at home, or out in public, it can provide insights not available in quantitative data. Due to the volume of content being produced, the metadata task was often outsourced to a junior.

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Mironov Consulting

FEBRUARY 9, 2023

” GTM leaders typically ascribe this situation to lack of attention, poor work ethic, or weak understanding of customers on the part of product management – i.e. personal failures best addressed by replacing or upgrading product staff.  Or   All other issues (and existing commitments) are temporarily forgotten. [2]

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The Product Coalition

FEBRUARY 24, 2021

Today’s rapidly evolving tech landscape favors short feedback loops and requires roadmap flexibility to pivot and solve customers’ most pressing problems as they arise. As a result, the best product managers thrive on their ability to move quickly, minimizing time to market for feature releases.

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The Product Coalition

MARCH 25, 2023

A design and engineering approach that has become more important than the technologies that benefit from it. Within it, there is no shortage of products and services that claim they can help you optimize the organization, productivity and efficiency of your product development team’s performance.

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Intercom, Inc.

OCTOBER 27, 2022

Whether it’s customer onboarding or just gathering information for an event, we’re often trapped in endless follow-ups and back-and-forth emails until we finally get the assets and can move on with other, more meaningful tasks. While in the early 2010s, the SaaS startup scene in France was not as developed as in the U.S.,

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Mind the Product

JUNE 14, 2019

We all treat our products with care, respect, and diligence. We agonise over decisions and strategic direction, we think deeply about product direction, we care about the experience our customers get and the impact we have on our businesses. It’s our job to make good decisions. Why do people switch jobs? Find a Mentor.

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Gainsight

FEBRUARY 27, 2025

For Black History Month, wed like to take the opportunity to shine a spotlight on some of our friends in the Customer Success (CS) space, who are making waves and establishing themselves as powerful leaders and change agents. Over the past 20 years, she has dedicated herself to the world of Customer Success and Customer Experience.

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PMLesson's Ace the PM Interview

DECEMBER 14, 2020

A common question for product managers, project managers, technical program managers, and software developers alike is what methodology to use given a project. Which should you and your teams decide the utilize? Whichever methodology a team operates under will heavily influence how they work and communicate with one another.

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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. And our success was evident in the feedback.

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Mironov Consulting

DECEMBER 29, 2022

Almost every week, I have a conversation with executives at B2B software companies who don’t see a bright-line distinction between software license revenue and customization/implementation revenue.  Or  But when I do product due diligence for SaaS-focused PE/VC firms, it's the very first thing I look at.  Let’s

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Intercom, Inc.

DECEMBER 2, 2021

For the very first time, we’re releasing Engineer Chats , an internal podcast here at Intercom about all things engineering. If you’re short on time, here are a few quick takeaways: Disambiguation, or the process of narrowing down a wide solution space in each problem, is not just good for ambiguous projects.

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Usersnap

MARCH 19, 2019

Do you consider customer feedback? Should the Voice of Customer influence product development? In Frost & Sullivan’s survey research on R&D/innovation and product development priorities, 84% of the respondents declare that they employ the voice of customers (VoC) in their product development cycle.

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The Product Coalition

JUNE 17, 2019

“The digital transformation of any enterprise is a herculean task requiring a willingness to embrace cultural change, the ability to immerse the entire organization in the customer journey, and a total commitment to digitize to the core”?—? Bank customers’ requests are rapidly changing. We identify opportunities. We execute.

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ProductPlan

JUNE 1, 2023

But are you solving for actual customer problems? The danger, however, lies in mistaking new functionality for actually adding meaningful value to the customer experience. Where are product teams getting their feature ideas? Why do product teams become feature factories?

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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. Short on time? But customers want to know about themselves.

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Intercom, Inc.

JULY 23, 2020

Though technology has allowed us to work remotely for quite some time, companies have debated whether it’s truly best for business. We caught up for a chat that ranged from how to stand out in a crowded marketplace to why it’s a bad idea to judge your product’s success simply based on how much time people are spending in it.

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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. Short on time? But customers want to know about themselves.

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Modus Create

JUNE 1, 2020

But one thing technology leaders need to ask themselves is, “what are the threats we face?” The news is filled with tales of hackers breaking into financial institutions, DDoS attacks on credit card companies, and data breaches due to poor software configuration. Phase 1: Due Diligence and Discovery.

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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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People-First Product Leadership

MAY 14, 2025

As I waited to speak with the exec team, my mind buzzed with voices: You got this. Maybe they'll run out of time. Think back to a time when you were about to present. In product, we constantly navigate user needs, tech constraints, and business goals. They work diligently to prevent pain or failure.

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Iteratively Blog

MARCH 15, 2020

As folks who constantly deal with data, finding the right resources to refer in times of need is a challenge. 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. Play the latest episode. #4 No worries.

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ProductPlan

JULY 1, 2020

That said, we’re at the halfway point, so it’s a good time to check in on what we set out to accomplish six months ago and what we can realistically shoot for during the rest of the year. Let’s begin this process by reflecting and reviewing. Were customer relationships impacted? Regular roadmap reviews. Were KPIs met?

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Gainsight

MARCH 19, 2020

The current situation has foisted millions of people into their first experience working from home. And that’s driven thousands of customer success professionals who were used to seeing their clients and teams every day to learn the ins and outs of “virtual” CS. But here we are. We hosted a webinar with Slack on this topic.

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Mixpanel

DECEMBER 3, 2020

Customer experience. Brands winning the war of experience are bringing in 5.7 times more revenue than competitors. Every interaction, every message, every touchpoint matters to customers. These are the core four pillars of personalization: User Segmentation: finding the perfect audience. User segmentation .

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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. Whether you have 10 users or 10 million, you should always be connecting with customers to collect qualitative data. ” Zach Berger, Technology Investor at Bain Capital.

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Amplitude

DECEMBER 7, 2020

I was excited to see the wide array of enterprise-class customers like IBM, Intuit, and many more of the world’s best-known brands. The Solutions Consulting (SC) team is a vital part of that vision, and I’m thrilled to have a hand in making it come to pass. Tenacious, customer-focused, and driven to succeed.

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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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Revulytics

AUGUST 21, 2019

Software piracy is the use of unlicensed software where the user has never paid the software vendor a licensing fee for the application. It can be contrasted with “license overuse” where the user has paid a software vendor a licensing fee for an application, but is using more installations than it is entitled to use.

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The Product Coalition

JUNE 24, 2021

In this article, we want to tell you about what happened behind the scenes, including the deck we presented to the Benchmark team. These long form conversations allowed us to get to know Benchmark and, at the same time, allowed Benchmark to get to know us as founders as well as our plans for Airbyte. We didn’t need to raise money.

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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. At the same time, I kept talking to people.

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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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Amplitude

JUNE 8, 2017

Social Capital’s work consists of helping solve the world’s largest problems which it does by investing in technology in sectors such as healthcare and education, and companies both within and outside of the United States. Ashley in Ghana with the team at mPharma. Amplitude : Do you see yourself in the VC space for a long time?

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