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

NOVEMBER 13, 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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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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Intercom, Inc.

SEPTEMBER 10, 2020

It’s an approach that’s served him well along the road to building the HubSpot sales team, where he was CRO for nine years. This has created large amounts of data for running teams. . Mark’s latest ebook, The Science of Scaling , outlines a precise framework for success. And the teams now need a more defined structure.

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UX Studio

MAY 15, 2018

By definition, design handoff takes place when the finished design has reached the stage for the developers to implement it. Let’s look at the basics and some suggestions to get the best out of the designer-developer collaboration. We recently wrote an ebook, “Product Managers’ Guide to UX Design”. Click here to download!

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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

JUNE 9, 2023

Photo by Oleg Magni from Pexels Educating the market has a bad reputation, and rightfully so. The reason that educating the market is considered a bad idea lies in the context: the term “educating the market” usually comes up right after the problematic claim that “they just don’t get it”.

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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

JUNE 18, 2023

With sales-led, which is also a bad name, the model means giving each customer exactly what they want and following the money. It works when each customer is extremely large, but there’s a caveat: you do a lot of dedicated development (which means expensive resources) for each and every customer. We are here to help you.

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Intercom, Inc.

NOVEMBER 3, 2022

Scaling a support team is challenging enough as it is. Maybe you’ve just extended support hours and it’s becoming harder to plan shifts for different time zones; maybe you’re spending hours figuring out schedules for the week ahead; maybe the inflow prediction was a bit off and now your team is under or overstaffed.

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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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Centercode

NOVEMBER 13, 2020

This empowers your engineering team with everything they need to address issues quickly and efficiently. And the Centercode Platform is purpose-built for tester communication en masse, making it easy for even small teams to support thousands of testers at once. Your Path to 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 Guy

MARCH 14, 2017

A product manager just stopped by the desk of the designer on a lazy Thursday afternoon. The manager used wide gestures to show where he wanted to move certain elements. The developers sitting nearby just watched the show for the first time, but after a while they stood up to join the party one by one.

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The Product Coalition

JANUARY 4, 2021

Photo by Oleg Magni from Pexels Educating the market has a bad reputation. The reason that educating the market is considered a bad idea lies in the context: the term “educating the market” usually comes up right after the problematic claim that “they just don’t get it”. So what can and cannot work when you want to educate the market?

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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. With this understanding (and proof) I went to my manager and explained my line of thinking. But even if I wouldn’t have gotten the budget, at least management would know what to expect.

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The Product Coalition

FEBRUARY 27, 2022

It will also help you develop intuition , which has a bad name in a data-driven world but is actually a super important tool for you to use. Define Tangible Goals This method which I developed years ago proved itself again as I was onboarding my new COO recently. What worked best so far? you will definitely not use any of them.

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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). Instead, it is all about risk management. Yes”, I said.

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Under 10 Consulting

JUNE 6, 2019

Only three things happen naturally in organizations: friction, confusion, and underperformance. Drucker, American management consultant. In my first job in product management, I was based in DC and my developers were based in California. I’m often asked where product management should sit in the organization.

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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. Books for Product Managers.

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The Product Coalition

DECEMBER 11, 2023

They always need something you haven’t developed yet. Unlike what one might think, this is a really bad sign. Most of the work plan is devoted to putting off fires coming from customers and sales teams. Take the breakdown to management, get their feedback, and create alignment. And nothing else. They only know themselves.

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The Product Coalition

JANUARY 13, 2021

By the way, it wasn’t like I was thinking to myself: “I feel bad, let’s try Facebook because they are supposedly the solution”. the value that they gave smaller teams who were their initial design partners isn’t the same as the one that they gave larger companies who became their customers in later phases. It was the deeper problem?—?the

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The Product Guy

SEPTEMBER 12, 2017

In other words, consider new features to be a bad idea until your organization has researched the need for them and validated that the users will need them. You may buy this ebook at [link]. Filed under: guest blogger , product management Tagged: engagement , features. In this, let your personas be your guide.

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ProductPlan

FEBRUARY 14, 2019

Product managers and marketers share many of the same goals. Understanding how marketers gauge their progress can help you be a more balanced product manager. Both SaaS product managers and marketers value customer acquisition. Why Acquisition Metrics Matter to Product Managers. SaaS Acquisition Metrics.

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ProductPlan

MAY 13, 2020

For product management, this is both a frustrating challenge and an exciting opportunity. Once your organization gets on board with routine experimentation, they’ll soon see the team is making smarter, informed decisions with better outcomes and fewer misfires. Here’s how to make it happen. Defeat Doubts.

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Userzoom

DECEMBER 17, 2019

Andy Budd, Managing Director, Clearleft. Some stakeholders need to see the effects on the team to really appreciate the value, which is where design sprints come into play. When new to a project or team, conduct key stakeholder interviews. This free-to-download bundle contains the following resources: Benchmarking 101 [ebook].

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Intercom, Inc.

NOVEMBER 7, 2019

As Head of Sales for Spendesk, Nico was initially inspired by the vision of founder Rodolphe Ardant who had spotted a gap for ‘spend management’ in the B2B market based on personal banking trends. So they created a software that provides control, visibility, and payment methods for corporate finance teams.

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The Product Coalition

APRIL 1, 2023

A good manager balances being involved in the details and giving their people more freedom. was the first product manager I ever hired. A brilliant guy, with many years of tech leadership experience, but none in product management. A brilliant guy, with many years of tech leadership experience, but none in product management.

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UX Studio

NOVEMBER 28, 2018

Project managers around the world scratch their heads when it comes to this question. They consider the pros and cons when it comes to forming an in-house design team vs. hiring external design services. Do developers lack the right handover and high-quality design material? The possibility of a bad hire looms on the horizon.

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UX Studio: Product Management

NOVEMBER 1, 2019

This is why it’s important to develop this hierarchy consciously. You can collect adjectives, and list a few good and bad examples. Current trends of responsive design and development help solve the old dilemmas of what is the most common screen size for website design, or mobile. . Visual hierarchy helps lead the eye.

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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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ProductPlan

APRIL 25, 2023

Great teams assemble individuals with differing skill sets, perspectives, and experiences. For example, Iron Man and Captain America leading the Avengers or Superman, Batman, and Wonder Woman teaming up as the Justice League. Many product teams now have their own team of super-powered individuals banding together for a common cause.

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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. One of the first topics that came up (it always does) is time management. 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 ). It was aligned with my management style?—?I Here is a quick guide.

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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

Lastly, there is an overlap with the product manager role. The following interview questions are neither suited nor intended to turn an inexperienced interviewer into an agile software development expert. Spoiler alert: they aren’t identical.) How much time should you spend on Product Backlog refinement?

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The Product Guy

AUGUST 10, 2017

As Marc Wendell described in a Product Mentor video, the foundation of success in both product management and user experience (UX) is solving a problem for a specific user. A software product could overemphasize a feature that its own team just wanted to build. Three tactics help your team navigate these situations.

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