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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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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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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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

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

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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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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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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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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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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Intercom, Inc.

MAY 14, 2019

“Successfully managing complex sales requires a different level of visibility into your deals” To get visibility into large deals, I developed a visual framework – which I call the Agile Arrow – that applies popular project management principles to the work that we do as salespeople. 2 critical security and compliance inquiries.

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Mind the Product

OCTOBER 29, 2018

He knows that, given the opportunity to present his case the likelihood of approval increases. At every level of our careers, we are faced with unsolicited, opinionated and sometimes outlandish product feedback from our internal teams. The key team members share this information with their teams as a win.

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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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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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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

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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Pragmatic Marketing

NOVEMBER 9, 2009

While software development teams have been moving toward agile methods for years, many product managers are only now becoming aware of it. An agile approach applies collaborative and continuous improvement concepts to software development. It seems that agile teams do everything in a new way.

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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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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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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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Modus Create

NOVEMBER 15, 2024

With the average cost of developing a new drug at approximately $2.3 billion , streamlining and automating clinical development processes are perfect use cases for AI. LLMs assist by quickly reviewing documents, understanding and extracting claims, and presenting them in a digestible format. Data quantity matters, too.

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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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The Product Coalition

JUNE 21, 2021

Many worked from home on tasks ranging from organising team activities via Slack, analysing data and collaborating on documents via Google Docs, to discussing strategies via Microsoft Teams and coaching clients via Zoom. Motor: Weakness in how one can control their muscles, bones and joints. More on that later.

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The Product Coalition

MAY 20, 2020

Example: Project manager prepares a project utilization report Delivery manager at a bespoke software development company prepares a report of how many man-days have been utilized on a project for a given client. Custom development of a bespoke reporting tool 2. There are 10 delivery managers within the ACME company.

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Arkenea

JANUARY 23, 2025

Arkenea is a trusted, exclusively healthcare-focused software development firm with 13+ years of experience. Patient care: AI can help patient engagement by pharmacies developing personalized treatment plans based on patients’ unique genetic and physiological characteristics.

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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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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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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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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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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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ProductPlan

DECEMBER 20, 2018

And by doing this, it becomes easy to ignore (or, just as bad, hide) problems in your code that inevitably appear over time. And we’ll provide a constructive alternative for dealing with your team’s technical debt. Technical debt is a natural part of all software development.) What is a Technical Debt Roadmap?

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Intercom, Inc.

FEBRUARY 4, 2021

We were fairly poor. So I started to develop a hankering for making money at an early age. I realized after three or four weeks that retirement was boring and then set up a gaming software company called Inspire Gaming Group” And I always wanted to work in technology. I always loved software and developing software.

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Tyner Blain

DECEMBER 3, 2014

Depending on your role in your organization you will be biased towards viewing your roadmap either as a view of what the team will be building into your product, or a view of why the team will be building things into your product. What the Team Will Be Building. Why the Team Will Be Building.

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The Product Coalition

NOVEMBER 7, 2019

Most project plans only consider the actual development?—?but Let’s say one sprint makes up 200 hours, purely for development. and more time still if the team grows or if the requirements for the product aren’t properly explained to the team. How much backend or frontend development do we need? Let’s see why.

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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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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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Business of Software Conference

DECEMBER 11, 2019

Agile methodology sounds confusing and difficult, but Bethany Pagels-Minor breaks it down to bite-size slices of delicious cakes that will will help every team work better, communicate better, and provide better returns. from Business of Software Conference. So this presentation. Bethany Pagels-Minor, Apple. Unsubscribe anytime.

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