The Product Coalition

SEPTEMBER 2, 2022

The leadership team finally agreed on the vision. We knew our market inside and out. Should we only offer the product to members or the market at large? One allowed for a personalized experience, while the other offered a larger market potential. A yes with a weak how or a no receives a zero. a clear path forward.

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Roman Pichler

DECEMBER 4, 2018

In the worst case, you have to go through a rewriting exercise where some parts or even the entire product are being redeveloped. To understand if and to what extent your product is affected by technical debt, talk to the development team, for example, in the next sprint retrospective.

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The Product Coalition

MAY 27, 2021

The Most Common Product Management Interview Questions What do you see as a Product Manager’s main role within product development? How do you see your career developing in the next 5 years? What are your main strengths and weaknesses? What do you see as a Product Manager’s main role within product development?

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Mind the Product

SEPTEMBER 29, 2017

Furthermore, in order to ensure that product teams don’t become too risk averse to learn from their failures and iterate their way to success, a few cautions are warranted in evaluating product teams. The last thing that product teams need is a leader who tells them: “You either succeed or you’re out.” Watch What You Measure.

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The Product Bistro

JULY 12, 2016

An interesting role play, Steven lined up 6 victims willing participants, to represent the major functional groups in an organization, Product Management, Operations, Sales, Marketing, Customer Support, and Development, providing each of them a backstory to guide their motivation. The exercise was interesting.

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Roman Pichler

JULY 20, 2016

Whenever you are faced with an agile, dynamic environment—be it that your product is young and is experiencing significant change or that the market is dynamic with new competitors or technologies introducing change, you should work with a goal-oriented product roadmap, sometimes also referred to as theme-based. 1 Focus on Goals and Benefits.

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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. Teams must carefully consider if product operations solve the core problems and challenges.

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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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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. Developing the product has a significant impact on the company’s strategy, and founders must live the market and their customer’s needs in order to define the company’s strategy.

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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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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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Mind the Product

APRIL 26, 2019

The questions keep coming in and it can feel great to help move your team forward by making the decisions, but they quickly pile up and leave you with no time to consider the bigger picture. A shared understanding of your customers, problems, and vision helps your whole team make the myriad of day-to-day decisions involved in product.

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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. There are many risks and uncertainties like the supply chain, market size, and expected profitability. 7:38] What advice do you give leaders about making strategic decisions?

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Bain Public

MAY 26, 2022

Over the last decade, there has been advancements in the product world where the CEO is no longer the only one who calls the shots; now, there is a Product Leadership Team (PLT) who is supposed to work collaboratively with the product manager on defining the next set of features of a product.

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The Product Guy

AUGUST 13, 2020

A lot of them worked in other positions before moving to product management, like engineers, analysts, marketers and project managers, and learned by taking on extra responsibilities. 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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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. Authoritarian institutions and marketers have always known this fact.” “Our Was that easy to use?” How’d that go?”

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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?

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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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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. Jobs To Be Done has given us a better way to approach customer development. Then we need those motives to inform not just our product but our sales, marketing, support, and process.

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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?

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Product Solving

JUNE 10, 2020

Join hundreds of other entrepreneurs, product managers, and developers in leveling up your product building skills. This isn’t a bad thing, you want everything about your product to be perfect. But perfectionist tendencies can get in the way of enabling your team to flourish. Bad product managers put out fires all day.

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Userpilot

SEPTEMBER 4, 2023

Unlike isolated marketing tactics, customer journey optimization adopts a cross-functional, customer-centric perspective. Brands should utilize diverse channels from SEO to social media and implement strategies like content marketing to increase awareness. Tactics include content marketing, SEO, social media, and advertising.

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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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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. But instead of managing products we manage offerings, which are described as products or services designed for a market of users who will value the end-to-end experience. Tell us about yourself.

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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. In the light of new evidence, market opportunities, crisis, or strategy changes, we need to be flexible and adapt ourselves and our Product to these demands.

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ProductPlan

MARCH 18, 2022

For this reason, product teams need to develop a process for idea management. Your sales team probably doesn’t sketch up database schemas in their spare time and your programmers hopefully aren’t spending too many hours dreaming up catchy marketing slogans, but there’s no shortage of sources for ideas.

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The Product Guy

APRIL 9, 2019

The challenge to the product managers is to translate these into a more functional plan for our engineering team. We perceive strategy from the management as the gospel – Usually the opposite, a good leadership team usually expects the individual contributors to provide iterative feedback. Simple task, right? First Attempt.

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ProductPlan

MAY 25, 2021

The strategy, by way of a roadmap, is the document that drives team alignment. When a group of people adopts a strategy, it transforms the product strategy from just a piece of paper to something that drives team success. Consistent strategic results are essential because as teams scale, wasting time and resources gets easier.

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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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Mind the Product

JANUARY 28, 2020

Essentially a day one mindset asks a question: What are you capable of doing today, given all the lessons you’ve learned and skills you’ve developed; all the resilience and appropriate emotional states you’ve built up; and the network you’ve established, as you face down today’s challenges and opportunities? Breathe, and think.

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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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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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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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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. Your product team needs to capture every idea during the session.

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Mind the Product

MARCH 26, 2020

Product management isn’t just for business and marketing people. 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. You’re curious, and you like to know the next feature on the roadmap to be developed.

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UserVoice

JULY 31, 2017

Saying no isn’t a bad thing—if we didn’t say no our products would never be released because they would include thousand of features and support every use case imaginable. “An An effective plan for product development includes prioritization as its most important facet,” says Cypd’s VP of Product Jason Burke. “A

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