The Product Coalition

DECEMBER 19, 2021

Along with the founders (the CEO and CTO), most of the employees in the company at the time were developers. Developing the product has a significant impact on the company’s strategy, and founders must live the market and their customer’s needs in order to define the company’s strategy. go with the good product manager.

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Product Management Product Manager User Testing Weak Development Team 170

The Product Coalition

NOVEMBER 23, 2021

Here is a new way to look at product management goals, and make them a useful tool for both you and your team. That’s actually not a bad goal since it would encourage product managers to allocate time for this very important activity. So if you need the team to focus on a certain area?—?say Photo by William Warby on Unsplash L.

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The Product Coalition

APRIL 1, 2023

A brilliant guy, with many years of tech leadership experience, but none in product management. I used to manage large development teams — all smart and independent people — but I hadn’t managed product managers before. And how can you let someone from your team lead parts of the strategy which you own yourself?

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Product Management Product Manager Management Management 135

The Product Coalition

JULY 2, 2022

for good and bad. primarily focused on product teams, helping them be great at the discovery work that is at the heart of what they do Leadership coaching?—?focused Marty said that anyone in the product team needs to get coaching, including the leaders themselves. A group of experts still doesn’t make a great team.

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Workshop Customer Feedback Technical Review Product Research 121

The Product Coalition

MARCH 13, 2022

Because over time, the Structured Data group (that I was Head of Product at) developed smarter, AI-based systems, that were meant to replace the back-office work or make it more efficient and create a better product catalog at the same time using things only machines can do. The superpower became a weakness. We all do it all the time.

Feedback Software 159

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The Product Coalition

APRIL 25, 2021

In our sessions, they raise the challenges that they are facing in their day-to-day job and get my advice so that they can bring their product leadership to the next level. I sent the team to watch my time management lecture (if you don’t speak Hebrew or prefer reading there is an English summary here ).

Weak Development Team 115

Weak Development Team Leadership Books Education 115

The Product Coalition

NOVEMBER 13, 2023

In many cases, an economic downturn simply reveals your already existing weaknesses since they now have more impact. Product Strategy on Round A Responsibility: Founders with the leadership team Goal: Build the go-to-market playbook Toward round A you start seeing success (or it would be very hard to raise a decent A round).

Product Strategy 124

Product Strategy Strategy User Testing Weak Development Team 124

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. With sales-led, which is also a bad name, the model means giving each customer exactly what they want and following the money. That’s the whole reason VCs invest in startups.

Naming 134

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UX Studio

MAY 29, 2018

But team building retreats can do exactly that. Every six months, our whole UX team travels to a remote location in Hungary’s countryside for two days to have fun and decide together about our big goals. These team building retreats play an important part in UX studio’s culture. Do a retreat when your team has lost its energy.

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Weak Development Team Workshop Travel UX 88

The Product Coalition

FEBRUARY 14, 2022

If you are the developer who is supposed to write this feature, you would ask the product manager for very specific instructions as to when and how to predict where this person is going. With data science teams, however, there is a feeling that they know better?—?they Instead, I gave the team clear instructions?—?take

User Testing 143

User Testing Data Visualization Product Management Product Manager 143

The Product Coalition

JANUARY 16, 2022

As a product leader who is creating this roadmap, you need to treat it as a compass and plan not only for your team and the technology team but rather as the direction that the entire company needs to go in. So, having a great platform but poor content won’t really help them. if you fail, what would you have done wrong?

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Roadmap Data Visualization Customer Experience User Testing 157

The Product Coalition

DECEMBER 4, 2023

In many cases, an economic downturn simply reveals your already existing weaknesses since they now have more impact. Product Strategy on Round A Responsibility: Founders with the leadership team Goal: Build the go-to-market playbook Toward round A you start seeing success (or it would be very hard to raise a decent A round).

Product Strategy 112

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The Product Coalition

DECEMBER 17, 2023

It didn’t mean that there was no competition (which is usually a very bad sign), but that the traditional search engines weren’t it. In-House Development If you are selling to technical teams, this is a major competitor. It would be the list of “usual suspects” when talking about the e-commerce search space.

Technical Review 126

Technical Review Weak Development Team User Testing Systems Review 126

The Product Coalition

APRIL 19, 2021

The following interview questions are neither suited nor intended to turn an inexperienced interviewer into an agile software development expert. The refinement is a continuous process to create actionable Product Backlogs that allow a Scrum Team to have a Sprint Planning at a moment’s notice. Spoiler alert: they aren’t identical.)

Product Research 113

Product Research Customer Experience User Testing Agile 113

Centercode

DECEMBER 22, 2020

This year has forced us to grow and change many, many aspects of our lives, from how we work (#remote), to how we communicate with our team (“Can you guys see my screen?”), This combination ebook-and-worksheet is a roadmap for keeping testers engaged, because targeted feedback is critical to product success.

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Reporting Tools Feedback Software User Testing Customer Feedback 75

Userpilot

JANUARY 8, 2024

Host product webinars to reach your target audience Develop webinar content that educates your audience on industry trends, common challenges, and how your product addresses these issues. Use YouTube marketing to reach relevant audiences Develop informative and engaging videos related to your product or industry.

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Analytic Tools Research Software Feedback Software Customer Experience 95

Gainsight

NOVEMBER 20, 2019

In the spirit of “Staying Thirsty” we’ve compiled this list of books, blogs, Slack communities, and podcasts for product-obsessed people that want to develop themselves in and out of the office. These books will help you develop the skills that lie under the surface to help you become a more well-rounded product manager and leader.

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Blog Books Feedback Software User Testing 80

The Product Coalition

NOVEMBER 1, 2020

I would develop a voice interface for the computer” , I said proudly. As you can probably guess, I didn’t get the job eventually and accepted an offer from Imperva instead (which turned out to be a company with great product culture and an amazing school for product leadership). it probably wasn’t such a bad one.

Product Research 89

Product Research Research Software Weak Development Team User Testing 89

The Product Coalition

NOVEMBER 10, 2024

The quote is attributed to Ford himself for the first time in a letter sent to the UK publication Marketing Week in 2001: “Being market-led implies being led by the consumer — and consumers are bad at coming up with innovations (Henry Ford’s quote: “If I had asked my customers what they wanted they would have said a faster horse” springs to mind…).”

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User Testing Research Software Customer Feedback Feedback Software 72

The Product Coalition

DECEMBER 11, 2023

Arik’s translates into a more strict and result-oriented, and mine is more about empowering my employees and developing their skills so that they can eventually perform at a higher level. And regardless of how empowered your teams are, they still need guidance. Marty Cagan’s Empowered introduced the concept of empowered teams.

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Under 10 Consulting

JUNE 6, 2019

Only three things happen naturally in organizations: friction, confusion, and underperformance. Everything else requires leadership. In my first job in product management, I was based in DC and my developers were based in California. Instead, I flew to LA once a month and stayed for a week of development team meetings.

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Weak Development Team Product Research Reporting Tools Customer Feedback 40

The Product Coalition

DECEMBER 11, 2023

In one of my early career roles, I was brought into the company as a development team leader with a very specific task they wanted me to lead. To sum things up, this post is not about good and bad decisions. Any decision can be the right one, depending on the situation. Do Your Customers Really Want to Pay Less?

Customer Experience 78

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Revulytics

AUGUST 8, 2019

Often, product management teams are trying to do too much. When I talk with executive teams, it’s clear what keeps them up at night. Selling more is a sales issue, and building is a development issue, and planning is somebody else’s problem. Walking back commitments the sales team made. I’m busy enough already.

Product Research 54

Product Research Research Software User Testing Reporting Tools 54

The Product Coalition

DECEMBER 11, 2023

They always need something you haven’t developed yet. Unlike what one might think, this is a really bad sign. Most of the work plan is devoted to putting off fires coming from customers and sales teams. Slowly, both the product and the roadmap reflect only what the customers are asking for. And nothing else.

Startups 78

Startups User Testing Customer Experience Roadmap 78

Crafty CTO

APRIL 12, 2020

Bigger – it speaks to every aspect of the software development process. ” A case in point: if you search the Shape Up ebook for “agile,” you get one lonely match (in Jason Fried’s Foreword ): Likewise, just one match if you search for “scrum” and “methodology.” Big as in a 143 page PDF.

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Agile Weak Development Team Customer Experience User Testing 52

Userzoom

DECEMBER 10, 2019

The team that I work in has enabled democratization of testing at over 500 organizations around the world. The first one is that it reduces risk of launching bad product. The second is that it ends debates within product teams. And there’s not that many teams out there. Two other reasons to listen to me.

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