The Product Coalition

NOVEMBER 9, 2020

It was about 12 months ago when I was challenged by our CEO to dismantle our squad and create a growth team. Not being too sure what a growth team was, we started anyway. We got access to work completed by Andrew Chen & Brian Balfour , took a few courses from the Reforge series and started developing our growth loops.

Development Team Review

Product Innovation Educators

JULY 4, 2022

I went back to the company I got the camera from and learned they also had a robotic vacuum, complete with LIDAR, which I got on a Cyber Monday sale for $200. . I wanted to learn how this company creates competitive products, differentiating on cost while offering comparative capabilities that equates to much higher value for customers.

Artificial Inteligence

Intercom, Inc.

FEBRUARY 26, 2018

We are all in a battle, multiple battles in fact, with a lot at stake: whether it’s the fate of the company we work for or for the product that we build. In simple terms, in order for a company to succeed they must have a good business idea and be able to consistently execute and evolve that idea better than anyone else. The talent.

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The Product Coalition

MARCH 29, 2018

I try to help product and sales teams succeed under the mantra “Easy to Sell, Easy to Renew.” I’ve struggled to find many examples detailing how to bond product and sales teams ( Antonia Bozhkova offers a good perspective ). Your teams will realign and strengthen their partnership as they see the product through each other’s eyes.

Development Team Review

Sachin Rekhi

OCTOBER 15, 2018

I've long believed that the most innovative products are built by teams who innovate on the very process by which they develop those products. And it's why I've always been a student of companies that consistently deliver innovation to the market. He calls this process creative selection.

Development Team Review

The Product Coalition

JUNE 5, 2022

I hope you find this helpful: Digital product development presents incredible opportunities for us to help our customers and our colleagues. About 12 years ago, I was an executive advisor on a project at a large telecommunications company. The project launched to realize his vision and his team went to work diligently.

CTO Coach

Product Talk

MARCH 2, 2016

I love that Marty Cagan and Jeff Patton have long been advocates of dual-track development. If you aren’t familiar with dual-track development, it’s the separation of product discovery from product delivery. User stories and user story mapping help a team align around the top priorities and get clarity around what they are delivering.

Product Research

The Product Coalition

MARCH 25, 2023

As simple as the concept sounds, our greatest companies and their products rely on it. Within it, there is no shortage of products and services that claim they can help you optimize the organization, productivity and efficiency of your product development team’s performance. This is where you, as a product manager, come in.

Feedback Software

The Product Coalition

MAY 10, 2021

We just need to start with First Opportunity first as due to our market analysis and business modelling, this is the best one to tackle”. This line of thinking is where success at achieving the First Opportunity and the BigVision begins to get derailed before you and your team have even started working. We’ll come back to these.

Development Team Review

Intercom, Inc.

OCTOBER 27, 2022

After running the first editions of the conference by himself, Alex sold B2B Rocks and, in 2019, he founded Collect , a platform that helps businesses collect and manage client documents, in the hopes that by putting this process on autopilot, teams can be more productive and focus their energy on bigger things. The man behind B2B Rocks.

Technical Review

Modus Create

MAY 3, 2023

Common misconceptions with UX and product development UX is a powerful and valuable tool, but misconceptions abound about what UX can do and how long it can take to reap the benefits. Engineering teams likely have a history of delivering features and delivering them very fast. Many designers started as developers. Not so fast.

Development Team Review

Mironov Consulting

FEBRUARY 9, 2023

But if this is a nearly-universal problem – systemic across companies and industries – there must be something more fundamental happening.  It 2] software product companies should almost never make changes for a single customer , no matter how big the deal.  But

Technical Review

ProductPlan

FEBRUARY 1, 2021

Product leaders don’t often get many chances for hiring product team members. Additions to the product team must ramp up quickly. Stage 1: Reviewing the applications. When hiring product team members I’m also looking for adjectives and verbs that convey patience, curiosity, and a humble style. Are they team players?

Development Team Review

The Product Coalition

JUNE 17, 2019

For many years CSSSR has been developing IT systems for the biggest online banks, witnessing their success firsthand. This experience has led to several key insights: You Don’t Need a Large IT Department “We operate in small teams. To begin with, the development of new functionality requires considerable resources, including people.

Banking

PMLesson's Ace the PM Interview

DECEMBER 14, 2020

A common question for product managers, project managers, technical program managers, and software developers alike is what methodology to use given a project. Which should you and your teams decide the utilize? Whichever methodology a team operates under will heavily influence how they work and communicate with one another.

Technical Review

Usersnap

MARCH 19, 2019

As a product manager or a SaaS company owner, what is your main drive in building new products? Should the Voice of Customer influence product development? Why Voice of Customer Should be Included in Development Process. Let your customers make product development decisions for you! Do you consider customer feedback?

User Testing

Modus Create

JUNE 1, 2020

The news is filled with tales of hackers breaking into financial institutions, DDoS attacks on credit card companies, and data breaches due to poor software configuration. What does your company’s threat surface look like? Phase 1: Due Diligence and Discovery. Who are the actors? Modus Security was born.

Software Review

Mironov Consulting

DECEMBER 29, 2022

Almost every week, I have a conversation with executives at B2B software companies who don’t see a bright-line distinction between software license revenue and customization/implementation revenue.  Or IMHO, software product companies are fundamentally different from software services/outsourcing/custom development companies.  Said

Reporting Tools

Intercom, Inc.

JULY 5, 2018

The problem, Doug says, is salespeople tend to focus too much on their company and the names on their client roster, rather than connecting with their audience. Previously, however, he ran sales productivity for teams at Google, Salesforce and Box. I help source and complete deals, and I perform due diligence on deals.

Technical Review

Intercom, Inc.

JULY 23, 2020

Though technology has allowed us to work remotely for quite some time, companies have debated whether it’s truly best for business. When most people think of product development, they imagine an in-person experience. That’s why the forced remote reality many companies are experiencing has included a lot of growing pains.

Research Software

UX Planet

DECEMBER 15, 2023

So, how do you ensure that UX gets its due in terms of investment? Even if the UX efforts in your company seem to be going well, there is always scope for continued assessment and improvisation. It also helps in saving on directionless development costs. guidelines, following a suit filed by a blind individual ( source ).

UX

Intercom, Inc.

JULY 5, 2018

The problem, Doug says, is salespeople tend to focus too much on their company and the names on their client roster, rather than connecting with their audience. Previously, however, he ran sales productivity for teams at Google, Salesforce and Box. I help source and complete deals, and I perform due diligence on deals.

Technical Review

ProductPlan

JULY 10, 2020

Thinking back, it’s surprising that it was only about five years ago that I had an important epiphany that would alter the trajectory of our company’s product strategy and my career. Or, while most of the customers raved about our support team, others expressed frustration around how long it took to get a response to their support requests.

Customer Experience

The Product Coalition

JUNE 24, 2021

In this article, we want to tell you about what happened behind the scenes, including the deck we presented to the Benchmark team. And Accel was a great sounding board and was putting our company first. This is what happened again with the Benchmark team. We didn’t need to raise money.

Feedback Software

ProductPlan

JUNE 1, 2023

Where are product teams getting their feature ideas? Most concerningly, 19% of respondents reported that their top source of ideas comes from senior management, who are often disconnected from both customers and the product development process. Why do product teams become feature factories?

User Testing

Sachin Rekhi

JANUARY 25, 2010

Successful entrepreneur who is looking to start his next company. Though full scale development is usually left for after the EIR period is over. EIRs typically bring these companies in as potential deals for the VC firm and spends their time doing due diligence and vetting the startup as well as deciding if its a good fit for them.

Development Team Review

Intercom, Inc.

DECEMBER 2, 2021

From the process of disambiguation and the worst outage we ever had to our obsession with speed and how legal and engineering teams can work better together, Engineer Chats will give you a peek behind the engineering process at Intercom. The legal team isn’t there to slow R&D down. That is an ambiguous problem.

Engineering

ProductPlan

JULY 1, 2020

Let’s begin this process by reflecting and reviewing. User behaviors changed a lot since January, so many of the key metrics companies and product teams care about have also been impacted. What was your product experience and how did it change the communication between customers and the company. Regular roadmap reviews.

Development Team Review

Fearless Product

JULY 10, 2019

HOW DO YOU HELP YOUR COMPANY DEAL WITH PRODUCT AMBIGUITY? Are you a product leader struggling to help your customer-facing and leadership teams reconcile their desire for dates and commitments with a customer-driven, agile product development process? Share what was most useful to you by leaving a review.

Development Team Review

Fearless Product

JULY 10, 2019

HOW DO YOU HELP YOUR COMPANY DEAL WITH PRODUCT AMBIGUITY? Are you a product leader struggling to help your customer-facing and leadership teams reconcile their desire for dates and commitments with a customer-driven, agile product development process? Stefan Radullian, Head of Product Management, Brainloop, a Diligent company.

Development Team Review

Fearless Product

JULY 10, 2019

HOW DO YOU HELP YOUR COMPANY DEAL WITH PRODUCT AMBIGUITY? Are you a product leader struggling to help your customer-facing and leadership teams reconcile their desire for dates and commitments with a customer-driven, agile product development process? Stefan Radullian, Head of Product Management, Brainloop, a Diligent company.

Development Team Review

Intercom, Inc.

JUNE 2, 2022

From the CEO and the management team to the intern fresh out of college, every employee or business owner has unique qualities that position them to bring excellent customer experiences to life. No, “I get to be a part of this team, and we get to make an impact on people.” I’ve been there for almost 20 years now.

Customer Experience

The Product Coalition

FEBRUARY 6, 2019

It is absolutely vital for the product company to provide the A-one client care service. Care Your help desk team may be all domain experts, diligent and responsible people doing their best to resolve the issues to the claimant’s satisfaction and as fast as possible. These two terms effectively signify two contrasting mindsets.

Development Team Review

Fearless Product

JANUARY 5, 2020

SHOULD THE SALES TEAM SELL FEATURES BEFORE THEY EXIST? Are you a B2B product leader wondering how you can help the sales team achieve their targets while not backing your product team into corner? Share what was most useful to you by leaving a review. SHOULD THE SALES TEAM SELL FEATURES BEFORE THEY EXIST?

Development Team Review

Fearless Product

JANUARY 5, 2020

SHOULD THE SALES TEAM SELL FEATURES BEFORE THEY EXIST? Are you a B2B product leader wondering how you can help the sales team achieve their targets while not backing your product team into corner? Share what was most useful to you by leaving a review. SHOULD THE SALES TEAM SELL FEATURES BEFORE THEY EXIST?

Development Team Review

Fearless Product

JANUARY 5, 2020

SHOULD THE SALES TEAM SELL FEATURES BEFORE THEY EXIST? Are you a B2B product leader wondering how you can help the sales team achieve their targets while not backing your product team into corner? Share what was most useful to you by leaving a review. SHOULD THE SALES TEAM SELL FEATURES BEFORE THEY EXIST?

Development Team Review

Amplitude

DECEMBER 7, 2020

Amplitude boasts an impressive cohort of digital-first companies like PayPal, and Peloton. The Solutions Consulting (SC) team is a vital part of that vision, and I’m thrilled to have a hand in making it come to pass. Sales Team: I was mightily impressed with the Sales/SC Leadership I met during my due diligence.

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