The Product Coalition

FEBRUARY 5, 2021

Often we talk more about the technical skills, like, portfolio management, being more strategic, etc but being good at those things mean nothing if you can’t build a culture conducive to good product management practices. However, this presents two new challenges for Product Leaders: How do you lead a group of leaders?

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PMLesson's Ace the PM Interview

MARCH 26, 2020

Consultant Consultants are in the business of advising people in a specific field. Management consulting is dominated by three large firms in this space, known as the Big Three: McKinsey, Bain, and Boston Consulting Group (MBB). They may find themselves working with privately owned businesses like startups.

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PMLesson's Ace the PM Interview

MARCH 1, 2020

I studied mathematics at UCLA, worked 2 summers as a software engineering intern at a Series E AdTech startup, and advised Metta World Peace (Ron Artest) as the product manager for his social basketball app, Gradelo. Technical experience is not required. Here, we had two interviews and a group exercise.

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Mind the Product

FEBRUARY 27, 2018

As an aside, I think that much-cited startup maxim “fail fast, fail often” makes the wrong emphasis. In any case, the best product is worthless if you don’t have access to the target group. Technical Feasibility. Every new feature is a bet and requires an investment. Willingness to pay.

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Mind the Product

MAY 29, 2018

His startup career includes Tumbleweed, Timestamp, WildPackets, inCode, and many others. He’s also run a small R&D group at the BBC and developed products for UpMyStreet, Time Out, Jawbone, Nokia and many others. He has experienced IPO, acquisition, rapid growth, and crushing failure. Christina Wodtke, Author and Lecturer.

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Userpilot

JULY 9, 2021

The teams she coaches are from both early-stage startups and multinational enterprises in different industries. She has 7+ years of experience in startups and startup-like teams and most recently led an innovation lab as a product manager in 2019. Challenges of transitioning from a non-technical background. 5 out of 5.

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BrainStation Product Management

APRIL 8, 2019

Speak to a Learning Advisor. Product Management is fundamentally a white space role, so the skills you need will depend on what skills you already have and what your company does,” advised Jackie Bavaro, Head of Product Management at Asana. Do Some Soul-Searching. PMs do best when the team they’re joining really wants them there.”.

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Intercom, Inc.

JANUARY 5, 2023

He’s a keynote speaker, adviser, and co-author of several books on the subject, including the provocatively titled The Best Service is No Service , Your Customer Rules , and his latest The Frictionless Organization: Deliver Great Customer Experiences with Less Effort. Bill: Sure, absolutely. We got acquired by the large U.S.

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Intercom, Inc.

JANUARY 14, 2021

I got an MBA and tried several startups – some failures under my belt there – and then ended up at a company in the business intelligence space called GoodData. As I mentioned, I was a PM at a fast-growing San Francisco startup and I grew to be VP product, so I’d seen the pain points and the struggles of being an individual PM.

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Intercom, Inc.

AUGUST 15, 2018

We’re trying to understand: Can we group communities by topic? ” But I work in startups. 30 days is a long time at a startup, so I would dispute that you should wait and do nothing for 30 days. In a startup environment, the clock’s is ticking. When someone onboards to Reddit, can we give them recommendations?

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BrainStation Product Management

APRIL 8, 2019

“Product Management is fundamentally a white space role, so the skills you need will depend on what skills you already have and what your company does,” advised Jackie Bavaro, Head of Product Management at Asana. Perhaps you need someone with an uncanny design eye, or razor-sharp technical skills, or deep experience in analytics?

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Userpilot

SEPTEMBER 8, 2021

We generally advise against linear, top-down product tours. Look at their microsurvey: As a social media scheduling tool, Kontentino has two main groups of potential customers: Brands who only post on one set of social media accounts. For non-technical product managers, this is a huge win. Get a demo today! Userguiding.

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Mind the Product

NOVEMBER 30, 2017

TalkTalk was fined £400,000 in 2016 for failing to have appropriate technical and organisational measures in place to secure its customers’ personal data, and for keeping their personal data for longer than necessary. A proposal to identify people in a particular group or demographic and initiate a course of action.

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Userpilot

JULY 13, 2021

That’s why we often advise SaaS companies to segment users prior to their walkthrough, to make sure that customers only see features during their walkthrough that make sense for their individual use case. Your non-technical product managers and product marketing managers will certainly thank you! Get a demo today!

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Gainsight

AUGUST 31, 2020

In a recent webinar with Denise Stokowski, Group VP of Platform Products at Gainsight , Amy shared that she identified that she wanted to be more involved with people. She enjoyed the startup environment even though she was performing “a thousand different jobs.” “I liked synthesizing concepts.

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Alchemer Mobile

APRIL 14, 2020

How do you manage executive expectations, customer expectations, and technical resources? I’ve been kind of actively running away from management roles, and mostly that’s just a factor of the things that I really wanna learn or I just really wanna learn how to be a really, like, kick-ass technical PM. So that’s me.

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The Product Coalition

MAY 15, 2019

Later whilst being an adviser at Stanford university Neil H. Jeff Sutherland The Scrum movement was accelerated after 2001 when a group of seventeen software though-leaders met up at a ski lodge in Utah and created the agile manifesto. obviously most people skipped that part! names look familiar, anyone? heaven forbid?—?actually

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The Product Coalition

MAY 11, 2022

Finally, “ Building for Business: Product Management in Enterprise Software ” is a truly B2B-focused Product Management book, written by Blair Reeves (Salesforce) and Benjamin Gaines (Adobe) for “all the ones who aren’t part of the Silicon Valley startup bread”. Yet, only a few have this “sense” when coming into Product, they argue.

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Intercom, Inc.

AUGUST 19, 2021

But alas, as startups scale, as more people join and those people turn into teams, which then turn into teams of teams and into orgs, you’re adding a lot of complexity to the mix. If you’re short on time, here are a few quick takeaways: As a startup grows, things like more teams, processes, and cross-collaboration are unavoidable.

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Department of Product

MARCH 28, 2022

It is extremely difficult (and probably not advisable) to attempt to stay on top of all trends. It’s impossible for one person to do. And not all trends matter. For product people, we’re mostly interested in trends which impact the 3 core skill areas of product management: Technology Business Design So let’s tackle each of these separately.

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Product Bookshelf

SEPTEMBER 14, 2020

OKRs were brought from Intel to Google by John Doerr where the method gained popularity within the high tech and startup communities. The first part of Radical Focus is a story about a startup which sells tea. The story begins with the struggling founders meeting with their top advisor and board member who recommends OKRs.

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Intercom, Inc.

JULY 12, 2018

He’s also co-founded Color Genomics and invested in and been an adviser to companies like Airbnb, Coinbase, Instacart, Square, Stripe and more. I stuck around for another year as an advisor, so I really saw extreme growth in both of those cases. You start to see these common patterns in terms of how things tend to evolve.

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UX Studio: Product Management

MARCH 28, 2022

Is it technical details, customer insights or revenue and money? … You have to think about how you’re going to run a meeting — he told a group of Googlers in management. … As a young startup product we usually have only short roadmaps fixed for the upcoming few weeks and it is reviewed every week.

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Department of Product

JUNE 27, 2022

In that case, a list of ways to coordinate groups of people are visible in my list of coordination models. Who does technical leadership? Create strong local leadership groups One of the most common sources of failure in rapidly growing organizations is poor local leadership structures. Who does project management?

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Business of Software Conference

JUNE 29, 2020

So I was a startup CEO from 2009 to 2011, somebody else’s startup- I don’t recommend becoming the CEO of somebody else’s startup it’s not very fun – and I learned which I’m sure many of you have had this experience that I’ve been talking with people on my team and I was expressing an opinion.

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Roadmunk

DECEMBER 7, 2017

Most recently, Ellen left Lola to launch her own startup that will make it possible to build a complete scalable app in an afternoon. While her startup is still in very early stages, Ellen is completely in founder mode. While her startup is still in very early stages, Ellen is completely in founder mode.

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