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. Trust your team.

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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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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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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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Intercom, Inc.

JANUARY 14, 2021

And so, in 2014, he founded Productboard , a product management system that incorporates customer feedback and insights to help product teams build better products. Looking at how the best companies operate, Hubert and his team boiled down product excellence to three key areas of action: vision, strategy, and execution.

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UX Studio: Product Management

JULY 14, 2021

Considering that none of the established innovation consulting companies are cheap, you want to make sure your return on the investment is positive. . We are aware that many companies choose their path and manage the challenges themselves. That’s one approach to problem-solving. This is how IDEO was born in Palo Alto, California. .

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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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Userpilot

SEPTEMBER 8, 2021

We generally advise against linear, top-down product tours. Great product tours have a positive effect on just about every important SaaS metric that you can possibly imagine. Imagine if I wanted you to use a task list feature on my project management tool, and I gave you the following instructions: Open the tool.

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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. The Problem.

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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

JANUARY 5, 2021

TL; DR: 71 Product Owner Interview Questions to Avoid Imposters If you are looking to fill a position for a Product Owner in your organization, you may find the following 71 interview questions useful to identify the right candidate. A new feature is overdue and has been drastically underestimated due to unexpected technical debt.

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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 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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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

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. As a consequence, the functional and reliable features still have some technical hiccups which would need more work.

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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. The idea is to have a product trio —a product manager, a designer, and a tech lead—working and owning product decisions together. Is it technically feasible?” I’m joined today by Hope Gurion. Hope Gurion : Hi, everybody.

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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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