The Product Coalition

SEPTEMBER 2, 2022

The Eight Core Elements of a Winning Product Strategy “The essence of strategy is choosing what not to do.”?—?Michael After what seemed like months of work, our product was emerging from stealth mode. Should we only offer the product to members or the market at large? No choices = no product strategy.

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Lenny Rachitsky

APRIL 9, 2024

Each week I tackle reader questions about building product, driving growth, and accelerating your career. What it is: Work alongside me to learn how I do what I do, share your unique knowledge with the world (through guest posts), and jump-start (or simply explore) a newsletter/podcast career.

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The Product Coalition

NOVEMBER 23, 2021

Measuring the performance of product managers is a real challenge for a number of reasons. When planning the product managers’ goals, this challenge can translate into taking the wrong direction altogether. Here is a new way to look at product management goals, and make them a useful tool for both you and your team.

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The Product Coalition

JANUARY 5, 2023

Every product has a dark period and sometimes several. Dark periods are when a product team knows what to design and develop and go about doing it, but the work has yet to be exposed to users in any significant way. Product dark periods are when a product team’s commitment and culture are tested.

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Product Innovation Educators

JANUARY 4, 2021

Insights on roadmaps, metrics, OKRs, and more for product managers. In a few weeks, the name will change to Product Masters Now. You don’t need to do anything to keep listening, but I want you to know the name change is coming—The Everyday Innovator will be renamed to Product Masters Now. . What is the solution?

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Userpilot

APRIL 28, 2022

What is the opportunity solution tree? How can it help product managers in the product development process? The Opportunity Solution Trees (OST) help product teams arrive at solutions that solve customer pain points during the product discovery phase; they can also be used in project management as a problem-solving tool.

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ProductPlan

SEPTEMBER 10, 2021

The objectives and key results (or OKR) methodology involve setting business objectives and measurable outcomes. The OKR methodology can be a powerful motivator for high performance and product excellence within teams and companies. Additionally, OKRs take effort to create and maintain.

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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. Overengineered products are difficult to use, filled with bugs, and instead of improving your users’ lives, they make them unnecessarily complicated. What is overengineering? But worry not!

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Bain Public

SEPTEMBER 20, 2022

The focus on profitability really fortifies the importance of collaborative decision-making between product managers and the leadership team. Companies need to create sustainable growth by innovating through product features. What are pillars? Therefore, every product pillar should be given a fair chance!

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Userpilot

JUNE 17, 2022

MBO vs OKR: Which is the better method for managing your employees and business objectives? MBOs and OKRs have been hailed by some of the biggest tech companies. Objectives and Key Results (OKRs) is a collaborative goal-setting framework that individuals and teams use to set ambitious goals with quantifiable key results.

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Product Talk

SEPTEMBER 9, 2020

I first met Petra Wille, a fellow product coach, at Mind the Product and was immediately impressed with her work. While I tend to focus on helping teams, Petra’s work centers around helping product leaders—the people who manage product managers. I’m here with Petra Wille, who is also a product discovery coach.

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Mind the Product

FEBRUARY 25, 2020

It’s not rocket science that awesome products come from awesome teams, so what’s the key to creating and managing a team that’s designed for maximum impact? Here, taking advice from a number of product pros, we look at a selection of ways to build product teams and empower them to achieve success.

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The Basics of Product Management

APRIL 29, 2020

OKR stands for “Objectives and Key Results” To be a successful Product Manager, you need to fully understand the OKR Framework – a must know strategy. To clarify, OKR is not a skill that can be learnt (unlike other critical product management skills ), it is simply a style of functioning.

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Userpilot

MARCH 28, 2024

User analytics play an essential part in the product development and management process. It also explores different kinds of user data analysis, shows you how to conduct it, and introduces a few product analytics tools with the necessary functionality. That’s one of the questions our guide answers. Let’s get to it!

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The Product Coalition

JANUARY 10, 2021

Why does everything take so long to build? Have you heard this before as a product manager? Maybe everyone on your team is working hard to ship good, high quality software only to be faced with comments from different parts of the business about why things take forever to build. all totally reasonable questions in my view.

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The Basics of Product Management

MAY 7, 2020

You may be a Product Owner or a Project Manager, but you should still know how to create an impact. This is also a good time to make sure you remember the following – Product Manager vs Product Owner Product Manager vs Project Manager. Make sure you know all the must have skills for a Product Manager.

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Userpilot

OCTOBER 25, 2022

If you’re wondering what strategic product management is, you’ve come to the right place! In the article, we’re looking at the responsibilities of strategic product managers and how they can use data effectively to shape product strategy and deliver delightful experiences to users!

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Userpilot

FEBRUARY 17, 2022

If you’ve read Teresa’s Torres book, Continuous Discovery Habits , you’re probably familiar with her continuous discovery framework for building better products that are actually guided by user feedback. What is continuous discovery? What is actually the “product role” in a startup?

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Ask Benny

JANUARY 25, 2020

How to build a roadmap while staying agile and lean, and why so many product teams do agile wrong. The rest of the company (product management, project management, sales, executive team, marketing) might be left behind or only be partly included. It does not matter if the method used is Scrum, Kanban, or the hybrid Scrumban.

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ProductPlan

JANUARY 5, 2023

After all, what’s happened has happened. Organizations that have more recently recognized the importance of product management to the success of their business are those that are transitioning from being “sales-led” or “customer-led” to “product-led.”. And they do this without an understanding of why these practices work.

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Product Talk

OCTOBER 10, 2018

Last week, I was in Cleveland for the Industry Product Conference. Product management is changing. Product managers are evolving from focusing on outputs to outcomes. Product managers are evolving from focusing on outputs to outcomes. As we evolve toward outcomes, we are asking product teams to deliver performance.

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Userpilot

AUGUST 30, 2023

This makes it more important than ever to create products people actually want to use. What strategies can you implement to drive acquisition and retention faster? The expert speakers at Product Drive 2023 will answer these and many more questions. Let’s quickly go over what to expect. But how do you do that?

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The Product Coalition

MAY 22, 2019

John Doerr’s book Measure What Matters is further fueling this fire. Many companies are either implementing or have already implemented OKRs. OKRs are just containers for goals. In fact, of all the management tools, OKRs are the easiest to misuse, overuse and abuse?—?many It’s the tool I get asked about the most.

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Business of Software Conference

FEBRUARY 27, 2020

Google famously published a leading reference for establishing Objectives and Key Results (OKRs) as a way to align teams and set short-term goals. Whitney leaves you with three ‘top tips’ for incorporating OKRs into your team, plus answers a few of the audiences hard-hitting question in the Q&A at the end of the talk.

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Userpilot

MARCH 29, 2023

What’s digital analytics? How can it help product and marketing teams make data-driven decisions and improve the user experience at different stages of the customer journey? TL;DR Digital analytics allows teams to measure and analyze product performance to improve their digital strategy. What is digital analytics?

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The Basics of Product Management

APRIL 27, 2020

Kanban is a critical tool for a successful Product Manager. Ability to use tools such as Kanban is one of the necessary skills for a Product Manager. It is a visual scheduler of your tasks, that was first developed by Toyota to efficiently manage its manufacturing processes. So what is Kanban? What is Kanban agile?

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The Product Coalition

SEPTEMBER 15, 2019

For new product managers or in startups with newly formed product teams, the building roadmap is their first kick at having the influence of the company direction. This form of road mapping is what industry claims as standard but I have seen this fail badly. Their immediate reaction was we cannot do this.

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Userpilot

JULY 30, 2021

What exactly is the product manager role? And the role of a product manager can vary drastically depending on the type of product manager. That’s why we’ve put together a comprehensive post on everything you need to know about the product manager role, including: Responsibilities of a product manager.

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Mind the Product

SEPTEMBER 18, 2018

In our product management community, we rightly place a great deal of attention on the people who are going to use our products. We are constantly answering that seemingly basic (yet challenging) question: What problem are we trying to solve for customers? Products are built for people by people. Teams of people.

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The Product Coalition

MARCH 27, 2020

Tamar Yehoshua, Chief Product Officer, Slack A few weeks ago, I reached my one year anniversary at Slack. Making sure information gets to the right people, at the right time, is what makes organizations more or less effective. It’s hard to believe it’s already been a year. I had to learn a new tool, and a new organization, all at once.

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ProductPlan

SEPTEMBER 1, 2022

In the world of product, nothing helps keep the team on track better than a strong product vision and a product strategy backing it up. Few things annoy a product manager more than constant interruptions and changes to the plan. Few things annoy a product manager more than constant interruptions and changes to the plan.

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The Product Coalition

JULY 18, 2020

Product Analytics is the term applied to the automated gathering, analysis, and visualization of data. Most people first get their introduction to analytics through the popular Google Analytics, but there is a variety of analytics software specifically for tracking user actions on digital products.

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Gainsight

SEPTEMBER 8, 2021

Who else can interpret strategy from Product, Marketing, and elsewhere into the CS team’s role? Organizations create Customer Success teams to increase Net Revenue Retention, and we’ve recently published research showing that NRR drives valuation. That team of your in-house, expert thought partners is called Customer Success Operations.

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Iteratively Blog

MARCH 15, 2020

As folks who constantly deal with data, finding the right resources to refer in times of need is a challenge. Additionally, if you simply Google the phrase, ‘data analytics resources’, you will be overwhelmed. Yes, there are too many; more zeros than I can count. We used it, found the value and now decided to publicize it for everyone’s benefit.

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Userpilot

OCTOBER 21, 2022

What product management best practices can help you build valuable and delightful products for your customers? Whether you’re an aspiring product manager or an already established product professional, our list will help you reflect on your processes and hopefully improve them. Check out our list!

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Gainsight

JANUARY 17, 2020

But what is everyone doing with it? When you’re trying to deliver an exceptional product, it’s easy to get lost in the constant deluge of customer feedback. How do you prioritize what feedback gets incorporated into the product roadmap? 6 Customer Feedback Processes from Product Management Experts.

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Department of Product

JANUARY 17, 2023

Alternative Product Business Models The rise of the microsubscription and more as an alternatves to ad funded models The world, as always, is changing – and keeping on top of trends that matter to product teams is an essential part of succeeding in building winning products.

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