The Product Coalition

MARCH 8, 2020

I work in the tech industry & manage a team of around 12 people with a range of product, delivery & engineering skills. As a leader in tech, I have a variety of responsibilities, but I see my main role as building, enabling & motivating teams to deliver great digital products. To my mind, these are the most important parts.

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Roman Pichler

JUNE 7, 2022

While common sense suggests that managing a product without the right measurements is not a sensible approach, I’ve seen product teams who did not use any KPIs. Consequently, these teams relied on: Anecdotal feedback : “Customers love our product, they told me so.” If this data is actioned, bad product decisions will be made.

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Lenny Rachitsky

APRIL 28, 2024

Founders of acquihired companies led the teams behind Community Notes, Spaces, Super Follows, Fleets, Communities, Tipping, and more. Twitter acquihired entrepreneur types who were ambitious and then gave them responsibility and autonomy to develop new products. Copying can be done in good taste or poor taste.

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Roman Pichler

JULY 20, 2016

To help you develop your agile product roadmap, I have created a goal-oriented roadmap template called the GO Product Roadmap. Describe and validate the product strategy —the path to realise your vision—before you create your roadmap and decide how the strategy is best implemented, as the following picture illustrates.

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People-First Product Leadership

DECEMBER 20, 2023

Part 1, we covered the “why” behind creating a strategy stack, with a focus on establishing the organization’s Mission, North Star, and Vision. Part 3 brings together the Product specific Vision, Roadmap and Goals. The Vision is brought to life in the Now / Next / Later roadmap, which is supported by Product Goals.

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Userpilot

JUNE 12, 2024

Their average salary is $123,118 per year, with an estimated additional pay of $73,405 per year from channels like cash bonuses, commissions, tips, and profit sharing. Empower your team : A great product manager empowers their team by delegating decision-making responsibilities. How does one become a great product manager?

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Userpilot

AUGUST 21, 2023

TL;DR Product managers need to have good problem-solving, communication, and leadership skills. Product managers often work in cross-functional teams and bridge the gap between multiple departments. Leadership. What qualities do you look for in a strong product team? As such, they need to have superb communication skills.

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UX Studio: Product Management

JUNE 22, 2021

They get most of the recognition, but they also have to be involved in everything, which is super tiring and often leads to stress, burnout, and bad health. Today there is a new school of leadership emerging to remove this frustration. It’s called empowering leadership. Context: the most important tool to empower your team.

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The Product Coalition

MARCH 8, 2024

The important basis is the development of a strategy for short- and long-term digital transformation based on business results rather than technology. Involve them in strategy development, gather their input, and address their concerns. Vision & goals Now, chart your course. Vision & goals Now, chart your course.

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Mind the Product

APRIL 28, 2017

Here are a few of my favourite tips for negotiating with stakeholders for you to immediately go and try out. The Vision as a Tool. At a minimum, a good vision needs to identify three things: the problem you are trying to solve, who you are trying to solve it for and what outcomes you want to meet (evidenced by a solid, meaningful KPI).

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Mind the Product

JANUARY 21, 2019

As product managers our job description is pretty simple: to make all of our software development projects succeed. In fact, I would go so far as to say any failures or successes of the team are failures or successes of product management. Without defining success, it is quite likely the team may work towards different objectives.

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Userpilot

NOVEMBER 21, 2023

TL;DR Product managers often don’t get the due recognition for their work and their role is often marginalized by frustrated leadership or other teams. Without vision and looking ‘ahead’ it’s easy to get bogged down in ‘urgent’ low-impact tasks. Average ships per person in the team. Let’s dive in!

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People-First Product Leadership

DECEMBER 4, 2023

If you missed Part 1, we covered the “why” behind creating a strategy stack, with a focus on the Mission, North Star, and Vision. The Vision evolves over time, and is an inspirational guide for the company's future. The Vision evolves over time, and is an inspirational guide for the company's future.

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People-First Product Leadership

NOVEMBER 10, 2023

Today I am going to cover Part 1 of how to create a strategy stack for your organization and product team. The focus will be on the Mission, North Star and Vision. Your strategy creates alignment across your organization and team, not just for today - but for tomorrow and beyond. Establish a clear strategy.

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The Product Coalition

MAY 31, 2018

may choose to operate in silos, Product Management is the department that brings all of the teams together to ensure everyone’s voice is heard, vision is seen, and needs are met. for the good or bad. I hope you will read my book, the first in a planned series to give you scenarios, tips, perspectives and more.

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UX Studio: Product Management

MARCH 28, 2022

If you want to know what the culture is like in a product team, you should visit one of their product meetings. Do they talk about tasks and deadlines or blurry visions about the future? None of these are good or bad, but these signs can help you evaluate the culture of the team. How were we developing our teams?

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The Product HQ

MAY 10, 2024

Since product development is such a lucrative field, this is a crucial role for the company. This includes the project management of all of the activities done in product conceptualization, design, development, and marketing. Since the team is small, you will have to manage the technical aspects of product development.

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ProductPlan

NOVEMBER 3, 2021

Effective product team communication is not about talking to your team more often or providing them with more granular tasks. You want to make sure your team understands why what they’re doing matters. Not just from you to your team, but from them to you, and to each other. What is this data telling us?

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The Product Coalition

SEPTEMBER 29, 2020

As a Product Manager, you’re a team player who guides product development along its chartered course, but you have to do that without being the literal captain of the ship. Influence without authority is the skill of driving product development and ‘telling people what to do’ without formally being authorized to do so.

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Mind the Product

DECEMBER 21, 2017

Prioritisation is a necessary evil of every product development lifecycle. Andy Wicks shares his take on why poor prioritisation occurs, as well as a lean solution that will ensure you continually deliver the most value to your customers. Netflix Abstracts the Team out of Product Design. How bad Ideas get on the Roadmap.

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Mind the Product

SEPTEMBER 20, 2017

Three mindsets of product development. Be stubborn on the vision, but flexible on the details.”. This is how product teams can align to purpose, explore uncertainty, and learn their way to achieving desired outcomes. The good and bad of goal-based measurements. Many Mindsets, one Team. Jeff Bezos. A product wall.

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ProductPlan

JUNE 20, 2019

As a product leader, face time with the company’s executive team is to be expected. When they look at a product roadmap , they want to ensure this will make the company competitive and positioned for growth, as well as developing intellectual property and technology that would have value in the event of a potential acquisition.

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The Product Manager Coach Blog

NOVEMBER 5, 2023

Managing stakeholders is such an important skill to develop. It is about guiding your team and resources toward what truly matters for the product’s success and your company’s vision. Because when those requests and ideas sit on a list somewhere without taking any action whatsoever, bad things happen.

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The Product Coalition

MARCH 18, 2018

If you work in a product team or in a digital business, you’ve probably heard a lot about this topic, or might even have lost some sleeping nights due to the lack of it in your daily basis. I think that there is no doubt whether designers and product team should work together and if both of them are essential to achieving great results.

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The Product HQ

FEBRUARY 1, 2023

They work with leaders and their own teams across organizations. TPMs are responsible for communicating complex technical ideas to both technical and non-technical team members. As a technical program manager, you communicate with product managers, leadership teams, and external vendors.

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PMLesson's Ace the PM Interview

FEBRUARY 7, 2022

Community managers, sales teams, marketing managers, and more could provide much insight into a product's users. Without this first-hand knowledge and understanding of your product, you won't be able to develop or improve your product as much as possible. Spend time getting to know people from all sorts of teams.

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ProductPlan

DECEMBER 1, 2021

Knowing how these two spheres of strategy differ and how they fit together plays a role in your ability to build successful products and articulate a clear product vision. A business strategy sets the company’s approach at the highest levels—the vision, the playbook, the boundaries. Imagine a software startup. Here’s one example.

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The Product Coalition

DECEMBER 13, 2020

Having said that, I always find it useful to review the points below when I am in an objective state of mind in order to ensure the team is on the right track. Having said that, all teams need to be flexible every once in a while?—?all all team members in the company are in the same boat at the end of the day?—?but

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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. She has a big focus on people development, helping product managers and product leaders get better at their craft. You can watch the video or read an edited version of the transcript below. Tweet This.

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Mind the Product

MARCH 31, 2020

In this blog post, we revisit an episode of Mindset in which Singapore-based Tamara Moona, Associate Director of Product at Pivotal Labs , and Priscilla Nu, Head of Digital Experience and Design at SP Group , share their advice on developing organisational alignment and tackling issues with stakeholders. Vet your Company.

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PMLesson's Ace the PM Interview

MARCH 2, 2022

" and seek to better understand your: Leadership Problem solving Communicating Teamwork Cross-functional collaboration and more. Leadership. Google is always looking for leadership qualities in their employees. Specifically, they want "emergent leadership." What are your strengths and weaknesses?

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UserVoice

JULY 28, 2017

Product management intuition is still a great thing to develop, but statistics and analytics will help you hone your product sense and justify your decisions to stakeholders. The right product metrics give us a read on the health of our product, help us identify strengths and weaknesses, track improvement over time, diagnose problems, etc.

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The Product Coalition

JANUARY 12, 2020

So I decided to write a complete guide on getting your team from where they are, to fully using OKRs in 30 days. How to have meetings with the team, what to cover, how to get low performing teams back on track and then how to persuade everyone in the company to use them too. I also make sure to cover the more human elements.

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PMLesson's Ace the PM Interview

MARCH 9, 2022

Complete PM Interview Prep Course Our product management interview course teaches you the essential skills you need to ace your PM interview, with hours of example questions, videos, and interview tips. They can lead a team rather than just being part of a team. Start Learning Can You Transition from UX to Product Management?

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Hutwork

MARCH 9, 2018

The Power of the Elastic Product Team—Airbnb’s First PM on How to Build Your Own. Learn how Airbnb created an elastic product team that helped them get to where they are today. While he talks mainly to entrepreneurs about slow, steady progress and growth for their companies, you can apply his tips and advice to product development. #5

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The Product Coalition

JULY 29, 2019

Product managers act as the glue between multiple cross-functional teams and effective communication is the foundation of their success; from here the general sense that product managers can’t do their job productively unless they are co-located with their teams. But how does this apply to the PM role?

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Imaginary Cloud - Design

JULY 2, 2020

It is not that those books are bad. In a time when there was very little acknowledgment about the importance and the role of design, when design was mainly done by developers and with very little user awareness. Summing it up: Sprint describes how to include design in your product development. little about product design.

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