The Product Coalition

JANUARY 12, 2023

Not enough people spend enough time on defining vision and purpose Most value propositions are weak Companies don’t adapt their team typology to make a product Very few products are indeed prioritized by value User Reasearch and UX are ofter used in the wrong way 1. Like in a startup. Here is what I noticed.

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Roman Pichler

FEBRUARY 2, 2021

The latter would work with one or more development teams to get the specification implemented. During the development phase, the product manager would be only loosely involved, typically attending a project steering meeting and possibly issuing change requests.

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The Product Coalition

AUGUST 23, 2023

A purpose we could share with the company’s leadership team, customers, and those working on the product. For product teams, the why and purpose behind the product comes in the form of a meaningful, inspiring, yet achievable north star. Teams may struggle to decide about the product’s features or design, potentially leading to waste.

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Bain Public

JANUARY 11, 2022

Let’s face it, most organizations have poor habits around roadmap completion — this is why getting leadership (or stakeholders) to develop consistent, stable and familiar routines reinforced through repetition and communication is valuable. Let’s dive deeper!

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The Product Coalition

MARCH 7, 2023

How to prepare for a user interview, all the way to sharing the results with your team. I compiled this guide back when I was training product managers on my team to be able to run user interviews. Questions not to ask There are such things as bad questions when you’re interviewing a user.

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UX Planet

DECEMBER 15, 2023

Understanding your organization’s UX maturity is the first, most crucial step toward recognizing the strengths and weaknesses of your organization. Curiously, many consumer startups allocate large ux budgets for the free parts of their products, & surprisingly little towards the ux journeys after initial conversion.

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Userpilot

MAY 19, 2022

Product excellence is a framework that relies on user feedback to inform product strategy and roadmap for faster delivery of products. Value Proposition Canvas can help you decide what features to develop to provide value to users. Kano model helps you prioritize feature development. A good product avoids poor customer service.

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Department of Product

NOVEMBER 16, 2023

Q&A is a new feature from the company which allows users to get answers about any document in a workspace through a conversational UI. If you’ve not heard of Celonis before, it’s a SaaS company that focuses on one thing product teams tend to either love or hate: process map diagramming. Enjoy the rest of your week!

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Nulab

AUGUST 25, 2021

Whether you’re an Olympic runner, an app developer, or a wealthy big-city bachelor, getting to know what’s going on in the world around you is a smart thing to do. from marketing and sales to product development and community building. Plotting their strengths and weaknesses (and your opportunities and threats).

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Bain Public

MARCH 14, 2022

But unfortunately, in many companies, the product leadership team can perpetuate a negative culture — setting up product managers to fail. In essence, the product leadership team are those with influence on the product roadmap. Building and nurturing strong, cross-functional, co-located, empowered product teams.

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Intercom, Inc.

AUGUST 18, 2022

Sarah Dayan is a staff engineer at Algolia , a “Search-as-a-Service” platform that helps developers build index and search capabilities into their own platforms through an API, and the host of two tech podcasts: Developer Experience and Entre Devs. While onboarding, read as much documentation and speak with as many people as you can.

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Sachin Rekhi

JUNE 25, 2017

I then break down the resources into the way I think about what a product manager does, which is drive the vision, strategy, design, and execution of their product. I've found the best way for a product manager to learn to develop a vision is to immerse yourself in a collection of compelling product visions as inspiration for your own.

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Userpilot

JULY 27, 2023

Chief Technical Officer : Responsible for outlining the company’s technological vision, implementing technology strategies, and ensuring that the technological resources are aligned with the company’s business needs. They also manage finances and supervise one or more engineering teams. Average salary: $196,172/yr.

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Department of Product

OCTOBER 23, 2022

Product Principles – Examples for Product Managers Make decision making easier with inspiration from top product companies Product principles are used by product teams to help guide decision making. Principles can help guide both strategic decisions and tactical decisions.

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Userpilot

OCTOBER 4, 2022

Growth loops are a compounding growth strategy where the user fuels future growth by reinvesting their outputs into new inputs for the next growth cycle. Userpilot can help you implement growth loops in your product growth strategy with its segmentation features and interactive walkthrough builder. Let’s get started.

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Department of Product

SEPTEMBER 14, 2023

Height is a new project management tool for product teams and they’ve just launched 2.0 which gives product teams AI super powers. For SaaS product teams, one of the more complex parts of building zero to one applications is implementing permissions. You can find out more here. Subscribed Hi product people ?,

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Intercom, Inc.

AUGUST 15, 2019

If an organization’s founders aren’t designers and don’t come from a background where well-designed products played a key role in their lives, it can often be the last discipline to be brought onboard the team. I was writing specifications documents. On a bad day, a lot more of it got thrown away. Short on time?

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Mind the Product

JULY 10, 2017

Let’s establish this right upfront: nothing beats a well-managed full-time in-house team of local developers. Are there enough skilled developers at your location? And done right, I believe that outsourcing means you can come very close to your team next door in terms of productivity and innovation.

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Userpilot

FEBRUARY 10, 2023

Actually, there are multiple types of personas for different teams, levels of research, and use cases—which you need to understand if you want to connect with customers. So let’s cover each of them and see what you can do to improve your team’s effectiveness. What is a persona?

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Mind the Product

OCTOBER 1, 2019

I even wrote about it in my Mind the Product blog post, Lean Strategies for Maturing Products. A timeline roadmap simply doesn’t leave room for discovery and iteration, and at the end of the day, makes the product person look bad when delivery fails or the wrong product is built. If a key date is part of that strategy, write it down.

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Modus Create

JANUARY 12, 2021

So let’s dive into some old and new methodologies that companies use to implement, develop and balance the three pillars. Each methodology has strengths and weaknesses, and since implementations can vary widely, it’s useful to understand how and when to apply elements of each. Lean Startup.

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Mind the Product

FEBRUARY 15, 2018

Much has been written about the process of creating product roadmaps, not least the six great articles written by my own team. I believe the actions of a product leader all too often are the root cause of a “bad” roadmap. I would define a good roadmap as one that the team understands and feels ownership over.

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Intercom, Inc.

APRIL 19, 2018

It means reducing choices amongst engineering teams and standardizing technology, so our team can spend as much time as possible delivering value to customers. Our chat covers the origins of Run Less Software, how it has evolved at scale, and how it differs from the equally valid approaches of other engineering teams.

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bpma ProductHub

OCTOBER 16, 2016

Currently at Pragmatic Marketing, Paul helps companies build product teams by teaching their managers and marketers how to become market-driven. Most companies and product teams have to find the right balance between investing in the new and supporting existing products. The answer depends on knowing the company’s strategy.

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Intercom, Inc.

MAY 4, 2018

Imagine walking into the office one morning and having your star team member ask if you have a few minutes to talk. Regular, open career conversations can be an effective strategy for this. Once you’ve had the first conversation, it’s up to you and your team member to decide how frequent or formal these meetings should be.

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Mixpanel

MARCH 15, 2021

Product analytics tools help teams understand mission-critical metrics so they can transform data into actionable insights that improve the user experience. . For many—especially burgeoning startups—this can be a nonstarter. Codeless tools require less upfront attention but can compromise a long-term data strategy.

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ProductPlan

OCTOBER 29, 2019

The developers will handle it. We’re just a startup, who’s going to want to hack us? Most often, it won’t matter if it’s not intentional or was initiated by a bad actor from outside the company, If things go sideways, it could even result in a permanent shutdown. Don’t think that your scrappy startup isn’t a target.

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UX Studio: Product Management

SEPTEMBER 25, 2017

After our team at UX Studio started using product management tools, the time spent on communication surprisingly decreased. Coordinating designer and developer teams simultaneously while reporting to the boss via email becomes a drag. Price: Basic plan starts at $25 / month for 5 team members. Collaboration tools.

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Userpilot

OCTOBER 20, 2023

Evaluate the impact of your product and marketing strategies in increasing customer satisfaction. Use detailed insights to target your growth marketing efforts and PLG strategy. Relationship surveys are best for startups that don’t have enough customers to accurately gauge public opinion during the early stages of their journey.

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Intercom, Inc.

MARCH 15, 2018

As a startup scales, the importance of infrastructure engineers simply can’t be overstated. Will Larson has managed infrastructure teams for some of the biggest names in software. Previously, Will was an engineering leader at Digg and then at Uber, where he scaled infrastructure engineering from a small team to more than 70.

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The Product Coalition

OCTOBER 15, 2019

And this is not a bad thing?—?being from customers and sales staff to teams of marketing, finance and engineering. To be a successful Product Manager, you’ll need to be the conduit between the business and technology teams by becoming the subject matter expert on the customer, the technology and the market.

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The Product Coalition

JULY 30, 2020

My suggestion is to have a vision for monetization and document the assumptions and goals before building the product. If you have enough users and enough development & design resources, you should go for it. a startup messed up at its foundation cannot be fixed.” He goes on saying that “.a

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UX Studio

MARCH 11, 2024

I realized that that wasn’t really gonna happen I’m very very bad at competition. And like the warmups and practice, I could see that I was kind of… you can kind of know how good you are on the team [00:04:00] in the warmups. Really anything to do with the wind surfing. Now I want to go and grab something to eat.

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Userpilot

OCTOBER 29, 2020

In a sense, this brings the Product Marketer a lot closer to the Product Team than a ‘regular marketer’- so we can say that the product marketer acts as a bridge between the product and the marketing team. Even though Natalia works as a part of the Marketing Team, she is very close to the Product Team.

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PMLesson's Ace the PM Interview

MAY 15, 2022

Specifically, UX designers sit at the intersection of product design, market research, interaction design, product strategy, human computer interaction, visual design, and more! UX design was first developed by Don Norman , who was actually working at Apple at the time. As you can imagine, UX is a complex and varied design discipline.

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The Product Coalition

MARCH 16, 2019

Mailchimp, for example, has leveraged this strategy aggressively, and arguably was ahead of its competitors in pushing integration. While working on a knowledge management solution aimed at custom support and sales teams, we integrated with several customer support desks and CRM.

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The Product Coalition

JANUARY 16, 2022

This is my 4th startup and have seen many ups and down in my decade long journey. I saw quick explosive growth in my mobile gaming startup, an acquisition of my payment startup, failure of an AI based startup and numerous pivots in between. But the startup bug in me is too strong and I decided to startup again.

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