The Product Coalition

DECEMBER 4, 2023

In many cases, an economic downturn simply reveals your already existing weaknesses since they now have more impact. Product Strategy on Round A Responsibility: Founders with the leadership team Goal: Build the go-to-market playbook Toward round A you start seeing success (or it would be very hard to raise a decent A round).

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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. My answer was: I would develop a voice interface for the computer (it was before the smartphone era). I was really afraid of this question.

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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

JUNE 18, 2023

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. Being sales-led or product-led is a strategic decision of the company, that goes all the way up to the very basic business model you are betting your success on.

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The Product Coalition

DECEMBER 11, 2023

If I’m taking these two approaches to the workplace, they are equivalent to two different management styles. 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. It’s the exact opposite.

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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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Gainsight

NOVEMBER 20, 2019

To truly excel in product management, you need to have a respect for design, an understanding of countless processes, a passion for problem-solving, excellent communication skills—the list goes on and on. Books for Product Managers. Blogs for Product Managers. Slack Groups for Product Managers.

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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.

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The Product Coalition

JANUARY 16, 2022

As such, it cannot be limited to include only the product-related parts like features and product KPIs. 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.

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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. Drucker, American management consultant. In my first job in product management, I was based in DC and my developers were based in California. Product management in Marketing.

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The Product Coalition

DECEMBER 11, 2023

So your product serves the existing customers (who keep wanting more stuff), but perhaps new customers are not coming as smoothly. They always need something you haven’t developed yet. Slowly, both the product and the roadmap reflect only what the customers are asking for. Unlike what one might think, this is a really bad sign.

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The Product Coalition

APRIL 1, 2023

was the first product manager I ever hired. A brilliant guy, with many years of tech leadership experience, but none in product management. Still, he was one of the best hires I made in this area and he turned out to be a product star. When I hired him I already had a lot of experience in people management.

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The Product Coalition

FEBRUARY 14, 2022

If you manage AI products, the answer is probably “many”. AI product management is a unique beast that can be quite challenging, but there are ways to make it easier. Photo by Skitterphoto from Pexels In 2014, at the ProductX conference, I won second place for my presentation on time management for busy product managers.

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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. In-House Development If you are selling to technical teams, this is a major competitor. It would be the list of “usual suspects” when talking about the e-commerce search space.

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The Product Coalition

APRIL 25, 2021

Product management is such a busy job. The hectic day-to-day in itself contains more work than one can do, but we all know that real product work requires much more than that. Photo by Alice Dietrich on Unsplash I recently started to work with the product guild at a well-known company that is about to go public.

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UX Studio

MAY 29, 2018

But team building retreats can do exactly that. Every six months, our whole UX team travels to a remote location in Hungary’s countryside for two days to have fun and decide together about our big goals. These team building retreats play an important part in UX studio’s culture. Do a retreat when your team has lost its energy.

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The Product Coalition

APRIL 19, 2021

The Product Owner role depends on the size of an organization, the industry it is operating in, its culture, and the lifecycle stage of that organization’s product(s). Lastly, there is an overlap with the product manager role. How much time should you spend on Product Backlog refinement?

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Revulytics

AUGUST 8, 2019

Revulytics sponsors a series of Product Management Today webinars featuring innovative ideas from top software product management thought leaders. Steve Johnson is VP of Products at Pragmatic Institute , former CEO and founder of Under10 Playbook, and author of Turn Ideas into Products. Where do I start?

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The Product Coalition

NOVEMBER 1, 2020

Product managers need to be creative. Creativity has many forms, and you only need some of them for your product career. Photo by Rodolfo Clix from Pexels When I first decided to move into product management, I also decided to interview at Google. it probably wasn’t such a bad one.

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The Product Coalition

JULY 2, 2022

for good and bad. I guess we were a biased audience to agree with it, as we were a room full of product coaches at various levels ?? 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

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