The Product Coalition

JULY 16, 2023

In recent years it seems that product management is all about execution and delivery. Photo by Kea Mowat on Unsplash When I moved into product management, almost 20 years ago, it used to be a very senior role. Photo by Kea Mowat on Unsplash When I moved into product management, almost 20 years ago, it used to be a very senior role.

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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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Mironov Consulting

JULY 25, 2018

Many infrastructure development teams don’t have a product manager, or have a fractional product owner/analyst working primarily on detailed technical requirements. Said another way, great development teams want to work on great technical problems. Product managers and development teams solve different problems.

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Userpilot

APRIL 7, 2024

Just like with analytics, segmentation is the name of the game when collecting user feedback. Develop multiple Aha moments The odds are that the insights from analytics and feedback data will point to multiple user actions as potential Aha moments. For a 360 view, complement the analytics data with user feedback.

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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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Mixpanel

JUNE 10, 2020

On the NerdWallet team, we go beyond a binary “pass / fail” grade on demo days with Engineering, Product and Design. We also host voluntary “turkey” demos where members of our team can share experiments that failed and what they learned from them. These turkey demos have surfaced key learnings for our team. Boy, were we wrong.

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Mironov Consulting

SEPTEMBER 22, 2020

Not to stop doing validation, discovery, prototyping or experiments they may associate that that acronym, but to remove the label from all of their docs and presentations and talks. Filed under “whiny excuses from product management for missing delivery dates.” So IMHO, calling something an MVP invites chaos. Here’s why….

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Intercom, Inc.

NOVEMBER 3, 2022

Scaling a support team is challenging enough as it is. Maybe you’ve just extended support hours and it’s becoming harder to plan shifts for different time zones; maybe you’re spending hours figuring out schedules for the week ahead; maybe the inflow prediction was a bit off and now your team is under or overstaffed.

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The Product Coalition

JULY 24, 2021

And it shows in the countless failed transformations; in the companies and products that fail despite having big names and tons of money backing them, and in the projects that rarely get delivered on time or achieve the projected ROI (if someone’s keeping the score at all). Or those stupid project managers, they don’t get it!

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Product Innovation Educators

JULY 17, 2023

Lessons from the discoverer of Stage-Gate for product managers Today we are talking with a legend in product management. Our guest is Dr. Robert Cooper, who discovered the now famous Stage-Gate process and was named the “World’s Top Innovation Management Scholar” by the prestigious Journal of Product Innovation Management.

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The Product Coalition

OCTOBER 15, 2020

Product Management | Websites Best practices checklist from a Fortune 10 product manager Remember this version of yahoo? Adopt fancy UX In a recent experiment on the US Census page, 86% of users failed to find the ‘current population ’ when it was presented in large red numbers. Such elements are said to have weak signifiers.

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The Product Coalition

JUNE 9, 2023

Photo by Oleg Magni from Pexels Educating the market has a bad reputation, and rightfully so. If you are simply advertising your product, you are educating the market on the product and on why it is better than the competition, namely your unique value proposition. So what can and cannot work when you want to educate the market?

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UX Studio

MAY 15, 2018

By definition, design handoff takes place when the finished design has reached the stage for the developers to implement it. Let’s look at the basics and some suggestions to get the best out of the designer-developer collaboration. We recently wrote an ebook, “Product Managers’ Guide to UX Design”. Click here to download!

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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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The Product Coalition

AUGUST 8, 2022

A prominent monk named Trithemius of Sponheim wrote in 1492, “Printed books will never be the equivalent of handwritten codices.” Not bad for a man who faced challenges at every turn?—?raising energy production at its present state is unsustainable. It also must present an end state that is clear to see?—?sustainable

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Mind the Product

MAY 17, 2018

Over the past year I’ve worked with hundreds of product managers in dozens of companies, and there’s been one question that has sounded like a persistent drum beat: “ What is the difference between the role of a product owner and a product manager? ”. In Agile that person is called the product manager. You see the rub?

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Mind the Product

AUGUST 19, 2019

What does it mean for us as product managers? What does it mean for us as product managers? 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. Imagine that you’re going to a coffee shop.

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nulab

MAY 15, 2019

Not only is does this make it easier to assign resources, plan budgets, and ensure timely delivery, but emotionally, it makes the whole thing more manageable because you can tackle it piece by piece. The conventional name for this planning is the ‘project management lifecycle’. How poor planning can derail your project.

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The Product Coalition

NOVEMBER 30, 2022

But many, many products are developed without knowing from the start that people want the solution, or even care about the problem. Jobs To Be Done has given us a better way to approach customer development. Teams who implement JTBD often come back with “ Problems To Be Solved.” Why does this happen? It seems so simple!

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Mind the Product

DECEMBER 5, 2019

A core skill of product management is prioritization. In fact, some methods are pretty poor. Unfortunately, it is these methods that product managers often use. Some product managers make poor decisions because they don’t have the right skills. But the product manager answer is: You don’t know!

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BrainStation Product Management

JULY 20, 2018

As the name suggests, a Product Manager (PM) is responsible for overseeing product development from conception to completion, and beyond. In terms of digital product management, PMs are the glue that holds together the user experience, the technical requirements, and the business requirements of a product. Management.

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Mind the Product

SEPTEMBER 1, 2017

There is probably one part of the product management job we can all agree is the hardest – people. We all come to product management from different backgrounds, but one thing that has long been true and is only just starting to change, is that when we start this job our training generally consists of Googling. Janna Bastow.

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BrainStation Product Management

OCTOBER 1, 2019

As the name suggests, a Product Manager (PM) is responsible for overseeing product development from conception to completion. In terms of digital product management, PMs are the glue that holds together the user experience, the technical requirements, and the business requirements of a product. What is Product Management?

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The Product Coalition

FEBRUARY 6, 2020

The best product teams have a stronger analytics set-up than the competition. And if your product team is open to new technology, you can instantly gain an edge on the market. Touch heatmaps are, as the name implies, based on gestures of users. Types of Mobile Heatmaps Mobile Product Management is hard.

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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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Revulytics

NOVEMBER 29, 2018

Back in the spring, some 150 million users of Under Armour’s health and fitness app MyFitnessPal were hit with a data breach, with a bad actor (or actors) stealing their user names, email addresses, and passwords. What’s more, its communication not only identified the problem, it presented users with actions to take.

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Good Product Manager

SEPTEMBER 6, 2018

Product Management Planning for 2019. As we look ahead to 2019, we see increased recognition of product management as a key function, and growth in the discipline, though there are still challenges, and there is certainly room for improvement. Product Management Podcasts. ” Upcoming Product Management Events.

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Amir Rozenberg

AUGUST 5, 2017

In our business, we have a unique opportunity to see the strategic problems which, sadly, lead some teams to fall short of their web quality goals. The direct outcome of these failures: poor customer experiences and impacts on businesses’ bottom lines. Also, there are new Chrome beta and developer versions.

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Userpilot

AUGUST 31, 2023

You will have to install a code snippet in the header of your website or use Google Tag Manager to record the event on all pages. As you give it a name, you can see all the details relating to the event in Heap’s Explore event dashboard. Set up custom events using Google Tag Manager. Retention analysis in Heap. Heap pricing.

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Gainsight

MARCH 19, 2020

Let’s start by acknowledging that Customer Success teams always have the coolest people in the company. Success leaders usually manage more revenue than anyone else at the company. They develop a deep understanding of the customer’s problems and how the company can offer a better overall solution.

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The Product Coalition

JANUARY 4, 2021

Photo by Oleg Magni from Pexels Educating the market has a bad reputation. If you are simply advertising your product, you are educating the market on the product and on why it is better than the competition, namely your unique value proposition. So what can and cannot work when you want to educate the market? What about Facebook?

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PMLesson's Ace the PM Interview

JULY 1, 2020

When I interview a product manager to work in my team, I want to know that they understand the whole of the product cycle - how to make it happen, from concept to rollout and beyond, and most importantly what will make it successful. Think of a great product that is way too expensive (e.g. Don't panic! Features 6. Rollout plan 10.

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Mind the Product

MAY 8, 2018

Scrum is a great way of organising software development teams but it doesn’t answer the sorts of questions that CFO types love to ask like “how much will it cost and when will I get it?” Managing Stakeholders. The Project Manager’s Triangle. The Project Manager’s Triangle. Other key Ingredients.

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Good Product Manager

SEPTEMBER 6, 2018

Product Management Planning for 2019. As we look ahead to 2019, we see increased recognition of product management as a key function, and growth in the discipline, though there are still challenges, and there is certainly room for improvement. Product Management Podcasts. ” Upcoming Product Management Events.

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Gainsight

MARCH 9, 2020

Let’s start by acknowledging that Customer Success teams always have the coolest people in the company. Success leaders usually manage more revenue than anyone else at the company. They develop a deep understanding of the customer’s problems and how the company can offer a better overall solution.

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Product Club

DECEMBER 20, 2016

On the 4th November the Product Manager Club attended JAM 2016 in London. How do product managers, designers and engineers make it all happen? The first presentation was an overview what goes on ‘behind the roadmap at Busuu’ and how the team create a well informed product roadmap. This product manager is well read!

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Alchemer Mobile

JUNE 9, 2020

In this presentation originally delivered at Mobile Growth Summit, Apptentive’s CEO and Co-founder, Robi Ganguly, dives into exactly how companies can use feedback to predict churn and extend customer lifetime value. My name is Robi Ganguly and I am the CEO and co-founder of Apptentive. Transcript.

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