The Product Coalition

FEBRUARY 25, 2024

Have you ever zoned out mid-conversation, fingers itching for your phone, brain choreographing your next groundbreaking product feature? We all have. But in the whirlwind world of product management, where ideas zip around like bees in a garden, there’s a superpower often overlooked: active listening. This article delves into why active listening is an indispensable tool in your product management arsenal and how it can profoundly influence your approach to user engagement, team collaboration, a

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Roman Pichler

FEBRUARY 19, 2024

Listen to the audio version of this article: [link] Introduction To discuss empowerment in product management, I find it helpful to distinguish three main levels of decision-making authority, product delivery, product discovery, and product strategy, as the model in Figure 1 shows. [1] Figure 1: An Empowerment Model for Product People and Teams Level one represents the authority to decide how features are detailed and guide their implementation.

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Mind the Product

FEBRUARY 13, 2024

This article offers practical advice on what data you should gather from your Go-to-market teams, like sales and customer success teams. Read more » The post Getting data from GTM teams- a guide for product managers appeared first on Mind the Product.

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NextBigWhat

FEBRUARY 13, 2024

a16z ‘s GP, Anish Acharya has an interesting take on what it will take for an AI consumer startup to be super successful. “If it’s weird and working, it’s exactly where we want to invest…Weird products tend to win.” Extreme products win. Always! Successful consumer products have strong “word of mouth” virality due to surprising […] The post Weird x Working = ?

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ProductPlan

FEBRUARY 9, 2024

Sticking to inflexible annual planning cycles can introduce significant challenges in the era of rapid technological advancements. The static nature of traditional product planning cycles fails to consider quickly-improving technologies and unforeseen changes in the market. This approach can be a significant pitfall in today’s fast-paced environment, making your organization vulnerable to missed opportunities and increased risks.

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The Accidental Product Manager

FEBRUARY 26, 2024

The goal is to sell more cars, perhaps software is the key Image Credit: rakyan ‘boyan’ tantular Product managers know that if we want to sell more of their product, we need to find ways to make the product more appealing to our customers. These days, that can be very difficult to do. One of the biggest problems that we are facing is that things change so quickly that it can be very hard to keep a product “current” The features that we put into a product are great at the

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UX Planet

FEBRUARY 20, 2024

Review of seven popular GPTs for product designers You can find these GPTs at [link] and you must have a ChatGPT Plus subscription to use them. This content is also available as video: [link] 1. Canva The first GPT is a Canva. Canva is an online graphic design tool that allows you to quickly create banners, social media posts, and posters. Canva sample prompts.

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Product Management University

FEBRUARY 12, 2024

If you’re looking to climb the product marketing career ladder faster, here are five things you can do that’ll accelerate your climb. 1. Track Record of Year-Over-Year Product Revenue Growth Not to state the obvious here, but product revenue is always top the priority. You already know that. As a product marketer though, this is more about your strategy and execution tactics that lead to year-over-year revenue growth.

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Mixpanel

FEBRUARY 2, 2024

One of the biggest challenges of building a product is that your users often don’t know what features they want or need. They just know what outcome they want to achieve by using the product. Even when users think they know what they want, they may not always be right. It’s only after they’ve made a feature request, you’ve shipped it, and they’ve tried it out that they realize, “Oh wait, that’s not the outcome I expected.

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Speaker: Ian Hillis, SVP of Growth at Payrix and Worldpay for Platforms

Join us for an exclusive webinar hosted by Ian Hillis, SVP of Growth at Payrix and Worldpay for Platforms, where he’ll explore the significant impact of embedded finance on the software industry! This session is designed to provide you with the strategic insights needed to navigate the future of SaaS successfully, all while gaining a deeper understanding of how these trends can enhance your competitive edge, boost revenue, and deepen customer loyalty.

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Product Talk

FEBRUARY 28, 2024

Continuous discovery is not a linear journey—as much as we might want it to be. Like a lot of learning, it often feels messy and chaotic. Continuous discovery is not a linear journey—as much as we might want it to be. Like a lot of learning, it often feels messy and chaotic. – Tweet This But if you stick with it, you may eventually find you can look back and see how much you’ve progressed.

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The Product Coalition

FEBRUARY 3, 2024

With its celebratory blend of Virgin Island and Polish culture, Wladek Wagner still attracts sailors to the British Virgin Islands (BVI)… Continue reading on Product Coalition »

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Mind the Product

FEBRUARY 1, 2024

This article details how diverse teams drive 45% more revenue from innovation, and intentional design sparks extraordinary ideas. Read more » The post How diverse teams unlock product innovation appeared first on Mind the Product.

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Lenny Rachitsky

FEBRUARY 20, 2024

👋 Hey, Lenny here! Welcome to this month’s ✨ free edition ✨ of Lenny’s Newsletter. Each week I tackle reader questions about building product, driving growth, and accelerating your career. If you’re not a subscriber, here’s what you missed this month: My favorite decision-making frameworks Why you should add a work trial to your interview process The ultimate guide to willingness-to-pay Subscribe now P.S.

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Product Management University

FEBRUARY 1, 2024

You followed the textbook process for uncovering an unmet market need, justified the financial investment and successfully released product version 1 to market with great success. So, what’s the problem? The problem is you’re just getting started while the majority of your stakeholders are blissfully dusting off their hands thinking it’s done and eager to tackle the next product idea with carbon-copy expectations of success.

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Andrew Chen

FEBRUARY 26, 2024

(Above: No, it doesn’t really look like this — and yes it’s mostly office parks and tech billboards. But I like to pretend) You’ll never regret spending time in SF If you work in tech, you’ll never regret spending 3-5 years in the Bay Area. This is advice I’ve been giving to people for years, and it’s shaped by my own experience — after all, I moved to the Bay Area in 2007 and it completely changed my life.

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Product Talk

FEBRUARY 7, 2024

The larger and more complex your company is, the more challenging it can be to introduce continuous discovery. It’s not just about training people to conduct interviews , use opportunity solution trees , or test assumptions —though those are all important activities—it’s also about convincing them of the value of these activities and getting the people they work with on board as well.

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The Product Coalition

FEBRUARY 23, 2024

This article is tailored for product managers eager to excel in interviews focusing on product sense and execution. In product management , it’s crucial to discern genuine expertise from merely holding a job title. The title “product manager” is often misapplied within the technology sector, leading to a disconnect between role expectations and actual responsibilities.

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Speaker: Leslie Grandy, Product Executive & Drew Weaver, Senior Program Manager

Effective management of multiple product teams necessitates a skillful coordination and guidance with the objective of aligning efforts towards shared goals. This entails constant communication, efficient task management, and ensuring that each team aligns with the broader organizational objectives. We can think about this like conducting an orchestra, where diverse efforts are harmonized toward a unified outcome. 🎯 Proficiency in these skills empowers product managers to navigate comple

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Mind the Product

FEBRUARY 27, 2024

Join us on this week's podcast for a conversation with Nesrine Changuel, Senior Product Manager at Google, as she shares key insights on how we can delight users. Read more » The post Effective ways to delight users: Nesrine Changuel (Google, Skype, Spotify) appeared first on Mind the Product.

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Amplitude

FEBRUARY 6, 2024

Learn how we’ve strengthened the power of Amplitude's Digital Analytics Platform with the addition of Session Replay and Experiment for web.

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Product Innovation Educators

FEBRUARY 19, 2024

Market research essentials for product managers Today we are talking about the knowledge area called market research. How do you know that the product you’re developing will actually create value for customers, that they’ll love it, and that they’ll buy it? Have you done the right things to have confidence of these outcomes, or are you wishfully guessing?

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freshtrax

FEBRUARY 28, 2024

Kit Kat , a globally recognized chocolate brand, has not only won the hearts of chocolate lovers worldwide but has also achieved remarkable success in the Japanese market. The journey of Kit Kat in Japan is a fascinating tale of cultural adaptation, innovative marketing strategies, and a bit of serendipity. In this article, we explore how Kit Kat made its mark in Japan, turning a simple chocolate bar into a cultural phenomenon.

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Speaker: Maher Hanafi, VP of Engineering at Betterworks & Tony Karrer, CTO at Aggregage

Executive leaders and board members are pushing their teams to adopt Generative AI to gain a competitive edge, save money, and otherwise take advantage of the promise of this new era of artificial intelligence. There's no question that it is challenging to figure out where to focus and how to advance when it’s a new field that is evolving everyday. 💡 This new webinar featuring Maher Hanafi, VP of Engineering at Betterworks, will explore a practical framework to transform Generative AI pr

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Product Talk

FEBRUARY 14, 2024

There are all kinds of ways to introduce continuous discovery habits. If you’ve been at your company for a while, you might get inspired after reading a book or attending a conference. If you’re joining a new company, you might want to try a new tactic out with your new team. And if you’re really excited about an idea, you might look for opportunities to share it outside your company with the broader product community.

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The Product Coalition

FEBRUARY 29, 2024

Let’s talk confidently about how to select the perfect LLM companion for your project. Special thanks to: My co-author Narasimha Krishna Kumar. The AI landscape is buzzing with Large Language Models (LLMs) like GPT-4, Llama2, and Gemini, each promising linguistic prowess. But navigating this linguistic labyrinth to choose the right LLM for your product can feel daunting.Fear not, language adventurers!

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Mind the Product

FEBRUARY 19, 2024

We talk to Google's Head of Product Inclusion Annie Jean-Baptiste about her experience to date and how to inspire diversity in the workplace. Read more » The post Building diverse products: A conversation with Annie Jean-Baptiste, product leader at Google appeared first on Mind the Product.

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The Accidental Product Manager

FEBRUARY 5, 2024

Products made for older customers are getting a makeover Image Credit: Katie Mims Who do you sell your product to? Is there a possibility that your product is being used by older customers? If this is the case, what you have done to make it easy for them to use your product? If the answer is “nothing”, then you are like many other product managers who have not taken the time to study their customers and customize their products for their unique needs.

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Speaker: Jason Tanner

While growth of software-enabled solutions generates momentum, growth alone is not enough to ensure sustainability. The probability of success dramatically improves with early planning for profitability. A sustainable business model contains a system of interrelated choices made not once but over time. Join this webinar for an iterative approach to ensuring solution, economic and relationship sustainability.

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