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. including Scrum as a framework?—?work work in a fast-growing startup. These are my lessons learned on making ‘agile’?—?including

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Product Talk

DECEMBER 18, 2024

I was asked to give a ten-minute overview of my continuous discovery framework and then participated in a fireside chat where the host, Cecilie Smedstad , asked me to go deeper in a few areas. Discovery is a team sport. I did classic web development before there were frameworks back in the ’90s. Week over week.

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The Product Coalition

JANUARY 16, 2022

This is my 4th startup and have seen many ups and down in my decade long journey. I saw quick explosive growth in my mobile gaming startup, an acquisition of my payment startup, failure of an AI based startup and numerous pivots in between. But the startup bug in me is too strong and I decided to startup again.

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Productside

MARCH 24, 2025

Productside | Product Management Courses & Training Refining Product-Market Fit and Scaling B2B SaaS Products Most startups dont stall because of bad ideasthey stall because they stop refining their product-market fit and what works. Everyones chasing the next AI feature or untapped market. Her throughline? Theyre problem-solvers.

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Usersnap

MAY 14, 2025

“If you have 10 teams decorating the hood of a car with rhinestones, the hood gets so heavy you can’t lift it to fix the engine anymore. Thats what product development feels like in most organizations.” You’ll likely burn fuel, time, and goodwill without achieving anything meaningful.

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Roman Pichler

FEBRUARY 2, 2021

Before the advent of agile frameworks like Scrum , a product person—the product manager—would typically carry out the market research, compile a market requirements specification, create a business case, put together product roadmap, write a requirements specification, and then hand it off to a project manager.

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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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Arkenea

APRIL 10, 2025

In a fastmoving digital economy, many organizations leverage outsourced software product development to accelerate innovation, control costs, and tap into global expertise. Rather than building and maintaining a large inhouse team, businesses partner with specialized vendors to handle design, development, testing, and deployment.

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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.

NOVEMBER 20, 2018

In the early stages of most SaaS startups’ lives, the CEO or founder often acts as the initial head of sales. It is important that these friendly connections represent the target persona market you have outlined, as otherwise, the feedback loop is likely to be weak. Do they indicate any issues with their current approach?

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Mind the Product

JULY 12, 2017

Prioritisation is a necessary evil of every product development lifecycle. Prioritisation is one of the most critical aspects of product development. Unfortunately this isn’t always the case – we’ve all come across poor decision-making in organisations. Poor Prioritisation. However, it doesn’t have to be this way.

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Mind the Product

SEPTEMBER 21, 2017

On June 26, 2017, English football team Crystal Palace enthusiastically announced the appointment of the great Dutch defender Frank de Boer as its new manager. He announced he would take a middling team and turn them into a whirring, possession-based team emulating the lofty ideals of Total Football. The Parable.

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The Product Coalition

MARCH 9, 2021

All you need is a company providing React Native services and an outstanding team of developers who know exactly what they’re doing. Before you start planning your budget, let’s see why Uber is so popular and discuss what you need to develop a React Native app like it. yeah, don’t forget to develop a version for drivers.

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Intercom, Inc.

SEPTEMBER 10, 2020

It’s an approach that’s served him well along the road to building the HubSpot sales team, where he was CRO for nine years. This has created large amounts of data for running teams. . Yet in Mark’s experience working with and mentoring startups, he’s found that many entrepreneurs go with intuition over information.

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Intercom, Inc.

JUNE 15, 2022

Product teams often fall into the trap of spending most of their time on the core functionality of the products they’re building. Without an accessible onboarding process , customers may never reach the stage where they can use the game-changing features your team has worked so hard to build, making outcomes difficult to achieve.

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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. What can be cut first?

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Product Innovation Educators

JANUARY 10, 2022

I learned from these product diseases and developed an intuition after really hard lessons. Two colleagues and I built a framework that translated our intuition into steps for building world-changing products systematically. A vision with this level of detail gives teams enough direction to make decisions.

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Product Innovation Educators

JULY 11, 2016

When established companies decide they need to be more innovative, they often talk in terms of acting more like a startup. But acting like a startup is much more challenging in reality, especially for larger organizations. Instead, established companies can partner with startups. Here’s where startups come in.

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Product Talk

APRIL 21, 2021

Welcome to JEDI Training for Continuous Discovery Teams. I’ve had the luxury of working with teams all over the world, and I teach them a structured and sustainable approach to continuous discovery. The reason why I like to share that is in today’s talk, we’re going to get into my continuous discovery framework.

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The Product Coalition

OCTOBER 22, 2019

you’ll have to speak with customers, lead developers, manage stakeholders, build reports and even be Sometimes I question myself and ask if I’m doing a good job or what am I suppose to do right now. Working as a Product Manager In a Start-Up: A startup is an organisation that is built for hyper-growth. It's always go go go.

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Mind the Product

DECEMBER 5, 2019

In fact, some methods are pretty poor. Some product managers make poor decisions because they don’t have the right skills. It’s from another team, so you can be completely honest with me. However, not all methods are equally effective when deciding what is valuable. Your Skills Resume: Can you Identify Profit? My name is Jacob.

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Lenny Rachitsky

SEPTEMBER 3, 2024

Over the past year, Phil Carter has been developing a framework for growing consumer subscription businesses, called the Subscription Value Loop. What makes consumer subscription apps unusual is that most don’t have sales teams, which means the product must be able to sell itself organically and through paid advertisements.

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Usersnap

MARCH 24, 2025

The team spent months building it, yet users dont see its value. It helps teams uncover real user needs, validate assumptions, and reduce development risks before committing time and resources. It is an actual team effort involving all stakeholders to foster diverse expertise and unique perspectives.

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Userpilot

FEBRUARY 17, 2022

If you’ve read Teresa’s Torres book, Continuous Discovery Habits , you’re probably familiar with her continuous discovery framework for building better products that are actually guided by user feedback. What is actually the “product role” in a startup? Product-led growth. Build features that matter.

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Intercom, Inc.

FEBRUARY 20, 2020

His book, Why Are We Yelling: The Art of Productive Disagreement , takes some of these learnings and distills them into an actionable guidebook for “how to turn arguments into a productive and enjoyable dialog rather than a bad-natured confrontation.”. I had my own startup after Amazon for a few years. Short on time?

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Intercom, Inc.

JANUARY 5, 2022

In today’s data-driven SaaS scene, these can affect hundreds of millions of users and cause damage in the billions of dollars, and as compliance frameworks become requirements to do business, businesses are turning to third-party services that can help expedite and facilitate the process. And just continuing to push it higher with the team.

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Userpilot

JULY 14, 2023

What is a product analytics framework and why is it important? We also look at: Different types of analyses to include in your framework How to develop a product analytics framework And, the best product analytics tools. What is a product analytics framework? Without further ado, let’s dive in!

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Sachin Rekhi

DECEMBER 6, 2021

We experience these effects everyday when we use products like Uber, where the more drivers who join, the shorter your wait times; Slack, where the more team members that join, the quicker it is to communicate with more of your colleagues; and Airbnb, where the more travelers that join, the better the listing reviews. Cold Start Theory.

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Mind the Product

MARCH 24, 2020

We’re running this episode again to remind everyone to take a moment, engage your team, and think through both how the decisions you make now can help and how they can be misused – and then take action to mitigate the latter. Ethical frameworks for product development. Ethical frameworks for product development. *

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Mind the Product

JULY 10, 2017

Let’s establish this right upfront: nothing beats a well-managed full-time in-house team of local developers. Are there enough skilled developers at your location? And done right, I believe that outsourcing means you can come very close to your team next door in terms of productivity and innovation. Who was on time?

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The Product Coalition

NOVEMBER 24, 2020

On the other hand, the Scrum Master theses also cover, for example, the relationship with the Product Owner, they deal with agile metrics, and how to kick-off an agile transition, thus moving beyond the original framework of the Scrum Guide. Product discovery using the Design Thinking, Lean Startup, or Lean UX frameworks help.

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First Round Review

SEPTEMBER 26, 2019

Poor planning can spell disaster for companies and sow distrust among teams. Drawing from their careers at Eventbrite and Airbnb, Lenny Rachitsky and Nels Gilbreth break down their "W Framework" to help startup leaders develop plans, earn alignment and execute effective planning cycles every time.

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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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First Round Review

SEPTEMBER 25, 2019

Poor planning can spell disaster for companies and sow distrust among teams. Drawing from their careers at Eventbrite and Airbnb, Lenny Rachitsky and Nels Gilbreth break down their "W Framework" to help startup leaders develop plans, earn alignment and execute effective planning cycles every time.

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Mind the Product

FEBRUARY 5, 2018

But many product leaders at the roundtable reported that their teams struggle to make decisions when they feel the data is either inconclusive or not available in sufficient quantities. We discussed a number of coaching and development opportunities associated with this difficulty. Open discussion is the best way to explore this.

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Mind the Product

JULY 16, 2019

Occasionally, I run into a CEO who had a really bad childhood. I’m happy when my team picks whatever framework they like – whatever flavour of scrum or kanban or agile something else, or any process they want to use, I don’t care how they write user stories – if they write user stories.

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Intercom, Inc.

APRIL 23, 2018

Most sales and support teams are already well versed in conversations about data deletion, risk assessments and security frameworks, but those issues are going to become an even more prominent part of the discussion once GDPR comes into effect. Track and reduce access to data that is not needed. Choose vendors/partners that you trust.

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