The Product Coalition

FEBRUARY 17, 2022

As a business, you would surely want to increase the market value, for which outsourcing would be the best option. It brings you an amazing opportunity to explore the market for considerate growth. We have provided a brief overview of the advantages associated with outsourcing for you to get a clear vision of it.

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Userpilot

JULY 9, 2021

What are the best product management books to add to your 2021 reading list? We’ve put together a list for you with a few staples from every product manager’s bookshelf and some new releases too. New in – Best New Product Management Books in 2021. Product Management Books #1 – Continuous Discovery Habits [NEW! ].

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Ask Benny

FEBRUARY 2, 2018

How to enter into a new product management position in a new company. You just landed into a new product management position. Whether it’s a VP product or a product manager, whether it’s a small or big company, you are expected to get fast into the role, and many times you are expected to do it by yourself. Congratulations.

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Gainsight

AUGUST 5, 2022

Imagine you are a Customer Success Manager (CSM), and you wonder what the future holds for you. Over the past ten years, the role of Customer Success Manager has evolved and changed as much as the field of SaaS has. Helping manage renewals and driving advocacy. However, you aren’t sure of the path to get there.

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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. It’s seldom their ability to do the job technically?—?to How do I build alignment?

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The Product Coalition

FEBRUARY 2, 2018

How to enter a new product management position in a new company. Congratulations, you just landed a new product management position. Whether it’s a VP product or a product manager or it’s a small or big company, you are expected to adjust quickly to the role. I would advise you differently. You should make it personal.

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Intercom, Inc.

JANUARY 14, 2021

With a background in computer science and an MBA, he soon realized that understanding the markets and customers is as important as building the products. And so, in 2014, he founded Productboard , a product management system that incorporates customer feedback and insights to help product teams build better products. A CRM for Product.

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Product Bookshelf

JANUARY 31, 2017

Collect information and work with your cross-functional partners to be an effective product manager. Your company will rely on you to be the most knowledgeable about your product so never take your eye off the market and establish an objective framework to guide your decisions. Take Charge Product Management by Greg Geracie.

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Sachin Rekhi

JANUARY 27, 2013

The role of product management in technology firms is a critically important one that is often misunderstood. Product management boils down to owning the vision, design, and execution of your product. An important lesson that I learned early on is that formulating such a vision is only half the battle.

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The Product Coalition

MAY 15, 2019

One signal I’ve been giving much thought too of late is the collision of two roles, Product Management and Product Ownership. As time progressed many Product Managers wondered if they should be a Product Owner and similarly many Product Owners started to wonder where they fit in relation to their Product Manager counterparts.

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Userpilot

NOVEMBER 29, 2022

What is an ecosystem moat and how can product managers build one? These are the key questions that Austin Yang , the Lead Product Manager at Softr , discussed in his presentation at the Product Drive Summit this year. Companies use community leaders to outsource some of the effort needed to manage the ecosystem. Book the demo!

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Mind the Product

JANUARY 10, 2017

As a product manager it’s not uncommon to feel pulled in a million different directions as you work to meet the needs of your customers, developers and company stakeholders. This should not be confused with technical documentation. If you are starting out fresh I would advise you to explore Google Analytics and Google Firebase.

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Bain Public

MAY 29, 2020

The right mentoring and coaching support facilitates a startup’s transformation and enables roadmap planning and execution, without straying from the ultimate vision and goal. See the end of this article for more information on how we helped bring these companies and their product management to the next level. In fact, 83.9%

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Gainsight

OCTOBER 1, 2021

Operations are in perpetual motion, managing every activity of the daily business. Others were consultative, or they advised about technical needs. These questions are grouped together because they center on a particular quality: the vision to see the bigger picture. In the beginning, CS Ops roles were in flux.

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Userpilot

SEPTEMBER 8, 2021

We generally advise against linear, top-down product tours. The best product tour software on the market is Userpilot. Product marketers often find that a good product tour ensures that more new users activate. Instead, you should opt for an interactive walkthrough type of product tour. What are product tours?

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UX Studio: Product Management

JULY 14, 2021

As a product design consulting firm , we often get questions from our clients who look for reliable design, development, or marketing partners. We are aware that many companies choose their path and manage the challenges themselves. Instead, they are your strategic partners and advisers with solid expertise in your industry. .

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Mind the Product

JULY 10, 2017

Let’s establish this right upfront: nothing beats a well-managed full-time in-house team of local developers. Can you afford local market rates? I would recommend this model if you have no technical or product management background. It’s wrong to think that an outsourced team will magically manage itself.

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Mind the Product

MAY 29, 2018

Prior to Benchmark, Sarah was a Partner at Greylock Partners, and a Product Lead for search, recommendations, machine vision, and pin quality at Pinterest. He is the co-author of the New York Times bestseller, The Lean Entrepreneur and has over 20 years experience helping companies bring high-growth products to market.

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Gainsight

AUGUST 31, 2020

None of her employment at that time was about product management. ” Amy also believes that with each job, she moved closer to software and began thinking about product management. I once had a manager who told me that I should just get a job somewhere else. working on radar systems. “I liked synthesizing concepts.

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Intercom, Inc.

AUGUST 15, 2018

At Reddit, he led a team of 35 – none of whom knew how to manage other engineers. He had to quickly determine which team members displayed a potential for leadership and teach them the fundamentals of management so they could make new hires and scale – without ruining the culture. Before that, I was a general manager at Microsoft.

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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”. But why is working in enterprise software now different?

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Pragmatic Marketing

SEPTEMBER 16, 2009

Barbara Nelson said in The Politics of Agile , “When product managers weren’t looking, the developers went agile.” ” Indeed, many Product Managers were taken by surprise at the speed of Agile’s adoption. Ultimately, we are responsible for the success of the product and, thus, the company.

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Userpilot

MAY 26, 2021

For example, if you’re building project management software, then the “Aha Moment” might come when a project manager understands that using your tool is going to make their operations much less chaotic. In our project management software example: The PM cares about bringing order to operations.

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Usersnap

JUNE 15, 2023

Without a systematic approach to your product management process and clear roadmap, you’ll likely face several hurdles like lack of direction, unclear priorities, wasted resources, missed deadlines, difficulty in scaling, and more. To help you out, I’ve put together this extensive guide on the product management process.

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The Product Coalition

OCTOBER 21, 2019

But in our experience, everything can be done if the development team and project manager have deep expertise and, along with the product owner, carefully listen to each other and keep themselves open to cooperation. You can read all about that in the Project Management Body of Knowledge book. Let’s begin.

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Product Bookshelf

SEPTEMBER 14, 2020

Radical Focus is about a management method called Objectives and Key Results (OKRs). The OKR method has its roots in HP’s Management by Objectives (MBO) which seeks to achieve alignment through a cascading set of objectives through the enterprise. This distinguishes OKRs from strictly numbers-based management techniques.

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The Product Coalition

MARCH 11, 2020

Development Teams are structured and empowered by the organization to organize and manage their own work.” Finally, the term Development Team seems to limit the role to technical people, for example, software engineers. Read more on technical debt and Scrum.) Only members of the Development Team create the Increment. Team leads?

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UX Studio: Product Management

MARCH 28, 2022

Is it technical details, customer insights or revenue and money? Do they talk about tasks and deadlines or blurry visions about the future? To Bill, being an executive of a successful company is all about management, about creating operational excellence. How quickly were we going to manage our way out of them?

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The Product Guy

AUGUST 30, 2017

At the end of 2015 I was in the worst nightmare of any Product Manager. I had a strong roadmap, clear goals and a vision for the product. A production release was a distant vision. I’m not a technical Product Manager. We managed to decrease each dev-test-release cycle from being months to 2 weeks.

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The Product Coalition

MARCH 21, 2018

What you need to think about in your first 60–90 days on a new job: product management (leader) edition I’ve recently transitioned into a different role and have spent some time thinking about how to start this new job. A mentor advised me to think about three broad categories?—?the What are the goals, how do you define success?

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UX Studio

JANUARY 24, 2024

But I also advise designers not to oversee the business side of the relationship. But I [00:16:00] also advise designers not to oversee the business side of the relationship. Pair with product managers, pair with engineers. Learn to understand limitations, technical limitations. Sometimes I like to go back to this moment.

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UX Studio

OCTOBER 16, 2017

Whether in the pool or already on the market, a new product or service with plenty of ideas will constantly require recurring feature prioritization. In fact, this method of feature prioritization saved us a lot of debates and rationalizing when members of the product team clung to ideas that did not serve the product’s vision.

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Sequent Learning

OCTOBER 25, 2018

As we discussed in the blog post Yes, Product Managers are Superheroes , product management is a combination of both art and science. I have been in product management for about 15 years. While we don’t necessarily think of ourselves as sales people, the truth is Product Managers sell every day. We sell visions.

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Product Talk

APRIL 7, 2021

I am a former chief product officer and now coach and advise product leaders and teams. She is my blog editor and also helps out with a variety of content marketing activities for Product Talk. The idea is to have a product trio —a product manager, a designer, and a tech lead—working and owning product decisions together.

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Roadmunk

DECEMBER 7, 2017

This is the latest episode of Product to Product —a product management podcast for / by product people. You may know her as the VP of Product at Lola , a former product manager at Kickstarter , or as a previous PM at Microsoft. I wanted to start by asking you if you could talk a little bit about your career in product management.

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