The Product Coalition

DECEMBER 19, 2021

The first product manager in a startup is a critical role with immense impact on the startup’s success?—?both Photo by Tolga Ulkan on Unsplash When I joined Twiggle as their first VP Product I was the thirteenth employee. Shortly after I started, the CEO surprised me by saying I should hire a product manager.

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The Product Coalition

SEPTEMBER 29, 2020

Anyone familiar with Product Management will recognize the immortal phrase ‘influence without authority.’ As a Product Manager, you’re a team player who guides product development along its chartered course, but you have to do that without being the literal captain of the ship. What Does ‘Influence’ Mean?

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The Product Coalition

NOVEMBER 23, 2021

Measuring the performance of product managers is a real challenge for a number of reasons. When planning the product managers’ goals, this challenge can translate into taking the wrong direction altogether. Here is a new way to look at product management goals, and make them a useful tool for both you and your team.

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The Product Coalition

JULY 25, 2021

Product management requires you to master so many different skills, that there always seems to be a gap between what you do well and what you need to do well to succeed. As a manager of product people, it is your job to help them with this continuous growth, but it’s not always easy. The answer is, of course, yes?—?most

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The Product Coalition

FEBRUARY 5, 2021

We’re well overdue a conversation about Product Managers and technical skills. It doesn’t seem to matter how many times the industry tries to reassure newcomers that you don’t need to be a full stack software engineer to be a good Product Manager. SQL : Used for data management and manipulation.

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The Product Coalition

AUGUST 9, 2021

As their managers, we always need to coach our product managers toward their next level. Photo by Jess Bailey on Unsplash I was a manager long before I was a product manager. In one of my roles as an R&D manager, I inherited an employee from one of the other teams on the day I joined.

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ProductPlan

JUNE 5, 2020

Product management is certainly no exception. Product managers and leaders need to find ways to keep learning and growing in an ever-evolving product environment. There’s an abundance of books, podcasts, as well as events at your disposal that cover various product management topics.

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Revulytics

NOVEMBER 3, 2017

Who wouldn’t want to be a customer-obsessed product development organization? Customer-obsession demands a deep knowledge of users’ processes, to directly inform product development, guide marketing campaigns and sales engagements, and to use information as a jumping off point to drill deeply into users’ challenges and opportunities.

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The Product Coalition

OCTOBER 21, 2021

Your development team isn’t aligned with the product vision and/or strategy (even after discovery has been run) Running product discovery is a great way to align development with the product vision, but simply running discovery doesn’t mean that the team will stay aligned. airfocus will get you there.

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Revulytics

OCTOBER 25, 2017

Valdsgaard offers inspiring guidance for product managers – to consider, for a moment, how new technology is fueling our ambitions when it comes to developing and delivering amazing products. We need to point ourselves toward becoming a customer-obsessed product management organization.

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Product Innovation Educators

FEBRUARY 22, 2021

How product managers can work backwards to amazing products. In a few weeks, the name of this podcast will be changing to Product Masters Now. To be a better product manager, it is worthwhile to examine organizations known for their product management capabilities. Amazon is such a company.

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ProductPlan

JUNE 16, 2022

In the years leading up to the pandemic, there was already a notable increase in demand for product managers. And as organizations pivoted to digital spaces, this hunger for product management expertise grew ravenous. Organizations across sectors invested much in the way of building out product teams.

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The Product Coalition

DECEMBER 11, 2023

Part of your role as a product leader is pure management: management of the execution, and of the people who report to you. It can be quite challenging, both because it is objectively complex and because of time management. In order to succeed, make sure to create the management routines that would help you.

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The Product Coalition

DECEMBER 11, 2023

Great managers empower their people. Here is what you need to be aware of if you want to keep being a great manager, not just in your head. Here is what you need to be aware of if you want to keep being a great manager, not just in your head. Arik and I have very different approaches to managing the morning routine.

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The Product Guy

MARCH 14, 2017

A product manager just stopped by the desk of the designer on a lazy Thursday afternoon. The manager used wide gestures to show where he wanted to move certain elements. The developers sitting nearby just watched the show for the first time, but after a while they stood up to join the party one by one.

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Under 10 Consulting

DECEMBER 28, 2019

You’re in your first days as a product manager. Before the demands of others overwhelm you, you need to prepare yourself to be the business and market liaison to the product team. Your role as a product manager or product owner is to make the best business decisions for the product, working from the best available information.

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Product Management University

JUNE 5, 2023

Most product managers know how to create a product vision, but that’s not the hard part. The extent to which stakeholders get behind your product vision has everything to do with how the product vision is articulated. What is a Product Vision? Why is a Product Vision Important?

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Gainsight

NOVEMBER 20, 2019

To truly excel in product management, you need to have a respect for design, an understanding of countless processes, a passion for problem-solving, excellent communication skills—the list goes on and on. Books for Product Managers. Blogs for Product Managers. Slack Groups for Product Managers.

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The Product Coalition

MARCH 19, 2023

Product management is a creative job in the deepest sense: We create products. But the level at which we need to do so changes dramatically over the course of a product person’s career, and the transition is not always easy. Here are three levels — each relevant to a different stage in your career and your product.

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Centercode

SEPTEMBER 3, 2019

Being a product manager means getting asked a lot of questions. Being a great product manager? The desire to know more about your product, your business, and your customers is a unifying trait within the product management field. Lauren Chan Lee, Director of Product Management at Care.com.

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UX Studio

MAY 15, 2018

By definition, design handoff takes place when the finished design has reached the stage for the developers to implement it. Let’s look at the basics and some suggestions to get the best out of the designer-developer collaboration. First of all, I must state that a “finished design” of a digital product does not exist.

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Izenda

JULY 28, 2020

Developers are humans too (I think). They also aspire to advance their career and climb the rungs to assume the coveted product manager role. Engineers live in the product, spending the majority of their time building it, fixing it, and taking care of it. Product Managers: Get Out of the Coding Enclave Mentality.

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The Product Coalition

NOVEMBER 13, 2022

In the effort to create empowered teams, many managers struggle with their role in the process. It requires a different kind of guidance, but your management and leadership are still required nonetheless. In our effort to build empowered teams, I see many product leaders making the same mistake I did with my daughter and her homework.

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Revulytics

JANUARY 23, 2018

Yet ironically, often the desire to increase efficiency and productivity is not applied to the product development process itself – especially when it comes to software development. In fact, studies have shown that software development teams spend 40 to 50 percent of their time on avoidable rework.

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The Product Coalition

SEPTEMBER 10, 2023

Leadership without authority is product management 101. You must master it to succeed, in most cases with developers. But as a product executive, you must take it to the next level — and this time use it with the entire management team. But the same principle applies also to your work with the company management.

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ProductBoard

DECEMBER 3, 2019

Written by Kat Kennedy, Chief Experience Officer at Degreed, for our ebook, The Path to Product Excellence: Stories and Advice From the Field. Seven years ago, my CEO asked me if I was interested in moving from my software development role into a product management role.

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Usersnap

JULY 22, 2021

In our recent post I’ve shown you how we interpret and live up to the “release early, release often” paradigm of software development. In this post I’m going to show you how we handle product feedback and implement new product features. Gathering product and user information using product feedback tools.

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The Product Bistro

AUGUST 4, 2016

Last month, at the SVPMA ‘s monthly meeting it was a treat to have Steven Haines, a luminary in the field of product management to conduct a cross functional product team meeting role play. While this might indicate that experienced product managers will not benefit from reading it, that is patently not the case.

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ProductPlan

FEBRUARY 14, 2019

Product managers and marketers share many of the same goals. Understanding how marketers gauge their progress can help you be a more balanced product manager. And, in some cases these marketing metrics can even influence the product roadmap. Both SaaS product managers and marketers value customer acquisition.

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ProductPlan

DECEMBER 9, 2022

With so many social media posts, blogs, videos, ebooks, and podcasts, it’s hard to keep up. 10 Great Questions Product Managers Should Ask Customers. It’s a tenet of Product Management 101 that PMs need to get out of the building and talk to real-live customers… even if it’s just over Zoom.

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Mixpanel

NOVEMBER 8, 2021

How could a product manager possibly dig into the data and pull up something that’s genuinely useful for activation and retention? Simple: Product analytics tools have become super easy to set up and use. Now, I encourage product managers to just start getting their hands dirty with the data and see what they come up with.

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The Product Coalition

JUNE 18, 2023

It works when each customer is extremely large, but there’s a caveat: you do a lot of dedicated development (which means expensive resources) for each and every customer. When you are product-led, the company had decided that it is going to grow by selling the same product to each customer. Not all markets want to buy this way.

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The Product Coalition

JULY 18, 2021

Instead, you must shift your mindset to a risk management one: you need to think and analyze and be willing to dwell in the complexity for as long as needed , but at the same time understand when you were able to cap the risk and moving forward with action becomes more important. Debate these characteristics within management.

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ProductBoard

MARCH 24, 2021

This piece is an excerpt from “The Product Discovery Playbook.” ” For more insights and how-tos on product discovery, download the full ebook. While the product development process fits neatly into a box, product discovery often feels more fuzzy.

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The Product Coalition

DECEMBER 11, 2023

I had already been blogging for a while when she was born, so some of you might remember me writing about how I applied product management practices in the many decisions I needed to make around her birth , for example. Developers might not know what they will be working on next, and things start to feel a little chaotic.

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