Mind the Product

APRIL 9, 2018

While most product management articles and blogs talk about product management for consumer-facing or enterprise SaaS products, I’ve found that many of the methods and insights discussed in these can also be applied to developing enterprise software to be used by your company’s internal users. This is where the problems usually start.

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The Product Coalition

FEBRUARY 5, 2021

It doesn’t seem to matter how many times the industry tries to reassure newcomers that you don’t need to be a full stack software engineer to be a good Product Manager. Even in the software development world, the technical skills needed by each team is quite different. So, once and for all, we’re doing a deep dive!

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The Accidental Product Manager

APRIL 25, 2022

The Amazon plan had to been to find a way to create hit video games – can anyone say Fortnight? The goal was for Amazon to create software that could then be used to create video games. Their motivation to do this was because their software would run in its Amazon Web Services (AWS) cloud.

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Userpilot

JUNE 28, 2023

Onboarding case study #1: How The Room increased new user activation by 75% in 10 days The Room is a Talent-as-a-Service (TaaS) platform that helps connect world-class workers throughout Africa with companies across the globe. ClearCalcs improved user activation by segmenting early on with welcome screens.

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Userpilot

FEBRUARY 2, 2023

Content testing is how you ensure that your content is relatable and well-perceived by your audience. Task-based usability testing is when you set out a series of tasks for a user to complete and then watch how they complete those tasks. Therefore, it’s crucial that your content speaks to them.

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Amplitude

SEPTEMBER 11, 2018

Eric Wang, a recently hired software engineer on our product engineering team, shares what it’s like to onboard with Amplitude’s engineering department. Eric Wang, a recently hired software engineer on our product engineering team, shares what it’s like to onboard with Amplitude’s engineering department.

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PMLesson's Ace the PM Interview

APRIL 22, 2019

So, are you a software engineer interested in becoming a product manager? Here's a definitive guide for your approaches and a step-by-step playbook for how to take the leap. Software engineering is one of the most common starting points when transitioning into a product management role.

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PMLesson's Ace the PM Interview

MARCH 1, 2020

In this Path to PM blog post, Kevin shares his journey breaking into a product role as a new grad hire at IBM. I studied mathematics at UCLA, worked 2 summers as a software engineering intern at a Series E AdTech startup, and advised Metta World Peace (Ron Artest) as the product manager for his social basketball app, Gradelo.

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PMLesson's Ace the PM Interview

MARCH 2, 2022

Below, you'll find a behavioral prep guide. We cover the basics of the behavioral interview including sample questions, what to say to make your answer sound great, and how to practice for the interview before your big day. What is the Google Behavioral Interview—How Does it Work?

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PMLesson's Ace the PM Interview

APRIL 22, 2019

So, are you a software engineer interested in becoming a product manager? Here's a definitive guide for your approaches and a step-by-step playbook for how to take the leap. Software engineering is one of the most common starting points when transitioning into a product management role.

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Modus Create

APRIL 5, 2021

Little would my professor know that three years later I’d build and publish an iOS application on the App Store and would be interning as a Front End Engineer at Modus Create. During most of my college, I thought I would find myself on Wall Street after graduation. My College Experience. Math was my strongest subject in high school.

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Business of Software Conference

JULY 29, 2019

At every Business of Software Conference we record the talks so that you, the great people of the internet, can join in the feast of learning that our attendees get to gorge themselves upon. We release new talks regularly right here on our blog. Below, you’ll find the 17 videos we’ve published so far this year.

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Userpilot

JANUARY 25, 2021

How to Collect the Data in Record Time for Your User Persona Free User Persona Template for SaaS Wrapping Things Up. You can quickly collect the data for your ideal user persona by segmenting your user base in your product analytics tool and launching an in-app survey tailored to find out the most relevant information.

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The Product Coalition

FEBRUARY 5, 2019

Can you find your name? Therefore, she provides a great example of a stable product management career path: staying within the company, and evolving both vertically and horizontally. He is very involved in content marketing discussions on his blog. Everyone who ever wanted to leave a mark on the world had figures to look up to.

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PMLesson's Ace the PM Interview

OCTOBER 10, 2018

How did you break into product management? I’m an engineer by training (not that you need to be one to break into product management). After graduation, I founded a software startup and this is how I started getting into Tech and Product. How many companies did you apply to? How many did you hear back from?

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Arpit Rai

OCTOBER 29, 2019

I just realized that I had not cross-posted my responses on the AMA on my Medium blog. It’s not like the UI/UX doesn’t matter at all in B2B but you can build a great product/business with an average UI/UX in B2B. How did you get into product management? There were a bunch of questions I was asked about product management.

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Userpilot

FEBRUARY 17, 2021

Topics: Product development lifecycle & success stories, Agile Management & Rapid Prototyping, New product management software & technologies, Usability & interface design, Product manager career: How to rise up in our organization, Hiring the best product managers for the job. Table of contents. Product World.

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Arpit Rai

OCTOBER 29, 2019

I just realized that I had not cross-posted my responses on the AMA on my Medium blog. It’s not like the UI/UX doesn’t matter at all in B2B but you can build a great product/business with an average UI/UX in B2B. How did you get into product management? There were a bunch of questions I was asked about product management.

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Product Talk

FEBRUARY 8, 2023

Our goal is not to give you a blueprint for how to do discovery, but rather offer some inspiration for how different teams are handling common discovery tasks. We’re zooming in on one aspect of discovery: automating the recruiting process for customer interviews. Tweet This That’s why we started the Tools of the Trade series.

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Andrew Chen

NOVEMBER 15, 2021

Or if you are international, go to the coldstart.com website to find all the pages for Europe, Asia, and more. How to get them started, how to scale them, and what it’s like to compete. How to get them started, how to scale them, and what it’s like to compete. I hope that’s a good teaser :).

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Product Talk

AUGUST 4, 2021

I wondered, “Can I write a good book?”, “How will I know if it’s good?”, and “How do I know my advice works?”. I know many authors who use their blog as a way to test content. But blog analytics (views and shares) don’t track impact. They didn’t know what tactics to use when. That was a mistake. I wasn’t willing to hope.

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Modus Create

MARCH 8, 2020

As the world observes International Women’s Day on March 8th, it is a great reminder to celebrate the women that help drive Modus and support women in technology every day. I have not desired to do engineering, but I still think of myself as a woman in IT. These roles are as important to technology as engineers and architects.

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Intercom, Inc.

OCTOBER 31, 2019

In reality, a group of the top brass’s EAs wanted to talk about how their calendar app was destroying their productivity and credibility in the form of double-bookings and missed meetings. Tim joined me for a chat that ranged from how to balance human-computer interaction to how to define productivity in a knowledge-based economy.

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UX Studio

SEPTEMBER 20, 2023

One question that intrigued us is: How can we design for calmness in a world full of distractions? One question that intrigued us is: How can we design for calmness in a world full of distractions? As designers and researchers, how can we create space and solutions that promote calmness and focus? How are you?

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Intercom, Inc.

MAY 16, 2018

Sure, they probably know enough to build a landing page for capturing email addresses, but do they know what to say on that page and how to say it? Do they know where to go to promote their product, and how to do it once they get there? Do they know where to go to promote their product, and how to do it once they get there?

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Mironov Consulting

DECEMBER 29, 2022

Almost every week, I have a conversation with executives at B2B software companies who don’t see a bright-line distinction between software license revenue and customization/implementation revenue.  Or  (See this 2015 talk and supporting blog series. What do I mean by software product vs software services ?  A

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The Product Coalition

NOVEMBER 24, 2020

On the other hand, the Scrum Master theses also cover, for example, the relationship with the Product Owner, they deal with agile metrics, and how to kick-off an agile transition, thus moving beyond the original framework of the Scrum Guide. Do you want to get this article in your inbox? You can sign up here and join 28k other subscribers.

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The Product Coalition

APRIL 19, 2021

The Product Backlog and Refinement If you are looking to fill a position for a Product Owner in your organization, you may find the following 71 interview questions useful to identify the right candidate. Finding this answer is a process and not a destination. at the same time?—?the the one Scrum role with the most facets.

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Intercom, Inc.

SEPTEMBER 26, 2019

? ?. It’s hard to find a hotter trend in Silicon Valley than the idea of turning your product into a platform. Turning your product into a platform that developers can build on is a great way to tap into new audiences and expand your market share. Ceci Stallsmith on how to define a platform. What is a platform, anyway?

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Sachin Rekhi

NOVEMBER 21, 2016

The most common question I get from aspiring product managers is how to land their first product manager role. I wanted to share the five most common paths that I've observed for individuals landing their first product management role and how to increase your chances of landing the job through each path.

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Intercom, Inc.

SEPTEMBER 5, 2019

In the latest episode of Intercom on Product, our SVP of Product Paul Adams and I dive into this question, and unpack what the sudden rise of a new generation of “keyboard-first” apps that focus on speed says about product design and how products evolve over time. How does it change our perception of finding product-market fit?

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Userpilot

MARCH 6, 2020

So here’s to the ladies – let’s see who the top female influencers in Product and SaaS are, why and how they decided to pursue a career in product, and what challenges they face in their everyday work: Women in Product. Alexandra Ciobotaru – Product Owner at Novoresume – a professional online resume builder.

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PMLesson's Ace the PM Interview

JUNE 23, 2022

If you're preparing for a cloud engineering interview, it’s a matter of when, not if, you get questions related to AWS. If you're preparing for a cloud engineering interview, it’s a matter of when, not if, you get questions related to AWS. This article covers the most common AWS and Amazon interview questions.

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Centercode

FEBRUARY 20, 2019

This blog post breaks down a beta test into five steps, based on the framework we’ve developed and use in-house. Use the product areas as topics, write corresponding activities that outline what your testers need to assess for each one, and know how they’ll send you feedback. Recruit (the Right) Testers. Decide a Strategy.

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Business of Software Conference

APRIL 24, 2020

In this BoS Talk, Claire discusses how n o one sets out to be a bad boss, but it’s easy to become one. Learn how to ask your team the right questions, why trust is important, and why being nice can be a bad thing. Some of whom are in this room, which is great. Claire’s mission in life is to help people become happier at work.

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Product Talk

MARCH 3, 2021

Find it here. Teresa : I’m going to share a little more of Hope’s background, just because I know how great it is. Teresa : I’m going to share a little more of Hope’s background, just because I know how great it is. If you’re not familiar with me, I blog at Product Talk.

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Business of Software Conference

OCTOBER 29, 2018

Here, Wade shares his processes for running a fully remote organization – how Zapier goes about hiring and onboarding their employees, how they run meetings, and how they work to continuously improve their culture. A little bit about how to build an operating cadence and a remote team. Upcoming Events. Transcript.

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