The Product Coalition

JANUARY 5, 2023

Dark periods are when a product team knows what to design and develop and go about doing it, but the work has yet to be exposed to users in any significant way. Product dark periods are when a product team’s commitment and culture are tested. Developers will be knocking out cards. The dark periods are challenging.

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The Product Coalition

MARCH 11, 2021

And also is a way of preventing errors and defect bugs in the software development process. Overview of the quality assurance Quality assurance service is a systematic process to ensure the frontend and backend development satisfies specific requirements and quality standards.

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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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UX Planet

FEBRUARY 13, 2024

Prescriptive Agile frameworks make it hard for designers to add valuable contributions to the team. I designed every detail in Photoshop before handing the mockups to the developers. I was excited to be part of a cross-functional team and I could not wait to start working in sprints. But it wasn’t all that bad.

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Mironov Consulting

JUNE 25, 2023

Many of my discussions with product leaders (CPOs, VPs and others who manage teams of product folks) are about the substance of product management: portfolios, competing stakeholders, pricing & packaging, tarot cards as a revenue forecasting model.  Last Product fit will probably be catastrophic.  This

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Userpilot

NOVEMBER 30, 2023

TL;DR Market gaps are the disparities between what customers need and want , and what the market can deliver. A market gap can be caused by missing functionality or poor user experience. Tracking user behavior in-app enables product teams to find ways to improve product experience.

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Intercom, Inc.

AUGUST 18, 2022

When you reach senior level on an engineering track, you’re expected to be optimal in your hard skill set. She creates front-end libraries, a role that perfectly suits her given her life-long passion for user experience, design, and building things. Then, four years ago, in 2018, she got a job at Algolia as a software engineer.

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The Product Coalition

JANUARY 16, 2024

“Everyone has a plan until they get punched in the mouth” — Mike Tyson I’ve wrestled with weak roadmaps — even some downright disasters. It was something that happened over time, a term I’ve coined ‘roadmap drift’. Product managers and their teams start with enthusiasm, hit the ground running, and create a solid roadmap.

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Product Talk

MARCH 8, 2017

One of the best signs of an effective product team is a regular cadence of customer interviews and product experiments. I’ve developed a simple framework to help teams evaluate the effectiveness of their methods. It also helps us get more value out of our customer interviews and our product experiments.

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Amplitude

JANUARY 23, 2018

As VP of Product at Amplitude, I get the opportunity to work with hundreds of different products teams every year?—?ranging ranging from startups with only a handful of engineers to large enterprises with thousands of PMs. Good product team, bad product team Click To Tweet. PM, Design and Engineering?—?are

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Userpilot

MAY 30, 2024

PMs prioritize product development and functionality, while PMMs focus on market adoption and product desirability. Project management software, visual collaboration tools, roadmap software, shared Slack channels, and customer feedback and analytics tools can facilitate collaboration between PMs and PMMs.

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Product Innovation Educators

MAY 20, 2024

How product managers can master product process Watch on YouTube TLDR – The Product Innovation Charter (PIC) is a short document that provides direction and alignment for a product development project. – Stage-Gate and Agile Stage-Gate are popular product development processes that manage risk and incorporate Agile elements.

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The Product Coalition

SEPTEMBER 28, 2022

Strategy and enabling your team to solve problems makes the difference between a boss and an impactful leader. Without well-researched facts that are based on reality for your company and customers ( insights ), you won’t make good decisions. He asked quite innocently in front of my new team, “what’s the product strategy?”

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The Product Coalition

DECEMBER 23, 2021

“If you think good design is expensive, you should look at the cost of bad design,” Ralf Speth, a former Jaguar Land Rover CEO. The study by the Design Management Institute analyzed the performance of design-led organizations that place influential design decisions at the top as compared to the Standard & Poor’s index over 10 years.

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Intercom, Inc.

AUGUST 13, 2019

Automated customer service isn’t a new concept. But much has changed, both in usability and customer perception. Voice recognition technology has improved, AI solutions can interpret customer feedback, and chatbots have started to answer the questions they receive, not just pass them off to a human.

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The Product Coalition

NOVEMBER 30, 2021

Defining the success of discovery is complex, but many times we are so immersed on a daily basis that we can feel and know if it’s healthy or how to improve. But not every product person understands how programming works and whether their team is having a healthy delivery. What should I follow in the day-to-day of a development team?

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Product Innovation Educators

OCTOBER 16, 2023

It’s an organizational issue—moving quickly to beat competitors and keep up with changing customer preferences. When companies take the time to design products that match what the customer needs, profits soar, customer satisfaction (and retention) soars, and employee satisfaction gets a nice uptick too.

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Mironov Consulting

AUGUST 29, 2023

 And calling out the need for some honest discovery before we embark on major engineering efforts.  Renting (licensing) means we can put more of our own effort into market differentiators.  Our customers are logistics companies, ecommerce players, and physical goods manufacturers.  But

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The Product HQ

JUNE 1, 2024

The product management world relies on teams of product people who work in unison toward a central goal. For that reason, each person on the team needs to know exactly what they have to do and how. They work with typical product management software and also manage the product roadmap as well as the product team.

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Intercom, Inc.

JUNE 10, 2020

Also known as Product Intuition or Product Instinct or Product Taste, it is the idea that you can use your own judgment to (1) accurately predict what your customers need, want and value, and (2) design and ship the right solution for them. I have experienced this many times on both sides, as the receiver and the critiquer. Who has it?

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The Product HQ

MAY 10, 2024

With more digital and data-driven products, the demand for traditional product managers is now shifting from sales teams to data product managers. In it, we break down the step-by-step approach you must follow to land this job, even if you don’t have any working experience in the field. To learn more via video, watch below.

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Userpilot

APRIL 6, 2023

Developing and releasing sophisticated products with all the bells and whistles imaginable might seem like a great idea. Overengineered products are difficult to use, filled with bugs, and instead of improving your users’ lives, they make them unnecessarily complicated. Low feature adoption is one of the symptoms of over-engineering.

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Mind the Product

MARCH 26, 2020

What does it take for an engineer to become a product manager? Here I’ll explain how I did it, and I’ll share my personal experience of the process so that you can know what to expect from this transition. If you’re considering changing from engineer to product manager , you’re not alone. I used to be a QA engineer.

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Intercom, Inc.

MARCH 15, 2018

As a startup scales, the importance of infrastructure engineers simply can’t be overstated. They’re the ones making sure your app is secure, that uptime looks good, and that the rest of your engineering org has the right tools to build features your users need and want. That was just a transformational experience.

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The Product Coalition

JUNE 22, 2020

Establishing a robust product discovery infrastructure at your organization gives you the freedom to focus more of your time on creating, analyzing, and testing customer insights. Doing all of these tasks manually drastically increases the complexity and time spent on this type of common research method.

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Mironov Consulting

JUNE 27, 2020

I have a narrow, somewhat puritanical view about product manager conversations with customers and prospects: we should never lie to them. These are complex deals on the customer side with buying committees, unique integration requirements, internal champions for each competing vendor, and reputational risk for choosing the wrong product.

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Intercom, Inc.

SEPTEMBER 3, 2020

Which is why customer feedback is a big deal to all of our teams – it’s really integral to what we do and how we build. Maria Gutierrez – Senior Director of Engineering. Customer feedback is a big deal here at Intercom. I work with designers and engineers on our mobile SDKs.

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The Product HQ

JUNE 1, 2024

UX Cam shared data indicating that product managers spend as much as 52% of their time on unplanned activities. Those are far from the only setbacks and difficulties that product managers experience on the job. We also discuss how you acquire and improve these skills over time. Every new product brings its own set of challenges.

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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. However, user personas and buyer personas are distinctly different. It’s the department persona.

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Intercom, Inc.

NOVEMBER 3, 2022

Scaling a support team is challenging enough as it is. You’re investing resources in hiring and training the right people, tracking different metrics at different stages, adding more and more complexity with each increase in headcount, use cases, and customers. For Natasha, the answer is a resounding yes.

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The Product Coalition

JANUARY 26, 2022

At the same time, consolidation faces a big problem: it gets hard to collect real-time data on health issues. Despite gaining a broad caregiving experience, Chris wasn’t up to devote his life to farming. For that time, they wanted to expand to Costa Rica. As a result, more pig deaths and financial losses are happening.

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Userpilot

JANUARY 22, 2024

Choosing the right framework requires a bit of effort from you. For your product marketing strategy, however, you’ll need to align your sales and marketing teams, create a value-based pricing strategy , collect and apply customer feedback , and map out the customer journey. To learn more, book a demo today!

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The Product Coalition

DECEMBER 21, 2021

Here’s our story how we’re developing a product using machine learning and neural networks to boost translation and localization Artificial intelligence and its applications are one of the most sensational topics in the IT field. If so, what is the value of the solution you’re developing? Often people confuse it with automation.

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Mironov Consulting

NOVEMBER 10, 2016

As noted in my last post , Sales and Marketing often wonder whether Engineering is sufficiently motivated and engaged. Motivation and engagement look different on the tech side of the room: the outbound team often can’t tell whether Engineering is emotionally engaged. Some Engineering teams are unmotivated, though.

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Mixpanel

JUNE 10, 2022

A good product onboarding experience can help achieve product-market fit and drive revenue, while a poor experience can drive customers away. We use the terms “product onboarding” and “user onboarding” interchangeably; you can read more about these concepts in our user onboarding explainer blog.

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Userpilot

SEPTEMBER 4, 2023

In today's PLG-driven world, SaaS companies must deliver seamless customer experiences to survive and thrive. Customer journey optimization has emerged as a strategic imperative for companies seeking to boost customer satisfaction, retention, and lifetime value. Register here for FREE!

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Userpilot

NOVEMBER 17, 2022

There’s a science to successful customer onboarding, and following the client onboarding best practices in this article will set you on the right path. Read on as we explore client onboarding and how to combine creativity, thoughtfulness, and the right onboarding software to help customers ‘get’ your product. Less churn. Less churn.

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