The Product Coalition

SEPTEMBER 10, 2023

Leadership without authority is product management 101. But as a product executive, you must take it to the next level — and this time use it with the entire management team. Your goals are not to deliver products that your customers will love. You must master it to succeed, in most cases with developers.

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ProductPlan

JUNE 5, 2020

Learning on the job or via a professional mentorship offers the chance to grow and gain valuable experience. But how do you know which ones are worth your time and money? 4 Product Management Certifications That Are Worth Your Time. Key takeaways include product strategy , user research, and the UX/UI design process.

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Alchemer Mobile

NOVEMBER 23, 2021

Whether you’re new to the product management field or a seasoned professional, it’s always valuable to learn from your peers’ lived experiences. We recently sat down with four product experts and asked them about their experiences in this field. What have been your favorite ways to connect and get feedback from your customers?

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Product Innovation Educators

JULY 31, 2023

Starting from the customer experience to build products customers love Today we are talking about the “working backwards” approach to product that was created at Amazon. He joined Amazon in 1998—four years after its founding—and spent the next 12 years as part of Amazon’s senior leadership team.

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Gainsight

JANUARY 4, 2021

As we embark on the New Year, now is the perfect time to catch up on Gainsight’s Customer Success resources from 2020. We compiled our best Customer Success resources from last year, from blogs to ebooks to webinars and podcasts. Launching Customer Success. Customer Success Team Management.

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Product Management University

SEPTEMBER 10, 2023

As the customer success manager (CSM) role evolves into more of a strategic customer leadership role versus a tactical reactionary role, it’s critical to build relationships with customer executives, and in most cases, it’s not as difficult as you think. Your Plan for Building Relationships With Customer Executives 1.

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The Product Coalition

JULY 17, 2022

Product managers need to talk to customers. Here is what my boss once taught me about how to really listen to our customers. Photo by David Clode on Unsplash In SVPG’s Coach the Coaches workshop held last month in London, Marty Cagan talked about the fact that product managers must have direct access to customers.

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The Product Coalition

AUGUST 13, 2023

But to truly solve customers’ problems, founders and product leaders must think beyond what they already know about the product. Unfortunately, in the case of your morning meeting — it is going to happen, and it’s a big one which you must attend and arrive on time too. How to solve a certain customer problem? You are soaked wet.

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Centercode

JUNE 27, 2025

AI-driven user testing, video insights, plus seamless app distribution and expert resources— discover Centercode 10x. Platform Scalable, Automated, Real-World User Testing Centercode is the leading platform to manage impactful in-the-wild user tests. Start for free , scale as your program grows.

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The Product Coalition

OCTOBER 26, 2021

The team resents me and senior leadership supports me. What can I say, product leadership is a tough role to play. In the example above, you might have a strong gut feeling that says that you shouldn’t make this big effort until you have a strategy, but when you ask yourself why exactly, the answer might not be 100% clear.

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Intercom, Inc.

JULY 4, 2019

If we implement a new feature, how will customer behavior change in a meaningful way?”. We wanted to jump into this hot topic to see if we could marry our practical experience with Josh’s framework. Short on time? At Intercom, we’re in the thick of working through how to help our teams become more outcome-focused.

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The Product Coalition

NOVEMBER 17, 2024

Now it was time to talk about the team and how to get them to lead with full ownership. It could be the difference between answering customer success’s questions about a newly released feature whenever they ask them and approaching them periodically to ask how the feature is being adopted and whether they need help. What do you do?

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airfocus

JUNE 25, 2025

Instead, it’s about the artful combination of enduring values (the keel) and adaptive strategy (the sail), all guided by leadership (the rudder) that knows when and how to tack. The rudder: Leadership and executive decision-making – guiding and steering the organization. It used to drive me crazy,” he admits.

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Userpilot

JANUARY 8, 2024

With the right customer acquisition strategies, you can convert potential customers to paying users and set the stage for turning them into long-term loyal users. As you read on, you will learn: The power of search engines, content marketing, and existing user testimonials and how to leverage them to win new users.

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Alchemer Mobile

MARCH 17, 2020

Between interfacing with multiple teams, coordinating release schedules, prioritizing customer happiness, driving the mobile product roadmap, messaging product announcements internally and externally, and myriad other activities, the list of “to-do’s” for mobile product managers may seem endless, and the job is ever-changing.

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The Product Coalition

MAY 1, 2022

It deals with many unknowns, as well as multiple dimensions and variables at any given time. I realized that this is something that I do whenever I’m helping my consulting customers or the CPO Bootcamp participants to make strategic decisions. about the market, the customers, the product, the business, the plans ahead?

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The Product Coalition

JANUARY 5, 2021

They are derived from my fourteen years of practical experience with XP and Scrum, serving both as Product Owner and Scrum Master and interviewing dozens of Product Owner candidates on behalf of my clients. So far, this Product Owner interview guide has been downloaded more than 7,500 times. ??

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The Product Coalition

APRIL 1, 2023

A brilliant guy, with many years of tech leadership experience, but none in product management. When I hired him I already had a lot of experience in people management. Regardless of my experience, before E. But even though it was as clear as day that it needed to happen, it wasn’t as easy for me to let go this time.

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Product Management University

DECEMBER 8, 2023

For customer success managers though, the intent of a customer account roadmap, while similar, is bit more surgical than a product roadmap when it comes to defining success and leading customers to it. How to Create a Customer Account Roadmap Step 1: Understand the Endgame and Why It’s Important Start high!

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The Product Coalition

SEPTEMBER 19, 2021

The fact that your potential customers have a problem, doesn’t mean that they are willing to do what it takes to solve it. I knew about the idea of laser eye surgery for a long time but was always too afraid to even think about it. But I can tell you that I was still afraid this time too. I was still afraid.

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The Product Coalition

NOVEMBER 27, 2022

They debugged their code on paper, multiple times, before it actually ran for the first time. Back then, the impact was boxes and boxes of punched cards, and endless compilation time on the single computer everyone had to share. You have users and even happy customers, but the next level of success is yet to come.

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The Product Coalition

DECEMBER 7, 2020

Leadership without authority is product management 101. and this time use it with the entire management team. Your goals are not to deliver products that your customers will love. One of the common examples is when developers give you time estimates that are much higher than what you can afford for a certain feature.

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The Product Coalition

APRIL 18, 2021

But I knew it was coming, so I spent some time thinking about it prior to the interview. I thought for a moment and then answered “because it’s time, it would be the next big thing” or something of that sort. Product leadership deals with so many unknowns, that the absolute truth is not reachable in most cases. Yes”, I said.

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The Product Coalition

DECEMBER 25, 2022

Your customers’ ecosystem has more impact on your ability to succeed than you might think. As a product leadership academy, we have many presentations. Bottom line, I work on many presentations, all the time. Having to reopen the file every time I try to save it creates massive inconvenience for me. Here is why.

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The Product Coalition

AUGUST 22, 2021

Since the annual report takes time to prepare and file and is typically filed in Q4 of the following year, I wouldn’t know the real amount of tax that I would have to pay until then. The result was that I knew that the next time I would look at my bank account, I will get a much clearer picture of reality?—?a

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The Product Coalition

NOVEMBER 23, 2021

as one would expect, had a lot of experience in setting systems up, keeping everything running and organized, with proper procedures and dashboards in place. Unlike sales and marketing, who are responsible for very clear, measurable, deliverables (new/retained customers and leads respectively), product managers can’t be measured this way.

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The Product Coalition

NOVEMBER 7, 2021

It’s not only the decision itself that is objectively hard most of the time but the process as well. It can be with your CEO or anyone in the management team, with internal and even external customers, and honestly, with anyone important enough for their opinion to matter and make you change your plans.

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The Product Coalition

APRIL 10, 2022

It blew my mind because I can guarantee you that I was the most sporty student in school at the time. Having the courage to speak up is one of the things that we are talking about in the leadership workshop that opens the CPO Bootcamp , for example. How can it be that it wasn’t enough to get an A in sports?

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The Product Coalition

DECEMBER 10, 2023

However, provoking productive disagreements is a key leadership skill you want to master. Here is how fostering healthy debates is essential for effective leadership and better outcomes. I’m not talking just about specific work experience, but also about much softer skills that were always there but now come to fruition.

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The Product Coalition

JANUARY 16, 2022

Of course, it would have been ideal to find someone who had had both extensive experience and amazing learning abilities, but there’s a reason unicorns are so rare. not necessarily in planning it but in making sure that it is fit for whatever value the company is looking to bring to their customers. What’s important to my company?

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The Product Coalition

FEBRUARY 14, 2022

How many times have you heard the phrase “It’s research, it will be ready when it’s ready”? Photo by Skitterphoto from Pexels In 2014, at the ProductX conference, I won second place for my presentation on time management for busy product managers. One of our goals was to dramatically reduce the effort required per customer.

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The Product Coalition

DECEMBER 21, 2020

But the ability to solve customer problems does not always translate into the ability to solve problems for your own company. Photo by Xavi Cabrera on Unsplash When I was head of product at eBay I participated in an executive leadership training program. They told us their stories and answered questions from the audience.

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The Product Coalition

NOVEMBER 13, 2023

A product strategy is often the missing link that would convert your efforts into actual revenue. Product-market fit is achieved when you have consistent and sustainable sales for a certain product with a certain customer profile. Your product makes sense for your first few customers. It’s time to grow.

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The Product Coalition

JULY 16, 2023

My personal passion is to bring back this very important dimension into product management and leadership. Product Leadership Is a Business Role I make a distinction between product management and product leadership. If you don’t know what they are, now is the time to start asking and make sure you get proper answers.

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Modus Create

JUNE 23, 2021

There are two ways to talk about transformational leadership. . We can dive deep into the academic theory created by Bruce Avolio and Bernard Bass in 1991 and understand how it fits into the broader Full Range Leadership Model. . But first, let’s define transformational leadership. . What is Transformational Leadership?

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The Product Coalition

FEBRUARY 27, 2022

Only among my consulting customers , two companies recently hired a new VP of Product. By the way, while the tips here address specific challenges that product leaders face, many of them would apply to any kind of leadership position, and even to non-leadership positions, so feel free to forward it to friends who are currently on the move.

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The Product Coalition

FEBRUARY 14, 2021

I didn’t call him that at the time, but he taught me so much and helped me shape my leadership style and principles. In fact, this is the only way to convert “working teams” into “thinking teams” , and I have seen it in action many times. There is, for example, an inherent tradeoff between scope and time to market.

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