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A Practical Prioritization Approach for Technical Debt

The Product Coalition

Assume you have new feature requests from business, but your technical team wants to fix the technical debts first, what do you do?”. However, what ends up happening a lot of the time is, product teams lose track of these ‘Deliberate Tech Debts’, and start accepting them as design/engineering decisions. Copyright?—?Dilbert.com

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10 Reasons Your Product is Hurting Your Sales Team

The Product Coalition

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.

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Starting A Growth Team: Ten Key Lessons Learned

The Product Coalition

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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Successful Roadmaps Avoid One Thing: Drift

The Product Coalition

“Everyone has a plan until they get punched in the mouth” — Mike Tyson I’ve wrestled with weak roadmaps — even some downright disasters. Product managers and their teams start with enthusiasm, hit the ground running, and create a solid roadmap. The same is true for your roadmap — it takes more than diligence.

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How Do You Know You’re Hiring a Good Product Team Member?

ProductPlan

Product leaders don’t often get many chances for hiring product team members. Additions to the product team must ramp up quickly. Here are some ways I vet product management candidates to weed out poor fits and spot the diamonds in the rough. Stage 1: Reviewing the applications. Are they team players?

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Treat Your Career Like you Treat Your Products by Adam Warburton

Mind the Product

We all treat our products with care, respect, and diligence. A bad day in the office, a chance LinkedIn message, and before you know it, someone has moved jobs. Developing a long-term relationship with someone who can act as your mentor and provide advice and direction can help to get around this. Find a Mentor.

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Why Product Request SLAs Fail

Mironov Consulting

” 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 That slashes the work to <600 hours/week/product manager.