The Product Coalition

FEBRUARY 12, 2024

I enjoyed in-person meetings, especially in-person product review meetings. Early in the pandemic, this led me to resent virtual meetings, especially virtual product review meetings. This particular product review meeting was a breaking point. I struggled to figure out how to run the product review meeting effectively.

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The Product Coalition

NOVEMBER 23, 2021

I recently led a workshop for an organic tech farm startup that wanted to set its foot online for selling organic food to B2B customers. it is the same as a car manufacture ally with software startup working on AI tech to develop autonomous eclectic car AI-based apps. Hence, it is good to opt for “ally” or “make”.

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The Product Coalition

FEBRUARY 15, 2021

Fallacy #1: ‘Agile’ Equals More Bang for the Buck If you ask founders and managers of startups why they want to become an agile organization, they typically name reasons such as: Becoming more efficient in software delivery, Delivering faster, Improving the predictability of software deliveries. The exercise works for everyone?—?sales,

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Intercom, Inc.

MAY 16, 2022

Product design workshops are an opportunity for a team to untangle a problem together by going through a series of group exercises designed to get to a specific outcome. A doc of draft product principles to send to the product team for feedback and review. Warm-up exercise. Exercises (30 min). Warm-up exercise (3-5 min).

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Userpilot

MARCH 7, 2024

I asked DALLE to ‘Give me an image of a tech CEO’. Then I tried regenerating the image to see on which try it would give me a tech CEO of a different gender (or colour). Check out this viral post by Andrew Gazdecki to learn more about what a ‘tech CEO’ is like US Census data from 2022 revealed that only 17% of tech CEOs are female.

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Intercom, Inc.

JULY 5, 2018

The problem, Doug says, is salespeople tend to focus too much on their company and the names on their client roster, rather than connecting with their audience. I help source and complete deals, and I perform due diligence on deals. That’s a great exercise to come up with analogies for your company.

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Intercom, Inc.

JULY 23, 2020

Though technology has allowed us to work remotely for quite some time, companies have debated whether it’s truly best for business. He was super nerdy, super technical and definitely wanted to look at problems from all angles and figure out how to solve them. That exercise takes a lot of exploration and iteration.

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The Product Coalition

OCTOBER 21, 2020

The Psychology of Influence According to the New York Times best-selling book (and also named in 50 Psychology Classics ) , Influence by Robert Caldini, a psychology expert, there are six universal principles by which people succumb to external influence. Unfortunately this is a limitation due to the unavailability of the conversion data.

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Intercom, Inc.

JULY 5, 2018

The problem, Doug says, is salespeople tend to focus too much on their company and the names on their client roster, rather than connecting with their audience. I help source and complete deals, and I perform due diligence on deals. That’s a great exercise to come up with analogies for your company.

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Mind the Product

JUNE 18, 2018

The State of Product is an exercise in strategy, it’s an opportunity to take stock of where your product is, where it fits within the wider market, and where it should go. It also stretches product managers to consider their impact on the wider business, by asking them to review their products’ margins and revenue generating impact.

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The Product Coalition

JULY 10, 2020

TL; DR: Agile Laws and Remote Agile On numerous occasions in the recent past, working with distributed agile teams has amplified existing organizational, technical, and cultural challenges in many organizations. In a remote working situation, to make matters worse, there is a compound effect due to the increased communication overhead.

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Mind the Product

MAY 25, 2018

JustGiving’s goal is to grow the world of giving, enabling more money to be raised for good causes through the use of technology. We ran through various exercises in the first week to give us direction, including user journey mapping , product in a box , and the speedboat game. This is what we did. 2012 – the Inception.

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The Product Coalition

JANUARY 5, 2021

For example, institute regular meetings with each stakeholder or have stakeholders name product ambassadors, who then act as “liaison officers” and train them accordingly. Sprint Reviews and user interviews are also well suited to improve collaboration and communication over time. How do you communicate with uncooperative stakeholders?

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Modus Create

MARCH 3, 2021

Docker for Developers is perhaps the most comprehensive source of information on all things Docker and a wide range of technologies associated with Docker and deployment in the cloud. In February of 2018, Modus published a blog post, also named “ Docker for Developers.” The Beginnings of the Book.

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Product Talk

NOVEMBER 16, 2022

If Ellen’s name sounds familiar, you may recognize it because she’s both an active member of the CDH Slack community and was featured in a Product in Practice post about involving engineers in assumption testing. Bridging that gap from creative to technical had some challenges. Meet product coach and consultant @ellenjuhlin.

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PMLesson's Ace the PM Interview

NOVEMBER 18, 2021

However, to help fill the gap and ease some anxiety for you, we've outlined below how 12 top tech companies interview and hire software engineers. Browse job openings here: Google Careers The Amazon Interview Photo by Christian Wiediger / Unsplash The software engineering interview process at Amazon is similar to that of other tech companies.

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Product Talk

JULY 19, 2023

If Amy’s name looks familiar, you might remember that she was featured in a Product Talk blog post about what continuous discovery looks like (based on her work at Snag ) and Amy’s story was also included in Continuous Discovery Habits. And the end result of this exercise?

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Intercom, Inc.

SEPTEMBER 15, 2021

As a tech journalist, Kevin has been witnessing the evolution of the tech industry for more than 20 years. Al Ramadan had started a company called Quokka Sports back in the 1990s during the dot-com boom and I was a columnist for USA Today writing about technology. And well, there’s a little backstory.

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The Product Coalition

APRIL 23, 2020

By comparison to a co-located Scrum Team, the preparatory work, for example, regular Product Backlog refinements, keeping track of technical debt, and preserving a high-quality Definition of ‘Done’ is paramount to securing a successful outcome of the Sprint. The interviewer should pass on these new questions in due time.

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Mironov Consulting

FEBRUARY 28, 2024

  They are coming off customer calls, strategy sessions, renewal discussions, marketing automation planning sessions, compliance reviews, and industry analyst briefings that highlight improvements that must be made.  ”)  Building software is a complex intellectual team exercise, not simply reading specs or typing. 

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Userpilot

SEPTEMBER 9, 2021

Allow us to share with you our ingredients for a great welcome page: the content, the visuals, and the technical side. The content of your welcome page should greet the user by name, introduce your business, outline the next steps, and feature a picture of one of your team. People love it when you address them by their first name.

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The Product Coalition

MAY 17, 2021

Join more than 210 peers from May 27–29, 2021 , for the Virtual Agile Camp Berlin 2021, a live virtual Barcamp using open space technology principles and practices. Page 9: During the event, the Scrum Team and stakeholders review what was accomplished in the Sprint and what has changed in their environment. Making Your Scrum Work #5?—?Making

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Intercom, Inc.

JULY 19, 2018

After coaching 100+ tech leads, managers, directors, VPs, and CTOs, Jean and Edmond are distilling their most valuable lessons into workshops and online courses. Engineers inherently know that when tech debt piles up, you need to invest in fixing it. The exact same is true for relational debt. All these roles change very quickly.

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UX Planet

DECEMBER 11, 2023

Where would the world be without the lasting impact of Voice Tech Global? CDI Student Review(s): My friend Aliena Cai featured a review of CDI on her youtube channel last year. This can be invaluable for someone who has 0 knowledge about design or working in tech. This was a major deciding factor for me.

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Mixpanel

DECEMBER 3, 2020

If your product and marketing teams are the “brains” designing your experience, your technology stack is undoubtedly the “brawn” making it possible. . That’s why Iterable has invested countless hours of research and diligence in order to recommend the key tools that sophisticated teams need to build their own, modernized growth stack.

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The Product Coalition

DECEMBER 21, 2020

Lots have been written on the topic of highly successful tech companies such as Google, Amazon and others using A/B testing to iterate on ideas quickly. It is important to note that planning for and executing an experiment is just the first half of the exercise.

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Usersnap

APRIL 12, 2019

Google’s tech alone didn’t build them into a top company, User Research matters too! Critical for their expansion, doing so also established current tech trends. How can tech and available data enhance research initiatives? Online exercises often focus on software. Definitely not! Remote Usability Study.

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The Product Coalition

DECEMBER 31, 2023

Photo by Pixabay I recently led a product-market fit workshop at a known company in the Israeli tech industry. It’s a simple exercise that you can do as soon as you understand what each category means, you don’t need to dive deep into how you measure each and you surely don’t need to actually measure anything.

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The Product Coalition

FEBRUARY 22, 2021

Agile in Name Only There was a cook who, whenever roasting lamb, cut the leg tip after having watched his mother do it, thinking it made a difference. Moreover, we ought to expect uncertainty to be increasing due to the hyper growth of digital assets. A chef knows the Why of cooking?—?which Working closer to the problem space (i.e.

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Userpilot

MARCH 3, 2022

Product managers with technical skills such as SQL or technical stack are in high demand, so highlight them in your resume. Show off your Product Manager (technical) skills. ” Technical skills in particular could be an asset for a product manager. Technical stack and product architecture. These include: SQL.

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eG Innovations

AUGUST 4, 2022

Having to set thresholds manually for every single metric is a very time-consuming, monotonous exercise. As a result, enterprises end up spending a lot of time and money having consultants tune thresholds manually and most adopt technologies that include dynamic thresholding capabilities. Dynamic Thresholds.

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Product Management 2.0

JULY 28, 2016

In the span of a single week technology website Network World reviews an average of more than 20 software and hardware products. Consider: Effective portfolio management goes beyond identifying potential growth targets and due diligence to include “portfolio fit.” The software market is constantly evolving.

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UX Studio

NOVEMBER 19, 2018

In them, you and your team work very intensely together, hence the name “sprint”. A finance expert, marketing expert, tech expert and designer usually participate. He writes about this experience in one of his articles : “ Later, spurred by doubt, I reviewed the outcomes of the workshops I’d run. The results were depressing.

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The Product Coalition

OCTOBER 8, 2019

An Eye-Opening Exercise Imagine you’re a Scrum Master and the line manager of your team believes that the best sign for a successful agile transformation is a steady increase in the Scrum Team’s velocity. delivers results: run the cooking the agile books exercise and address the faking agile metrics elephant in the room head-on.

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UX Studio

FEBRUARY 4, 2019

A movement has even emerged from the latter, the QS Movement, which incorporates technology into data collection on aspects of a person’s daily life. We can self-track the way we eat, sleep, breathe, exercise, work and yup, we can even journal our bowel movements. Applications of the QS Movement and self-tracking.

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PMLesson's Ace the PM Interview

DECEMBER 1, 2021

Product management is one of the fastest-growing jobs in tech today, and that growth doesn't look to be slowing down anytime soon. At the end of the day, being a PM at a major tech company can be one of the most fascinating and fulfilling careers for many people. For this reason, product managers are often called "mini-CEOs."

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The Product Coalition

APRIL 14, 2020

For example, in the Conversation Café exercise during rounds 1, 2, and 4, everyone is muted except the individual that is sharing his or her thoughts. Those surveys can be Sprint-specific, penciled-in between the Sprint Review and the Retrospective. Hence the “name tags.”) (I am using Zoom for that purpose.)

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