The Product Coalition

SEPTEMBER 4, 2020

Three years later I became a web application engineer at a startup that built software for military and private industries. I became director of communications, leading the development of intranets and web applications. Designers vs Developers The work culture in this large organization was unlike anything I’d ever experienced.

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Folding Burritos

DECEMBER 7, 2017

As Product Managers, we perfectly understand the need to generate and use customer feedback. This led me to reach out to 14 leading Product Managers and talk with them about how they use customer feedback in their own companies and teams. Feedback is only relevant vs. a goal and user context.

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Userpilot

AUGUST 21, 2023

Looking for the right answers can give you a deeper understanding of how well applicants understand the product management role and whether or not they’re the ideal fit for the position. Product managers often work in cross-functional teams and bridge the gap between multiple departments. What to look for in product managers?

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The Product Coalition

DECEMBER 21, 2021

Unfortunately internal promotion isn’t always positive A quick disclaimer: I’m a huge advocate of career development and internal promotion. They do not set the menu, cook the food or plate it up for customers. What are the experienced chefs doing, and how does the kitchen work as a team? Customer feedback ?—?what

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The Product Guy

FEBRUARY 27, 2020

At JCDecaux, I led the development of an information kiosk for airport passengers. The kiosks are interactive devices that provide concession, flight, point of interest and flight information to the passenger. Passengers are also able to view hotel information and use the devices to speak to the sales team of the hotel.

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Product Management University

DECEMBER 2, 2022

These terms might even be used interchangeably in your organization to describe a product’s customers. However, user personas and buyer personas are distinctly different. Improving the performance of one or more departments then has a measurable impact on the customer organization’s strategic goals (buyer persona).

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PMLesson's Ace the PM Interview

MARCH 15, 2021

You’ve probably also been asked “what’s your greatest strength (or weakness)” once or twice while interviewing for jobs. You may have also read the famous article ‘Good Product Manager/Bad Product Manager’ by Ben Horowitz. Interview example: “I strive to be a data-driven decision maker for my teams.

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Mind the Product

OCTOBER 8, 2018

Horrified, he began working to create more affordable and safe products, ultimately reverse-engineering existing solutions and the processes that went into their creation. So, a product manager should clearly identify their position in the product lifecycle and map out their market research strategies accordingly.

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ProductPlan

MARCH 3, 2022

Product-centric and customer-centric approaches shift the emphasis away from pure technology innovation and project-based management. Understanding the difference between product-centric vs. customer-centric can help your product-centric organization focus on creating and augmenting innovative products. Customer centricity.

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Mixpanel

JANUARY 12, 2023

We’ve run dozens of customer interviews, analyzed our competitors, tracked our customer lifecycle, and aligned with the company vision: now we’re finally ready to write copy. It’s absolutely rooted in the empirical data that gives an objective understanding of your customers’ paint points and desires.

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Userpilot

JANUARY 29, 2023

Developing features without validation results in bloated products and unnecessarily drives the cost of development up. Product teams should invest in validation when developing the MVP. If your users respond well to them, you can iterate on them and develop them incrementally.

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Intercom, Inc.

AUGUST 15, 2019

If an organization’s founders aren’t designers and don’t come from a background where well-designed products played a key role in their lives, it can often be the last discipline to be brought onboard the team. Here are five quick takeaways: You must establish deep empathy for the customer. Short on time? Focus on outcomes over output.

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The Product Guy

MAY 7, 2020

Hence it is critical that one is aware of the best practises of the role and develops his own philosophy which results into maximum positive leverage for the organization. Also, in various organizations which have grown in product maturity, customer base etc., This is my motivation behind writing this article.

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Userpilot

NOVEMBER 21, 2023

Product launch checklists help align the efforts of all team members, enhance quality assurance, help mitigate risks, enable the evaluation of the launch, and help you deliver a better customer experience. Brainstorm ideas on how to solve customer problems in an innovative way and validate them.

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The Product Coalition

DECEMBER 29, 2021

This year I developed a new reading approach, in which I read several books in parallel, usually from different topics. Continuous Discovery (By Teresa Torres ) “Rather than defining your success by the code that you ship (your output), you define success as the value that code creates for your customers and your business (the outcomes).” “An

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Mind the Product

DECEMBER 11, 2017

Three years later I became a web application engineer at a startup that built software for military and private industries. I became director of communications, leading the development of intranets and web applications. Designers vs Developers. Tension between designers and developers was palpable.

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Intercom, Inc.

APRIL 22, 2019

Some think customers will see the advent of AI as a welcome way to get self-help quickly and get back to their task. Others worry that AI will worsen the customer experience as more and more companies use it to save costs. He joined me for a conversation on tackling issues that come up as you scale your customer experience.

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Mind the Product

APRIL 27, 2017

Some are moving away from detailed, written product requirements documents (PRDs), while others are using shorter write-ups, user stories, or jobs-to-be-done formats. Some product teams are moving away from written PRDs to visual artifacts like mockups and prototypes. Eric Ries, in his post “What is customer development?

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Userpilot

NOVEMBER 14, 2022

The key to business success is to choose the right niche as you want to focus on the most profitable customers that fit your business best. The good news is that SEO can help make that process much easier by giving you the insights your team needs to pick a profitable niche and scale your business. But how do you find that niche?

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Userpilot

MARCH 18, 2021

A successful customer retention strategy requires constant iteration and innovation to keep up with an ever-changing SaaS market environment. It’s also not like customer retention is the business of only one department. We have also asked experts from each department about their Customer Retention Strategy – so let’s dive in!

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PMLesson's Ace the PM Interview

FEBRUARY 7, 2022

Talk to Users & Customers ?? Your First 30, 60, 90 Days as a PM Checklist Common Mistakes Made in Early Days as a PM Talk to Users & Customers: Understand Their Pain Points Abstract by Oleg Shcherba Your first order of business as a new product manager should be talking to customers!

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Mind the Product

AUGUST 19, 2019

Secondly, as great product managers are also great capacity builders for their teams, you should start looking for opportunities that AI can present for your product. Could we make the user experience safer? Spam engines are the most famous example here but there is much more. Imagine that you’re going to a coffee shop.

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Intercom, Inc.

NOVEMBER 17, 2022

Alina Vandenberghe is the Co-Founder and Co-CEO of Chili Piper , an inbound conversion software that helps sales teams automatically schedule appointments and instantly turn leads into qualified meetings. Although she was a product manager, she’d experienced sales first-hand growing up and had spent many hours studying revenue teams.

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UserVoice

JULY 31, 2017

The customer onboarding process is a vital stop on the path to customer happiness and product success. In This Article: Why Gather Product Feedback During New Customer Onboarding? Forget Your Customers, What Are Your Account Manager’s Pain Points? 5 Easy Ways To Collect Feedback During Onboarding.

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People-First Product Leadership

DECEMBER 20, 2023

Product Vision puts a company’s Vision and Mission into action The Product Vision ensures the Roadmap reflects the priorities which matter the most to the company’s customers and to the company. To establish the Product Vision, I recommend taking time as a Product team to reflect both on the past and on the future.

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Bain Public

DECEMBER 5, 2022

Through research on thousands of product managers, she pioneered the practical professional development approach that anchors product managers with the five skills most important for their professional success. She is Faculty at Johns Hopkins University Whiting School of Engineering, teaching graduate level product management courses.

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UX Studio: Product Management

JULY 5, 2021

As a client, you invest your time, energy, and limited resources into your digital product development. As a design agency that works with NYC companies , we have developed an effective remote collaboration process that helps us stay in touch with our partners despite time zone differences. Is there anything we can help you with?

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ProductPlan

DECEMBER 4, 2019

Situation: You’ve painstakingly constructed a roadmap after consulting with various stakeholders, the development team, and your peers. Remember, they’re dealing with board members, investors , and customers who may be applying pressure. Even the boss has a boss, not to mention demanding customers. Sympathize.

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Userzoom

DECEMBER 17, 2019

Armed with the proper tools, guidance and methods of communication, you should be able to convince anyone within your organisation about the value of user research and the positive impact it will have on the bottom line – without resorting to cattle-prods, lies or locking yourself in the stationery cupboard and having a very loud cry.

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Userpilot

JUNE 9, 2021

A Product Manager builds the product by identifying customer needs and creating specifications for developers. They also ensure it fulfills the business’s wider objectives, do the initial research, user interviews, and collect user feedback and data. Their role is all about user needs. TL;DR – Post Summary.

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The Product Coalition

OCTOBER 15, 2019

Are you willing to shape it and head straight to the development process? In this article, we’ll help you distinguish the starting and end points for the product development and guide you through the MVP, MMP, MLP, MDP, and MAP startup stages. test your concept’s problem/solution fit with potential customers.

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UX Studio

APRIL 6, 2023

This includes UX redesign, UX consulting , UX audit, product discovery, and UX training for teams. We’ll be in touch with you to discuss your challenges further, and to come up with a custom solution for you! They provide custom web design services that help clients achieve their brand and digital marketing objectives.

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UX Studio

APRIL 6, 2023

This includes UX redesign, UX consulting , UX audit, product discovery, and UX training for teams. We’ll be in touch with you to discuss your challenges further, and to come up with a custom solution for you! They provide custom web design services that help clients achieve their brand and digital marketing objectives.

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Product Innovation Educators

SEPTEMBER 10, 2018

You need to first build your social capital and get to know everyone on the team and what the pain points are. People often think that product management is a management position where you are managing people. We do come up with ideas, but they should be driven by data and user feedback.

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Mind the Product

FEBRUARY 12, 2020

A healthy relationship between product management and engineering is critical to building successful products. It’s also essential to creating a team where great people want to work. Except, we live in the real world where life is messy, responsibilities overlap, specifications change, and the way teams interact can introduce friction.

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Product Talk

MARCH 1, 2023

I realize that many product people have never worked in a product trio , don’t have access to customers, aren’t given time to test their ideas, and are working in what Marty Cagan calls “features teams” or “delivery teams.” If you missed the first one on product success and team satisfaction , be sure to start there.

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The Product Coalition

JUNE 8, 2018

Apptimize helps teams develop better digital products with easy to deploy SDKs and a centralized dashboard for all channels. The first thing mobile teams need to understand without a shadow of a doubt is the differences between a mobile website, a hybrid app, and a native app. You know that it’s not about just having an app.

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