The Product Coalition

JANUARY 27, 2022

At the beginning of any software development project, managers think of which methodology is between waterfall and agile. It’s essential to follow clearly defined processes or software development life cycle (SDLC) to ensure software development quality. Waterfall and agile: A smart method or bad solution?

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Intercom, Inc.

DECEMBER 2, 2021

Previously hosted by Jamie Osler , a Senior Product Engineer at Intercom for over seven years, it’s now up to Principal Systems Engineer Brian Scanlan to pick up the baton and keep the chats going. The core of algorithms and systems is data models. The legal team isn’t there to slow R&D down. That is an ambiguous problem.

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nulab

SEPTEMBER 2, 2022

In cases where an employee is being let go, properly documented offboarding can help minimize the legal and financial risks to the company. A well-executed offboarding process can help the company retain top talent and prevent bad blood between departing employees and those who remain. Notify the team. It’s good business.

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The Product Coalition

DECEMBER 21, 2021

Here’s our story how we’re developing a product using machine learning and neural networks to boost translation and localization Artificial intelligence and its applications are one of the most sensational topics in the IT field. If so, what is the value of the solution you’re developing? Often people confuse it with automation.

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Product Management Unpacked

JUNE 23, 2020

If something bad happens locally, like an office losing power, having a copy of important data somewhere else isn’t enough. On a typical day, Grone meets with leaders of the support team, works with developers and answers questions from individual salespeople. With each of these audiences, I apply different skills.

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The Product Coalition

APRIL 25, 2022

The Best Product Managers use Product Management Software for: We’ve broken down this list into four stages of the feature life cycle that contributes to building the product value: opportunity identification and validation, design and prototyping, feature development, and launch and iteration.

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Intercom, Inc.

DECEMBER 12, 2018

Stacks can be developed at the project, team, or functional level and are regularly used to improve internal collaboration, measure the impact of marketing activities and reach customers in new ways. Without this foundation, your marketing stack can become a set of siloed tools that will bog your team down in complexity.

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The Product Coalition

DECEMBER 8, 2019

Highly effective Product Managers develop themselves in 5 key areas. In some jobs, you can get by with just Competence, but in the unkempt, fuzzy, team-oriented domain of Product Management, you need both. Here are 2 actions you can take to develop your Craft Competence: Craft Competence ?? and others feel that.

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Mind the Product

APRIL 27, 2017

There’s a lot of variation in how companies document product requirements. Some are moving away from detailed, written product requirements documents (PRDs), while others are using shorter write-ups, user stories, or jobs-to-be-done formats. Eric Ries, in his post “What is customer development? Written Methods.

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UX Planet

SEPTEMBER 10, 2024

Photo by Nik on Unsplash A Step-by-Step guide to evaluating and enhancing your Design System for maximum impact. Design systems are essential tools for maintaining consistency, scalability, and efficiency in product development. This is where a design system audit comes into play.

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The Product Coalition

MARCH 23, 2018

Maybe it is because in the early stages of my career, I was a student of Waterfall and the idea of purposely avoiding the documentation stage just seemed irresponsible and actually, impossible to accept. Simply stated, there is no substitute for well-written and researched documentation. And again, my confusion grew.

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Mind the Product

DECEMBER 5, 2019

In fact, some methods are pretty poor. Some product managers make poor decisions because they don’t have the right skills. When I worked at Trustpilot, we had solid evidence that consumers wanted to read reviews about products. Currently, Trustpilot only shows company reviews). Your Skills Resume: Can you Identify Profit?

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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. Phase 1: Due Diligence and Discovery. Due diligence comes first but has its origins in other engagements Modus has conducted over the years.

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Amplitude

NOVEMBER 26, 2019

People in non-technical roles rely on data every day to make decisions, develop ideas or measure success. When tools and systems are not created with them in mind, they lose trust and understanding. With a bit of human-centric thinking, teams can build shared understanding of why, what and how to measure their work.

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Nulab

MAY 25, 2022

Picture this: you’re working on a project with a team of people located in different parts of the world. Even though you’re all working towards the same goal, it can feel like you’re in your own little world, disconnected from the rest of the team. Why are information silos bad for business? Another downside?

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The Product Coalition

FEBRUARY 1, 2021

Most of us have been through the results of poor management of bugs: hair-on-fire, last-minute late nights to madly scrambling to critical fix bugs blocking a release, or stopping a customer from using a product. Does your organisation provide you and your team with direct access to customers, or are there gatekeepers?

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Mironov Consulting

DECEMBER 29, 2022

 But when I do product due diligence for SaaS-focused PE/VC firms, it's the very first thing I look at.  Let’s IMHO, software product companies are fundamentally different from software services/outsourcing/custom development companies.  Said   What BigCorp demands, BigCorp gets.  Hitting

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Mironov Consulting

SEPTEMBER 15, 2019

We’ve known forever that we (product managers) must include our developers and designers in the earliest stages of problem definition and solution ideation. Piping in real users’ voices and challenges motivates the whole team. Less appreciation of commercial software development pressures. We versus They.

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Mironov Consulting

JULY 28, 2022

Apologizing in advance: I’m intentionally exaggerating the differences between two broad corporate groups: wildly oversimplified roles and attitudes and reward systems.  Each Enterprise Sales and Solutions Teams… Are paid/rewarded/promoted for working with individual prospects or customers one at a time.  Sales

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The Product Coalition

JUNE 25, 2019

Do co-located teams truly perform better? But having experienced both poorly performing, co-located teams as well as high performing distributed teams, I wanted to take a closer look at some of the research as well as experiences of others. The team members are a critical part of the overall success of distributed teams.

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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. And that’s not a bad thing. It’s allowing each team to really find what’s going to work best for them.

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bpma ProductHub

OCTOBER 16, 2016

Currently at Pragmatic Marketing, Paul helps companies build product teams by teaching their managers and marketers how to become market-driven. Most companies and product teams have to find the right balance between investing in the new and supporting existing products. On Innovation vs. Execution in Product Management.

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The Product Guy

APRIL 9, 2019

In my company, we review a living document with our management chain on a quarterly basis to align business direction for the short-term (immediate one to two quarters) to the long-term (two to five years). The challenge to the product managers is to translate these into a more functional plan for our engineering team.

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nulab

JANUARY 7, 2022

According to Deming’s philosophy, the way to get rid of systemic issues is by addressing the root causes instead of only treating the symptoms. So, rather than focusing on single mistakes (which RCA does), it looks at the big picture and hones in on weak points that might cause problems. Let’s use a real-world example….

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UX Studio: Product Management

SEPTEMBER 25, 2017

After our team at UX Studio started using product management tools, the time spent on communication surprisingly decreased. Coordinating designer and developer teams simultaneously while reporting to the boss via email becomes a drag. Price: Basic plan starts at $25 / month for 5 team members. Collaboration tools.

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Mixpanel

MAY 5, 2021

Teams are praised whenever they release a new feature (or product) to their customers. Employees on these teams likely felt proud to share something new with the world and maybe even posted their accomplishment on LinkedIn to spread the word and celebrate. Previously, he led growth and product teams at Instacart and Zynga.

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Mind the Product

OCTOBER 29, 2018

At every level of our careers, we are faced with unsolicited, opinionated and sometimes outlandish product feedback from our internal teams. As an example, I currently manage a small product team, and our client service and sales teams outnumber us 15 to one. The key team members share this information with their teams as a win.

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Userpilot

AUGUST 17, 2024

Solution : Zoezi chose Userpilot over other options like Pendo , ProductFruits, and Appcues due to its functionality, cost-effectiveness, and strong customer support. Results : Implementing Userpilot allowed Zoezi to prioritize development efforts based on actual user behavior, leading to better resource allocation. Track page visits.

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Intercom, Inc.

OCTOBER 5, 2022

Not just in product reviews, roadmap meetings, or design critiques from product people, but across the company. There are several common patterns among failed solutions: The team didn’t have a good understanding of the problem to begin with. Your product is a system. Good product teams keep going, keep asking why.

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Userpilot

AUGUST 26, 2024

Benefits of product data collection Among other benefits, an efficient data collection system helps you make better business decisions, create personalized customer experiences , and eliminate friction. This allows you to prioritize product development efforts and improve product performance. Capture user sessions with Hotjar.

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Lenny Rachitsky

JULY 9, 2024

For more: Best of Lenny’s Newsletter | Hire your next product leader | Podcast | Lennybot | Swag Subscribe now In my quest to develop a comprehensive benchmark to measure progress toward AI replacing PMs, I teamed up with full-time prompt engineer (and past collaborator) Mike Taylor on a piece that will surely blow your mind.

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Mironov Consulting

AUGUST 8, 2017

I spend a lot of time sifting through documents, positioning and stories – trying to figure out who we’re talking about. I see much broader wins: Our technical teams often make the “I am the user” mistake: we unconsciously assume that the people at the other end of our software are just like us. You say potato, I say WTF.

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The Product Coalition

JANUARY 21, 2020

In this article I will discuss the unique nature of AI-based products and its influence on the development process and the usability. Probabilistic & Unpredictable (aka I need a doctor) Do you remember the last time you visited 3 doctors and received 3 different diagnoses and ways to treat your problem based on the same medical documents?

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Arkenea

DECEMBER 4, 2024

In this article, we talk about everything you need to know about mental health app development. We will also be covering the types and cost of mental health app development. Isolation and loneliness during the pandemic led to a steady rise in mental health app usage and its development. percent from 2024 to 2030 timeframe.

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Agile Velocity

MAY 3, 2024

Agile implementation typically focuses on team-level adoption of Agile practices, emphasizing principles such as self-organization, cross-functional collaboration, and incremental delivery. Focus Only on Team Level Agile Transformation initiatives sometimes focus exclusively on individual teams, neglecting the broader organizational context.

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Userpilot

OCTOBER 4, 2022

It’s a linear, top-down approach, whereas growth loops are closed-loop systems where the process generates new inputs by design. Funnels aren’t enough to drive product growth because they create functional silos within teams, they’re expensive and time-consuming to constantly feed since they only flow in one direction.

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Userpilot

APRIL 22, 2024

Any help that involves the technical team. Whether it’s through developer’s docs, tweaking the code, or providing integration assistance. Some tips to provide proper end-user support include: Using AI marketing tools to reduce the team’s workload. Product tutorials. Technical support. Self-service support.

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