The Product Coalition

APRIL 2, 2023

If You Don’t Know What a Product Manager Is — Don’t Hire Me. If you really want me to be your product manager, then this is explicitly the kind of product manager I will be in our company. Let’s work together on your amazing product! Still, we have a duty to advise what’s best for the product.

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Intercom, Inc.

JANUARY 14, 2021

With a background in computer science and an MBA, he soon realized that understanding the markets and customers is as important as building the products. And so, in 2014, he founded Productboard , a product management system that incorporates customer feedback and insights to help product teams build better products.

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BrainStation Product Management

FEBRUARY 28, 2019

Product Managers have the enviable job of taking a product from its roots as an idea and steering its lifecycle through launch and beyond. Often referred to as “mini-CEOs” of a product, these specialists must possess a wide variety of skills and competencies to propel a product to success.

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Bain Public

AUGUST 22, 2022

Bain Public is looking for a talented candidate to join our Product team with a focus on Business and Engineering. Second, to assist and work in collaboration with the rest of the Product Management team and third, to work in collaboration with our broader team – which includes UX/UI, Engineering and a team of Data Scientists.

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The Product Coalition

DECEMBER 13, 2021

The below image is a simple framework but it is a growth platform that helps in setting up startups, mid-size or even big enterprises. In due course, the startups need to invest a good amount of time in organizing the strategy and roadmap to track the product performance to get an early product-market fit and scalability.

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Bain Public

JANUARY 24, 2022

Bain Public is looking for a talented candidate to join our Product team with a focus on Business and Engineering. Second, to assist and work in collaboration with the rest of the Product Management team and third, to work in collaboration with our broader team – which includes UX/UI, Engineering and a team of Data Scientists.

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Bain Public

JANUARY 24, 2022

Bain Public is looking for a talented intern to join our Product team with a focus on Business and Engineering. Second, to assist and work in collaboration with the rest of the Product Management team and third, to work in collaboration with our broader team – which includes UX/UI, Engineering and a team of Data Scientists.

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Bain Public

JANUARY 24, 2022

Bain Public is looking for a talented intern to join our Product team with a focus on Business and Engineering. Second, to assist and work in collaboration with the rest of the Product Management team and third, to work in collaboration with our broader team – which includes UX/UI, Engineering and a team of Data Scientists.

Research Software 52

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BrainStation Product Management

FEBRUARY 28, 2019

Product Managers have the enviable job of taking a product from its roots as an idea and steering its lifecycle through launch and beyond. Often referred to as “mini-CEOs” of a product, these specialists must possess a wide variety of skills and competencies to propel a product to success.

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Userpilot

MAY 26, 2021

Love it or hate it, one thing is clear: product onboarding is an important driver of activation and retention in SaaS businesses. If you see onboarding in the broader sense as customer education , there are few things more essential than educating your customer about how to derive value from your product.

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PMLesson's Ace the PM Interview

MARCH 1, 2020

An inside look at product management at IBM and the interview process. Kevin Wei is an Offering Manager at IBM managing Watson Knowledge Catalog and DataStage. In this Path to PM blog post, Kevin shares his journey breaking into a product role as a new grad hire at IBM. What is an IBM offering manager?

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UX Studio: Product Management

JULY 14, 2021

UX studio is one of the global innovation design consulting firms focusing on UX design, research, and strategic consulting. We researched the top design consulting firms’ competency level, experience, and portfolio to define the most reliable design thinking companies you can trust and partner with in 2021.

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The Product Coalition

FEBRUARY 5, 2021

As someone who’s been fortunate enough to have coached dozens of Product Leaders and have walked in their shoes, I have found that there are several under-appreciated ways things change when you move into a product leader role. How do I cultivate the right product culture for the product teams to succeed?

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Mind the Product

JANUARY 10, 2017

As a product manager it’s not uncommon to feel pulled in a million different directions as you work to meet the needs of your customers, developers and company stakeholders. The practices I describe are not an exhaustive list of tools and methods. Internal stakeholders need to know how the products you build work.

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The Product Coalition

MARCH 11, 2020

This article will discuss product discovery for product teams who are working on scaled products, or are in the process of scaling their product. Product discovery encompasses all the research and decisions on the product, whether that’s planning your next feature, or testing your latest product proposition.

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The Product Coalition

MAY 15, 2019

One signal I’ve been giving much thought too of late is the collision of two roles, Product Management and Product Ownership. A topic of hot debate in the agile and product circles but with very few answers. Scrum and the agile manifesto were created in a time where we used to still package and ship software physically.

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Bain Public

MAY 29, 2020

FUN FACT: It is actually thanks to the coaching service for innovative and technological SMBs (PMEit) administered by MAIN that we’ve been able to work with some of our incredible clients, Wastack , LiveScale , Blaise Transit and Enkidoo , and provide them with product management, consultancy and coaching support.

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ProductPlan

MARCH 4, 2022

Product operations is a new discipline within product management, and the product operations analyst role is even newer. Businesses are still learning how to build a product operations function in their companies. Businesses are still learning how to build a product operations function in their companies.

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The Product Coalition

MARCH 1, 2024

Decode A Job Posting from Spotify: Senior Product Manager — Playlist Platform Spotify is an innovative business that changes the surrounding reality: almost everyone you see on the street or in a café wearing headphones listens to music on Spotify. What technical knowledge does Spotify expect from a candidate?

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PMLesson's Ace the PM Interview

APRIL 19, 2020

Skills a Product Manager Need Analytical Skills In your current role as a consultant, you will have developed and honed your analytical skills. This is what you should frame your resume around as this is likely the closest experience you have to being a product manager.

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PMLesson's Ace the PM Interview

APRIL 19, 2020

Skills a Product Manager Need Analytical Skills In your current role as a consultant, you will have developed and honed your analytical skills. This is what you should frame your resume around as this is likely the closest experience you have to being a product manager.

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PMLesson's Ace the PM Interview

OCTOBER 21, 2019

We talk to Hemanth Kempanna, an Exponent alumnus, on his journey to breaking into product management and his experience building cloud-based products. This can be in terms of the companies you want to target, the roles you want to get into or the kind of industry, products, or technologies you want to work on.

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Product Innovation Educators

OCTOBER 29, 2018

He has created products and led product teams for Fortune 500 companies including Cisco and Capital One, advised several small and medium businesses, and founded a Product Innovation, Design Thinking and Agile coaching practice called 5D Vision. Summary of some concepts discussed for product managers. [2:46]

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Product Bookshelf

JANUARY 31, 2017

Collect information and work with your cross-functional partners to be an effective product manager. Your company will rely on you to be the most knowledgeable about your product so never take your eye off the market and establish an objective framework to guide your decisions. Take Charge Product Management by Greg Geracie.

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Mind the Product

MAY 29, 2018

Brant previously authored The Entrepreneur’s Guide to Customer Development, the first purpose-written book to discuss Lean Startup and Customer Development concepts and he is the Co-Founder of Moves the Needle, which has advised the innovation practices of such leading companies as GE, Intuit, Capital One, ING and Cisco.

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Alchemer Mobile

APRIL 14, 2020

Here are some of the questions they’ll discuss: What’s the relationship between design, development, engineering, and product and your company? How deep does your understanding of the technology go as a PM? How do you manage executive expectations, customer expectations, and technical resources?

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Mind the Product

JULY 10, 2017

For example, a local startup team I consult for are developing their web app in-house while outsourcing their mobile development team of 12 to Poland. If you want your local and remote teams to work together closely on the same parts of the system, then you should put some more effort into structuring your development process.

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Userzoom

AUGUST 24, 2017

How you can make your next research project more actionable and valuable. Executives, Marketers, Designers, and Product Managers all want to make an informed decision and manage risk intelligently. This is why a lot of companies are investing in User Research. Most research studies have a small shelf life.

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Pragmatic Marketing

SEPTEMBER 16, 2009

Barbara Nelson said in The Politics of Agile , “When product managers weren’t looking, the developers went agile.” ” Indeed, many Product Managers were taken by surprise at the speed of Agile’s adoption. Ultimately, we are responsible for the success of the product and, thus, the company.

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Usersnap

JUNE 15, 2023

Building a powerful SaaS product takes way more than just an idea. Without a systematic approach to your product management process and clear roadmap, you’ll likely face several hurdles like lack of direction, unclear priorities, wasted resources, missed deadlines, difficulty in scaling, and more.

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Business of Software Conference

JULY 7, 2021

In this guest post Paul Kenny (founder of Ocean Learning and long time BoS participant and speaker) argues that software and SaaS “proven sales playbooks” are BS. Our CRM system can prompt the team to make the optimum number of calls, to follow up efficiently and to be better at predicting call or demo outcomes.

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UX Studio

JANUARY 24, 2024

She has an extensive background in Customer Experience and Telecommunications fields, with more than 15 years of experience working both as a designer and researcher, while also leading large teams. But I also advise designers not to oversee the business side of the relationship. Karthik: That’s amazing.

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Mixpanel

MAY 5, 2021

Teams are praised whenever they release a new feature (or product) to their customers. Imagine the internal ‘pat on the backs’ and recognition that occurred when Gmail fully launched dark mode for the mobile app, Figma released multi-account to switch between personal and work design spaces, or Apple announced their M1 chip.

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Product Talk

AUGUST 10, 2016

Over time, I started to reframe the two dimensions as discovering opportunities and discovering solutions. Good product discovery requires discovering opportunities as well as discovering solutions. This helped as most teams can articulate how to connect the dots between opportunities and solutions. – Tweet This.

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The Product Bistro

JUNE 14, 2016

Even though structured customer visits are technically “ marketing ” research, for them to be valuable requires that many of the key groups in the organization are involved. Also, participation by marketing is useful, as often Product Management is part of the marketing team. The Planning.

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The Product Coalition

JANUARY 5, 2021

Please find the following 71 Product Owner interview questions to identify suitable candidates for the role of Scrum Master or agile coach. ( Stakeholders also need to understand that “requirements” (and thus probably local optimizations efforts) are no longer a valid form of the product delivery process. How do you deal with that?

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The Product Coalition

MARCH 21, 2018

What you need to think about in your first 60–90 days on a new job: product management (leader) edition I’ve recently transitioned into a different role and have spent some time thinking about how to start this new job. A mentor advised me to think about three broad categories?—?the focus on a few near terms wins ?—?could

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