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.

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Userpilot

NOVEMBER 29, 2021

Product managers, have you ever wondered what user story mapping is? User story mapping is a simple method for converting your vision of a product into a roadmap that allows broad team collaboration and enables your entire team to see the bigger picture, how everything connects, and how to plan the minimum viable product.

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Gainsight

MAY 4, 2023

Robin van Lieshout, Chief Strategy Officer and Remco de Vries, VP of Global Demand Generation at Gainsight, share the laws of Community and how to build a durable business through Community. It was a pretty narrow use case and a nice-to-have at best. But a few of us saw the potential for Community in B2B and beyond.

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Userpilot

OCTOBER 21, 2022

What product management best practices can help you build valuable and delightful products for your customers? Whether you’re an aspiring product manager or an already established product professional, our list will help you reflect on your processes and hopefully improve them. Check out our list!

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The Product Coalition

AUGUST 2, 2020

Photo by Randy Fath on Unsplash As Square grew from one credit card reader into a platform of products, what started out as a simple admin tool also grew organically into a behemoth monolith. The system into a shared codebase to allow product teams to self-build integrations faster. “Building an extendable foundation.”

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ProductPlan

JUNE 18, 2021

The IMPACT approach to product management’s primary goal is creating the maximum value for the broadest target audience while remaining aligned with the company’s mission, vision, and goals. It helps product teams level set every action, process, and decision to ensure they’re staying true to that objective.

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ProductPlan

MARCH 11, 2022

Organizations began to rely heavily on developing the right product stack tools to help assist their already light teams. It’s still too early to know exactly how things will eventually shake out. Instead, teams must optimize on the fly, making it all work with the team members who remain. What We Lose When People Leave.

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ProductPlan

MARCH 23, 2022

When product folks think about their top priorities, prioritization is usually at or near the top of the list. It uses all the product management muscles: internal collaboration and building alignment, market analysis, customer research, technical feasibility, marrying tactics with business goals and strategy, etc.

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UX Studio: Product Management

SEPTEMBER 29, 2023

Your product strategy is already bulletproof — just make sure you’re not making any of these mistakes. Learn 5 examples from my career where strategy went haywire and my tips on how to avoid these situations. I’m Sándor, a product lead and former product designer with 5 years under my belt.

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Userpilot

JULY 30, 2021

What exactly is the product manager role? And the role of a product manager can vary drastically depending on the type of product manager. That’s why we’ve put together a comprehensive post on everything you need to know about the product manager role, including: Responsibilities of a product manager. Let’s dig in!

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ProductPlan

SEPTEMBER 10, 2021

Are your roadmapping habits holding you back? Is routine the enemy when you plan out and communicate your plans for products? Coping mechanisms that we use for the product systems we operate in. Good habits make us more productive and efficient. In contrast, others can hold us back.

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ProductPlan

APRIL 1, 2020

Some products get released multiple times per day or simultaneously present different experiences to various users. But when products must get installed on computers and other devices, there’s only so much tolerance for frequent releases. Every install could be your last, so you’ve got to make ’em count.

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Mind the Product

JANUARY 8, 2018

As a product manager, it’s easy to get caught up doing the wrong job. With so much time and energy going into shipping great products, the project management demands of it all often create a center of gravity that’s hard for even the most veteran product managers to escape. That’s the product manager’s job.

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Lenny Rachitsky

APRIL 30, 2024

Each week I tackle reader questions about building product, driving growth, and accelerating your career. I guarantee you’ll get 100x the value of a subscription or your money back. I guarantee you’ll get 100x the value of a subscription or your money back. 👋 Hey, Lenny here!

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ProductPlan

APRIL 29, 2020

Product management turns chaos into order. Pet projects do not distract us. So much to choose from… how could anyone sift through all this potential and figure out what to prioritize first? That’s what they pay us for. But how can we be sure we’re making the right calls and roadmapping what matters most?

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ProductPlan

DECEMBER 4, 2019

But office internal politics impact your everyday life in a completely different manner. These outbreaks of disagreements, egos, and power grabs stand between you and your goals. They stymie your efforts to “move fast and break things.” So how do you handle it? Abstract the goal from the feature. Sympathize.

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Atomic Spin PM

JUNE 20, 2018

Product roadmaps have long been used to illustrate the direction of product development, including how much time the project will take to complete, what tasks need to be completed, and who is responsible for those tasks. Visualizing the Roadmap. Zooming Out. current = next few months).

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PMLesson's Ace the PM Interview

APRIL 19, 2020

If you want to learn more about the consulting role vs the product role, read this article on the topic. If you've already decided you want to work closer to tech and are ready to start making the transition to PM, you're on the right page! Ideally, you will have directly assisted a product manager on one of your projects.

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PMLesson's Ace the PM Interview

APRIL 19, 2020

If you want to learn more about the consulting role vs the product role, read this article on the topic. If you've already decided you want to work closer to tech and are ready to start making the transition to PM, you're on the right page! Ideally, you will have directly assisted a product manager on one of your projects.

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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”. Product knowledge covers your product’s benefits and limitations.

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Intercom, Inc.

JUNE 3, 2021

Not too long ago (although it honestly seems like a lifetime), we were buckling up to navigate the COVID-19 pandemic and all of the tough, unparalleled challenges it forced us to face. We had to adapt overnight, reevaluate our priorities, make some particularly rough decisions – for many of us, it’s been over a year in survival mode.

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Product Talk

SEPTEMBER 6, 2023

In addition to delivering a keynote at the Product at Heart conference (in case you missed it, you can find the video and transcript of that presentation here ), conference co-organizer Petra Wille also invited me to participate in a fireside chat at the Leadership Forum event. Introduction: What Is Product Discovery?

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Userpilot

APRIL 7, 2024

SaaS product management is about understanding user pain points, crafting features that solve real problems, and constantly improving the user experience. The approach to managing SaaS products is entirely different from traditional on-premise software. Develop the product roadmap. Oversee product development and design.

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Userpilot

JANUARY 29, 2023

How can product managers leverage them to build successful products? TL;DR Agile release planning breaks the project scope into smaller chunks and prioritizes their delivery over a number of iterations. The whole agile team should take part in release planning but the product owner is accountable for the final plan.

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Intercom, Inc.

AUGUST 11, 2020

And while seeing this work come to fruition, Sam, a Product Engineer at Intercom, was inspired to find more ways to get involved. “We realized that the terminology we use in our codebase at Intercom reinforced the very ideas we set out to take a stand against” If there’s one thing we know to be true, it’s that words matter.

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Product Talk

JANUARY 3, 2024

Can a single course change your career trajectory? For Mike Donovan , Senior Vice President of Product at Sauce Labs , the answer to that question is a resounding yes. Can a single course change your career trajectory? Mike began his career as an engineer and transitioned into product about five years ago.

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Userpilot

AUGUST 10, 2023

How can product teams leverage the product discovery process to create products that satisfy genuine user needs? This article explores every stage of the process and shares some of the best practices that will help product managers deliver delightful user experiences! What is the product discovery process?

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Mixpanel

MAY 5, 2021

Teams are praised whenever they release a new feature (or product) to their customers. Neil Rahilly VP of Product and Design, Mixpanel Neil Rahilly is the VP of Product and Design at Mixpanel. He was the Director of Product at Slack, focused on growth in the freemium, self-service business.

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Userpilot

MAY 16, 2023

Getting paying customers for your SaaS business can be a challenging and complicated endeavor. However, the time-tested strategy of SaaS email marketing has proven to be a reliable method of driving product growth. Software companies need to use targeted emails instead of sending the same message to every user.

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Mironov Consulting

APRIL 15, 2023

The other group (product, engineering, design, long-term support, product marketing) is trained and paid and rewarded to focus on overall impact for the whole installed base, long-term investments, and the need to support every line of code that any user has in production.  How does this happen?  

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Usersnap

MARCH 4, 2021

Struggling to figure out how to get more feature requests, evaluate and build them, and let your customers know that they’ve been released? This is the story of how Christina, a product manager, set up a feature request workflow with a simple button in her product, so she could learn directly from the customers what to build next.

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Business of Software Conference

OCTOBER 11, 2023

How will we win? Why these questions should be asked Feedback, performance, and competitor relations Feelings (pride or jealousy) about own company and others Relevance of important values and aspirations Exact choices: Extract the choices that your company makes as attributes What does the company do?

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Userpilot

DECEMBER 23, 2020

Which product trends emerged in 2020 and are here to stay? What are the biggest trends in Product for 2021 you must implement into your Product Growth strategy? Who’s who in Product these days? And what new product growth terms made it to our dictionary? Product Led Growth & Chatbots.

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Iteratively Blog

MAY 31, 2020

Time and again, folks have used product analytics tools to better understand their customers. Businesses use analytics to determine product health, improve the customer experience, test product-market fit, and ensure that they are making the right investments with limited time and resources.

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ProductPlan

NOVEMBER 10, 2020

For product executives, their firm’s growth from a small startup to mid-size going concern means a few key changes in how they build and lead their teams. But mid-size companies make up a massive chunk of the corporate landscape, employing around one-quarter of all U.S. It also requires significant alterations in your mindset.

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Intercom, Inc.

JANUARY 9, 2020

No one understands this better than Jared Spool , the co-founder of Center Centre , the two-year vocational school he helped establish in Chattanooga, Tennessee, with the goal of training industry-ready UX designers and equipping them with the skills they need to be successful on the job from day one. Short on time?

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Mironov Consulting

JULY 28, 2022

The Product/Development side of the organization [product, engineering, design, first-line support, product marketing] deals with cumulative impact across all customers and prospects , including everyone who is still paying to use any version of any products.  Where else can we make this product fit?

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