Product Coalition

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.

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.

Sep 20, 2024 | productcoalition.com | Avi Siegel |Jay Stansell

Strategies for staying ahead — or catching up. You have long been told that the only path to success for your startup is to differentiate. That you have to uniquely solve use cases which nobody else has solved before. In other words — you have to somehow build an impenetrable moat around your product, when you haven’t even built (or at least completed) the product in the first place.

Aug 30, 2024 | productcoalition.com | Avi Siegel |Jay Stansell

Embrace being wrong as the ultimate competitive advantage. You may already be judging the title. “Being right is obviously better than being wrong”, you might say. And yes, that is true — but that’s not the choice on the table. We all live here in the real world, where we don’t get to choose if we’re right or wrong. Unfortunately, we only get to choose to act — and then hope for the best, and react accordingly. But we can do more than hope.

Aug 30, 2024 | productcoalition.com | Jay Stansell

Aug 30, 2024Recording since 2017, and with over 50k downloads, we’re looking for podcast guests from all corners of product-related fields…- Data- Engineering- Executive- Design- Marketing- Recruitment- Research- as well as all the fields in between!Our podcasts are recorded live, live-streamed across multiple socials and then redistributed across all podcast platforms. The style is casual, and always on the topic the guest is most passionate about.