The Product Coalition

SEPTEMBER 4, 2020

I became director of communications, leading the development of intranets and web applications. Challenges aside, I enjoyed the close-knit teams and easy access to upper management which enabled quick decision making. Designers vs Developers The work culture in this large organization was unlike anything I’d ever experienced.

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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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The Product Guy

OCTOBER 9, 2018

First, I did not know how to frame, develop and present product strategy in a systematic way, and second, as a startup, my company has not historically had a good track record of strategy being developed outside of senior management (read: founder). Two major obstacles stood in my way.

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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.    Lately, I’m calling this permission to stay focused.

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ProductPlan

OCTOBER 3, 2019

But for every success story, there’s a graveyard of failed products laid low by bad product strategies. A bad strategy is hard to overcome. What Does a Bad Product Strategy Look Like? What Does a Bad Product Strategy Look Like? Those are slogans, not strategies.

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Intercom, Inc.

JUNE 1, 2021

Most support teams have seen an influx of support queries since COVID-19 hit – and those issues are more complex than ever. According to recent research, however, many teams aren’t sufficiently equipped to meet these new challenges. Challenge #1: Limited team bandwidth, resources, and budget.

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Agile Velocity

MAY 3, 2024

Agile implementation typically focuses on team-level adoption of Agile practices, emphasizing principles such as self-organization, cross-functional collaboration, and incremental delivery. Business agility encompasses aspects such as product innovation, customer-centricity, cross-functional collaboration, and adaptive strategy execution.

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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 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). First, the developers create a wheel.

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The Product Coalition

DECEMBER 29, 2021

This year I developed a new reading approach, in which I read several books in parallel, usually from different topics. Strategy is visible as coordinated action imposed on a system. When I say the strategy is “imposed,” I mean just that. When I say the strategy is “imposed,” I mean just that.

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Alchemer Mobile

DECEMBER 5, 2022

Over the past few years, many people in the development community have sounded off about “rating nags” and the “please rate me” dialogs that some apps show, with perhaps the most pointed critique coming from John Gruber , of Daring Fireball. The answer has to come from the app developers and publishers, not the app customers.

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The Product Coalition

DECEMBER 8, 2019

Highly effective Product Managers develop themselves in 5 key areas. In some jobs, you can get by with just Competence, but in the unkempt, fuzzy, team-oriented domain of Product Management, you need both. Here are 2 actions you can take to develop your Craft Competence: Craft Competence ?? and others feel that.

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Business of Software Conference

JUNE 26, 2023

He emphasized the importance of acknowledging and sharing our weaknesses, as it helps us connect with others and create a supportive environment. He emphasized the importance of acknowledging and sharing our weaknesses, as it helps us connect with others and create a supportive environment. We don’t talk about the bad things.

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ProductPlan

SEPTEMBER 10, 2021

Coping mechanisms that we use for the product systems we operate in. We ignore the changes in the system and ourselves. . And for product managers, it’s important to develop your own atomic roadmapping habits. . And that requires establishing a system that looks at who you want to become. . Why Do We Form Habits.

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Tyner Blain

OCTOBER 23, 2023

Using Problem Statements to Make Choices I talk about using problem statements to “shape” a product strategy. Using problem statements is an operational approach to shaping and expressing a product strategy which makes it actionable. Most teams lack this. I want to take a step back and explain. The red thread.

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The Product Guy

MAY 7, 2020

Hence it is critical that one is aware of the best practises of the role and develops his own philosophy which results into maximum positive leverage for the organization. As I strive towards becoming a product leader, I wanted to understand the best practises in product management and in the process develop my own product philosophy. .

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The Product Guy

APRIL 9, 2019

Journey Into the World of Strategy. The notion of a strategy in product management seems like something that only high-level stakeholders at the executive level should care about. After all, many product managers tend to treat a strategy as something that’s scared and driven top-down from the executive management level.

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Sachin Rekhi

FEBRUARY 1, 2016

One of the challenges we've long acknowledged in the tech industry is how difficult the transition can be from a software engineer to an engineering manager due to the vast distinction in the skill set to be great at the new role. Shift your individual focus from design and execution to vision and strategy. a product leader.

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Mind the Product

DECEMBER 11, 2017

I became director of communications, leading the development of intranets and web applications. Challenges aside, I enjoyed the close-knit teams and easy access to upper management which enabled quick decision making. Designers vs Developers. Tension between designers and developers was palpable.

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UX Planet

FEBRUARY 19, 2024

A bad first impression could ultimately hurt your chances of landing a dream job. People see selling as a bad word but it ultimately makes life easier if you know how to do it. Xiaoxue Zhang , Uber Currently working at Uber, focusing on Machine Learning and Design System. I design systems. Joining Uber Feb 19.

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Userpilot

AUGUST 14, 2023

Analyzing user sentiment is an essential step for all product developers and marketers to take. TL;DR Survey bias occurs when feedback deviates due to the influence of a surveyor or respondent leading to inaccurate feedback collection. Ineffective strategies. And we are here to help! Another reason can be wrong targeting.

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Intercom, Inc.

APRIL 23, 2018

Most sales and support teams are already well versed in conversations about data deletion, risk assessments and security frameworks, but those issues are going to become an even more prominent part of the discussion once GDPR comes into effect. Know your own systems. What is a ‘privacy ecosystem’ and why it matters.

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ProductPlan

MARCH 18, 2022

For this reason, product teams need to develop a process for idea management. But grappling with the influx of ideas and instituting a system to handle them is essential because they sometimes have much to offer, even if it’s not right at the moment. But coming up with ideas is the easy part. There are no guarantees.

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Gainsight

JULY 5, 2022

It is increasingly apparent that having a CS Ops team and leader is becoming a necessity. However, to completely leverage the expanding customer success effects, your CS leader needs an individual or team to help map out the where, when, and how customer success intersects your daily operations and transforms your customers’ journey.

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Modus Create

JUNE 18, 2019

When I first attended Scrummaster training, I went in wide-eyed and excited to learn all of the secrets behind this amazing “new” agile project-management strategy called Scrum. But my employer had just paid for me to go through the training, and I was expected to help improve their development processes.

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ProductPlan

OCTOBER 6, 2021

Time management remains an essential theme for product teams because there aren’t enough hours in the day. Hence the need to have young and innovative minds who follow the trends of the industry to come up with these strategic thoughts while the senior leaders review and align it with the organization’s business goals.”.

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The Product Coalition

FEBRUARY 13, 2021

This means you can save time and money developing features customers really care for and reduce risks of undesirable effects on your customers. The executive sponsor communicates the vision, strategy and process of experimentation through all levels of the organization, creating a culture of transparency and trust.

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ProductPlan

MAY 22, 2020

“If you’re a growth stage company then you have to be able to make strategy decisions very rapidly. It’s not necessarily bad when product management adapts to each company’s specific needs. Below is the discussion Melissa Perri had with John Cutler and Jim Semick on why teams that are scaling need product ops.

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Userpilot

NOVEMBER 12, 2023

Customer intent helps product teams understand customer needs and build solutions that delight users. Use content like informative blog posts, product demos , and user reviews to address the needs of customers with buyer intent. Here are five strategies to guide you. Five key steps to interpreting customer intent.

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The Product Cafe

APRIL 14, 2024

As you level up in the realm of product management, Moe Ali imparts three invaluable lessons from his extensive teaching tenure: Focus on strategy Understand the importance of alignment Ask for help Subscribe now Focus on strategy🧘 Moe Ali emphasizes that prioritization problems are often strategic problems.

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UX Studio

SEPTEMBER 10, 2019

Creating and maintaining a brand strategy can turn into a never-ending struggle, but it can also provide a great deal of fun. In this post we created a guide on the steps to take in developing your brand strategy. But first, let’s define brand strategy! But first, let’s define brand strategy!

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Userpilot

JANUARY 22, 2024

The framework is a roadmap for creating a winning product marketing strategy that drives effective resource allocation and provides a flexible foundation for growth. A good product marketing framework has three main components: a go-to-market strategy , a product marketing strategy, and a growth strategy.

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Tyner Blain

AUGUST 10, 2023

The Jobs of the Problem Statement This article continues a series on the three critical flaws in most product development processes a problem statement exists to address. To empower product leaders to shape the product strategy through choosing what to do and choosing what not to do. This continues to create cognitive dissonance.

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Usersnap

MARCH 19, 2019

Should the Voice of Customer influence product development? In Frost & Sullivan’s survey research on R&D/innovation and product development priorities, 84% of the respondents declare that they employ the voice of customers (VoC) in their product development cycle. Do you consider customer feedback?

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Intercom, Inc.

APRIL 22, 2021

If you’re a senior engineer and want to further your career, what skills should you develop? In this episode of Inside Intercom, Brian Scanlan , our own Principal Systems Engineer, sat down with Will to talk about all things s taff engineer – what it is, how to get there, and what happens when you progress beyond a senior engineering role.

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The Product Coalition

SEPTEMBER 21, 2020

Good product teams understand that their customers’ needs and behaviours are ever changing and the way to truly predict what impact any update will have is to try it on a small set of real customers. Since experimentation has become a discipline on its own, there are established best practices for cross functional teams to follow.

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Userpilot

OCTOBER 4, 2022

Growth loops are a compounding growth strategy where the user fuels future growth by reinvesting their outputs into new inputs for the next growth cycle. It’s a linear, top-down approach, whereas growth loops are closed-loop systems where the process generates new inputs by design. Let’s get started. What are growth loops?

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