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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The Product Coalition

JANUARY 26, 2022

A leadership story of Chris Bomgaars, founder of EveryPig. Table of Contents The Story Begins in Iowa ; Joining the Family Business ; Creating the Solution ; Making the Product ; Technical Challenges ; Moving To the Market ; Founder Tips ; Conclusion. You know, we’re in a technological age where we can be applying some tools to this.

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PMLesson's Ace the PM Interview

MAY 22, 2021

Engineering manager interviews are some of the toughest in the tech industry. Not only do you need to demonstrate your technical prowess and experience with designing complex systems, you also need to showcase your soft skills in people management. On-site On-site interviews also vary, but they follow a predictable structure.

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Mironov Consulting

JUNE 27, 2020

For context, enterprise tech companies tend to have a small number of large deals each quarter that really matter. ( On our side, we have expensive/talented/experienced sales teams that either close their few big deals this quarter or are put on notice. Expect account-level distrust, bad blood, and a search for who’s to blame.

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PMLesson's Ace the PM Interview

MAY 14, 2022

Solutions architect roles are rapidly becoming more important and popular in the technology ecosystem. As a solutions architect, you're the main technical resource for your company's sales team, and can provide a critical job function in a company's growth.

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Gainsight

OCTOBER 16, 2018

Nowadays, I don’t hear many stories about servant leadership in the media. I could go on about the very different narratives of leadership that are told nowadays—carrying themes like narcissism, greed, materialism, workaholism, sociopathy, mental illness, and others—but those have been well documented elsewhere.

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The Product Guy

APRIL 9, 2019

In my company, we review a living document with our management chain on a quarterly basis to align business direction for the short-term (immediate one to two quarters) to the long-term (two to five years). The challenge to the product managers is to translate these into a more functional plan for our engineering team. First Attempt.

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People-First Product Leadership

JANUARY 7, 2024

Technological Advancements: The consumerization of artificial intelligence (AI) and large language models (LLMs) can bring innovation to industries ranging from education to healthcare to newsletter writing. For me, I’m looking forward to applying what I learned in 2023 - which was in a large part due to People-First Product Leadership.

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PMLesson's Ace the PM Interview

MARCH 2, 2022

While behavioral interviews are guaranteed for most tech positions, they're often overlooked in interview prep. This is because at surface level they may not seem as hard to answer as Google's technical interview questions. Leadership. Google is always looking for leadership qualities in their employees.

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Product Talk

SEPTEMBER 9, 2020

While I tend to focus on helping teams, Petra’s work centers around helping product leaders—the people who manage product managers. You can watch the video or read an edited version of the transcript below. She has a big focus on people development, helping product managers and product leaders get better at their craft.

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Bain Public

MAY 29, 2020

MAIN: Developing Entrepreneurship in Quebec. MAIN , also known as Mouvement des accélérateurs d’innovation du Québec, states that their mission is "to improve the cohesion and efficiency of the business incubator and accelerator ecosystem and to increase its impact on the development of entrepreneurship and innovation in Quebec.".

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Mironov Consulting

SEPTEMBER 15, 2019

We’ve known forever that we (product managers) must include our developers and designers in the earliest stages of problem definition and solution ideation. Piping in real users’ voices and challenges motivates the whole team. Less appreciation of commercial software development pressures. We versus They.

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Intercom, Inc.

JULY 19, 2018

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. They’ve now started a company together, Co Leadership , to help pave the road for engineers to become leaders. Leadership is a mindset, not a title. Short on time?

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Userpilot

MARCH 7, 2024

I asked DALLE to ‘Give me an image of a tech CEO’. Then I tried regenerating the image to see on which try it would give me a tech CEO of a different gender (or colour). Check out this viral post by Andrew Gazdecki to learn more about what a ‘tech CEO’ is like US Census data from 2022 revealed that only 17% of tech CEOs are female.

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The Product Coalition

MARCH 8, 2019

Last week, after many months of development, I was happy to launch Haystack into the world finally. Since it’s creation, it has become stable for (mainly software) products to launch to a tech-centric audience. It takes into account comments, reviews and how long/active people are that upvoted. 2 weeks before launch?—?Those

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The Product Coalition

JUNE 13, 2019

Here is a quick summary of these mistakes and why they could be red flags for product team recruiters across the world. But first, let’s review what tailoring your resume implies. Mistake #2: Inappropriate language: Everybody knows that tech is different. This is exactly what you do to avoid the following mistake.

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Roadmunk

SEPTEMBER 21, 2017

Some sit outside the product domain, but still directly pushed me as a product manager to connect and empathize with other team members. But in part 4 of a 9-part series on startups by Marc Andreessen (co-founder of Andreessen Horowitz), there are three factors to startup success identified: your team, product and market.

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Hutwork

MARCH 9, 2018

Magazine reports that most CEOs read at least a book a week, and this doesn’t include blogs, articles, podcasts, and videos they devour, too. Just like you use the latest technology to inform products of today, you need to change the way you build products to optimize for the future. As a successful product manager reading is a must.

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Mironov Consulting

JULY 5, 2016

I call this the Do It Yourself Illusion : the idea that broadly available commercial products don’t give us exactly what we want, but our internal team can whip up just the right thing. Our technical lead is tapped for a quick estimate to build a similar application internally, and approve funds (budget) to build it.

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Intercom, Inc.

MAY 16, 2019

As our Design Lead Gustavs Cirulis shared recently, the development of the product did not come without its own challenges. There’s a debate about dates : some feel they’re too constraining and that the team should be able to launch the product whenever it’s ready. Few teams put nearly enough effort into onboarding.

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Business of Software Conference

MAY 29, 2019

Making that talented team work together well, now that’s even harder. In this talk from BoS Europe 2018 Alison Coward gave some great advice on how you can design the way a team communicates and works together to ensure you get the most out of everyone on the team. Video, Slides, & Transcript below.

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Business of Software Conference

APRIL 17, 2020

Today, more and more teams are discovering the benefits and flexibility that remote working provides; and in an ever changing world, could remote working become the new normal? Video, Slides & Transcript below. So, it’s kind of just like random and then we also had Twist which is like asynchronous team communication app.

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All About Product Management

NOVEMBER 4, 2007

Process : subjecting innovative efforts and projects to the same rigor, reviews and filters as standard business as usual (BAU) will stifle innovative growth. The key reason, for failure, was put down to a poor connection between the experimenting innovative team and the mainstream company.

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The Product Coalition

JUNE 25, 2019

Do co-located teams truly perform better? But having experienced both poorly performing, co-located teams as well as high performing distributed teams, I wanted to take a closer look at some of the research as well as experiences of others. The team members are a critical part of the overall success of distributed teams.

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Mixpanel

MAY 5, 2021

Teams are praised whenever they release a new feature (or product) to their customers. Employees on these teams likely felt proud to share something new with the world and maybe even posted their accomplishment on LinkedIn to spread the word and celebrate. Previously, he led growth and product teams at Instacart and Zynga.

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Mironov Consulting

DECEMBER 29, 2022

 But when I do product due diligence for SaaS-focused PE/VC firms, it's the very first thing I look at.  Let’s IMHO, software product companies are fundamentally different from software services/outsourcing/custom development companies.  Said   What BigCorp demands, BigCorp gets.  Hitting

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Intercom, Inc.

JULY 9, 2020

In many ways it offers him a unique perspective which he shares with us here – from his early days exploring search as a means to supporting his gaming tournament websites to spearheading the growth of an increasingly important tech discipline. Atlassian does not have an outbound sales team. Kevin: Yeah, that’s true.

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Mind the Product

JULY 19, 2018

After a day of workshops and leadership discussions, the main conference presented 10 amazing speakers who shared their insights and gave the crowd new ideas to think about and new techniques to apply when they got home. We know that we don’t know everything, and that lets us ask the right questions and connect the dots within our teams.

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PMLesson's Ace the PM Interview

OCTOBER 20, 2021

This career path is great for those who are technically inclined, but who also love people, processes, and project management. As with all technical/managerial roles, an EM's job will vary across companies and even across teams. When you're done, review the below list of questions to get a sense of what'll be asked.

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Department of Product

JUNE 27, 2022

Poor structure can make things worse. Define your org structure There are many ways to organize product development. For example, Frontend and Backend teams. So they expect Frontend teams and Backend teams. Every team should aspirationally be able to deliver business value without involving other teams.

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svpg

SEPTEMBER 30, 2016

When I first decided to start The Silicon Valley Product Group, I had just left eBay and had some very strong opinions about what makes great product teams, and great product cultures, and while there were more than a few important thinkers and leaders on these topics, one area that I felt was under-represented was the role of product management.

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Business of Software Conference

OCTOBER 11, 2023

As usual, you really had to be there but here are the Sigmacorn notes… 9:00 Mark Littlewood: Opening remarks Welcome to BoS! How will we win?

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Business of Software Conference

APRIL 24, 2020

Claire Lew // CEO, Know Your Team. In this BoS Talk, Claire discusses how n o one sets out to be a bad boss, but it’s easy to become one. She is often cited as an expert on the topic of creating more open, honest workplace environments, and has been published in Harvard Business Review, CNBC, Inc, and Fortune among others. .

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The Product Coalition

APRIL 25, 2022

The Best Product Managers use Product Management Software for: We’ve broken down this list into four stages of the feature life cycle that contributes to building the product value: opportunity identification and validation, design and prototyping, feature development, and launch and iteration.

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Sachin Rekhi

AUGUST 28, 2016

I installed the mobile app on my phone, which allowed me to easily save via the share action sheet any web page, blog, video, article, etc that I came across from any app I was in. Since I was eager to continue to build my expertise in product, design, startups, and technology, the following sources ended being most relevant for me.

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Business of Software Conference

DECEMBER 11, 2019

Agile methodology sounds confusing and difficult, but Bethany Pagels-Minor breaks it down to bite-size slices of delicious cakes that will will help every team work better, communicate better, and provide better returns. Video, slides, & transcript below. Video, slides, & transcript below. Upcoming Events. Transcript.

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PMLesson's Ace the PM Interview

MARCH 29, 2022

Remember that great data science resumes are easily scannable by those reviewing them. I strive to grow a team of data professionals and help them achieve their potential. You're trying to join a growing team or be part of a larger data team that will help coach you into bigger and better skills.

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