The Product Coalition

NOVEMBER 2, 2021

A Technical Exercise In this post, I’ll offer my idea of the sort of technical abilities expected from a product manager. This can be highly useful for hiring managers, as well as for PMs planning their roadmap. There’s been so much written, including by myself, about product management interviews. Will it meet the requirements?

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Intercom, Inc.

SEPTEMBER 10, 2020

It’s an approach that’s served him well along the road to building the HubSpot sales team, where he was CRO for nine years. This has created large amounts of data for running teams. . Yet in Mark’s experience working with and mentoring startups, he’s found that many entrepreneurs go with intuition over information.

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The Product Coalition

MARCH 7, 2023

How to prepare for a user interview, all the way to sharing the results with your team. Many companies expect product managers, designers and other roles to be able to deliver good user interviews, but the training is often by trial-and-error. How many times did you place a bet on a sport event this month/week?” “How

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The Accidental Product Manager

MARCH 11, 2019

The end can come for a product manager when they least expect it Credit: Bill Selak. So here’s a quick question for you: what is the shortest time that you’ve ever worked at a product manager job? That’s why I was surprised when I got fired after two weeks on the job at my new product manager position.

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Userpilot

JULY 9, 2021

What are the best product management books to add to your 2021 reading list? We’ve put together a list for you with a few staples from every product manager’s bookshelf and some new releases too. New in – Best New Product Management Books in 2021. Product Management Books #1 – Continuous Discovery Habits [NEW! ].

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Userpilot

APRIL 8, 2021

a high-growth bootstrapped startup – you will know the pain of not always being *able* to make the best design decisions. UX debt affects high-growth SaaS companies in industries where time-to-market is mission-critical and bootstrapped startups without a design team most. A startup founder who wished to remain anonymous).

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Userpilot

MAY 26, 2024

Path Analysis : Userpilot’s path analysis allows you to understand your users’ journey before or after a certain event. Userpilot’s robust analytics tools empower product teams to make data-driven decisions, improve user onboarding processes, and enhance overall user satisfaction and retention. Detailed event tracking.

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PMLesson's Ace the PM Interview

DECEMBER 3, 2020

In 2017, a friend intro’d me to a tiny startup called Indigo Fair. Along the way, I’ve shipped hundreds of products, and managed other PMs. Distinguishing between bad vs. good vs. great answers is key , and seems like an underserved area Write down a framework for how you tackle these problems. I joined as “Head of Analytics” ??

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Userpilot

FEBRUARY 20, 2023

Product analytics tools empower teams to make informed decisions on how to add more value and offer a better user experience. To create funnels, Amplitude recommends using its Pathfinder function which analyzes sequences of events leading up to conversions. How does this sound? Ready to dive in? Pendo Segments.

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Mind the Product

MARCH 24, 2020

We’re running this episode again to remind everyone to take a moment, engage your team, and think through both how the decisions you make now can help and how they can be misused – and then take action to mitigate the latter. Ethical frameworks for product development. Ethical frameworks for product development. *

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The Product Coalition

JANUARY 30, 2019

What is the one skill that all product manager needs? Weeks ago I wrote about a product manager does not need to know how to code. During a conversation with a friend, he asked: “if it is not coding skills, what are the one skill a product manager must have”? I was caught by surprise and struggle to give a good answer.

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The Product Coalition

JULY 13, 2022

Best teams on a budget who need the basics. Advanced record and playback tools enable customer experience (CX) teams to capture user sessions across browsers, interfaces, and devices. So if you’re a mobile app team, consider using a mobile-first analytics platform. Best for AI-powered future outcomes predictions. Learning curve.

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Userpilot

FEBRUARY 21, 2023

TL;DR Heap is a digital insights platform that allows product teams to track user behavior in mobile and web-based applications. In Heap, you can segment users based on their demographics and event completion, while in Pendo you can also use mobile-specific data, like the OS version. Let's jump right into it! Dashboard in Heap.

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Department of Product

OCTOBER 23, 2022

Product Principles – Examples for Product Managers Make decision making easier with inspiration from top product companies Product principles are used by product teams to help guide decision making. Yes, we’re B2B but are we targeting small businesses or enterprise? What colour should our homepage CTA buttons be?

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Mixpanel

NOVEMBER 9, 2020

However, they don’t meet everyone’s data needs—particularly product teams’ BI tools are great at visualizing any data that can be queried from a data warehouse. The relative strengths and weaknesses can be summarized as follows. Analysis depth vs. breadth. Implementation.

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Mixpanel

JANUARY 12, 2023

If you know a thing or two about product development, you’ve heard of the “a-ha” moment. Product and growth managers often build onboarding flows that get users to this moment fast. And while this isn’t bad, it forgets that keyword research is a study of language. If you’re an early-stage startup, clarity is key.

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Nulab

AUGUST 25, 2021

Whether you’re an Olympic runner, an app developer, or a wealthy big-city bachelor, getting to know what’s going on in the world around you is a smart thing to do. from marketing and sales to product development and community building. Plotting their strengths and weaknesses (and your opportunities and threats).

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The Product Coalition

FEBRUARY 5, 2021

Often we talk more about the technical skills, like, portfolio management, being more strategic, etc but being good at those things mean nothing if you can’t build a culture conducive to good product management practices. Aspects which are more on the human skills end of the spectrum and vastly different from being a Product Manager.

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BrainMates

DECEMBER 12, 2019

The gap between rich and poor is widening, and this is causing an increasing disenchantment with the model which has been so successful. As a social entrepreneur with Full Time Lives and in my Product Management consulting work for Brainmates. How does this affect the world of Product Management? And it has got me thinking….

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Userpilot

MARCH 26, 2024

Amplitude Analytics – the best digital analytics tool for event tracking. Sprout Social – the best social media management platform. The path analysis tool in Userpilot enables teams to analyze user behavior by observing the entire customer journey users take inside the product. What is digital analytics? Enterprise.

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Userpilot

MARCH 26, 2024

Amplitude Analytics – the best digital analytics tool for event tracking. Sprout Social – the best social media management platform. The path analysis tool in Userpilot enables teams to analyze user behavior by observing the entire customer journey users take inside the product. What is digital analytics? Enterprise.

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Userpilot

MARCH 26, 2024

Amplitude Analytics – the best digital analytics tool for event tracking. Sprout Social – the best social media management platform. The path analysis tool in Userpilot enables teams to analyze user behavior by observing the entire customer journey users take inside the product. What is digital analytics? Enterprise.

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Userpilot

MARCH 26, 2024

Amplitude Analytics – the best digital analytics tool for event tracking. Sprout Social – the best social media management platform. The path analysis tool in Userpilot enables teams to analyze user behavior by observing the entire customer journey users take inside the product. What is digital analytics? Enterprise.

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Userpilot

MARCH 26, 2024

Amplitude Analytics – the best digital analytics tool for event tracking. Sprout Social – the best social media management platform. The path analysis tool in Userpilot enables teams to analyze user behavior by observing the entire customer journey users take inside the product. What is digital analytics? Enterprise.

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Userpilot

FEBRUARY 26, 2023

Startups use these surveys in the early stages of product development to measure the degree to which a product satisfies market demand. If at least 40% of respondents say they would be very disappointed, then you’ve managed to build a product that effectively addresses your target customers’ needs and brings value to them.

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Mixpanel

MAY 8, 2023

Growing a digital product and company is a multi-team sport. For marketing teams focused on getting more user traffic and signups, Google Analytics has been the tool of choice. Define what a session is for your site based on specific event start, timeout, or sending session IDs according to how you’ve defined it in another tool.

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The Product Coalition

NOVEMBER 30, 2022

In the world of startups, there’s a truism that 9 out of 10 companies fail. But many, many products are developed without knowing from the start that people want the solution, or even care about the problem. Jobs To Be Done has given us a better way to approach customer development. Why does this happen? It seems so simple!

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PMLesson's Ace the PM Interview

SEPTEMBER 24, 2019

In this post, we interview Stephen on how to ace your product management behavioral interview questions. Previously, he was a product manager at Google. that demonstrate you’re desire to be involved in the space and to keep abreast of developments in the space. Plan an event. Be authentic. Get experience.

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ProductPlan

OCTOBER 1, 2020

Product managers, product leaders, and product executives have no shortage of educational opportunities. From books , podcasts , and blogs to earning certificates and joining online communities , there is truly an abundance of options (read the short Guide to Product Management Resources to learn even more). Unplugging can be hard.

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ProductPlan

SEPTEMBER 9, 2019

Product School was founded in 2014 and now maintains 20 campuses around the world where they offer certifications in Product Management. They organize events discussing innovations in the software and technology space. But today we’re going to talk about one of the most important traits a product manager needs.

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ProductPlan

DECEMBER 4, 2019

As a product manager, you’re more likely to find yourself embroiled in these events since you sit at the nexus of so many activities and constituencies. We outlined the seven internal politics situations you’ll likely encounter at least once in your product management career and how you can handle them. Set clear expectations.

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Userpilot

JULY 22, 2021

Userguiding is a cheaper alternative to both product tours tools, but has a really poor UX and is buggy. This makes it helpful for a beginner Product Marketing Manager/Product Manager looking to build their first product tour: ??. 10 custom events, and feature tags. Appcues product tours alternatives.

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Intercom, Inc.

JANUARY 12, 2021

This post is an adaptation of a talk I recently gave at the Amazon Web Services (AWS) community day event in Dublin about the technical strategies I’ve experienced that don’t work and the ones that have helped us to grow and scale at Intercom. Day one of your startup is probably not the time to be learning Kubernetes.

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ProductPlan

OCTOBER 29, 2019

The developers will handle it. We’re just a startup, who’s going to want to hack us? Product managers don’t want to spend time worrying about security. Yes, you, the product manager, you have to worry about cybersecurity, too. Security is someone else’s problem. It’s up to IT. We use AWS or Azure, so we’re cool.

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Mixpanel

MARCH 15, 2021

Product analytics tools help teams understand mission-critical metrics so they can transform data into actionable insights that improve the user experience. . For many—especially burgeoning startups—this can be a nonstarter. But before you can use a product analytics tool with your own data, you need to send the data to it.

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Userpilot

DECEMBER 11, 2019

Hopefully, the product management tools we’re going to cover will help you out! The categories of product management tools are: Prototyping and UX (Userpilot, InVision, iRise). Feedback management (Canny, Airfocus, ProdPad). For product managers who are a little less technical, this is a great feature to have.

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PMLesson's Ace the PM Interview

SEPTEMBER 24, 2019

In this post, we interview Stephen on how to ace your product management behavioral interview questions. Previously, he was a product manager at Google. that demonstrate you’re desire to be involved in the space and to keep abreast of developments in the space. Plan an event. Be authentic. Get experience.

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