The Product Coalition

DECEMBER 8, 2019

Highly effective Product Managers develop themselves in 5 key areas. Highly effective Product Managers (or what I call Exponential PMs) tend to be strong in all of these areas. Let’s tuck in… What makes for a highly effective Product Manager? ?? the craft of product management, creating customer and business value) 2.

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Usersnap

JANUARY 8, 2024

The engineering team from Lockheed Martin used imperial units (pounds-force), while NASA’s team used metric units (newtons). As we explore the subsequent sections, we will uncover how this iterative approach to product development has revolutionized the way products are conceived, developed, and refined. Planning 2.

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Mind the Product

FEBRUARY 12, 2020

A healthy relationship between product management and engineering is critical to building successful products. It’s also essential to creating a team where great people want to work. Except, we live in the real world where life is messy, responsibilities overlap, specifications change, and the way teams interact can introduce friction.

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The Product Coalition

SEPTEMBER 29, 2020

Anyone familiar with Product Management will recognize the immortal phrase ‘influence without authority.’ 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. What Does ‘Influence’ Mean?

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UX Studio: Product Management

JANUARY 11, 2021

At UX Studio , while we develop our products, uxfol.io and copyfol.io , we are mainly focused on agency work, meaning that we cooperate with several clients as external teams. This post was written from the perspective of designers, mainly intended for external teams and entrepreneurs. Five challenges and solutions.

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Userpilot

JANUARY 16, 2024

From analyzing market trends to churning user needs and technical feasibility into golden product ideas, there are many benefits of ChatGPT for product managers. A potent tool, ChatGPT has proven to be a strategic addition to the product management toolkit, churning out ideas in even the most unlikely scenarios.

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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. Product vision statement 5. Product Vision 4. Don't panic! Pain points 2. Features 6.

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The Product Guy

OCTOBER 9, 2018

I became a product manager because I wanted to take a more strategic role at my company. First, I did not know how to frame, develop and present product strategy in a systematic way, and second, as a startup, my company has not historically had a good track record of strategy being developed outside of senior management (read: founder).

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ProductPlan

JULY 15, 2021

Clutch’s survey proves that you need an effective product management strategy to measure product vision success. As a product leader, your product vision anchors everything you communicate to your team. First, you must realize you need to test your product vision before developing a product strategy.

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The Product Coalition

APRIL 25, 2022

Product managers (PMs) are ninjas of aligning people, management, and processes. The best product managers are in a continuous state of discovery and know that?—? That’s why we’ve listed 12 tools that the best product managers use to do their jobs better? and not the best product management tools.

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The Product Coalition

OCTOBER 20, 2020

It’s understandable that most of us don’t make time for personal development. Who wants to spend time after a hard day of work learning and developing when they could be kicking back with a beer and watching The Crown? A few months ago, I introduced a concept I have developed called the PM, or Product, Quadrants.

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The Product Manager Coach Blog

NOVEMBER 5, 2023

Being a product manager requires a balance of assertiveness and diplomacy, particularly in stakeholder management. This guide provides a 5-step process for product managers to decline requests while maintaining strong professional relationships gracefully. Managing stakeholders is such an important skill to develop.

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The Product Coalition

DECEMBER 27, 2023

Building effective teams with people from different disciplines can be challenging due to various circumstances. In the product management discipline, cross-functional collaboration is more than a buzzword — it’s a critical strategy. Teams with multiple functions are instrumental towards staying competitive and succeed.

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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. Future-proofing your business Embracing digital transformation is not just about keeping up with the present; it’s about positioning your business for the future.

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The Product Coalition

APRIL 2, 2022

Every time I navigate the ocean of Product Management frameworks, we are not tackling one essential part of our role: People and Ourselves. There is a framework for almost every stage of our Product development lifecycle, but one of the only transversal things is that we need people to make things happen.

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Ronke PM

FEBRUARY 7, 2024

They use optimism and inspiration to galvanize their teams. At the core of every cross-functional team that creates product magic lies an exceptional product leader who excels in building both people and products. When it comes to hiring a Product Manager (PM), I prioritize candidates with strong soft and social skills.

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The Product Coalition

JUNE 9, 2023

This exchange unfolded over weak, black coffee in your typical, bland white-walled corporate conference room. Instead, I respond, “How can your team function without one?” They certainly don’t serve to dictate every move a team should make. Contrary to popular belief, their primary purpose isn’t to guide the team.

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People-First Product Leadership

SEPTEMBER 4, 2023

Throughout my career I have found product politics breeds a competitive environment that makes long-term individual and product team success precarious at best. Why compete against your product triad colleagues (product, design, engineering) when you are part of the same team? They're done by a team of people.”

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Product Talk

JANUARY 31, 2024

Because discovery involves changing the way you work on an individual, team, and even company level, it’s all too easy to make mistakes and missteps. You’ll hear from: Leann Schneider , Product Manager at Plum.io , Sebastian Wramba , Product Manager at Netfonds AG (finfire), and Jelena Stajic , Vice President of Product at ScholarshipOwl.

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Product Innovation Educators

SEPTEMBER 4, 2023

I first heard of Bob when he was the president of Sequent Learning, the product management training company. Summary of some concepts discussed for product managers [2:09] What is product strategy? The job of product managers is to take the company’s bigger strategies and objectives and break them down to their impact on product.

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Userpilot

DECEMBER 13, 2023

How do you develop a robust UX strategy? TL;DR UX strategy provides guidance to the UX design team on how to create and improve experiences that satisfy user needs. TL;DR UX strategy provides guidance to the UX design team on how to create and improve experiences that satisfy user needs. This is the main focus of the article.

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ProductPlan

SEPTEMBER 10, 2021

Clear’s advice proves useful for product managers to implement his philosophy into their own atomic roadmapping habits. And for product managers, it’s important to develop your own atomic roadmapping habits. . Learn how to set up your roadmap for success: Building New Habits and Breaking Bad Ones.

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The Product Coalition

AUGUST 8, 2022

Not bad for a man who faced challenges at every turn?—?raising The idea you should take away is vision coupled with incrementalism works. Gutenberg had a vision and iterated on existing product, making some radical improvements. Narrow in on your vision, your North Star, the driving purpose. What were his innovations?

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The Product Coalition

JANUARY 3, 2020

So, it was natural that we should want to develop a talent growth plan for our people. Each month we send out an NPS survey to assess whether the company is being a great place to work, but a few months ago I also sent Google’s manager feedback survey to my team of 10 product managers. Product manager motto?—?Dan

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ProductPlan

APRIL 25, 2023

Great teams assemble individuals with differing skill sets, perspectives, and experiences. For example, Iron Man and Captain America leading the Avengers or Superman, Batman, and Wonder Woman teaming up as the Justice League. Many product teams now have their own team of super-powered individuals banding together for a common cause.

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Userpilot

NOVEMBER 23, 2023

Why do product managers need them? TL;DR Regular roadmaps kill outcomes by forcing teams to think in the categories of features and timelines. TL;DR Regular roadmaps kill outcomes by forcing teams to think in the categories of features and timelines. They lack vision and lead nowhere. Ready to dive in to learn more?

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Product Innovation Educators

AUGUST 27, 2018

Use a simple product statement to align your team and meet your goals. It’s also a good bet that people on your product team, and most certainly in your organization outside the core team, have different understandings of what the product is about. The tool that brings order to the chaos is vision.

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The Product Coalition

JULY 5, 2023

While I thought it was an absolute, for a micro-second, I questioned it, and then the floodgates of doubt opened — maybe not such a bad thing in this case. Especially in mature companies, roadmaps provide a false sense of certainty when you are early in developing a product. The slide doesn’t guide product teams for planning purposes.

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Mind the Product

MAY 27, 2019

At ProductTank Montevideo (Mvd) we celebrated World Product Day earlier this month with a presentation from an awesome product leader, VP of Product Strategy at Rootstrap, Neville Reeves. Presenting the solution, he said: “This is organization as a product.” His vision was to win the game (capture the king). Develop Your Pieces.

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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

FEBRUARY 20, 2020

To help hiring managers and recruiters, like myself, decide whether or not to interview you, it can be a great exercise to treat your resume like a professional product. Consider this article a requirements document: it’s structured into several user stories from the perspective of a hiring manager, for a product manager role.

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Ronke PM

MARCH 8, 2024

What truly stands out is how they carry themselves, how quickly they rise after falling, and how they present themselves to the world. She is adept at leadership, emphasizing consensus building and the importance of team unity before embarking on projects. These women, like me, have goals and aspirations they strive for.

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ProductPlan

JUNE 20, 2019

As a product leader, face time with the company’s executive team is to be expected. Although product managers may not regularly attend management meetings, they will frequently have opportunities to demonstrate features, share customer learnings, and present roadmaps to the higher ups in the company. Know your audience.

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Userpilot

JULY 27, 2023

Chief Technical Officer : Responsible for outlining the company’s technological vision, implementing technology strategies, and ensuring that the technological resources are aligned with the company’s business needs. Engineering Manager: In charge of planning, designing, and overseeing projects. Average salary: $191,286/yr.

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Mind the Product

MARCH 15, 2017

When Ben Horowitz wrote his groundbreaking memo good product manager, bad product manager nearly 20 years ago he described a product manager as the CEO of the product. A product manager ultimately has a CEO behind them somewhere, and can always pass the buck. Does that sound like any product manager you know?

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ProductPlan

APRIL 9, 2019

For a product manager to be successful, they must be viewed as both credible and trustworthy. Without that confidence, product managers can get stuck in an ongoing cycle of attempting to quash doubts by revisiting topics over and over again because they haven’t secured buy in on various ideas, projects and initiatives.

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ProductPlan

JUNE 1, 2023

Where are product teams getting their feature ideas? According to our 2023 State of Product Management Report , customer feature requests are still the top source of actionable product ideas, but that’s only the case for 35% of respondents. Why do product teams become feature factories?

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