The Product Coalition

NOVEMBER 3, 2020

“ Assume you have new feature requests from business, but your technical team wants to fix the technical debts first, what do you do?”. Well, it is logical for the interviewer to assume that as a product owner, you will have a ready answer for this. these are the debts created because of the mistakes the product team makes.

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Roman Pichler

JULY 11, 2016

Manage the Product, not the Team. Focus on your job as the product manager or product owner, and manage the product, not the team. Provide guidance on the product, including its market, value proposition, business goals, and key features. Treat the Team as an Equal Partner.

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Roman Pichler

NOVEMBER 1, 2022

Ensure that your product goals always capture the desired outcome the product should create and not the output. A good test to understand if a product goal describes an outcome is to ask the why question. Your job is not to please the stakeholders, but to achieve product success.

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Modus Create

MAY 3, 2023

Common misconceptions with UX and product development UX is a powerful and valuable tool, but misconceptions abound about what UX can do and how long it can take to reap the benefits. In engineering-driven organizations, product management can be very feature-focused. False: “We don’t need to user test.

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The Product Guy

AUGUST 1, 2019

Guest Post by: Merziyah Poonawala (Mentee, Session 9, The Product Mentor) [Paired with Mentor, Joni Hoadley]. What do you do when your team is working their socks off and yet they are getting little credit for the work being done, mainly because the team isn’t able to set concrete expectations with the stakeholder? THE CAUSE.

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UX Studio: Product Management

JANUARY 11, 2021

At UX Studio , while we develop our products, uxfol.io and copyfol.io , we are mainly focused on agency work, meaning that we cooperate with several clients as external teams. This post was written from the perspective of designers, mainly intended for external teams and entrepreneurs. Five challenges and solutions.

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Product Talk

FEBRUARY 2, 2022

This is only natural: Through years of bad habits, many of us have shown engineers that we only value them for the code they can write. Their core product offers instant voice communication like a walkie-talkie, but reinvented so it can be integrated with other web services and offer more context like location and online status.

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The Product Coalition

JANUARY 27, 2022

At the beginning of any software development project, managers think of which methodology is between waterfall and agile. It’s essential to follow clearly defined processes or software development life cycle (SDLC) to ensure software development quality.

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Roman Pichler

MAY 11, 2021

Instead, you should engage the stakeholders, leverage their expertise, and generate as much buy-in as possible , as I explain in more detail in my article “ Stakeholder Management Tips for Product People.” ” But do not allow people to dominate and tell you what to do, and don’t agree to a weak compromise.

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Roman Pichler

FEBRUARY 2, 2021

Before the advent of agile frameworks like Scrum , a product person—the product manager—would typically carry out the market research, compile a market requirements specification, create a business case, put together product roadmap, write a requirements specification, and then hand it off to a project manager.

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Userpilot

JUNE 20, 2022

Running A/B tests and making data-driven decisions is essential if you are passionate about enhancing your customer experience, boosting retention, and increasing revenue. Anyone even remotely involved in product management will tell you that! But how do you run successful tests? Testing new features before building.

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Mironov Consulting

FEBRUARY 28, 2024

An essential role of CPOs and other product leaders that’s never listed in the job description is giving organizational 'air cover' to product managers to postpone almost all new requests — so that their teams can finish work already underway.    Probably only 10 lines of code.

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Usersnap

FEBRUARY 9, 2024

For Product Managers and Developers, selecting the right, usability testing platform and tool isn’t just a task; it’s a crucial step in shaping your product’s success. The market offers a variety of usability testing tools, each varying in price, features, and research methods. Usersnap 2.

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Mironov Consulting

SEPTEMBER 15, 2019

Data science has traditionally been an analysis-only endeavor: using historical statistics, user interaction trends, or AI machine learning to predict the impact of deterministically coded software changes. So here are a few tips for product managers who may be pulling data science – and data scientists – into our product processes.

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Mironov Consulting

NOVEMBER 10, 2016

While sales teams stereotypically rally around contests, talk sports and drink coffee (which is for closers)… development teams may sit silently side-by-side-side most of the day engaging in multiple Slack conversations, taking breaks for air hockey or exchanging giphys , and critiquing each other’s code indents.

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The Secret PM Handbook

AUGUST 4, 2017

The Secret Product Management Framework. Finally writing down the Secret Product Management Framework was a revelation for me. It put all the activities I do as a product manager into perspective. One test of a new framework is how well it explains “previous observations.” Breakthrough!

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The Product Coalition

JUNE 24, 2022

Do you find being a product manager particularly challenging? Take a look at these nine indicators to determine if product management is the right career for you, or not. digital product management positions have never been more pervasive or idolized than they are right now. Let’s be real for a second?—?digital

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Userpilot

NOVEMBER 23, 2023

Why do product managers need them? That’s what Dave Martin , a product leadership coach, has talked about in his talk at this year’s Product Drive Summit hosted by Userpilot. Dave Martin on how product roadmaps kill outcomes. The thing is, users don’t need the majority of features that product teams build.

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Userpilot

JULY 9, 2021

What are the best product management books to add to your 2021 reading list? We’ve put together a list for you with a few staples from every product manager’s bookshelf and some new releases too. New in – Best New Product Management Books in 2021. Teresa Torres, Author of Continuous Discovery Habits.

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The Product Coalition

OCTOBER 15, 2019

Often people stumble into the Product Management career without any Technology background. When I was at Hutchinson Telecoms, I was a Product Manager within the Marketing function. I never had to deal with developers on a day to day basis?—?the I had no idea what I was doing and how I could lead a dev team.

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TechEmpower - Product Management

SEPTEMBER 25, 2023

When speaking with founders and CEOs, we often hear concerns like this: My project manager is losing confidence in the development team. I think that poor communication and differing team cultures might be part of the problem, but how can I know for sure? This is where a technical review can be useful!)

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The Product Coalition

OCTOBER 30, 2023

It was another bad start to what seemed like Groundhog Day. “I This was the third conversation we were having about the product, an app that served our own company along with external customers. Yet, for many product managers, simplicity is challenging to achieve. Often, product managers skip this step in favor of speed.

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Userpilot

NOVEMBER 30, 2023

How do product managers identify market gaps? A market gap can be caused by missing functionality or poor user experience. Canva identified a market need for a user-friendly graphic design tool for non-designers and DocuSign for a secure solution to sign and manage digital documents and contracts. Let’s get into it!

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Userpilot

APRIL 7, 2023

When your product is catering to other businesses, it can be difficult for sales reps and other teams to understand the needs and experiences of the clients, especially if the client company sells multiple products. However, customer insights can help your teams understand all aspects of your B2B partners.

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UX Studio: Product Management

JULY 29, 2020

UX studio has conducted an expert review for the IT company IncQueryLabs to discover why their website did not perfo rm well. . IncQueryLabs builds software toolchains to boost industrial digitization efforts, by helping their clients to achieve higher quality, faster time to market, reduce development costs, and break vendor lock-in.

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Roman Pichler

MAY 11, 2021

Instead, you should engage the stakeholders, leverage their expertise, and generate as much buy-in as possible , as I explain in more detail in my article “ Stakeholder Management Tips for Product People.” ” But do not allow people to dominate and tell you what to do, and don’t agree to a weak compromise.

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People-First Product Leadership

FEBRUARY 12, 2024

As you can likely guess if you’ve been following this newsletter, I fall on the side of favoring collaboration as being a key area of focus for performance reviews. Performance is considered at a team, scrum or project level. Introversion or extroversion are irrelevant as its the work of the team that does the talking.

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Mind the Product

NOVEMBER 21, 2019

As a product leader, you are the product manager for a leadership team, and the tricks you learned in product teams remain valuable, they just need a little tweak. Here, to help you, are five product management tricks and tools for every product leader. Value Proposition.

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The Product Coalition

OCTOBER 29, 2018

“We just pushed it live,” the release manager belts out, to a team fresh off the battlefield that is software product development. I was fortuitously dropped into this arena, with not a hint of prior experience building and releasing products. You’re all part of a team. While keeping those in mind?—?and

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The Product Guy

APRIL 9, 2019

Guest Post by: Eric Wang (Mentee, Session 8, The Product Mentor) [Paired with Mentor, Chris Butler]. The notion of a strategy in product management seems like something that only high-level stakeholders at the executive level should care about. After more reviews, the second draft was focus on two generalized themes.

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The Product Coalition

NOVEMBER 2, 2021

A Technical Exercise In this post, I’ll offer my idea of the sort of technical abilities expected from a product manager. This can be highly useful for hiring managers, as well as for PMs planning their roadmap. There’s been so much written, including by myself, about product management interviews.

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The Product Coalition

JULY 6, 2022

Fifteen years ago Ben Horowitz published his now famous memo, “G ood Product Manager/Bad Product Manager ” in which he posits that “A good product manager is the CEO of the product”. A bad CEO takes the credit and passes on the blame. It’s a relative term?—?some

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Mixpanel

JANUARY 3, 2022

As data-driven product development continues to balloon in popularity, so does the need for accurate and sophisticated implementation of analytics tracking in software products. From the perspective of many engineering teams, product analytics is treated as a second-class citizen.

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The Product Coalition

JUNE 14, 2020

In IT outsourcing, software service providers often introduce the role of Proxy Product Owner (PPO) to compensate for the lack of product leadership. It only seems natural to want to help the client to move forward with product development and keep the engineering busy implementing the defined requirements.

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Userpilot

OCTOBER 4, 2022

So, if you’re a product manager looking to significantly improve your UX efforts and provide actionable insights to your UX team, read on! User experience (UX) involves all aspects of user interactions with your product. Userzoom – for usability testing. Hotjar – for session recordings.

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Userpilot

JUNE 30, 2023

With Userpilot , you can create surveys code free from scratch or benefit from our templates, trigger automated answers, or follow-up questions to user responses. This data allows product managers to make more informed product development and roadmap planning decisions. Why are voice of customer surveys important?

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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. Product manager motto?—?Dan

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