The Product Coalition

JANUARY 12, 2023

And What You Can Do to Avoid Them Disclaimer: I don’t really believe you can ‘teach’ Product Management. That’s what I did in 2022 and doing so, I also got to dig into a lot of clients’ products. Product Managers I work with often tell me that “the purpose” has been decided by top management “a while ago”.

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The Product Coalition

SEPTEMBER 28, 2022

Strategy and enabling your team to solve problems makes the difference between a boss and an impactful leader. In this series, I look at what I wish I had known when I started as Head of Product… Summary Understanding strategy allows you to effectively delegate, motivate and align so you can move from a nice boss to an effective leader.

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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.

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The Product Bistro

JULY 17, 2018

The role of product manager is somewhat synonymous 1 with the agile concept of “product owner” where you are the representative of the “customer” to the development team. This is doubly true when the product manager is also the product owner in the scrum team.

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Roman Pichler

OCTOBER 5, 2021

The Product Backlog is Too Big. A few years ago, I was asked to help a healthcare company with their agile transition and its impact on product management. One of the challenges the agile transition team was concerned about was the choice of the right product backlog tool, which at first seemed odd to me.

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The Product Coalition

NOVEMBER 23, 2021

Measuring the performance of product managers is a real challenge for a number of reasons. When planning the product managers’ goals, this challenge can translate into taking the wrong direction altogether. Here is a new way to look at product management goals, and make them a useful tool for both you and your team.

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The Product Coalition

SEPTEMBER 4, 2020

My journey to product management was not what you might expect , but then again, maybe you would. Three years later I became a web application engineer at a startup that built software for military and private industries. I became director of communications, leading the development of intranets and web applications.

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Userpilot

APRIL 6, 2023

Developing and releasing sophisticated products with all the bells and whistles imaginable might seem like a great idea. Overengineered products are difficult to use, filled with bugs, and instead of improving your users’ lives, they make them unnecessarily complicated. Why do developers overengineer software products?

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Userpilot

MAY 1, 2024

There is a ton of product management advice out there, but most of it is generic tips repeated over and over again. With a self-named newsletter and podcast, Lenny is a widely followed product expert. Lenny is a newsletter writer, podcast host, angel investor, and product consultant.

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The Product Coalition

DECEMBER 11, 2023

Startups also have a silent killer. Still, because startup life is so hectic — it might feel like business as usual. Note: everything I say here is true for mature product companies as well. The reason I’m talking here primarily about startups is that they are much more volatile than larger companies. And nothing else.

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Mind the Product

AUGUST 23, 2018

I’ve worked for more than a decade in product management with Fortune 500 companies and startups, and I realize I’m seeing a scary pattern. Product managers are only hired after the innovation or startup teams get concepts or funding approved.

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Mind the Product

NOVEMBER 27, 2017

Observations of a B2C startup product manager working in enterprise. A startup, finding its feet and learning how to stand, should by certain logic be less wise, less capable and less developed than its older, wiser counterparts. The child was asked to imagine what this octogenarian would look like.

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The Product Coalition

JANUARY 5, 2023

Dark periods are when a product team knows what to design and develop and go about doing it, but the work has yet to be exposed to users in any significant way. Product dark periods are when a product team’s commitment and culture are tested. Developers will be knocking out cards.

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Ask Benny

JANUARY 25, 2020

Why should product managers involve themselves with prioritizing technical debt? When it comes to technical debt many product managers do not like to get involved. They see it totally as the domain of the development. Technical debt is not necessarily a bad thing. How is technical debt created?

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Mind the Product

DECEMBER 12, 2019

At a time when so much of today’s B2B ecosystem is built around software products, I believe it has become incumbent on the people responsible for designing, developing, and building these products to take back leadership of how our companies are run, and lead us all back to a culture of responsible growth.

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The Product Coalition

JULY 12, 2022

Here are cases for when the cooperation between the product team and the client brakes down for objective reasons. Here I have tried to reveal the most common cases when the cooperation between the development team and the entrepreneur fails for reasons beyond the control of all parties involved. So I wrote this article.

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Ask Benny

DECEMBER 4, 2019

Why should product managers involve themselves with prioritizing technical debt? When it comes to technical debt many product managers do not like to get involved. They see it totally as the domain of the development. Technical debt is not necessarily a bad thing. How is Technical Debt Created?

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Sachin Rekhi

JUNE 25, 2017

I'm often asked what's the best way for a new product manager to learn the fundamentals of the role or for an experienced product manager to continue to master their craft. I've organized this collection into several sections, starting with product management 101.

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The Product Coalition

SEPTEMBER 14, 2019

How NOT to manage a Startup As a product manager, I led 2 teams in my recent startup gig with a lot of uncertainty, distractions and constant changes that impacted the engineers. A startup that is trying to scale, there are good and bad times.

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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. You can read her writing on ProductTalk.org.

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Product Innovation Educators

DECEMBER 27, 2021

Innovation accounting for teams, managers, and strategy – for product managers. the development of new business models. She has been an entrepreneur for over 20 years and mentored several hundred startups. Summary of some concepts discussed for product managers. [1:59] corporate ventures?with?the

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The Product Coalition

MARCH 8, 2019

Without a proper foundation to sustain growth , startups are liable to collapse on themselves. Disconnection within departments Luckily, these problems have solutions, and these solutions can be the key to taking your startup out of growing pains and into the next level of success. A lack of managerial direction.

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The Product Guy

JUNE 11, 2018

The most important take-aways were the importance of consistent one-on-ones and realisation that team diversity can sometimes oppose the team culture and this is not a bad thing. Of course we had internal discussion about this situation in my team. Company culture vs team diversity. Mentorship experience.

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Mind the Product

MARCH 13, 2018

The last of the four topics particularly caught my eye: “how do you increase the commercial acumen of product managers?”. The article suggested that “product people (especially those in Europe) are weak commercially”, which “can lead to bad assumptions, particularly in more complex environments”.

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ProductPlan

JANUARY 10, 2020

Today, your customers are using this same pattern-seeking skill to turn their product experiences into beliefs about your company and your products. Even a few lousy product experiences can shake a customer’s trust. What Happens to Your Customers After Bad Product Experiences. appeared first on.

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Mind the Product

AUGUST 19, 2019

What does it mean for us as product managers? We all use AI or machine learning (ML)-driven products almost every day, and the number of these products will be growing exponentially over the next couple of years. What does it mean for us as product managers?

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The Product Coalition

SEPTEMBER 7, 2022

Minimum Viable Products: Why You Should Test Before Investing In Ideas Let’s analyze the advantages of MVP-based software development. Why should you invest in MVP development? You can successfully prevent these problems by starting software development with a Minimum Viable Product (MVP). a skateboard.

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The Product Coalition

MARCH 14, 2019

There are thousands of articles, books , videos , and conferences that discuss the traits necessary for you to become the greatest Product Manager ever. However, information on what makes a disastrous Product Manager is much harder to come by. The “Yes PM” This type of poor Product Manager is difficult to identify.

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Ask Benny

JULY 1, 2019

Why product managers should be working in different markets and expertise and why companies should be looking for such product managers. The same goes for product managers themselves. It is not necessarily bad to have product managers that already know the market. Jump Markets.

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The Product Coalition

JANUARY 3, 2020

You have no idea about product management? to achieve your goals when it comes to building your first prototype with the ultimate goal to find product-market fit. There is no educational starting place for people who want to understand the basic concepts of product management. The Lean Startup ????

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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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PMLesson's Ace the PM Interview

MARCH 3, 2022

The product management career path can be incredibly fulfilling as you build and work on products used by millions of users around the world. The success of a product, or even an entire company, rests on the product team. Building impactful products is exciting! Are you cut out for product management?

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The Product Coalition

DECEMBER 5, 2019

Why should product managers involve themselves with prioritizing technical debt? When it comes to technical debt many product managers do not like to get involved. They see it totally as the domain of the development. Technical debt is not necessarily a bad thing. How is Technical Debt Created?

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Mind the Product

NOVEMBER 21, 2019

As a product leader, you are the product manager for a leadership team, and the tricks you learned in product teams remain valuable, they just need a little tweak. Here, to help you, are five product management tricks and tools for every product leader. Value Proposition.

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Ask Benny

JANUARY 25, 2020

Why should product managers involve themselves with prioritizing technical debt? When it comes to technical debt many product managers do not like to get involved. They see it totally as the domain of the development. Technical debt is not necessarily a bad thing. How is technical debt created?

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Ask Benny

JANUARY 25, 2020

, Why should product managers involve themselves with prioritizing technical debt? When it comes to technical debt many product managers do not like to get involved. They see it totally as the domain of the development. Technical debt is not necessarily a bad thing. How is technical debt created?

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Mind the Product

FEBRUARY 21, 2019

Yet it preoccupies me as I commute to work, eat my lunch, or sit in the office… what if I am the only person who struggles with product management? Building the best products, working with the best people, utilising the best processes… I wish I was like YOU! I have a secret, not one I talk about often, if at all. Don’t you?!

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