The Product Coalition

NOVEMBER 13, 2023

The Critical Role of Product Strategy When Money Is Scarce (Part 2 — Rounds A, B, and Later) When you start selling your product, you feel great, but that doesn’t last for too long. You blame the market, but often that’s just overlooking the real problem. You add features, you replace salespeople, but it doesn’t help.

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The Product Coalition

DECEMBER 11, 2023

If you are the new product leader of your company, your company might be in product leadership debt. In such situations, you would typically be asked to come up with a strategy and roadmap ASAP, but you are still just learning the domain. Typically, the CEO will ask for a strategy or a roadmap. Can you believe it?

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The Product Coalition

DECEMBER 4, 2023

The Critical Role of Product Strategy When Resources Are Limited (Part 2 — Rounds A, B, and Later) When you start selling your product, you feel great, but that doesn’t last for too long. You blame the market, but often that’s just overlooking the real problem. Photo by Tomas Sobek on Unsplash Nobody likes crises.

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The Product Coalition

JULY 18, 2021

Creating a product strategy is almost never a matter of answering a few simple questions and figuring it out. They have a solid business but realized that the growth potential there is limited so they pulled me in to help them redefine their vision and strategy. Strategy is not like solving a mathematical equation.

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The Product Coalition

JUNE 13, 2021

Product strategy is one of the most important tasks of the product leader, and definitely one of the hardest things to do. This should be your first step into product strategy. Since product strategy is so hard, many companies simply skip it. in detail?—?which

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Product Management University

SEPTEMBER 10, 2023

Relationships with customer executives aren’t only critical to customer success managers. They’re also critical to the success of product management, product marketing and sales. Here’s why the big-picture perspective on the customer’s strategy is so critical to the success of your account strategy.

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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 Guy

FEBRUARY 3, 2019

For a great introduction, download Intercom’s Jobs To Be Done eBook. In this post, I include three tips for product managers new to JTBD style interviews, written by someone (me) who just completed his first round of JTBD interviews. In hindsight, my recruiting strategy was too broad. More About The Product Mentor.

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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

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. One other misunderstanding that was much harder for me to explain was related to how people understood the word ‘product’ in what I do. If you are only beginning, it’s clear why.

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The Product Coalition

AUGUST 14, 2022

For some reason, most of them want my product strategy and product-market fit lectures during May and June, every year. I gave my talk on “The Journey to Product-Market Fit” three times within a two week timeframe. That’s why the product strategy is so important?—?it

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The Product Coalition

SEPTEMBER 10, 2023

Leadership without authority is product management 101. But as a product executive, you must take it to the next level — and this time use it with the entire management team. Image by Denis Doukhan from Pixabay In the CPO Bootcamp we talk a lot about product strategy. I’ll start with the former.

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The Product Coalition

JULY 2, 2023

I’m sure you know this quote and see it a lot in product management. But the difference between theory and practice isn’t limited to product management theory  — mostly processes and methodologies. It’s much more than a UX exercise, it ties directly into your product strategy.

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The Product Coalition

JUNE 9, 2023

Let’s get right to it: what are those things you can educate the market on, and where are you setting yourself to failure? The answer to this question is based on the “Product Circuit” model that I use to help companies get to product-market fit and presented here a while ago.

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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. Today I will focus more on leadership and strategy. Strategy and Focus It almost doesn’t matter what drove a company to work with me originally, at some point we get to strategy. Strategy is so hard to craft and too often overlooked.

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The Product Coalition

MARCH 12, 2023

We help them with their product strategy as well as building a strong product organization. That, of course, includes helping them hire the right people, and specifically the right 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

AUGUST 16, 2020

SplitShire-London-Collection-210062 When I work with companies on sharpening the value proposition and refining the product strategy, one of our information sources for the process is their existing customers. Who they are, why they chose to work with the company, what value they are getting out of the product, etc.

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The Product Coalition

DECEMBER 11, 2023

The roadmap brings the strategy to life, and therefore the roadmap story should start by clarifying the strategy. Part 1: What Are We Trying to Achieve Every strategy starts with a goal. Note that this is a metaphor for your strategy, not your UX. You still need both, but separating them from each other gives you freedom.

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The Product Coalition

DECEMBER 11, 2023

Photo by Alexas_Fotos on Unsplash When I was VP of Product at Twiggle, building the product from zero to one (and then one to ten and so on), I hired a technical writer freelance. Our product was an API, and we needed comprehensive technical documentation. Great marketing people can’t always market well either.

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The Product Coalition

MARCH 19, 2023

Product management is a creative job in the deepest sense: We create products. But the level at which we need to do so changes dramatically over the course of a product person’s career, and the transition is not always easy. Here are three levels — each relevant to a different stage in your career and your product.

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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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Gainsight

APRIL 21, 2022

We compiled our best Product Experience resources from last year, from blogs, ebooks, and webinars. As the category creator of customer success and the definitive thought leader, this list is filled with the help you need to deliver the ultimate Product Experience for your customers. Top KPIs Every Product Manager Should Track.

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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. and crosses all domains.

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The Product Coalition

MAY 1, 2022

especially startups on their way to product-market fit, the ARR itself might not be important. This is part of the definition of strategy?—?it’s Strategy is hard. My free e-book “ Speed-Up the Journey to Product-Market Fit ”?—?an It sounds scary, but for some companies?—?especially

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The Product Coalition

DECEMBER 11, 2023

They are all based on real stories of product leaders I work with as a consultant or in the CPO Bootcamp , and I’m sure you’ll find them as real as they are. A Roadmap Without a Strategy It’s this time of the year again, and everybody needs to plan their roadmaps. But this creates a false sense of peacefulness.

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The Product Coalition

JANUARY 13, 2021

When I first started teaching product management (at IDC’s Adelson School of Entrepreneurship ), I needed a way to break down strategic product thinking into distinct components that would help people understand and focus on one aspect each time. It is the separation that helps you sharpen your strategy. How detailed?

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The Product Coalition

FEBRUARY 11, 2024

Alternatively, if for a specific profile none of the categories works well, it could mean that this profile isn’t fitting you or that you might be earlier in your product-market fit journey than you might have thought. As a product manager or leader, you should always create your own customer advisory board , just less formally.

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The Product Coalition

JANUARY 4, 2021

at the product level, the solution level, or the problem level (that is, you are tackling a problem almost no-one else does). Each level requires a different marketing strategy. While the marketing strategy is typically not for you as a product leader to define, the unique value proposition definitely is.

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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.

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The Product Coalition

MARCH 27, 2022

Creating a Solid Product Strategy One of the CEOs that I work with as part of my consulting services recently reflected with me on the process we went through for creating their new product strategy. It was a lengthy process, with quite a few trials and errors, until we found the right strategy.

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The Product Coalition

JULY 30, 2023

Once you understand what is it exactly, you can formulate a strategy. For example, my strategic consulting clients usually need me when they realize they have a product strategy problem (even if they don’t call it that way). It’s pivot time.

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The Product Coalition

JUNE 19, 2022

As product managers who are constantly in meetings and get questions from all around, this is critical. One of my best tips for doing deep product work used to be to work from home. It was a countermeasure to the popular symptom of product managers doing their real work?—?market That’s awesome and very important.

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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

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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The Product Coalition

DECEMBER 11, 2023

For example, let’s say that you want to help your product managers become more strategic. In the example above of a product leader who wants to help their product managers become more strategic, an initial solution might be to set a strategy meeting at a regular cadence, say once a month. You deserve it.

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The Product Coalition

NOVEMBER 15, 2020

When the CEO sets the strategy, what is your role as a product leader? How can you be strategic when the strategy is set by someone else? When we were working on building their strategic roadmap, he asked me a great question: “why do I need to start with the strategy, and specifically when presenting to management?

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Userpilot

JULY 10, 2024

Businesses invest heavily in product marketing through webinars, blog posts, and video content for a reason – it gets them notable results. If you’re looking to start or improve your SaaS product marketing strategy, this is the article to read. Both are vital for SaaS success.

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