The Product Coalition

JULY 6, 2022

Fifteen years ago Ben Horowitz published his now famous memo, “G ood Product Manager/Bad Product Manager ” in which he posits that “A good product manager is the CEO of the product”. A bad CEO takes the credit and passes on the blame. A bad CEO assumes they have the best idea in the room.

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ProductPlan

FEBRUARY 1, 2021

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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nulab

MARCH 11, 2020

And while it definitely has a place, it shouldn’t be your guiding light. You can also collect customer feedback via reviews, surveys, interviews, or focus groups. As part of this, you should also review your suppliers and distributors (if applicable), as well as the tools and software you use. Suss out the competition.

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ProductPlan

FEBRUARY 1, 2021

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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ProductPlan

APRIL 9, 2019

A lack of trust from developers and engineers creates endless second-guessing, challenges and sometimes even a refusal to follow through on requests, which becomes a huge timesuck and morale destroyer. If the executive team doesn’t have faith in product management, ideas are likely to be ignored, plans overruled and cachet denied.

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The Product Coalition

JUNE 21, 2021

Many worked from home on tasks ranging from organising team activities via Slack, analysing data and collaborating on documents via Google Docs, to discussing strategies via Microsoft Teams and coaching clients via Zoom. Children also went to school at their kitchen tables via Seesaw and Google Classroom.

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The Product Guy

FEBRUARY 27, 2018

So, I’ll start with this: a little while ago, I was having a difficult video call with my tech lead. We had just hired a new VP of Product who was radically (and rapidly) changing our product development process, and our engineers – based remotely, in Argentina – were struggling to keep up. “To I furrow my brow incredulously.

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svpg

OCTOBER 16, 2016

Recently I gave a keynote address to the Mind The Product Conference in London , and in that talk I wanted to illustrate, by example, the essential role that very strong product managers play for their team and their company. And ultimately, should more product teams work harder to actively bring in women product managers?

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Intercom, Inc.

JANUARY 5, 2022

After working on NASA’s Space Shuttle Main Engine, he went on to develop Portfolium, a social networking platform that allows students and graduates to showcase skills beyond the traditional resume to potential employers. Portfolium was eventually acquired, but the team behind it never stopped thinking about a better way to do it.

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Modus Create

JANUARY 12, 2021

The speed at which the economic landscape shifts has been increasing since the industrial revolution and the emergence of consumer technology. From the point of view of technology, manufacturing, and/or the ability to deliver a service, what is possible? I’ll review four methodologies: waterfall, Lean, design, and Agile.

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BrainMates

JULY 31, 2023

Organisations that do consider innovation tend to focus on new technological gambles that are dubbed to be ‘innovative’ but fail to deliver a commercial return. Organisations with poor product management practices have misguided expectations. Why Bother Innovating? Every product has a lifecycle.

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Mind the Product

NOVEMBER 21, 2019

As a product leader, you are the product manager for a leadership team, and the tricks you learned in product teams remain valuable, they just need a little tweak. Myths that an organisation tells itself can act as a reality distortion field that masks failing products and poor return on investment. Develop new opportunities.

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Mind the Product

AUGUST 19, 2019

Secondly, as great product managers are also great capacity builders for their teams, you should start looking for opportunities that AI can present for your product. That’s why it’s incredibly important to develop a good level of empathy and user understanding, not only for yourself, but for the whole team.

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Mind the Product

OCTOBER 10, 2019

Product managers can also find their mental health being put under pressure due to the isolated nature of the role in tech culture, constantly having to make decisions and being seen as ultimately responsible for the success and failure of the product. We don’t need to know everything, and it’s ok to admit when we don’t.

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Mironov Consulting

SEPTEMBER 15, 2019

We’ve known forever that we (product managers) must include our developers and designers in the earliest stages of problem definition and solution ideation. Piping in real users’ voices and challenges motivates the whole team. Less appreciation of commercial software development pressures. We versus They.

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People-First Product Leadership

MARCH 24, 2024

I’m in Duke Leto’s camp and believe a boss - at any level - should care and be thinking about their team. And, the SVP of Sales who would stop by my desk in the mornings to share the good and bad about the product and my team with me. We all have good and bad days. I won’t ruin the movie for you.

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Modus Create

MARCH 8, 2022

In Agile, a release is a group of software features that can be developed and deployed to the users in a given period. Adding more plans and meetings to an Agile team can seem like a slowdown which feels scary given that Agile is all about speed and deployments. What is Agile Release Planning? Why is Release Planning Necessary?

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People-First Product Leadership

DECEMBER 4, 2023

Throughout the post, I provide practical tips and steps for developing these strategic elements, setting the foundation for further strategic planning. It also showcases why your organization is uniquely positioned to do so. Identify their strengths, weaknesses, opportunities and threats (SWOT).

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Mind the Product

MAY 16, 2018

But, when asked about the greatest moment of the turnaround, Mulally says it was when his executive team started being comfortable enough with him to tell him the truth. To get an understanding of what type of work we’re talking about, let’s start with a basic definition of self-awareness. What is Self-Awareness Anyway?

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The Product Coalition

MARCH 22, 2021

These fields include web design, mobile app development, SaaS, and even B2B products. With a relatively small team based in Omsk, southwestern Siberia, Purrweb has compiled an impressive portfolio. Work & Co has gained the trust of tech giants, so you can trust in their skill. based on 19 reviews on Clutch.co.

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Intercom, Inc.

JANUARY 12, 2021

From premature optimization to over-engineering solutions for your product, it’s easy to get caught up in making technology decisions that slow you down instead of speeding you up. So when it comes to building your technical strategy, you need to assess each component in relation to what success will look like for your business.

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Intercom, Inc.

JULY 19, 2018

As up and coming engineers in Silicon Valley, Jean Hsu and Edmond Lau long sought more influence and impact in their respective positions – but they couldn’t shake the feeling of being stuck. The foundation of a positive, two-way working relationship is having a sense for what motivates your teammate. Their story isn’t uncommon.

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Imaginary Cloud - Design

JULY 2, 2020

As the Lead Designer at Imaginary Cloud , I conduct most of the interviews for design positions. It is not that those books are bad. In a time when there was very little acknowledgment about the importance and the role of design, when design was mainly done by developers and with very little user awareness. Why is that?

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The Product Coalition

MARCH 14, 2019

Photo by Emily Morter on Unsplash I quit my job running the Apple Maps PM team last year. As an MSOD (Masters of Science, Organization Development) student, I consulted at the International Monetary Fund (IMF) in May of 2018. Each team in the program had a mentor assigned to stay with us throughout our consulting assignment.

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Userpilot

MARCH 7, 2024

I asked DALLE to ‘Give me an image of a tech CEO’. Then I tried regenerating the image to see on which try it would give me a tech CEO of a different gender (or colour). Check out this viral post by Andrew Gazdecki to learn more about what a ‘tech CEO’ is like US Census data from 2022 revealed that only 17% of tech CEOs are female.

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Usersnap

DECEMBER 19, 2023

TL;DR The article underscores the importance of 1 to 5 rating scale surveys & how it has helped me in my PM journey, exploring their simplicity, versatility, and impact on user-centric product development. Definition of 1-to-5 Rating Scales Surveys 5 Types of 1 to 5 Rating Surveys 1. Satisfaction Scale 2. Likert Scale 3.

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Userpilot

NOVEMBER 15, 2021

UserGuiding's biggest selling point is its $99/month Basic plan but that doesn’t come with all the elements you’ll need to build a positive onboarding experience. Interactive help centers enable your business to support more customers and improve customer satisfaction without having to rely solely on your support team.

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People-First Product Leadership

JANUARY 7, 2024

Technological Advancements: The consumerization of artificial intelligence (AI) and large language models (LLMs) can bring innovation to industries ranging from education to healthcare to newsletter writing. For me, I’m looking forward to applying what I learned in 2023 - which was in a large part due to People-First Product Leadership.

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The Product Coalition

MARCH 8, 2019

Last week, after many months of development, I was happy to launch Haystack into the world finally. Since it’s creation, it has become stable for (mainly software) products to launch to a tech-centric audience. It takes into account comments, reviews and how long/active people are that upvoted. 2 weeks before launch?—?Those

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The Product Coalition

SEPTEMBER 17, 2020

Picture this: you develop an app, then launch it worldwide. Yeah, we know, it sounds pretty much like a developer’s worst nightmare. China and India are quickly taking the lead in the race for the title of “world’s largest mobile market for tech companies.” It also makes it easier to share the bugs with the rest of your team.

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PMLesson's Ace the PM Interview

DECEMBER 17, 2021

Working at Google is one of the hardest-to-get positions in the tech sector. Google uses specific internal tooling to analyze and review resumes to rank their scores–unfortunately, this changes rapidly and is nearly impossible to predict other than the basics of what make an effective resume.

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Mind the Product

APRIL 27, 2017

Some product teams are moving away from written PRDs to visual artifacts like mockups and prototypes. Eric Ries, in his post “What is customer development? Some product teams will use written methods across both the problem identification and solution definition steps, while others will use visual methods. Visual Methods.

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ProductPlan

MARCH 28, 2019

When a product manager exits, it can derail major aspects of your product strategy due to their integral role and unique perspective on things. UX issues may be overlooked, business concerns might be missed, customer relationships can suffer, and the rest of the team will be forced to scramble and pick up the slack. The manager.

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The Product Coalition

DECEMBER 5, 2019

They run from ill-suited personal traits and the pursuit of individual agendas to frustration with the team itself. Read on and learn in this post on Scrum anti-patterns how you can identify if your Scrum Master needs support from the team. The Scrum Master is a servant-leader for the Scrum Team. The team composition is wrong.

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Andrew Chen

NOVEMBER 15, 2021

Let me set it up in a few bullets: Many of tech industry’s most valuable products — Slack, Zoom, Instagram, Twitch, YouTube, and others — are at their core products that connect people to each other. These frameworks are targeted at teams building new products, first and foremost. I hope that’s a good teaser :).

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PMLesson's Ace the PM Interview

OCTOBER 21, 2019

This can be in terms of the companies you want to target, the roles you want to get into or the kind of industry, products, or technologies you want to work on. You want to do some research regarding the industry, company, team and the role before the actual interview—get this done quickly as there are many more important things to focus on.

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Intercom, Inc.

JANUARY 12, 2022

If you’re short on time, here are a few quick takeaways: Although data science can’t predict the future, it can definitely help you focus resources, troubleshoot issues, and even unlock new markets. That’s how I ended up moving from that job into an analytics job at a tech company in San Francisco. That was my first job in tech.

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