The Product Coalition

SEPTEMBER 28, 2022

Strategy and enabling your team to solve problems makes the difference between a boss and an impactful leader. Using the ‘Kernel’ from Richard Rumelt’s ‘Good Strategy/Bad Strategy’, specifically insights and developing a guiding policy allows you to enable your team and avoid micro-managing. Poor strategy is everywhere?—?you

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Product Innovation Educators

AUGUST 10, 2020

Do you and your product teams have the characteristics required for success? The Product Team Performance study has been identifying the characteristics of high-performing teams since 2012. It’s a performance study comparing factors of product teams that excel versus those that struggle.

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Product Innovation Educators

JULY 29, 2024

He was part of the team that created the PCjr, a product that flopped badly. Even better, if these criteria stayed the same over time, we could use them to guide long-term product development. It highlights the need for education and training in customer-centric innovation methods.

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Mironov Consulting

OCTOBER 19, 2022

But there are some engineering team configurations that I see as problematic.  So 1] Dedicated Bug Fixing Teams Sometimes there’s a push to create development teams specifically to close out bugs and defects, especially after frequent outages or to address long-term system neglect.  This

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Product Management University

JUNE 3, 2024

Here’s a look at the good, the bad and the ugly when it comes to product management outcomes. THE GOOD When it comes to getting your product management and product development teams focused, nothing beats well-defined outcomes that are clear, concise and measurable. But not all outcomes are created equal.

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Roman Pichler

JULY 20, 2016

Whenever you are faced with an agile, dynamic environment—be it that your product is young and is experiencing significant change or that the market is dynamic with new competitors or technologies introducing change, you should work with a goal-oriented product roadmap, sometimes also referred to as theme-based. 1 Focus on Goals and Benefits.

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Product Management University

OCTOBER 19, 2023

enabled product or feature set and everyone’s totally energized over the upcoming announcement and marketing launch activities. In other words, it’s entirely possible your marketing launch isn’t telling your target customers why they should care about something that in all liklihood, has value to them. Huge ripple effect?

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Arkenea

APRIL 10, 2025

In a fastmoving digital economy, many organizations leverage outsourced software product development to accelerate innovation, control costs, and tap into global expertise. Rather than building and maintaining a large inhouse team, businesses partner with specialized vendors to handle design, development, testing, and deployment.

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Alchemer Mobile

JULY 11, 2019

Two findings that are of particular interest to mobile PMs were areas of strength and weakness in product management skills. It’s great that most PMs are strong in the customer understanding skill set but troublesome that competitive analysis is a weak spot. Develop real personas that reflect your customers.

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Userpilot

OCTOBER 19, 2024

Satisfaction in SaaS, therefore, isn’t simply about developing a nice product and launching it in the market. For instance, you can launch a CSAT survey after a customer interacts with your support team. Similarly, unhappy customers are more likely to tell others of their poor experience. Userpilot review on G2.

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Product Talk

DECEMBER 18, 2024

We covered how to manage messy opportunity solution trees , the most common challenges teams face when getting started with the discovery habits, what Im working on next, and so much more. Discovery is a team sport. I did classic web development before there were frameworks back in the ’90s. I hate definition wars.

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Userpilot

DECEMBER 31, 2024

You see, although we work hard to make Userpilot the best product adoption tool on the market, we know it isnt the perfect fit for every business. In contrast, other similar tools typically focus on one specific area of the digital adoption process, whether its user onboarding, product analytics, or employee training.

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Roman Pichler

FEBRUARY 19, 2024

1] Figure 1: An Empowerment Model for Product People and Teams Level one represents the authority to decide how features are detailed and guide their implementation. Level three, finally, allows product people and teams to develop the product strategy including the value proposition and business goals.

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Intercom, Inc.

MARCH 12, 2019

A little over a year ago, I got the opportunity to start a new team within our sales organization – a team of Relationship Managers dedicated to growing our current customers at scale. To do the first, we had to hire, train, and write a playbook – the building blocks of any team. Relentlessly measure impact.

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Mind the Product

MARCH 12, 2020

It defines, communicates, supports, and improves important operations which can be standardized, such as communication, planning processes, team gatherings, and training. How it’s become a critical function for scaling effective product teams. Developing and maintaining a continuing education program for product managers.

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Mironov Consulting

JANUARY 17, 2021

Half of the calls I get from CEOs include requests for Product Management to boost productivity in Engineering (aka Development aka Makers). This reflects confusion about what product managers do (and how we really add value), and often poor role definition where product managers are also project/program managers or engineering leads.

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Intercom, Inc.

APRIL 23, 2018

And that is also true when selling and marketing your product, particularly with the arrival of GDPR, which has brought the issue of data security and privacy to widespread public awareness. When building your products, the security and privacy of your customers’ data needs to be a top priority. Choose vendors/partners that you trust.

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Mind the Product

MAY 9, 2019

In March last year, my colleague and Mind the Product’s Director of Training, Rosemary King, wrote about how the company departments working alongside a product team could better work together to meet their common goals and to improve working practices. In Marketing, in Product, in Operations… test, learn, test again.

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Product Management University

NOVEMBER 17, 2022

After more than two dozen conversations with product management VPs and SVPs, I’m happy to report the market-facing, customer-value-driven product management I’ve long known is alive and well. Getting product teams to “consistently” operate with this mentality…still a challenge! The Feel-Good Story That Sealed the Deal.

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The Product Coalition

FEBRUARY 26, 2022

I’ve asked friends who do the job at social events and got the same answer, and frequently asked members of my own teams, who struggled to find the time to do it. To compensate, I’ve seen UX researchers & designers pick up the mantle a lot more, and the design teams have really leaned into this space.

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Mind the Product

MAY 17, 2018

When confronted with this question, I used to hesitate, because from company to company there are a million things that can affect the roles; the product, larger organization structure, product development process, cultural differences, regional differences in commonly-used titles, the list goes on. You see the rub?

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The Product Coalition

DECEMBER 21, 2021

Here’s our story how we’re developing a product using machine learning and neural networks to boost translation and localization Artificial intelligence and its applications are one of the most sensational topics in the IT field. For over 10 years Stas has been helping IT companies enter foreign markets with new products. Interesting.

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BrainMates

OCTOBER 20, 2024

The Customer Service Gap Model By ADRIENNE TAN In competitive markets, delivering superior customer value is a top priority. Customers come with a set of expectations—whether it’s ease of use, reliability, or customer support—that are shaped by prior experiences, market trends, and your product messaging.

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The Product Coalition

MARCH 18, 2022

Founders with fresh capital and ambitious growth plans are deciding whether or not to double down on the core value proposition and find repeatable sales/marketing strategies for acquiring new customers. Perhaps the sales team isn’t trained adequately. Are there capacity or incentive issues?

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UX Planet

DECEMBER 6, 2024

Machine Learning (ML) is at the forefront, allowing UX teams to analyze vast amounts of user data to identify trends and predict behavior. This technology is crucial for developing conversational interfaces like chatbots, which help create seamless and interactive experiences forusers.

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Intercom, Inc.

APRIL 4, 2019

The fastest growing software companies in recent years all have something in common – they started with little to no sales team. Yes, Slack started off with no sales team. Yes, Dropbox started off with no traditional sales team. billion in revenue) so it’s safe to say Jeanne and her team have helped do exactly that.

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Intercom, Inc.

SEPTEMBER 10, 2020

As an engineer by training, in pressure situations he tends to “lean to the quant.” It’s an approach that’s served him well along the road to building the HubSpot sales team, where he was CRO for nine years. This has created large amounts of data for running teams. . I think that’s message-market fit.

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Mind the Product

MARCH 26, 2020

Product management isn’t just for business and marketing people. You go beyond developing a solution and like to be involved in the definition of the solution itself, giving your perspective and suggesting appropriate changes. You’re curious, and you like to know the next feature on the roadmap to be developed.

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Mind the Product

MARCH 16, 2018

Sue is an engineering lead on a team and Tom is the product manager. Not surprisingly, Tom, Sue and team are under a lot of pressure to get this world-changing product out the door. It’s the age-old tension between product and engineering: shipping to meet market demands versus delivering with quality. Meet Sue and Tom.

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Product Innovation Educators

JANUARY 10, 2022

I learned from these product diseases and developed an intuition after really hard lessons. We’ve been taught to keep iterating until you find product market fit—just keep trying different things. A vision with this level of detail gives teams enough direction to make decisions. Why does that world need changing?

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The Secret PM Handbook

MARCH 28, 2018

In my articles about go to market , I always mention the importance of “customer stories.” These stories are a critical component of the knowledge that product management can provide to sales and marketing and sales engineers to help ensure sales success. Your Problem Should Be Really Bad. My family didn’t tell stories.

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Product Management University

JULY 1, 2024

If I were building a product marketing organization from the ground up, I’d consider myself lucky. Most product marketing leaders inherit a team and then face the task of shaping it to meet their ideal make-up and the desired goals of the organization. Here’s the big dilemma if you’re leading a product marketing team.

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The Product Coalition

DECEMBER 21, 2021

Unfortunately internal promotion isn’t always positive A quick disclaimer: I’m a huge advocate of career development and internal promotion. What are the experienced chefs doing, and how does the kitchen work as a team? Companies don’t take a Customer Service Representative and give them a $2M marketing budget to manage overnight.

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Product Talk

JUNE 5, 2024

Product trios are cross-functional product teams who are responsible for both deciding what to build and then building it. What about the other people on the team who aren’t part of the product trio? How can product trios adapt to remote work and distributed teams? Do product teams really work this way?

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Userpilot

APRIL 22, 2024

TL;DR Product feature analysis involves evaluating product features to understand their impact on user satisfaction and market performance. 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.

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The Product Coalition

MAY 27, 2021

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? What are your main strengths and weaknesses? What do you see as a Product Manager’s main role within product development?

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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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