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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The Product Guy

OCTOBER 9, 2018

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). Two major obstacles stood in my way.

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The Product Coalition

DECEMBER 8, 2019

Highly effective Product Managers develop themselves in 5 key areas. In some jobs, you can get by with just Competence, but in the unkempt, fuzzy, team-oriented domain of Product Management, you need both. Here are 2 actions you can take to develop your Craft Competence: Craft Competence ?? and others feel that.

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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. This perspective shows that a guiding vision must be present to inform strategy.

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The Product Coalition

DECEMBER 23, 2021

“If you think good design is expensive, you should look at the cost of bad design,” Ralf Speth, a former Jaguar Land Rover CEO. The study by the Design Management Institute analyzed the performance of design-led organizations that place influential design decisions at the top as compared to the Standard & Poor’s index over 10 years.

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Roman Pichler

JUNE 7, 2021

Be Clear on When to Involve the Stakeholders and Development Teams. Complex and high-impact decisions, however, are best made together with the stakeholders and development teams. Additionally, include the development team members in product backlog decisions , and always choose sprint goals together.

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UX Planet

FEBRUARY 13, 2024

Prescriptive Agile frameworks make it hard for designers to add valuable contributions to the team. I designed every detail in Photoshop before handing the mockups to the developers. I was excited to be part of a cross-functional team and I could not wait to start working in sprints. But it wasn’t all that bad.

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ProductPlan

SEPTEMBER 10, 2021

And for product managers, it’s important to develop your own atomic roadmapping habits. . Learn how to set up your roadmap for success: Building New Habits and Breaking Bad Ones. Develop effective atomic roadmapping habits can allow your team to develop a clearer product vision. Delaying tough conversations.

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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. Every team has a valuable mix of strengths, and varying levels of skill and expertise in different areas across its members.

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The Product Coalition

MARCH 23, 2020

From objectives to roadmap, the strategy behind product development?—?Part If used correctly, OKRs can enable companies and teams to increase efficiency and focus their efforts so they can work together in one unified direction. Objectives & Key results Your objective(s) should answer the question: “What am I aiming to accomplish?”

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ProductPlan

JANUARY 10, 2020

Therefore, it’s crucial for product managers, developers, and your entire cross-functional team to examine—and re-examine—the product experience from your user’s point of view and incorporate it into your product strategy. What Happens to Your Customers After Bad Product Experiences.

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Modus Create

APRIL 5, 2022

The fundamental issue remains not considering security while developing software. . This post aims to answer the eternal questions: Why do developers omit security? What can be done to increase security awareness while developing code? Silos in Development and Security. Is there a cure for that state of mind?

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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. Stay present. State objective and agenda.

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UX Studio

MAY 15, 2018

By definition, design handoff takes place when the finished design has reached the stage for the developers to implement it. Let’s look at the basics and some suggestions to get the best out of the designer-developer collaboration. Illustration from Intercom’s article about the values of designer-developer collab.

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The Product Coalition

SEPTEMBER 27, 2022

As a freshman NCAA swimmer, I was excited and terrified for the first team meeting. Yet minutes in, the coach had calmed the team, taken command, and started setting the path forward. The product strategy acts as the playbook for the team, taking them to victory. err I mean product team, as they execute. How to win.

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The Product Coalition

SEPTEMBER 4, 2020

I became director of communications, leading the development of intranets and web applications. Challenges aside, I enjoyed the close-knit teams and easy access to upper management which enabled quick decision making. Designers vs Developers The work culture in this large organization was unlike anything I’d ever experienced.

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Mind the Product

OCTOBER 4, 2018

Team issues can have a negative impact on a project and your people long term. There are a bunch of ways they might manifest themselves – and I’ve written them down as I’ve heard them over a decade of building digital products in cross-functional teams. This list is most useful for in-flight project teams, off and sprinting.

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Gainsight

DECEMBER 17, 2020

Growth teams manage reducing churn and improving retention. Even if the overall product experience is less than ideal, it can present nuggets and features useful to those particular users and keep them engaged longer. . That said, it takes quite a bit of time and investment to develop an effective onboarding strategy.

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Mind the Product

MAY 10, 2019

Throughout his long career, Kenneth Chin, now the Chief Product Officer for Seek Asia, has worked with and led product teams around the world, including the US, UK, Australia, and across Asia. This is one of the core behaviours in many individuals and teams across Asia, and it can have interesting effects. Conflict Avoidance.

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Product Management University

DECEMBER 13, 2022

Product experience is a vital part of product design and development. In a user-centric product development framework, PX is crucial. Users will only use it because they have to and will drop it quickly if a better option presents itself. The feedback garnered from these teams is invaluable to creating and improving PX.

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Product Innovation Educators

SEPTEMBER 4, 2023

9:00] Who is responsible for developing product strategy? I’m a big proponent of developing strategy with a team, but there does need to be one person accountable for it. As long as there’s a process where product managers are responsible for developing strategy, a negotiation will happen.

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Usersnap

MARCH 19, 2019

Should the Voice of Customer influence product development? In Frost & Sullivan’s survey research on R&D/innovation and product development priorities, 84% of the respondents declare that they employ the voice of customers (VoC) in their product development cycle. Do you consider customer feedback?

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The Product Coalition

DECEMBER 27, 2023

Next, let’s talk development hours. If you’re a tech-savvy DIY enthusiast, you might spend less on development hours. However, if coding and blockchain sound like alien languages to you, hiring a professional developer is the way to go. Plus, if you’re tech-savvy, you can save on development costs.

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Mironov Consulting

MAY 16, 2020

A topic that’s come up several times recently in my product leader coaching sessions: how much to delegate to the (individual contributor) product managers on our teams – including different ways of building product skills and balancing personal empowerment against good results.

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Userpilot

NOVEMBER 30, 2023

A market gap can be caused by missing functionality or poor user experience. Tracking user behavior in-app enables product teams to find ways to improve product experience. Competitor analysis enables PMs to find areas where rivals fail customers and develop sound positioning and differentiation strategies. Book the demo!

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The Product Coalition

FEBRUARY 2, 2023

As product managers, it’s our job to develop solutions that solve real problems for our customers and create value for the business. Chances are, it might have been because the team wasn’t using the hypothesis-driven approach correctly. But with so many potential ideas to pursue, how do you know which ones are worth pursuing?

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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. Modern or traditional?

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Mind the Product

MAY 30, 2019

When you design and build a product, it is important that you regularly demo completed work with the team and key stakeholders. In Agile software development, so-called sprint demos are a key part of every iteration, but whatever product you’re building, be it an app, a website (or even a physical product), demos can be incredibly valuable.

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Mironov Consulting

FEBRUARY 12, 2022

 Can the executive team?  Are But for calendars, the scarce resource is time rather than development capacity.  Just playing part-time CPO and also part-time product manager) is a poor substitute for hiring the brilliant people we need.  Poor Dark blue: recruiting , candidate interviews, talent pipeline.

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Userpilot

DECEMBER 8, 2022

This pinpoints potential user frustration and present bugs. Product teams use different types of heat maps to assess in-app user behavior and activities, such as clicks, hovers, etc. This type of heat map helps product teams understand which features are most popular and which need improvement. What is a heat map?

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Modus Create

JUNE 18, 2019

I immediately donned the rose-colored glasses they handed out, and gobbled up the information that was presented. I quickly realized that the idealistic parameters that were presented in class were not always present in real life. That’s when it got bad. It got so bad that the CEO outlawed Agile altogether.

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The Product Coalition

MARCH 8, 2024

The important basis is the development of a strategy for short- and long-term digital transformation based on business results rather than technology. Future-proofing your business Embracing digital transformation is not just about keeping up with the present; it’s about positioning your business for the future.

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Amplitude

JANUARY 23, 2020

In my coaching work, I end up talking to lots of product development teams about data, KPIs, running experiments, and “measuring the team”. Moving beyond the pros and cons of individual decisions, how does your team reflect on the quality of your product development decision making process? Why does it depend?

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The Product Coalition

MAY 26, 2021

AI technology in education develops your learning method properly. Artificial intelligence-based education apps are fulfilling an essential role in developing the process of education and preparation methods. We have previously explained how automating organizational businesses can lower down the activity of the office team.

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Mixpanel

JUNE 10, 2020

On the NerdWallet team, we go beyond a binary “pass / fail” grade on demo days with Engineering, Product and Design. We also host voluntary “turkey” demos where members of our team can share experiments that failed and what they learned from them. These turkey demos have surfaced key learnings for our team. Boy, were we wrong.

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DISQO

JUNE 30, 2017

Input from executives is only less common than input from product owners, engineering teams, and the product managers themselves. The challenge for product leaders is that ideas from the C-Suite often lack customer validation and therefore put teams at risk of investing resources in ideas that won’t be successful.

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Mixpanel

JANUARY 21, 2020

As Director of Product Management at Mixpanel, an important part of my role is hiring and developing a world-class team of product managers and ensuring that we’re empowering those people to be the best product managers they can be. I hope you find this info both thought-provoking and useful. Customer focus. Communication skills.

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