The Product Coalition

AUGUST 7, 2023

The safer team members feel with one another, the more likely they are to admit mistakes, partner, and take on new roles. And it affects pretty much every important dimension we look at for employees.” — Eric Schmidt, Former CEO of Google There I sat in a room as the CFO berated the team. Was the team productive?

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The Product Coalition

MARCH 5, 2023

Once you get into a senior product manager role, one of your key responsibilities is to mentor and manage your junior product managers. Not only does this help them develop their skills and expertise, but it also ensures that your team is constantly improving and growing.

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Userpilot

DECEMBER 9, 2021

In the competitive world of SaaS products, product positioning is definitely something your product marketing team can’t afford to ignore. Product positioning allows you to identify your market niche. What is product positioning? Why is product positioning important? Benefits of good product positioning.

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Product Management University

FEBRUARY 21, 2024

Competitive demos are stressful, especially when you’re operating on very little knowledge or hearsay information about your competitor’s weaknesses. Here’s the thing about focusing on your competitor’s weaknesses. Sometimes, they just don’t like your competitor’s sales team. There’s no answer for that!

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Roman Pichler

NOVEMBER 1, 2022

But it has the following three drawbacks: A feature-based roadmap can give rise to and strengthen a feature-factory mindset where adding features is more important than creating value and making a positive impact on people’s lives and the business. Your job is not to please the stakeholders, but to achieve product success.

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The Product Coalition

DECEMBER 8, 2019

Highly effective Product Managers develop themselves in 5 key areas. Highly effective Product Managers (or what I call Exponential PMs) tend to be strong in all of these areas. Let’s tuck in… What makes for a highly effective Product Manager? ?? the craft of product management, creating customer and business value) 2.

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Roman Pichler

JUNE 1, 2020

The first one carries the risk of being a feature broker and offering a product that has a weak value proposition, gives rise to a poor user experience, and consists of a loose collection of features. But do not accept inappropriate behaviour and do not allow people to treat you like a project manager, team lead, or personal assistant.

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BrainMates

NOVEMBER 1, 2021

Developing and launching a product only to have it fail is the complete antithesis of the “Fail Fast” innovation motto. You have just invested 1000s of work hours and millions of dollars in developing & launching this product. Failure Point #4 – Poor design & execution. To that, I say unequivocally NO !

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Roman Pichler

MARCH 12, 2018

How do you best lead the stakeholders and development team as the person in charge of the product? A feature broker is a product person who relies on others—the stakeholders, development team, management, users, or a customer—to come up with ideas and make product decisions.

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ProductPlan

MARCH 12, 2019

Cultural fit is a relatively new concept in hiring and team building. This has given hiring managers the confidence to reject prospects who look perfect on paper, but might not mesh with the existing team and company norms. Culture sets the tone, permeating every aspect of the team and the quality of their work.

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The Product Coalition

JULY 25, 2021

Product management requires you to master so many different skills, that there always seems to be a gap between what you do well and what you need to do well to succeed. As a manager of product people, it is your job to help them with this continuous growth, but it’s not always easy. most of us didn’t start as product managers?—?so

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Intercom, Inc.

OCTOBER 13, 2020

ML products also require us to manage relatively large technology risks – this is an area where, unlike in most other product development, technical limitations might render the entire design impossible. Resolution Bot is a product that automatically answers the repetitive questions faced by customer support teams.

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The Product Coalition

SEPTEMBER 4, 2020

My journey to product management was not what you might expect , but then again, maybe you would. I became director of communications, leading the development of intranets and web applications. Challenges aside, I enjoyed the close-knit teams and easy access to upper management which enabled quick decision making.

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Product Management University

NOVEMBER 17, 2022

After countless conversations, articles, webinars and conference sessions, I started to feel like the profession of product management had been reduced to…. Getting product teams to “consistently” operate with this mentality…still a challenge! My favorite part as a lifelong product manager? Finding user problems.

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Userpilot

APRIL 22, 2024

Product feature analysis is a powerful tool in the SaaS product manager’s arsenal. Extract feature development insights. Best practices to help product managers perform feature analysis: Perform user research and analyze your competitors’ products to find market gaps. This article aims to simplify feature analysis.

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Roman Pichler

JUNE 7, 2022

While common sense suggests that managing a product without the right measurements is not a sensible approach, I’ve seen product teams who did not use any KPIs. Consequently, these teams relied on: Anecdotal feedback : “Customers love our product, they told me so.” Don’t forget to regularly review and adjust your KPIs.

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Roman Pichler

AUGUST 11, 2020

Solution : Describe the ultimate purpose of your product, the positive change the product should bring about like “healthy eating”. Therefore, choose a specific market segment and develop a product for the few, not the many, as Steve Blank suggested , particularly when you manage a new or young product. Needs are Features.

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The Product Coalition

MAY 27, 2021

The secret to acing a product management interview isn’t just knowing what questions to expect. The Most Common Product Management Interview Questions What do you see as a Product Manager’s main role within product development? How do you see your career developing in the next 5 years? How do you stay user-focused?

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BrainMates

JUNE 19, 2024

Manage Team Capabilities Like a Portfolio: an Action Plan for Disruptive Talent Management By JANA PAULECH The success of a product ultimately comes down to the collective strengths of a well-rounded team. There are a few steps to managing your portfolio of capabilities across the team.

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Pragmatic Marketing

JUNE 12, 2018

Product positioning is a key element of product management. Positioning documents will define your product category, the problems it solves and the personas it serves. Whenever I work with a new team, I always begin with roles and responsibilities. So how does this model impact product positioning ? Who owns what?

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Split

JUNE 14, 2024

Armed with this real-time customer data, your product team can make agile adjustments to the user experience, ensuring a smooth and satisfying transition for your entire user base. This approach allows product teams to refine their offerings based on user data. And, feature flags are a window into those insights.

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The Product HQ

FEBRUARY 1, 2023

(Needs Images) Interested in learning the difference between product development and product management? Product development and product management may seem to be similar concepts, but in reality, they’re quite different. What is Product Development? What is Product Management? So, let’s get started.

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Mironov Consulting

NOVEMBER 10, 2016

While sales teams stereotypically rally around contests, talk sports and drink coffee (which is for closers)… development teams may sit silently side-by-side-side most of the day engaging in multiple Slack conversations, taking breaks for air hockey or exchanging giphys , and critiquing each other’s code indents.

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Lenny Rachitsky

JULY 9, 2024

If you’re not a subscriber, here’s what you missed this month: Counterintuitive advice for building AI products General management, functional, and hybrid models: Which org design works best for top companies? Prompts were run in the OpenAI Playground (which is available to anyone with a developer account).

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UX Planet

FEBRUARY 13, 2024

Prescriptive Agile frameworks make it hard for designers to add valuable contributions to the team. I designed every detail in Photoshop before handing the mockups to the developers. After failing to convince my manager to change our waterfall methodology, I joined a company where Agile was deeply ingrained in the culture.

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The Product Coalition

JANUARY 16, 2024

Golden rules for roadmap management. Everyone has a plan until they get punched in the mouth” — Mike Tyson I’ve wrestled with weak roadmaps — even some downright disasters. Product managers and their teams start with enthusiasm, hit the ground running, and create a solid roadmap. Roadmaps are a team sport.

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BrainMates

NOVEMBER 3, 2022

In Product Development. Product development can be a difficult process to get right. This happens because something goes wrong in the product development process somewhere between having that great idea and launching the end product into the market. Poor Design & Execution. Poor Design & Execution.

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Modus Create

AUGUST 29, 2024

It is not an understatement to say that the success of a new digital product launch is largely determined during the product development process. But for many products in the marketplace today, it is no longer enough to incorporate AI into the product development process. AI can help your employees be more competitive and efficient.

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ProductPlan

JANUARY 10, 2020

Therefore, it’s crucial for product managers, developers, and your entire cross-functional team to examine—and re-examine—the product experience from your user’s point of view and incorporate it into your product strategy. What Happens to Your Customers After Bad Product Experiences. appeared first on.

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The Product HQ

JUNE 1, 2024

AI product manager skills are a must-have for anyone looking for a rewarding career in AI product management. UX Cam shared data indicating that product managers spend as much as 52% of their time on unplanned activities. Those are far from the only setbacks and difficulties that product managers experience on the job.

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Product Management Unpacked

APRIL 3, 2020

Stereotypes about what kind of work can or cannot be done remotely lead to unrealistic expectations and underperforming programs. The job of a product manager has many elements, but at its core is a responsibility to build relationships, especially with development, engineering, sales and sales leadership, as well as executive management.

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Ronke PM

MARCH 26, 2024

These leaders understand that bringing effective products, solutions, and services to market requires consensus building and engaging cross-functional teams in the journey. After all, the partner teams build products, not the product manager alone. Product management is inherently awe-inspiring.

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Userpilot

MAY 30, 2024

Overlapping responsibilities and conflicting priorities are just a couple of the many friction points between product managers and product marketing managers – leading to inefficient workflows and potential product failures. What are the typical roles and responsibilities of product managers and product marketing managers?

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The Product Coalition

JANUARY 11, 2023

Success engenders confidence and more success for products and, therefore, product managers. Show me a product manager whose latest release is a hit with users and driving the outcomes desired by the company. I will show you a product manager who is likelier to operate confidently and will continue to have at least near-term success.

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Intercom, Inc.

JUNE 10, 2020

I hope this post allows people and teams to safely talk about Product Judgment. If you ever had to face a Manager, Director or Exec as they make bad product decisions and you’re struggling to persuade them otherwise, this post will help you. It takes years to build, and therefore ranges from very weak to very strong.

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Intercom, Inc.

MAY 24, 2022

Whether you’re an individual contributor, manager, or director, you can leverage your own skills – and those around you – to influence growth across your team, org, and company. Every team has a valuable mix of strengths, and varying levels of skill and expertise in different areas across its members.

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The Product Coalition

AUGUST 3, 2023

A compelling product vision is a guiding light, providing direction and purpose to the development process. The Importance of a Strong Product Vision A compelling product vision is a guiding star that aligns everyone involved in the product development process.

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