The Product Coalition

APRIL 2, 2023

Still, we have a duty to advise what’s best for the product. Don’t hire me as a PM if you are not ready to hear hard truths about the market, the real expectations of customers (hint: they don’t *need* your product), or the difficulties of the teams. I’m not speaking for all Product Managers but here is my list.

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Userpilot

MARCH 3, 2022

This includes market research (potential employers), understanding product strengths (your value to the customer), iterative development (subsequent drafts), or refining the UI (formatting). Careers in programming are a good springboard as are those in sales, customer service, or marketing. “First of it would be your skillsets.

Data Visualization 98

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The Product Guy

AUGUST 30, 2017

I had a strong roadmap, clear goals and a vision for the product. A production release was a distant vision. I’m not a technical Product Manager. About Liel Aharon Liel (pronounced as Lee-L’) is a Product Manager at MediaMath, the marketing operating system, and is the Product Owner of the company’s Appstore.

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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? We are a team of a designer, two developers, a marketer and me as a product manager. When we talk about what to do next we talk about product roadmaps and not individual team member’s tasks.

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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 interpersonal, emotional intelligence, etc?—?that

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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. Coaching and mentorship play a significant part in the success of startups - it allows them to transform and excel in their market and industry.

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The Product Coalition

OCTOBER 21, 2019

As a project manager at an IT company working with many non-technical startup founders, our clients, I often get to resolve a variety of interesting issues that relate to technology and communication. But after having had a closer look at their vision of the product, it appeared there were a lot of undefined elements.

Technical Review 60

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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. He is the co-author of the New York Times bestseller, The Lean Entrepreneur and has over 20 years experience helping companies bring high-growth products to market.

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Product Bookshelf

JANUARY 31, 2017

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. ” He highlights the role of product manager as knowledge repository about the product, customer, and market.

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Sachin Rekhi

JANUARY 27, 2013

Product management boils down to owning the vision, design, and execution of your product. Owning the vision for a product involves clearly formulating and then evangelizing the audience you are targeting, the distinct problem you are solving, and your unique solution by which you will win the market.

Technical Advisors 63

Technical Advisors Product Management Product Manager Technical Review 63

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.

Customer Experience 81

Customer Experience User Testing Customer Feedback Technical Advisors 81

Mind the Product

JANUARY 10, 2017

This should not be confused with technical documentation. At Zalora, we choose a very simple structure for this document: The Vision – The vision lays out the target audience, what they need, and how you plan to deliver a unique offering. Internal stakeholders need to know how the products you build work.

Research Software 84

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Intercom, Inc.

AUGUST 15, 2018

Leaders are people who provide a compelling vision for people to follow and believe in, and take responsibility for what happens next. I got my first real leadership opportunity about five years into my career when one of the teams I was on was struggling with the product roadmap. That project led to my first cross-functional team.

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