The Product Coalition

FEBRUARY 5, 2021

This is a free sample story from my book The Making of Product Managers. It is unusual that Michael’s first brush with product management was during his master’s degree in systems design engineering. He asked his program supervisor to let him spend the remainder of the program designing and developing this platform.

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The Accidental Product Manager

JUNE 13, 2022

Ad product managers think that they have found a new market Image Credit: United Nations Development Programme. Advertising product managers are always looking for the next “big thing” The advertising market has its ups and downs as customer’s needs, wants, and moods change seemingly overnight.

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The Product Coalition

MAY 18, 2022

Photo by Alexander Shatov on Unsplash One of the most common questions that Product Managers have to deal with is how they would improve the product they are managing. In this blog, I will talk about the steps that I, as a Product Manager at Instagram would take to improve it.

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Product Talk

JUNE 2, 2021

What does decision-making really look like in a product trio? Many of us have never had the opportunity to experience true cross-functional collaboration so it can be hard to imagine what this looks like in practice. Suppose a product manager, a designer, and an engineer are working together on a shared desired outcome.

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The Accidental Product Manager

FEBRUARY 26, 2024

The goal is to sell more cars, perhaps software is the key Image Credit: rakyan ‘boyan’ tantular Product managers know that if we want to sell more of their product, we need to find ways to make the product more appealing to our customers. These days, that can be very difficult to do.

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The Accidental Product Manager

JANUARY 29, 2024

Auto product managers believe that software will control the future Image Credit: JC As product managers, we are generally fairly focused on what we need to do to make our product become a success. However, some auto product managers are starting to realize this.

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Mind the Product

JUNE 25, 2019

Egyptian-born Abdelrahman (Abdo) Wahba co-founded popular Arabic audiobook site Iqraaly – but it wouldn’t have seen its current success unless Abdo had taken the time to analyse deeply what made customers stay loyal. The Product Experience is hosted by Lily Smith and Randy Silver. Quote of the Episode.

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Userpilot

NOVEMBER 17, 2022

If you’ve been in the SaaS or start-up space for some time, there’s no way you haven’t heard about ‘delightful products.’ And what can product managers do to build quality products that really delight users ? Use anticipatory design to make your users feel special.

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The Product Coalition

FEBRUARY 25, 2024

Source In the realm of entertainment, few companies have revolutionized the landscape as profoundly as Netflix. At a time when brick-and-mortar video rental stores dominated the market, Netflix offered unparalleled convenience and selection, allowing subscribers to order DVDs online and have them delivered to their doorstep.

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Mind the Product

JANUARY 6, 2020

The tips below have all helped me, so I hope this article will help product managers to cut through the noise and better understand how AI can fit into their daily work. As product managers, we must thoroughly understand our problem space so that we can properly define requirements and allow our team to solve the right problems.

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The Product Coalition

DECEMBER 8, 2019

Highly effective Product Managers develop themselves in 5 key areas. Highly effective Product Managers (or what I call Exponential PMs) tend to be strong in all of these areas. This is based on studying, speaking with, and coaching PMs and product leaders. Craft Competence ?? Market Competence ?????

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The Accidental Product Manager

JANUARY 10, 2022

Just exactly how are video game product managers going about pricing their products? Video games have become more and more expensive as the game product managers used their product development definition to come up with new ways to extract money from you. How Much Should A Video Game Cost?

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Mind the Product

MARCH 11, 2020

One of the things we’ve learned from doing this podcast is that it’s important to schedule in time to reflect and to revisit some of the lessons you’ve learned along the way. The three magic questions] What are the user and customer behaviours that drive business results? Quotes of the Episode.

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The Product Coalition

JANUARY 25, 2024

We’d like to thank Tremis Skeete, Executive Editor of Product Coalition for his valuable contributions in the research, development and writing of this article. We also thank Product Coalition founder Jay Stansell, who has provided a collaborative product management education environment.

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Intercom, Inc.

OCTOBER 9, 2019

The range of work we do as product managers is so broad that we inevitably end up finding inspiration from all sorts of sources, whether it’s books on business strategy or essays on design. Thinking, fast and slow, in product management. What, you might wonder, does this have to do with product management?

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Mind the Product

JULY 30, 2019

Roisi Proven is a true product person: she has a penchant for imagining the worst, which she’s turned into a superpower to put all of her product decisions through a rigorous ethics test. Ethical frameworks for product development. The Product Experience is hosted by Lily Smith and Randy Silver.

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The Accidental Product Manager

AUGUST 7, 2023

Clearly, for the product managers who promote musicians this was a major setback. However, product managers are never stopped for long and virtual concerts that were delivered online were then quickly created. That has helped artist product managers to zero in on their superfans.

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Mind the Product

SEPTEMBER 3, 2019

We set ourselves a really clear sprint question, one that you can answer with a yes or a no… [and] at the end of 5 [user] tests, we’ll know how that the user would have answered that question… Unless a minimum of 3 – usually 4 or 5 – are a strong yes, it’s a fail and we’ll have to go back around again.

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Mind the Product

OCTOBER 30, 2019

David Bland is the CEO and Founder of Precoil, an author, and a long-time practitioner of agile and lean startup. He joined us on the podcast to talk about how to create focus around what matters to your users by using different testing methodologies – a topic he and Alex Osterwalder cover in their book, Testing Business Ideas.

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Alchemer Mobile

DECEMBER 22, 2020

COVID-19 dramatically impacted how we live, learn, work, socialize, shop, and entertain ourselves. Here are some of the top mobile customer trends from 2020 and what they mean for your brand. Customer expectations have never been higher. We see strong customer relationships built off of conversations, not transactions.

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Mind the Product

MAY 28, 2019

The only person in the room who is an expert on the customer’s context is the customer. If your customers don’t care that much about your product, then they’re not going to talk to you. The Product Experience is hosted by Lily Smith and Randy Silver. We weren’t disappointed.

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Izenda

APRIL 13, 2020

People vs Users. But for product managers, it’s worth thinking about. Especially if you consider how using one over the other can influence product development. In 2012, Twitter CEO Jack Dorsey even urged the tech industry as a whole to completely abandon the term “user.” Users vs People.

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Mind the Product

APRIL 10, 2019

Few people have more experience in leading product teams than Joff Redfern. Now the VP of Product at Atlassian, he’s held similar roles at LinkedIn, Yahoo!, He joined us to talk about keeping an open mind, and how he uses the metaphor for building a better shipyard to create great product teams.

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The Product Coalition

JULY 20, 2022

Overcooked is a silly cooperative game with silly characters trying to make silly food before the time runs out. User interview: Spyfall (tabletop) No, it’s not a game about collecting qualitative feedback. The Product Manager is the spy trying to guess what the users want by asking questions with little to no clue on their needs.

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Roman Pichler

NOVEMBER 12, 2019

I once worked with a telco company that was developing a brand-new commercial product. Product management and development were located at separate sites in different countries. But this didn’t seem to matter much as everybody was in great spirits and had high hopes for the new product. To Collocate or Not.

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Roman Pichler

NOVEMBER 12, 2019

I once worked with a telco company that was developing a brand-new commercial product. Product management and development were located at separate sites in different countries. But this didn’t seem to matter much as everybody was in great spirits and had high hopes for the new product. To Collocate or Not.

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Roman Pichler

OCTOBER 21, 2016

I find that mindfulness is particularly helpful for product managers and product owners. Secondly, a major success factor for every product person is to develop empathy for the users and customers. As product managers and owners, we are prone to overcommitting and taking on too much work.

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Mind the Product

JULY 23, 2019

The three magic questions] What are the user and customer behaviours that drive business results? The desired impact that led to the development of Google Chrome. The Kellogg Foundation’s Logic Model Development Guide. The Product Experience is hosted by Lily Smith and Randy Silver. What an outcome is.

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Alchemer Mobile

NOVEMBER 25, 2019

How do you know what your customers need and want? In this webinar, Robi Ganguly, CEO and Co-Founder, Apptentive and Ben Johnson, VP Mobile Strategy, Rightpoint will cover the essentials to have in place both pre- and post-launch in order to provide the best customer experience possible.

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The Product Coalition

MAY 3, 2022

In this blog, I’ll talk about the steps that I as a Product Manager at Youtube would take to do this. Along with Youtube’s core mission, people go to Youtube for entertainment , to consume educational content , and to learn new things about various topics. if users like something they will be willing to pay for it.

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Alchemer Mobile

MAY 8, 2018

Our second annual Customer Love Summit will take place on July 18th, 2018, and registration is now open. If you’re a leader in mobile customer experience, you won’t want to miss out on this year’s premier, intimate mobile event of the summer. Q: How did you get into product development? A very different time then.

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Mind the Product

MARCH 24, 2020

The point is to get as evil as possible, and not hold back, and not think about the feelings of others, it’s just about being really harsh about what your product could be used for, and then putting it into a little dystopian future that you create. Ethical frameworks for product development. The Black Mirror Test.

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Mind the Product

DECEMBER 8, 2020

Our go-to person to learn more about creating a great play experience is Melissa Pickering, Strategic Product Director at The LEGO Group. The post Designing for Play – Melissa Pickering on The Product Experience [Rebroadcast] appeared first on Mind the Product. Evolving your product.

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ProductPlan

MAY 5, 2022

Your product team has limited time and resources, and you can’t accomplish every initiative on your product development wish list. Whenever you build or update a product roadmap, you’ll need to weigh the costs and benefits of several competing goals. Common examples include: Targeting new user personas.

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Mind the Product

AUGUST 28, 2017

Jamie Parkins is a senior product manager at JustGiving, the online fundraising platform that enables people from all round the world to raise money for their cause of choice. He has been the product manager for this B2B audience. It has been running for 17 years and has raised in excess of £3 billion to date.

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Mind the Product

SEPTEMBER 10, 2019

And the production of the system is not the definition of success any more. It’s the optimisation of that system to create better customer outcomes. The lean development of a publishing company, and why short books are good. The Product Experience is hosted by Lily Smith and Randy Silver. Submit a proposal.

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The Accidental Product Manager

OCTOBER 3, 2022

Once upon a time, being a product manager for a strip mall was a pretty good job. Your mall was a mecca for the local population and so it was easy to attract customers and all your product development definition said that you had to do was make sure that each of your stores was leased out.

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