The Product Coalition

JANUARY 27, 2024

Software development with sustainability in mind is a rising trend in digital spaces. I would like to thank Tremis Skeete, Executive Editor of Product Coalition, for his valuable contributions to this article's research, development, and writing. Let’s explore how and why this matters.

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The Product Guy

DECEMBER 6, 2018

Over time, I realized that my true passion lived in product management, but when I tried to showcase my problem solving skills in multiple interviews, I failed miserably. That was an eye opener, as most of my life, I focused on jumping to solutions, but spent little or no time in defining them in the right way. 2) What should I solve?

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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. What should I follow in the day-to-day of a development team? development, IT operations, quality engineering, and security?—?to What does DevOps mean to teams?

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The Product Guy

OCTOBER 25, 2016

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 lives in Manhattan and in his spare time likes to play soccer. Better Products.

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The Product Guy

JULY 30, 2020

As described above it is worth investing time and effort to understand for each new project who has a stake and whom to manage closely or others to just to keep informed. Secondly, when should you spend time to identify stakeholders ? As different stakeholders have different priorities and expectations for the product.

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Product Management University

NOVEMBER 14, 2024

The pace of product management has accelerated exponentially in recent years because of agile development and the relentless focus on metrics. Agile is a great software development methodology but it has consumed product managers to the point where they have almost no capacity to do product management. Be sure to verify sources!

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Roman Pichler

MAY 11, 2021

But the value a product creates is ultimately determined by its users: No product will be successful in the long run if it does not solve a specific user problem, create a tangible benefit, or help the users achieve a specific goal. Myth #4: The product owner is responsible for writing user stories.

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Product Innovation Educators

JANUARY 3, 2022

Scrum is one of the most widely-used flavors of Agile, mostly applied to software development projects. It starts with describing the customer experience through user stories. Engaging with customers. In hardware development, user stories have to be looked at differently. Rapid prototyping.

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The Product Guy

APRIL 9, 2019

Some of the challenges from my personal experience has been. We perceive strategy from the management as perfectly informed – The reality is that this is a set of decisions based on a snapshot of information at an instant of time! Simple task, right? With these three fallacies, Chris introduced me to the concept of “proto-strategy.”

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Lenny Rachitsky

MAY 1, 2025

Listen now: YouTube // Apple // Spotify Brought to you by: Eppo —Run reliable, impactful experiments Vanta —Automate compliance. The power of dogfooding: Cursor’s rapid success was fueled by intense internal use (dogfooding) and iterative development, ensuring the product met real user needs.

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TechEmpower - Product Management

DECEMBER 11, 2023

million software developers worldwide. This vast pool of talent showcases a wide range of experience and portfolios, quality of work, and inquisitiveness. Given this diversity, it's important to be selective in the development services company with whom you choose to partner. Were they finished on time and on budget?

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Roman Pichler

NOVEMBER 2, 2021

A development team does a good job if the following three conditions are fulfilled: First, the group reliably meets the agreed sprint goals and delivers product increments that offer a great user experience and exhibit the desired software quality. This can make it challenging to help a development team improve.

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Product Innovation Educators

SEPTEMBER 13, 2021

What one product manager learned about understanding customers. Today we are talking about the journey from software developer to product manager and some key challenges encountered as a product manager. She enjoys being a mentor to new product managers and has gained vast product management experience.

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Product Innovation Educators

MAY 22, 2023

As the title of this episode conveys, our discussion will weave together topics for aligning customers’ needs and business strategy. They’re about cutting sprints and prioritizing user stories. 10:31] What was your experience at Experian? 10:31] What was your experience at Experian?

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Roman Pichler

SEPTEMBER 4, 2018

This is necessary for the following two reasons: First, if you start sprint planning without a properly prepared product backlog, you are likely to perform backlog and planning work in a comparatively short, time-boxed meeting. An example for the latter might be “Finish the dashboard so it can be released to the test users”.

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The Product Guy

JANUARY 5, 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 lives in Manhattan and in his spare time likes to play soccer. Better Products.

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Product Talk

MAY 15, 2024

It’s no longer about making decisions purely based on your intuitions or stakeholder requests, but finding ways to integrate touch points with customers into your work every week—if not every day. In each instance, Ellen found a solution that didn’t require too much time or technical know-how to set up. You can submit yours here.

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UX Planet

JUNE 13, 2025

Photo by Ricardo Gomez Angel on Unsplash For decades, software development has mirrored the construction industry — a manpower-heavy model where effort, hierarchy, and sequencing define how value is created. Not for users. And certainly not for the kind of dynamic, value-led experiences today’s market demands.

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The Product Guy

SEPTEMBER 12, 2017

A user researcher or other UX practitioner may group users by patterns in their behavior, both inside and outside your product. Whether you consider your user base in light of market research or user research, both of these kinds of researchers use the patterns they discover to form personas. Why bring this up?

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The Product Guy

APRIL 4, 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 lives in Manhattan and in his spare time likes to play soccer. Better Products.

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The Product Guy

AUGUST 1, 2019

This was a team plagued by poor lead time for feature development and unrealistic expectations, set in part by the inability of the team to provide realistic delivery estimates for features. Without scope discussions, user stories could often run across multiple days making it hard to determine expected delivery. THE CAUSE.

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Roman Pichler

APRIL 2, 2019

This is true for product people and development team members alike in my experience. Therefore, make an effort to involve the right individuals. I once worked on a new product development effort where more than one hundred developers in three locations had been allocated right from the start of the project.

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The Product Guy

OCTOBER 4, 2019

Customers are dissatisfied with your current product and churn at a high rate. And software developers and testers want to know that their time spent writing and testing code is purposeful. Sometimes an account manager emails you about a complaint that a major customer has and demands to know when the fix will release.

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The Product Coalition

DECEMBER 8, 2021

Voice search in the hospitality technology industry has developed with many innovations. These voice search technologies can improve customer experiences and business operations. This voice search setting is a process in which users can search for information on a specific website or a custom app through their voice commands.

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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 lives in Manhattan and in his spare time likes to play soccer. Better Products.

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Roman Pichler

FEBRUARY 2, 2021

Once Upon a Time in Waterfall Land. The latter would work with one or more development teams to get the specification implemented. As agile practices have become more widely adopted, the processes used to develop products have significantly changed: Product people and development teams now tend to collaborate much more closely.

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The Product Guy

APRIL 13, 2018

With passage of time it becomes more and more challenging to make the transition from traditional waterfall method to agile practices. In contrast, the service or project based companies will often encounter customers who will order something with a fixed time, fixed budget and fixed scope. What is Wagile? When to use Wagile?

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Userpilot

DECEMBER 6, 2023

Product dogfooding enables organizations to shorten the feedback loop by testing their products for bugs and usability issues before releasing them to the users. Using the product to solve real-world problems also helps them to better empathize with their customers and understand their needs and pain points. What is product dogfooding?

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Mind the Product

FEBRUARY 12, 2020

Instead, in my experience, product managers can build trust by allowing others to present results, demo to executives, and share in the glory of a job well done. We assign them to the person who contributes the most towards their success, whether it’s an engineer, PM, designer, user researcher, or data scientist.

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The Product Guy

OCTOBER 9, 2018

Fortunately, I was paired with a mentor, Vikas Batra, who has several years of product management experience in enterprise telecommunications hardware. Done correctly, its contents should also not be a surprise when it comes time to circulate it around the company. They may have additional color and suggestions. About Julian Dunn.

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The Product Coalition

MARCH 18, 2021

Salesforce is a great example of a SaaS provider that specializes in CRM (Customer Relationship Management). SaaS applications offer the following advantages: Cost savings: Software providers typically offer a SaaS product on a multi-tenancy cloud environment. Integration: A software product might need to integrate with another.

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Intercom, Inc.

JANUARY 12, 2021

They’re based on my experiences working in technology, the practical application of methods in varied use cases, and speaking with peers about their strategies and successes. If you’ve been paying attention to any loud marketing efforts over the last few years, you have definitely heard about multi-cloud. Multi-cloud architectures.

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The Product Coalition

JANUARY 7, 2021

It’s a temporary state where your product is solving a big enough problem with the right solution for your customers. The sales chart resembles a hockey stick, and customers are raving about your product. if your product shows high levels of sales , conversion and user engagement , that’s a strong sign of Product-Market fit.

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Arkenea

MAY 8, 2025

If you’re considering expanding your development capabilities beyond your in-house team, you’ve likely encountered the term “ nearshore software development in Mexico ” during your research. Offshore Software Development involves partnering with development teams in more distant countries.

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Modus Create

JANUARY 9, 2025

From iPhone to AI By Patrick Sheridan Posted in Digital Transformation , Product Published on: January 9, 2025 Last update: January 9, 2025 How lessons from the mobile boom can help navigate the new era of software development Were going to make some history together today. The App Store, now home to more than 1.8

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The Product Coalition

JANUARY 27, 2022

At the beginning of any software development project, managers think of which methodology is between waterfall and agile. It’s essential to follow clearly defined processes or software development life cycle (SDLC) to ensure software development quality. Waterfall and agile: A smart method or bad solution?

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