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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Lenny Rachitsky

JANUARY 4, 2024

Simplify security | Ahrefs —Improve your website’s SEO for free — Judd Antin has spent 15 years leading research and design teams at companies like Yahoo, Meta, and Airbnb. Integrating research from the beginning of the product development process is crucial for leveraging your user researcher best.

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The Product Coalition

MAY 1, 2023

The team stressed. The market was ripe for us to introduce a new product. The team stressed. The market was ripe for us to introduce a new product. Then in strolls the design team, telling us to step back. Another blocker in my path preventing me from moving the product team into action.

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Userpilot

APRIL 22, 2024

Product feature analysis is a powerful tool in the SaaS product manager’s arsenal. We cover: Types of product features. TL;DR Product feature analysis involves evaluating product features to understand their impact on user satisfaction and market performance. Best practices for optimal results.

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Userpilot

DECEMBER 13, 2023

How do you develop a robust UX strategy? We also look at: What a UX design strategy is Why it’s important Its core principles and elements A practical example of a company with well-established UX strategies Let’s dive right in! Want to see how Userpilot can help you inform and implement your UX strategy?

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Userpilot

OCTOBER 4, 2022

UX KPIs, or user experience key performance indicators, are essential numerical data points that are used to track, measure, and compare the experience users have with your SaaS product. So, if you’re a product manager looking to significantly improve your UX efforts and provide actionable insights to your UX team, read on!

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Roman Pichler

FEBRUARY 2, 2021

Before the advent of agile frameworks like Scrum , a product person—the product manager—would typically carry out the market research, compile a market requirements specification, create a business case, put together product roadmap, write a requirements specification, and then hand it off to a project manager.

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Mind the Product

DECEMBER 18, 2019

So, it was natural that we should want to develop a talent growth plan for our people. Each month we send out an NPS survey to assess whether the company is being a great place to work, but a few months ago I also sent Google’s manager feedback survey to my team of 10 product managers. This is how we did it.

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Ronke PM

AUGUST 16, 2023

Table of Contents Technical Support Customer Success/Relationship Managers Marketing Sales Team Data Scientist Finance UX Researcher UX Designer Content Designers and Conversational Designers Engineering Legal Security (IT) PMO (Product Management Office) (Bonus!)

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The Product HQ

MAY 10, 2024

Do you want to become a data product manager? Big data analytics is a growing global market expected to reach $550 billion by 2028. With more digital and data-driven products, the demand for traditional product managers is now shifting from sales teams to data product managers.

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Alchemer Mobile

JULY 13, 2021

A good product experience is the primary driver behind product differentiation and ultimately, lasting customer satisfaction (measured through CSAT and NPS ) and loyalty. Beforehand, make sure your team is aligned on: Their definition of product experience. The goals you hope to achieve by investing in product experience.

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Mind the Product

AUGUST 29, 2019

What’s a partial product manager? We’ve all met one, and many of us have been one – a partial product manager is someone who holds the product manager title, but isn’t doing the full job. It can happen really easily, because great product management encompasses a great deal and is constantly evolving.

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PMLesson's Ace the PM Interview

MARCH 9, 2022

As a capable, experienced UX designer or UX researcher, you spend your time thinking about how a product affects the user experience. You know the details of what makes a product work and how consumers interact with it. But how easy is it to transition from being a UX designer or UX researcher to product management (PM)?

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Userpilot

JUNE 27, 2022

What is developer marketing, and what is the point of it? As the name suggests, developer marketing is marketing to developers. In short, developer marketing is more than just capturing the attention of software developers and getting them to use your product.

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The Product Coalition

JUNE 24, 2022

Do you find being a product manager particularly challenging? Take a look at these nine indicators to determine if product management is the right career for you, or not. digital product management positions have never been more pervasive or idolized than they are right now. Let’s be real for a second?—?digital

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Userpilot

APRIL 29, 2021

Then, repeat after me (or Andrew Chen of Andreessen Horowitz, to be precise): “The natural state of any new product is that no one’s using it :)”. Product Death Cycle by David Bland. And while most product managers think the users need more features to start using their product…the opposite is often true.

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Userpilot

JANUARY 29, 2023

Why do product managers need a new feature validation framework? TL;DR Product managers need a new feature validation framework to ensure that they meet user needs or drive organizational goals and avert product failure. Product teams should invest in validation when developing the MVP.

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Userpilot

MAY 18, 2023

What's the difference between UX vs CX? UX deals with a user's interactions with specific aspects of your product, while CX is broader and covers all customer engagements with your brand. Read on to find four key differences between UX and CX and how to improve both. That's not entirely true.

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Userpilot

JUNE 20, 2023

So, how can you build trust with UX design ? This article examines the concept of trust in UX design and its importance. It also explores 15 strategies that help UX designers build trust in potential users. TL;DR User trust is a form of faith users have that your product or service will match their needs without compromise.

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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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ProductPlan

MARCH 12, 2019

Cultural fit is a relatively new concept in hiring and team building. This has given hiring managers the confidence to reject prospects who look perfect on paper, but might not mesh with the existing team and company norms. Culture sets the tone, permeating every aspect of the team and the quality of their work.

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UX Studio: Product Management

OCTOBER 1, 2022

I decided to compile a list of the most common UX design tools that every beginner should know about. In this list, you can find prototyping, UX / UI software and collaboration tools. My recommendation is to choose the appropriate tools for the task and don’t restrict yourself to one product. Definitely has to be on this list.

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ProductPlan

FEBRUARY 22, 2023

As a product manager, one of the toughest challenges I and my fellow PMs face is prioritizing the right features amongst an ever-increasing influx of data from customer feedback, product analytics, and the never-ending list of stakeholder requests. A successful product never sacrifices the user experience.

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Userpilot

MAY 5, 2022

What does the product management process involve? Why is it important for product managers to follow them? Product managers lead interdisciplinary product teams to deliver products that bring value to customers. Product Development is when most of the code is written and tested.

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Userpilot

OCTOBER 25, 2022

If you’re wondering what strategic product management is, you’ve come to the right place! In the article, we’re looking at the responsibilities of strategic product managers and how they can use data effectively to shape product strategy and deliver delightful experiences to users!

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The Product Coalition

APRIL 2, 2022

Every time I navigate the ocean of Product Management frameworks, we are not tackling one essential part of our role: People and Ourselves. There is a framework for almost every stage of our Product development lifecycle, but one of the only transversal things is that we need people to make things happen.

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The Product Coalition

JANUARY 3, 2020

So, it was natural that we should want to develop a talent growth plan for our people. Each month we send out an NPS survey to assess whether the company is being a great place to work, but a few months ago I also sent Google’s manager feedback survey to my team of 10 product managers. Product manager motto?—?Dan

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Product Management University

DECEMBER 13, 2022

Product experience is a vital part of product design and development. Your product should be able to make customers measurably better at specific job tasks that are critical to their success, for sure, but does it do so easily and efficiently, and even more importantly, do those customers actually enjoy using it?

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Intercom, Inc.

JUNE 10, 2020

The truth is that Product Judgment is a complex topic, and in my opinion, one that is very poorly understood by many. I hope this post allows people and teams to safely talk about Product Judgment. No one starts out with strong Product Judgment. It takes years to build, and therefore ranges from very weak to very strong.

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The Product Coalition

MARCH 16, 2019

User experience has become a de facto part of product development. Whether you are working as a design agency or a copywriting firm, chances are that you will want to hire and work with UX designers very soon. So much so in fact, that it is important to understand what UX is, what it stands for and what defines a UX designer.

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Userpilot

JUNE 9, 2021

Are you thinking about a career in product, but you’re not sure whether you should pursue Product Marketing or Product Management? To explain the difference in the simplest of terms: Product Managers build product features and Product Marketers promote them to their audience and users.

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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. Jump Markets. It is not necessarily bad to have product managers that already know the market.

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Userpilot

NOVEMBER 21, 2023

In his talk, Jason talked about how product managers can upskill to meet the challenges in their daily work and how to make sure that their organizations value their work. How to upskill as a product manager. Measuring the value of product management is difficult too. Let’s dive in! Book the demo!

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Intercom, Inc.

AUGUST 15, 2019

If an organization’s founders aren’t designers and don’t come from a background where well-designed products played a key role in their lives, it can often be the last discipline to be brought onboard the team. On a bad day, a lot more of it got thrown away. Lots of people had bad answers and failed answers about how to do it.

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Amplitude

NOVEMBER 26, 2019

People in non-technical roles rely on data every day to make decisions, develop ideas or measure success. We can create empathetic, intuitive systems When everyone on the team is empowered to understand data, they can make more informed decisions and measure their own success. Francesca is a Product Manager.

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Mironov Consulting

MAY 16, 2020

A topic that’s come up several times recently in my product leader coaching sessions: how much to delegate to the (individual contributor) product managers on our teams – including different ways of building product skills and balancing personal empowerment against good results.

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Mironov Consulting

JUNE 27, 2020

I have a narrow, somewhat puritanical view about product manager conversations with customers and prospects: we should never lie to them. On our side, we have expensive/talented/experienced sales teams that either close their few big deals this quarter or are put on notice. B2B is lumpier than B2C.). Roadmaps are shared.

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