The Product Coalition

OCTOBER 23, 2019

million bookings made every day, and every tenth person in the world employed in travel services, it’s no surprise that the value of the travel industry is estimated to hit $13.5 In the past, people used to plan their trips through travel agencies?—?but 98% of travelers carry their smartphone with them throughout their journey.

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The Product Coalition

APRIL 2, 2018

Product Management can be an intimidating role. Traditionally Product Managers come from a design or development background, find they are good with people, and evolve their role into a Product Manager position. Team orientated. A Product Manager is the Swiss army knife of the team. Communication.

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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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The Product Guy

AUGUST 13, 2020

When I first researched about product management, I asked seasoned product managers how they started and they gave me very different kinds of answers. A lot of them worked in other positions before moving to product management, like engineers, analysts, marketers and project managers, and learned by taking on extra responsibilities.

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The Product Coalition

FEBRUARY 24, 2023

The Scribe Product Owner A scribe is like a really poor waiter in a restaurant. A scribe just takes your order regardless, of whether it’s a good or a bad idea, they don’t add any value. Myth: Product management is taught in product ownership classes One of them is that in the product owner class we teach about product management.

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Userpilot

NOVEMBER 30, 2023

How do product managers identify market gaps? A market gap can be caused by missing functionality or poor user experience. Canva identified a market need for a user-friendly graphic design tool for non-designers and DocuSign for a secure solution to sign and manage digital documents and contracts. Let’s get into it!

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The Product Coalition

JANUARY 3, 2020

The Hard Thing About Hard Things) At Latin American travel technology company Almundo , we believe that leaders are responsible for the people, whether that is via one-on-one meetings, career opportunities, company culture, or employee satisfaction. So, it was natural that we should want to develop a talent growth plan for our people.

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Johanna Rothman

NOVEMBER 16, 2020

One of my reviewers for the Modern Management Made Easy books asked a fascinating question: I've never seen this many women in management or in senior leadership positions. Too many of these educated people had no idea how to work as a collaborative team. They acted as if they were indispensable or 10x developers.

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PMLesson's Ace the PM Interview

OCTOBER 20, 2021

If so, you might thrive as an engineering manager. This career path is great for those who are technically inclined, but who also love people, processes, and project management. As with all technical/managerial roles, an EM's job will vary across companies and even across teams. How would you handle poor performers on your team?

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Mind the Product

JUNE 25, 2019

It can happen in any team, even in teams with a commitment to diversity. We had completed a round of interviews and I wanted her to work on my team. The candidate was a senior designer who’d managed teams in very difficult large-scale companies and managed to generate great results. So why drop culture fit?

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Ronke PM

APRIL 5, 2023

Design-driven leadership is product management Final thoughts The very essence of leadership is creating a space that enables our teams to dream big, imagine, and bring what was once unthinkable to life - therefore, changing humanity. Table of Contents Product and design partnership What does design-driven leadership mean?

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The Product Coalition

FEBRUARY 2, 2023

As product managers, it’s our job to develop solutions that solve real problems for our customers and create value for the business. Chances are, it might have been because the team wasn’t using the hypothesis-driven approach correctly. But with so many potential ideas to pursue, how do you know which ones are worth pursuing?

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The Product Coalition

JULY 29, 2021

Complexity Does Not Need To Look Complex Photo by Karina Zhukovskaya from Pexels You are still on a high from developing that elegant Product idea that would solve all your users’ problems. People working with you daily have traveled that bumpy road by your side. But the investment is high and you need to convince the higher-ups.

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People-First Product Leadership

MARCH 24, 2024

I’m in Duke Leto’s camp and believe a boss - at any level - should care and be thinking about their team. And, the SVP of Sales who would stop by my desk in the mornings to share the good and bad about the product and my team with me. We all have good and bad days. I won’t ruin the movie for you.

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Sachin Rekhi

DECEMBER 6, 2021

We experience these effects everyday when we use products like Uber, where the more drivers who join, the shorter your wait times; Slack, where the more team members that join, the quicker it is to communicate with more of your colleagues; and Airbnb, where the more travelers that join, the better the listing reviews. Tipping Point.

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The Product Coalition

SEPTEMBER 21, 2023

Creating Product Outcomes: What I’ve Learned From The Soccer Pitch “Great things in business are never done by one person; they’re done by a team of people.” — Steve Jobs Soccer is more than just a game for me. It’s become a lens through which I’ve come to view much of my life, including my work in product management.

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Mironov Consulting

JANUARY 8, 2020

And whether a code of ethics or other agreement among product leaders/product managers would be helpful. We’ve relearned over the last few years that products can have unintended side effects, and that bad actors can misuse good products. As product professionals, we’re often not taking time to anticipate bad outcomes.

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The Product Coalition

JANUARY 21, 2021

I began the year working in Almundo, an Argentinian tech travel company that had been acquired by CVC (biggest travel company in Brazil). Things were already tough merging teams from multiple companies to launch a unified platform in Latam when countries started closing their borders. Travel industry went into complete chaos.

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Roman Pichler

JULY 20, 2016

To help you develop your agile product roadmap, I have created a goal-oriented roadmap template called the GO Product Roadmap. I like to use my Product Vision Board to develop a valid product strategy. The best roadmap is worthless if the people required to develop, market, and sell the product don’t buy into it.

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UX Studio

MAY 29, 2018

But team building retreats can do exactly that. Every six months, our whole UX team travels to a remote location in Hungary’s countryside for two days to have fun and decide together about our big goals. These team building retreats play an important part in UX studio’s culture. Bold proposal, right?

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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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Split

AUGUST 28, 2020

Software development in 2020 is a rapidly changing environment. Traditionally in many organizations, these decisions are made centrally by a change manager who conducts periodic change advisory board (CAB) meetings. But how do you control for safety at speed? But, who should be in charge? Actually, no.

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Mind the Product

NOVEMBER 9, 2016

These business applications include everything from education, e-commerce, travel, communications, healthcare, job training, and data visualization, to almost anything else you can imagine. As we look at what it takes to develop non-gaming VR products, their separation from gaming becomes very important.

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Intercom, Inc.

JULY 29, 2021

And so, Mark Rudden and his team had to figure it all out by themselves. Fortunately, Mark had quite a bit of experience working and scaling teams in demanding, hypergrowth environments. And I think you need to think about people management the same way. Well, at the beginning of 2020, no one had the playbook for that.

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Mind the Product

JULY 25, 2018

This year, I travelled from Berlin to Silicon Valley and interviewed 15 product management experts from Google, LinkedIn, Salesforce, eBay, and other companies, to learn about how they build successful products that serve millions of people every day. You want to steer the team into the greenfield area where big ideas live.

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Mind the Product

JANUARY 21, 2020

The fox terrier travels everywhere with him – to London once a week, wherever it is, where Joe goes, he goes. Joe coaches and mentors product teams, supporting them to make good decisions and good user-centred design choices. I’ll be told ‘we’re not shipping stuff when we should, UX is poor, we’re struggling to keep staff’.

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Mind the Product

FEBRUARY 21, 2017

Osama Hanif (Digital Solutions Manager at Telenor) launched the first digital agency in Lahore and went on to join Telenor Digital. Last summer he and a brand new team were challenged by Telenor to tackle smartphone users, especially in Asia, who don’t use data because of a fear of large unexpected bills. Plan for improvisation.

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The Product Coalition

MAY 9, 2020

Emerging Product Strategy Product Management in the Time of COVID Part I: Stopgaps & Scaled Retention Strategies This first article in the series highlights customer retention strategies for products adapting to changes in customer behavior. one of our developers asked. For this reason, product managers have begun adapting.

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PMLesson's Ace the PM Interview

DECEMBER 3, 2020

Along the way, I’ve shipped hundreds of products, and managed other PMs. Distinguishing between bad vs. good vs. great answers is key , and seems like an underserved area Write down a framework for how you tackle these problems. I love to travel, so this was fun for me. Having a clear framework helped me develop an ok answer.

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UX Studio: Product Management

JANUARY 11, 2022

Our experts analyzed services, portfolios, expertise, strengths, and weaknesses of dozens of Webdesign Wien companies to create this curated list. As an established UX design agency with over ten years of experience, we have worked in fintech, fashion, digital solutions, traveling, education, and healthcare industries, just to name a few.

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Reveal

AUGUST 24, 2022

Banking analytics allows banks a better way to manage their assets, marketing campaigns, model credit risk, forecast consumer trends, ensure compliance, and much more. Furthermore, CRM analytics gives you insights into your customers and how well your sales and customer service teams are reaching them.

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The Product Coalition

JUNE 12, 2018

Could you imagine a workplace with a bunch of product managers and no engineers? As product managers though, we are often included on the list of interviewers for engineers when they come in, but it can be difficult to figure out exactly what role we play in the process. A traveler came upon three men working.

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ProductPlan

NOVEMBER 15, 2022

Regardless of whether you’re building products for software, hardware, or services, product managers of every stripe are considered the driver of a product’s strategic development and the single source of truth for questions, requests, and feedback related to their products. What is software product management?

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Userpilot

MARCH 7, 2024

So I talked to several female leaders in SaaS – about their experience with breaking into leadership positions in tech startups – what challenges they’ve faced, and how they managed to overcome them. My official title was the ‘COO’ but on Fridays, I made pancakes for the developers. Sima Banijamali – Sr.

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PMLesson's Ace the PM Interview

JANUARY 12, 2022

Have you been intrigued by the position of Technical Program Manager? But this doesn't mean you can't prepare for and ace your upcoming technical program manager interview. The responsibilities of a technical program manager are a little more big picture than that of a software engineer. Let's take a look!

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Product Talk

SEPTEMBER 9, 2020

While I tend to focus on helping teams, Petra’s work centers around helping product leaders—the people who manage product managers. She has a big focus on people development, helping product managers and product leaders get better at their craft. That was my first real product management role. Tweet This.

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People-First Product Leadership

MARCH 4, 2024

I feel limited in my growth as there is not upward opportunity as a Senior Product Manager. How would you approach working with new team members in a different country, specifically to grow empathy and connection, due to cultural differences? Starting a community of practice I joined Pearson to create the Future Technologies team.

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