The Product Coalition

OCTOBER 29, 2018

Find a role you are excited for Long before any company is interviewing you for a job, you as a candidate should have already screened a ton of other companies to help decide that this one is worthy of your time and effort. I’m also constantly up-to-date on the newest and hottest tech companies via tech blogs and influencers.

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ProductPlan

MAY 28, 2019

So, you’re a project manager interested in transitioning to a product management career. We speak with a lot of project managers looking to make this leap, often for similar reasons. And most say bringing products to market looks exciting. Do you really want to be a product manager?

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Userpilot

JULY 9, 2021

What are the best product management books to add to your 2021 reading list? We’ve put together a list for you with a few staples from every product manager’s bookshelf and some new releases too. Product-Led Growth by Wes Bush is the ultimate book on how to implement product-led growth and build winning products.

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The Product Coalition

SEPTEMBER 20, 2018

You’ve been trying for a while to shift your career into Product Management but seeing yourself going nowhere? However, sometimes it is highly impossible to squeeze all your learnings in an hour-long interview since there are no pre-defined standards to interview for a PM position. Money is important.

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PMLesson's Ace the PM Interview

DECEMBER 13, 2021

Every year, hiring managers receive millions of applications for various roles. Finally, the APM (Associate Product Manager) is for product management and product marketing management roles. Throughout your program, you will receive continuous support from your mentor(s) and managers.

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PMLesson's Ace the PM Interview

MAY 19, 2020

Product Marketing is a very new role in the industry - it sits at the intersection of product and marketing but the function influences several areas of the organization including design, sales, support, and engineering. Communication Clear communication is one of the most important traits of being a solid Product Marketing Manager.

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Userpilot

JUNE 30, 2022

What is the application of the jobs-to-be-done model in product management ? How can you use it to build successful products? The product management jobs-to-be-done framework relies on the idea that the customer is ready to spend money on a product only when it helps them complete a particular job.

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Pragmatic Marketing

FEBRUARY 17, 2017

Before you read this article, click on your company’s website and view the page associated with your flagship product. Now open the datasheet for that product and compare the message headings to those you wrote down. Product message maps are internal documents, typically owned by product marketing.

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Userpilot

MAY 5, 2022

What does the product management process involve? Why is it important for product managers to follow them? Product managers lead interdisciplinary product teams to deliver products that bring value to customers. The product development process is one aspect of the product management process.

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Nulab

SEPTEMBER 22, 2021

Whether you’re an established company with a new product or a brand-new startup, knowing where you fit in the market is vital. Without this knowledge, you could end up sinking hundreds, thousands — or even millions of dollars into a product or service that no one actually wants (looking at you, Google Glass ). Yahoo Finance.

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The Product Coalition

MAY 18, 2016

My supervisors in different teams (I was in a management trainee rotational program) gave me two big projects. Starting from the end of first quarter until graduation, I looked for alumni from school’s database and on LinkedIn, sent emails or LinkedIn messages for informational interview, and talked to 2–3 alumni every other week.

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Mind the Product

MAY 25, 2018

In 2012, when I was working as part of the JustGiving team responsible for innovative products and disruptive business models, we decided to test how people could raise money for non-charitable good causes. The output from a product in a box game, where we imagined how we would position the product if it was on sale in a supermarket.

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ProductPlan

JUNE 4, 2019

Being a mentor to product managers is the ultimate form of paying it forward. Luckily there are many opportunities to mentor other product managers in ways that benefit both parties. Why mentor product managers? There are different reasons people consider taking more junior product managers under their wing.

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Userpilot

MAY 16, 2023

TL;DR Value metrics are the features of a product that customers associate with its value and are happy to pay for. Identifying value metrics allows you to acquire new customers, refine your pricing strategy, grow revenue , improve customer satisfaction , and develop products. Let’s dive in!

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Sachin Rekhi

JANUARY 26, 2020

You then define one or more key results associated with each objective. Key result examples: Increase weekly active users by 20% Achieve 20M activated users Launch the new feature by 7/31 Conduct 50 customer interviews. Sometimes though, more specific measures associated with a given initiative are more appropriate.

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Product Talk

APRIL 10, 2019

Before I coached this product team at SEEK , their product manager had already taken my Continuous Interviewing and Rapid Prototyping courses. Our team has five developers, a UXer (Jamieson), Visual Designer (Scott), Iteration Manager/Business Analyst (Natalia), and me as Product Manager.

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PMLesson's Ace the PM Interview

MAY 19, 2020

The Associate Product Marketing Manager (APMM), program is Google’s global, renowned early-career program, which was started in 2003 by Marissa Mayer at a similar time she started the Associate Product Manager (APM) program. What is the APMM interview process like? What is an APMM?

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Userpilot

DECEMBER 7, 2022

Are there any alternatives to A/B testing for product managers ? A/B tests are experiments in which you present two different versions of your product to an even number of users and check which of them performs better. PMs harness them to investigate how easy to navigate their products are. Interested? Let’s dive in!

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PMLesson's Ace the PM Interview

MAY 13, 2020

But recruiting for product management can be a whole different beast considering how high the bar is these days for a product manager. So to help with that, we’ve prepared a simple and effective approach to your PM recruitment below. 1 Product Management: Make sure it's right for you.

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UX Studio: Product Management

AUGUST 17, 2018

Usability tests check if people can use a product. It mainly aims to check product ease-of-use and functionality. A typical (potential) user of any digital product should be able to interact with it without frustration, and easily accomplish set goals. Typical scenarios: Identifying main issues in the usability of a product.

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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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The Product Coalition

SEPTEMBER 13, 2019

While also writing on this blog for the past few years, there has been a clear trend among the people who have reached out for guidance. This inspired me to reach out to Product School and volunteer to be a featured speaker to share the summarized advice I’ve been giving on a 1:1 basis. Technology PM has become a hot career path.

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eG Innovations

JULY 19, 2022

In this blog, we highlight the top open source IT monitoring tool options and discuss their pros and cons. A licensed Grafana Enterprise version with additional capabilities is also available for self-hosted, on-premises installation or as managed SaaS (Software as a Service) via an account on the Grafana Labs cloud service.

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UX Studio

JANUARY 24, 2024

And despite having had many ads for the last 15 years, today I work as a product design director at Talkdesk, but I also sometimes feel like a rebel using my voice to stand for what I believe. Pair with product managers, pair with engineers. And I believe that design is a powerful force that can change the world.

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Business of Software Conference

SEPTEMBER 3, 2019

They offered solutions and suggestions for Sys Admins via content in blogs, KB’s, videos and webcasts. Now, we are a systems management solution. And so, they actually interviewed one of our customers, they had an awesome picture. The answer for PDQ.com finally came, in part, from Charles Bukowski: Don’t Try.

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Business of Software Conference

JUNE 20, 2019

On realizing he’s still too integral to the business, Peldi started the ‘Winter 2018 Injected Turbulence Project’ – delegated product design and engineering management, deleted Slack and witter from his phone, and stopped watching their internal wiki. Video, Slides, & Transcript below. Oh I’m glad.

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