The Product Coalition

OCTOBER 20, 2020

It’s understandable that most of us don’t make time for personal development. Who wants to spend time after a hard day of work learning and developing when they could be kicking back with a beer and watching The Crown? A few months ago, I introduced a concept I have developed called the PM, or Product, Quadrants.

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ProductPlan

OCTOBER 29, 2019

The developers will handle it. It definitely doesn’t delight users or reduce friction. Most often, it won’t matter if it’s not intentional or was initiated by a bad actor from outside the company, If things go sideways, it could even result in a permanent shutdown. Full, thorough code reviews rarely occur anymore.

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The Product Coalition

NOVEMBER 2, 2021

This can be highly useful for hiring managers, as well as for PMs planning their roadmap. My take on it: while I love ex-developer PMs, and find that their teams often execute better, this is by no means a requirement. However, if a non-techy PM meets a non-businessy team lead, things can go sideways pretty quickly.

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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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Userpilot

NOVEMBER 15, 2021

UserGuiding is a no-code tool for user onboarding. Interactive help centers enable your business to support more customers and improve customer satisfaction without having to rely solely on your support team. Segmentation features aren't very intuitive and may require additional help from a developer. UserGuiding reviews.

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ProductPlan

JUNE 11, 2019

An outcome-based roadmap sounds like a good idea. Instead of a long list of context-free features and enhancements the roadmap is constructed to accomplish specific goals critical to the success of the business. The Problem With Outcome-Based Roadmaps. But it is greatly diminished when folks are betting on unrealistic results.

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Userpilot

APRIL 21, 2021

Put simply, good product marketing software helps your SaaS solve two fundamental problems: Build a product that users love on the basis of customer feedback Acquire and retain users of that product. Having the right software at your disposal can make product marketing significantly easier, especially if you’re new to the profession.

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Userpilot

APRIL 8, 2021

Here’s a sobering truth: if you run a SaaS company and don’t use customer analytics software , you probably won’t be in business very long. If you’re looking for quality customer analytics software for your business, you’re in the right place. What is Customer Analytics Software? Best Customer Analytics Software 1.

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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? How is the Release Plan Different?

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The Product Coalition

DECEMBER 8, 2018

Your roadmap is one of the most important things you’ll produce as a SaaS company. Who will you share the roadmap with: Just employees, or customers too? And then there’s perhaps the biggest question of all: “How do we decide what makes it on to our roadmap?” And your roadmap should change with them. They change a lot.

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Usersnap

APRIL 25, 2019

Countless times projects progress so slowly only due to poor ticket management. If you are using Usersnap, your team, clients or customers definitely are submitting more bug reports due to the convenience of capturing screens and annotating in-product. Easily create a product roadmap with personalized view.

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Product Talk

SEPTEMBER 9, 2020

While I tend to focus on helping teams, Petra’s work centers around helping product leaders—the people who manage product managers. She has a big focus on people development, helping product managers and product leaders get better at their craft. I definitely heard in your story the why behind going from SAP to the startup.

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ProductPlan

JANUARY 28, 2022

Note: product consolidation has different definitions in different industries. There are several reasons for a product team to consolidate its products. Again, imagine you sell B2B software tools. Before you begin your consolidation, you want to review all related products in your portfolio closely.

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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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ProductPlan

JANUARY 5, 2023

Lists of trends that survey the past should be easier by definition, right? This trend has supported the emergence of the Data Product Manager as a role on the product team dedicated to the process of collecting, organizing, storing, and sharing data within an organization. Outcome-driven vs. feature-based roadmaps.

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ProductPlan

DECEMBER 4, 2019

Situation: You’ve painstakingly constructed a roadmap after consulting with various stakeholders, the development team, and your peers. Soft skills” aren’t always part of their repertoire, not to mention loads of “ developer-speak.”. Dropping the news that something is late on the day it was due is doing you no favors.

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Product Club

DECEMBER 20, 2016

All these questions boil down to the same thing: “ How long will that chunk of software development take? ”. As product managers it often isn’t our responsibility to provide an answer, but we’re frequently asked the question by our superiors or dependent teams nonetheless. Bad weather. Wrong turns.

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Modus Create

JANUARY 12, 2021

As a trader of spices in 500BC, you most definitely had to consider customer expectations, profit margins, and the emergence of new techniques for preserving your product. So let’s dive into some old and new methodologies that companies use to implement, develop and balance the three pillars.

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The Product Coalition

AUGUST 17, 2018

Strategically, you set the long-term goals that inform the roadmap. Tactically, you want to ensure your Agile team is following the roadmap and delivers as expected. And it seems all you need is to prepare the backlog, prioritize it, push into development and regularly follow up on the status and results.

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Gainsight

MARCH 21, 2019

These are just as bad for business. But if your customers are here, achieving value while also having a poor experience, they’re usually not at risk of churn. How to stop it: This is great white-space for collaborating more closely with your product team. On the other hand, how well do you know your product roadmap?

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The Product Coalition

FEBRUARY 18, 2019

You also have to gain the confidence of your product team, since they are relying heavily on you for the success of the overall product. By definition, you aren’t an expert initially. Years ago when I was working with the Money Markets and Liquidity team at Goldman Sachs, I knew very little about the products and environment.

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Roadmunk

SEPTEMBER 21, 2017

Some sit outside the product domain, but still directly pushed me as a product manager to connect and empathize with other team members. But in part 4 of a 9-part series on startups by Marc Andreessen (co-founder of Andreessen Horowitz), there are three factors to startup success identified: your team, product and market.

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Tyner Blain

AUGUST 1, 2013

How can Theodore Levitt’s classic Whole Product approach help with defining a product roadmap? I’ve been revisiting his concepts and their use recently, thinking about how to revise them for some exercises I’ve been doing with product teams. Calculator software is pretty much viewed as a commodity.

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Andrew Chen

NOVEMBER 15, 2021

These frameworks are targeted at teams building new products, first and foremost. Everywhere you looked, there were reminders of the global scale of Uber’s business as well as the international heritage of the team driving it. How to get them started, how to scale them, and what it’s like to compete.

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ProductPlan

MARCH 13, 2019

A product manager isn’t writing code, testing products, creating marketing pitches, buying advertising or actively selling their product. Sloppy programming could sink usage while an overachieving sales team could goose adoption. Regular updating, presentation and communication of the product roadmap. Customer visits.

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ProductPlan

JUNE 1, 2023

Added functionality, new capabilities, a more robust feature set…these are the talking points product marketers salivate over and executives search for on product roadmaps. Where are product teams getting their feature ideas? Why do product teams become feature factories? But are you solving for actual customer problems?

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Intercom, Inc.

DECEMBER 9, 2022

And this is why we decided to bring you a special episode about these latest developments in the world of AI, what they mean, and whether it’s time to apply it in real-life scenarios such as customer support. Des Traynor: Let’s do some quick definitions to ground everyone. ” But it’s similar in terms of capability.

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The Product Coalition

FEBRUARY 1, 2021

Most of us have been through the results of poor management of bugs: hair-on-fire, last-minute late nights to madly scrambling to critical fix bugs blocking a release, or stopping a customer from using a product. Does your organisation provide you and your team with direct access to customers, or are there gatekeepers?

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The Product Coalition

JANUARY 28, 2021

Some people want to believe that they won’t happen or don’t want to talk about them so that they don’t risk being seen as bad at their job. I’ve never seen a roadmap naming the bugs a team wants to introduce?—?but For our purposes, we’re going to use the same definition for product bugs. of the gross domestic product.”

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Mironov Consulting

APRIL 15, 2023

In my experience, there’s usually a fundamental misalignment between two broad groups at software companies – especially B2B/enterprise companies — that I’ve been thinking/writing for a while.  One On either side, it’s easy to assume bad intent or have this get personal.  Almost

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Intercom, Inc.

DECEMBER 2, 2021

From the process of disambiguation and the worst outage we ever had to our obsession with speed and how legal and engineering teams can work better together, Engineer Chats will give you a peek behind the engineering process at Intercom. The legal team isn’t there to slow R&D down. That is an ambiguous problem.

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Intercom, Inc.

SEPTEMBER 22, 2022

They work with consulting firms, hire their own analysts, buy data management software. But the fact is that a large portion of the employees – developers, marketers, product managers (whose work depends on an intimate understanding of the customer) – rarely, if ever, interact with them. And for a while, that was the case for Michele.

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Mironov Consulting

JULY 28, 2022

Especially in B2B/enterprise software companies, I see two dramatically divergent ( incompatible ) worldviews that IMO explain a lot of corporate behavior. Enterprise Sales and Solutions Teams… Are paid/rewarded/promoted for working with individual prospects or customers one at a time.  Sales

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Userpilot

APRIL 27, 2023

In the world of software-as-a-service (SaaS), customer satisfaction is paramount to the success of any business. Detractors (NPS 6 or lower) are customers who are unlikely to recommend your product to others due to low satisfaction with it. Reach out to promoters for online reviews to boost your social proof.

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Userpilot

OCTOBER 20, 2021

Poor onboarding may actually drive users away from activation and adoption. Pendo comes out stronger than WalkMe for developing SaaS onboarding experiences and product analytics thanks largely to its more robust user segmentation tools. Pendo and WalkMe do some similar things, but they are definitely not equivalent.

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Userpilot

JULY 27, 2022

There are five stages of the product life cycle: development, introduction, growth , maturity, and decline. Product life cycle marketing (PLC marketing) aligns the marketing efforts of a product with its stage of development. These include the development, introduction, growth, maturity, and decline stages.

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People-First Product Leadership

JULY 17, 2023

As I shared in the prior newsletter , being a product person means that by definition you're living in a world where no one knows the right answer yet because if somebody did, they would've already built it. To ensure your team’s success, think beyond your own team.

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