The Product Coalition

JUNE 18, 2023

It took me time to understand that I need to present myself as a product leadership coach and product strategy expert rather than a consultant. The way they understood the term ‘product’ was very straightforward — the actual bites of code that are released to the world for people to use.

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ProductPlan

JUNE 5, 2020

Product management is certainly no exception. Product managers and leaders need to find ways to keep learning and growing in an ever-evolving product environment. There’s an abundance of books, podcasts, as well as events at your disposal that cover various product management topics.

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The Product Coalition

SEPTEMBER 19, 2021

The fact that your potential customers have a problem, doesn’t mean that they are willing to do what it takes to solve it. Each one ran a series of tests over a few hours, and told me I’m a good fit for the surgery. As a product leader, you must define not only the problem you are solving but also for whom.

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The Product Coalition

NOVEMBER 23, 2021

Measuring the performance of product managers is a real challenge for a number of reasons. When planning the product managers’ goals, this challenge can translate into taking the wrong direction altogether. Here is a new way to look at product management goals, and make them a useful tool for both you and your team.

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The Product Coalition

DECEMBER 7, 2020

Leadership without authority is product management 101. But as a product executive, you must take it to the next level?—?and and this time use it with the entire management team. Last week’s learning session in the CPO Bootcamp was dedicated to product strategy. But that’s not the real reason.

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The Product Coalition

AUGUST 14, 2022

Bad Feedback Doesn’t Always Mean Your Product Is Bad Bad product feedback is a bummer. But contrary to what you might think, it doesn’t always mean your product is bad. Here is a quick guide to strategic thinking about product feedback. The feedback on all three talks was great.

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The Product Coalition

DECEMBER 11, 2023

But is it really what your customers want? Here’s how to look at it in order to make the right decision for your customers. Layer 1: Your Customers We always try to make things simple for our customers, while preserving the value. That’s the magic of a great user experience. But which one is more important?

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Product Innovation Educators

FEBRUARY 22, 2021

How product managers can work backwards to amazing products. In a few weeks, the name of this podcast will be changing to Product Masters Now. To be a better product manager, it is worthwhile to examine organizations known for their product management capabilities. Amazon is such a company.

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The Product Coalition

NOVEMBER 13, 2023

A value creation lead in one of the VCs that I am working with told me that when they think about product-market fit they only relate it to companies at the seed stage, and in round A they consider them as the go-to-market (GTM) phase, assuming they have already found product-market fit. Here is how it works.

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The Product Coalition

SEPTEMBER 6, 2021

Customer experience isn’t just for products. As an employee, you provide customer experience to your manager, your colleagues, and your own employees. There are many things to take from it, but I mainly took the fact that you need to think about the customers from their point of view. Is it a great one?

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The Product Coalition

DECEMBER 4, 2023

A value creation lead in one of the VCs that I am working with told me that when they think about product-market fit they only relate it to companies at the seed stage, and in round A they consider them as the go-to-market (GTM) phase, assuming they have already found product-market fit. Here is how it works.

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The Product Coalition

AUGUST 13, 2023

But to truly solve customers’ problems, founders and product leaders must think beyond what they already know about the product. But that leads to another problem — how do you know which product to create? How to solve a certain customer problem? Real invention is hard, that’s why real innovation is hard.

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The Product Coalition

SEPTEMBER 29, 2020

Anyone familiar with Product Management will recognize the immortal phrase ‘influence without authority.’ As a Product Manager, you’re a team player who guides product development along its chartered course, but you have to do that without being the literal captain of the ship. What Does ‘Influence’ Mean?

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The Product Coalition

FEBRUARY 11, 2024

Photo by Iain Kennedy on Unsplash When I was a product lead at Imperva, there was a feature that engineering kept telling me required a rewrite. We were monitoring our customers’ databases, and the architecture caused a severe performance impact on the databases themselves. Its entire architecture was bad.

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The Product Coalition

DECEMBER 11, 2023

Photo by Tamil Vanan on Pexels You might have heard that I’m writing a book on product leadership. They named it after the feedback I constantly gave them on their presentations. If you follow the product-market fit example from above, it is clear that you need to focus on retention. There are more details to it.

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The Product Coalition

MAY 1, 2022

I realized that this is something that I do whenever I’m helping my consulting customers or the CPO Bootcamp participants to make strategic decisions. about the market, the customers, the product, the business, the plans ahead? One of the ways to test your numbers is to ask yourself what would happen if you don’t meet them.

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The Product Coalition

DECEMBER 25, 2022

There are many ingredients needed in order for your product to succeed. Not all of them are related to your product, or even to your product’s domain. Your customers’ ecosystem has more impact on your ability to succeed than you might think. As a product leadership academy, we have many presentations.

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The Product Coalition

DECEMBER 31, 2023

Photo by Pixabay I recently led a product-market fit workshop at a known company in the Israeli tech industry. It is a well-established company, a leader in its domain, but it still needs to deliver new products to the market so product-market fit is a very relevant topic. At work, things are much more complex.

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The Product Coalition

APRIL 18, 2021

Some takeaways for you from a product interview I had at Google many years ago. Photo by John Tekeridis from Pexels When I decided to move into product management I interviewed, among other companies, for a product management role at Google. Instead, it is all about risk management.

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The Product Coalition

OCTOBER 30, 2022

Her research and planning are so thorough, that she knows exactly which roads have sunsets you don’t want to miss and which activities happen only on the second Sunday of each third month, which happens to be precisely when she is there. a on Unsplash My mother is the best trip planner I know. The same happens with your roadmap.

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The Product Coalition

FEBRUARY 18, 2023

Every now and then, early-stage founders approach me to hear about their product idea and give them feedback. This mostly happens with products related to the product space itself — products for product managers and product teams. But in product management that is never true.

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The Product Coalition

JULY 30, 2023

Your product might be awesome, but if there is no significant need on the other side, it wouldn’t succeed. A need is more than a general desire, and you should trust your customers’ actions more than their words. His stats showed that over 60% of his customers only bought from him after having known him for two years or more.

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The Product Coalition

JANUARY 28, 2024

Your product sells not for its features, but for the value it brings to your customers. True product value lies in understanding and meeting the deeper, often unspoken needs of customers, beyond just functionality. Here’s a three-step approach to ensure products connect with users on a more meaningful level.

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The Product Coalition

DECEMBER 11, 2023

In part two of this summary, I am moving to talk about strategy and leadership insights. But every now and then, for example, when I share the insights with my customers (many of them wanted to use our time together to simply hear how it was), I remember what a great privilege it was to attend this workshop, and I feel truly grateful.

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Product Management University

JUNE 5, 2023

Most product managers know how to create a product vision, but that’s not the hard part. The extent to which stakeholders get behind your product vision has everything to do with how the product vision is articulated. What is a Product Vision? Why is a Product Vision Important?

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The Product Coalition

DECEMBER 10, 2023

However, provoking productive disagreements is a key leadership skill you want to master. Here is how fostering healthy debates is essential for effective leadership and better outcomes. If you see the connection between that skill and product leadership you are 100% right. Existing customers?

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The Product Coalition

MARCH 13, 2022

This might sound counterintuitive, especially with product-led growth (which I’m a big fan of) practically saying the opposite, but bear with me and I’ll explain everything. Your Customers Don’t Want Your Product Of course, eventually, they do. And the customers are left confused. And the customers are left confused.

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Gainsight

NOVEMBER 20, 2019

To truly excel in product management, you need to have a respect for design, an understanding of countless processes, a passion for problem-solving, excellent communication skills—the list goes on and on. Books for Product Managers. Blogs for Product Managers. Slack Groups for Product Managers.

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The Product Coalition

MARCH 12, 2023

Hiring a product leader is never easy. You are looking for a partner to join your team and take a significant leadership role. Here are a few things to consider when you seek your next product leader. That’s why they are looking to hire a product leader and not just a senior product manager.

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The Product Coalition

DECEMBER 6, 2023

When VCs and customers aren’t throwing money at whatever you tell them, it becomes a critical tool. Here is how a product strategy can help you create business results, even when the market is not in your favor. Part of the research is for fine-tuning how I explain the value as well as the service itself to founders and investors.

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Product Innovation Educators

JULY 31, 2023

Starting from the customer experience to build products customers love Today we are talking about the “working backwards” approach to product that was created at Amazon. He joined Amazon in 1998—four years after its founding—and spent the next 12 years as part of Amazon’s senior leadership team.

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The Product Coalition

OCTOBER 25, 2021

the research articles, the important topics and revelations, and as you move towards the end, the articles become lighter: interviews with celebrities, lifestyle pieces, and so on. Last week, one of my customers consulted with me on what is the best metric to trace for the migration from an old system to a new one.

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The Product Coalition

NOVEMBER 7, 2021

I have seen so many frustrated product leaders facing a similar situation. It can be with your CEO or anyone in the management team, with internal and even external customers, and honestly, with anyone important enough for their opinion to matter and make you change your plans. I’m talking about your customers.

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The Product Coalition

APRIL 10, 2022

Having the courage to speak up is one of the things that we are talking about in the leadership workshop that opens the CPO Bootcamp , for example. Throughout our career as product people, working well with others was probably one of the most effective skills we all had to master. They both participate in all of our sessions.

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The Product Coalition

OCTOBER 26, 2020

I would argue that even if you are beyond that spot, and as a product leader you do much more than UX, you and the company might still not realize what is your primary responsibility as a product leader. Why This Happens Product management is a unique role in so many ways.

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The Product Coalition

FEBRUARY 27, 2022

Only among my consulting customers , two companies recently hired a new VP of Product. I decided to write this article to help you, product leaders, with your new position. and in product leadership positions there is so much of it! just as you would do with anything else related to product leadership.

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The Product Coalition

FEBRUARY 1, 2021

Product management requires so many diverse skills that most likely your people are more experienced than you at least in some of them. If the people reporting to you know better how to do their job, what is your role as a manager? It can be a full-blown CPO responsibility or a CTO who runs both product and technology.

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