The Product Coalition

NOVEMBER 23, 2021

Here is a new way to look at product management goals, and make them a useful tool for both you and your team. Backed by a rich business background, he took over the sales and marketing departments and started to put them on an operational pace that created stability and transparency. Photo by William Warby on Unsplash L.

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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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The Product Coalition

FEBRUARY 14, 2021

Product requirements are there to help the team understand what you want to build. Whether you write them in detailed documents or share them briefly and verbally with the team, it’s easy to go directly to the bottom line and give clear instructions. For the team to be successful, they always need to see the bigger picture.

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The Product Coalition

DECEMBER 19, 2021

Along with the founders (the CEO and CTO), most of the employees in the company at the time were developers. Developing the product has a significant impact on the company’s strategy, and founders must live the market and their customer’s needs in order to define the company’s strategy.

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The Product Coalition

MARCH 13, 2022

Because over time, the Structured Data group (that I was Head of Product at) developed smarter, AI-based systems, that were meant to replace the back-office work or make it more efficient and create a better product catalog at the same time using things only machines can do. The superpower became a weakness. We all do it all the time.

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The Product Coalition

AUGUST 9, 2021

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. Little did I know that “not always easy to manage” is an understatement, and that this developer actually didn’t want to be managed at all. How does having them around impact the team’s morale? trust me?—?I’ve

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The Product Coalition

DECEMBER 11, 2023

Arik’s translates into a more strict and result-oriented, and mine is more about empowering my employees and developing their skills so that they can eventually perform at a higher level. And regardless of how empowered your teams are, they still need guidance. Marty Cagan’s Empowered introduced the concept of empowered teams.

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Centercode

DECEMBER 22, 2020

This year has forced us to grow and change many, many aspects of our lives, from how we work (#remote), to how we communicate with our team (“Can you guys see my screen?”), This combination ebook-and-worksheet is a roadmap for keeping testers engaged, because targeted feedback is critical to product success.

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The Product Coalition

JANUARY 16, 2022

As a product leader who is creating this roadmap, you need to treat it as a compass and plan not only for your team and the technology team but rather as the direction that the entire company needs to go in. So, having a great platform but poor content won’t really help them. if you fail, what would you have done wrong?

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The Product Coalition

DECEMBER 11, 2023

In one of my early career roles, I was brought into the company as a development team leader with a very specific task they wanted me to lead. As a good product-leader-to-be (although I didn’t know it at the time), I asked them why did they want to do it, and then performed market research to understand the problem better.

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Under 10 Consulting

JUNE 6, 2019

Only three things happen naturally in organizations: friction, confusion, and underperformance. Everything else requires leadership. In my first job in product management, I was based in DC and my developers were based in California. Instead, I flew to LA once a month and stayed for a week of development team meetings.

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The Product Coalition

DECEMBER 11, 2023

So they do all sorts of validations and deep analysis processes: market research, business plan, competitive analysis, and so on. Everyone knows market feedback is a must so that’s where you are going —  working with your customers, listening to them , and implementing a lot of what they say. And guess what? You hope it’s enough.

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Gainsight

NOVEMBER 20, 2019

In the spirit of “Staying Thirsty” we’ve compiled this list of books, blogs, Slack communities, and podcasts for product-obsessed people that want to develop themselves in and out of the office. These books will help you develop the skills that lie under the surface to help you become a more well-rounded product manager and leader.

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The Product Coalition

APRIL 1, 2023

A brilliant guy, with many years of tech leadership experience, but none in product management. I used to manage large development teams — all smart and independent people — but I hadn’t managed product managers before. And how can you let someone from your team lead parts of the strategy which you own yourself?

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The Product Coalition

DECEMBER 17, 2023

It didn’t mean that there was no competition (which is usually a very bad sign), but that the traditional search engines weren’t it. The reason we didn’t see them in any of our POCs was because they were targeting a different market segment. But our real competition wasn’t there. It wasn’t just a random selection.

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The Product Coalition

APRIL 25, 2021

In our sessions, they raise the challenges that they are facing in their day-to-day job and get my advice so that they can bring their product leadership to the next level. I sent the team to watch my time management lecture (if you don’t speak Hebrew or prefer reading there is an English summary here ).

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The Product Coalition

FEBRUARY 14, 2022

If you are the developer who is supposed to write this feature, you would ask the product manager for very specific instructions as to when and how to predict where this person is going. With data science teams, however, there is a feeling that they know better?—?they Instead, I gave the team clear instructions?—?take

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The Product Coalition

APRIL 19, 2021

The following interview questions are neither suited nor intended to turn an inexperienced interviewer into an agile software development expert. The refinement is a continuous process to create actionable Product Backlogs that allow a Scrum Team to have a Sprint Planning at a moment’s notice. Spoiler alert: they aren’t identical.)

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Revulytics

AUGUST 8, 2019

Often, product management teams are trying to do too much. When I talk with executive teams, it’s clear what keeps them up at night. Selling more is a sales issue, and building is a development issue, and planning is somebody else’s problem. Walking back commitments the sales team made. I’m busy enough already.

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The Product Coalition

NOVEMBER 1, 2020

I would develop a voice interface for the computer” , I said proudly. As you can probably guess, I didn’t get the job eventually and accepted an offer from Imperva instead (which turned out to be a company with great product culture and an amazing school for product leadership). it probably wasn’t such a bad one.

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The Product Coalition

JULY 2, 2022

for good and bad. primarily focused on product teams, helping them be great at the discovery work that is at the heart of what they do Leadership coaching?—?focused Marty said that anyone in the product team needs to get coaching, including the leaders themselves. A group of experts still doesn’t make a great team.

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