The Product Coalition

FEBRUARY 5, 2021

Often we talk more about the technical skills, like, portfolio management, being more strategic, etc but being good at those things mean nothing if you can’t build a culture conducive to good product management practices. It’s seldom their ability to do the job technically?—?to interpersonal, emotional intelligence, etc?—?that

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Mind the Product

MAY 29, 2018

His startup career includes Tumbleweed, Timestamp, WildPackets, inCode, and many others. Todd Lombardo, Co-Author of Roadmaps Relaunched. He is the co-author of both Design Sprint (O’Reilly, 2015) and Product Roadmaps Relaunched (O’Reilly, 2017). Todd has been tinkering and doodling since he was four years old.

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Sachin Rekhi

JANUARY 27, 2013

But it’s important to stay and reinforce the course until new information becomes compelling enough to suggest otherwise. What I most often advise is to err on the side of fewer features for the benefit of getting the product out sooner to optimize for learning.

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Product Bookshelf

JANUARY 31, 2017

Collect information and work with your cross-functional partners to be an effective product manager. For example, when Sean sets off to conduct competitive analysis, the remainder of the chapter describes how competitive analysis should be structured and what specific information should be included.

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Andrew Chen

OCTOBER 31, 2016

I gave some my 2 cents based on my experience helping startups and growth folks. 6-Month Roadmap. It’s not an immediately technical or product-based experience, and yet it’s an interesting question that might actually become more and more relevant. They asked a great question – how do you interview for growth folks?

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The Product Coalition

MAY 11, 2022

Finally, “ Building for Business: Product Management in Enterprise Software ” is a truly B2B-focused Product Management book, written by Blair Reeves (Salesforce) and Benjamin Gaines (Adobe) for “all the ones who aren’t part of the Silicon Valley startup bread”. Product knowledge covers your product’s benefits and limitations. strategy?—?

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Alchemer Mobile

APRIL 14, 2020

How do you manage executive expectations, customer expectations, and technical resources? I’ve been kind of actively running away from management roles, and mostly that’s just a factor of the things that I really wanna learn or I just really wanna learn how to be a really, like, kick-ass technical PM. So that’s me.

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Department of Product

MARCH 28, 2022

It is extremely difficult (and probably not advisable) to attempt to stay on top of all trends. It’s impossible for one person to do. And not all trends matter. For product people, we’re mostly interested in trends which impact the 3 core skill areas of product management: Technology Business Design So let’s tackle each of these separately.

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The Product Coalition

OCTOBER 21, 2019

As a project manager at an IT company working with many non-technical startup founders, our clients, I often get to resolve a variety of interesting issues that relate to technology and communication. They had spent a lot of time choosing the technological stack and discussing technical solutions with outside consultants.

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Usersnap

JUNE 15, 2023

Without a systematic approach to your product management process and clear roadmap, you’ll likely face several hurdles like lack of direction, unclear priorities, wasted resources, missed deadlines, difficulty in scaling, and more. Or how will you be able to build a product roadmap that gets you executive buy-in? Questioning them.

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Department of Product

JUNE 27, 2022

Who does technical leadership? You want people to be able to refer to the wiki to learn how things work in the company, and that won’t happen unless it is a reliable source of information. For example, the Product Manager has one version of a roadmap, and the Engineering Manager has another. Who does project management?

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