The Product Coalition

MARCH 15, 2021

I wrote a variation of this for the various product teams at Whispir recently and then as fate would have it, a CEO I know reached out to me on LinkedIn asking the same thing?—?so with very little effort but a huge amount of diligence and thought, and you can do it in 15 minutes if you have access to all the research already.

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The Product Coalition

OCTOBER 19, 2020

This is a well known mantra among tech CEOs, especially Facebook’s Mark Zuckerberg. Alternative futures analysis is a structured analytic technique that helps teams predict how the future might unfold. With this knowledge in hand, teams can more effectively identify and exploit opportunities and adopt risk strategies.

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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. How would she provide the right technical direction for the company?

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Intercom, Inc.

DECEMBER 9, 2022

In a recent episode, our Director of Machine Learning, Fergal Reid , shed some light on the latest breakthroughs in neural network technology. Our technology interfaces are gradually becoming more conversational, and we’re just starting to see the quality of natural language understanding get good enough to unlock them.

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Product Talk

MARCH 2, 2016

I love that Marty Cagan and Jeff Patton have long been advocates of dual-track development. Their efforts have helped to shape the ongoing conversation about the evolution of product discovery. If you aren’t familiar with dual-track development, it’s the separation of product discovery from product delivery. – Tweet This.

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The Product Coalition

JANUARY 16, 2024

It was something that happened over time, a term I’ve coined ‘roadmap drift’. Product managers and their teams start with enthusiasm, hit the ground running, and create a solid roadmap. But as time passes, they’re hit with fire drills, ongoing discovery, reprioritization — the works. The issue wasn’t the beginning.

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BrainMates

SEPTEMBER 7, 2021

Observation is an important part of mixed methods user research. Whether observing people using a technology or system in the workplace, at home, or out in public, it can provide insights not available in quantitative data. Due to the volume of content being produced, the metadata task was often outsourced to a junior.

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Mironov Consulting

FEBRUARY 9, 2023

” GTM leaders typically ascribe this situation to lack of attention, poor work ethic, or weak understanding of customers on the part of product management – i.e. personal failures best addressed by replacing or upgrading product staff.  Or   All other issues (and existing commitments) are temporarily forgotten. [2]

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Intercom, Inc.

OCTOBER 27, 2022

Whether it’s customer onboarding or just gathering information for an event, we’re often trapped in endless follow-ups and back-and-forth emails until we finally get the assets and can move on with other, more meaningful tasks. While in the early 2010s, the SaaS startup scene in France was not as developed as in the U.S.,

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Mind the Product

JUNE 14, 2019

We all treat our products with care, respect, and diligence. We agonise over decisions and strategic direction, we think deeply about product direction, we care about the experience our customers get and the impact we have on our businesses. It’s our job to make good decisions. Why do people switch jobs? Find a Mentor.

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The Product Coalition

AUGUST 8, 2022

Because scribes display more diligence and industry than printers.” Clearly things were rough, and records are lacking from the time. Around that time, while in Strassburg, he had his ‘aha’ and decided his future lay in printing. However, it’s important to remember at that time borrowing was not looked on favorably.

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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.

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The Product Coalition

DECEMBER 8, 2020

There is a substantial amount of knowledge available on overcoming the technical hurdles?—?desirability, What’s fascinating is that often it’s not through lack of technical knowledge that new products struggle. Other times, when they are challenged or stated they are rebuffed. All of this takes time.

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The Product Coalition

JUNE 26, 2023

Generative AI has the potential to create economic impact within sales, marketing, software engineering & IT, customer operations, and R&D functions across various verticals. Industries such as high tech, banking, pharmaceuticals and medical products, education and telecommunications, healthcare, and insurance stand to gain immensely.

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The Product Coalition

MARCH 25, 2023

A design and engineering approach that has become more important than the technologies that benefit from 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.

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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.

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Product Talk

FEBRUARY 10, 2021

Teresa: For those of you that are Product Talk readers, Melissa writes our Product in Practice series where we’re sharing stories about teams doing great discovery work, so you may have seen her name there. It’s allowing each team to really find what’s going to work best for them. Let’s go ahead and dive in.

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ProductPlan

JULY 10, 2020

As the Director of User Experience, our team was tightly partnered with our product management counterparts to ensure we had baked-in practices and habits that enabled all of our development teams to deliver an exceptional product experience effortlessly. And our success was evident in the feedback.

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Intercom, Inc.

JUNE 3, 2021

And so, now’s the time to start thinking about accelerating our business strategies and grabbing the opportunities it brings. That’s the advice of the Sequoia team in their last memo, “ COVID Accelerated the Future, Now Seize It ,” and for the last couple of months, that’s certainly been on the top of our minds here at Intercom.

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The Product Coalition

FEBRUARY 24, 2021

Today’s rapidly evolving tech landscape favors short feedback loops and requires roadmap flexibility to pivot and solve customers’ most pressing problems as they arise. As a result, the best product managers thrive on their ability to move quickly, minimizing time to market for feature releases.

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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  But when I do product due diligence for SaaS-focused PE/VC firms, it's the very first thing I look at.  Let’s

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Intercom, Inc.

DECEMBER 2, 2021

For the very first time, we’re releasing Engineer Chats , an internal podcast here at Intercom about all things engineering. If you’re short on time, here are a few quick takeaways: Disambiguation, or the process of narrowing down a wide solution space in each problem, is not just good for ambiguous projects.

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Usersnap

MARCH 19, 2019

Do you consider customer feedback? 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.

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ProductPlan

JUNE 1, 2023

But are you solving for actual customer problems? The danger, however, lies in mistaking new functionality for actually adding meaningful value to the customer experience. Where are product teams getting their feature ideas? Why do product teams become feature factories?

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The Product Coalition

JUNE 17, 2019

“The digital transformation of any enterprise is a herculean task requiring a willingness to embrace cultural change, the ability to immerse the entire organization in the customer journey, and a total commitment to digitize to the core”?—? Bank customers’ requests are rapidly changing. We identify opportunities. We execute.

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Modus Create

JUNE 1, 2020

But one thing technology leaders need to ask themselves is, “what are the threats we face?” 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. Phase 1: Due Diligence and Discovery.

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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?

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UserVoice

JUNE 18, 2018

And this requires that we understand, even to a facile level, the different goals and motivations that other people and teams in the organization might have. Some of these are going to be obvious, based on the actual stated goals of the team or in some structured form like a compensation plan for Sales teams.

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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. It’s recorded bi-weekly where they feature in-depth analysis and a top-notch interview that highlights the people applying these technologies in real-life scenarios. ? Development. Play the latest episode. #4 No worries.

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ProductPlan

JULY 1, 2020

That said, we’re at the halfway point, so it’s a good time to check in on what we set out to accomplish six months ago and what we can realistically shoot for during the rest of the year. Let’s begin this process by reflecting and reviewing. Were customer relationships impacted? Regular roadmap reviews. Were KPIs met?

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Gainsight

MARCH 19, 2020

The current situation has foisted millions of people into their first experience working from home. And that’s driven thousands of customer success professionals who were used to seeing their clients and teams every day to learn the ins and outs of “virtual” CS. But here we are. We hosted a webinar with Slack on this topic.

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Mixpanel

DECEMBER 3, 2020

Customer experience. Brands winning the war of experience are bringing in 5.7 times more revenue than competitors. Every interaction, every message, every touchpoint matters to customers. These are the core four pillars of personalization: User Segmentation: finding the perfect audience. User segmentation .

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Mixpanel

NOVEMBER 8, 2022

VCs look for signals that you have the right product, in the right market, at the right time, with the right team at the helm. Whether you have 10 users or 10 million, you should always be connecting with customers to collect qualitative data. ” Zach Berger, Technology Investor at Bain Capital.

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Amplitude

DECEMBER 7, 2020

I was excited to see the wide array of enterprise-class customers like IBM, Intuit, and many more of the world’s best-known brands. 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. Tenacious, customer-focused, and driven to succeed.

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PMLesson's Ace the PM Interview

DECEMBER 4, 2020

If you're interested in the field of technical program management, then the answer is, without a doubt, yes. As the name of the position suggests, program sense is an integral part of a technical program manager's day-to-day. They are responsible for ensuring technical processes can be completed according to their deadlines.

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Revulytics

AUGUST 21, 2019

Software piracy is the use of unlicensed software where the user has never paid the software vendor a licensing fee for the application. It can be contrasted with “license overuse” where the user has paid a software vendor a licensing fee for an application, but is using more installations than it is entitled to use.

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The Product Coalition

MAY 18, 2016

My supervisors in different teams (I was in a management trainee rotational program) gave me two big projects. One project was about pre-IPO funding for which I had to do a lot of financial modeling, due diligence, and third party negotiation. At the same time, I kept talking to people.

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