The Product Coalition

JANUARY 4, 2021

Everyone knows educating the market is hard to nearly impossible, but people always bring up examples like Facebook or the iPhone whenever I discuss it in my lectures. So what can and cannot work when you want to educate the market? It’s all about what you want to educate them on. the product, the solution, and the problem.

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The Product Coalition

JULY 2, 2020

The Product <> Design relationship is one of the most important when it comes to building products without friction. Product Management vs Product Design To those outside of tech, and even to some within, the meaning of different job roles can be confusing. Is a Product Manager not some kind of designer?

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The Product Coalition

DECEMBER 21, 2021

Restaurants don’t put an Apprentice Chef in charge of the kitchen overnight, so why do we do this with Product Managers? Photo by Sebastian Herrmann on Unsplash Whilst it has been around for decades, product management has grown rapidly over the last few years. Companies are getting creative.

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The Product Coalition

JANUARY 13, 2021

Educating the market is hard enough as is, but there is one thing without which you cannot succeed. By the way, it wasn’t like I was thinking to myself: “I feel bad, let’s try Facebook because they are supposedly the solution”. Of course, you will see different features in the product for these companies.

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Userpilot

JUNE 27, 2022

What is developer marketing, and what is the point of it? As the name suggests, developer marketing is marketing to developers. In short, developer marketing is more than just capturing the attention of software developers and getting them to use your product. What is developer marketing?

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Intercom, Inc.

MAY 24, 2022

Whether you’re an individual contributor, manager, or director, you can leverage your own skills – and those around you – to influence growth across your team, org, and company. Mentorship is defined simply as the guidance provided by a mentor, especially an experienced person in a company or educational institution.

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Alchemer Mobile

JULY 13, 2021

A good product experience is the primary driver behind product differentiation and ultimately, lasting customer satisfaction (measured through CSAT and NPS ) and loyalty. Beforehand, make sure your team is aligned on: Their definition of product experience. The goals you hope to achieve by investing in product experience.

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Userpilot

MAY 29, 2024

technology, Nir Eyal is a leading expert who educates companies and individuals on the intersection of psychology, technology, and business. If you’re interested in delving deeper into Nir Eyal’s work and how it can benefit your career as a product professional , keep on reading. How did Nir Eyal begin his career?

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Userpilot

SEPTEMBER 14, 2023

What customer discovery questions should product managers ask to accurately identify the unsatisfied needs of potential customers and validate ideas? TL;DR Customer discovery questions enable product teams to better understand customer needs and problems so that they can build products that the potential customer truly needs.

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Intercom, Inc.

JUNE 10, 2020

The truth is that Product Judgment is a complex topic, and in my opinion, one that is very poorly understood by many. I hope this post allows people and teams to safely talk about Product Judgment. No one starts out with strong Product Judgment. It takes years to build, and therefore ranges from very weak to very strong.

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Mind the Product

MARCH 7, 2017

Or “ How to Manage Software Development in Teams who Think Nothing Like you “ Product management has two diversity problems. Cultural homogeneity in product teams is dead, welcome cultural diversity. It simply doesn’t work. We’re Trapped in our Cultures. How’s that for a mini-UN?

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Mind the Product

MARCH 12, 2020

How does it help modern product management organizations to scale effectively? Similar to the emergence of design ops in the last five years, product operations fulfills a need to streamline a scaling function. What product ops is. How it’s become a critical function for scaling effective product teams.

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Mixpanel

JANUARY 21, 2020

Hi, I’m Mike and I’m a product manager. The product I manage? Product managers. If you, too, are responsible for your company’s product managers, the start of the new year might represent a chance to renew and strengthen your team. Customer focus. That’s a better indicator.

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Ronke PM

JULY 14, 2023

Why is Psychological Safety Important in Product Management? Foundations of Psychologically Safe PM Cultures Final Thoughts We need to develop a multiculturally diverse partnership across our organization to build products that will impact humanity for the better and change lives. What is Psychological Safety?

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ProductPlan

AUGUST 25, 2022

Let’s jump in with the bad news: No organization is immune to product vulnerability. However, great product leaders protect their product teams from exploiting weaknesses and vulnerabilities. Product vulnerability, defined as an exploitable glitch or flaw in a product, can happen to any product or service.

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Product Talk

FEBRUARY 2, 2022

This is only natural: Through years of bad habits, many of us have shown engineers that we only value them for the code they can write. Ellen is the Senior Director of Product Management at Orion Labs , a B2B company that offers voice communication to teams in industries like hospitality, retail, transportation, logistics, and security.

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The Product HQ

FEBRUARY 1, 2023

A product manager’s core responsibilities include working with a team to design, build, ship, and continuously improve a product. During product manager interviews, most companies love to hone in on your ability to execute against these responsibilities by asking how you might think about designing a product.

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Userpilot

JULY 9, 2021

What are the best product management books to add to your 2021 reading list? We’ve put together a list for you with a few staples from every product manager’s bookshelf and some new releases too. New in – Best New Product Management Books in 2021. Teresa Torres, Author of Continuous Discovery Habits.

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Userpilot

JUNE 12, 2024

User-centric mindset : A product analyst puts themselves in the shoes of the user in every stage of the product lifecycle. Ability to incorporate customer feedback : Incorporating customer feedback makes you develop and make appropriate iterations to your product for better customer retention.

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Userpilot

MAY 27, 2024

Now let’s go over how you can improve and create positive customer perception: Personalize customer experience : Segment user base and design relevant product experiences for each. Deliver ongoing training : Engage users with educational content like webinars and tutorials. poor customer service) can harm a business’s reputation.

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UX Studio

SEPTEMBER 10, 2019

In this post we created a guide on the steps to take in developing your brand strategy. How to develop your brand strategy? This happens either because they don’t know how to start the process or keep the information updated and shared across their teams. They establish what you stand for as a team. Get specific!

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The Product Coalition

JANUARY 3, 2020

You have no idea about product management? to achieve your goals when it comes to building your first prototype with the ultimate goal to find product-market fit. There is no educational starting place for people who want to understand the basic concepts of product management. as an entrepreneur?—?to

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The Product Coalition

FEBRUARY 5, 2021

Often we talk more about the technical skills, like, portfolio management, being more strategic, etc but being good at those things mean nothing if you can’t build a culture conducive to good product management practices. As a result, I’ve come to value 5 different aspects of product leadership. How do I build alignment?

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BrainStation Product Management

NOVEMBER 27, 2018

Though you may not have realized it, a Product Manager was most likely involved in the creation of your favorite product. To find out more, we spoke to a number of Senior PMs for some insight on how to get a job as Product Manager. Product management as a whole is the exact opposite.

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Amplitude

OCTOBER 10, 2017

Most organizations that start hiring to build out the product team have not exhausted the potential on their current team. Growing your team from within is harder and requires more effort, but I believe it also helps you build a fundamentally stronger team in the long-run. A tracker for growing our team.

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The Product Coalition

AUGUST 8, 2022

With Gutenberg’s take on the printing press and a growing community of users, printing finally took off and found its product / market fit. The growing demand for knowledge amongst an increasingly educated population. Not bad for a man who faced challenges at every turn?—?raising Source: Wikipedia So how does the story end?

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ProductPlan

FEBRUARY 7, 2023

After deciding to implement a new prioritization framework, many teams find themselves defaulting to certain bad habits. These bad habits can impede your product team’s ability to launch a product effectively. At ProductPlan, we understand the need for a sound product strategy.

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The Product Coalition

MARCH 29, 2018

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. I try to help product and sales teams succeed under the mantra “Easy to Sell, Easy to Renew.” Where do your teams agree on low scores?

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Userpilot

OCTOBER 10, 2022

In this article, we’ll cover the key metrics you need to develop an informed feature adoption strategy and discuss how you can improve them. Feature adoption allows you to separate the successful features from the underperforming ones. Uncover weak spots and improve feature adoption. We’ve got you covered! Time to adopt.

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Userpilot

JUNE 20, 2022

Anyone even remotely involved in product management will tell you that! In this article, we’ll explain what A/B testing is, why it matters for product managers, and how product teams should plan and run a test. Split testing starts with developing a hypothesis that you want to verify.

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PMLesson's Ace the PM Interview

JULY 13, 2020

Product Managers are often called “Product CEOs” or “Mini GMs”, but they rarely have direct control over the inputs that lead to successful products. Also unsurprisingly, education hasn’t kept up with growth. There’s no set skillset or formal certification for PMs like there is for Project Management (PMP).

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Mind the Product

OCTOBER 8, 2018

We can and should learn product management lessons from a diverse range of environments. It’s absolutely worth looking to the likes of Google’s Sundar Pichai, but it’s also worth looking to less celebrated entrepreneurs, outside of the multinational mega-corporations, to learn about lean front-line product management.

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Userpilot

JUNE 9, 2021

Are you thinking about a career in product, but you’re not sure whether you should pursue Product Marketing or Product Management? To explain the difference in the simplest of terms: Product Managers build product features and Product Marketers promote them to their audience and users.

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ProductPlan

SEPTEMBER 24, 2019

Why Product Managers are More Susceptible to Imposter Syndrome. Product managers (PM) are particularly vulnerable to experiencing imposter syndrome. There a few reasons why product managers might be more susceptible to the feeling. First, no one gets a degree in “product management.”

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Mind the Product

APRIL 26, 2019

In this entertaining and insightful talk from Mind the Product Singapore 2019, Sherif Mansour, Distinguished Product Manager at Atlassian, shares some common misconceptions about the product management craft, how we need to think differently about those issues, and what we should be doing instead.

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The Product Guy

APRIL 9, 2020

What about stepping up to lead a team while a coworker is out on leave or joining a new team and having to earn their trust in less than a month? . Using existing behavioral and habit formation research, I developed and employed a simple and effective framework. Or work with a difficult person, period? Existing model.

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Userpilot

JULY 4, 2022

User experience is one of the factors contributing to the success of a SaaS product. As UX is a crucial element, it’s important for you to know what results in a poor user experience. Here are some of the most common mistakes that designers and product managers make and how to avoid them. Let’s get started!

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