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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PMLesson's Ace the PM Interview

DECEMBER 3, 2020

Curious, I went through the interview process to put my learnings to the test. 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. Having a clear framework helped me develop an ok answer. The team was psyched.

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BrainMates

JULY 31, 2023

Products logically step through a gestation or development period within the organisation and an introduction period in the marketplace, and then consequently move from growth to maturity and eventually decline. This approach is a costly exercise and can be likened to ‘gambling’. Why Bother Innovating? Every product has a lifecycle.

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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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Mind the Product

FEBRUARY 5, 2018

But many product leaders at the roundtable reported that their teams struggle to make decisions when they feel the data is either inconclusive or not available in sufficient quantities. We discussed a number of coaching and development opportunities associated with this difficulty. Open discussion is the best way to explore this.

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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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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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Department of Product

JUNE 27, 2022

Poor structure can make things worse. Define your org structure There are many ways to organize product development. For example, Frontend and Backend teams. So they expect Frontend teams and Backend teams. Every team should aspirationally be able to deliver business value without involving other teams.

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The Product Coalition

FEBRUARY 15, 2021

including Scrum as a framework?—?work In my experience, the challenges of becoming a learning organization can only be handled effectively by self-organizing teams. Their collaboration will lead over time to a ‘team of teams’ structure. You started with a small team, and your way of being agile seems to start working.

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eG Innovations

MARCH 7, 2023

Consider the scenario – You are an SRE (Site Reliability Engineer) joining a team to take charge of their Java applications. It has become industry best practice to set up memory usage benchmarks and chaos engineering tests on production-like environments. #2: Running soak tests should be considered standard best practice.

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Mironov Consulting

MARCH 6, 2019

I often find myself siding with old-school agilists who believe that teams (and their product managers) must continually experiment their way to good processes and collaboration, rather than “best practices” folks who believe there’s a fundamentally right way to do things. Is this leading to bad software, or just additional conversation?

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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.

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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PMLesson's Ace the PM Interview

OCTOBER 13, 2021

Companies test for culture fit (as well as a whole range of interpersonal and professional skills) in what's known as the behavioral interview. So, how can you best prepare for a variety of behavioral interviews, all testing for different qualities? STAR is a four-part framework with the following structure: Situation.

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PMLesson's Ace the PM Interview

JUNE 8, 2020

It is usually up to the product manager to develop this strategy for their product, because they know the most about the opportunities and threats that are present for their particular market. Weaknesses: This is usually the hardest section to fill out. Answer here: Apply Porter's Five Forces Model to a Product you have worked on 2.

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The Product Coalition

OCTOBER 8, 2018

Keep on reading this article in order to get a better idea what a product management framework is, and why is essential for every startup? To be simple, the product management is an interdisciplinary role that reaches across teams to design, bring better products to the market, set your business plan, and marketing.

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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. a simple customer onboarding framework. ” C.A.R.E. –

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PMLesson's Ace the PM Interview

MARCH 2, 2022

If you're applying as a Google product manager , this means you'll need product management experience with leading user research, implementing features, and working with software teams to build deliverables. " At Google, you'll typically be working in cross-functional teams. What are your strengths and weaknesses?

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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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Amplitude

OCTOBER 4, 2017

And what about the product team?? They were using the same manufacturing techniques that Henry Ford created at the beginning of the 20th century: waterfall “assembly line” development cycles packaged up onto physical disks. And the marketing team? Yes, they sell exercise equipment, but what they really sell is an experience.

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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 And the best way I know to do that is to use the scientific method to test and learn. In the explore phase, teams are usually looking to get wider samples.

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Atomic Spin PM

AUGUST 1, 2019

However, starting with the solution tends to create bias and reaffirm what you already were setting out to “test.” 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.

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Atomic Spin PM

AUGUST 1, 2019

However, starting with the solution tends to create bias and reaffirm what you already were setting out to “test.” 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.

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The Product Coalition

JUNE 22, 2020

This article is part of a wider guide on how to establish a product discovery framework in your organization. Establishing a robust product discovery infrastructure at your organization gives you the freedom to focus more of your time on creating, analyzing, and testing customer insights.

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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. Good idea, bad timing.

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Userpilot

SEPTEMBER 25, 2023

Concept testing is an integral part of designing UX that not only satisfies user needs but delights them. This article introduces various concept tests, shows you how to conduct them, and discusses ways to collect user feedback to gain actionable insights. In monadic tests, participants provide in-depth feedback on one concept only.

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Product Talk

FEBRUARY 10, 2021

Teresa: For those of you that are Product Talk readers, Melissa writes our Product in Practice series where we’re sharing stories about teams doing great discovery work, so you may have seen her name there. And that’s not a bad thing. It’s allowing each team to really find what’s going to work best for them.

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Modus Create

JULY 1, 2020

I had been on a sort of health kick for a few years: I quit smoking, I started walking to get low impact exercise, and so on. I had been taking 2 Aleve each day (1 morning, 1 evening) because I had been developing arthritis in my hands. Blood tests. The 5th time, they had me do a blood test. So they had me take another.

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Mixpanel

AUGUST 3, 2023

How can you align foundational goals between teams? How can you align audience engagement goals between teams? How can you align audience goals between teams? Retain your users How can you develop a customer marketing strategy? How can you align retention goals between teams?

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Product Talk

MARCH 3, 2021

In this second conversation in the series, we discussed two core principles of continuous discovery : encouraging teams to discover opportunities through continuous touch points and prioritizing in the opportunity space rather than in the solution space. I want to help more and more teams take advantage of these practices.

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Mixpanel

AUGUST 3, 2023

How can you align foundational goals between teams? How can you align audience engagement goals between teams? How can you align audience goals between teams? Retain your users How can you develop a customer marketing strategy? How can you align retention goals between teams?

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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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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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Mixpanel

AUGUST 3, 2023

How can you align foundational goals between teams? How can you align audience engagement goals between teams? How can you align audience goals between teams? Retain your users How can you develop a customer marketing strategy? How can you align retention goals between teams?

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Roadmunk

APRIL 3, 2018

What does it mean to not think like a product manager, and how do you undo previous bad habits in terms of thinking? Agile development processes are more about how you work together. It’s supposed to be a framework that helps you make decisions. Melissa: I see a lot of people treat it like a linear process.

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Userpilot

SEPTEMBER 23, 2021

Moment” : when an accountant is shown a demo of the app by the project manager and thinks “nice, this will ensure the team stays on budget.” Since you know what each customer wants from you, your approach in onboarding is to nudge your users down that tried-and-tested activation path as efficiently as possible.

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