The Product Coalition

DECEMBER 8, 2019

Highly effective Product Managers develop themselves in 5 key areas. In some jobs, you can get by with just Competence, but in the unkempt, fuzzy, team-oriented domain of Product Management, you need both. Market Competence ????? understanding your market, industry, competition) 3. Craft Competence ??

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The Product Coalition

SEPTEMBER 28, 2022

Strategy and enabling your team to solve problems makes the difference between a boss and an impactful leader. Using the ‘Kernel’ from Richard Rumelt’s ‘Good Strategy/Bad Strategy’, specifically insights and developing a guiding policy allows you to enable your team and avoid micro-managing. Poor strategy is everywhere?—?you

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Intercom, Inc.

NOVEMBER 7, 2019

Creating a new product category also creates a plethora of challenges – from spotting the right market niche to convincing customers that yours is a service they need. Nico joined me on Inside Intercom this week, where we discussed everything from the three stages of company growth to how growing companies can address new markets.

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Roman Pichler

JUNE 7, 2021

Be Clear on When to Involve the Stakeholders and Development Teams. Complex and high-impact decisions, however, are best made together with the stakeholders and development teams. Additionally, include the development team members in product backlog decisions , and always choose sprint goals together.

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Sachin Rekhi

JANUARY 9, 2017

I studied computer science in the engineering school and ultimately settled on finance at Wharton. While I may have been better served studying marketing or management, I did learn some important finance principles that I still use day-to-day in my product management role. Finding the arbitrage opportunity.

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Intercom, Inc.

FEBRUARY 1, 2018

In August of 2016, Rachel Hepworth embarked on a unique challenge: start a growth marketing team at one of the most successful startups of this generation – one that had long relied heavily on word of mouth. Adam: Rachel, you’re leading growth marketing at one of the fastest growing software companies of this generation.

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Mironov Consulting

JANUARY 17, 2021

Half of the calls I get from CEOs include requests for Product Management to boost productivity in Engineering (aka Development aka Makers). This reflects confusion about what product managers do (and how we really add value), and often poor role definition where product managers are also project/program managers or engineering leads.

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Modus Create

FEBRUARY 12, 2025

8 AI trends that will define product development By Greg Sterndale Posted in Digital Transformation , Product Published on: February 12, 2025 Last update: February 10, 2025 From modular architecture to agentic AI How product development will evolve in 2025 & beyond In product development, change is the only constant.

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Product Talk

SEPTEMBER 11, 2019

She has a relentless focus on finding good markets, a strong sense of urgency to ship a product, and the track record to show that her process works. A few weeks later, she offered me a job on her team. When I was at HERE Maps, working with various teams to implement things, they didn’t just “do it.” You are a product manager.”

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The Product Coalition

FEBRUARY 26, 2022

I’ve asked friends who do the job at social events and got the same answer, and frequently asked members of my own teams, who struggled to find the time to do it. To compensate, I’ve seen UX researchers & designers pick up the mantle a lot more, and the design teams have really leaned into this space.

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Userpilot

APRIL 24, 2025

Want to advance your career in product management or find top talent for your team? Stripe They’re looking for a senior Product Manager to lead a pillar within our LPM Cost Optimization team. A collaborator experienced in working with cross-functional teams, including engineering, design, and external partners.

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Product Culture

APRIL 30, 2025

Value Stream organizations are designed to overcome the weaknesses of Functional and Matrix orgs. Cross-functional teams report directly to a general manager in charge of a product line or market segment, shortening communication lines and making it clear who sets priorities.

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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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Mind the Product

MAY 9, 2019

In March last year, my colleague and Mind the Product’s Director of Training, Rosemary King, wrote about how the company departments working alongside a product team could better work together to meet their common goals and to improve working practices. In Marketing, in Product, in Operations… test, learn, test again. Test Everything.

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The Product Coalition

OCTOBER 5, 2020

Many teams and organisations jump into build mode too early. It often includes researching customers, researching the market, developing mockups, prototyping and sometimes developing rough working products. Some teams do this continuously, and others do it more like a project. This brings us to the next risk.

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Intercom, Inc.

JUNE 13, 2018

To do that, it’s not enough to replicate textbook marketing strategies. Staging events might be a lot harder than some other tactics, but nobody said marketing was easy. That’s likely going to be your most significant resource and finance drain at the start of building your events strategy. When resources are low, impact is key.

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The Product Coalition

DECEMBER 27, 2023

Building effective teams with people from different disciplines can be challenging due to various circumstances. It’s about gathering together professionals from different functions such as engineering, business, design, marketing, legal, and others. It’s not just about bringing together a diverse team.

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Userpilot

DECEMBER 6, 2022

Can marketing resource management help streamline your product marketing processes and workflows? The marketing department is one of the most crucial in any company. This article highlights how marketing resource management helps streamline processes, organize resources, and enhance workflows for better results.

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Mind the Product

JUNE 22, 2018

The service lets customers manage their finances with their mobile phone. Chris was part of the development team when M-Pesa launched, he then moved on to run its architecture and redesigned the system to support 400,000 transactions per second. The Story of M-Pesa and M-Shwari. Be Passionate. It’s a simple as that.

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Intercom, Inc.

JUNE 23, 2020

Once every decade or two, developments in technology trigger monumental changes in an industry. The Conversational Support Funnel has three layers: Proactive Support with messaging to answer customer questions in the product experience, reducing the number of queries reaching the support team.

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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. You started with a small team, and your way of being agile seems to start working. There seems to be a belief?

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The Product Coalition

AUGUST 9, 2023

Beyond Bitcoin, it’s becoming evident that blockchain development applications are as diverse as the stars in the sky. It’s infiltrating industries like healthcare, finance, supply chain management, and more. It’s like Batman teaming up with Superman to save the day — each one’s strengths complementing the other’s weaknesses.

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Intercom, Inc.

NOVEMBER 3, 2022

Scaling a support team is challenging enough as it is. Maybe you’ve just extended support hours and it’s becoming harder to plan shifts for different time zones; maybe you’re spending hours figuring out schedules for the week ahead; maybe the inflow prediction was a bit off and now your team is under or overstaffed.

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The Product Coalition

JANUARY 27, 2022

At the beginning of any software development project, managers think of which methodology is between waterfall and agile. It’s essential to follow clearly defined processes or software development life cycle (SDLC) to ensure software development quality. Waterfall and agile: A smart method or bad solution?

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Mind the Product

NOVEMBER 26, 2019

Bad time-management in product teams (or any team for that matter) is a source of pain for many but, by taking some simple actions you can ensure they’re a thing of the past. Here’s how you can support your team’s time-management as a product leader. In Conclusion.

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Intercom, Inc.

JUNE 21, 2018

Whether you’re at an early-stage startup that’s just made its first sales hires, or part of a fast-moving sales team in a large organization, the key to success often comes down to efficiency. That means your focus should be on building the right customer profile and developing precise messaging to reach them. Short on time?

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Mind the Product

APRIL 4, 2017

Dual-Track Agile is an IT development methodology where figuring out what to build is as important as the building process. So how do you know if your product team has a good idea? While Dual-Track Agile is my recommended way to develop products, it’s not very clean. Now Things get Messy. Can users use it? Usability).

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Intercom, Inc.

JANUARY 20, 2022

We surveyed and interviewed key people in our teams to understand how they worked and how they saw Intercom’s internal operations. Honest feedback can be hard to take, but it’s essential to develop the type of culture that encourages people to constructively criticize processes, leadership styles, or approaches. Paul: Yeah.

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Mixpanel

JUNE 10, 2020

But in the consumer finance space, sensitivity towards personal financial data makes considerations around product experimentation all the more delicate. On the NerdWallet team, we go beyond a binary “pass / fail” grade on demo days with Engineering, Product and Design. These turkey demos have surfaced key learnings for our team.

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Pragmatic Marketing

NOVEMBER 9, 2009

While software development teams have been moving toward agile methods for years, many product managers are only now becoming aware of it. An agile approach applies collaborative and continuous improvement concepts to software development. It seems that agile teams do everything in a new way. What is a product owner?

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Intercom, Inc.

FEBRUARY 15, 2018

With so many moving parts in the creation process, from visual design to content or front-end development, what’s the one universal model all of these can apply to ensure the interaction in the end is more human and humane than machine-like? Your new book, Conversational Design , is out on abookapart.com on March 6. Erika: Absolutely.

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Intercom, Inc.

JULY 11, 2019

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. Since 2010, he’s helped the company grow to more than 40,000 customers and helped scale the support team to more than 500 employees to assist those users. Short on time?

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Mironov Consulting

JULY 27, 2023

Lately, I’ve been writing a lot about entirely predictable goal misalignments between the maker side (product, engineering, design) and the go-to-market side (sales, marketing, customer success) of tech firms, especially at B2B/enterprise software companies.  That  There’s something more systematic here.

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Pragmatic Marketing

JULY 31, 2009

Market requirements typically define the problems your product will address using a formal, stilted language known to all technology people. We’re just terrible at writing them; and, still, the development group wants more detail—and more and more and more. They read like somewhat-technical marketing hype. “The product shall.”.

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Intercom, Inc.

OCTOBER 1, 2020

Sales, marketing, finance, support, and R&D all use the roadmap for different thing. Sales want to sell it, marketing needs to plan for it, finance needs to model it, support needs to be able to explain it, and R&D needs to be excited about it. Getting this right allows your teams to work in lockstep together.

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Intercom, Inc.

OCTOBER 1, 2020

Sales, marketing, finance, support, and R&D all use the roadmap for different thing. Sales want to sell it, marketing needs to plan for it, finance needs to model it, support needs to be able to explain it, and R&D needs to be excited about it. Getting this right allows your teams to work in lockstep together.

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The Product Coalition

OCTOBER 6, 2020

By leading the creation and development of groundbreaking qualitative analysis products, Jared is dedicated to helping companies like Netflix, Sony, and Disney understand how their content impacts audiences everywhere. That’s Jared and his teams focus on identifying the core emotions that people use when they express how they feel online.

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