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How to Be a Truly Great Head of Product: Strategy

The Product Coalition

Strategy and enabling your team to solve problems makes the difference between a boss and an impactful leader. Using the ‘Kernel’ from Richard Rumelt’s ‘Good Strategy/Bad Strategy’, specifically insights and developing a guiding policy allows you to enable your team and avoid micro-managing.

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The Product Agent: Managing Ideas on a Product Team

The Product Coalition

Three years later I became a web application engineer at a startup that built software for military and private industries. I became director of communications, leading the development of intranets and web applications. From Startup to Enterprise A job at a startup means a lot of responsibility.

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The Product Agent: Managing Ideas on a Product Team

Mind the Product

Three years later I became a web application engineer at a startup that built software for military and private industries. I became director of communications, leading the development of intranets and web applications. From Startup to Enterprise. A job at a startup means a lot of responsibility. Designers vs Developers.

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Top 6 Product Positioning Examples to Inspire Your SaaS in 2022

Userpilot

In the competitive world of SaaS products, product positioning is definitely something your product marketing team can’t afford to ignore. This enables the marketing team to set clear expectations from the very beginning of the marketing campaign. Strong positioning makes the work of the marketing and sales teams easier.

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The Hungry Man Parable

Mironov Consulting

One destructive side effect of this misunderstanding can be repeatedly changing the #1 top priority part-way through development, before there’s much to show the world but after spending significant discovery/design/architecture/development time on the previous #1 top priority. So something new becomes the #1 top priority.

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Lessons Working Remotely from the Other Side of the Planet

The Product Coalition

Things were already tough merging teams from multiple companies to launch a unified platform in Latam when countries started closing their borders. Sales were non-existent, and everyone in the company was working around the clock to bring our clients back home from their holidays with countries policies changing every minute.

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My 2021 Book Recommendations

The Product Coalition

This year I developed a new reading approach, in which I read several books in parallel, usually from different topics. Weak leaders silence their critics and make themselves weaker. These questions are bad for starting a discussion: “Do you think this is cool?” “Was and I’m happy to share my 2021 read-list with my conclusions.

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