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. is to either be more strategic or to develop more as a leader. interpersonal, emotional intelligence, etc?—?that

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Andrew Chen

MARCH 27, 2019

Dear readers, Many of you may have read the recent New York Times article “ Uber and Airbnb Alumni Fuel Tech’s Next Wave ” which is about how alumni of successful startups often split off and start new companies, and how ecosystems of investors/advisors form around these new companies to support them.

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Gainsight

AUGUST 5, 2022

Challenger mindset : Another great skill to develop is the “challenger mindset.” While it requires more of a technical background, as a CSM, you come with the perspective of knowing the customer’s needs and goals. You can better advise on valid customer pain points. Your customers are sometimes unique, and so are their problems.

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Intercom, Inc.

JUNE 21, 2018

That means your focus should be on building the right customer profile and developing precise messaging to reach them. I ended up getting a job at Udemy, an online education marketplace that had just raised a seed round of funding. We were building an online education marketplace and wanted to build the Amazon for courses.

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Userpilot

OCTOBER 1, 2021

The fact is that coding an onboarding process from scratch is near-impossible for most SaaS businesses, both in terms of cost and in terms of having enough free developers available. You can think of onboarding as the ongoing process of educating your customers in how to get the most out of your SaaS product. 2 – Segmentation.

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Andrew Chen

MARCH 27, 2019

Dear readers, Many of you may have read the recent New York Times article “ Uber and Airbnb Alumni Fuel Tech’s Next Wave ” which is about how alumni of successful startups often split off and start new companies, and how ecosystems of investors/advisors form around these new companies to support them.

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PMLesson's Ace the PM Interview

APRIL 9, 2020

Software development is one of the few highly skilled occupations that doesn’t require any professional certification. To fill growing demand for skilled developers, coding bootcamps began popping up in 2012. If you love development and you want to make the switch quickly, the value proposition is clear. I could do this.“

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PMLesson's Ace the PM Interview

FEBRUARY 20, 2019

MBAs from technical and engineering backgrounds will have an edge, so if that’s not you, you should focus on evidencing your abilities to be technical in those interviews. Let me provide a couple of examples: I know someone who recently completed their Masters in Education and was interested in working for an ed-tech company.

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UX Studio: Product Management

JULY 14, 2021

As a product design consulting firm , we often get questions from our clients who look for reliable design, development, or marketing partners. As a design thinking consulting firm , we advise on product strategy, lead workshops, and offer customized training to equip your business with the best UX practices.

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BrainStation Product Management

APRIL 8, 2019

Clearly, companies are seeing the value in hiring product gurus who can oversee and guide a product’s life development from ideation to market, all while efficiently managing teams of drastically diverse backgrounds and developing a sound distribution plan. Speak to a Learning Advisor. Do Some Soul-Searching.

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Userpilot

JULY 9, 2021

Product Mastery by Geoff Watts teaches you how to be a successful product owner within agile software development practices with the use of case studies. Educational and professional backgrounds of product managers. Challenges of transitioning from a non-technical background. Key learnings. 566 global ratings. Where to buy?

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BrainStation Product Management

APRIL 8, 2019

Clearly, companies are seeing the value in hiring product gurus who can oversee and guide a product’s life development from ideation to market, all while efficiently managing teams of drastically diverse backgrounds and developing a sound distribution plan. PMs do best when the team they’re joining really wants them there.”.

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Product Bookshelf

JANUARY 31, 2017

Geracie traces the product manager’s role from developing the product vision, through business planning, to leading cross-functional collaboration to build the product, and finally establishing and reporting on metrics. He advises backing up the plan with a business case (which is outlined in the book).

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Gainsight

AUGUST 31, 2020

She is an electrical engineer by education, and her first job was at G.E. ” At Autodesk, Amy found the ability to develop as a professional product manager and expanded her skill set. . So I went from running product to running product and development.” Amy started as a hardware engineer. working on radar systems.

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Userpilot

JULY 13, 2021

That’s why we often advise SaaS companies to segment users prior to their walkthrough, to make sure that customers only see features during their walkthrough that make sense for their individual use case. Given how much time and money you’re spending developing new product features, it would be a great shame to have nobody want to use them.

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PMLesson's Ace the PM Interview

OCTOBER 21, 2019

My education background and how it inspired me to get into this role. While there are lots of content out there advising on this subject, I would just like to call out one thing which I believe has helped me time and again: having empathy towards my interviewer. My family details and hobbies. Q: How did you first hear about Exponent?

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UX Studio

SEPTEMBER 4, 2019

They focused too much on their technical side or even visual design, but nothing about the communication. Microcopy can come from a UX writer, a front end developer, a designer. Just like a developer can move pixels around and we don’t consider them as designers, right? Pixel location doesn’t matter. Can someone expect this?

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Mironov Consulting

MAY 18, 2024

  Out of scope means they can advise, counsel, suggest, offer to help… but don’t own the decision/action.    “At a previous company, organizing development by industry resulted in a manufacturing version of our API and a banking version of our API and a healthcare version of our API and 6 others.  

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Andrew Chen

OCTOBER 31, 2016

I was recently interviewed by the folks at Reforge, a new company started by my friends Brian Balfour and Susan Su focused on advanced professional education. It’s not an immediately technical or product-based experience, and yet it’s an interesting question that might actually become more and more relevant. The B t Test.

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The Product Coalition

MAY 11, 2022

To make up for it, Ben and Blair look at these differences, educate you on how Product Management in enterprise software works as well as guide you on how to succeed within it. Product specialization : “very tailored to solve a specific technical or business need” that becomes complicated quickly. Establish clear metrics of success.

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Intercom, Inc.

JANUARY 14, 2021

You have frameworks, look at market dynamics, do practical research, and advise companies on how to use these frameworks. They don’t have the discipline” Then, during my MBA, I went even deeper into the theoretical knowledge – marketing strategy, theory of segmentation, how to do market research, Lean Startup and customer development.

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The Product Coalition

JANUARY 5, 2021

How do you educate your stakeholders about the implications? A good starting point would be working with the “Manifesto of Agile Software Development,” particularly ensuring that stakeholders understand that adapting to change over following a plan is paramount for the organization’s future success. How do you deal with that?

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Amplitude

JUNE 8, 2017

I had become pretty active as a mentor and advisor to various startups and really enjoyed it! Social Capital’s work consists of helping solve the world’s largest problems which it does by investing in technology in sectors such as healthcare and education, and companies both within and outside of the United States.

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Userpilot

JANUARY 18, 2022

A release email is not a place for detailed technical specifications, so keep the text to a minimum. Instead, the 15 examples below can inspire you and help you develop your own product launch emails. #1 Make the release emails visually pleasing. Produce content that is going to be pleasing to the readers. 7 – Doit.

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Amplitude

APRIL 25, 2019

Add instrumentation to your product development lifecycle. Product instrumentation is best thought of as an ongoing process and Miles Monaghan, “Make instrumentation a part of the product development lifecycle.” Educate new hires about data taxonomy. Prioritize what you instrument. Wendy Vang process. Know the essentials.

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Intercom, Inc.

MAY 19, 2022

Support agents often make really incredible hires given the knowledge they have of the product and some of the skills they develop in the role. IQS can be valuable in that context because it really does help us develop a more holistic view of an agent’s strengths and the opportunities for growth better than metrics alone.

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Userpilot

JANUARY 5, 2022

Onboarding software is typically used to educate new users , demonstrate new features to advanced users, or train new hires. Thus you also see onboarding software being used to educate customers who have been with a product for 6 months, a year, or even longer. Let’s get into it. Secondary onboarding.

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