The Product Coalition

MARCH 23, 2022

If you’re into building up or developing an organisation or you’re deep into agile coaching, sooner or later you might come around the question for a Product Manager and/or a Product Owner. Introducing Product Management means to install a discipline and to make the company product led and vision oriented.

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Sachin Rekhi

FEBRUARY 16, 2020

Mastering the craft of product management is no easy task. I instead define a product manager as driving the vision, strategy, design, and execution of their product. It's equally important for product managers to think about each of these four dimensions as having a concrete set of deliverables.

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People-First Product Leadership

DECEMBER 20, 2023

Part 1, we covered the “why” behind creating a strategy stack, with a focus on establishing the organization’s Mission, North Star, and Vision. Part 3 brings together the Product specific Vision, Roadmap and Goals. What is the vision for the future you want to create? What ground has been covered?

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Roman Pichler

MAY 10, 2017

To do a great job as a product manager or product owner, you require two skills sets: product-specific and generic ones. As the name suggests, product-specific capabilities are limited to a single product or product portfolio. These skills are not specific to an individual product, but transferable.

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Sequent Learning

DECEMBER 20, 2023

What is a Product Manager? The role of a product manager is the linchpin in product development, overseeing the entire lifecycle from inception to market launch. Tasked with strategizing, planning, and executing product initiatives, they’re the visionary behind the product’s success.

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The Product Coalition

JULY 21, 2020

Photo by Karla Vidal on Unsplash ‘How-To’ Guide for Crafting Your First Product Vision I originally packaged this up from a recent coaching session I had with a Product Manager who had been tasked for their first time to develop a product vision from scratch?—?hope Get into the vision building mindset.

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Userpilot

SEPTEMBER 14, 2023

How do product management and marketing teams work together to build successful products? TL;DR Product managers define the overall product direction and oversee the entire product lifecycle. Product marketing sits between product development and the market. What is product management?

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Roman Pichler

APRIL 3, 2018

What is the company’s vision? Think, for instance, of Google’s vision “to organise the world’s information and make it universally accessible and useful” Where will you play? Note that there is no perfect business strategy—just like there is no perfect product strategy. What is your winning aspiration?

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Userpilot

NOVEMBER 23, 2023

Why do product managers need them? That’s what Dave Martin , a product leadership coach, has talked about in his talk at this year’s Product Drive Summit hosted by Userpilot. Dave Martin on how product roadmaps kill outcomes. They lack vision and lead nowhere. Ready to dive in to learn more?

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ProductPlan

MARCH 5, 2021

The product manager career path is an exciting one with lots of possible on- and off-ramps. According to LinkedIn, interest in product management has doubled in the United States in the past 5 years. What is the Product Manager’s Career Path? Typical Product Management Roles. Product Manager.

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People-First Product Leadership

OCTOBER 1, 2023

You can coach a person to be a better product manager. Differentiate : Embrace uniqueness as being the same can be limiting and honestly quite tiring. The premise being “what if I ask you to imagine your product in thirty years.” I’ve shared before that soft skills are the new hard skills.

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Product Talk

APRIL 17, 2024

We have five product managers, one UX researcher , five designers—one of them director of design, leading the design team. All product managers report to me, and we have five product teams up and running. It sounds like you are responsible for product, design, and research. You have this grand vision.

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Usersnap

SEPTEMBER 29, 2022

Create your vision and positioning 4. Each has a different approach to SaaS growth and will significantly impact your company’s product vision and revenue strategy. Differentiated SaaS Growth. The differentiated growth approach is creating a product with unique features which can make it stand out from the crowd.

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ProductPlan

AUGUST 10, 2023

When plotting out our product’s trajectory, there’s a constant tension between two competing mindsets. Where charismatic leaders rally the troops around an ambitious vision with a massive potential payoff. Meanwhile, the slow, steady drumbeat of cautious experimentation and incremental enhancements always makes the product better.

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ProductPlan

MARCH 5, 2021

The product manager career path is an exciting one with lots of possible on- and off-ramps. According to LinkedIn, interest in product management has doubled in the United States in the past 5 years. What is the Product Manager’s Career Path? Typical Product Management Roles. Product Manager.

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Userpilot

DECEMBER 13, 2023

A robust UX strategy is also a valuable differentiator helping you stand out in competitive markets. UX vision is a clear and inspiring statement that guides the long-term design strategy and keeps teams and stakeholders on the same page. Start designing your strategy by clarifying the business goals.

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Userpilot

AUGUST 26, 2021

You know how when you log into a SaaS product, you often notice the UI has changed or there are new options that weren't there before? That's SaaS product management hustling in the background to give you the best experience. And you had to own all the servers. Nightmare, right?

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ProductPlan

MARCH 17, 2020

A strategic product manager (PM) is responsible for shaping and sharing a strategic vision for a product, and yet—oddly enough—finding time for strategic activities can be a very real challenge. So, how does a product manager take ownership of more than just backlog management? Product Vision.

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Izenda

JUNE 28, 2020

In software development, a product manager is inherently the CEO of the product: the person who is responsible for strategizing and defining the product roadmap. The product manager is like the missing middle piece required to hold the supporting pieces together. Role of a Software Product Manager.

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The Product Coalition

AUGUST 23, 2023

By the look on the face of the product manager asking me, she didn’t want a canned answer; she was looking for a reason to believe, to rekindle her energy. I knew why the company existed, but I never thought about the purpose behind the product other than the problem it solved for the customer and the value it delivered.

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People-First Product Leadership

DECEMBER 4, 2023

If you missed Part 1, we covered the “why” behind creating a strategy stack, with a focus on the Mission, North Star, and Vision. The Vision evolves over time, and is an inspirational guide for the company's future. Looking ahead, Part 3 brings together the Product specific Vision, Roadmap and Goals.

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Mind the Product

APRIL 6, 2020

Product (and company) strategy is the backbone that guides product goal-setting and roadmap definition, although it’s sometimes overlooked or confused with having a vision. Without it, product teams become feature teams focused on outputs and not outcomes. What management systems are required? How will you win?

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Mind the Product

AUGUST 1, 2019

Of course, product teams need to develop and ship new features. Whether it’s to stay competitive, differentiated, or solve for what they believe are their customers’ needs, some companies get locked into a cycle of feature FOMO – fear of missing out – that ends up stalling product innovation.

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The Product Coalition

JANUARY 3, 2020

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. The results showed that they wanted better (and more frequent) feedback on how to further develop their product management skills.

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The Product Coalition

FEBRUARY 20, 2018

Product management is an important organizational role. Product managers are typically found at companies that are building products or technology for customers. The product manager is often considered the expert of their products and is responsible for the strategy, roadmap, and feature definition for product.

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People-First Product Leadership

MAY 6, 2024

Instead, throughout my newsletters, I recommend ways that you - as a product manager or product leader - can have direct impact. Thanks for reading People-First Product Leadership! Thank you for reading People-First Product Leadership. Change is never easy. Acknowledge you are not alone.

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ProductPlan

AUGUST 23, 2022

No matter how you define product management, customers should always be at the center of things. Product managers try to solve customer problems, address customer pain points, add value for customers, etc. But it’s pretty hard to do anything without understanding how to incorporate empathy into product management.

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Product Innovation Educators

JUNE 21, 2021

Pipeline, Process, and Practice for Product Managers. This is the Product Mastery Now podcast. For seven years it was called The Everyday Innovator, but I recently changed the name to better reflect our mission, which is to help you become a Product Master, creating products customers love. 6:50] Pipeline.

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ProductPlan

AUGUST 10, 2023

When plotting out our product’s trajectory, there’s a constant tension between two competing mindsets. Where charismatic leaders rally the troops around an ambitious vision with a massive potential payoff. Meanwhile, the slow, steady drumbeat of cautious experimentation and incremental enhancements always makes the product better.

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BrainMates

OCTOBER 10, 2019

One of the key examples of this is when Product Managers is that they are expected to perform the role of project manager for some or all of the delivery of their product to the marketplace. OR, a project manager is expected to pick up Product Management activities. What is Product Management?

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The Product Coalition

MARCH 24, 2021

As Kim Garst states in her quote, the fundamental principle to win first reference customers in the mainstream market is to target a specific niche market as your point of attack and focus all your resources on achieving the dominant leadership position in that segment as quickly as possible. Marketing Success Through Differentiation?—?of

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Mind the Product

DECEMBER 18, 2019

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. Therefore, as a goal, we decided we wanted every product manager to be able to answer these two questions: Where do I want to go?

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Product Innovation Educators

JANUARY 13, 2020

How marketing and product management work together. That is what our guest did to investigate what people think about marketing and how it fits into the work product managers do. Our guest is Jill Soley, a Silicon Valley strategic product and marketing executive. Start with building relationships.

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Mixpanel

APRIL 27, 2020

Leading a product team in a startup—where it’s basically you, or maybe you and one other person—is far different from leading a large product management team for a well-established company. When you’re a startup and you’re looking for product-market fit, you need to be ruthless. Startup: Set ruthless priorities.

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Usersnap

NOVEMBER 10, 2023

In his book “Start with Why” , Simon Sinek boldly claims that the ‘Why’ behind your actions matters more than the ‘What’ This principle isn’t limited to leadership or personal motivation; it extends to every facet of the business, including product roadmaps.

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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.

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The Product Coalition

OCTOBER 11, 2019

The best way to advance your product management career is to develop yourself. Every platform offers a variety of product management courses. Best Product Management Course: Digital Product Management by Boston University: #3 Udemy Udemy offers more than 100.000 courses from over 42.000 different lecturers.

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