The Product Coalition

NOVEMBER 30, 2022

But many, many products are developed without knowing from the start that people want the solution, or even care about the problem. There are plenty of software products that start with a solution that is “possible” and “innovative” but has nothing to do with how people actually behave. It seems so simple!

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The Product Guy

AUGUST 13, 2020

When I first researched about product management, I asked seasoned product managers how they started and they gave me very different kinds of answers. How to learn by doing it and lead a new team at the same time? How to plan for future growth for oneself, the product team and the products overall?

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ProductPlan

MARCH 1, 2023

Product Planning is researching, making decisions, and taking action to develop a successful product. Product management teams will have their cadence and frameworks for planning, but typically it consists of some version of annual combined with quarterly planning. What is Product Planning?

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Product Innovation Educators

JULY 17, 2023

He is frequently helping organizations succeed while also holding the role of Professor Emeritus at McMaster University and Distinguished Research Fellow at Penn State University. Some companies will retreat and cut their spending by cutting bolder long-term innovations, and we saw in the recession around 2010 that was a bad strategy.

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The Product Coalition

FEBRUARY 12, 2024

“Feedback is the breakfast of champions.” -Ken Yet I could still see the tension on the team’s face and almost feel the hesitance in the air even though we were all separated by significant distance — no one wanted to be there. As a result, the team struggled with how to prepare. I worked in healthcare technology at the time.

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The Product Coalition

JUNE 22, 2020

And you’re telling me you don’t have guidelines for how to conduct interviews, analysis exercises, and communicate findings? Doing all of these tasks manually drastically increases the complexity and time spent on this type of common research method. A lean product discovery framework can help make it all of this so much easier.

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Mind the Product

APRIL 24, 2018

Setapp provides Mac users with a way to use and discover new apps, and developers with a new way to reach customers and generate extra revenue. We liken Setapp to Netflix for Mac software: the user pays a monthly subscription and receives access to a suite of curated Mac apps. Problems with Customer Development.

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PMLesson's Ace the PM Interview

MARCH 1, 2020

Hi I'm Kevin Wei, a product manager (aka an offering manager -- I can get into that in a bit) on IBM's data + AI team. I studied mathematics at UCLA, worked 2 summers as a software engineering intern at a Series E AdTech startup, and advised Metta World Peace (Ron Artest) as the product manager for his social basketball app, Gradelo.

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Mind the Product

MARCH 26, 2020

You go beyond developing a solution and like to be involved in the definition of the solution itself, giving your perspective and suggesting appropriate changes. It’s not just about developing a feature, you also make sure that is robust enough, so it doesn’t cause a bad impression. You care about quality.

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Intercom, Inc.

JULY 11, 2019

But as the business becomes more successful – and there are resources to build a support team – additional layers begin to separate executives from their customers. Since 2010, he’s helped the company grow to more than 40,000 customers and helped scale the support team to more than 500 employees to assist those users. Short on time?

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Intercom, Inc.

MAY 16, 2019

That’s why we recently launched Product Tours , a dead-simple onboarding tool featuring a code-free tour builder, error notifications and quick-start templates. As our Design Lead Gustavs Cirulis shared recently, the development of the product did not come without its own challenges. Short on time?

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The Product Coalition

SEPTEMBER 2, 2022

The leadership team finally agreed on the vision. Clarity enables the team to translate the choices into a functional product that creates value. So as you make choices, package the strategy into a document, and share it with the product team, keep four words in mind?—?a A yes with a weak how or a no receives a zero.

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Mind the Product

FEBRUARY 20, 2020

To help hiring managers and recruiters, like myself, decide whether or not to interview you, it can be a great exercise to treat your resume like a professional product. Ultimately, your resume should itself signal that you have the skills required to be a successful product manager on any team. If you’re. Storytelling.

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Business of Software Conference

JANUARY 28, 2019

Paul Kenny is no stranger to the Business of Software Conference stage. A sales coach with experience working with software companies including Redgate and StackExchange, Paul has a huge amount of experience and insight to share on the process of selling your software. Paul Kenny, Founder, OceanLearning. Upcoming Events.

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Surya Suravarapu

FEBRUARY 27, 2020

It is wanting more that pushes humanity to seek improvements, develop new technologies, and reach for a higher level." The users themselves, if they can, may build new solutions: the DIY types. Keep that feedback coming. Your job is to understand the fears, validate them, and offer solutions.

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Intercom, Inc.

OCTOBER 5, 2022

Each person on your team has different needs, responds to feedback in different ways and evolves in different trajectories – and management should always reflect that. Even when you reach the perfect team dynamic – a new hire or budget cut can easily throw things off balance. What does good, actionable feedback look like?

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Business of Software Conference

MAY 7, 2020

Want us to let you know about new talk videos, speaker AMAs, Business of Software Conference and other event updates? I’m not going to talk about these two first books in the last couple of Business of Softwares I talked about the tools, business models, value propositions. Sketchnote. Upcoming Events. BoS USA Online 2020.

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The Product Coalition

APRIL 2, 2022

There is a framework for almost every stage of our Product development lifecycle, but one of the only transversal things is that we need people to make things happen. We have to develop an appetite for generating fresh ideas. Embrace diversity and give voice to every team member. It is the only thing”.

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ProductPlan

OCTOBER 25, 2022

Product teams long for similar moments of inspiration, but the motivational poster vision of breakthrough ideas misses the raw materials and effort that lead up to these moments. If you’ve been deeply submerged in your product ideas and users, this step is critical because it forces the team to prairie dog up to get a fuller picture.

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The Product Coalition

JULY 24, 2020

Identifying and answering the most important questions Launching a socially responsible investing product was something the Nutmeg team wanted to do for a long time. It took a few years until the team felt the market for this product was mature enough. Additional information is never a bad thing at this point. guess what?

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ProductPlan

SEPTEMBER 29, 2022

Ideation is an intentional exercise to generate a high volume of ideas for a business’s products, services, and customer experience. Unlike “free-for-all” brainstorming sessions, these exercises remain structured and guided by a product team member. However, it comes right before building a prototype and testing the solution.

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Mind the Product

MAY 16, 2018

But, when asked about the greatest moment of the turnaround, Mulally says it was when his executive team started being comfortable enough with him to tell him the truth. Poor-performing companies’ employees were 79% more likely to have low overall self-awareness than those at firms with robust ROR. What is Self-Awareness Anyway?

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Intercom, Inc.

JULY 19, 2018

I hosted Jean and Edmond on our podcast to get their take on the difference between leadership and management, the power of positive feedback, and why trust is the foundation of the most effective engineering teams. Then if you’re given the right tools, you can be more effective at doing that.

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Intercom, Inc.

AUGUST 13, 2019

Many of us in the design and technology community pride ourselves on being tool builders, creating products that others can use to get things done. Tools are part of who we are. Tools are part of who we are. We all have a very fundamental relationship with the tools we use. To start, let’s ask: what is a tool?

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PMLesson's Ace the PM Interview

MARCH 2, 2022

Google Product Manager Interview Guide Google Engineering Manager Interview Guide Google Software Engineering Interview Guide Google APM Interview Guide Google Technical Program Manager Interview Guide Google Product Marketing Manager Interview Guide Does Google Ask Behavioral Interview Questions? What are your strengths and weaknesses?

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UX Studio

JULY 17, 2018

You want to trust the design team, and see how they process and understand your product and company. Get the stakeholders and the design team on the same page. Who: Designer(s) + researcher(s) working on the project. Who : Designer(s) + researcher(s) working on the project. What can you both do? When: T minus 1-2 weeks.

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The Product Coalition

JANUARY 26, 2024

Twenty five mini-research ideas for finding something meaningful to work on. In the perfect world, product managers have all the time, resources, and skills to do impeccable, in-depth market and user research. The real world has limited resources, unrealistic deadlines, and new teams that have not been able to do research at all.

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Userpilot

SEPTEMBER 25, 2023

This article introduces various concept tests, shows you how to conduct them, and discusses ways to collect user feedback to gain actionable insights. TL;DR In SaaS, concept testing is a research method used to test concepts during product discovery and before their launch. Consider using AI for qualitative feedback analysis.

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The Product Coalition

APRIL 19, 2018

In most cases, what you decide to build starts off as an idea that someone on the team had. When teams try to get market validation on their idea, the validation often tends to be biased. It sounds like good logic, but there are multiple challenges with building an MVP: Most teams over-engineer their MVP. This is natural.

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Nulab

MAY 25, 2022

Picture this: you’re working on a project with a team of people located in different parts of the world. You’re communicating via email, video, or some other messaging platform, and everyone is working on their own individual tasks. Information silos stem from poor communication between departments or teams.

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Gainsight

FEBRUARY 2, 2024

Technology companies are producing more complex software, which can often overwhelm customers during the onboarding process. As a result, it’s common for these customers to quickly abandon new platforms. These are just the tools, however. They’re not just creating great users of their software.

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Bain Public

DECEMBER 8, 2020

As a product manager, you have to define product management for yourself and develop a plan with which you’ll take ownership of a portion of your company's growth. Are you encouraging cooperative communication within the team? It helps set expectations within your team and organization. Unwind With Exercise.

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Roadmunk

APRIL 12, 2018

And one of the topics Mike and Michael did a deep-dive into were the tools product people apply to understand their users better—specifically u ser personas and jobs to be done. We have 15,000 product people from all over, mostly on the software side. The episode can be listened to above, and we’ve also included a transcript below.

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UX Planet

FEBRUARY 26, 2024

Conclusions Background Context Overview of Hiring Practices Some digital companies, during the recruitment process to fill positions like: UX Designer UX/UI — UI/UX Designer Product Designer Lead Head of Director of UX Researcher* usually require a challenge at the second step, other times as first step. Do they offer an alternative?”

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Userpilot

NOVEMBER 5, 2022

Customer discovery helps product managers develop their confidence. During product discovery, the product teams always learn a lot. Finally, involving the whole team in the discovery process energizes them, takes advantage of their unique perspectives, and empowers them. energize your team. What is customer discovery?

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UX Planet

JANUARY 9, 2024

To illustrate, a compilation of 70 previous research studies revealed that creativity training programs, when well-structured, resulted in enhanced performance. Creativity is a team effort, so make sure to leverage the expertise and skills of your team or people you trust when the need arises for you to be creative.

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ProductPlan

NOVEMBER 4, 2019

Hiring product managers is one of the most challenging and important tasks for product team leaders. Get it right, and you’ve added an invaluable asset to your product team that lifts the product to new levels. Entering an interview unprepared is just as bad for the interviewer as the interviewee. Research mindset.

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