The Product Coalition

MARCH 28, 2022

I stumbled upon a bunch of product management memes while preparing for a talk. the conventional wisdom is that always building what upper management tells you to build is bad, and that ideas should be bottoms up and coming from those closest to the customer. There is definitely truth in that. Of course?—?the

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The Product Coalition

JANUARY 12, 2023

And What You Can Do to Avoid Them Disclaimer: I don’t really believe you can ‘teach’ Product Management. Not enough people spend enough time on defining vision and purpose Everybody talks about Simon Sinek’s golden circle, about Ikigai, about purpose and other synonyms, but no one really puts a lot of effort on finding purpose and meaning.

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Roman Pichler

MAY 4, 2022

Scrum is a popular agile framework. That’s understandable, as the framework is focused on the development of complex products. But from a product management perspective, effectively engaging the stakeholders is crucial to achieve product success. Listen to this article: [link]. Why the Scrum Team is Not Enough.

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The Product Coalition

MARCH 26, 2019

Product Management frameworks are exciting to learn and frustrating to implement. As a product manager myself and a framework teacher, I totally understand the appeal. Being a product manager is a messy job. In the least, frameworks provide a comforting structure. You didn’t go to school for it.

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Product Innovation Educators

NOVEMBER 16, 2020

The importance of an organizational game plan for product managers. I started a new series to explore the Product Development and Management Body of Knowledge. While it has since been updated many times, this is the body of knowledge I discovered in 2007 that led to many ah-ha moments for me as a product manager.

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bpma ProductHub

AUGUST 1, 2016

In 2016, Glassdoor identified Product Management as the #8 best job to have in America, with a job score of 4.5 Other jobs on the list included Data Scientist, Tax Manager and HR Manager. Unlike many of those jobs, product management is known for its nebulous career pathing and ambiguity. Contributed by Cynthia Andre.

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Mind the Product

JANUARY 6, 2020

The tips below have all helped me, so I hope this article will help product managers to cut through the noise and better understand how AI can fit into their daily work. A Broad Definition Enables Better Problem-solving. Strategy: Doing the right things to realize our vision. AI is a Tactic That Helps to Solve Problems.

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The Product Coalition

JUNE 24, 2020

What is each flavour of product manager responsible for? In my previous post, I introduced the four different flavours of product manager, depicted by the PM quadrants matrix. What are the four flavours of product manager? In this post, I’ll go into the responsibilities for each of the four ‘flavours’ of product manager.

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ProductPlan

OCTOBER 20, 2022

What is innovation management? There are many definitions of innovation management. At its core, innovation management is the process of putting something new into practice. Companies implement innovation management to cultivate a culture of innovation. Key ingredients of innovation management.

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The Product Guy

MAY 7, 2020

As I strive towards becoming a product leader, I wanted to understand the best practises in product management and in the process develop my own product philosophy. . This article explores multiple aspects of product management. Understanding the Role Definition. Definition of PM role. Specialist PM Roles.

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Intercom, Inc.

JANUARY 14, 2021

And so, in 2014, he founded Productboard , a product management system that incorporates customer feedback and insights to help product teams build better products. Looking at how the best companies operate, Hubert and his team boiled down product excellence to three key areas of action: vision, strategy, and execution.

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The Product Coalition

MARCH 21, 2019

Something that relates directly to your company’s vision. By my personal definition of better. You test the new checkout flow of your eCommerce site and you get a definitive answer to whether it increases revenue. So we wouldn’t be able to validate that definition of success. Why would you want to do that? More inspiring.

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Userpilot

AUGUST 21, 2023

In this ultimate list of product manager interview questions, we have tried to simplify the process of hiring great product managers. Product management encompasses the entire SaaS lifecycle from ideation to launch and everything that follows. What to look for in product managers? Communication skills. Leadership.

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Userpilot

JULY 9, 2021

What are the best product management books to add to your 2021 reading list? We’ve put together a list for you with a few staples from every product manager’s bookshelf and some new releases too. New in – Best New Product Management Books in 2021. Product Management Books #1 – Continuous Discovery Habits [NEW! ].

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Ask Benny

JANUARY 25, 2020

Your Team is Your Product One of the hardest things for a VP Product to do, as the team of product managers under his lead grows, is to release control. As a VP Product, you need to trust your product managers to make the right decisions. All my product managers must come to product from humbleness. You need to empower them.

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ProductPlan

MARCH 5, 2021

I’ve been talking with product managers lately about how the concepts of “essentialism” can help them focus their efforts on what matters. I distilled the advice a few months ago in my book The Essentialist Product Manager and have recently been giving talks and workshops on the topic. Start with the product vision.

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Product Innovation Educators

AUGUST 8, 2022

Most of the people that listen to this podcast have been in product management for several years. Some are new in their product management careers, and others listen to this podcast because they are considering a career in product. Summary of some concepts discussed for product managers. [3:02] But many others listen as well.

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Mind the Product

MAY 5, 2020

Ahead of the ninth Global Accessibility Awareness Day (GAAD) on May 21st and, at a time where digital products are very much in the spotlight, we’re digging deep into accessibility to better understand how we, as product managers, can improve our digital products. Introduction. Accessibility or Usability? What should you tackle first?

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The Product Coalition

MAY 11, 2020

Photo by Johannes Plenio on Unsplash Enterprise Product Managers are a bit different compared to the others. As you know that being a Product Manager for internal teams give me some confidence that I can easily extract requirements from them and scale it smoothly.

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Amplitude

MARCH 23, 2020

Over the past four-ish years in my role as a product manager—despite my best efforts/intentions—I noticed a disturbing pattern. I looked into a variety of frameworks: Jobs to be Done , Lean Startup , Design Sprint , and Opportunity Solution Trees among others. I think we need a new framework!” Why does this happen? End result?

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Gainsight

MARCH 22, 2022

Sales and Marketing is to new customer bookings as Product Management and Customer Success (CS) is to the customer experience. Consider implementing a recurring weekly or bi-weekly meeting between CSMs and Product Managers. They’re the new hot couple! Successful CS organizations should be well aligned with the PM organization.

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ProductPlan

OCTOBER 11, 2022

Product owners play a crucial role in “by-the-book” Agile scrum, while product managers are largely absent. Product owners have the following key responsibilities: Ensure the product strategy and vision continually guides the product development team’s execution. Manage and prioritize the backlog. The product owner’s role.

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The Product Coalition

MAY 15, 2019

One signal I’ve been giving much thought too of late is the collision of two roles, Product Management and Product Ownership. The agile manifesto turned eighteen this year, the Scrum framework is even older?—?have The origins of the Product Manager Product Management theoretically started back in 1931 after Neil H.

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The Product Coalition

AUGUST 28, 2023

The Software Development Life Cycle provides a practical framework you can apply to your product and improve your processes. It’s also supports flexible methods that can be easily applied to your project, and it can support the management of expenses, overall costs of production and risks. We product managers rock here.

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Userpilot

FEBRUARY 4, 2023

You can develop and execute strategic initiatives with the OKR framework. A strategic initiative is what can help your company achieve its long-term vision. They are broad projects and tasks that support the organization’s overall vision by improving efficiency. What are strategic initiatives?

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The Product Coalition

APRIL 11, 2022

MLOps as a new format of work The standard software development life cycle (SDLC) includes requirements definition, design, development, testing, and deployment. With the rise of ML and AI popularity, almost every company is incorporating voice assistants, chatbots, computer vision technologies, etc. into their applications.

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The Product Guy

OCTOBER 1, 2018

As a product manager, it can be quite daunting to start a new software product from scratch. You have to work with different stakeholders to define the product vision and strategy, define the set of features that the product will have and figure out a rollout plan. Define Product Vision and Strategy. Feature Definition.

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Userpilot

JULY 8, 2022

If you are wondering what Feature-Driven Development (FDD) is and how it can improve your product management processes, you are in the right place! Feature-Driven Development (FDD) is an Agile development framework. Features” in FDD are like user stories in other Agile frameworks. If that sounds interesting, keep on reading!

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The Product Coalition

SEPTEMBER 2, 2022

The leadership team finally agreed on the vision. The series of choices following a framework = the product strategy. As I considered the merits of each possible option to build a user base, I weighed them against the product strategy framework, the pros/cons, coherence, and value. The north star was clear?—?enabling

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Dear Strategy

DECEMBER 21, 2020

I need to address the definition that was referenced in the first. So what I’ll attempt to do here is present you with the most widely accepted definitions that I know of, while also trying to clear up some of the most common misconceptions that I typically come across. Example: My vision is to live in a world without cancer.

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Userpilot

SEPTEMBER 29, 2023

We'll take you through idea generation, market research, defining a minimum viable product, building new features, managing the launch, and beyond. designing screens, writing code, running tests), product management is a broader concept that encompasses strategy , vision, and product-market fit. Ready to get started?

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Ask Benny

SEPTEMBER 30, 2019

Your Team is Your Product One of the hardest things for a VP Product to do, as the team of product managers under his lead grows, is to release control. As a VP Product, you need to trust your product managers to make the right decisions. All my product managers must come to product from humbleness. You need to empower them.

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Intercom, Inc.

AUGUST 18, 2022

There’s project management, mentorship and teaching, decision-making, relationship-building, and the value you bring to the company is no longer measured by the quality of the lines of your code but rather by driving the engineering org forward. When I got into PHP, the framework that serious people used was called Zen framework.

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Mind the Product

OCTOBER 14, 2019

When you look at different frameworks for defining a product strategy there are so many possible definitions. Product strategy also doesn’t need to focus on product vision. The product vision is then an outcome of the product strategy. What Is Good Strategy? However, it’s not necessary to know a bunch of fancy terms.

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ProductPlan

JUNE 8, 2021

After reading a blog or a book or attending a conference or talk on product management, I’m always excited to try out the new processes and frameworks I’ve learned about. Aside from generating revenue, it’s also important to check if the solution aligns with the business’s direction, vision, and values.

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Ask Benny

JANUARY 25, 2020

One of the hardest things for a VP Product to do, as the team of product managers under his lead grows, is to release control. As a VP Product, you need to trust your product managers to make the right decisions. Your product as the VP Product is the team of product managers, and in turn, they are responsible for the product(s).

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The Product Coalition

SEPTEMBER 7, 2021

We need to consider myriads of inputs, definition sessions, and cross-team alignments to create high-quality OKRs for our team. It’s about the product organization's middle management. For example, upper management will have priorities that they want to see reflected in teams' efforts.

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