The Product Coalition

FEBRUARY 5, 2021

As someone who’s been fortunate enough to have coached dozens of Product Leaders and have walked in their shoes, I have found that there are several under-appreciated ways things change when you move into a product leader role. How do I cultivate the right product culture for the product teams to succeed?

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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.

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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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Gainsight

AUGUST 5, 2022

While it requires more of a technical background, as a CSM, you come with the perspective of knowing the customer’s needs and goals. With this role, you need deep knowledge of the product , service, or technology that your company offers. You can better advise on valid customer pain points.

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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. A topic of hot debate in the agile and product circles but with very few answers. Credit: DataKitchen Since its inception, Scrum and the Product Owner role has become widely adopted.

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Intercom, Inc.

JANUARY 14, 2021

With a background in computer science and an MBA, he soon realized that understanding the markets and customers is as important as building the products. And so, in 2014, he founded Productboard , a product management system that incorporates customer feedback and insights to help product teams build better products.

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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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Mind the Product

JANUARY 10, 2017

As a product manager it’s not uncommon to feel pulled in a million different directions as you work to meet the needs of your customers, developers and company stakeholders. Internal stakeholders need to know how the products you build work. This should not be confused with technical documentation.

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Userpilot

NOVEMBER 29, 2022

What is an ecosystem moat and how can product managers build one? These are the key questions that Austin Yang , the Lead Product Manager at Softr , discussed in his presentation at the Product Drive Summit this year. Building a successful ecosystem requires a long-term strategy and vision.

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Bain Public

MAY 29, 2020

The right mentoring and coaching support facilitates a startup’s transformation and enables roadmap planning and execution, without straying from the ultimate vision and goal. See the end of this article for more information on how we helped bring these companies and their product management to the next level. In fact, 83.9%

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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. Sarah then moved into product, becoming Pinterest’s founding PM for search and discovery, and launching Pinterest’s first search and recommendations features.

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Mind the Product

JULY 10, 2017

Can you afford local market rates? And done right, I believe that outsourcing means you can come very close to your team next door in terms of productivity and innovation. I would recommend this model if you have no technical or product management background. As with anything complex, it depends.

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Userpilot

SEPTEMBER 8, 2021

We generally advise against linear, top-down product tours. Instead, you should opt for an interactive walkthrough type of product tour. Product tours generally include a welcome screen , a survey to segment users, a checklist , and experience flows for each of the key activation points. What are product tours?

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UX Studio: Product Management

JULY 14, 2021

As a product design consulting firm , we often get questions from our clients who look for reliable design, development, or marketing partners. 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.

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Gainsight

AUGUST 31, 2020

None of her employment at that time was about product management. In a recent webinar with Denise Stokowski, Group VP of Platform Products at Gainsight , Amy shared that she identified that she wanted to be more involved with people. At Autodesk, she began as an individual contributor, product manager.

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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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Pragmatic Marketing

SEPTEMBER 16, 2009

Barbara Nelson said in The Politics of Agile , “When product managers weren’t looking, the developers went agile.” ” Indeed, many Product Managers were taken by surprise at the speed of Agile’s adoption. Ultimately, we are responsible for the success of the product and, thus, the company.

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Intercom, Inc.

AUGUST 15, 2018

Here are five quick takeaways: Management and leadership aren’t one and the same. Managers oversee their team members’ work and career development. Leaders are people who provide a compelling vision for people to follow and believe in, and take responsibility for what happens next. Sponsorship vs. mentorship.

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Usersnap

JUNE 15, 2023

Building a powerful SaaS product takes way more than just an idea. 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. Work with marketing and sales.

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Userpilot

MAY 26, 2021

In our project management software example: The PM cares about bringing order to operations. The CEO wants to make sure that operations align with the overall vision of the company. Questions about your customer’s broader experience with your market, such as “What solutions did you try?

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The Product Guy

AUGUST 30, 2017

Guest Post by: Liel Aharon (Mentee, Session 4, The Product Mentor) [Paired with Mentor, Felix Sargent]. At the end of 2015 I was in the worst nightmare of any Product Manager. I had a strong roadmap, clear goals and a vision for the product. A production release was a distant vision. Better Products.

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Product Bookshelf

SEPTEMBER 14, 2020

The story begins with the struggling founders meeting with their top advisor and board member who recommends OKRs. Throughout the story, the company is struggling to find the right customers and identify its market position. This distinguishes OKRs from strictly numbers-based management techniques. OKRs are KPIs with a soul.

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The Product Coalition

MARCH 11, 2020

Even more confusing might be the situation, when both Scrum Master and Product Owner are also actively creating the Product Increment, resulting in the Development Team being identical with the Scrum Team. Finally, the term Development Team seems to limit the role to technical people, for example, software engineers. Team leads?

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The Product Coalition

MARCH 21, 2018

What you need to think about in your first 60–90 days on a new job: product management (leader) edition I’ve recently transitioned into a different role and have spent some time thinking about how to start this new job. A mentor advised me to think about three broad categories?—?the What are the goals, how do you define success?

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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? In this blogpost I will share how we run product meetings at UXfolio. We are a team of a designer, two developers, a marketer and me as a product manager.

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UX Studio

JANUARY 24, 2024

But I also advise designers not to oversee the business side of the relationship. But I [00:16:00] also advise designers not to oversee the business side of the relationship. Pair with product managers, pair with engineers. Learn to understand limitations, technical limitations. Marilia: Yes.

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Sequent Learning

OCTOBER 25, 2018

As we discussed in the blog post Yes, Product Managers are Superheroes , product management is a combination of both art and science. I have been in product management for about 15 years. While we don’t necessarily think of ourselves as sales people, the truth is Product Managers sell every day.

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UX Studio

OCTOBER 16, 2017

Whether in the pool or already on the market, a new product or service with plenty of ideas will constantly require recurring feature prioritization. In fact, this method of feature prioritization saved us a lot of debates and rationalizing when members of the product team clung to ideas that did not serve the product’s vision.

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Product Talk

APRIL 7, 2021

I am a former chief product officer and now coach and advise product leaders and teams. She is my blog editor and also helps out with a variety of content marketing activities for Product Talk. Is it technically feasible?” I’m joined today by Hope Gurion. Hope Gurion : Hi, everybody.

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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. I’ve spent most of my career in product management.

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