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Jay Stansell

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Founder, Chief Editor, Global Community Leader at Product Coalition

Making mastery of product management accessible for all

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Articles

  • Measuring Product-Market Fit in B2B

    2 months ago | medium.com | Noa Ganot |Jay Stansell

    The world's largest independent product management education community. 1m+ readers. 17,000 podcast downloads. 3,500+ articles. 7,000+ Slack members. By Jay Stansell and Tremis Skeete. Follow publicationAchieving PMF in B2B isn’t about guesswork — it’s about tracking real, measurable signals. Even in complex, drawn-out sales cycles, Pirate Metrics can cut through the noise. Here’s how.

  • Prioritization Hunger Games: Who Wins When Everything’s Urgent?

    Mar 25, 2025 | medium.productcoalition.com | Daria Kowalski |Jay Stansell

    The world's largest independent product management education community. 1m+ readers. 17,000 podcast downloads. 3,500+ articles. 7,000+ Slack members. By Jay Stansell and Tremis Skeete. Follow publicationBecause sometimes, saying “no” takes a roadmap, a matrix, and a miracle. It was a rare peaceful remote day. I woke up naturally — no frantic alarm screaming at me — and started my morning with gentle yoga.

  • Burnout, Bad Bets, and Brain Drugs: The Startup That Nearly Killed Him

    Feb 24, 2025 | medium.productcoalition.com | Jon Matheson |Jay Stansell

    Three techies walk into a bar and talk about a tale of a Silicon Valley dream gone wrong. By Jon Matheson for Product CoalitionIn my many years on this planet, I’ve never heard a story like this. It was a Wednesday night where the conversation flows as freely as the drinks. Thomas, my colleague, and I had just attended a product meetup, and we ended up at a nearby bar. With one round of IPAs down and another on the way, Thomas casually mentioned his excitement about launching his startup.

  • Refactor, Rebuild, or Live with It - How to Make a Product-Led Choice

    Nov 1, 2024 | productcoalition.com | Abby Allen |Jay Stansell

    I’ve spent much of my career managing large refactoring and rebuilding efforts. At Google, I pushed the AdSense team to completely rewrite our home-grown CRM system. It was a disastrous mistake. At PagerDuty, I led the effort to overhaul our notifications platform. It pains me to admit how over budget and behind schedule the project was, but I’d make the same decision in a heartbeat even if the true cost had been better understood upfront.

  • Have You Learned Nothing From Your Retros?

    Oct 23, 2024 | productcoalition.com | Avi Siegel |Jay Stansell

    Your team’s favorite waste of time could actually be useful — imagine that!It’s funny. Software development teams (whether they directly follow agile principles or not) typically attempt to improve their processes over time. For the agile-oriented folks, this is done in retrospectives. For others, it can be a different meeting with the same goals — iterative improvement. It’s an easy discussion to have, really.

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Just published! How to Design a Product North Star that Motivates the Team to Achieve Greatness https://t.co/D3sDgZ39MA by John Utz #productmanagement

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Just published! The Secret to Design? Think Like a Salesperson https://t.co/67lHgZlJkm by Will Miner #productmanagement

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Just published! What the Post-Pandemic World Means for Mobile App Teams? https://t.co/jsLm5SGAyk by UXCam #productmanagement