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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Product Innovation Educators

OCTOBER 29, 2018

He has created products and led product teams for Fortune 500 companies including Cisco and Capital One, advised several small and medium businesses, and founded a Product Innovation, Design Thinking and Agile coaching practice called 5D Vision. Summary of some concepts discussed for product managers. [2:46] Innovation Quote.

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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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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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Product Bookshelf

JANUARY 31, 2017

Collect information and work with your cross-functional partners to be an effective product manager. Take Charge Product Management by Greg Geracie. You won’t find these two sentences in any books on product management: “It was 6:45am. .” Your role as product manager is to see the forest, not the trees.

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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. His startup career includes Tumbleweed, Timestamp, WildPackets, inCode, and many others. At Benchmark, Sarah invests in consumer businesses and the consumerization of IT.

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UX Studio: Product Management

JULY 14, 2021

We are aware that many companies choose their path and manage the challenges themselves. As a design thinking consulting firm , we advise on product strategy, lead workshops, and offer customized training to equip your business with the best UX practices. That’s one approach to problem-solving.

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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.

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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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. For example, a local startup team I consult for are developing their web app in-house while outsourcing their mobile development team of 12 to Poland. So why would you want to outsource anything? Efficient Kickstarts.

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Userpilot

SEPTEMBER 8, 2021

We generally advise against linear, top-down product tours. For some reason, when the average product manager thinks about setting up a product tour, they imagine a top-down, linear experience where each customer is shown the same product features in exactly the same way. Here are our top 4 tips for building great product tours: 1.

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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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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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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. The first part of Radical Focus is a story about a startup which sells tea.

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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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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. While her startup is still in very early stages, Ellen is completely in founder mode.

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