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 Photo by Tolga Ulkan on Unsplash When I joined Twiggle as their first VP Product I was the thirteenth employee. Shortly after I started, the CEO surprised me by saying I should hire a product manager.

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ProductBoard

JULY 20, 2021

Written by Daniel Elizalde, IoT Product Management Coach & Advisor, for our ebook, “The Path to Product Excellence: Stories and Advice From the Field” As product managers, we find ourselves in eternal conflict trying to balance the needs of our customers today, while keeping an eye on the future to stay competitive and avoid becoming (..)

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The Product Coalition

JANUARY 14, 2021

Our Top Picks For product managers in the area of MedTech, Connected Health, Telehealth, here is a run-down of 10 innovative health apps which highlight that the future of personalized health is already here. 10 Innovative Health Apps?—?Our

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The Product Coalition

SEPTEMBER 29, 2020

Anyone familiar with Product Management will recognize the immortal phrase ‘influence without authority.’ As a Product Manager, you’re a team player who guides product development along its chartered course, but you have to do that without being the literal captain of the ship. What Does ‘Influence’ Mean?

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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

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. The answer is, of course, yes?—?most

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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.

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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. That being said, Product Managers are still part of the tech industry.

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ProductBoard

MARCH 11, 2021

Written prior to the COVID-19 pandemic, this forward-thinking piece from Courtney Machi, VP Product at Andela, explains how working remotely can make you a better product manager. Find this essay and more in our ebook, The Path to Product Excellence: Stories and Advice From the Field.

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The Product Coalition

OCTOBER 21, 2021

Having a self-organized team is fantastic for product managers. They can go away and focus on the big picture while the development team gets to work on making the product. It’s something every product manager hopes to have, but that’s not to say self-organized teams are without drawbacks.

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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.

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Product Management University

JUNE 21, 2023

The Bottom Line on a Content Strategy For Product Marketing There are so many ways to use rich content to grow your following and ultimately fill the sales pipeline with high quality leads. You might also like: Free eBook: Top-Down Customer Discovery – Uncovering THE BIG WHY!

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The Product Guy

FEBRUARY 3, 2019

For a great introduction, download Intercom’s Jobs To Be Done eBook. In this post, I include three tips for product managers new to JTBD style interviews, written by someone (me) who just completed his first round of JTBD interviews. Great JTBD resources for beginners: Intercom on Jobs To Be Done (eBook). Better Products.

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Product Management University

JUNE 8, 2023

In other words, find out THE BIG WHY behind the adoption of your product. JTBD – The Common Thread From Product Management to Customer Success Product managers and customer success managers should be joined at the hip for a host of reasons. Customer outcomes are the centerpiece.

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Revulytics

NOVEMBER 3, 2017

In part one of our “Building Better Applications with Software Analytics” series we look at specific use cases for software usage analytics in “Take the Guesswork Out of Product Management.”.

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Product Management University

SEPTEMBER 10, 2023

As the customer success manager (CSM) role evolves into more of a strategic customer leadership role versus a tactical reactionary role, it’s critical to build relationships with customer executives, and in most cases, it’s not as difficult as you think. Relationships with customer executives aren’t only critical to customer success managers.

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Revulytics

OCTOBER 25, 2017

Valdsgaard offers inspiring guidance for product managers – to consider, for a moment, how new technology is fueling our ambitions when it comes to developing and delivering amazing products. We need to point ourselves toward becoming a customer-obsessed product management organization. But do you have insight?

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ProductBoard

JUNE 9, 2020

This post is an excerpt from our ebook, “Building excellent products in the age of remote work,” written to help you overcome today’s unique challenges and focus on what really matters—building excellent products that customers truly need.

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Product Innovation Educators

FEBRUARY 22, 2021

How product managers can work backwards to amazing products. In a few weeks, the name of this podcast will be changing to Product Masters Now. To be a better product manager, it is worthwhile to examine organizations known for their product management capabilities. Amazon is such a company.

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ProductBoard

JANUARY 28, 2019

In our free eBook, The Path to Product Excellence: Stories and Advice from the Field , Braden Kowitz presents the above scenario that Product Managers experience on a daily basis. This all just leads to worse product decisions.”. Why is feature X not being used? How do we get revenue up?

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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. The extent to which stakeholders get behind your product vision has everything to do with how the product vision is articulated. What is a Product Vision? Why is a Product Vision Important?

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ProductPlan

JUNE 16, 2022

In the years leading up to the pandemic, there was already a notable increase in demand for product managers. And as organizations pivoted to digital spaces, this hunger for product management expertise grew ravenous. Organizations across sectors invested much in the way of building out product teams.

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ProductBoard

DECEMBER 5, 2018

At productboard, we’re inspired by great products and the teams that deliver them, and we’re driven to help educate our customers and community about how everyone can push for product excellence.

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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. Some of it is cultural, and some of it is personal, but how you treat authority impacts your ability to lead. Here is how.

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The Product Coalition

FEBRUARY 18, 2023

Every now and then, early-stage founders approach me to hear about their product idea and give them feedback. This mostly happens with products related to the product space itself — products for product managers and product teams. But in product management that is never true.

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Product Management University

MAY 24, 2023

Free eBook: Top Down Customer Discovery – Uncovering THE BIG WHY! If it’s truly a bottom-up unbudgeted initiative with no compelling event, that should be a red flag to the AE in terms of the amount of time and resources they spend on it. Just remember, salespeople get paid to be hunters and logic doesn’t always prevail.

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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. What do designers expect from a product manager? Just treat them well, and they will do an enormous job to make your product successful.

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Centercode

SEPTEMBER 3, 2019

Being a product manager means getting asked a lot of questions. Being a great product manager? The desire to know more about your product, your business, and your customers is a unifying trait within the product management field. Lauren Chan Lee, Director of Product Management at Care.com.

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Under 10 Consulting

DECEMBER 28, 2019

You’re in your first days as a product manager. Before the demands of others overwhelm you, you need to prepare yourself to be the business and market liaison to the product team. Your role as a product manager or product owner is to make the best business decisions for the product, working from the best available information.

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Gainsight

JANUARY 6, 2023

We compiled our best product experience resources from last year, including blogs, ebooks, webinars, and more. This list is filled with the help you need to deliver the ultimate product experience for your customers. Product Experience . Are Product Managers Chief Executives of Their Product?

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The Product Coalition

MARCH 19, 2023

Product management is a creative job in the deepest sense: We create products. But the level at which we need to do so changes dramatically over the course of a product person’s career, and the transition is not always easy. Here are three levels — each relevant to a different stage in your career and your product.

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