The Product Coalition

DECEMBER 29, 2021

This year I developed a new reading approach, in which I read several books in parallel, usually from different topics. It is an exercise in centralized power used to overcome the natural workings of a system. the true price of leadership is the willingness to place the needs of others above your own.

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Mind the Product

MAY 27, 2019

Neville started with a “nine dots” exercise (you must link all nine dots using four straight lines or fewer, without lifting the pen). He explained the rules and challenged us to complete the exercise. His strategy was planning and positioning, and his tactics were his sequence of moves. Develop Your Pieces. Opening Game.

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SidsAvenue

MAY 31, 2020

Being in Leadership position is all about decision-making. this is generalization The vaccine thus developed will help in curing the maximum number of patients. Lets say we were not able to get the data about all the symptoms and we developed a vaccine. The development team is also confident about completing it in time.

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The Product Coalition

DECEMBER 13, 2022

As guides, we want so badly to steer our teams in the right direction and toward the best possible outcomes. Other times it means you’re starting from scratch and need to move the team into alignment. Activities to try: If you need to focus or align the team, I recommend starting with this Playing Field exercise.

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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”. It is the only thing”.

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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.

Technical Review 114

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Roman Pichler

OCTOBER 21, 2016

When I am happy and content, everything seems OK—even an nagging problem with my website isn’t that bad and can wait. But when I am discontent, tense, or tired, small things can seem big and bad. Secondly, a major success factor for every product person is to develop empathy for the users and customers. Creativity needs space.

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The Product Coalition

DECEMBER 19, 2021

Along with the founders (the CEO and CTO), most of the employees in the company at the time were developers. Most companies hire a product manager (and other positions) too late. It takes time, but from my experience, great people are quick learners, so that it could turn into a positive ROI quickly.

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Intercom, Inc.

JULY 19, 2018

As up and coming engineers in Silicon Valley, Jean Hsu and Edmond Lau long sought more influence and impact in their respective positions – but they couldn’t shake the feeling of being stuck. But as Jean and Edmond will now tell you, following years of engineering leadership at Quip, Quora, Medium and more, that simply isn’t the case.

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PMLesson's Ace the PM Interview

DECEMBER 3, 2020

Final round: 3 sets of 45-minute interviews with PMs Same interview format as previous round, with an additional one on leadership & drive to see how you lead and work with others. 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.

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The Product Coalition

JUNE 13, 2019

Sure, there are some junior positions out there that can be reached with a few months’ experience and a prestigious certification. However, most of the time professionals who undertake the transition aim to build the following story with their resume: their gradual acquisition of product skills across different positions and functions.

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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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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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Modus Create

JULY 11, 2019

People with strong personalities habitually play devil’s advocate — a habit which, on its own, is actually not bad. People who fit this description are often people in positions of power. Again, the ability to rally a team around a common goal is a great quality in a leader. Marty is the lead designer on a design team.

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PMLesson's Ace the PM Interview

MARCH 2, 2022

While behavioral interviews are guaranteed for most tech positions, they're often overlooked in interview prep. " and seek to better understand your: Leadership Problem solving Communicating Teamwork Cross-functional collaboration and more. Leadership. Specifically, they want "emergent leadership."

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Mind the Product

MAY 25, 2018

In 2012, when I was working as part of the JustGiving team responsible for innovative products and disruptive business models, we decided to test how people could raise money for non-charitable good causes. Initially we worked with a team from ThoughtWorks for 12 weeks. Initially we worked with a team from ThoughtWorks for 12 weeks.

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The Product Coalition

SEPTEMBER 29, 2020

As a Product Manager, you’re a team player who guides product development along its chartered course, but you have to do that without being the literal captain of the ship. Influence without authority is the skill of driving product development and ‘telling people what to do’ without formally being authorized to do so.

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Bain Public

DECEMBER 8, 2020

Work With a Positive Company Culture. One of the first steps to striking a solid work-life balance is through finding an organization that offers a positive company culture. 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.

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ProductPlan

SEPTEMBER 10, 2021

The OKR methodology can be a powerful motivator for high performance and product excellence within teams and companies. The focus then shifts towards outcomes and individual and team authority and ownership. Moreover, they boost employee engagement and nurture strong team collaboration. Develop a Work Environment Built on Trust.

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The Product Coalition

MARCH 11, 2019

Leadership books for PMs, installment 1 When I first became a manager, I was exposed to leadership training for the first time. And should be trained in leadership fundamentals. And should be trained in leadership fundamentals. I just said that leadership applies to PMs. I have yet to see a company figure this out.

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Intercom, Inc.

JULY 11, 2019

In a company’s early days as a lean, mean, business machine, it’s fairly easy for leadership to stay in sync with their users. 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. Short on time? Speak the customer’s language.

Customer Experience 188

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Intercom, Inc.

MAY 16, 2019

As our Design Lead Gustavs Cirulis shared recently, the development of the product did not come without its own challenges. There’s a debate about dates : some feel they’re too constraining and that the team should be able to launch the product whenever it’s ready. Few teams put nearly enough effort into onboarding.

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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. It is therefore important that you exercise leadership and address the people issues you are encountering even if this can be challenging and require courage at times.

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Userpilot

MARCH 7, 2024

of leadership roles. I wanted to learn more about what challenges are deterring women from entering leadership career paths in tech. My official title was the ‘COO’ but on Fridays, I made pancakes for the developers. There are very few women in leadership positions and there is a reason for that – it’s not random.

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Mironov Consulting

SEPTEMBER 14, 2020

Over the last three decades, across 10 full-time jobs and 150 consulting clients, I’ve headed up product teams 18 times (mostly as interim VP ) and helped another dozen companies choose their Head of Product. They don’t value experience running product management teams , instead overweighting narrow technical or market segment familiarity.

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Mironov Consulting

MAY 24, 2022

Everywhere I go, I see massive amounts of product waste : development work delivered on time/on budget that doesn’t drive sales or customer satisfaction or business improvement.  Yet  We shout past each other using secret keywords (“agile”) and assuming bad intent.  Project teams that ship v1.0

Product Research 143

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ProductPlan

JUNE 1, 2023

Where are product teams getting their feature ideas? Most concerningly, 19% of respondents reported that their top source of ideas comes from senior management, who are often disconnected from both customers and the product development process. Why do product teams become feature factories?

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The Product Coalition

FEBRUARY 15, 2021

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. And just relabeling the positions of the old middle management rarely works. The exercise works for everyone?—?sales,

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The Product Coalition

JANUARY 26, 2024

The real world has limited resources, unrealistic deadlines, and new teams that have not been able to do research at all. When the research is narrow-scoped, there is a higher risk of missed opportunities, blind spots, and false positives. Choose the few top metrics where positive movement could have the most impact.

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The Product Coalition

MARCH 2, 2020

Too bad, when nowadays diversity, autonomy, mastery, and purpose become the driving factors in a highly competitive environment where more of the same for everyone is no longer creating value. For managers, it means moving: From WIIFM (what-is-in-for-me syndrome) to team playing?—?the Abandoning yesterday’s game?—?and Nice try #1.)

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Mind the Product

JUNE 19, 2018

This meeting is an exercise in strategy, an opportunity to take stock of where your product is, where it fits within the wider market, and where it should go. Typically this would be a cross functional team of C- level and director-level people. How can you patch out weaknesses to take advantage of opportunities? Development.

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Business of Software Conference

AUGUST 30, 2019

After this talk, you’ll understand how the ‘jobs-to-be-done’ theory helps SaaS companies create effective positioning — and a proven, step-by-step process for uncovering your best customers’ ‘job-to-be-done’ Video, Slides, and Transcript below. So I told Bob I would try not to mess this up. Thanks Bob.

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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. I take the position that categorical imperatives are always wrong.

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Modus Create

JUNE 29, 2020

We have always relied on the culture of our organization to drive consistency, collaboration, and thought leadership. By creating CoEs we are taking the best of our values and making a structured program that help our teams to: Consolidate the knowledge and best practices they already have. CoEs are a flagship program at Modus.

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Intercom, Inc.

JULY 12, 2018

Acquisitions can help fuel growth, but often go awry when the company fails to explicitly instruct their internal teams to step aside so that the new hires can do their jobs. You have no idea what the people in the management team are really thinking about. I do think it’s been a net positive though.

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Business of Software Conference

MARCH 30, 2021

There was only one team member brave enough to take him on. He wasn’t doing a bad job at all, Kirk Baillie. So can I start with the most memorable in a bad way? So it was certainly quite a pivotal, pivotal point in the growth and development of the conference. Kirk Baillie. And they know that feeling. Kirk Baillie.

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Business of Software Conference

OCTOBER 1, 2019

So there’s almost always two questions that I hear from the executive team or the leadership team when faced with reviewing a roadmap or anything else that comes out of product management usually they are phrased in these two ways. Most important in the enterprise space is our sales team. No coincidence.

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