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 is a well-established company, a leader in its domain, but it still needs to deliver new products to the market so product-market fit is a very relevant topic. Two options, to force yourself to choose.

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The Product Coalition

APRIL 22, 2021

On top of that, there are now huge volumes of research from academic circles, as well as popular journals like Harvard Business Review , INC.com , and Forbes ?—?all Instead, we audition product managers (and Designers too for that matter) in the same way actors are auditioned for a movie. all pointing to a simple fact.

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Product Management Lessons from the Trenches

AUGUST 21, 2018

Finding Your Product’s Critical Event(s) By now you have most likely heard the phrase “build it, they will come”. This was introduced in the 1989 movie Field of Dreams but gained popularity in tech in the early days of the dotcom boom when the players were limited and early adopters eager to experience all the web had to offer.

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PMLesson's Ace the PM Interview

MAY 13, 2020

So here at Exponent, we've come up with a potential structure and tips for you to follow to increase your chances of pivoting into a career in product management if you've never worked in tech or a product adjacent role before. Optional Buy: The Product Manager Interview: 164 Actual Questions and Answers by Lewis C.

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Roadmunk

SEPTEMBER 21, 2017

Throughout my career as both a product manager and startup founder, there’s been one severely underrated skill I credit for much of my success—and that’s reading. I’m constantly consuming articles on product management, product culture, startups and entrepreneurship to bolster my career as a product person and leader.

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The Product Coalition

JUNE 13, 2019

But first, let’s review what tailoring your resume implies. It is obvious to say that a small daring startup will not be expecting your application to resemble that of an IBM. Mistake #2: Inappropriate language: Everybody knows that tech is different. There is a larger issue here when it comes to “product people”.

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The Product Coalition

JULY 5, 2020

A few months ago, just before the COVID-19 outbreak in Israel, I reviewed dozens of startups and had to rate them based on predefined criteria, recommending some of them for the program and ruling out others. One of the questions the applicants needed to answer was about the impact their startup has already made.

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Usersnap

JUNE 15, 2023

Whereas in smaller teams, product managers don’t have much help. They’re in charge of driving the entire product management process themselves. Nevertheless, some core roles and responsibilities of a product manager are: Develop product strategy and vision. Gather and prioritize product requests.

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Sachin Rekhi

FEBRUARY 16, 2020

Much of the literature that defines the role as the intersection of business, technology, and user experience isn't particularly helpful for practitioners who are left wondering what skills they need to learn versus the fine people they work closely with in actual business, technology, and user experience roles.

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The Product Coalition

OCTOBER 15, 2019

A great roadmap helps PM’s achieve the following: 1, It ensures the product team understand what they are working towards, by aligning the product to the company’s short term and long term goals. Image credit: ProductPlan Roadmapping sits in the Product Strategy phase of a Product Management It’s very different to a Product Backlog.

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Department of Product

JUNE 27, 2022

Who does technical leadership? You can use this exercise for defining lines between roles. Typically I’ve seen these be called Business Review meetings. When I was at Gremlin, we copied Amazon’s approach, and had these meetings: A “weekly business review” meeting, with local leadership. Who does project management?

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The Product Coalition

JUNE 4, 2016

Spectacular & Dangerous Road on Earth- Tianmen Mountain Road, Zhangjiajie, China ( [link] ) When we talk about product management in tech, usually we don’t explicitly distinguish between B2C and B2B. Having technical background is a strong signal of these qualities, but not a must.

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The Product Guy

AUGUST 1, 2017

Amanda had 18 years of product management experience and was able to clearly foresee the obstacles I might encounter in my new role. We started by defining the objectives I wanted to achieve over the course of my 6 months in the product mentor program, an important exercise at the beginning of any mentor partnership.

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Bain Public

MARCH 20, 2021

There are many peer-reviewed studies compiled by the Product Development and Management Association (PDMA) that illustrates about half of all product development projects fail; this failure rate is especially much higher in smaller and startup companies. The answer is simply: product roadmaps and product development !

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Product Talk

MAY 10, 2023

” It was very output focused for sure, like, “Let’s build this thing” or “Let’s build this thing to be able to tell a story or market a thing,” but it wasn’t driven necessarily by that strategy upfront. I know for a lot of startups, it’s really output driven and by the founder, right?

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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. 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.

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Sachin Rekhi

JANUARY 27, 2013

The role of product management in technology firms is a critically important one that is often misunderstood. And while the scope of your product can also vary from a small feature to the entire product strategy for a company, the core discipline remains the same.

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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. A designer, for example, may have been interested in arts as a kid and loved to exercise his creativity. Yes, you’ve read it right!

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Roadmunk

AUGUST 10, 2017

What trends are emerging in SaaS product management? The evolution of single-product services or point solutions to larger platforms. For mature startups, this may come through in software acquisitions or new internal product builds. Title: Senior Product Manager. Let’s talk trends in SaaS product management.

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Intercom, Inc.

JUNE 3, 2021

If you’re short on time, here are a few quick takeaways: You can’t balance short-term and long-term investments without considering the existing product strategy. If the product isn’t in good shape, R&D needs to prioritize getting it up to speed before focusing on the next thing. Hello Paul. Paul Adams: Hi, Des.

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UX Studio

FEBRUARY 15, 2024

You know, I’m going to talk about that, why that change happened, but basically what I do as of today is I help our clients to explore new ways to grow new product strategies, formulate product goals and product vision, and I also help shape the scope of the product. And then from there, I switched to design.

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Roadmunk

MAY 15, 2018

I think I was the seventh or eighth developer that joined Braintree, and did a bunch of different things from purely technical roles, to product roles, to hybrid roles. What I do now at Venmo is I manage the product management team. While I was technical, I was doing a lot of what I now consider product work today.

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Intercom, Inc.

JULY 25, 2019

” So the way this would’ve worked in the past, years ago, where we didn’t have these principles, there might be a design review or product review in a project and we start asking questions like, “Have we shown us to customers? They’re startups, size 10 through a thousand. They don’t have product principles.

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