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Product Coalition

Timely Feedback — The key to preventing major frustration in Product Management

Getting the timing right solved major frustration in product management. As a former engineer, I feel super frustrated when receiving…

3 min readJul 28, 2020

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Timely Feedback — The key to preventing major frustration in Product Management

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Zac Kwan

The feature that kills the product

Building the right feature attract more users, create stickiness, and increase retention. However, the most simple and most difficult…

4 min readMay 27, 2020

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The feature that kills the product

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Zac Kwan
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Product Coalition

Engineers: “Should I become a Product Manager?”

Why I gave up 8 years of coding skills to become a product manager. I write in detail about my journey and explain why I made the decision.

5 min readMay 24, 2020

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Engineers: “Should I become a Product Manager?”

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Zac Kwan

Chasing Clients Leads to Self-Destruction

“The customer is always right” is a subjective slogan. Blindly following this in a software product can backfire easily.

3 min readMay 19, 2020

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Chasing Clients Leads to Self-Destruction

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Zac Kwan

Priority and Hiring more engineers

The common misconception about prioritization and hiring always led to unnecessary confusion and anxiety. We have the same goals in…

3 min readMay 12, 2020

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Priority and Hiring more engineers

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Zac Kwan

How should a Product Manager help with Technical Debt?

Held hostage by a bad technical decision? Ever heard of Technical Debt?

3 min readMay 11, 2020

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How should a Product Manager help with Technical Debt?

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Zac Kwan

Best Engineers Quit due to Wrong Recognition

I notice that a wrongly attributed recognition can cause the best engineers to feel frustrated. If it happens frequently, they quit.

2 min readApr 19, 2020

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Best Engineers Quit due to Wrong Recognition

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Zac Kwan
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Product Coalition

3 Key Struggle from being an engineer to technical product manager

There are many good things about having technical knowledge as a product manager. However, we also face many struggle uniquely to…

5 min readNov 11, 2019

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3 Key Struggle from being an engineer to technical product manager

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The Startup

Moving away from engineering, was it right?

8 months ago, I give up coding full time and become a product manager at Milieu Insight. Looking back, it took me a while to make the…

4 min readMar 7, 2019

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Moving away from engineering, was it right?

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Zac Kwan
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Product Coalition

The one skill that all product manager need!

What is the one skill that all product manager needs?

3 min readJan 30, 2019

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The one skill that all product manager need!

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Zac Kwan

Zac Kwan

Product Lead | Former Engineer | I help product managers strike the right balance between engineering, design, and business. Twitter: @Zaccc123

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