The Product Coalition

OCTOBER 30, 2023

It was another bad start to what seemed like Groundhog Day. “I This was the third conversation we were having about the product, an app that served our own company along with external customers. Outcomes that initially float to the surface are often weak. Often, product managers skip this step in favor of speed.

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The Product Coalition

SEPTEMBER 21, 2023

Creating Product Outcomes: What I’ve Learned From The Soccer Pitch “Great things in business are never done by one person; they’re done by a team of people.” — Steve Jobs Soccer is more than just a game for me. It’s become a lens through which I’ve come to view much of my life, including my work in product management.

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The Product HQ

MAY 10, 2024

Startup Product managers are in charge of setting up the foundation for product management at a new company. Since product development is such a lucrative field, this is a crucial role for the company. According to Airfocus , an optimized product manager boosts profitability and sales, by 34.2

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PMLesson's Ace the PM Interview

JUNE 8, 2020

They then have to switch gears and make the strategy happen in practice – that is part of the challenge of being a product manager! It is usually up to the product manager to develop this strategy for their product, because they know the most about the opportunities and threats that are present for their particular market.

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The Product Coalition

FEBRUARY 12, 2024

This particular product review meeting was a breaking point. I struggled to figure out how to run the product review meeting effectively. As a result, the team struggled with how to prepare. I worked in healthcare technology at the time. Yeah, I was seemingly in a bad mood. The team was shutting down.

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Userpilot

DECEMBER 13, 2023

How do you develop a robust UX strategy? We also look at: What a UX design strategy is Why it’s important Its core principles and elements A practical example of a company with well-established UX strategies Let’s dive right in! Start designing your strategy by clarifying the business goals.

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Department of Product

JUNE 27, 2022

Poor structure can make things worse. Define your org structure There are many ways to organize product development. Organize cross-functionally within engineering, embed product and design It is common for Engineering to organize along functional lines. For example, Frontend and Backend teams.

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The Product Coalition

JANUARY 3, 2020

The Hard Thing About Hard Things) At Latin American travel technology company Almundo , we believe that leaders are responsible for the people, whether that is via one-on-one meetings, career opportunities, company culture, or employee satisfaction. So, it was natural that we should want to develop a talent growth plan for our people.

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Mixpanel

MAY 3, 2019

Throughout his career, Al has focused on helping companies develop and execute digital strategies to grow their business and stay ahead of the curve. Developing a mobile product is a daunting task. This Growth process is ongoing and ever-evolving, requiring your team to continuously iterate. Poor Data Integrity.

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The Product Coalition

APRIL 25, 2022

The Best Product Managers use Product Management Software for: We’ve broken down this list into four stages of the feature life cycle that contributes to building the product value: opportunity identification and validation, design and prototyping, feature development, and launch and iteration.

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Product Management University

MARCH 14, 2017

The Body Part: Product Strategy & Planning. Many organizations use the product manager as a one-size-fits-all pad. Without a portfolio strategist, the injury you’re most likely to sustain is an overabundance of disjointed one-off development projects to satisfy the next big sales opportunity or unhappy customer.

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Mind the Product

JUNE 14, 2019

A bad day in the office, a chance LinkedIn message, and before you know it, someone has moved jobs. This kind of serendipity is not a viable career strategy! It wouldn’t happen, because we all realise that serendipity is not a viable product strategy. We’ve all seen it play out, either ourselves or through others.

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Product Bookshelf

JANUARY 5, 2021

The best product teams have strong cultures based on discovery and delivery. These teams value and practice experimentation, risk mitigation, compelling product vision/strategy, and collaboration. Many chapters of the book can serve as team-assessment checklists. Key concepts for modern product teams.

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Department of Product

MARCH 28, 2022

How to Keep on top of Trends that Matter to Product Managers Decide when to care about trends and when to sit back and watch what happens next Trends and the product lifecycle Imagine your product strategy stayed exactly the same for the next 10 years. What would happen? Because everything’s always changing.

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BrainMates

JULY 31, 2023

Instead, we are surrounded by products that are increasingly commoditised, with price being the only differentiator. Organisations that do consider innovation tend to focus on new technological gambles that are dubbed to be ‘innovative’ but fail to deliver a commercial return. Every product has a lifecycle.

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Userpilot

JULY 9, 2021

Product Mastery by Geoff Watts teaches you how to be a successful product owner within agile software development practices with the use of case studies. Inspired by Marty Cagan contains a little about everything in product management and is based on how the most successful tech companies in the world build products.

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Mind the Product

JULY 6, 2018

Failing is an eventuality in software development. And yet, the job of the product manager comes with a level of accountability and scrutiny that is unique. Product managers are asked to look after all facets of a product’s development, from conception to launch. Let’s do it over and over again!

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The Product Coalition

FEBRUARY 1, 2021

Most of us have been through the results of poor management of bugs: hair-on-fire, last-minute late nights to madly scrambling to critical fix bugs blocking a release, or stopping a customer from using a product. Taken to the extreme, management of product bugs can become you and your firm’s competitive advantage.

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Department of Product

OCTOBER 23, 2022

Product Principles – Examples for Product Managers Make decision making easier with inspiration from top product companies Product principles are used by product teams to help guide decision making. Principles can help guide both strategic decisions and tactical decisions.

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Folding Burritos

FEBRUARY 22, 2016

Yet, I wanted to dig deeper into this issue by focusing on: The reasons why a Solution-first culture makes your life harder; A “framework” to drive stakeholders to think in terms of Problems. You want the stakeholders’ input, but you need it to be (and need them to think) in terms of problems for you and your team to solve.

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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. It seems pretty obvious that designers and product teams have different ways of thinking, but have you ever wondered why?

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Business of Software Conference

OCTOBER 11, 2023

As usual, you really had to be there but here are the Sigmacorn notes… 9:00 Mark Littlewood: Opening remarks Welcome to BoS! How will we win?

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Department of Product

AUGUST 22, 2022

With that, we had a little discussion about what the best places for a product leader to focus on might be in the early days after joining a company – and how a leader in product might be able to conduct a ‘Product Health Check’. A consumer social media app is more likely to have more mobile users.

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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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The Product Coalition

MARCH 21, 2019

In these cases, my observation is that the true failing was in the definition and communication of the strategy rather than than a cultural inability to execute. Through these failures, I’ve come up with a framework for defining, layering, and communicating an effective product strategy that can close the gap between strategy and execution.

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Userpilot

APRIL 19, 2024

TL;DR Market research is vital for making informed business decisions, enabling companies to understand the market, target audience, and competitors, reducing risks, and optimizing marketing communications and product strategies. Each persona should tell the story of an ideal customer, making them relatable for your marketing team.

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Intercom, Inc.

DECEMBER 19, 2018

Intercom, the product, continued to develop at a fast pace with hundreds of new features big and small – from an entirely reimagined Messenger to a thriving Intercom App Store to next generation chatbots, Custom Bots and Answer Bot. Eoghan McCabe, CEO , and Matt Hodges, VP of Commercial Product Strategy.

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Bain Public

JANUARY 11, 2022

They might suddenly fall in love with shiny objects, new technologies (like AI or blockchain) or the R&D team might have come up with something they wish to commercialize with no valid market. In doing so, CEOs dilute the product mission, strategies and tactics beyond recognition, causing product teams to lose control.

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Hutwork

MARCH 9, 2018

Mind the Product says it’s time to take the good things you learned from agile and adapt them to the ever-evolving product management needs of the future. Just like you use the latest technology to inform products of today, you need to change the way you build products to optimize for the future.

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Bain Public

OCTOBER 19, 2021

This is why it’s important to have planned actions, keep MOATs front and centre and determine your short-term considerations about how to deploy resources to accomplish a roadmap strategy. This is what your product strategies can be targeted toward. A bad example would be Yahoo.

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Roman Pichler

FEBRUARY 14, 2023

Listen to the audio version of this article: [link] 1 Complement Scrum with a Product Discovery and Strategy Process Scrum is a simple framework that helps teams develop successful products. Continue the discovery and strategy work while the product is being developed.

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The Product Coalition

MARCH 23, 2022

I apply this lens to a startup that develops solutions in the health-tech market. Going from concept to production and subsequently getting the product in the hands of a customer takes significant effort. Technological considerations must include the collection and use of data. Operations fall in the same category.

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The Product Coalition

OCTOBER 21, 2018

There are a few common blunders that rookie product managers fall victim to: The development backlog is not the roadmap. The roadmap is a visualization of the strategic product plan, which in turn drives the development backlog. By focusing on the end user, the product will naturally become value driven.

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Department of Product

MAY 22, 2020

Why Product Features Matter Product strategy, features and the value chain What outcomes are you trying to achieve? How does what we’re building align with the wider strategy of the business? And the product team responsible got some pretty brutal reviews in the process. They’re addictive. And stimulating.

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ProductPlan

JULY 23, 2019

Of course, product managers say ‘no” all the time, but it’s usually to bad ideas or things requiring resources that are simply unavailable. The harder part is shooting things down that aren’t bad at face value, but don’t match up with the strategy, vision, and timeline of the overall product.

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Gainsight

JULY 23, 2019

This article is Part 2 in a two-part series that will help your product team find the right metrics to improve and demonstrate business impact. Read Part 1 (Stop Using the Wrong Product Metrics: Valuable Metrics Framework) here. Define product metrics that capture each problem area. Define a north star metric.

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ProductPlan

DECEMBER 18, 2019

Each achievement was only extraordinary and demonstrated technological achievement if the country did it first. We’ve seen similar zero-sum games throughout human history when new technologies and solutions were deployed — being first matters. Bypassing opportunity costs in the prioritization process can lead to poor decision making.

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