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

SEPTEMBER 4, 2020

My journey to product management was not what you might expect , but then again, maybe you would. I became director of communications, leading the development of intranets and web applications. Challenges aside, I enjoyed the close-knit teams and easy access to upper management which enabled quick decision making.

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The Product Guy

SEPTEMBER 12, 2017

Some products use explainer videos to tell their users how to benefit from a new feature. Many organizations have IT policies which forbid their employees from watching videos over the internet while at work. Filed under: guest blogger , product management Tagged: engagement , features. Landing pages.

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Mind the Product

DECEMBER 11, 2017

My journey to product management was not what you might expect, but then again, maybe you would. I became director of communications, leading the development of intranets and web applications. Challenges aside, I enjoyed the close-knit teams and easy access to upper management which enabled quick decision making.

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ProductPlan

MAY 22, 2020

.” A key insight shared by Melissa Perri, CEO of Produx Labs and author of Escaping the Build Trap during our “Getting Started with Product Ops” webinar series. It’s no secret that product management often looks different from one organization to the next. What is Product Ops, Exactly?

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The Product Coalition

APRIL 2, 2019

Product Management Journey?—?Developer Developer to Consultant to Product Manager If you asked me 5 years ago, I didn’t even know what Product Management was. I received a lot of questions recently on how to transition into a Product Manager role. in Computer Science) in 2008.

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ProductPlan

SEPTEMBER 24, 2019

Why Product Managers are More Susceptible to Imposter Syndrome. Product managers (PM) are particularly vulnerable to experiencing imposter syndrome. There a few reasons why product managers might be more susceptible to the feeling. First, no one gets a degree in “product management.”

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Userpilot

APRIL 25, 2022

Are you using a friction log to track and prioritize what to improve in your product? In this guide, our aim is to help savvy product managers understand what friction logs are, where you might use them, and how to create them. Not all friction is bad. Friction logs can be created by the whole team.

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The Product Coalition

JUNE 25, 2019

After a short period of time, he introduced a similar policy to the one above. Do co-located teams truly perform better? But having experienced both poorly performing, co-located teams as well as high performing distributed teams, I wanted to take a closer look at some of the research as well as experiences of others.

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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. What are we going to do next?

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Mironov Consulting

JULY 28, 2022

Enterprise Sales and Solutions Teams… Are paid/rewarded/promoted for working with individual prospects or customers one at a time.  Sales  Sales teams get quota relief from closing individual deals, not market segments.  Integration  Commitments from Product/Development are assumed to be on schedule.  Custom

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ProductPlan

MARCH 13, 2019

Product management is a role largely comprised of soft skills and strategy, which, at first glance, would make it difficult to quantifiably measure. The benefit of including quantifiable metrics in evaluating a product manager’s performance is, well, immeasurable. A product manager is not their product.

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The Product Coalition

FEBRUARY 19, 2019

In the world of Human Resources, it may seem easy to find a candidate with a spiffy resume and loads of experience, rather than building upon an already existing team. Spending on a proven team, however, gives you the opportunity to build on the knowledge that already exists internally. Team consistency=efficiency.

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Userpilot

AUGUST 26, 2024

Let’s discuss these benefits in detail: Improve business decision-making : By tracking how customers interact with your software, it becomes easier to spot which features are resonating with customers and which ones are underperforming. This allows you to prioritize product development efforts and improve product performance.

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Intercom, Inc.

JULY 15, 2021

With a Master’s degree in human-computer interaction and over two decades of experience in user research and user experience in companies like Oracle, he now leads the design team across all product offerings at IBM. The design team at IBM likes to employ a “make to learn” method. Prototype it til you make it.

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Userpilot

AUGUST 30, 2024

What are its strengths and weaknesses? Finally, its product usage , workflow, and form analytics help teams make informed decisions and optimize the user experience. Or detect shadow IT and AI apps that may not be compliant with your company policies. Or bad, because it adds unnecessary complexity? WalkMe Pricing.

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ProductPlan

NOVEMBER 3, 2021

Effective product team communication is not about talking to your team more often or providing them with more granular tasks. You want to make sure your team understands why what they’re doing matters. As a product manager, you need to create an atmosphere that keeps the lines of communication open.

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Product Bookshelf

APRIL 15, 2024

Martin Good Strategy, Bad Strategy by Richard Rumels Product strategy is a set of choices informed by product vision and company objectives. A good strategy consists of a diagnosis, guiding policy, and coherent actions. Why is product strategy so hard? “What is product strategy?”

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Userpilot

DECEMBER 22, 2021

Interestingly – they seem completely different from the product trends we’ve identified for 2021 – including Product Led Growth , the rise of a Growth Product Management Role, chatbots, or gamification. Will AI transform Product Management in 2022 by allowing PMs to make a better use of user behavior data ?

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Userpilot

AUGUST 21, 2024

But is Heap the best choice for your product management needs? Consider a Heap alternative if: You require an all-in-one platform for product management. Your team would benefit more from a no-code solution The budget isn’t high enough to complement Heap with other platforms. Heap autocaptured events.

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Mironov Consulting

NOVEMBER 18, 2018

(This post isn’t specific to product management, but a manager’s view of problematic communications. Not everyone on our teams expresses themselves clearly.). We’ll take three ultimatums, consider how employees might have framed their concerns better, and how managers can dig for the real obstacle. [1]

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Intercom, Inc.

APRIL 22, 2019

Businesses also win if, as a result of AI, teams are able to create more white-glove moments that turn users into customers for life. Rick started Guru in 2013, after successfully founding Boomi (a cloud integration and data management company) and selling it to Dell. For us, that first fit was with growing sales teams.

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ProductPlan

OCTOBER 1, 2020

Product managers, product leaders, and product executives have no shortage of educational opportunities. From books , podcasts , and blogs to earning certificates and joining online communities , there is truly an abundance of options (read the short Guide to Product Management Resources to learn even more).

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DISQO

JULY 5, 2018

But the ability to avoid that fate won’t come from open workspaces, a relaxed dress code, and a bring-your-own-device policy. Plus, either way, you need to be good at quickly recognizing and correcting bad decisions. But it simply can’t inform the day-to-day decisions that product teams need to make.

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Business of Software Conference

OCTOBER 29, 2018

Wade Foster (CEO/Founder, Zapier) – Building Operating Cadence with Remote Teams from Business of Software Conference. A little bit about how to build an operating cadence and a remote team. The good news is this talk is not just for remote teams. Make sure you stay for the whole video. Video, Slides, and Transcript Below.

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The Product Coalition

SEPTEMBER 20, 2019

Data-driven Product Management?—?Setting The caveat here is that User Analytics will track unreliable data if your product is usually used by more than one person on the same device without separate logins, or by the same person across devices with no login. Most tools offer detailed documentation on User ID handling.

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UX Planet

OCTOBER 8, 2024

If not, it has a ‘bad UX’ and is unlikely to be successful. It is the UX designer’s job to help the brand and product avoid the latter fate. To do so, they work alongside many specialists, mainly — UX researchers, UI designers, product managers, developers, and UX writers.

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The Product Coalition

JULY 5, 2020

Either they attract you to join with generous titles, or they apply the philosophy of ‘titles don’t matter’ where most people have basic titles including ‘member of technical staff’, ‘account manager’, or ‘product manager’. Some large companies will also reset your title as a matter of policy or culture.

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ProductPlan

MAY 7, 2019

Ensuring everyone is striving toward the same strategic goals while still working and thinking independently isn’t easy, particularly when the organization is broken out into separate teams. How can specialization and product-level focus marry up with the overlying objectives the company has defined and is measuring itself against?

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The Product HQ

MAY 10, 2024

Do you want to become a data product manager? With more digital and data-driven products, the demand for traditional product managers is now shifting from sales teams to data product managers. If you want to become a data product manager, this guide is for you.

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Modus Create

MARCH 12, 2020

When you already have a team of manual QAs or you do not want to hire test automation engineers, you may be tempted to use test recorders for automated web testing. A test recorder is a piece of software that allows quality assurance teams to record steps that they have executed manually with their mouse and keyboard in a browser.

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The Product Coalition

NOVEMBER 25, 2019

APM programs or Associate Product Manager programs are roles designed for graduates, to introduce them to the world of PM. Their main goal is to provide mentorship for young talent, and for some, it serves as a good alternative to non-existent Product Management bachelor’s degrees. What is the company culture/mission?

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The Product Coalition

JULY 30, 2018

Here’s where NPS leaves you with gaps in your approach to product feedback… 1?—?A A Lack of Information The NPS gives you a number that effectively tells you if your net score is positive (good) or negative (bad). Now imagine a poor Product Manager who is tasked with parsing these answers for useful information.

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Department of Product

FEBRUARY 18, 2022

SaaS Pricing Models for Product Managers 6 ways to price your SaaS product using leading SaaS businesses as inspiration Pricing a product is a critical part of product management; it’s rarely something product teams will or should do themselves and will typically involve a blend of product, marketing and sales.

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The Product Coalition

MARCH 2, 2020

Often, these organizations were once created to train farm boys into assembly-line workers within a standardized industrial process churning out standardized products in the name of output optimization. For managers, it means moving: From WIIFM (what-is-in-for-me syndrome) to team playing?—?the Abandoning yesterday’s game?—?and

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Bain Public

NOVEMBER 30, 2021

Reaching a product goal and accelerating a company’s success is not possible unless everyone from all teams, including engineers, marketers, sales, support, etc. This results in poor habits around roadmap completion. Paul Ortchanian is exceptionally knowledgeable and well-rounded in all aspects of product management.

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DISQO

MARCH 6, 2020

But the ability to avoid that fate won’t come from open workspaces, a relaxed dress code, and a bring-your-own-device policy. It requires teams to gain insights directly from consumers through experimentation and prototyping, align to the actual wants and needs of the market, and accelerate time-to-market.

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