The Product Coalition

MARCH 29, 2018

I try to help product and sales teams succeed under the mantra “Easy to Sell, Easy to Renew.” I’ve struggled to find many examples detailing how to bond product and sales teams ( Antonia Bozhkova offers a good perspective ). Your teams will realign and strengthen their partnership as they see the product through each other’s eyes.

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ProductPlan

MARCH 18, 2022

For this reason, product teams need to develop a process for idea management. But grappling with the influx of ideas and instituting a system to handle them is essential because they sometimes have much to offer, even if it’s not right at the moment. But coming up with ideas is the easy part. There are no guarantees.

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The Product Cafe

APRIL 14, 2024

You need to understand the strengths of your team members. Even with a talented team, success becomes unattainable if their goals diverge from yours. Even with a talented team, success becomes unattainable if their goals diverge from yours. Therefore, for you to be successful, your team needs to be aligned with your goals.

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Userpilot

SEPTEMBER 4, 2023

In today’s PLG-driven world, SaaS companies must deliver seamless customer experiences to survive and thrive. Feedback surveys, loyalty programs, and excellent service turn them into influencers. Earn advocacy by exceeding expectations and proactively seeking referrals, reviews, testimonials, and feedback.

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Amplitude

OCTOBER 10, 2017

Most organizations that start hiring to build out the product team have not exhausted the potential on their current team. Growing your team from within is harder and requires more effort, but I believe it also helps you build a fundamentally stronger team in the long-run. A tracker for growing our team.

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Product Innovation Educators

JULY 17, 2023

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. On the other hand, there are all kinds of new technologies like AI, biosciences, and new opportunities in the medical field. Have a good data system.

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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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Userpilot

JULY 9, 2021

Continuous Discovery Habits by Teresa Torres teaches you how to set up a continuous discovery system within your organization with actionable exercises. Product Mastery by Geoff Watts teaches you how to be a successful product owner within agile software development practices with the use of case studies. out of 5 stars.

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Mixpanel

JANUARY 21, 2020

As Director of Product Management at Mixpanel, an important part of my role is hiring and developing a world-class team of product managers and ensuring that we’re empowering those people to be the best product managers they can be. I hope you find this info both thought-provoking and useful. Customer focus. Communication skills.

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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 Guy

AUGUST 13, 2020

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? It was a mind expanding exercise and set a clear structure for me to rethink what is really the differentiation factor in our product. .

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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 Manager Coach Blog

DECEMBER 12, 2023

Get ready for a fantastic new year with my quick goal setting and year-end retrospective exercise designed specifically for product managers looking to grow their careers. That’s why I’ve put together this quick goal setting and year-end retrospective exercise specifically for product managers looking to grow their careers.

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Amplitude

OCTOBER 10, 2017

Most organizations that start hiring to build out the product team have not exhausted the potential on their current team. Growing your team from within is harder and requires more effort, but I believe it also helps you build a fundamentally stronger team in the long-run. A tracker for growing our team.

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Roman Pichler

JUNE 4, 2019

Even if your product is not affected by any deadline, it may be helpful to consider dates or timeframes when developing a product roadmap, as this allows you to understand if the plan is realistic. A handy tool for this job is the Iron Triangle shown below. Dates on a product roadmap are neither good nor bad in my mind.

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Tyner Blain

MAY 24, 2017

Taking agile, a process otherwise optimized for small, cross-functional, collaborative teams and making it work at scale is fascinating. Being outcome driven, is one element you must retain – or even elevate in importance, or you fundamentally break the system of delivery. Getting Faster at Building the Wrong Thing.

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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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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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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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ProductPlan

MARCH 31, 2022

When it comes to the product team’s organizational structures and strategies, product operations is the hot new thing. More and more teams realize the value of having an operationally-focused professional. However, product operations aren’t a solution for every situation. This insight helps build trust with other teams.

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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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Atomic Spin PM

JULY 10, 2019

Software makers, like surfers, need to be ready for unexpected problems. This excellent metaphor comes from Jim Price’s talk about good and bad lessons learned from Silicon Valley at the recent Positive Business Conference. You should collect feedback and make adjustments to what we’re building throughout the project.

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Atomic Spin PM

JULY 10, 2019

Software makers, like surfers, need to be ready for unexpected problems. This excellent metaphor comes from Jim Price’s talk about good and bad lessons learned from Silicon Valley at the recent Positive Business Conference. You should collect feedback and make adjustments to what we’re building throughout the project.

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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

DECEMBER 3, 2020

Second interview is on product sense to see whether you can come up with interesting, customer-friendly product solutions. The trick to doing mocks is to make it feel real Ideal way to practice is to get feedback on how to improve. My solution wasn’t particularly original, but shows you don’t need to invent something new to impress.

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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.

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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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? The result of this is a self-growing list of opted-in customers, along with additional metadata on the Hotjar platform. you can pre-build these in many CRM platforms?—?products

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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

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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Modus Create

AUGUST 24, 2021

Software engineers have been testing ever since they could write code. However, the ability to automate software tests commercially emerged only in the 1980s with the introduction of AutoTester. Unit testing is a type of software testing where individual units or software components are tested. What is Unit Testing?

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Gainsight

MARCH 19, 2020

Let’s start by acknowledging that Customer Success teams always have the coolest people in the company. They develop a deep understanding of the customer’s problems and how the company can offer a better overall solution. So why are Success leaders often second-class citizens on the executive team? Account value.

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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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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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The Product Coalition

FEBRUARY 22, 2021

If you think of it as a tool for embracing uncertainty , then you’re on the right track. It has become so trivially easy to create assets via digital tools, that the rate of creation far exceeds any reasonable rate of maintenance and management. And note that this applies to any project, software or not.

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Gainsight

MARCH 9, 2020

Let’s start by acknowledging that Customer Success teams always have the coolest people in the company. They develop a deep understanding of the customer’s problems and how the company can offer a better overall solution. So why are Success leaders often second-class citizens on the executive team? Account value.

Weak Development Team 52

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Intercom, Inc.

JULY 26, 2018

Remarkably, the team stuck around with few exceptions. He craved thoughtful feedback from real customers (instead of free beta users) and rushed to market. Or you had to go to the other extreme of spending hundreds of thousands of dollars on some massive analytics software with this enterprise-y sales thing. People need this.”

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