The Product Coalition

NOVEMBER 7, 2019

Hackathons, also called hackfests or sometimes codefests, are events for software developers to come up with a demonstrable MVP in a short time based on a particular theme or addressing a certain problem. But I’m a Product Manager, what does this have to do with me?” What’s the structure? Finally, teams need leadership.

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Mind the Product

JULY 6, 2018

Failing is an eventuality in software development. Product managers are asked to look after all facets of a product’s development, from conception to launch. Here are some of the hacks and tools I’ve found that have made my decision making easier, and which have helped to make my failures a positive learning experience.

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Radical Product

JULY 11, 2018

Being a government organization, I was bracing myself for a bureaucratic and painful experience as we headed there with two jet-lagged kids who had been up since 2 am. Instead it was an overwhelmingly positive experience that started with us walking into an office that looked more calming than most therapists’ lobbies.

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Iteratively Blog

DECEMBER 17, 2020

There are three main reasons data teams struggle with data validation for analytics: They often aren’t directly involved with the implementation of event tracking code and troubleshooting , which leaves data teams in a reactive position to address issues rather than in a proactive one. This rings true for data validation for analytics, too.

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UX Studio: Product Management

NOVEMBER 8, 2021

Capitol Tech Solutions (CTS) is a digital design, software development, and marketing agency headquartered in Midtown, Sacramento. Since 2010, the company has served local businesses, non-profit organizations, and government agencies with innovative web design and cutting-edge software development solutions.

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The Product Coalition

JUNE 12, 2018

Here at Receptive HQ we have a little mantra, a little motto that governs our approach to product, to marketing, and well, to everything we do. What is it? It’s “GIFRO”. They identified early on in their lifespan that they had to quickly iterate and improve on a continual basis if they wanted to get ahead.

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The Product Coalition

JUNE 20, 2018

While educating people about data science is a pursuit I see as being mostly positive, it does occasionally lead to horror stories like this one: An executive once told me that they knew “just enough about data science to be dangerous.” Perhaps a lack of governance is leading to a bunch of crap making its way into your data.

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Pragmatic Marketing

OCTOBER 18, 2019

So my journey really started some 20 plus years back, kind of as I kind of went out in software development started developing code on see BMS machines on DCM language, and from there I was fortunate enough to be able to rotate and flip between different product oriented roles across software companies. How you doing?

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Pragmatic Marketing

OCTOBER 18, 2019

So my journey really started some 20 plus years back, kind of as I kind of went out in software development started developing code on see BMS machines on DCM language, and from there I was fortunate enough to be able to rotate and flip between different product oriented roles across software companies. How you doing?

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The Product Coalition

FEBRUARY 26, 2022

I even know some highly effective organisations with hundreds of thousands of users who just have product designers instead of product managers in most of their squads and are seeing positive results. There also seems to be a correlation between companies run by engineers and designers and those run by what I’d call ‘non software people.’

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The Product Coalition

MAY 16, 2018

By listening to your customers, you’re developing a close relationship that will ultimately govern whether they stay or leave. The sooner you start listening, the better position you’ll be in to do that. Seeing as customers are less loyal than ever, doing everything you can to keep them is worth the time and effort.

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Intercom, Inc.

FEBRUARY 4, 2021

But his current venture is more personal to him, and is he says born out of a motivation to create something that would make a positive impact on the world, rather than just make money. And so we don’t really have any interest in setting up businesses anymore, unless they can have a positive impact.

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Split

AUGUST 16, 2018

Some companies are saying, “We are using this new way of software development called ‘Agile.’” So we’re in this position where people feel they ought to be doing continuous delivery, but are people actually doing it? I’ve worked at very small, two-person startups, all the way up to the Federal government.

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Intercom, Inc.

AUGUST 6, 2020

I continued that journey with more software programming languages like Pearl and Java and so on. I also worked at a couple of companies where I was a software developer. Being a fan and being familiar with the product and the community, how did that influence your decision in taking on the CEO position?

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The Product Coalition

MAY 25, 2018

Before we start talking about the product backlog anti-patterns, I would like to make a small detour to make you familiar with my mental model, how agile software development works. And I believe this is partly due because the team either doesn’t care or doesn’t feel in the right position to speak up and address the issues.

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Intercom, Inc.

NOVEMBER 9, 2022

Typically, third-party tools from the parent organization come with many stipulations around usage and governance. Traditionally, those tools that come from the parent organization come with a lot of stipulations: “This is how we use it, this is the team that sets it up, this is the team that has oversight or governance of those tools.”

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Business of Software Conference

DECEMBER 11, 2019

Because there is still the very simple principle that most people actually don’t run one flavor of any type of software development process. Most software developers hate it. And so you know even though most software development teams run some form of scrum they actually generally mess up a lot.

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Business of Software Conference

NOVEMBER 12, 2019

It’s not what anyone is looking for but if you do ever need to make layoffs that is always it’s a strategy that you can always use as a profitable SAS business to keep yourself afloat until you know you can get things into a more sustainable position. Small percentages of the market. Even things like Uber.

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Business of Software Conference

NOVEMBER 12, 2019

It’s not what anyone is looking for but if you do ever need to make layoffs that is always it’s a strategy that you can always use as a profitable SAS business to keep yourself afloat until you know you can get things into a more sustainable position. Small percentages of the market. Even things like Uber.

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