The Product Coalition

DECEMBER 29, 2022

Pretend you’re a hiring manager looking for the next PM to help drive your digital finance product. You have two candidates on your radar who have differing profiles, with each featuring their own respective repertoires: Product Manager A has 3 years of experience , with 2 of them focusing on a previous finance-related business.

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Amplitude

OCTOBER 30, 2020

A large part of their success can be attributed to effective cross-functional data leadership. How is the product and engineering team using data? How is data helping finance and legal make better forecasts? 3 Keys to Strong Cross-Functional Data Leadership. Maura’s closing advice for cross-functional data leadership?

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The Product Coalition

NOVEMBER 30, 2023

The business economics and finance piece is unfamiliar to many product managers therefore causing discomfort and then getting deprioritized or ignored altogether. For some product managers, this might mean spending time with the finance team and in finance meetings.

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Mironov Consulting

DECEMBER 5, 2023

  And possibly helpful to Finance, responding to investors’ demands for a hypothetical 2-year cash flow forecast.    But it’s of zero help to Product, Engineering, Marketing, or other organizations that need to make choices about the few critical things we’ll do next year.  

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Product Management Unpacked

JULY 9, 2020

Pendo’s chief product officer shares his take on product management leadership. “If You’re trying to show them how to think critically, and how to make trade-offs, and how to challenge engineers or challenge design in the right way.”. At first, he had little passion for software.

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Ronke PM

AUGUST 16, 2023

Table of Contents Technical Support Customer Success/Relationship Managers Marketing Sales Team Data Scientist Finance UX Researcher UX Designer Content Designers and Conversational Designers Engineering Legal Security (IT) PMO (Product Management Office) (Bonus!) Finance One of my favorite teams to partner up with is finance.

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The Product Coalition

FEBRUARY 3, 2022

You see, whenever I would join a new company, I would spend much of my time meeting with engineering, sales, product management, and design marketing leaders and support. Engineering driven. This is where roadmaps are driven by technology innovation, led by engineering (of course). OK, it’s really two questions in one.)

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Bain Public

OCTOBER 18, 2022

Powered by Highline Beta, Station Fintech Accelerator is a 4-month program designed to help the growth of FinTech startups by introducing them to targeted connections in large corporations, insurance companies, investors and service providers within the Finance Montreal Ecosystem.

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Product Management University

APRIL 12, 2021

Now you’re ready to meet your team and your peers in engineering, marketing, sales, services, etc. Identify and execute action items required to establish stronger working relationships with engineering, marketing, sales, finance and customer success teams. Meet Your Team and Your Peers. Create Your To-Do List.

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The Product Coalition

SEPTEMBER 28, 2022

Managers who are able to clearly articulate what a strategy is, the differences between strategy, goals and actions are better able to manage people, build trust with leadership and achieve better outcomes. In your job (Head of Product), actions would be the responsibility of your Product Managers, Design and Engineers.

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Product Innovation Educators

MAY 22, 2023

Then when I heard his backstory in technology leadership roles at Xerox and Experian and the challenges he encountered with product roadmaps, I was eager to invite him to be a guest on this podcast. Many of the tools product managers use on a day-to-day basis are engineering-focused ticketing systems. Engineering had a lot of power.

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Mind the Product

DECEMBER 13, 2018

Before joining Rabbit, Amanda was Chief Data & Strategy Officer at HotelTonight, the leading mobile app for last-minute hotel bookings, where she led data analytics, corporate strategy, and data engineering to create and execute data-driven growth strategies. Product Leadership. Todd Lombardo, Head of Product & Experience.

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Atlassian

FEBRUARY 18, 2022

In Leadership. Example from finance team member working cross functionally: “I’ve learned a lot about marketing a product — about how and why we make decisions.”. How does leadership style affect psychological safety? You won’t get punished for disagreeing with the boss’s idea or suggesting a new one that doesn’t work out.

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The Product HQ

MAY 10, 2024

Start by building a strong foundation in software development or engineering, and complement this with experience in managing products or projects. This includes earning a relevant degree, gaining technical experience in roles such as software engineer, and building product management skills through on-the-job experience or targeted training.

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Product Management University

NOVEMBER 6, 2018

Marketing, sales, engineering, client services and others expect product management to be more knowledgeable on the markets and customers than all other functions collectively. Ideally, you have exposure to business operations in HR, IT, finance, operations, etc., Knowledge of the customer and strong leadership go hand in hand.

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DISQO

JULY 18, 2019

There’s a fascinating discussion on Quora that highlights many widely agreed upon best practices for product leadership. Product leadership requires strategic thinking and strong communication skills. This articles covers the education, experience, and skills, that it takes to rise to a product leadership role. .

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DISQO

JULY 18, 2019

There’s a fascinating discussion on Quora that highlights many widely agreed upon best practices for product leadership. Product leadership requires strategic thinking and strong communication skills. This articles covers the education, experience, and skills, that it takes to rise to a product leadership role. .

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The Product Guy

FEBRUARY 27, 2020

The sales team and leadership promised the clients to deliver the product without having any discussion with the engineering team. The product and the engineering team did not get the opportunity to conduct a feasibility study. The Aviation Authority and leadership were appalled by our product. No one liked the product.

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Roy Madden

APRIL 4, 2022

Market Intelligence Speed up your market intelligence by 70% with (Feedly) AI Feeds The core of Feedly for Market Intelligence is an AI engine, that automatically gathers, analyzes, and prioritizes intelligence from millions of sources in real-time.

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The Product Coalition

AUGUST 17, 2021

Relationships with users, designers, engineers, executives, finance, legal, marketing, partners, and so on are all key to a product manager succeeding, and a product being successful. Ryan speaks frequently about creating software products, growing services firms, and leadership.

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UX Studio: Product Management

JUNE 22, 2021

Today there is a new school of leadership emerging to remove this frustration. It’s called empowering leadership. This leadership style encourages leaders to give freedom and responsibility to people and stop controlling and micromanaging them. If done right, empowering leadership can free up a lot of time for managers.

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Mironov Consulting

DECEMBER 31, 2019

For those of us who’ve stepped into the Head of Product role a dozen times or more, these are clear indications that senior product leadership is missing. Search firms bring us Engineering VPs, GMs, branding agency leads, agile coaches, sales execs… interesting folks who have never lead a product team or been a product manager.

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Intercom, Inc.

OCTOBER 1, 2020

Sales, marketing, finance, support, and R&D all use the roadmap for different thing. Sales want to sell it, marketing needs to plan for it, finance needs to model it, support needs to be able to explain it, and R&D needs to be excited about it. As you grow functions, the audience for your roadmap widens.

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Intercom, Inc.

OCTOBER 1, 2020

Sales, marketing, finance, support, and R&D all use the roadmap for different thing. Sales want to sell it, marketing needs to plan for it, finance needs to model it, support needs to be able to explain it, and R&D needs to be excited about it. As you grow functions, the audience for your roadmap widens.

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Product Management Unpacked

APRIL 25, 2019

This is where you need to establish yourself, your leadership style and your presence. In my experience, start with core constituents – your immediate team, leaders of development/engineering, sales, followed by top customers. Your first 100 days in your new product leadership position sets the tone. Who should you start with?

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Mind the Product

FEBRUARY 5, 2019

Product experts have tried to tackle this issue but they gloss over the impact a company’s structure and leadership team have on product/market fit. For many consumer packaged goods (CPG) companies, product teams report to marketing, sales, finance, or strategy leads. Finally, timing is a major concern for marketing teams.

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Gainsight

JANUARY 25, 2023

Drive cross-functional focus on customer outcomes, value, and experiences Recruit and lead world-class functional executives Recruit, motivate, and retain a higher-performing CCO organization, driving employee engagement, satisfaction, and morale Operationalize a seamless customer journey built on customer value across all functions to increase time (..)

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The Product Coalition

JULY 9, 2022

But if they don’t, then at some point the absence of product leadership will be felt. By showing a finance person that you understand the financial constraints and opportunities of your business, and showing how Product can influence these things, you can help that person understand the scope of your role.

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The Product Coalition

JUNE 5, 2018

Successful project management requires a close working relationship with leadership to ensure each project is aligned with business strategy , even as companies undergo enterprise-wide change. She is also a project leadership coach, facilitator, and speaker helping organizations improve their project leadership capabilities.

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Business of Software Conference

APRIL 13, 2021

In a Cambridge career spanning 25 years Gareth has, at one time or another, managed every part of a software business: HR, sales, product development, engineering, marketing, finance, and IT. Scaling through trust. This will help you identify and and live the values which drive engagement, performance and passion in your business.

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Userpilot

MARCH 8, 2022

Evelyn Ebo is a Nigerian product manager with 9 years of experience in the microfinance industry experience, working cross-functionally with the Business Team (Business Development, Marketing, Finance, and Sales) and the Technical Team (Product Designer, Backend, Frontend Engineers, and Quality Assurance).

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Bain Public

MARCH 20, 2021

Paul’s unique experience brings together the necessity of great engineering and the beauty of product strategy. With this, he has identified an actionable process that enables him to offer concrete messages about product management and operations. The Ecofuel Accelerator is dedicated to help grow clean technology start-ups.

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Mind the Product

MAY 29, 2018

Mind the Product returns to Davies Symphony Hall in San Francisco on July 16-17 and promises to be one of our best product conferences yet, with a leadership forum, more workshops, more networking events around the conference, and more fun than ever before. Leadership Forum. Apply to the Leadership Forum. See you in July!

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PMLesson's Ace the PM Interview

APRIL 26, 2022

Three huge economic sectors employ the majority of data scientists or analysts: finance, insurance and professional services. Data science will only continue to expand as well as more teams begin to use data to make decisions, not just engineering. Exponent Anthony Pellegrino Why Choose a Career in Data Science or Analytics?

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ProductPlan

OCTOBER 16, 2020

Instead, product managers come from many walks of life, including engineering, marketing, project management, or something completely unrelated. Getting your MBA doesn’t make you an expert in finance or economics, or organizational behavior. For some hiring managers, it’s a non-negotiable prerequisite for leadership positions.

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The Product HQ

FEBRUARY 1, 2023

Within this leadership role, group product managers oversee the development of a group of products from the beginning, to its testing stages and eventual product launch onto the market. The principal product manager then shares the contents of the roadmap to the various marketing, design, and engineering teams.

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ProductPlan

NOVEMBER 1, 2022

But compared to established departments like sales, engineering, or finance, product management is a relatively new discipline. Sharpen your finance skills. Seek out a path to owning P&L for a specific product, and if you can’t do that, try to at least work on your finance skills on the side.

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