The Product Coalition

MAY 22, 2019

They serve bad goals just as well as they do good goals. This is a major problem because bad OKRs can amplify the issues the org is troubled with rather than fix them. of the mobile app KR: Integrate with SalesForce KR: Switch to new onboarding flow KR: Run 10 paid campaigns Here’s why this is wrong. But here’s the thing?—?OKRs

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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.

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Mironov Consulting

AUGUST 8, 2017

As a product manager, I think it’s my obligation to bring clarity and precision to discussions… so talking generically about customers or users can be exasperating. Being more specific also gives us an opportunity to connect our teams emotionally to our (ahem) users. We encourage our teams to focus effort where it matters most.

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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. Here are some patterns I’ve seen in picking successful Heads of Product. Let’s unpack. What’s In a Name?

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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 I think serious product discovery and end user validation may be stuck in this cultural/conceptual gap.  Product

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Mironov Consulting

FEBRUARY 6, 2020

I’m often asked what KPIs B2B/enterprise product folks should use, or what OKRs they should choose. This is (of course) an unreasonable question, as every product/ business has its own uniqueness. Why KPIs from consumer companies don’t fit well with B2B/enterprise. 1] Generic KPIs? But metrics aren’t generic.

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The Product Coalition

FEBRUARY 15, 2021

TL; DR: How to Make Agile Work in Fast-Growing Startups For years, I worked in several Berlin-based, fast-growing startups in my capacity as Scrum Master, agile coach, and Product Owner. In my experience, the challenges of becoming a learning organization can only be handled effectively by self-organizing teams. Participation is free.)

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Userpilot

DECEMBER 6, 2022

Can marketing resource management help streamline your product marketing processes and workflows? Asana – a project management tool that helps you cut tasks into smaller sizes, assign them to relevant teams and individuals, and track progress. The marketing department is one of the most crucial in any company.

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Userpilot

JANUARY 15, 2021

Without product analytics, how do you know how to move the needle with your product growth? If you’re only beginning your adventure with product analytics, looking at all the usage data may seem overwhelming at first glance: Source: Heap. Here are the need-to-know takeaways: What is Product Analytics?

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Amplitude

AUGUST 30, 2017

At the Product Analytics Summit in Seattle this past March, we chatted with some of our customers about how they use Amplitude as part of their product development toolbox. It helps you stay in tune with user needs and helps you make product development decisions that cater to those needs.

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Mironov Consulting

SEPTEMBER 23, 2023

I’ve written a lot about the huge organizational and technical gulf between services companies and product companies.  (See Services companies (aka custom development, agencies, outsourcing/nearshoring, contract engineering, consultancies, any work-for-hire) primarily market/sell the time and expertise of their people.  Work

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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. I stumbled upon Eric Ries and Steve Blank, the concept of customer development – it was a revelation. We got sales leads.

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Gainsight

JULY 20, 2022

What do Suicide Squad , Sex and the City , and Bad Boys II all have in common? Product managers looking to improve their products and meet business goals would do well to take note that understanding what customers are actually doing with their products provides unique insights that surveys and other customer feedback tools may miss. .

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Business of Software Conference

AUGUST 30, 2019

When marketing a product, it’s common for founders to focus on the product itself. Look at our cool features! Claire Suellentrop (Founder/CMO, Userlist.io) – Get Out Of The Echo Chamber: How To Use JTBD To Perfect Your Product’s Messaging from Business of Software Conference. Upcoming Events. Thanks Bob.

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Bryce York

FEBRUARY 12, 2020

As we start a new decade, I took a lot of time to reflect on my nearly 10 years working in product. I took a lot of notes on the lessons I’ve learned along the way, and this essay shortlists the top 10 – prioritized by practicality and non-obviousness so I could feature things we don’t see spoken about all that often.

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Andrew Chen

JUNE 25, 2019

Hi readers, The growth teams at Uber and Airbnb occasionally met over the years to share best practices, brainstorm ideas, and share observations on the startup world. If your product requires word-of-mouth to convince most people to start using it, you can engineer more growth by building an incentivized referrals program.

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Business of Software Conference

FEBRUARY 10, 2020

With a background in chemistry and pharmacology and being an MIT MBA with a focus on finance and economics, Isa’s corporate career started at Pfizer where she was a chemist and data scientist before moving to JP Morgan Chase. I became the youngest actually head of digital product for all of small business banking.

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Andrew Chen

JUNE 25, 2019

Hi readers, The growth teams at Uber and Airbnb occasionally met over the years to share best practices, brainstorm ideas, and share observations on the startup world. If your product requires word-of-mouth to convince most people to start using it, you can engineer more growth by building an incentivized referrals program.

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Intercom, Inc.

MARCH 29, 2022

We were joined by more than 2,500 customers, partners, and others who wanted to learn more about our product, goals, and the path ahead. Paul Adams shared three incredible new products that will take your Intercom experience to the next level: Surveys, Switch, and our next-generation Inbox.

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Business of Software Conference

OCTOBER 29, 2018

Here, Wade shares his processes for running a fully remote organization – how Zapier goes about hiring and onboarding their employees, how they run meetings, and how they work to continuously improve their culture. A little bit about how to build an operating cadence and a remote team. Make sure you stay for the whole video.

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Business of Software Conference

OCTOBER 23, 2019

Bruce McCarthy, Founder, Product Culture. In this talk Product guru Bruce McCarthy arms you with his battle-tested approach to prioritizing your most critical initiatives that will increase your organization’s focus by increasing confidence in your prioritization decisions. Also I wrote this book on product roadmaps.

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Business of Software Conference

NOVEMBER 28, 2019

It’s an online website which is really a catalogue for cloud services and products and consultants and developers to build Government digital and cloud implementations and I think it’s transacted over £3 billion since it started. Audience member : Understanding the key checkpoints and key metrics. Productivity.

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