The Product Coalition

JANUARY 27, 2024

Software development with sustainability in mind is a rising trend in digital spaces. I would like to thank Tremis Skeete, Executive Editor of Product Coalition, for his valuable contributions to this article's research, development, and writing. Let’s explore how and why this matters.

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The Product Guy

AUGUST 1, 2019

A startup development team consisting of a product manager and two offshore engineers was facing major challenges in meeting client deliverable deadlines – repeatedly. Since there was no active grooming or planning session with the engineers, daily standups played the role of requirement review meetings. THE CHALLENGE.

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The Product Guy

AUGUST 15, 2019

Before my first year of product management, I had lots of preconceived notions about product management. These came from watching other product managers, reading books, attending meetups, and talking to other people in the tech industry about what product managers did.

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Userpilot

MAY 27, 2025

In this Whatfix Mobile review, youll find answers to three questions: What does Whatfix Mobile offer? Product teams can use a no-code editor to design step-by-step guidance and interactive elements that live directly inside their mobile apps. This ease of use is particularly beneficial for teams without dedicated development resources.

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Userpilot

NOVEMBER 17, 2024

Kevin has almost a decade of experience working at some of the world’s most innovative software companies. It also draws out the process by requiring time-consuming agreement on needs and strict protocols, like QA reviews. Additionally, product managers and designers mostly want to implement product analytics themselves.

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Product Talk

NOVEMBER 6, 2024

While it’s not possible to remove all the uncertainty and ambiguity from the job search, Teeba Alkhudairi found a few ways to manage it. Teeba recently joined Lightspeed Commerce as a Senior Product Manager. I’ve always been fascinated by the discovery aspect of product management,” says Teeba. “I Why did she take this approach?

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The Product Guy

DECEMBER 6, 2018

From high school to business school, and throughout my professional career, I was supremely comfortable with it , and reveled in solving problems, to the appreciation of my managers, colleagues, and teachers. Management guru, Peter Drucker had said, if you can’t measure it, you can’t improve it. 2) What should I solve?

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The Product Guy

SEPTEMBER 27, 2016

Each Session of the program runs for 6 months with paired individuals… Conducting regular 1-on-1 mentor-mentee chats Sharing experiences with the larger Product community Participating in live-streamed product management lessons and Q&A. Jordan Bergtraum VP Product Management, ServiceChannel. Signup to be a Mentor Today!

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The Product Guy

AUGUST 30, 2017

At the end of 2015 I was in the worst nightmare of any Product Manager. The team had been working for almost a year and had a huge amount of code under their belts. But just because it was a lot of code doesn’t mean it worked. We’d made great code. We were testing our code. I’m not a technical Product Manager.

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The Product Guy

APRIL 9, 2019

The notion of a strategy in product management seems like something that only high-level stakeholders at the executive level should care about. After all, many product managers tend to treat a strategy as something that’s scared and driven top-down from the executive management level. Journey Into the World of Strategy.

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Arkenea

APRIL 10, 2025

In a fastmoving digital economy, many organizations leverage outsourced software product development to accelerate innovation, control costs, and tap into global expertise. Rather than building and maintaining a large inhouse team, businesses partner with specialized vendors to handle design, development, testing, and deployment.

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The Product Coalition

NOVEMBER 2, 2024

For me, it was never just a job; as a product person and project manager, it’s the life I’ve chosen. I began to ponder how I could manage my work so that my evaluation of work-life balance felt like “La Dolce Vita.” Every meeting, milestone, line of code, and conversation became more meaningful when done with intention.

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Melissa Perri

JULY 23, 2024

For the past eight years, I’ve been working with C-Suite leaders at companies big and small to set up their Product Management organizations. Some of these are Fortune 10 software-enabled companies going through digital transformations. At all of them, I start understanding the current state of Product Management.

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The Product Coalition

AUGUST 28, 2023

The Software Development Life Cycle provides a practical framework you can apply to your product and improve your processes. With the support of the SDLC, You can track and control your calendar, and increase productivity and speed of development. It helps us meet customers’ demands, needs, and expectations.

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The Product Guy

OCTOBER 25, 2016

Each Session of the program runs for 6 months with paired individuals… Conducting regular 1-on-1 mentor-mentee chats Sharing experiences with the larger Product community Participating in live-streamed product management lessons and Q&A. Jordan Bergtraum VP Product Management, ServiceChannel. Signup to be a Mentor Today!

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The Product Guy

MARCH 27, 2018

When I started my current product role last September, I had a textbook definition of what makes a great product manager. From my participation in the program and the lessons I’ve learned from my mentor, I now have a wider perspective on the challenges that come to every product manager. The results were not always positive.

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Userpilot

MAY 27, 2025

This article provides an in-depth and honest review of the platform. Based on verified Gartner reviews , the majority of its customers use WalkMe to support internal business apps, large-scale field operations, and app rollouts across thousands of employees or users. ” WalkMe review collected by Gartner. Lets dive in!

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The Product Coalition

NOVEMBER 3, 2020

The conflict between launching new features versus improving the code quality is real and never ending. And sometime during the sprint, the development team realizes that if we want to implement it the correct way - ensuring engineering best practices, it will overspill and is not feasible to complete in the earlier planned timelines.’

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Product Talk

APRIL 16, 2025

We used detailed checklists on Trello cards to manage each use case. But then, one day, I found myself reading Ask Your Developer by Jeff Lawson and I realized I was the one making the mistake. Dont Ask Humans to Do Tasks That Should Be Automated If you arent familiar with Ask Your Developer, its a great read. It wasnt easy.

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Roman Pichler

FEBRUARY 14, 2023

Listen to the audio version of this article: [link] 1 Complement Scrum with a Product Discovery and Strategy Process Scrum is a simple framework that helps teams develop successful products. Continue the discovery and strategy work while the product is being developed. But don’t stop there. But it’s not enough on its own.

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The Product Coalition

FEBRUARY 29, 2024

Source In the expansive universe of software development, few platforms have wielded as much influence and innovation as GitHub. The Origin: A Fun Weekend In 2008 The GitHub saga commenced in 2008 when three men envisioned a platform that would democratize software development and foster collaboration on a global scale.

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The Product Guy

JULY 30, 2020

Product Managers (PM) need to effectively communicate product vision, strategic roadmaps and concepts to a variety of different stakeholders through the different stages of the product life cycle. A tool to support product managers is stakeholder identification and how this results in a stakeholder map.

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Product Innovation Educators

AUGUST 5, 2024

How product managers should use the five-step model for creating team culture Watch on YouTube TLDR Product managers often face the challenge of significant responsibilities without formal authority. Mentoring is crucial for developing future leaders and sustaining a strong organizational culture.

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Roman Pichler

FEBRUARY 2, 2021

Before the advent of agile frameworks like Scrum , a product person—the product manager—would typically carry out the market research, compile a market requirements specification, create a business case, put together product roadmap, write a requirements specification, and then hand it off to a project manager.

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Product Innovation Educators

JULY 15, 2024

Mastering product lifecycle management – for product managers Watch on YouTube TLDR Product lifecycle management is key to successful product development and innovation. For software and SaaS products, development and lifecycle management often overlap.

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Alchemer Mobile

NOVEMBER 23, 2021

Whether you’re new to the product management field or a seasoned professional, it’s always valuable to learn from your peers’ lived experiences. While you can watch the full hour-long interview here , this post breaks down four of the key lessons we learned from Jessi Alva, Director, Technical Product Management at SAP Concur.

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Product Talk

MAY 14, 2025

We discussed the most common challenges developers face when starting with a new API. Well hear from Chi Phan , the senior product manager who was brought in to oversee this process. Its worth noting that many API teams dont have product managers. Its more common for developers to decide what to build.

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Userpilot

NOVEMBER 7, 2024

Let’s review everything your customer success team has to do in the absence of any customer success tools. With so much to accomplish manually, a lot slips through the cracks, leaving an unfulfilled gap in the arena of customer success management needs. Best customer success software for startups and small companies.

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Roman Pichler

SEPTEMBER 11, 2023

This includes a sound understanding of the market, the user and customer needs, and the competition as well as solid product management skills such as the ability to develop an effective product strategy and an actionable product roadmap (as I explain in more detail in the article The T-Shaped Product Professional ).

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Product Innovation Educators

FEBRUARY 17, 2025

The product manager’s path to influence Watch on YouTube TLDR In my recent conversation with Francesca Cortesi, CPO, we explored why the popular phrase “CEO of the product” can be misleading for product managers.

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Lenny Rachitsky

MAY 15, 2025

Depth over breadth: Revolut’s leaders deliberately go extremely deep into 7 to 10 projects (out of 100 or more running simultaneously), but at a code and technical implementation level. This eliminates the uncertainty of whether poor traction is due to a bad idea or poor execution, making feedback interpretation clearer.

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Roman Pichler

APRIL 7, 2025

Additionally, you should review AI-generated answers rather than blindly trusting a tool, even if the results sound very convincing. To find out more, you should evaluate different tools, possibly together with your product management colleagues. Fourth, do you systematically review the product strategy?

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The Product Guy

JUNE 20, 2019

When I joined Wetu in 2014, I was the 7th employee, we had just over 100 companies using our software, we were exclusively available in Africa, and the product was already 5 years old. Since then we have grown to over 100 employees, we have more than 800 companies using our software, and we have expanded globally.

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Lenny Rachitsky

JANUARY 14, 2025

Core 4 pulls everything they’ve learned from working with thousands of teams into a single unified developer productivity framework. Laura Tacho is the CTO at DX , has taught over 1,000 tech leaders through her course on developer productivity metrics , and on the side is an executive coach for engineering leaders.

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Product Management Unpacked

NOVEMBER 2, 2021

CMU Master of Science in Product Management program student Erick Valencia landed a PM experience of a lifetime as part of a student team developing a driverless race car system to race in the Indy Autonomous Challenge. Product Managers often face a race to the finish, so to speak.

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Product Innovation Educators

NOVEMBER 6, 2023

How product managers can use AI to get more actionable insights from qualitative data Today we are talking about using qualitative data to drive our work in product and consequently improve sales. We found that artificial intelligence is starting to help companies make better product management decisions. What is that question?

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