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10 Reasons Your Product is Hurting Your Sales Team

The Product Coalition

I try to help product and sales teams succeed under the mantra “Easy to Sell, Easy to Renew.” It’s a principle that aligns the interests of product, sales and customers around value, simplicity, and competitive advantage. Your teams will realign and strengthen their partnership as they see the product through each other’s eyes.

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How Do You Know You’re Hiring a Good Product Team Member?

ProductPlan

Product leaders don’t often get many chances for hiring product team members. Additions to the product team must ramp up quickly. Here are some ways I vet product management candidates to weed out poor fits and spot the diamonds in the rough. Stage 1: Reviewing the applications. Are they team players?

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How Do You Know You’re Hiring a Good Product Team Member?

ProductPlan

Product leaders don’t often get many chances for hiring product team members. Additions to the product team must ramp up quickly. Here are some ways I vet product management candidates to weed out poor fits and spot the diamonds in the rough. Stage 1: Reviewing the applications. Are they team players?

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Algolia’s Sarah Dayan on what sets a staff plus engineer apart

Intercom, Inc.

Sarah Dayan is a staff engineer at Algolia , a “Search-as-a-Service” platform that helps developers build index and search capabilities into their own platforms through an API, and the host of two tech podcasts: Developer Experience and Entre Devs. Then, four years ago, in 2018, she got a job at Algolia as a software engineer.

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Planning and Execution in a Time of Change

The Product Coalition

There’s much uncertainty, but it’s likely that for a number of years markets will cool down, investments will dry up, customers will clamp down on spendings, and lots of people will be unemployed. For most companies it’s bad news?—?the We ask you to keep calm and to follow the plans you are given diligently.

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7 Internal Politics Situations You’ll Encounter as a Product Manager

ProductPlan

Situation: You’ve painstakingly constructed a roadmap after consulting with various stakeholders, the development team, and your peers. Remember, they’re dealing with board members, investors , and customers who may be applying pressure. Even the boss has a boss, not to mention demanding customers. Sympathize.

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From Awareness to Adoption: Keys to a Successful New Feature Launch

ProductPlan

Product teams must not only create an amazing product, they also need to set the stage for the product getting the awareness it requires for trial and user adoption. To avoid an unsuccessful launch and weak usage, product teams and their product marketing counterparts must be in lockstep.