The Product Coalition

OCTOBER 20, 2022

In the current economy… Continue reading on Product Coalition ». Gone are the times when the sketch on a napkin from your lunch was enough to secure your company Series A funding.

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The Product Guy

NOVEMBER 26, 2024

I’ve never felt compelled to write a rebuttal before, but Amanda Hoover’s recent article, “ Product managers rule Silicon Valley. Not everyone is happy about it ,” misses the mark on what product management truly entails. It’s time to set the record straight. Let’s address these misconceptions head-on.

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Product Talk

OCTOBER 23, 2024

Working as a product trio is the foundation for discovery. Without input from a product manager, a designer, and an engineer, it’s difficult for us to account for the cross-functional perspectives we need to build successful products. However, most companies tend to have more engineers than product managers or designers.

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The Product Guy

AUGUST 15, 2019

Guest Post by: Hannah Kim (Mentee, Session 9, The Product Mentor) [Paired with Mentor, Patrick Hoffman]. Before my first year of product management, I had lots of preconceived notions about product management. With product development, things are rarely built exactly as estimated. Better Products.

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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. Make a list of the scope and the challenges to your product. Second Attempt.

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The Product Guy

DECEMBER 6, 2018

From high school to business school, and throughout my professional career, I was supremely comfortable with it , and reveled in solving problems, to the appreciation of my managers, colleagues, and teachers. Management guru, Peter Drucker had said, if you can’t measure it, you can’t improve it. 2) What should I solve?

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The Product Guy

SEPTEMBER 27, 2016

Each Session of the program runs for 6 months with paired individuals… Conducting regular 1-on-1 mentor-mentee chats Sharing experiences with the larger Product community Participating in live-streamed product management lessons and Q&A. Jordan Bergtraum VP Product Management, ServiceChannel.

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The Product Coalition

NOVEMBER 2, 2024

I decided to review all the concepts of project and product management to understand what I was doing well and what I was not organizing correctly. Every meeting, milestone, line of code, and conversation became more meaningful when done with intention. This left me pondering: What exactly was I feeling, and why?

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The Product Guy

AUGUST 30, 2017

At the end of 2015 I was in the worst nightmare of any Product Manager. I had a strong roadmap, clear goals and a vision for the product. The team had been working for almost a year and had a huge amount of code under their belts. But just because it was a lot of code doesn’t mean it worked. We’d made great code.

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The Product Guy

AUGUST 1, 2019

A startup development team consisting of a product manager and two offshore engineers was facing major challenges in meeting client deliverable deadlines – repeatedly. Since there was no active grooming or planning session with the engineers, daily standups played the role of requirement review meetings. THE CHALLENGE.

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Melissa Perri

JULY 23, 2024

For the past eight years, I’ve been working with C-Suite leaders at companies big and small to set up their Product Management organizations. Some of these are Fortune 10 software-enabled companies going through digital transformations. At all of them, I start understanding the current state of Product Management.

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Userpilot

NOVEMBER 17, 2024

At least that’s what Kevin O’Sullivan, Head of Product Design at Userpilot, has to say — and for good reason. Kevin has almost a decade of experience working at some of the world’s most innovative software companies. Additionally, product managers and designers mostly want to implement product analytics themselves.

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The Product Guy

OCTOBER 25, 2016

Each Session of the program runs for 6 months with paired individuals… Conducting regular 1-on-1 mentor-mentee chats Sharing experiences with the larger Product community Participating in live-streamed product management lessons and Q&A. Jordan Bergtraum VP Product Management, ServiceChannel.

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The Product Guy

MARCH 27, 2018

Guest Post by: Cornell Pineda (Mentee, Session 5, The Product Mentor) [Paired with Mentor, Vikas Batra]. When I started my current product role last September, I had a textbook definition of what makes a great product manager. The quality of the code suffered while features were delayed.

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Product Talk

NOVEMBER 6, 2024

Teeba recently joined Lightspeed Commerce as a Senior Product Manager. I’ve always been fascinated by the discovery aspect of product management,” says Teeba. “I I soon noticed that while many companies have embraced agile execution, fewer have adopted a truly continuous approach to product discovery.

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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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Alchemer Mobile

NOVEMBER 23, 2021

Whether you’re new to the product management field or a seasoned professional, it’s always valuable to learn from your peers’ lived experiences. While you can watch the full hour-long interview here , this post breaks down four of the key lessons we learned from Jessi Alva, Director, Technical Product Management at SAP Concur.

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The Product Coalition

JANUARY 27, 2024

Software development with sustainability in mind is a rising trend in digital spaces. I would like to thank Tremis Skeete, Executive Editor of Product Coalition, for his valuable contributions to this article's research, development, and writing. Let’s explore how and why this matters. It comprises of four components: 1.

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Product Innovation Educators

AUGUST 5, 2024

How product managers should use the five-step model for creating team culture Watch on YouTube TLDR Product managers often face the challenge of significant responsibilities without formal authority. As product managers, we must navigate both these realms.

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Product Innovation Educators

NOVEMBER 6, 2023

How product managers can use AI to get more actionable insights from qualitative data Today we are talking about using qualitative data to drive our work in product and consequently improve sales. Before founding Viable, he held senior leadership roles in engineering, technology, and product. What is that question?

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Roman Pichler

NOVEMBER 2, 2021

A development team does a good job if the following three conditions are fulfilled: First, the group reliably meets the agreed sprint goals and delivers product increments that offer a great user experience and exhibit the desired software quality. You would interfere with and damage the team’s self-management.

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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

NOVEMBER 3, 2020

Well, it is logical for the interviewer to assume that as a product owner, you will have a ready answer for this. The conflict between launching new features versus improving the code quality is real and never ending. these are the debts created because of the mistakes the product team makes. In short?—?these Yes and No.

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Alchemer Mobile

AUGUST 27, 2020

If we’ve learned anything in 2020, it’s that flexibility is key to being a strong product manager – especially when it comes to the mobile experience. For many mobile product managers, their biggest goal is to create a realistic product roadmap and hit key milestones on time.

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Userpilot

MAY 7, 2024

Using no-code tools for product managers allows you to build, iterate, and deploy software products without any coding knowledge. But what is the best tech stack for product management? Book a Userpilot demo today to see how you can shape the product experience without coding.

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The Product Guy

JULY 30, 2020

Guest Post by: Inis Hormann (Mentee, Session 11, The Product Mentor) [Paired with Mentor, Paul Hurwitz]. Product Managers (PM) need to effectively communicate product vision, strategic roadmaps and concepts to a variety of different stakeholders through the different stages of the product life cycle.

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The Product Coalition

FEBRUARY 29, 2024

Source In the expansive universe of software development, few platforms have wielded as much influence and innovation as GitHub. From its inception as a code hosting service to its current status as the epicenter of collaborative coding, GitHub’s evolution has been a testament to the power of community, creativity, and continuous improvement.

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Product Talk

APRIL 16, 2025

Its written to help non-engineers understand the value of software engineering. Its chock-full of stories about how the author solved business problems by writing code. Even though it had been ten years since I had written a line of code, I decided to dive back in and I started automating my business logic. It wasnt easy.

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Roman Pichler

FEBRUARY 14, 2023

2 Use Scrum for Products that Experience Uncertainty and Change Scrum is often seen as the standard way to create digital products, and I have met more than one company where the product managers were told to be agile and do Scrum. As I mentioned earlier, Scrum is not a product management framework.

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Lenny Rachitsky

MAY 15, 2025

They’re fully accountable for business outcomes, not just product delivery—which creates a breeding ground for future founders and executives. This creates a culture where product people must understand the bare metal of how things work while still delivering wow experiences.

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Roman Pichler

APRIL 13, 2021

But if the team motivation is declining—as people are being overworked or stressed—or if the code quality is deteriorating—as bugs are accumulating and the code complexity is increasing, alarm bells should go off. Carefully select them by using the factors discussed above, and regularly review and adjust them. Less is More.

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Product Innovation Educators

SEPTEMBER 5, 2022

Insights for product managers from a Scrum Master. Scrum is a frequently used approach for software projects and many other types of projects that would benefit from agility, including physical products. Fred has been developing software in Silicon Valley for more than 35 years. 9:38] How do you measure value?

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Userpilot

OCTOBER 31, 2024

Which product feedback software should you choose for your SaaS? In this round-up, I cover 21 of the best product feedback software solutions. In this round-up, I cover 21 of the best product feedback software solutions. The choice is tough because there’s no single tool that covers all use cases.

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The Product Coalition

AUGUST 28, 2023

The Software Development Life Cycle provides a practical framework you can apply to your product and improve your processes. With the support of the SDLC, You can track and control your calendar, and increase productivity and speed of development. Good product and customer satisfaction come through from a great analysis phase.

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The Product Coalition

DECEMBER 21, 2021

Restaurants don’t put an Apprentice Chef in charge of the kitchen overnight, so why do we do this with Product Managers? Photo by Sebastian Herrmann on Unsplash Whilst it has been around for decades, product management has grown rapidly over the last few years. Companies are getting creative.

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Userpilot

JULY 29, 2024

What’s a cost-effective way to manage and grow a product ? Using software for product management. This article will examine some of the best product management software in the market. Asana is a top project management tool for helping teams organize, track, and manage work efficiently.

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The Product Guy

JUNE 20, 2019

When I joined Wetu in 2014, I was the 7th employee, we had just over 100 companies using our software, we were exclusively available in Africa, and the product was already 5 years old. Since then we have grown to over 100 employees, we have more than 800 companies using our software, and we have expanded globally.

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