The Product Coalition

MARCH 15, 2021

I wrote a variation of this for the various product teams at Whispir recently and then as fate would have it, a CEO I know reached out to me on LinkedIn asking the same thing?—?so with very little effort but a huge amount of diligence and thought, and you can do it in 15 minutes if you have access to all the research already.

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Split

MARCH 20, 2024

By optimizing release management flows, teams can facilitate on-demand deployments that enhance business agility without compromising stability. Understanding precisely how to improve release management is key for more efficient software development. Effective release management is pivotal for agile software development.

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The Product Bistro

JANUARY 25, 2021

In the way back time, before Agile, before OKRs and other fads, product managers wrote MRDs, or Market Requirement Documents. This was the artifact the began the process of developing a new product, or a variant of a product. A recent project, a complete re-do of one of our flagship products was needed.

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The Product Cafe

DECEMBER 12, 2023

Hello, all you product-loving folks! 💜 Welcome to this week's edition of Product Café, your weekly cup of coffee for everything product management, startups, AI, and more. Are You Trapped in the Product Death Cycle? If this scenario sounds familiar, you might be caught in the vicious Product Death Cycle.

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The Product Coalition

MARCH 25, 2023

Airfocus Co-Founder and CEO Malte Scholz talks about what it takes to launch new capabilities that ensure product success. By Tremis Skeete , for Product Coalition Product innovation. As simple as the concept sounds, our greatest companies and their products rely on it. Probably on par with “ speed to market.

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Pragmatic Marketing

NOVEMBER 21, 2018

This article is based on information provided in our webinar, Customer Validation for Product Managers , with Centercode CEO Luke Freiler. If you are reading this, it probably won’t surprise you that 47% of product managers have run Beta Tests as part of their job. Loop In the Teams Who Will Use Your Data.

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Product Talk

MARCH 2, 2016

I love that Marty Cagan and Jeff Patton have long been advocates of dual-track development. Their efforts have helped to shape the ongoing conversation about the evolution of product discovery. If you aren’t familiar with dual-track development, it’s the separation of product discovery from product delivery.

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Userpilot

OCTOBER 6, 2023

In SaaS, the B2B marketing funnel forms the backbone of any successful product and marketing team. It attracts people (who’d otherwise be strangers) to become your customers. It helps you visualize the customer journey. Which involves attracting the attention of potential customers through content and ads.

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The Product Coalition

FEBRUARY 24, 2021

Today’s rapidly evolving tech landscape favors short feedback loops and requires roadmap flexibility to pivot and solve customers’ most pressing problems as they arise. As a result, the best product managers thrive on their ability to move quickly, minimizing time to market for feature releases.

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The Product Coalition

MAY 10, 2021

First, let me introduce our two products along with some context and background to set the scene. BigVision BigVision is a business (or product or department) that has a big, exciting vision. We just need to start with First Opportunity first as due to our market analysis and business modelling, this is the best one to tackle”.

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Modus Create

FEBRUARY 16, 2024

Cybersecurity is now engrained in every part of product development and digital transformation initiatives, even the user experience. Users increasingly demand and expect information privacy and robust encryption methods. As a result, cybersecurity has become a top challenge for many companies.

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The Product Coalition

AUGUST 15, 2023

A Tale of Two Roadmaps — And Why You Can’t Succeed With Only One “There is no one-size-fits-all product roadmap. Different businesses, different stages of product maturity, different audiences, and different goals might necessitate different roadmap formats.” — C. But within this complexity lay its charm. The bottom line?

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ProductPlan

MARCH 14, 2023

But delivering those services requires hundreds if not thousands of products. Regardless of their scale and scope, they’re all products with production schedules, marketing plans, sales teams, logistics specialists, and—in most cases—product managers. Who’s the customer for healthcare product managers?

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The Product Coalition

MARCH 29, 2018

Is your B2B product easy to sell and easy to renew? I realize not every product person has to navigate sales stakeholders. But if you’re working on a B2B product with a sales force, odds are you know what I mean. But if you’re working on a B2B product with a sales force, odds are you know what I mean.

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ProductPlan

JUNE 1, 2023

When your product can do more than it could do before, that sounds like a good thing. 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. But are you solving for actual customer problems?

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Product Innovation Educators

JULY 4, 2022

How product managers can get customer insights from a community to create a competitive advantage. I wanted to learn how this company creates competitive products, differentiating on cost while offering comparative capabilities that equates to much higher value for customers. The leading brand cost about $150.

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Mironov Consulting

DECEMBER 29, 2022

Almost every week, I have a conversation with executives at B2B software companies who don’t see a bright-line distinction between software license revenue and customization/implementation revenue.  Or  But when I do product due diligence for SaaS-focused PE/VC firms, it's the very first thing I look at.  Let’s

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The Product Coalition

AUGUST 8, 2022

The story of how the first product of the information age was created and found product/market fit. Because scribes display more diligence and industry than printers.” Source: Wikipedia Gutenberg’s Entrepreneurial Journey Under these conditions, imagine how hard it was to launch a world-changing product.

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The Product Coalition

MARCH 6, 2019

Working as a product manager can be a busy, unpredictable and octopus-like existence. Bringing team members together, organizing user research, product demos, road mapping and more. If you’re a mobile app product manager there’s a whole additional layer of complexity to add to that cake.

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ProductPlan

JULY 10, 2020

I’ve worked exclusively on digital products for over 14 years , primarily in product and design-centric roles. Thinking back, it’s surprising that it was only about five years ago that I had an important epiphany that would alter the trajectory of our company’s product strategy and my career. Pat on back.

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Intercom, Inc.

AUGUST 18, 2022

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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The Product Coalition

NOVEMBER 9, 2020

It was about 12 months ago when I was challenged by our CEO to dismantle our squad and create a growth team. Not being too sure what a growth team was, we started anyway. We got access to work completed by Andrew Chen & Brian Balfour , took a few courses from the Reforge series and started developing our growth loops.

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Business of Software Conference

NOVEMBER 26, 2018

This will change the way that a lot of people think about product market fit, BS metrics, understanding the needs of the people that really matter. Video, Slides, Transcript and Rahul’s blog about this follow… Understanding Customers. “How would you feel if you could no longer use this product?”

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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. There’s no perfect resume recipe or qualifying exam for product types. There’s no perfect resume recipe or qualifying exam for product types. Are they team players?

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PMLesson's Ace the PM Interview

DECEMBER 14, 2020

A common question for product managers, project managers, technical program managers, and software developers alike is what methodology to use given a project. Which should you and your teams decide the utilize? Whichever methodology a team operates under will heavily influence how they work and communicate with one another.

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ProductPlan

NOVEMBER 19, 2021

What is a Product Management System? As a product manager , you’ll want to answer a series of questions before you start work. And at least one dedicated software application to help you take your products from concept to launch. As we look for a solution to create, what should our initial research phase include?

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The Product Coalition

DECEMBER 8, 2020

Getting new products and new ventures off the ground in massive companies requires overcoming enormous hurdles. These corporate forces are arguably the biggest hurdles a new product venture faces. What’s fascinating is that often it’s not through lack of technical knowledge that new products struggle.

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The Product Coalition

JUNE 26, 2023

Generative AI has the potential to create economic impact within sales, marketing, software engineering & IT, customer operations, and R&D functions across various verticals. Industries such as high tech, banking, pharmaceuticals and medical products, education and telecommunications, healthcare, and insurance stand to gain immensely.

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Mixpanel

DECEMBER 3, 2020

In a world rife with product parity and seemingly unending consumer choice, what separates the great brands from the good ones? Customer experience. Every interaction, every message, every touchpoint matters to customers. These are the core four pillars of personalization: User Segmentation: finding the perfect audience.

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Mixpanel

NOVEMBER 8, 2022

If your startup is vying for an investment when there are fewer dollars to go around, it makes coming up with a compelling product idea and showcasing demand for it with data even more important. VCs look for signals that you have the right product, in the right market, at the right time, with the right team at the helm.

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The Product Coalition

OCTOBER 19, 2020

Netflix took note of changes in consumer behavior, the creation of new distribution models, and rapid increases in network speeds that would eventually unlock streaming. Alternative futures analysis is a structured analytic technique that helps teams predict how the future might unfold. What is Alternative Futures Analysis?

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Intercom, Inc.

JUNE 2, 2022

From the CEO and the management team to the intern fresh out of college, every employee or business owner has unique qualities that position them to bring excellent customer experiences to life. And for Elizabeth Dixon , even the smallest action can cause ripples that turn customers into loyal advocates. Very excited.

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UX Studio: Product Management

JULY 5, 2021

As an expert and an opinion leader in the UX field, we’ve reviewed the competency, portfolio, and former projects of New York design agencies to define the best user experience design agencies in New York , based on our judgment. . As a client, you invest your time, energy, and limited resources into your digital product development.

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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. There’s no perfect resume recipe or qualifying exam for product types. There’s no perfect resume recipe or qualifying exam for product types. Are they team players?

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Userpilot

JULY 5, 2022

There’s nothing better than having satisfied customers who are more than happy to use your product. It’s the Customer Success team’s role is to identify people who are less successful, and help them to learn and use your product better. What is SaaS customer success? What is SaaS customer success?

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Modus Create

JUNE 1, 2020

The news is filled with tales of hackers breaking into financial institutions, DDoS attacks on credit card companies, and data breaches due to poor software configuration. The Modus threat modeling process uses several iterative steps that start with a discovery stage and ends with a final presentation. Who are the actors?

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UX Studio

MARCH 4, 2019

Web designer vs web developer – as a UX designer, I counter this match daily. But truly, the phrases don’t stop here, we have visual designers, front-end developers, back-end developers, UX designers (like me), et cetera. A developer friend of mine met with a client a couple of months ago. User expectations.

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