The Product HQ

APRIL 20, 2024

Wondering what it takes to become an amazing agile developer? This post outlines all the traits, essential skills, and soft skills that characterize what it means to be an amazing agile developer. 8 Steps to Become a Rockstar Agile Developer Here is a step-by-step process on how to become an agile developer: 1.

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Userpilot

JANUARY 14, 2024

Are you thinking of a career in product management and wondering what the product manager career path looks like? In particular, we look at: What the product manager’s role involves Their main responsibilities Common product management positions Tips on how to advance your PM career Let’s dive in.

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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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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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The Product Coalition

NOVEMBER 22, 2022

How long an activity takes can have a huge impact on success or the perception of success when developing products. More often than not, teams are overly optimistic on the timeline that will be required to complete an activity. You can put unnecessary pressure on your team. You can miss targets.

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Mind the Product

DECEMBER 18, 2019

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. This is how we did it.

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The Product HQ

MAY 10, 2024

Startup Product managers are in charge of setting up the foundation for product management at a new company. Since product development is such a lucrative field, this is a crucial role for the company. According to Airfocus , an optimized product manager boosts profitability and sales, by 34.2

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The Product Coalition

SEPTEMBER 7, 2022

Minimum Viable Products: Why You Should Test Before Investing In Ideas Let’s analyze the advantages of MVP-based software development. Why should you invest in MVP development? You can successfully prevent these problems by starting software development with a Minimum Viable Product (MVP).

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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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Mironov Consulting

JANUARY 17, 2021

Half of the calls I get from CEOs include requests for Product Management to boost productivity in Engineering (aka Development aka Makers). It also signals a lack of trust between the executive team and the development organization: “how do I know I’m getting my money’s worth out of this mysterious process?

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The Product Coalition

JULY 12, 2022

Here are cases for when the cooperation between the product team and the client brakes down for objective reasons. Here I have tried to reveal the most common cases when the cooperation between the development team and the entrepreneur fails for reasons beyond the control of all parties involved. So I wrote this article.

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The Product Coalition

DECEMBER 29, 2020

With more people entering the Product landscape than ever, now is a good time to help the newbies understand where Product Management came from, and how far the industry has come. When Hewlett-Packard ran with his ideas, it introduced an organizational structure where each product group functioned as a separate organization.

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The Product Coalition

MARCH 11, 2020

TL; DR: Development Team Anti-Patterns After covering the Scrum Master and the Product Owner, this article addresses Development Team anti-patterns, covering all Scrum Events as well as the Product Backlog artifact. Only members of the Development Team create the Increment.

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The Product Coalition

FEBRUARY 14, 2022

If you manage AI products, the answer is probably “many”. AI product management is a unique beast that can be quite challenging, but there are ways to make it easier. 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.

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Userpilot

APRIL 6, 2023

Developing and releasing sophisticated products with all the bells and whistles imaginable might seem like a great idea. After all, you want your newly released software to be as good as it gets when it’s finally launched, right? Poor prioritization and external pressure are also common causes. But worry not!

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The Product Coalition

SEPTEMBER 4, 2020

My journey to product management was not what you might expect , but then again, maybe you would. 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.

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Alchemer Mobile

DECEMBER 7, 2022

“Should we buy this software or should we build it?” The build vs. buy question is both one of the most common and one of the most challenging dilemmas facing product managers. Total cost of ownership: How much will the software cost to buy? In fact, the top 100 apps in the App Store average no fewer than 6.72

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Alchemer Mobile

DECEMBER 7, 2022

“Should we buy this software or should we build it?” The build vs. buy question is both one of the most common and one of the most challenging dilemmas facing product managers. . Total cost of ownership: How much will the software cost to buy? 3rd party mobile SDKs are common. Time to market.

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The Product Coalition

APRIL 25, 2022

Product managers (PMs) are ninjas of aligning people, management, and processes. No product tool or template can save you if you’re not killing it in these three areas. The best product managers are in a continuous state of discovery and know that?—? neither the product nor roadmap are ever static.

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The Product Guy

OCTOBER 9, 2018

Guest Post by: Julian Dunn (Mentee, Session 6, The Product Mentor) [Paired with Mentor, Vikas Batra]. I became a product manager because I wanted to take a more strategic role at my company. Thus, I arrived at the Product Mentor program with ambitions to learn strategy development from a seasoned product mentor.

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The Product Coalition

SEPTEMBER 7, 2023

This is why it is essential that product managers think of the broader implications of product feature usage across products when writing requirements or user stories to minimize impact downstream. When the developers were shown this test data, their first reaction was, “Where’d you find six dumb people?”

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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. In the product management discipline, cross-functional collaboration is more than a buzzword — it’s a critical strategy. Teams with multiple functions are instrumental towards staying competitive and succeed.

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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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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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Mind the Product

FEBRUARY 12, 2020

A healthy relationship between product management and engineering is critical to building successful products. It’s also essential to creating a team where great people want to work. Here are some of the ways I’ve found for product managers to ensure they have a great relationship with the engineering team.

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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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Mironov Consulting

SEPTEMBER 15, 2019

It also requires product managers to engage much more directly with data scientists about models, predictability, how products work in production, how/why users interact with our products, and how our end users measure success. (Hint: most users don’t understand or care about F1-scores ; they just want to get the right answer.).

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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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Mind the Product

MARCH 7, 2017

Or “ How to Manage Software Development in Teams who Think Nothing Like you “ Product management has two diversity problems. Cultural homogeneity in product teams is dead, welcome cultural diversity. It simply doesn’t work. We’re Trapped in our Cultures. How’s that for a mini-UN?

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The Product Coalition

NOVEMBER 3, 2020

we got this request long before our MVP development agency was founded. Hey, my name is Kristina Spiridonova, I’m an account manager at Purrweb. Hey, my name is Kristina Spiridonova, I’m an account manager at Purrweb. Once we got such an app development RFP: HOW and even WHAT are clear. There were no other details.

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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. Differences between waterfall and agile 1.

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Userpilot

JUNE 27, 2022

What is developer marketing, and what is the point of it? As the name suggests, developer marketing is marketing to developers. In short, developer marketing is more than just capturing the attention of software developers and getting them to use your product. What is developer marketing?

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Mind the Product

JANUARY 21, 2019

As product managers our job description is pretty simple: to make all of our software development projects succeed. In fact, I would go so far as to say any failures or successes of the team are failures or successes of product management. What are your KPIs for the product post-launch?

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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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Mind the Product

MARCH 13, 2018

The last of the four topics particularly caught my eye: “how do you increase the commercial acumen of product managers?”. The article suggested that “product people (especially those in Europe) are weak commercially”, which “can lead to bad assumptions, particularly in more complex environments”.

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The Product Coalition

MARCH 5, 2018

There are literally dozens of different ways in which product managers try to prioritize the feature requests and feedback that falls into their laps on a daily basis. The bad news? If this sounds like a poor attempt at an ice breaker, that’s because that’s exactly what this sounds like. But the point still stands.

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Userpilot

DECEMBER 6, 2022

‘Feature factory’ is not exactly a positive term, especially if you’re aspiring to be a product-led SaaS product management team. We also look at what product managers can do to avoid falling into the trap. Ready to dive in? Let’s get to it. What is a feature factory?

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