The Product Coalition

SEPTEMBER 4, 2020

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. Designers vs Developers The work culture in this large organization was unlike anything I’d ever experienced.

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Sachin Rekhi

MAY 18, 2022

I love talking to Amazon employees about how the writing culture is interwoven into their product development process and the pros and cons of it. I wanted to share what I learned from the book for those evaluating whether to bring a writing culture to their own product teams.

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Mind the Product

FEBRUARY 12, 2020

It’s also essential to creating a team where great people want to work. In a perfect product development world, communications are seamless, specifications are clear, and product and engineering teams work together without friction. These are team goals that get shared across the company. Share Leadership and Credit.

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The Product Coalition

DECEMBER 27, 2023

Building effective teams with people from different disciplines can be challenging due to various circumstances. Teams with multiple functions are instrumental towards staying competitive and succeed. Conversely, to rely solely on a single-function team for brainstorming is a recipe for failure.

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Modus Create

JUNE 18, 2019

I immediately donned the rose-colored glasses they handed out, and gobbled up the information that was presented. I quickly realized that the idealistic parameters that were presented in class were not always present in real life. That’s when it got bad. It got so bad that the CEO outlawed Agile altogether.

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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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PMLesson's Ace the PM Interview

FEBRUARY 25, 2022

Creating a concise, specific, and relevant front end developer resume is key to landing your next job in tech. For front-end developers, it is important to craft your resume in a way that highlights your skills, experience and programming language knowledge. We created this guide for both junior and senior front-end developers.

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Mind the Product

MAY 30, 2019

When you design and build a product, it is important that you regularly demo completed work with the team and key stakeholders. In Agile software development, so-called sprint demos are a key part of every iteration, but whatever product you’re building, be it an app, a website (or even a physical product), demos can be incredibly valuable.

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The Product Coalition

MAY 19, 2022

The WMS integrates with other systems (for example, enterprise resource planning software), runs in the cloud (software as a service) or on-premise (a logistics company maintains the platforms itself). The type of application is negotiated with a logistics software development company before the start of the project.

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The Product Coalition

JULY 24, 2021

I truly believe that our bad mental model i.e. expecting people to execute like machines is at fault here. Our problem in the Agile community could be captured in “great ideas in terrible packaging, and annoyingly presented”. As you become better at your transformation efforts and become more aware; you start seeing your weak spots.

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Mind the Product

DECEMBER 11, 2017

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. Designers vs Developers. Tension between designers and developers was palpable.

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The Product Coalition

APRIL 25, 2022

The Best Product Managers use Product Management Software for: We’ve broken down this list into four stages of the feature life cycle that contributes to building the product value: opportunity identification and validation, design and prototyping, feature development, and launch and iteration.

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The Product Coalition

JUNE 25, 2019

That is why it is critical that we are all present in our offices.” 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. So is it true?

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ProductPlan

JUNE 1, 2023

Where are product teams getting their feature ideas? Most concerningly, 19% of respondents reported that their top source of ideas comes from senior management, who are often disconnected from both customers and the product development process. Why do product teams become feature factories?

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The Product Coalition

AUGUST 4, 2020

You should write a business plan, think over all the functionality you want the app to perform, take into account some marketing strategies, analyze your competitors and a target audience, and then turn to the developers. Many digital agencies that work with web and mobile development focus only on the tech side of outsourcing projects.

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The Product Coalition

JANUARY 26, 2022

Chris’s team worked for a logistics service that tracked the ocean containers coming in and out of the ports. Their team set up the infrastructure and prepared the environment waiting for prospective accounts, which never came. You can lose your confidence in the product while talking with some of the software developers.

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Userpilot

JULY 27, 2023

They also manage finances and supervise one or more engineering teams. Product Marketing Manager: This person is tasked with developing product marketing campaigns , crafting compelling marketing messages, and coming up with ideas to retain customers. They also manage finances and supervise one or more engineering teams.

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Split

DECEMBER 9, 2022

Without the right approach and tools, software developers are left crossing their fingers, hoping their rollouts won’t end with a crash. Does it sound as if releasing software is like working in a coal mine? No, software engineering is nowhere near as dangerous. The technique is called a canary release.

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Mind the Product

MARCH 13, 2018

The article suggested that “product people (especially those in Europe) are weak commercially”, which “can lead to bad assumptions, particularly in more complex environments”. I didn’t have a Computer Science degree or an MBA and I didn’t have any experience with any part of the software development process.

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The Product Coalition

DECEMBER 14, 2019

This is a common approach that was originated by software engineers for tackling relatively easy and short-term challenges. However, in time, this procedure has become a widespread methodology in technology product development too. Engineers will begin the Coding process after some initial discussions with the product team.

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CardBoard

SEPTEMBER 14, 2023

First things first, we need to create a model of our software development process. Here are some variables you might want to include in your model: Project Size: This could be the number of features you need to develop, the lines of code, or any other measure that represents the size of your project.

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The Product Coalition

FEBRUARY 14, 2022

Photo by Skitterphoto from Pexels In 2014, at the ProductX conference, I won second place for my presentation on time management for busy product managers. If you are the developer who is supposed to write this feature, you would ask the product manager for very specific instructions as to when and how to predict where this person is going.

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nulab

AUGUST 6, 2021

Software development is a similar story. You might be working on one app or website, but as new features come in and customer requirements change, dev teams often find themselves working on a shifting product. This is where software architecture diagrams can be a big help. 5 different types.

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UX Studio

MARCH 4, 2019

Web designer vs web developer – as a UX designer, I counter this match daily. But truly, the phrases don’t stop here, we have visual designers, front-end developers, back-end developers, UX designers (like me), et cetera. A developer friend of mine met with a client a couple of months ago. Illustrator.

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Mixpanel

OCTOBER 6, 2023

Sometimes teams fall short of getting pipelines tied together and running, sure. Developing systems for a diverse group of stakeholders to consume the same data is no small task; it’s a journey. Ryan Dahl, the creator of node.js, said it best in his 2011 rant: “I hate almost all software. Spectacularly.

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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. It was clear the team needed a talent growth plan.

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Sachin Rekhi

JULY 10, 2019

I always love reading each new book the Basecamp team publishes as they are inevitably chock-full of unique perspectives that preach an approach to working better that goes against conventional wisdom and established best practices. Before even considering a project for building in an upcoming cycle, the Basecamp team always shapes the work.

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PMLesson's Ace the PM Interview

MAY 22, 2021

Managing Individuals How do you run 1:1s with your team? How do you handle poor performers? How would you describe your role in coaching and career development? Tell me about a few people on your team and the career development plans you created with them. How do you balance feature development and technical debt?

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The Product Coalition

APRIL 19, 2021

The following interview questions are neither suited nor intended to turn an inexperienced interviewer into an agile software development expert. The refinement is a continuous process to create actionable Product Backlogs that allow a Scrum Team to have a Sprint Planning at a moment’s notice.

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Tyner Blain

JANUARY 23, 2021

Orienting to value – every team, every person does it differently. How Teams Orient to Value. Over the years I’ve had the opportunity to work with dozens of teams, helping them improve their ability to create value. All of these teams believe the work they are doing is valuable. It oversimplifies.

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The Product Coalition

MAY 3, 2021

Here’s a simple version to win over your team and stakeholders. Let’s face it, roadmaps have a bad reputation. Common spans include: Next 3 months, 3–6 months, 6+ months Quarters Financial year halves Now, next, later The first column should be fixed and not change much given it’s what your team should be focused on right now.

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Mind the Product

MAY 8, 2018

Scrum is a great way of organising software development teams but it doesn’t answer the sorts of questions that CFO types love to ask like “how much will it cost and when will I get it?” A layered backlog – which includes granular stories ready for the developers to work on. The Best of Both Worlds.

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Modus Create

JANUARY 12, 2021

So let’s dive into some old and new methodologies that companies use to implement, develop and balance the three pillars. Each methodology has strengths and weaknesses, and since implementations can vary widely, it’s useful to understand how and when to apply elements of each.

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The Product Coalition

APRIL 8, 2021

Product teams, when an influential stakeholder starts a sentence with “I have an idea, we should <new thing>”, or “I need your team to build <new thing>”, this one is for you… Photo by Vale Zmeykov on Unsplash What are <new thing> product requests? It might be a great idea, or it could be a terrible one.

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Userpilot

FEBRUARY 3, 2021

Then, when you finally put together your user journey map and want to optimize your touchpoints and eliminate bad experiences, you can face two barriers: The Analytics Black Hole – Can’t see the forest before the trees. The Bottleneck -Your software developer who is too busy to take on every experiment you want to run.

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The Product Coalition

JUNE 17, 2019

Each individual phase of this life cycle presents unique challenges that can make or break any company. The secret to becoming a successful startup lies in knowing your strengths and weaknesses and overcoming all the obstacles you will face along your journey. Preparation is key. And if it doesn’t fit, they know how to make it fit.

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Modus Create

JUNE 1, 2020

The news is filled with tales of hackers breaking into financial institutions, DDoS attacks on credit card companies, and data breaches due to poor software configuration. The Modus threat modeling process uses several iterative steps that start with a discovery stage and ends with a final presentation. Who are the actors?

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