The Product Coalition

FEBRUARY 18, 2024

Especially in product management, where authority is limited, you need to act beyond the limits of formality. Photo by Blake Cheek on Unsplash I once coached a very talented senior product manager. Challenge Upwards The CEO, startup founders, or your management chain up to the CEO, have authority over you. Here is how.

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The Product Coalition

DECEMBER 11, 2023

The journey to product-market fit might seem random, but it actually has a well defined high-level structure. Here is part two of the guide that will help you find your way to product-market fit. This is an important principle in the product-market fit journey. Last week we talked about the first steps in this direction.

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The Product Coalition

JULY 31, 2022

If you are on the journey toward product-market fit, you know it’s not easy. One of the hardest challenges of any product and any startup is of course reaching product-market fit. The good news is that product-market fit, like people, and cars, have their own “operating system”. product-market fit under the hood.

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The Product Coalition

DECEMBER 11, 2023

Great managers empower their people. Here is what you need to be aware of if you want to keep being a great manager, not just in your head. Here is what you need to be aware of if you want to keep being a great manager, not just in your head. Arik and I have very different approaches to managing the morning routine.

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The Product Coalition

NOVEMBER 23, 2021

Measuring the performance of product managers is a real challenge for a number of reasons. When planning the product managers’ goals, this challenge can translate into taking the wrong direction altogether. Here is a new way to look at product management goals, and make them a useful tool for both you and your team.

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The Product Coalition

DECEMBER 10, 2023

However, provoking productive disagreements is a key leadership skill you want to master. Here is how fostering healthy debates is essential for effective leadership and better outcomes. If you see the connection between that skill and product leadership you are 100% right. Most of us try to avoid arguments with our peers.

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Product Management University

JUNE 5, 2023

Most product managers know how to create a product vision, but that’s not the hard part. Product managers often refer to their product vision as “my north star.” Of course, investors will get on board with anything that supports financial growth but product managers don’t work with investors on a daily basis.

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Bain Public

APRIL 17, 2020

Career Development Program Details: Whether you are a Founder or part of the Product, Engineering or leadership team, you need actionable strategies and impactful techniques that drive results today. Where do I manage the roadmap? We already knew we could deliver expert guidance via a series of on-site workshops.

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PMLesson's Ace the PM Interview

APRIL 25, 2022

Have you recently been invited to a product marketing manager interview? One of the best and first things you should do is review the most common product marketing interview questions and answers. Product marketing managers play a critical role in bringing new products to market. If so, fantastic!

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The Product Coalition

DECEMBER 4, 2023

You blame the market, but often that’s just overlooking the real problem. Tough market conditions would cause your sales to dramatically drop or even cease. On one hand, that’s expected in a rough market, but is that really the root cause? At some point, the results you expected and even produced in the past aren’t replicating.

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The Product Coalition

DECEMBER 11, 2023

In part two of this summary, I am moving to talk about strategy and leadership insights. Today I will focus more on leadership and strategy. Another strategic note about startups that almost goes without saying if you follow my writing, is that before you have product-market fit, finding it should be your only focus.

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The Product Coalition

DECEMBER 19, 2021

The first product manager in a startup is a critical role with immense impact on the startup’s success?—?both As the VP Product at a startup, I knew I had to work hands-on, and hiring a product manager to take the load off of me would happen only when it became absolutely necessary. both in the short and long term. and during?—?the

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The Product Coalition

FEBRUARY 1, 2021

Product management requires so many diverse skills that most likely your people are more experienced than you at least in some of them. If the people reporting to you know better how to do their job, what is your role as a manager? If they can’t be the professional mentor of the product manager, what is it that they should be doing?

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ProductPlan

JUNE 5, 2020

Product management is certainly no exception. Product managers and leaders need to find ways to keep learning and growing in an ever-evolving product environment. There’s an abundance of books, podcasts, as well as events at your disposal that cover various product management topics. We’ve scoured the certification landscape.

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The Product Coalition

FEBRUARY 5, 2021

We’re well overdue a conversation about Product Managers and technical skills. It doesn’t seem to matter how many times the industry tries to reassure newcomers that you don’t need to be a full stack software engineer to be a good Product Manager. SQL : Used for data management and manipulation. Data structures and algorithms.

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The Product Coalition

NOVEMBER 13, 2023

You blame the market, but often that’s just overlooking the real problem. Photo by Tomas Sobek on Unsplash Nobody likes tough market conditions, but it can also be an opportunity. Tough market conditions would cause your sales to dramatically drop or even cease. They see it as sales and marketing’s responsibility.

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Product Innovation Educators

APRIL 17, 2023

How organizations can empower product managers Today we are talking about what a product-led organization is, barriers that can prevent an organization from being product-led, and actions to create the product-led organization. He has a great deal of experience that has helped him be well-rounded in product management. Not really.

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The Product Coalition

DECEMBER 31, 2023

Photo by Pixabay I recently led a product-market fit workshop at a known company in the Israeli tech industry. It is a well-established company, a leader in its domain, but it still needs to deliver new products to the market so product-market fit is a very relevant topic. At work, things are much more complex.

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The Product Coalition

DECEMBER 11, 2023

If you are the new product leader of your company, your company might be in product leadership debt. I had already been blogging for a while when she was born, so some of you might remember me writing about how I applied product management practices in the many decisions I needed to make around her birth , for example.

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The Product Coalition

DECEMBER 11, 2023

Part of your role as a product leader is pure management: management of the execution, and of the people who report to you. It can be quite challenging, both because it is objectively complex and because of time management. In order to succeed, make sure to create the management routines that would help you. Here’s how.

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The Product Coalition

OCTOBER 30, 2022

It’s much more important to say that we are trying to establish initial signals of product-market fit than to say that we need a certain ARR value. You keep learning new things about the market, and delivery always takes longer than planned. But at the deeper level, it also instills trust in leadership. the highest one?

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The Product Coalition

APRIL 18, 2021

Photo by John Tekeridis from Pexels When I decided to move into product management I interviewed, among other companies, for a product management role at Google. But a search engine wasn’t a suitable product for Twiggle’s target market. In product leadership, we cannot expect to operate only within the realm of known facts.

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The Product Coalition

NOVEMBER 13, 2022

In the effort to create empowered teams, many managers struggle with their role in the process. It requires a different kind of guidance, but your management and leadership are still required nonetheless. If you manage senior people, this is even more true. My free e-book “ Speed-Up the Journey to Product-Market Fit ”?—?an

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Product Innovation Educators

FEBRUARY 22, 2021

How product managers can work backwards to amazing products. To be a better product manager, it is worthwhile to examine organizations known for their product management capabilities. Summary of some concepts discussed for product managers. [2:42] In 2004, we started thinking about how we could build an ebook service.

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The Product Coalition

MAY 1, 2022

Unfortunately, it’s very common that the management or founding team doesn’t see them eye to eye. about the market, the customers, the product, the business, the plans ahead? especially startups on their way to product-market fit, the ARR itself might not be important. But that’s where your leadership comes to a test.

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The Product Coalition

JUNE 18, 2023

The market, however, understood it differently. It took me time to understand that I need to present myself as a product leadership coach and product strategy expert rather than a consultant. In PLG, the product (deliverables) takes the heavy lifting of marketing and sales upon itself. Not all markets want to buy this way.

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The Product Coalition

JULY 25, 2021

Product management requires you to master so many different skills, that there always seems to be a gap between what you do well and what you need to do well to succeed. As a manager of product people, it is your job to help them with this continuous growth, but it’s not always easy. most of us didn’t start as product managers?—?so

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The Product Coalition

AUGUST 9, 2021

As their managers, we always need to coach our product managers toward their next level. Photo by Jess Bailey on Unsplash I was a manager long before I was a product manager. In one of my roles as an R&D manager, I inherited an employee from one of the other teams on the day I joined. trust me?—?I’ve

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The Product Coalition

FEBRUARY 27, 2022

By the way, while the tips here address specific challenges that product leaders face, many of them would apply to any kind of leadership position, and even to non-leadership positions, so feel free to forward it to friends who are currently on the move. and in product leadership positions there is so much of it!

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Gainsight

JULY 12, 2023

In traditional, high-touch CS, Digital CS, and everything in between, CS Ops is the key ingredient to supercharging Customer Success Manager (CSM) efficiency and ensuring a consistent customer experience. Apply this knowledge to shape the future of our customer success function, driving innovation and thought leadership.

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The Product Coalition

MARCH 12, 2023

You are looking for a partner to join your team and take a significant leadership role. That’s why they are looking to hire a product leader and not just a senior product manager. But often when the candidates’ weaknesses are revealed, the hiring managers tell me that there is a problem with the assignment.

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Gainsight

SEPTEMBER 22, 2023

How about Mailchimp’s All-in-One Marketing Platform and Salesforce? Still, when it comes down to it, they fundamentally help their customers accomplish the same thing: automate marketing. Technology companies, in particular, adopted these points of differentiation to gain market share. Very little.

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The Product Coalition

APRIL 10, 2022

Having the courage to speak up is one of the things that we are talking about in the leadership workshop that opens the CPO Bootcamp , for example. As the top product person in the organization, your manager usually doesn’t have a product management background. My free e-book “ Speed-Up the Journey to Product-Market Fit ”?—?an

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The Product Coalition

FEBRUARY 4, 2024

If you are in B2B, the profile is most likely a market segment (company sizes, industries, etc.). Try including marketing, sales, customer success, and the CEO in the discussion. If you are in B2C it’s usually different personas. Ideally, this should be a group exercise. Next week I’ll talk about how to address them.

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The Product Coalition

DECEMBER 11, 2023

So you have done your planning and now want to communicate your roadmap to management or to the team. Photo by Tamil Vanan on Pexels You might have heard that I’m writing a book on product leadership. Photo by Tamil Vanan on Pexels You might have heard that I’m writing a book on product leadership.

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The Product Coalition

FEBRUARY 11, 2024

Alternatively, if for a specific profile none of the categories works well, it could mean that this profile isn’t fitting you or that you might be earlier in your product-market fit journey than you might have thought. As a product manager or leader, you should always create your own customer advisory board , just less formally.

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The Product Coalition

APRIL 22, 2023

Product leadership seems to require nonstop negotiation with everyone you work with. Our free e-book “ Speed-Up the Journey to Product-Market Fit ” — an executive’s guide to strategic product management is waiting for you at www.infinify.com/ebook Originally published at [link] on April 18, 2023. Here’s how.

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