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. How do I build alignment?

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PMLesson's Ace the PM Interview

APRIL 19, 2020

Skills a Product Manager Need Analytical Skills In your current role as a consultant, you will have developed and honed your analytical skills. Without previously having a PM job, it is vital to position your resume to appear as if you were already doing PM related tasks in your current consulting role. List of PM Behavioral Questions.

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PMLesson's Ace the PM Interview

APRIL 19, 2020

Skills a Product Manager Need Analytical Skills In your current role as a consultant, you will have developed and honed your analytical skills. Without previously having a PM job, it is vital to position your resume to appear as if you were already doing PM related tasks in your current consulting role. List of PM Behavioral Questions.

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Userpilot

NOVEMBER 29, 2022

An ecosystem in SaaS is a group of related apps, 3rd party components, and content that seamlessly work together to solve user pain points. Finally, a well-developed ecosystem gives companies a competitive edge because of the ecosystem moat. Are you intrigued? Well, why don’t we get to it then? What is an ecosystem moat?

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PMLesson's Ace the PM Interview

MARCH 1, 2020

I studied mathematics at UCLA, worked 2 summers as a software engineering intern at a Series E AdTech startup, and advised Metta World Peace (Ron Artest) as the product manager for his social basketball app, Gradelo. The AOM position is one of the most popular and sought after roles; many people with competitive backgrounds apply each year.

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Userpilot

OCTOBER 7, 2021

They're actually quite linear, which is the sort of product tour that we've advised readers of this blog to stay away from numerous times in the past. All of their current development efforts are focused on VDS, and new customers can't download the extension from the Chrome Web Store anymore. Are less linear.

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BrainStation Product Management

APRIL 8, 2019

The position of Product Manager has been one of the fastest-growing roles in tech in recent years, with a 30 percent growth in job openings year over year. BrainStation offers Online Live Certificate Courses in data, design, development, marketing, and product management. Speak to a Learning Advisor. Do Some Soul-Searching.

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Intercom, Inc.

AUGUST 15, 2018

Managers oversee their team members’ work and career development. Building trust can be tough when you’re a new hire in a leadership position. Engineering leaders must do 2 things: a) execute and deliver high-quality software on a predictable schedule, and b) have the people skills to attract, retain and develop strong talent.

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BrainStation Product Management

APRIL 8, 2019

The position of Product Manager has been one of the fastest-growing roles in tech in recent years, with a 30 percent growth in job openings year over year. Perhaps you need someone with an uncanny design eye, or razor-sharp technical skills, or deep experience in analytics? With Product Managers, however, people skills are paramount.

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Userpilot

SEPTEMBER 8, 2021

We generally advise against linear, top-down product tours. Great product tours have a positive effect on just about every important SaaS metric that you can possibly imagine. If you're a web developer with significant coding knowledge, you now have enough knowledge to go away and build a product tour for your own business!

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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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UX Studio

SEPTEMBER 4, 2019

They focused too much on their technical side or even visual design, but nothing about the communication. So I opened the Facebook group and invited everyone I know to enter this group and share what they know. Yeah, I assume this Facebook group must inspire all the members. And many people didn’t focus on it at all.

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Mind the Product

JANUARY 10, 2017

As a product manager it’s not uncommon to feel pulled in a million different directions as you work to meet the needs of your customers, developers and company stakeholders. But they are good examples of what my team and I have developed together over the last four years at Zalora. Retrospectives.

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The Product Coalition

MAY 15, 2019

Scrum came about even earlier than the agile manifesto almost a whole decade to be exact (although you can traces origins earlier back to 1986 with the article The New New Product Development Game ). Later whilst being an adviser at Stanford university Neil H. obviously most people skipped that part! names look familiar, anyone?

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Alchemer Mobile

APRIL 14, 2020

Here are some of the questions they’ll discuss: What’s the relationship between design, development, engineering, and product and your company? How do you manage executive expectations, customer expectations, and technical resources? How deep does your understanding of the technology go as a PM? So that’s me.

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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.    UNFILLED PRODUCT POSITIONS There are thousands of talented product folks between gigs, looking for their next adventure.    With lots of gray space between the two.

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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

TL; DR: 71 Product Owner Interview Questions to Avoid Imposters If you are looking to fill a position for a Product Owner in your organization, you may find the following 71 interview questions useful to identify the right candidate. A new feature is overdue and has been drastically underestimated due to unexpected technical debt.

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Department of Product

MARCH 28, 2022

Which means at some point, every product must reassess its position in the market – and the strategic decisions that underpin it – to decide whether to evolve and adapt to new emerging market trends, or to ignore them. It is extremely difficult (and probably not advisable) to attempt to stay on top of all trends.

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UX Studio

JANUARY 24, 2024

But I also advise designers not to oversee the business side of the relationship. We had a lot of multimedia development and also programming languages, but also had this behavioral way of looking at design. Obviously, all development teams and the vice presidents and presidents are always invited to these sessions.

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ProductCraft

AUGUST 7, 2018

When his boss noticed his performance, he was asked to train everyone on the team, which ultimately landed him a product manager position. Once they do, PMs communicate those problem areas to developers, who in turn come up with technical solutions. Product Managers = Problem Managers. The PM Manifesto.

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Intercom, Inc.

JULY 12, 2018

He’s also co-founded Color Genomics and invested in and been an adviser to companies like Airbnb, Coinbase, Instacart, Square, Stripe and more. I stuck around for another year as an advisor, so I really saw extreme growth in both of those cases. I do think it’s been a net positive though.

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The Product Guy

AUGUST 30, 2017

When we were working on creating the edit permissions group for apps, we also decided to work on the internal permissions that will be used by the team that supports the Appstore. I’m not a technical Product Manager. The result of it were clearly scoped versions, that last about 2 weeks for development, testing, and validation.

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Userpilot

JANUARY 5, 2022

For each month they stay with you, that’s another monthly subscription payment that you can use to offset all your initial investment in product development. But it will cost a lot of time and money, and distract your developers from engineering your product. Secondary onboarding. Here are 5 factors to keep in mind: Segmentation.

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Product Bookshelf

FEBRUARY 7, 2017

One of the rules, written by Lawley, advises to work on problems you are passionate about. The positioning statement is what you say if someone with a minimal understanding of your industry asks what your product is. There’s some great advice on product positioning from Fritz Mueller from i365. Product Strategy.

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Sequent Learning

OCTOBER 25, 2018

I was a product manager myself, then led product teams and have over the past several years been advising organizations’ product groups on the skills needed to be successful. From development hours to revenue to user statistics, we use data every day in our jobs. Positivity. Storytelling. We sell ideas. We sell visions.

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Userpilot

APRIL 30, 2021

Rather than drain yourself by doing too many things at once, it’s strongly advisable to focus on one channel and find an agency that specializes in that. Classically, SEO is broken down into the following sub-areas: Technical SEO: includes ensuring pages are indexed, creating site maps, Knowledge Graph optimization and improving site speed.

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Business of Software Conference

NOVEMBER 26, 2018

They’re very trusting, the technically sophisticated, and they really just wanted to get time back in the day. I recommend organizing a group meeting, get all your product leaders, your engineers in one room, reads through the mall, and then summarize it like this and put it up on your wall next to the other circle.

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Roadmunk

DECEMBER 7, 2017

We really felt like a big issue was that we’ve been incrementally improving our development tools, when in fact our environment has completely changed from writing code on one machine to writing code that needs to go to a distributive system. Did you talk to other product managers, other founders, advisors? Is that correct?

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