The Product Coalition

MARCH 19, 2023

Watching closely how my younger daughter’s creative process evolves, I noticed a few different skills that she develops over time. But understanding these levels and knowing what to expect can help you identify where you are at and which skills you need to develop to operate effectively at the next level. Are you up for the challenge?

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Gainsight

JULY 12, 2023

Your primary responsibility will be to develop and implement scalable processes, programs, and initiatives that enhance customer satisfaction, retention, and expansion. Develop and execute strategies to optimize the customer success journey, ensuring a seamless and delightful experience for our customers.

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The Product Coalition

JULY 16, 2023

In my first official product role, which I got to after managing large dev teams and a business-related role, I managed alone a product with a development team of ~40 people. One of the first things I did, for example, was to work with the salespeople on how to sell the product.

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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. One of the things I say about it is that strategy starts with the goals.

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The Product Coalition

JUNE 9, 2023

Let’s get right to it: what are those things you can educate the market on, and where are you setting yourself to failure? The answer to this question is based on the “Product Circuit” model that I use to help companies get to product-market fit and presented here a while ago.

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ProductPlan

JUNE 5, 2020

According to PayScale , its product management certification is completed mostly by experienced and midcareer product professionals. The certification follows this six-step learning journey: Foundation : Explores the scope of activities necessary in product management and helps to define various PM roles (e.g.,

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The Product Coalition

DECEMBER 6, 2023

Going through these iterations is what I do when I work with founders personally or through the new product-market fit masterclass. Product strategy is a special kind of strategy. Unlike what most people think, the product strategy isn’t the strategy of the product department. That’s about strategy in general.

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The Product Coalition

MARCH 13, 2022

Because over time, the Structured Data group (that I was Head of Product at) developed smarter, AI-based systems, that were meant to replace the back-office work or make it more efficient and create a better product catalog at the same time using things only machines can do. But the product will surely change!

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The Product Coalition

AUGUST 16, 2020

While we are developing and executing on the refined strategy, the outer cycles of the company can continue with what they currently have, simply because that’s what they have. Instead, you should gradually move upcoming prospects towards the new pitch and product offering. Not even the ones currently in the pipeline.

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The Product Coalition

DECEMBER 10, 2023

Are we targeting the same ICP for new revenue or are we actually developing a new market segment? Our free e-book “ Speed-Up the Journey to Product-Market Fit ” — an executive’s guide to strategic product management is waiting for you at www.infinify.com/ebook Originally published at [link] on November 9, 2023.

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The Product Coalition

JULY 18, 2021

expand to a new market, rely on your existing assets without the need to develop a completely new product or technology, stay within a regulation-free domain, be feasible to implement and bring revenue within a few months, and so on and so forth. My free e-book “ Speed-Up the Journey to Product-Market Fit ”?—?an

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The Product Coalition

DECEMBER 11, 2023

In many cases, you will be joining a company that didn’t have a product leader for a while, or even at all, and if it’s a good company they would want you to come and figure it out quickly. The development team would ask for an organized plan as well, wanting to know what to do and not just wander around from feature to feature.

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Mixpanel

NOVEMBER 8, 2021

As a VP of Product at Roam Digital, a full service consultancy, I’ve had the opportunity to work on a wide range of B2B and B2C products. One great example was a dashboard aggregation product we developed with a client. Across the board, user journeys are increasingly digital—and that’s a good thing for product marketers.

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The Product Coalition

FEBRUARY 1, 2022

The reason is that the market is constantly changing, and people get used to buying things a certain way. If it has always been the reality that developers, for example, get their tools from an organizational decision made somewhere else, Slack came and changed everything. As soon as other tools start selling the same way?—?giving

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The Product Coalition

NOVEMBER 23, 2021

When the desired outcome is spread across so many departments, and there is additional work that is needed in each department to achieve them, measuring product managers becomes a very challenging task. ‘s s measurements didn’t work, setting good measurements for product managers is always a challenge. While it’s easy to see why L. ’s

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The Product Coalition

JULY 25, 2021

Even people with a developed growth mindset?—?ones No one likes to see their gaps pointed to, and for people who don’t have a developed growth mindset, it’s twice as hard. My free e-book “ Speed-Up the Journey to Product-Market Fit ”?—?an don’t always find it easy to try new things or challenge themselves.

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The Product Coalition

DECEMBER 19, 2021

Photo by Tolga Ulkan on Unsplash When I joined Twiggle as their first VP Product I was the thirteenth employee. Along with the founders (the CEO and CTO), most of the employees in the company at the time were developers. Many founders tell me they are looking for someone to lead the product, but this could be very tricky.

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The Product Coalition

JANUARY 4, 2021

While the marketing strategy is typically not for you as a product leader to define, the unique value proposition definitely is. The better you understand which option you are at, the easier it will be for the marketing team to develop the right strategy. My free e-book “ Speed-Up the Journey to Product-Market Fit ”?—?an

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The Product Coalition

DECEMBER 11, 2023

I temporarily relocated there with 2 more developers from my company. You are probably thinking about developers — because that’s indeed the most expensive part of tech companies. Making sure your developers work on the right things — building the right product and not just building the product right — is critical.

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The Product Coalition

OCTOBER 30, 2022

It’s much more important to say that we are trying to establish initial signals of product-market fit than to say that we need a certain ARR value. Product development is such an uncertain world, both from the outside and from within. My free e-book “ Speed-Up the Journey to Product-Market Fit ”?—?an

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The Product Coalition

APRIL 10, 2022

If you are like me, one of the traits that might have made you a great product leader is that you developed chameleon-like capabilities. Now it’s time to develop additional tools to use on top of it. My free e-book “ Speed-Up the Journey to Product-Market Fit ”?—?an

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The Product Coalition

AUGUST 9, 2021

Little did I know that “not always easy to manage” is an understatement, and that this developer actually didn’t want to be managed at all. My free e-book “ Speed-Up the Journey to Product-Market Fit ”?—?an I honestly thought this is going to work, again, since?—?trust trust me?—?I’ve

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Under 10 Consulting

DECEMBER 19, 2019

. : defining and delivering the right products by empowering teams with clarity on problems—problems to be solved either in the product or its promotion. . However, what one organization calls product management, another calls product marketing. for future products and services, Planning.

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The Product Coalition

JANUARY 13, 2021

It all starts with articulating the (new) need or problem, understanding what it takes to solve it at the conceptual and value levels, and only then get to actual product capabilities and feature development. Now, what about your product? It’s not about your product, it’s about their unmet need.

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The Product Coalition

FEBRUARY 27, 2022

This can be achieved by opening the conversation and asking questions such as: What do you think is the #1 challenge in the product right now? In gathering as many viewpoints as you can, you will broaden your own perspective which is important to be able to lead the product in the right direction. What worked best so far?

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The Product Coalition

JUNE 13, 2021

whether you are a startup on its way to product-market fit or already in the growth stage. Note that this is still just on paper, so your effort here is meetings and writing and thinking, but not the development of the actual product at first. My free e-book “ Speed-Up the Journey to Product-Market Fit ”?—?an

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The Product Coalition

FEBRUARY 14, 2021

Here are three things that if you include in your product requirements would make your life easier and help your developers deliver on what you really intended, not on what you told them to build. What You Don’t Know Yet In product development, there are many unknowns.

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The Product Coalition

APRIL 18, 2021

On the on-site interview day, one of the interviewers asked me the following question: if you had all of Google’s resources and no other constraints, which product would you develop? My answer was: I would develop a voice interface for the computer (it was before the smartphone era). I was really afraid of this question.

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The Product Coalition

DECEMBER 11, 2023

Arik’s translates into a more strict and result-oriented, and mine is more about empowering my employees and developing their skills so that they can eventually perform at a higher level. If I’m taking these two approaches to the workplace, they are equivalent to two different management styles.

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Userpilot

APRIL 21, 2024

Here’s an example of a Userpilot user persona: Role in the company ( Product Marketing Manager ). For example: after the purchase, tell the user when your product will ship and include a button to the tracking page. For example, that’s when they download the ebook or start the free trial. Company details (e.g.

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The Product Coalition

JANUARY 16, 2022

Moving fast could mean developing a product that brings value to your customers at any given time, a low-touch product, or supporting multiple verticals simultaneously. My free e-book “ Speed-Up the Journey to Product-Market Fit ”?—?an if you fail, what would you have done wrong? the strategic level that matters.

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The Product Coalition

DECEMBER 11, 2023

This mechanism is much easier to keep: you need to create a document template, define that these documents would need review by you or someone else you trust, and clarify that it’s the product manager’s responsibility to make sure the document is reviewed on time and doesn’t create a delay in the overall development process.

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The Product Coalition

DECEMBER 11, 2023

In one of my early career roles, I was brought into the company as a development team leader with a very specific task they wanted me to lead. As a good product-leader-to-be (although I didn’t know it at the time), I asked them why did they want to do it, and then performed market research to understand the problem better.

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The Product Coalition

JUNE 19, 2022

Alongside the many methods I adopted and developed for multitasking, I always made sure to leave time for deep work. As product managers who are constantly in meetings and get questions from all around, this is critical. One of my best tips for doing deep product work used to be to work from home.

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The Product Coalition

NOVEMBER 15, 2020

We should develop a platform that will allow our customers to do it themselves. Customers in the specific market segment we are operating in are unhappy with the products our competitors offer. a concrete plan for a product, so that development work can start. Therefore, they ask for what they think makes sense?—?a

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The Product Coalition

DECEMBER 11, 2023

So your product serves the existing customers (who keep wanting more stuff), but perhaps new customers are not coming as smoothly. They always need something you haven’t developed yet. Slowly, both the product and the roadmap reflect only what the customers are asking for. Because your customers aren’t product leaders.

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The Product Coalition

DECEMBER 25, 2022

Sometimes, especially if you are selling to developers but not only then, your customers have the problem, and they know they need help, but they aren’t willing to get it for various reasons. Well, think again. We ran into this at Twiggle. Open your eyes and get to know your customers broadly so you are not left in the dark.

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