The Product Coalition

DECEMBER 4, 2023

An economic downturn, a war — you name it. In many cases, an economic downturn simply reveals your already existing weaknesses since they now have more impact. Design partners who work closely with the founders and the product team build their trust over time. Photo by Tomas Sobek on Unsplash Nobody likes crises.

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Mironov Consulting

MAY 16, 2020

A topic that’s come up several times recently in my product leader coaching sessions: how much to delegate to the (individual contributor) product managers on our teams – including different ways of building product skills and balancing personal empowerment against good results.

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The Product Coalition

JULY 25, 2021

Even people with a developed growth mindset?—?ones No one likes to see their gaps pointed to, and for people who don’t have a developed growth mindset, it’s twice as hard. There are two ways to do that: Positive motivation : explain to them why growing is good for them. To make such a continuous effort, one has to want it.

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Mironov Consulting

FEBRUARY 28, 2024

An essential role of CPOs and other product leaders that’s never listed in the job description is giving organizational 'air cover' to product managers to postpone almost all new requests — so that their teams can finish work already underway.    Lately, I’m calling this permission to stay focused.

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Mironov Consulting

JUNE 27, 2020

On our side, we have expensive/talented/experienced sales teams that either close their few big deals this quarter or are put on notice. Product managers are often called in late in the selling cycle to address specific customer demands/requests or to position our product against competitors. Why Does It Matter? Our word is our bond.

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Product Management University

DECEMBER 2, 2022

Understanding how user personas, department personas, and buyer personas impact each other will help you develop a better product and a better marketing strategy for your products. And finally, we’ll look and B2B buyer personas and the role they play in product development. What is a User Persona? Types of User Personas.

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The Product Coalition

FEBRUARY 27, 2022

So you found a new position as a product leader, congratulations! I decided to write this article to help you, product leaders, with your new position. Even if you’re not starting a new position now, you probably won’t retire from your current company, so at some point, the tips in this article would surely be relevant for you?—?save

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Userpilot

NOVEMBER 14, 2022

The good news is that SEO can help make that process much easier by giving you the insights your team needs to pick a profitable niche and scale your business. Finally, once you’re done with keyword research on finding a niche, share the results with your team for further brainstorming. But how do you find that niche? Let’s see how!

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Userpilot

JANUARY 8, 2024

Host product webinars to reach your target audience Develop webinar content that educates your audience on industry trends, common challenges, and how your product addresses these issues. The idea is to share resources free in exchange for lead data (mostly name, email, and basic company info). Adobe Illustrator’s rating on G2.

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Mind the Product

OCTOBER 16, 2017

As a product manager who has managed offshore development teams, I’ve learned that it’s not easy, and that having engineering teams on the other side of the world is not always congruent with delivering great products. What are the Positives? Well, they are not local and it’s hard to put a face to a name.

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The Product Coalition

JULY 24, 2021

In my first article in this series, I posited that the only problem Agile has is that it’s too concise. I truly believe that our bad mental model i.e. expecting people to execute like machines is at fault here. As you become better at your transformation efforts and become more aware; you start seeing your weak spots.

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Roman Pichler

APRIL 1, 2020

Here is why: We routinely interact with individuals who have different perspectives, interest, and needs, such as users, customers, stakeholders , development team members. Users don’t always have the same wants and needs as customers, and the ideas of the stakeholders and dev team may diverge.

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Roman Pichler

APRIL 1, 2020

Here is why: We routinely interact with individuals who have different perspectives, interest, and needs, such as users, customers, stakeholders , development team members. Users don’t always have the same wants and needs as customers, and the ideas of the stakeholders and dev team may diverge.

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The Product Coalition

SEPTEMBER 10, 2019

How I Learned to Lead a Cross-Functional Product Team with Limited Resources For product managers, especially those at large organizations confident in their market position, it seems normal to have a permanent team (or even several teams), ready to serve and execute any request on demand. This approach just doesn’t work.

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Atlassian

FEBRUARY 28, 2022

Creating a strong, cohesive team takes intention and planning. Researchers have been studying team dynamics for decades. There’s a significant body of knowledge about which organizational structures provide the best results given the circumstances, goals, and personalities involved in a team. 5-second summary.

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Mironov Consulting

SEPTEMBER 22, 2020

Almost without fail, I find that the “maker” side of software companies (developers, designers, product folks, DevOps, tech writers…) and the “go-to-market” side of software companies (sales, marketing, support, customer success.) Some frequent bad outcomes from this confusion: We never finish our MVP. Have we named things correctly?

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Split

MARCH 19, 2024

Secondly, it caused teams to start hoarding flags. Before this rule was added, occasionally, when a team or individual found themselves with some extra time, they would remove an easier-to-remove flag. I heard of teams purposely keeping easy-to-remove flags in the codebase as placeholders for the next flags they needed to add.

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The Product Coalition

FEBRUARY 12, 2024

As a result, the team struggled with how to prepare. I made it no longer than three minutes into the presentation and got this subtle feeling that the team was unprepared. Yeah, I was seemingly in a bad mood. The team was shutting down. I apologized to the team and said we would pick it up next week.

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Mind the Product

MAY 25, 2018

In 2012, when I was working as part of the JustGiving team responsible for innovative products and disruptive business models, we decided to test how people could raise money for non-charitable good causes. Initially we worked with a team from ThoughtWorks for 12 weeks. 2014 – Testing and Growing the Team.

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People-First Product Leadership

DECEMBER 4, 2023

Throughout the post, I provide practical tips and steps for developing these strategic elements, setting the foundation for further strategic planning. It also showcases why your organization is uniquely positioned to do so. Identify their strengths, weaknesses, opportunities and threats (SWOT).

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Iteratively Blog

DECEMBER 17, 2020

But how do you fix the garbage that is bad data management and quality? Especially if you don’t have control over the implementation of tracking code (as is the case with many data teams). Now, let’s look at why data teams struggle with this validation, and how they can overcome the challenges of it. Well, it’s tricky.

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Intercom, Inc.

JULY 19, 2018

As up and coming engineers in Silicon Valley, Jean Hsu and Edmond Lau long sought more influence and impact in their respective positions – but they couldn’t shake the feeling of being stuck. But as Jean and Edmond will now tell you, following years of engineering leadership at Quip, Quora, Medium and more, that simply isn’t the case.

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The Product Coalition

JUNE 9, 2021

The initial steps of this framework took collaboration between business leadership and the product team to set a direction for development decisions. In the second half, the product team will work with the development team to tie actionable projects to business goals.

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Intercom, Inc.

AUGUST 15, 2019

If an organization’s founders aren’t designers and don’t come from a background where well-designed products played a key role in their lives, it can often be the last discipline to be brought onboard the team. On a bad day, a lot more of it got thrown away. My responsibility was to build a design team in that new agile way of working.

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Intercom, Inc.

JANUARY 27, 2022

We’ve reached out to a few of our colleagues on Intercom’s R&D team to hear their reflections on the movement and what the term “women in tech” means for them. What’s in a name? ” Recently, myself and the Content team were discussing the different ways we could approach this important topic.

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Gainsight

JUNE 11, 2021

The Key to Customer Success: Leadership with Jay Nathan, Chief Customer Officer at Higher Logic and Co-founder of Gain Grow Retain at Higher Logic. Major Takeaways: You can’t help others if you’re not in a position to help yourself. Team Up with Sales to Drive Revenue with Kristen Hayer, Founder & CEO at The Success League.

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Johanna Rothman

NOVEMBER 16, 2020

One of my reviewers for the Modern Management Made Easy books asked a fascinating question: I've never seen this many women in management or in senior leadership positions. Too many of these educated people had no idea how to work as a collaborative team. They acted as if they were indispensable or 10x developers.

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The Product Coalition

MAY 15, 2019

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 ). McElroy influenced two entrepreneurs named, Bill Hewlett and David Packark?—?names names look familiar, anyone?

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PMLesson's Ace the PM Interview

OCTOBER 6, 2021

This is especially true if you're looking to join the technical program management team. Given the nature of the position , you can also expect them to cover many different areas including: Program sense : assesses how you manage resources, mitigate risk, etc. The names are rather self-explanatory.

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The Product Coalition

DECEMBER 5, 2019

They run from ill-suited personal traits and the pursuit of individual agendas to frustration with the team itself. Read on and learn in this post on Scrum anti-patterns how you can identify if your Scrum Master needs support from the team. The Scrum Master is a servant-leader for the Scrum Team. Source : Scrum Guide 2017.

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Mind the Product

AUGUST 19, 2019

Secondly, as great product managers are also great capacity builders for their teams, you should start looking for opportunities that AI can present for your product. That’s why it’s incredibly important to develop a good level of empathy and user understanding, not only for yourself, but for the whole team.

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Intercom, Inc.

MAY 8, 2019

How do you keep up with such breakneck development? By building a nimble, swashbuckling team that relishes tackling new challenges on the high seas of marketing. During the course of her time there, she’s seen HubSpot grow from a small, plucky startup into a billion dollar household name.

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PMLesson's Ace the PM Interview

DECEMBER 13, 2021

However, it's very challenging to get a full-time position at many of these companies. The BOLD (Build Opportunities for Leadership & Development) is meant for those business and marketing-related roles. This is not necessarily a bad thing by any means. Google , for instance, is more selective than Harvard University.

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People-First Product Leadership

MARCH 4, 2024

How would you approach working with new team members in a different country, specifically to grow empathy and connection, due to cultural differences? Starting a community of practice I joined Pearson to create the Future Technologies team. How do you navigate an organization that is limiting the growth of the product org?

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The Product Coalition

MARCH 11, 2019

Leadership books for PMs, installment 1 When I first became a manager, I was exposed to leadership training for the first time. And should be trained in leadership fundamentals. And should be trained in leadership fundamentals. I just said that leadership applies to PMs. I have yet to see a company figure this out.

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Roman Pichler

JANUARY 22, 2024

2] Figure 2: A Sample Product Portfolio Strategy If you are familiar with my work on product strategy , you’ll recognise the structure I’ve used in Figure 2: It is based on the Product Vision Board —the tool I’ve developed to capture a product vision and a product strategy. What’s more, it might cause poor alignment and weak buy-in.

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Mind the Product

APRIL 27, 2017

Some product teams are moving away from written PRDs to visual artifacts like mockups and prototypes. Eric Ries, in his post “What is customer development? Some product teams will use written methods across both the problem identification and solution definition steps, while others will use visual methods. Written Methods.

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