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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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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Roman Pichler

JANUARY 9, 2018

I find it helpful to form a product discovery team that consists of: Development team members: user experience (UX) designer, developer, tester; Key stakeholders , for example, people from marketing, sales, and support; A ScrumMaster or agile coach. Focus on Problem Validation, not Solution Building. Talk to the Users.

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Userpilot

MARCH 8, 2022

She advises executives around the world regarding product management. The book described the common tendency for organizations to focus on features instead of delivering true value for the users, and discussed: How not to turn into a feature factory. Your users will thank you one day. Author of “ Continuous Discovery Habits ”.

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The Product Coalition

MARCH 11, 2020

Scaled products are past the stages of early access, or pre-launch and have grown to have plenty of customers, and regular users. 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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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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Userpilot

JULY 9, 2021

Continuous Discovery Habits by Teresa Torres teaches you how to set up a continuous discovery system within your organization with actionable exercises. Product-Led Onboarding by Ramli John and Wes Bush is a new book about how to implement user onboarding for the ultimate customer retention. Interviewing users and customers.

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Product Talk

APRIL 7, 2021

In this third and final conversation in the series, we discussed two core principles of continuous discovery : why it’s essential to set up compare and contrast decisions and surface and test assumptions. I am a former chief product officer and now coach and advise product leaders and teams. Teresa Torres : Hi, everyone. Tweet This.

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Product Talk

AUGUST 10, 2016

It’s easy for teams to work along both dimensions of product discovery—working to understand their customer’s context and iteratively testing their ideas—but that doesn’t mean they know how to connect the two sets of activities. Over time, I started to reframe the two dimensions as discovering opportunities and discovering solutions.

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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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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. Test and iterate.

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Alchemer Mobile

APRIL 14, 2020

How deep does your understanding of the technology go as a PM? And how much do you try to be, like, a subject matter expert from a technological standpoint compared to your engineering team? How do you manage executive expectations, customer expectations, and technical resources? Christy: All right. I am Christy Culp.

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Userpilot

MARCH 3, 2022

This includes market research (potential employers), understanding product strengths (your value to the customer), iterative development (subsequent drafts), or refining the UI (formatting). Careers in programming are a good springboard as are those in sales, customer service, or marketing.

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The Product Coalition

APRIL 2, 2023

Being a Product Manager (PM) in a IT (Information Technology) services company may seem complicated. Still, we have a duty to advise what’s best for the product. I am already (and all the PM I know are too) over committed to my work, to delivering value to customers, and I am already under way too much pressure.

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eG Innovations

AUGUST 11, 2022

It includes the ability to monitor user experience – from logon time to application launch time to screen refresh latency so administrators can easily monitor and track if they are meeting their service levels (SLAs). He also covered: A walk-through of some troubleshooting case studies from user reported issues to diagnosis.

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Bain Public

AUGUST 22, 2022

While these will be your key areas of ownership, we’re a small team at Bain Public, so you’ll likely pitch in on a variety of other initiatives, from communication campaigns to research to prospecting and networking. seeks to provide a platform for the acquisition of Artificial Intelligence ("AI") entities in North America.

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Bain Public

JANUARY 24, 2022

While these will be your key areas of ownership, we’re a small team at Bain Public, so you’ll likely pitch in on a variety of other initiatives, from communication campaigns to research to prospecting and networking. seeks to provide a platform for the acquisition of Artificial Intelligence ("AI") entities in North America.

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Bain Public

JANUARY 24, 2022

While these will be your key areas of ownership, we’re a small team at Bain Public, so you’ll likely pitch in on a variety of other initiatives, from communication campaigns to research to prospecting and networking. seeks to provide a platform for the acquisition of Artificial Intelligence ("AI") entities in North America.

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Bain Public

JANUARY 24, 2022

While these will be your key areas of ownership, we’re a small team at Bain Public, so you’ll likely pitch in on a variety of other initiatives, from communication campaigns to research to prospecting and networking. seeks to provide a platform for the acquisition of Artificial Intelligence ("AI") entities in North America.

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BrainStation Product Management

FEBRUARY 28, 2019

In BrainStation’s survey, Product Managers ranked communication (71 percent), leadership (65 percent), and empathy (58 percent) as the most important skills for a Product Manager, ahead of research and project management, and far ahead of design (selected by only 20 percent of respondents). Technical Skills for Product Management.

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ProductPlan

MARCH 4, 2022

As we found in our research for ProductPlan’s 2022 State of the Product Report , only 25% of businesses with 20 to 100 employees have a product operations role or team. Question 1: Can you give me an example of a test you’d run, or data you might find, that could lead to an idea for improving our product?

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The Product Coalition

OCTOBER 21, 2019

Here I aim to show how experience, respect for discipline, and an insistence on following good project management practices can go a long way to help to develop successful software projects in spite of many challenges. To be clear, we will not discuss how to start a software development project or which steps you should take to kick it off.

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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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BrainStation Product Management

FEBRUARY 28, 2019

Speak to a Learning Advisor. In BrainStation’s survey, Product Managers ranked communication (71 percent), leadership (65 percent), and empathy (58 percent) as the most important skills for a Product Manager, ahead of research and project management, and far ahead of design (selected by only 20 percent of respondents).

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PMLesson's Ace the PM Interview

APRIL 19, 2020

If you have advised any of these people with tasks like product growth, pricing strategy, or market sizing, be sure to note that on your resume! Technical Skills While not always needed, technical skills are very much desired for most PM roles. Many companies have a bias towards PMs coming from a technical background.

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PMLesson's Ace the PM Interview

APRIL 19, 2020

If you have advised any of these people with tasks like product growth, pricing strategy, or market sizing, be sure to note that on your resume! Technical Skills While not always needed, technical skills are very much desired for most PM roles. Many companies have a bias towards PMs coming from a technical background.

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UX Studio

OCTOBER 16, 2017

Hierarchy of User Needs. In his book Designing for Emotion , Aarron Walter adapts the Maslow pyramid for user needs. In the Tep sports tracker app, you feed a virtual pet (tamagotchi) by doing sports activities. As a gamified activity tracker app, it turns the pyramid upside down: our team focused on features of delight first.

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The Product Coalition

JANUARY 5, 2021

A good starting point would be working with the “Manifesto of Agile Software Development,” particularly ensuring that stakeholders understand that adapting to change over following a plan is paramount for the organization’s future success. Proven examples are user story mapping or product roadmap planning workshops. (It

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Product Innovation Educators

OCTOBER 29, 2018

Empowering product teams to create an agile culture with a customer focus. We actively look for problems and unmet needs, recognizing that those are opportunities to create value for customers. Our mental wheels are constantly spinning, thinking about how we can make existing products better and create new products that wow customers.

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Effective Roadmap Planning and Development Process for Enterprise Products

AUGUST 2, 2018

Roadmap Planning process Unlike Consumer products, you have two different types of audience to satisfy in Enterprise world, namely Buyer and User Persona. You need to be precise, if it’s the CEO, CFO, VP – Sales, CMO, etc… You need to know as what ROI this user looks out to buy the product and continue to stay vested in the journey.

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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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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. We have adopted Slack as the main communication tool for the Zalora engineering team.

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The Product Coalition

MARCH 21, 2018

A mentor advised me to think about three broad categories?—?the goals, status, how it fits into the overall picture for the product or product line. Its important to understand strengths and opportunities for the system?—?especially a vendor or system that can’t deal with bursts / spikes of usage) Quick wins?

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The Product Coalition

MAY 15, 2019

—?have they stood the test of time? Scrum and the agile manifesto were created in a time where we used to still package and ship software physically. Ahead of his time he also described that the best “Brand Men” would do this though experimentation and customer interactions?—?obviously including myself?—?went

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Department of Product

JUNE 27, 2022

Who does technical leadership? Defining these things is important because you need to hire for those skills, and you need everyone to understand how they fit into the rapidly growing organization you’re building. After a month, I’d start giving responsibilities to whoever I thought was most fit to run the weekly meetings.

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Business of Software Conference

JUNE 29, 2020

Teresa Torres is a Product Coach at ProductTalk.org advocating strong critical thinking practices to ensure there is a strong connection between what teams are learning in their research with the product outcomes that they are making. Do we create any value for our business for our customers? What if we produce all these outputs?

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Roadmunk

DECEMBER 7, 2017

Most recently, Ellen left Lola to launch her own startup that will make it possible to build a complete scalable app in an afternoon. She’s essentially creating a brand new programming language that aims to bring the ability to write software to a billion people. In particular, I really like helping people make software.

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