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

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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PMLesson's Ace the PM Interview

APRIL 25, 2022

Have you recently been invited to a product marketing manager interview? One of the best and first things you should do is review the most common product marketing interview questions and answers. Product marketing managers play a critical role in bringing new products to market.

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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 Last week’s learning session in the CPO Bootcamp was dedicated to product strategy. The real reason is that as a product leader you cannot succeed without it. But that’s not the real reason.

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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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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 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. But is it enough?

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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.

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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? But that’s where your leadership comes to a test. the structure of the word.

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The Product Coalition

JULY 16, 2023

My personal passion is to bring back this very important dimension into product management and leadership. Product Leadership Is a Business Role I make a distinction between product management and product leadership. Job titles generally reflect that distinction but not always.

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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

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

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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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. Product strategy is a special kind of strategy. If you feel it touches marketing and sales, you are right.

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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

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 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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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

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

APRIL 18, 2021

They want to consult with me on whether or not product management is the right profession for them since they feel that they don’t know how to come up with these big ideas, and feel that it is needed in order to be able to lead. For example, one of the most innovative ideas I had throughout my career was Twiggle’s product.

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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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ProductPlan

JUNE 5, 2020

The Product Leader Certificate requires a little more PM experience and demands competence in DevOps, data analytics, and hard technical skills. Key takeaways include product strategy , user research, and the UX/UI design process. It explores product leadership fundamentals and managing growth, among other takeaways.

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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. I see them everywhere, and apparently, they see me too.

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The Product Coalition

DECEMBER 19, 2021

Once you decide you need to recruit a product manager, who should it be? This is one of the most popular questions I receive from my consulting customers as well as CPO Bootcamp participants. The first thing you need to figure out is why you are hiring a product manager. But starting early is not enough. Here are my best tips.

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The Product Coalition

OCTOBER 26, 2020

Thinking and talking about the product definitely falls under this category. When it comes to the actual work products that product managers deliver: wireframes and user stories. considering all relevant points of view including the customers, the market, and the company itself. But Do You?

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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. The Broader the Better The product leader’s role includes much more than managing the product team and the product work.

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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

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

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

JANUARY 13, 2021

I created a model called “The Product Circuit”, which I have since used in product strategy processes with dozens of companies and in my lectures when I explain the journey to product-market fit. The problem definition also includes the customer segment you are addressing (who are you solving it for).

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The Product Coalition

MARCH 19, 2023

Level 1: Painting Within the Lines In my first official product role I joined Imperva, then still a relatively young company with ~100 employees, as the product manager of their database security product. The product was still young but already well-defined and deployed on customers’ networks.

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The Product Coalition

APRIL 22, 2023

Product leadership seems to require nonstop negotiation with everyone you work with. For those who didn’t, it’s a book by Chris Voss, a hostage negotiator who took his experience to teach and coach people in the everyday negotiation conversations we all have — with our customers, peers, and even in our personal lives.

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The Product Coalition

FEBRUARY 1, 2021

Photo by Pedro Figueras from Pexels As the importance of product management for business success becomes clearer, many startups give one of the founders the product leadership role. It can be a full-blown CPO responsibility or a CTO who runs both product and technology. Here’s why and how.

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The Product Coalition

DECEMBER 11, 2023

So they do all sorts of validations and deep analysis processes: market research, business plan, competitive analysis, and so on. If they do it well they are able to raise money, build the product, and the first customers are coming in. This is usually when they hire a product leader and you join the game.

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The Product Coalition

NOVEMBER 23, 2021

Unlike sales and marketing, who are responsible for very clear, measurable, deliverables (new/retained customers and leads respectively), product managers can’t be measured this way. Determined to be able to measure the performance of product managers just like any other department, L.

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The Product Coalition

FEBRUARY 4, 2024

Your product’s value needs to be defined, delivered, and perceived as such by your customers. If this isn’t challenging enough, what your customers want and need varies based on their profile and maturity with your product. Do all of your customers use it the same way and for the same purpose? Likely not.

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