The Product Coalition

SEPTEMBER 28, 2022

Strategy and enabling your team to solve problems makes the difference between a boss and an impactful leader. Using the ‘Kernel’ from Richard Rumelt’s ‘Good Strategy/Bad Strategy’, specifically insights and developing a guiding policy allows you to enable your team and avoid micro-managing.

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Roman Pichler

JANUARY 11, 2022

For the first two quarters, the area is strategy; for the last two, it is leadership. For example, the guidelines I have developed for the GO product roadmap template directly apply to the roadmap in figure 1. This can help you tie individual learning goals to team and department goals. Creating the Learning Roadmap.

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Intercom, Inc.

APRIL 22, 2021

After writing An Elegant Puzzle about the challenges of engineering management in high-growth organizations, his focus shifted to a career path that’s much less understood – the technical leadership track. If you’re a senior engineer and want to further your career, what skills should you develop? Will Larson: I would love to.

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Mind the Product

DECEMBER 18, 2019

So, it was natural that we should want to develop a talent growth plan for our people. Each month we send out an NPS survey to assess whether the company is being a great place to work, but a few months ago I also sent Google’s manager feedback survey to my team of 10 product managers. Team execution and development.

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The Product Coalition

DECEMBER 8, 2019

Highly effective Product Managers develop themselves in 5 key areas. Highly effective Product Managers (or what I call Exponential PMs) tend to be strong in all of these areas. Let’s tuck in… What makes for a highly effective Product Manager? ?? the craft of product management, creating customer and business value) 2.

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Ronke PM

MARCH 26, 2024

At the heart of an organization that creates product magic is a product leader who is an expert at leadership and coalition building. These leaders understand that bringing effective products, solutions, and services to market requires consensus building and engaging cross-functional teams in the journey.

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Mironov Consulting

NOVEMBER 10, 2016

While sales teams stereotypically rally around contests, talk sports and drink coffee (which is for closers)… development teams may sit silently side-by-side-side most of the day engaging in multiple Slack conversations, taking breaks for air hockey or exchanging giphys , and critiquing each other’s code indents.

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Mironov Consulting

JUNE 25, 2023

Many of my discussions with product leaders (CPOs, VPs and others who manage teams of product folks) are about the substance of product management: portfolios, competing stakeholders, pricing & packaging, tarot cards as a revenue forecasting model.  Last

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The Product Coalition

OCTOBER 20, 2020

It’s understandable that most of us don’t make time for personal development. Who wants to spend time after a hard day of work learning and developing when they could be kicking back with a beer and watching The Crown? A few months ago, I introduced a concept I have developed called the PM, or Product, Quadrants.

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Roman Pichler

MARCH 12, 2018

How do you best lead the stakeholders and development team as the person in charge of the product? One way to answer this question is to avoid unhelpful but common leadership styles. As its name suggests, this leadership style mediates between different parties and tries to broker a deal. Recognise Your Leadership Bias.

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Intercom, Inc.

OCTOBER 5, 2022

Each person on your team has different needs, responds to feedback in different ways and evolves in different trajectories – and management should always reflect that. Even when you reach the perfect team dynamic – a new hire or budget cut can easily throw things off balance. The craft of managing.

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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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Roman Pichler

OCTOBER 5, 2021

A few years ago, I was asked to help a healthcare company with their agile transition and its impact on product management. One of the challenges the agile transition team was concerned about was the choice of the right product backlog tool, which at first seemed odd to me. The Product Backlog is Too Big. Third, they can be tested.

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Bain Public

MAY 26, 2022

Over the last decade, there has been advancements in the product world where the CEO is no longer the only one who calls the shots; now, there is a Product Leadership Team (PLT) who is supposed to work collaboratively with the product manager on defining the next set of features of a product.

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The Product Coalition

MARCH 8, 2020

I work in the tech industry & manage a team of around 12 people with a range of product, delivery & engineering skills. As a leader in tech, I have a variety of responsibilities, but I see my main role as building, enabling & motivating teams to deliver great digital products. Personal opportunity.

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Roman Pichler

JUNE 1, 2020

The first one carries the risk of being a feature broker and offering a product that has a weak value proposition, gives rise to a poor user experience, and consists of a loose collection of features. But do not accept inappropriate behaviour and do not allow people to treat you like a project manager, team lead, or personal assistant.

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Ronke PM

MAY 6, 2023

Table of Contents What is thoughtful leadership? Why thoughtful leadership is important in product management Final thoughts Each day brings new opportunities to impact someone else’s life story. This possibility invigorates a spark every morning and motivates me to become an architect of thoughtful leadership.

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Johanna Rothman

NOVEMBER 30, 2020

Steve, a software development manager, thought John was a “10x” developer. Was I willing to support and coach the other people in Steve's group to all become “10x” developers? Was I willing to support and coach the other people in Steve's group to all become “10x” developers?

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The Product Guy

OCTOBER 9, 2018

I became a product manager because I wanted to take a more strategic role at my company. First, I did not know how to frame, develop and present product strategy in a systematic way, and second, as a startup, my company has not historically had a good track record of strategy being developed outside of senior management (read: founder).

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People-First Product Leadership

MARCH 24, 2024

I’m in Duke Leto’s camp and believe a boss - at any level - should care and be thinking about their team. His people-first leadership approach lives on through his son who recognized his father’s skills and ability to lead by example. We all have good and bad days. I won’t ruin the movie for you.

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Johanna Rothman

APRIL 23, 2021

You might feel weak. Or, you might worry your colleagues see you as weak or incompetent. See Leadership Tip #4: Admit When You Don’t Know.). Many of us know what that feels like as a technical team member. But I'm going to talk about a manager. However, the senior managers didn't change their actions.

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Product Bookshelf

APRIL 15, 2024

Martin Good Strategy, Bad Strategy by Richard Rumels Product strategy is a set of choices informed by product vision and company objectives. Strategy development requires imagination and creativity ; a good strategy is not the result of detailed analysis. “What is product strategy?” Playing to Win by A.G.

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Ronke PM

APRIL 5, 2023

Table of Contents Product and design partnership What does design-driven leadership mean? Design-driven leadership is product management Final thoughts The very essence of leadership is creating a space that enables our teams to dream big, imagine, and bring what was once unthinkable to life - therefore, changing humanity.

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The Product Coalition

JULY 16, 2023

In recent years it seems that product management is all about execution and delivery. Photo by Kea Mowat on Unsplash When I moved into product management, almost 20 years ago, it used to be a very senior role. Photo by Kea Mowat on Unsplash When I moved into product management, almost 20 years ago, it used to be a very senior role.

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Roman Pichler

AUGUST 11, 2020

It can also result in a large product backlog and high development cost: The greater the number of people who should benefit from your product is, the more diverse their needs are likely to be, and the more features are usually required to address them. 59; Boost Your Product Leadership Power and How to Lead in Product Management , pp.

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Product Management University

NOVEMBER 17, 2022

After countless conversations, articles, webinars and conference sessions, I started to feel like the profession of product management had been reduced to…. Getting product teams to “consistently” operate with this mentality…still a challenge! My favorite part as a lifelong product manager? Finding user problems.

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Roman Pichler

JULY 6, 2021

When you become a head of product, you move into a line management position. Consequently, your focus shifts from managing a product to looking after the product people on your team and empowering them to do a great job. Grow Your Leadership Skills. For some people, that’s straightforward.

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Product Innovation Educators

DECEMBER 4, 2023

How product managers can navigate leadership challenges Today we are talking about four leadership motions that enable increased organizational effectiveness and productivity and alleviate organizational friction, waste, and indecision. Sharing the four leadership motions with us is Janice Fraser.

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Roman Pichler

APRIL 5, 2022

For product strategy and roadmap meetings, I recommend involving the key stakeholders , for example, someone from sales, marketing, support, and finance, as well as development team representatives—ideally members who know about the user experience (UX), architecture, and technologies. State objective and agenda. Close the meeting.

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Roman Pichler

JUNE 7, 2022

While common sense suggests that managing a product without the right measurements is not a sensible approach, I’ve seen product teams who did not use any KPIs. Consequently, these teams relied on: Anecdotal feedback : “Customers love our product, they told me so.” Don’t forget to regularly review and adjust your KPIs.

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Userpilot

AUGUST 21, 2023

In this ultimate list of product manager interview questions, we have tried to simplify the process of hiring great product managers. Product management encompasses the entire SaaS lifecycle from ideation to launch and everything that follows. What to look for in product managers? Leadership. Communication skills.

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The Product Coalition

SEPTEMBER 4, 2020

My journey to product management was not what you might expect , but then again, maybe you would. I redesigned the internal and public web properties and was promoted into my first “product leadership” role. I became director of communications, leading the development of intranets and web applications.

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Atlassian

JANUARY 28, 2022

It also shortchanges your team by denying them opportunities for professional growth. Managers often don’t delegate because of limiting mindsets, such as “No one can live up to my standards,” or “It’s easier to do this myself.” Before becoming a manager, she was a standout individual contributor.

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Roman Pichler

APRIL 19, 2017

It’s all too tempting to fall back onto less skilful habits and become impatient, tense and stressed, say something we regret afterwards, or pass on the pressure to the development team. Challenging situations are great opportunities to grow as a human being and by doing so, you increase your leadership power. Trust me.”.

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Mind the Product

DECEMBER 12, 2019

At a time when so much of today’s B2B ecosystem is built around software products, I believe it has become incumbent on the people responsible for designing, developing, and building these products to take back leadership of how our companies are run, and lead us all back to a culture of responsible growth. Here I’ll discuss how.

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Roman Pichler

NOVEMBER 12, 2019

I once worked with a telco company that was developing a brand-new commercial product. Product management and development were located at separate sites in different countries. The technical complexities were greater than anticipated and the development progress was slower than forecasted. To Collocate or Not.

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Roman Pichler

NOVEMBER 12, 2019

I once worked with a telco company that was developing a brand-new commercial product. Product management and development were located at separate sites in different countries. The technical complexities were greater than anticipated and the development progress was slower than forecasted. To Collocate or Not.

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