The Product Coalition

NOVEMBER 17, 2024

Photo by Maick Maciel on Unsplash Getting your product team to take full ownership often feels like an uphill battle. the VP of Product at a fast-growing scale-up, we tackled a challenge nearly every product leader faces: how to inspire their team to truly take ownership. In a recent session with H.,

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Alchemer Mobile

MARCH 17, 2020

Mobile product managers no longer simply oversee the product backlog or just organize their team’s tasks. In 2020, PMs play a massive role in product strategy and determining the overall customer experience. Product managers are now being seen as leaders within their organizations rather than independent contributors.

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The Product Coalition

AUGUST 14, 2022

Bad Feedback Doesn’t Always Mean Your Product Is Bad Bad product feedback is a bummer. But contrary to what you might think, it doesn’t always mean your product is bad. Here is a quick guide to strategic thinking about product feedback. The feedback on all three talks was great.

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The Product Coalition

MARCH 27, 2022

This little gardening exercise and the patience it required led me to think about the things in our daily work as product leaders that simply take time, and there is nothing we can do to speed up the process. It was a lengthy process, with quite a few trials and errors, until we found the right strategy. Here are 3 such examples.

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The Product Coalition

AUGUST 16, 2020

SplitShire-London-Collection-210062 When I work with companies on sharpening the value proposition and refining the product strategy, one of our information sources for the process is their existing customers. Who they are, why they chose to work with the company, what value they are getting out of the product, etc.

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The Product Coalition

NOVEMBER 27, 2022

Your product will always have bugs, and you will always need to chase and fix the important ones. But sometimes, the really important bugs are not showing in the product itself. These are bugs in your product strategy, and if not fixed, it will be very difficult for your product to succeed.

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Centercode

JUNE 4, 2019

Was it entirely in the name of research? Below is a summary of our discussion on the testing strategies that bring delightful VR products to market. You can’t get a holistic view of a commercial product by testing it before it’s feature complete. I’ll let you decide that one.

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The Product Coalition

JUNE 18, 2023

Everyone wants to be product-led these days. But does that mean that you are doing product-led growth? Here is a disambiguation guide to help you understand what product-led growth really means, and what it doesn’t. I knew what I really wanted to do, and the way I understood the term ‘product consulting’ described it quite well.

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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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The Product Coalition

OCTOBER 26, 2020

The role of the product leader goes far beyond managing the product department. Here is your true responsibility as a product leader, so that it’s no longer a secret. Photo by JOSHUA COLEMAN on Unsplash Most of the CEOs I work with, understand that the role of the product leader is very important. It makes perfect sense.

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Product Management University

SEPTEMBER 18, 2024

It’s designed to ensure that your products don’t just help users but make a measurable impact at every level of the customer’s organization, from the C-suite to the department heads to the front lines. Of course, every product company wants users to love their products—no surprise there. The concept is pretty simple.

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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? What is a Product Vision? Your product vision shouldn’t.

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The Product Coalition

JULY 2, 2022

It brings the best practices of the greatest product companies out there to all of you, based on what I heard from Marty and the other SVPG partners during the workshop. They are not even Amazon and Google which were born as tech product companies and are now large corporates (that have major product centers in Israel as well).

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The Product Coalition

SEPTEMBER 14, 2020

Spend an adequate amount of time researching the answers to the questions above. You need to research deep because what you see on the surface isn’t going to give you the answers. As a product leader, this creates chaos that is very hard to deal with ?—?for If you are unable to explain it on paper, it won’t work in reality.

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The Product Coalition

OCTOBER 18, 2020

A good product strategy helps you to acquire happy customers and retain them over time. Here is how product strategy helps you overcome them. Photo by Braden Collum on Unsplash Working on product strategy is an iterative process. In business, and in product specifically, this is very different.

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The Product Coalition

SEPTEMBER 19, 2021

Each one ran a series of tests over a few hours, and told me I’m a good fit for the surgery. As a product leader, you must define not only the problem you are solving but also for whom. Understanding which customer profile is ideal for you is super important in your ability to create a successful product.

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The Product Coalition

MAY 30, 2021

Your journey to product-led growth starts way before you actually launch the product, but it definitely doesn’t end there. Here are the things to keep in mind when your product meets the road. Photo by Pixabay from Pexels Product-led growth (PLG) is an exciting movement. Measure the entire journey, not just the product.

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The Product Coalition

MARCH 12, 2023

Hiring a product leader is never easy. Here are a few things to consider when you seek your next product leader. Photo by Mark Rabe on Unsplash When I started Infinify five years ago, I announced that I am offering product consulting services. That’s what the word ‘product’ meant to most of them.

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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. Every new product has its own fit to find. 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”.

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ProductPlan

JANUARY 7, 2022

But if you’re responsible for the success of your company’s products, you can’t just relax. Better to learn now how influential product leaders do it so that you can make these moves proactively. What’s Product Management’s Role in Digital Transformation? What Is Digital Transformation?

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The Product Coalition

DECEMBER 31, 2023

As a product leader, your role entails much more than leading the product itself. Photo by Pixabay I recently led a product-market fit workshop at a known company in the Israeli tech industry. Photo by Pixabay I recently led a product-market fit workshop at a known company in the Israeli tech industry.

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The Product Coalition

JUNE 19, 2022

Here are my best tips for productive, deep work from home. As product managers who are constantly in meetings and get questions from all around, this is critical. One of my best tips for doing deep product work used to be to work from home. market research, customer insights, backlog grooming, etc.?

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The Product Coalition

DECEMBER 5, 2021

Product leadership is about finding the right business opportunities to accomplish with the right product. Last month, for example, I met a startup, which had a good indication from the market that their initial product direction was viable. My free e-book “ Speed-Up the Journey to Product-Market Fit ”?—?an

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Under 10 Consulting

JANUARY 2, 2020

ProductOps is a specialized role that normalizes the product function across all products and services. When a company is small, the product manager (by whatever title) is responsible for activities across the entire product life cycle—from ideation to market delivery and sales support. product strategy.

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The Product Coalition

APRIL 18, 2021

Where do big creative ideas come from, and how important is this skill for product leaders? Some takeaways for you from a product interview I had at Google many years ago. 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.

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The Product Coalition

JANUARY 21, 2024

Product leadership is such a hard role, one of the hardest. thepaintedsquare from Unsplash As a board member at ProductX  — the largest product conference in Israel — I met last week with a guest speaker to prepare his talk at the upcoming conference. In my case, the MBA greatly contributed to the shift I made into product management.

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The Product Coalition

JANUARY 2, 2022

Product leaders and CEOs tend to have complicated relationships because of the obvious overlap in their responsibilities. Managing your CEO is one of the most important skills that you can master as a product leader. If you don’t do that, your connection with them could suffer, and you might get frustrated as a product leader.

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UX Studio: Product Management

OCTOBER 26, 2017

If you work with products, it will become your best friend (OK, maybe just a regular friend whom you keep telling it to). So yeah, getting new users rocks, but don’t neglect the current ones; the product will thank you later. Now, more excitingly, use this number for bigger picture strategy planning. Retention’s Importance.

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Userpilot

JUNE 29, 2022

Did you know that product storytelling increases the chances of your product being remembered by 2200% ? Customers are more likely to remember your product if you tell them a compelling story. But as a product manager , creating a story that will capture a customer’s attention might not be in your wheelhouse.

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The Product Coalition

FEBRUARY 11, 2024

Photo by Iain Kennedy on Unsplash When I was a product lead at Imperva, there was a feature that engineering kept telling me required a rewrite. As a product manager or leader, you should always create your own customer advisory board , just less formally. Some even need to be left untouched. Its entire architecture was bad.

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ProductPlan

OCTOBER 26, 2021

Product professionals get paid to manage products and services. But this single-minded focus on helping others often leads to a lack of focus on ourselves and our career impact in the product field. And, unlike our products, no one’s getting paid to manage our careers on our behalf. Interesting.

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The Product Coalition

OCTOBER 30, 2022

Her research and planning are so thorough, that she knows exactly which roads have sunsets you don’t want to miss and which activities happen only on the second Sunday of each third month, which happens to be precisely when she is there. Product development is such an uncertain world, both from the outside and from within.

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Good Product Manager

AUGUST 2, 2018

It’s been a while since I’ve posted, but that doesn’t mean I haven’t been busy writing and doing other things related to product management, of course — here’s an update! August 8 in Denver: Product Strategy on a Page. October 2 in Cleveland: Product Management Leadership.

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Good Product Manager

AUGUST 2, 2018

It’s been a while since I’ve posted, but that doesn’t mean I haven’t been busy writing and doing other things related to product management, of course — here’s an update! August 8 in Denver: Product Strategy on a Page. October 2 in Cleveland: Product Management Leadership.

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The Product Coalition

JUNE 28, 2020

You invested in research, clearly outlined your assumptions, and made sure all the dots are connected. You presented it to everyone relevant and got great feedback. You have a strategy, you are just unable to make progress with it. The alternative is not having a solid product strategy, and that’s a debt much harder to close.

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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. Have we planned the right products?

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Revulytics

OCTOBER 12, 2018

An interesting question was recently posed to respondents of the Pragmatic Marketing 2018 Product Management and Marketing survey: “If you could say one thing to your CEO without fear of retribution, what would it be?”. By comparison, respondents said they spent nearly half the month managing email and attending meetings.

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