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. A product strategy is often the missing link that would convert your efforts into actual revenue. An economic downturn, a war — you name it.

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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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Userpilot

JANUARY 8, 2024

With the right customer acquisition strategies, you can convert potential customers to paying users and set the stage for turning them into long-term loyal users. In-app strategies for converting free or trial users to paying customers. Measure campaign performance and refine your customer acquisition strategy.

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The Product Coalition

JANUARY 4, 2021

Photo by Oleg Magni from Pexels Educating the market has a bad reputation. The reason that educating the market is considered a bad idea lies in the context: the term “educating the market” usually comes up right after the problematic claim that “they just don’t get it”. Each level requires a different marketing strategy.

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The Product Coalition

FEBRUARY 14, 2021

Product requirements are there to help the team understand what you want to build. Whether you write them in detailed documents or share them briefly and verbally with the team, it’s easy to go directly to the bottom line and give clear instructions. For the team to be successful, they always need to see the bigger picture.

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The Product Coalition

APRIL 1, 2023

I used to manage large development teams — all smart and independent people — but I hadn’t managed product managers before. The Unique Challenges of Managing Product Managers It starts with my guiding principle that every product manager needs to think about strategy. Over the years I learned that this is a major difference.

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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. It impacted everything from the depth of the underlying technology to the product itself, the go-to-market strategy, and the entire business model. But our real competition wasn’t there.

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The Product Coalition

JUNE 9, 2023

Photo by Oleg Magni from Pexels Educating the market has a bad reputation, and rightfully so. The reason that educating the market is considered a bad idea lies in the context: the term “educating the market” usually comes up right after the problematic claim that “they just don’t get it”.

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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. I talk about it a lot when I speak about product strategy and in the CPO Bootcamp. I really wanted to coach and mentor and help people think, not take hands-on projects upon myself.

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The Product Coalition

OCTOBER 18, 2020

A good product strategy helps you to acquire happy customers and retain them over time. On your way there, there are many potential weak links that can prevent it from happening. Here is how product strategy helps you overcome them. Photo by Braden Collum on Unsplash Working on product strategy is an iterative process.

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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 focused on helping product leaders thrive and lead the product organization effectively as well as the product strategy in the right direction Transformational coaching?—?working

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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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Nulab

AUGUST 25, 2021

Whether you’re an Olympic runner, an app developer, or a wealthy big-city bachelor, getting to know what’s going on in the world around you is a smart thing to do. from marketing and sales to product development and community building. Plotting their strengths and weaknesses (and your opportunities and threats).

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The Product Coalition

FEBRUARY 27, 2022

It will also help you develop intuition , which has a bad name in a data-driven world but is actually a super important tool for you to use. This is true for people, but also for anything else you encounter, like processes, strategy, and even the product itself. What worked best so far? you will definitely not use any of them.

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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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The Product Coalition

APRIL 18, 2021

On the on-site interview day, one of the interviewers asked me the following question: if you had all of Google’s resources and no other constraints, which product would you develop? My answer was: I would develop a voice interface for the computer (it was before the smartphone era). I was really afraid of this question.

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The Product Coalition

APRIL 25, 2021

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 ). This question developed into a long, in-depth discussion on time management for product managers. One of the first topics that came up (it always does) is time management.

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The Product Coalition

MAY 30, 2021

It gives you the visibility you always wanted and requires real cross-team collaboration. But most of all, it is exciting because it gives you an opportunity to see your strategy coming to life in short cycles with immediate feedback loops. As I said above, product-led growth is strategy in action, not random success.

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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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The Product Coalition

JANUARY 13, 2021

By the way, it wasn’t like I was thinking to myself: “I feel bad, let’s try Facebook because they are supposedly the solution”. the value that they gave smaller teams who were their initial design partners isn’t the same as the one that they gave larger companies who became their customers in later phases. It was the deeper problem?—?the

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Intercom, Inc.

NOVEMBER 7, 2019

So they created a software that provides control, visibility, and payment methods for corporate finance teams. Instead, focus on fostering a culture of communication and feedback loops between the team. He really fosters innovation and humility as a team player – aspects that were important to me. Nico: Correct.

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ProductPlan

MAY 13, 2020

Well-researched plans and strategies have a short shelf life, as their underlying assumptions fluctuate and transform. Once your organization gets on board with routine experimentation, they’ll soon see the team is making smarter, informed decisions with better outcomes and fewer misfires. Here’s how to make it happen. Defeat Doubts.

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Gainsight

OCTOBER 12, 2023

They also help developers build identity controls into applications, website web services, and devices. The company’s Customer Success (CS) team has been leading the first wave of the Digital CS revolution. This often went unchecked and led to poor retention. 42% increased their community engagement score after outreach.

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Userpilot

NOVEMBER 6, 2020

In this post, we’re going to provide you with the best Product Marketing tools for each Product Marketing Job-To-Be-Done – which are critical for allowing your product marketers to do their work independently from your dev team or graphic designers! Seeing that is critical before creating your Product Adoption Strategy.

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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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ProductPlan

APRIL 25, 2023

Great teams assemble individuals with differing skill sets, perspectives, and experiences. For example, Iron Man and Captain America leading the Avengers or Superman, Batman, and Wonder Woman teaming up as the Justice League. Many product teams now have their own team of super-powered individuals banding together for a common cause.

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Under 10 Consulting

JUNE 6, 2019

Only three things happen naturally in organizations: friction, confusion, and underperformance. 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. Product management in Development.

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The Product Coalition

DECEMBER 11, 2023

With everything you have to do every day, it is so easy to neglect strategy. But much like code, your product strategy also requires maintenance. They always need something you haven’t developed yet. Unlike what one might think, this is a really bad sign. And nothing else. Because your customers aren’t product leaders.

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ProductPlan

FEBRUARY 14, 2019

SaaS Marketing Metrics and Strategy. Marketing teams use acquisition metrics to measure the effectiveness of marketing initiatives designed to attract new customers. This insight allows them to make small adjustments to their campaigns and broader strategy. And you need to understand their strategy for promotion.

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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?

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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.

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Userzoom

JUNE 16, 2020

We’ll discuss why they’re a problem, what to do about them and we’ll offer some tips for removing their bad data from your data set. For example, in addition to asking for their job roles (looking for coders and developers), they were asked a technical programming question. The mini-ebook also includes. Why are they a problem?

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The Product Coalition

MAY 25, 2018

The replay of the webinar is now on Youtube available: [link] Download the ’Scrum Anti-Patterns Guide’ for Free The ’ Scrum Anti-Patterns Guide ’ is another free ebook from the Hands-On Agile series of practical guides from the trenches. It covers more than 160 scrum anti-patterns that hold your scrum team back.

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Roadmunk

OCTOBER 26, 2017

Matt recently co-authored an ebook with Drift’s CEO, David Cancel, called “ Burndown: A better way to build products.” The ebook explores the Burndown framework that Drift’s product team has adopted for product development. What are its key components and how do you roll it out to a small team? Latif: Fantastic.

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Andrew Chen

SEPTEMBER 4, 2018

Like what’s your views on this — is it a bad thing, is it a good thing; I don’t mean to moralize it but — help me unpack more where it’s helpful and where it’s not. And I think the similar kind of analysis you can do for B2B companies is for products that have different sized teams using it.

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Userzoom

DECEMBER 17, 2019

Some stakeholders need to see the effects on the team to really appreciate the value, which is where design sprints come into play. Much like UX design itself, there’s no one size fits all strategy, so you need to tailor your approach to both the audience and the problem at hand. ” Sell the value of UX. Trista Rowan , Sr.

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Usersnap

FEBRUARY 20, 2020

Its results are easy to comprehend and share across different departments and teams. Measuring your NPS forces you to look into your overall customer experience strategy and see if you can make changes that would improve your score. While they won’t bad-mouth your company, they’re also not likely to promote it.

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