The Product Coalition

SEPTEMBER 29, 2020

As a Product Manager, you’re a team player who guides product development along its chartered course, but you have to do that without being the literal captain of the ship. Influence without authority is the skill of driving product development and ‘telling people what to do’ without formally being authorized to do so.

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Mind the Product

NOVEMBER 27, 2017

Observations of a B2C startup product manager working in enterprise. A startup, finding its feet and learning how to stand, should by certain logic be less wise, less capable and less developed than its older, wiser counterparts. I once heard an anecdote about a very young child being told a story about a very old man.

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Userpilot

APRIL 8, 2021

a high-growth bootstrapped startup – you will know the pain of not always being *able* to make the best design decisions. UX debt affects high-growth SaaS companies in industries where time-to-market is mission-critical and bootstrapped startups without a design team most. A startup founder who wished to remain anonymous).

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Sachin Rekhi

JUNE 25, 2017

Most folks are looking for a pointer to a book or a class they can take on product management, but I always reply with a collection of blog posts from practitioners sharing their best practices. One of the key responsibilities of a product manager is to define, articulate, and evangelize the vision for their product.

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Userpilot

FEBRUARY 26, 2023

Startups use these surveys in the early stages of product development to measure the degree to which a product satisfies market demand. Add a picture of your team member to humanize it! Are your product vision and your value proposition being communicated effectively to your customers? A survey created with Userpilot.

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Bain Public

MARCH 14, 2022

But unfortunately, in many companies, the product leadership team can perpetuate a negative culture — setting up product managers to fail. In essence, the product leadership team are those with influence on the product roadmap. Building and nurturing strong, cross-functional, co-located, empowered product teams.

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Mixpanel

JANUARY 12, 2023

We’ve run dozens of customer interviews, analyzed our competitors, tracked our customer lifecycle, and aligned with the company vision: now we’re finally ready to write copy. If you know a thing or two about product development, you’ve heard of the “a-ha” moment. For example, I recently worked on a blog conversion project.

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PMLesson's Ace the PM Interview

MARCH 3, 2022

The success of a product, or even an entire company, rests on the product team. Product managers are trusted to follow through on the company's objectives and vision , even if they don't always agree. Even if you're not 100% committed to the products you're building, your team needs you to be on board.

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Intercom, Inc.

AUGUST 18, 2022

Sarah Dayan is a staff engineer at Algolia , a “Search-as-a-Service” platform that helps developers build index and search capabilities into their own platforms through an API, and the host of two tech podcasts: Developer Experience and Entre Devs. Then, I moved to the startup world. Today’s guest has been through just that.

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Product Talk

SEPTEMBER 9, 2020

While I tend to focus on helping teams, Petra’s work centers around helping product leaders—the people who manage product managers. She has a big focus on people development, helping product managers and product leaders get better at their craft. I decided to join a smaller startup, which was a company called XING. Tweet This.

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Oren Steinberg

JULY 13, 2018

The biggest asset any startup has is the time of its entrepreneurs and key talents. The success or failure of the startup often hinges on their ability to focus their efforts on the critical path at any given time. As the startup grows and faces scalability and growth challenges the issue of focus becomes even more challenging.

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Userpilot

JULY 27, 2023

Chief Technical Officer : Responsible for outlining the company’s technological vision, implementing technology strategies, and ensuring that the technological resources are aligned with the company’s business needs. They also manage finances and supervise one or more engineering teams. Average salary: $196,172/yr.

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The Product Coalition

FEBRUARY 5, 2021

An unconventional view of what it takes to be a Product Leader Photo by Porapak Apichodilok from Pexels *Note: this is a revised and updated version of a guest blog I did for Department of Product, titled: ‘Unconventional advice for transitioning to Head of Product’ ?—?check is to either be more strategic or to develop more as a leader.

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Department of Product

OCTOBER 23, 2022

Product Principles – Examples for Product Managers Make decision making easier with inspiration from top product companies Product principles are used by product teams to help guide decision making. Principles can help guide both strategic decisions and tactical decisions.

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Bain Public

JANUARY 11, 2022

Let’s face it, most organizations have poor habits around roadmap completion — this is why getting leadership (or stakeholders) to develop consistent, stable and familiar routines reinforced through repetition and communication is valuable. It might be time to make your CEO provide a clear vision.

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Mind the Product

MAY 25, 2018

Initially JustGiving supported only registered charities on its website, but the founders’ vision was to support all good causes. In 2012, when I was working as part of the JustGiving team responsible for innovative products and disruptive business models, we decided to test how people could raise money for non-charitable good causes.

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Userpilot

FEBRUARY 10, 2023

Actually, there are multiple types of personas for different teams, levels of research, and use cases—which you need to understand if you want to connect with customers. So let’s cover each of them and see what you can do to improve your team’s effectiveness. What is a persona?

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Bain Public

NOVEMBER 4, 2020

While most of your roadmap initiatives support one tactic or another, each functional group will call out for new initiatives that match other objectives and they’ll want the entire development effort in the upcoming release. So how does a product leader develop great negotiating skills, deep empathy, and a backbone of steel ?

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Userpilot

JULY 9, 2021

Product Mastery by Geoff Watts teaches you how to be a successful product owner within agile software development practices with the use of case studies. She coaches teams on how to collect meaningful customer input and use it to make product decisions on a daily basis. Partnering up with adjacent teams to improve continuous discovery.

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Bain Public

DECEMBER 8, 2020

If you're a PM at an early stage startup, expect to work a lot. At a small startup, you will be wearing so many hats and it will often feel overwhelming how much work has to get done.". At a small startup, you will be wearing so many hats and it will often feel overwhelming how much work has to get done.". Manage Your Bosses.

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Intercom, Inc.

OCTOBER 1, 2020

If you’re setting out on your roadmap journey it’s important that it reflect the point of the journey that you’re on – having everyone in a startup of 5 or 6 sharing daily tasks each morning makes sense as they work together to build a feature but in a larger company it’s a recipe for chaos. Paul: No comments.

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Roman Pichler

DECEMBER 4, 2023

My intention with this article is to show how product teams can use a product strategy to guide their discovery work and maximise the chances of creating successful products. Encourage teams to start with outcomes—business and user/customer benefits—rather than outputs—features and deliverables.

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Intercom, Inc.

AUGUST 15, 2018

At Reddit, he led a team of 35 – none of whom knew how to manage other engineers. He had to quickly determine which team members displayed a potential for leadership and teach them the fundamentals of management so they could make new hires and scale – without ruining the culture. That project led to my first cross-functional team.

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Intercom, Inc.

OCTOBER 1, 2020

If you’re setting out on your roadmap journey it’s important that it reflect the point of the journey that you’re on – having everyone in a startup of 5 or 6 sharing daily tasks each morning makes sense as they work together to build a feature but in a larger company it’s a recipe for chaos. Paul: No comments.

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The Product Coalition

JUNE 14, 2020

Prototypes and Minimum Viable Products (MVP) are a critical part of product development. Sure, you could dive right in, spend months developing an expensive product with all the bells and whistles. They’re also a great communication tool between you and your designers/tech teams, and they help you understand what it is you’re building.

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Userpilot

MARCH 18, 2021

The marketing and sales warriors in the trenches creating blog posts, running email campaigns, and closing deals. Their job is to sell prospects on the vision of your company. Their job is to sell prospects on the vision of your company. But how the marketing team decides to tell your story will determine who it connects with.

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PMLesson's Ace the PM Interview

SEPTEMBER 24, 2019

that demonstrate you’re desire to be involved in the space and to keep abreast of developments in the space. For instance, if I were to interview at a mental health startup, my pitch would be: "Hey, I'm a former product manager at Google, where I used to work on Google Search and Android Wear. Be authentic. Lastly, do your homework.

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Department of Product

MAY 22, 2020

And the product team responsible got some pretty brutal reviews in the process. Feature depth vs. breadth explained The depth vs. breadth debate is more common for startups to consider than larger corporates. They’re addictive. Whether we like not, digital products deliver value through features. A few things done well.

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Mind the Product

OCTOBER 1, 2019

I even wrote about it in my Mind the Product blog post, Lean Strategies for Maturing Products. A timeline roadmap simply doesn’t leave room for discovery and iteration, and at the end of the day, makes the product person look bad when delivery fails or the wrong product is built. It’s there to help the team coordinate delivery.

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Amplitude

NOVEMBER 12, 2018

They have ideas, theories, visions, but they question everything and are always open to changing their minds upon seeing new evidence. ”I Whether they are the principles of behavior science, experiment design, or team function, I believe what’s going on can be observed, understood, tested, and taught. ”I That startup didn’t survive.

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Arpit Rai

OCTOBER 29, 2019

I just realized that I had not cross-posted my responses on the AMA on my Medium blog. Feature Development: For B2C products, you’re likely to only develop those features that affect a majority of your customers. Work pro-bono part-time for 10–15 hours a week for an early-stage startup on their product. Probably not.

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PMLesson's Ace the PM Interview

MARCH 2, 2022

If you're applying as a Google product manager , this means you'll need product management experience with leading user research, implementing features, and working with software teams to build deliverables. " At Google, you'll typically be working in cross-functional teams. What are your strengths and weaknesses?

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Modus Create

APRIL 5, 2021

Now Elon Musk is trying to create a greener Earth and take civilization to Mars, while I’m writing this blog post in my college living room listening to the Beatles. Joining the Modus Create Team. In other words, making big decisions and not knowing how technology works is bad for business.

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PMLesson's Ace the PM Interview

SEPTEMBER 24, 2019

that demonstrate you’re desire to be involved in the space and to keep abreast of developments in the space. For instance, if I were to interview at a mental health startup, my pitch would be: "Hey, I'm a former product manager at Google, where I used to work on Google Search and Android Wear. Be authentic. Lastly, do your homework.

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Hutwork

MARCH 9, 2018

Magazine reports that most CEOs read at least a book a week, and this doesn’t include blogs, articles, podcasts, and videos they devour, too. The Power of the Elastic Product Team—Airbnb’s First PM on How to Build Your Own. Learn how Airbnb created an elastic product team that helped them get to where they are today.

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Userpilot

OCTOBER 29, 2020

In a sense, this brings the Product Marketer a lot closer to the Product Team than a ‘regular marketer’- so we can say that the product marketer acts as a bridge between the product and the marketing team. Even though Natalia works as a part of the Marketing Team, she is very close to the Product Team.

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The Product Coalition

JULY 30, 2020

My suggestion is to have a vision for monetization and document the assumptions and goals before building the product. If you have enough users and enough development & design resources, you should go for it. a startup messed up at its foundation cannot be fixed.” He goes on saying that “.a

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