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. Here are 2 actions you can take to develop your Craft Competence: Craft Competence ?? and others feel that.

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Intercom, Inc.

OCTOBER 22, 2019

If you are new to sales management, it can be hard to know what concrete steps you can take to improve your skills, be recognized, and eventually, rise to a senior leadership role. For LB, this means having a consistent, well-defined rallying cry for her team to get behind. Improve your organization, not just your team.

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Mind the Product

NOVEMBER 16, 2017

Here’s what we learned about product leadership. Developing Your own Team. Product leaders have many questions – and even more answers – about how best to develop and empower their teams. Your first task as a leader is to set the vision of the team and make sure that the team is set up to deliver it.

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Mind the Product

OCTOBER 23, 2019

In Part 3 of our Product Leadership Forum recap, you can see an overview of the remaining insights from this year’s #mtpcon London Product Leadership Forum (if you missed them, you can take a look back at Part 1 and Part 2). The team won’t respect me if I’m not technical”. I’ll sound stupid if I ask questions”.

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The Product Coalition

OCTOBER 30, 2023

It was another bad start to what seemed like Groundhog Day. “I Our commitment was firm, leadership backed the change, and it was underway. Outcomes that initially float to the surface are often weak. OKRs are a goal-setting framework individuals, teams, and organizations use to define measurable goals and track their outcomes.

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The Product Coalition

SEPTEMBER 2, 2022

The leadership team finally agreed on the vision. The series of choices following a framework = the product strategy. As I considered the merits of each possible option to build a user base, I weighed them against the product strategy framework, the pros/cons, coherence, and value. The north star was clear?—?enabling

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Split

MARCH 19, 2024

Secondly, it caused teams to start hoarding flags. Before this rule was added, occasionally, when a team or individual found themselves with some extra time, they would remove an easier-to-remove flag. I heard of teams purposely keeping easy-to-remove flags in the codebase as placeholders for the next flags they needed to add.

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Userpilot

NOVEMBER 23, 2023

That’s what Dave Martin , a product leadership coach, has talked about in his talk at this year’s Product Drive Summit hosted by Userpilot. TL;DR Regular roadmaps kill outcomes by forcing teams to think in the categories of features and timelines. The thing is, users don’t need the majority of features that product teams build.

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Mind the Product

APRIL 27, 2017

Some product teams are moving away from written PRDs to visual artifacts like mockups and prototypes. Figure 1: FRAMEWORK OF METHODS TO CAPTURE AND DEFINE PRODUCT FEATURES. Eric Ries, in his post “What is customer development? Personally, I get positive results from detailed written requirements. Written Methods.

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The Product Guy

FEBRUARY 27, 2020

At JCDecaux, I led the development of an information kiosk for airport passengers. Passengers are also able to view hotel information and use the devices to speak to the sales team of the hotel. In addition, choosing the wrong product management framework added to the failure of the launch. No one liked the product.

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People-First Product Leadership

JANUARY 7, 2024

For me, I’m looking forward to applying what I learned in 2023 - which was in a large part due to People-First Product Leadership. For example, I’m a sharer of information and often try out the strategies I read about which resonate with people-first product leadership. The balanced leader is adaptive.

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Userpilot

DECEMBER 13, 2023

How do you develop a robust UX strategy? TL;DR UX strategy provides guidance to the UX design team on how to create and improve experiences that satisfy user needs. TL;DR UX strategy provides guidance to the UX design team on how to create and improve experiences that satisfy user needs. This is the main focus of the article.

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Atlassian

FEBRUARY 28, 2022

Creating a strong, cohesive team takes intention and planning. Researchers have been studying team dynamics for decades. There’s a significant body of knowledge about which organizational structures provide the best results given the circumstances, goals, and personalities involved in a team. 5-second summary.

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The Product HQ

FEBRUARY 1, 2023

Technical program manager (TPM) roles range from mid to senior-level positions that support organizations with their product goals. They work with leaders and their own teams across organizations. TPMs are responsible for communicating complex technical ideas to both technical and non-technical team members.

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The Product Coalition

AUGUST 27, 2018

Agile vs. Being Agile Agile became popular shortly after ‘The Agile Software Development Manifesto ’ was published in 2001. Blindly adopting Agile is not a guarantee that a team will be agile , as these additional Agile rules are not essential to being agile. This is why one-size-fits-all Agile solutions are a bad idea.

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PMLesson's Ace the PM Interview

DECEMBER 3, 2020

Final round: 3 sets of 45-minute interviews with PMs Same interview format as previous round, with an additional one on leadership & drive to see how you lead and work with others. Distinguishing between bad vs. good vs. great answers is key , and seems like an underserved area Write down a framework for how you tackle these problems.

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The Product Coalition

APRIL 2, 2022

Every time I navigate the ocean of Product Management frameworks, we are not tackling one essential part of our role: People and Ourselves. 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. It is the only thing”.

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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

FEBRUARY 15, 2018

Much has been written about the process of creating product roadmaps, not least the six great articles written by my own team. I believe the actions of a product leader all too often are the root cause of a “bad” roadmap. Without thoughtful leadership around them, it may not be in product manager’s gift to achieve a “good” roadmap.

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Folding Burritos

DECEMBER 7, 2017

This led me to reach out to 14 leading Product Managers and talk with them about how they use customer feedback in their own companies and teams. One way to do it, is to find ways to help other customer-facing teams (like Sales and Support) do their job. A further step into this is to actually be part of those teams sometimes.

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PMLesson's Ace the PM Interview

MARCH 2, 2022

While behavioral interviews are guaranteed for most tech positions, they're often overlooked in interview prep. " and seek to better understand your: Leadership Problem solving Communicating Teamwork Cross-functional collaboration and more. Leadership. Specifically, they want "emergent leadership."

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People-First Product Leadership

DECEMBER 4, 2023

Throughout the post, I provide practical tips and steps for developing these strategic elements, setting the foundation for further strategic planning. It also showcases why your organization is uniquely positioned to do so. Identify their strengths, weaknesses, opportunities and threats (SWOT).

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Intercom, Inc.

JULY 19, 2018

As up and coming engineers in Silicon Valley, Jean Hsu and Edmond Lau long sought more influence and impact in their respective positions – but they couldn’t shake the feeling of being stuck. But as Jean and Edmond will now tell you, following years of engineering leadership at Quip, Quora, Medium and more, that simply isn’t the case.

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BrainMates

SEPTEMBER 23, 2020

Up until now, Product Leaders have had to rely on the approaches and frameworks designed specifically for Product Managers or use generic leadership practices which don’t necessarily cover the unique leadership challenges Product Leaders experience. This is a mistake, particularly if you are new to leadership.

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The Product Coalition

JUNE 9, 2021

The initial steps of this framework took collaboration between business leadership and the product team to set a direction for development decisions. In the second half, the product team will work with the development team to tie actionable projects to business goals.

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The Product Coalition

MAY 15, 2019

The agile manifesto turned eighteen this year, the Scrum framework is even older?—?have Scrum came about even earlier than the agile manifesto almost a whole decade to be exact (although you can traces origins earlier back to 1986 with the article The New New Product Development Game ). are they one role, two roles?

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Bain Public

DECEMBER 14, 2021

How do you guarantee that your team is creating value for your customers in a way that creates value for your business? The Five Dysfunctions of a Team by Patrick Lencioni This book is all about the fascinating and complex world of teams. It explores the fundamental causes of organizational politics and team failure.

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ProductPlan

SEPTEMBER 10, 2021

The OKR methodology can be a powerful motivator for high performance and product excellence within teams and companies. Implementing a goal-setting framework that sets the bar high sounds like a no-brainer, right? The focus then shifts towards outcomes and individual and team authority and ownership.

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The Product Coalition

FEBRUARY 13, 2021

This means you can save time and money developing features customers really care for and reduce risks of undesirable effects on your customers. In addition, this person works closely with the experimentation teams to ensure that they are aligned with the overall business objectives, measure results objectively and follow best practices.

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Folding Burritos

DECEMBER 7, 2017

This led me to reach out to 14 leading Product Managers and talk with them about how they use customer feedback in their own companies and teams. One way to do it, is to find ways to help other customer-facing teams (like Sales and Support) do their job. A further step into this is to actually be part of those teams sometimes.

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Mind the Product

MARCH 31, 2020

In this blog post, we revisit an episode of Mindset in which Singapore-based Tamara Moona, Associate Director of Product at Pivotal Labs , and Priscilla Nu, Head of Digital Experience and Design at SP Group , share their advice on developing organisational alignment and tackling issues with stakeholders. Vet your Company.

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PMLesson's Ace the PM Interview

FEBRUARY 18, 2019

They also need sufficient technical knowledge for the product they are building and, generally, should be at least familiar with Lean methodology and Agile development. truly understanding the user’s position, needs, and pains. Shreyas Doshi’s 10-30-50 framework is a helpful way to frame strengths in a higher-level, less tactical way.

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PMLesson's Ace the PM Interview

FEBRUARY 18, 2019

They also need sufficient technical knowledge for the product they are building and, generally, should be at least familiar with Lean methodology and Agile development. truly understanding the user’s position, needs, and pains. Shreyas Doshi’s 10-30-50 framework is a helpful way to frame strengths in a higher-level, less tactical way.

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Agile Velocity

NOVEMBER 9, 2018

Today’s Agile leaders manage with a more complete arsenal of skills and techniques than leaders of the past who led fundamentally different teams. Modern Agile leaders now see themselves as catalysts supporting their teams’ and organizations’ efforts to accelerate towards organizational agility and increased efficiency.

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Mironov Consulting

JUNE 27, 2019

Defining my label carefully, a “product leader” is someone who manages a team of product managers. There may also be some designers or a few developers reporting into such roles, but I’m focused away from CTO and VP Engineering roles where the majority of staff are developers. . What does your team and company need?

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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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Mind the Product

APRIL 23, 2018

And leaders have an outsized impact on team performance. She shared some insights on human behavior, and how we as leaders can use our influence to build a culture of psychological safety, enhancing collaboration and problem solving in our teams. On the tactical front, we talked about the good and bad sides of data.

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