The Product Coalition

APRIL 2, 2023

If You Don’t Know What a Product Manager Is — Don’t Hire Me. If you really want me to be your product manager, then this is explicitly the kind of product manager I will be in our company. Being a Product Manager (PM) in a IT (Information Technology) services company may seem complicated. We are not.

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Userpilot

MAY 26, 2021

Love it or hate it, one thing is clear: product onboarding is an important driver of activation and retention in SaaS businesses. Allow us to walk you through the product onboarding best practices that we’ve learned through working with hundreds of SaaS businesses. Userpilot is a phenomenally versatile onboarding tool.

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UX Studio: Product Management

JULY 14, 2021

UX studio is one of the global innovation design consulting firms focusing on UX design, research, and strategic consulting. We researched the top design consulting firms’ competency level, experience, and portfolio to define the most reliable design thinking companies you can trust and partner with in 2021.

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Bain Public

MAY 29, 2020

The right mentoring and coaching support facilitates a startup’s transformation and enables roadmap planning and execution, without straying from the ultimate vision and goal. See the end of this article for more information on how we helped bring these companies and their product management to the next level. In fact, 83.9%

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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 How do I build alignment?

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Mind the Product

JANUARY 10, 2017

As a product manager it’s not uncommon to feel pulled in a million different directions as you work to meet the needs of your customers, developers and company stakeholders. The practices I describe are not an exhaustive list of tools and methods. We have adopted Slack as the main communication tool for the Zalora engineering team.

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The Product Coalition

MAY 15, 2019

One signal I’ve been giving much thought too of late is the collision of two roles, Product Management and Product Ownership. Scrum and the agile manifesto were created in a time where we used to still package and ship software physically. Later whilst being an adviser at Stanford university Neil H. including myself?—?went

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Product Innovation Educators

OCTOBER 29, 2018

He has created products and led product teams for Fortune 500 companies including Cisco and Capital One, advised several small and medium businesses, and founded a Product Innovation, Design Thinking and Agile coaching practice called 5D Vision. Summary of some concepts discussed for product managers. [2:46]

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Mind the Product

MAY 29, 2018

Prior to Benchmark, Sarah was a Partner at Greylock Partners, and a Product Lead for search, recommendations, machine vision, and pin quality at Pinterest. Originally trained as a scientist, he’s had job titles ranging from scientist, to engineer, to product manager, to designer, and even professor.

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Product Bookshelf

JANUARY 31, 2017

Collect information and work with your cross-functional partners to be an effective product manager. Take Charge Product Management by Greg Geracie. You won’t find these two sentences in any books on product management: “It was 6:45am. .” Your role as product manager is to see the forest, not the trees.

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Mind the Product

JULY 10, 2017

Let’s establish this right upfront: nothing beats a well-managed full-time in-house team of local developers. For example, a local startup team I consult for are developing their web app in-house while outsourcing their mobile development team of 12 to Poland. Do your own research. As with anything complex, it depends.

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Pragmatic Marketing

SEPTEMBER 16, 2009

Barbara Nelson said in The Politics of Agile , “When product managers weren’t looking, the developers went agile.” ” Indeed, many Product Managers were taken by surprise at the speed of Agile’s adoption. Ultimately, we are responsible for the success of the product and, thus, the company. The Problem.

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The Product HQ

JUNE 10, 2024

Members of the PHQ Slack community regularly host awesome events for product managers to swap tips and learn from one another. In San Francisco, Vinay Melwani (Product Manager at HouseCanary) has organized a monthly morning meetup called AM | PM. One of the questions: “What viable career paths exist for product managers?”

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Usersnap

JUNE 15, 2023

Building a powerful SaaS product takes way more than just an idea. 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. What is a product management process?

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The Product HQ

JUNE 10, 2024

You’ll learn the best roles and job titles that you can pursue in the product management cluster. This means the role can be assigned to anyone who has the highest authority on the product and this could be the head of product, product manager , project manager, vice president of product, chief of product, and others.

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The Product Coalition

OCTOBER 21, 2019

But in our experience, everything can be done if the development team and project manager have deep expertise and, along with the product owner, carefully listen to each other and keep themselves open to cooperation. To be clear, we will not discuss how to start a software development project or which steps you should take to kick it off.

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UX Studio

JANUARY 24, 2024

She has an extensive background in Customer Experience and Telecommunications fields, with more than 15 years of experience working both as a designer and researcher, while also leading large teams. But I also advise designers not to oversee the business side of the relationship. Karthik: That’s amazing.

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The Product Coalition

JANUARY 5, 2021

Set 3: Internal Stakeholder Management This category of the Product Owner interview questions deals with specific aspects of relationships of the Product Owners with internal stakeholders: Your organization has recently decided to become agile and product-driven. See also part one of this three-part series. ) How do you deal with that?

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The Product Coalition

MARCH 21, 2018

What you need to think about in your first 60–90 days on a new job: product management (leader) edition I’ve recently transitioned into a different role and have spent some time thinking about how to start this new job. A mentor advised me to think about three broad categories?—?the focus on a few near terms wins ?—?could As an aside?

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UX Studio

OCTOBER 16, 2017

In fact, this method of feature prioritization saved us a lot of debates and rationalizing when members of the product team clung to ideas that did not serve the product’s vision. In the Tep sports tracker app, you feed a virtual pet (tamagotchi) by doing sports activities. Single-function or typical MVP apps exemplify this category.

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The Product HQ

JUNE 20, 2024

Want to know what the most common group product manager interview questions are? Group Product Managers are responsible for developing a group of products from its inception to market launch while also leading cross-functional teams toward achieving the company’s objectives by their product roadmap.

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Product Talk

APRIL 7, 2021

I am a former chief product officer and now coach and advise product leaders and teams. The idea is to have a product trio —a product manager, a designer, and a tech lead—working and owning product decisions together. Prioritizing opportunities rather than solutions is another guiding principle of continuous discovery.

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Roadmunk

DECEMBER 7, 2017

This is the latest episode of Product to Product —a product management podcast for / by product people. You may know her as the VP of Product at Lola , a former product manager at Kickstarter , or as a previous PM at Microsoft. I wanted to start by asking you if you could talk a little bit about your career in product management.

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