The Product Coalition

FEBRUARY 12, 2024

As a result, the team struggled with how to prepare. I made it no longer than three minutes into the presentation and got this subtle feeling that the team was unprepared. Yeah, I was seemingly in a bad mood. The team was shutting down. I apologized to the team and said we would pick it up next week.

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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. As I strive towards becoming a product leader, I wanted to understand the best practises in product management and in the process develop my own product philosophy. .

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BrainMates

JULY 31, 2023

CEOs want it, strategists write about it, marketers talk about it, and product managers strive to deliver it. From a business perspective, effective innovation leads to change in the market that delivers increased customer value and, in turn, a competitive advantage for the organisation. Why Bother Innovating?

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People-First Product Leadership

DECEMBER 20, 2023

To establish the Product Vision, I recommend taking time as a Product team to reflect both on the past and on the future. How can you empower the Product team and cross functional stakeholders to think big? How can you empower the Product team and cross functional stakeholders to think big? What ground has been covered?

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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. What is ideation? What’s required for ideation?

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The Product Coalition

APRIL 2, 2022

Every time I navigate the ocean of Product Management frameworks, we are not tackling one essential part of our role: People and Ourselves. 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. It is the only thing”.

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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. Where to buy?

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The Product Coalition

JULY 24, 2020

Check out more insightful sketches by Jono Hey on sketchplanations.com This article is part of a wider guide on how to establish a product discovery framework in your organization. Up until this point in the blog series, the focus has been all about establishing the framework. We were faced with a lot (!) and trust me on this?—?it’s

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The Product Coalition

MARCH 18, 2018

If you work in a product team or in a digital business, you’ve probably heard a lot about this topic, or might even have lost some sleeping nights due to the lack of it in your daily basis. I think that there is no doubt whether designers and product team should work together and if both of them are essential to achieving great results.

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Intercom, Inc.

DECEMBER 19, 2018

Intercom, the product, continued to develop at a fast pace with hundreds of new features big and small – from an entirely reimagined Messenger to a thriving Intercom App Store to next generation chatbots, Custom Bots and Answer Bot. Lessons learned from scaling a team. Builder beware: marketing tension in product-first companies.

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Intercom, Inc.

JANUARY 5, 2022

In today’s data-driven SaaS scene, these can affect hundreds of millions of users and cause damage in the billions of dollars, and as compliance frameworks become requirements to do business, businesses are turning to third-party services that can help expedite and facilitate the process. And just continuing to push it higher with the team.

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Brian Balfour

OCTOBER 12, 2016

As a result, marketers now get the majority of their “learning” through this hack-tic based content. As addictive as they are, prescription-based tactics and tools won’t solve your problem, and most importantly, help you become an elite marketer. The fundamentals for growth are not Search, Facebook Ads, Content, Email marketing etc.

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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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Sequent Learning

NOVEMBER 12, 2018

How can they develop more innovative products and services? Regardless of industry, product managers navigate similar obstacles as they work towards common objectives with their cross-functional teams. It offers practical tips for guiding cross-functional teams as they: Cultivate market insights. Path to Innovation.

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ProductPlan

APRIL 29, 2020

Particularly in the software business, if you ask a team to build it, they likely can pull it off. The fire hoses of data are coming from all angles, be it customer feedback , support requests, competitive intelligence , or new ideas from the executive team. There are many prioritization frameworks to choose from. Just say no.

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Amplitude

OCTOBER 4, 2017

This was one of many decisions that led to a 10x growth in Adidas’ market cap over his tenure. It’s a transition from a time when sales and marketing-led companies ruled the world. And what about the product team?? And the marketing team? We could hold Marketing accountable to business outcomes.

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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. Principles can help guide both strategic decisions and tactical decisions.

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Atomic Spin PM

AUGUST 1, 2019

Instead, it enables the team to be more creative in solving that problem. There are many ways to define the customer, such as developing personas or using the “Jobs to Be Done” framework. Then you can apply that input when developing your solution. If it’s wrong, don’t feel bad. Who is the customer?

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Atomic Spin PM

AUGUST 1, 2019

Instead, it enables the team to be more creative in solving that problem. There are many ways to define the customer, such as developing personas or using the “Jobs to Be Done” framework. Then you can apply that input when developing your solution. If it’s wrong, don’t feel bad. Who is the customer?

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ProductPlan

JULY 23, 2019

Of course, product managers say ‘no” all the time, but it’s usually to bad ideas or things requiring resources that are simply unavailable. The harder part is shooting things down that aren’t bad at face value, but don’t match up with the strategy, vision, and timeline of the overall product.

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Modus Create

APRIL 5, 2021

I always assumed it had something to do with the stock market and was slightly more fun than accounting. The pay was still excellent, my workday would be restricted to market hours, and I could apply some of the theory that I learned in school. Joining the Modus Create Team. The Value of Innovation.

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Roman Pichler

JUNE 6, 2023

Sue, the Scrum Master , wanted to help the development team get better at sprint planning. But the team still over-commits and under-delivers. Pete, the marketer, agreed to rework the marketing strategy to support the next major release. The following sections explain how you can apply the framework.

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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. Jean: Especially with engineering teams. Then if you’re given the right tools, you can be more effective at doing that.

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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. Getting this right allows your teams to work in lockstep together.

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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. Getting this right allows your teams to work in lockstep together.

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Obo

JANUARY 17, 2019

Done well, you identify and deliver the gems, those features most likely to boost product success in the market. depending on your development approach. If a PM assigns a 3 for revenue, what should you expect in terms of return once that feature is in market? You can use feature scoring for a variety of purposes.

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Amplitude

NOVEMBER 12, 2018

Whether they are the principles of behavior science, experiment design, or team function, I believe what’s going on can be observed, understood, tested, and taught. ”I When you are advising teams, how do you make sure they don’t go too far down the rabbit hole? In the explore phase, teams are usually looking to get wider samples.

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Roadmunk

SEPTEMBER 21, 2017

Some sit outside the product domain, but still directly pushed me as a product manager to connect and empathize with other team members. But in part 4 of a 9-part series on startups by Marc Andreessen (co-founder of Andreessen Horowitz), there are three factors to startup success identified: your team, product and market.

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Roman Pichler

MAY 5, 2020

Referring to people as product owners who do not manage a product and do not exercise the right ownership is wrong in my mind: It creates confusion and it sets wrong expectations: Someone who owns a product part cannot take on the responsibility of maximising the product’s value and achieving product success.

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Brian Balfour

FEBRUARY 7, 2017

During Andy’s four and a half years at SoundCloud, he worked on a range of mobile growth topics, and in a bunch of different team configurations. He led an international team for a while, focused on running experiments in new markets, and did growth work breaking ground in Latin American and other developing markets.

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Intercom, Inc.

MAY 14, 2019

Mid-market and enterprise sales deals are undeniably complex. Complex deals require salespeople to exercise different muscles. The first approach I took to managing the deal – writing longform executive summaries – left me and my team more confused than empowered. Complex deals, complex problems.

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ProductPlan

NOVEMBER 4, 2019

Hiring product managers is one of the most challenging and important tasks for product team leaders. Sometimes you need a technical whiz, or someone with marketing chops, while other opportunities demand deep experience in a particular industry. Entering an interview unprepared is just as bad for the interviewer as the interviewee.

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Surya Suravarapu

FEBRUARY 27, 2020

Seth Godin in This is Marketing explains it like this “What people want is the shelf that will go on the wall once they drill the hole. What is certain, you just cannot sit in your cozy office chair and dream about what works in the market. While that line of inquiry is directionally correct, it needs to go much further out.

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Userpilot

SEPTEMBER 25, 2023

Concept testing takes place before the development phase to assess how well the idea could satisfy user needs , while usability testing focuses on how easy the product is to use and navigate and happens during the development stage. Userpilot’s feedback and analytics features allow teams to conduct concept tests and analyze data.

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ProductPlan

JUNE 1, 2023

Added functionality, new capabilities, a more robust feature set…these are the talking points product marketers salivate over and executives search for on product roadmaps. Where are product teams getting their feature ideas? Why do product teams become feature factories? But are you solving for actual customer problems?

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Radical Product

MAY 16, 2018

Snap in response to these market pressures, rolled out a redesign that included the following key features. Sustainability : Being a public company with volatile stock and a market cap that has more than halved since its IPO, Snapchat’s biggest existential risk is Stakeholder Risk?—?the the Board can force changes if they see the need.

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The Product Coalition

NOVEMBER 24, 2020

On the other hand, the Scrum Master theses also cover, for example, the relationship with the Product Owner, they deal with agile metrics, and how to kick-off an agile transition, thus moving beyond the original framework of the Scrum Guide. Product discovery using the Design Thinking, Lean Startup, or Lean UX frameworks help.

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