The Product Coalition

FEBRUARY 23, 2024

This article is tailored for product managers eager to excel in interviews focusing on product sense and execution. In product management , it’s crucial to discern genuine expertise from merely holding a job title. I am not in favor of assigning home exercises.

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UX Studio

NOVEMBER 26, 2018

Easier said than done… Is it not just a question of market research vs user research? We wrote this to help you choose the right research methods more easily. In this article we answer: How do we distinguish between types of research? What characteristics define market research vs user research?

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Usersnap

NOVEMBER 10, 2023

In his book “Start with Why” , Simon Sinek boldly claims that the ‘Why’ behind your actions matters more than the ‘What’ This principle isn’t limited to leadership or personal motivation; it extends to every facet of the business, including product roadmaps.

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The Product Coalition

MARCH 13, 2023

Conceive The conception stage is the first part, and it involves identifying a need or opportunity and generating ideas for a new product. The goal is to create a product that meets customer needs and has the potential to be profitable. This research helps to identify potential opportunities for new products.

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Userpilot

MARCH 8, 2022

Women are still underrepresented in the Product Profession – with only 33.3% of US Product Managers being female in 2021, according to a metastudy of 30 million profiles conducted by Zippia : Source: [link]. Melissa Perri – Speaker, consultant, and teacher in Product Management. CEO of Product Labs.

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The Basics of Product Management

JUNE 21, 2020

These two questions form the basis of any good product roadmap. Learn how to create the best product roadmap. Learning how to build a product roadmap is a key requirement to break into product management. Learn how to become a Product Manager. What Is Product Roadmap?

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DISQO

JULY 5, 2018

Whereas many organizations have deep and meaningful expertise doing large-scale market research, their findings are hitting critical limitations. As someone who did market research for a decade, the last half while at Toyota, I saw this first-hand. Make small bets, via experimentation.

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The Product Coalition

JUNE 15, 2020

80% of product managers say they don’t talk to their customers enough yet they report that their best sources of product ideas are direct customer feedback and market research. In the survey, 2 out of the top 3 sources of the best product and feature ideas came from Direct Customer Feedback and Market Research.

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Userpilot

JANUARY 31, 2022

Product management specializations have trended upwards in recent months. These “specializations” often place focus around a specific set of skills or needs a company has, somewhat creating a division within the product manager role. Are we breaking apart the product manager role a bit too much?

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The Product Coalition

JUNE 18, 2019

What to expect if you are a Product Manager in Enterprises vs Startups Startup vs Enterprise This article represents my opinions based on personal experiences working at large MNCs, mid-size companies as well as startups. startups Startups —? You don’t have to deal with internal politics.

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Bain Public

MAY 29, 2020

It is a known fact that startups which are accompanied or coached, view their chances of success as being much higher compared to those that are not. of accompanied startups assess their chances of survival as strong, especially during the current uncertain climate. of startups rate their chances of survival as high, 13.5%

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Userpilot

APRIL 6, 2023

Overengineered products are difficult to use, filled with bugs, and instead of improving your users’ lives, they make them unnecessarily complicated. In this article, we look at different ways for product managers to avoid falling into the overengineering trap. Finding the product-market fit. But worry not!

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The Product Coalition

JANUARY 24, 2022

Few years back, I had an interview opportunity with Mckinsey for the role of a Product Management consultant. Case Category: Market sizing & Estimation, Goals & Measures Case Type: Investor pitch by a startup planning to launch smartwatches in India ?? You have been asked to pitch investors for early-stage funds.

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The Product Coalition

SEPTEMBER 15, 2019

For new product managers or in startups with newly formed product teams, the building roadmap is their first kick at having the influence of the company direction. You might be super excited to go away for 2–3 weeks, conduct market research and come back with a colourful looking roadmap.

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Product Innovation Educators

JANUARY 13, 2020

How marketing and product management work together. Turns out if you ask 50 different people what marketing is, you’ll hear 50 different answers. That is what our guest did to investigate what people think about marketing and how it fits into the work product managers do.

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DISQO

JANUARY 10, 2019

Alpha, the on-demand user insights platform, today announced the findings from its annual Product Management Insights Report , highlighting the powerful role product managers can play in driving digital innovation — if they are supported and freed up to experiment.

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DISQO

JULY 5, 2018

Whereas many organizations have deep and meaningful expertise doing large-scale market research, their findings are hitting critical limitations. As someone who did market research for a decade, the last half while at Toyota, I saw this first-hand. Make small bets, via experimentation.

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DISQO

JULY 5, 2018

Whereas many organizations have deep and meaningful expertise doing large-scale market research, their findings are hitting critical limitations. As someone who did market research for a decade, the last half while at Toyota, I saw this first-hand. Make small bets, via experimentation.

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BrainMates

DECEMBER 12, 2019

As a social entrepreneur with Full Time Lives and in my Product Management consulting work for Brainmates. How does this affect the world of Product Management? I think that as business and society is changing, our Products need to change too. It seems mission-driven Product Management is still being defined.

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CardBoard

AUGUST 24, 2023

Today, Product Ops is recognized as a key function in many organizations, from startups to large corporations. Role of Product Ops in Aligning Product Strategy with Business Goals One of the key roles of Product Ops is to ensure that the product strategy aligns with the company’s overall business goals.

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Userpilot

JULY 17, 2023

Enterprise companies with multiple or complex products tend to have larger product teams made up of specialists, while startups often have to cope with smaller structures where members perform numerous roles. A well-structured product team requires a product leader – either a product manager or a product owner.

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DISQO

JANUARY 10, 2019

Alpha, the rapid consumer feedback platform, today announced the findings from its annual Product Management Insights Report , highlighting the powerful role product managers can play in driving digital innovation — if they are supported and freed up to experiment.

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DISQO

JANUARY 10, 2019

Alpha, the rapid consumer feedback platform, today announced the findings from its annual Product Management Insights Report , highlighting the powerful role product managers can play in driving digital innovation — if they are supported and freed up to experiment.

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B2B Product Management

DECEMBER 6, 2016

Currently in engineering or related area) thinking of moving to Product Management. Not all Product Managers need to be business savvy. There is opportunity to be fully technical in a Product Management role. In this article, we will explore the two broad categories of the Product Manager role.

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Mind the Product

FEBRUARY 22, 2018

Major elements of our sales and marketing plan, designed with companies like this one in mind, needed to be revisited at the least. Among other things, it was soon clear that we’d fallen into a common trap for startups and new products. We’d responded to market traction without properly understanding our users.

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ProductPlan

MAY 13, 2020

For product management, this is both a frustrating challenge and an exciting opportunity. Well-researched plans and strategies have a short shelf life, as their underlying assumptions fluctuate and transform. Make Space on the Roadmap. Product roadmaps and an uncertain future seem incompatible.

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Mind the Product

JANUARY 24, 2017

When should a start-up hire its first product manager? These are common discussions, with many views, and no right answers – it depends on the founding team, current funding situation, industry focus, and product offering. Therein lies the opportunity for a product management consultant.

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Bain Public

APRIL 28, 2020

As today’s uncertain market rapidly changes, remaining successful requires a more entrepreneurial product-orientation. Faced with breakneck business and product growth, roadmap decisions need to be non-bureaucratic, yet remain collaborative at the same time. You can change everything in your startup except the market.

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Product Bookshelf

JANUARY 31, 2017

Collect information and work with your cross-functional partners to be an effective product manager. Your company will rely on you to be the most knowledgeable about your product so never take your eye off the market and establish an objective framework to guide your decisions.

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The Product Coalition

JANUARY 24, 2018

Yes, there is a way (or more)… Over the past few years I had some experiences working as a Product Owner with digital products. Since then, I studied a lot about UX, product management, design thinking, agile, customer experience and a wide range of subjects that are related to delivering a great experience to the user.

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The Product Coalition

OCTOBER 15, 2019

Many companies struggle to decide whether creating an MVP (minimum viable product ) or MMP (minimum marketable product) or any other type of a minimum product is the right way to start. With so many stages for a tech product startup, it’s hard to decide on the right workflow. Who is your target audience?

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People-First Product Leadership

SEPTEMBER 17, 2023

A new product manager is joining my team in a few weeks. Around the same time a product management mentee I advise through the First Round Fast Track program asked how to best “onboard” their new manager. The advice I provided was similar to the approach I took for onboarding my new PM.

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Obo

JANUARY 23, 2019

As Adrian Rami, Director of Product, put it, “ We are expanding our use of Obo to employ market-driven approaches to our entire product roadmap; it has a variety of valuable features for a company like C3, which is AI-based and data-driven.”

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ProductPlan

APRIL 2, 2019

Every product has a lifecycle which consists of various phases. And the demands placed upon a product manager often vary depending on the lifecycle stage their product is in. Product managers are required to use different mental muscles and skills for ushering their ward along to the next step in its lifecycle.

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The Product Coalition

OCTOBER 8, 2018

Are you trying to wrap your head around the role of product management and why it is important for the venture? Still confused about the concept of product management? Keep on reading this article in order to get a better idea what a product management framework is, and why is essential for every startup?

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Alchemer Mobile

NOVEMBER 25, 2019

Robi Ganguly: The second area was a challenging place for a lot of product managers. For a lot of product teams, especially in digital, they start to imagine new things that they can accomplish, new tools that come out from the operating systems, for example. Just a lot of stuff that was possible and it could be done.

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Userpilot

DECEMBER 8, 2022

Why is product failure such a common feature of the SaaS landscape? We’re also looking at what product managers do to increase the survival chances of their products. We talk about product failure when the product doesn’t meet its objectives or goals. Product failure is often attributed to poor UI/UX.

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