PMLesson's Ace the PM Interview

APRIL 19, 2020

After working in consulting, many management consultants desire to exit into and work at a tech company. If you've already decided you want to work closer to tech and are ready to start making the transition to PM, you're on the right page! Many companies have a bias towards PMs coming from a technical background.

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PMLesson's Ace the PM Interview

APRIL 19, 2020

After working in consulting, many management consultants desire to exit into and work at a tech company. If you've already decided you want to work closer to tech and are ready to start making the transition to PM, you're on the right page! Many companies have a bias towards PMs coming from a technical background.

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The Product Coalition

OCTOBER 30, 2019

Being a Product Manager at an Early Stage Startup In my previous article , I reflected on a few things that I would tell myself if I could travel back in time and the concept of “three waves of changes.” During the process, I also gained a much deeper understanding of the technologies we are building and how the company operates.

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Gainsight

JULY 7, 2021

I can pretty vividly remember the first Pulse conference I attended back in 2013. Back then, I was still six months away from launching my own SaaS company, but I was already encumbered with the industry and curious about this up-and-coming category called “Customer Success.”. Pulse 2020 – Back to Moscone (Or So We Thought).

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Userpilot

MARCH 7, 2024

I asked DALLE to ‘Give me an image of a tech CEO’. Then I tried regenerating the image to see on which try it would give me a tech CEO of a different gender (or colour). Check out this viral post by Andrew Gazdecki to learn more about what a ‘tech CEO’ is like US Census data from 2022 revealed that only 17% of tech CEOs are female.

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PMLesson's Ace the PM Interview

MAY 4, 2020

Enterprise Product Manager (IBM) I'm Kevin Wei, a product manager at IBM working on data integration tools. As you may expect at IBM, we don't use Gmail; to handle emails, employees use software we developed ourselves called IBM Verse. As for internal messaging, we use the wildly popular Slack app. Here's a snapshot of my day.

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UserVoice

JUNE 18, 2018

This can be particularly true of development and technology teams — some people simply don’t ever want to manage other people, so they never move “up” on the org chart while their influence grows throughout the company.

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Mind the Product

MAY 16, 2018

The theologian and philosopher St Augustine said that: “People travel to wonder at the height of mountains, at the huge waves of the sea, at the long courses of rivers, at the vast compass of the ocean, at the circular motion of the stars; and they pass by themselves without wondering.”. Identify Your Blind Spots Through Continual Feedback.

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Gainsight

FEBRUARY 2, 2024

Technology companies are producing more complex software, which can often overwhelm customers during the onboarding process. As a result, it’s common for these customers to quickly abandon new platforms. These are just the tools, however. They’re not just creating great users of their software.

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Business of Software Conference

OCTOBER 11, 2023

Why these questions should be asked Feedback, performance, and competitor relations Feelings (pride or jealousy) about own company and others Relevance of important values and aspirations Exact choices: Extract the choices that your company makes as attributes What does the company do? What are people doing right now?

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Split

AUGUST 28, 2020

Software development in 2020 is a rapidly changing environment. The CAB itself is a collection of representatives from various functions inside and outside of corporate IT, chartered with reviewing proposed changes and assisting the change manager in change assessment, prioritization and scheduling. But, who should be in charge?

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The Product HQ

APRIL 20, 2024

At times, tech companies that require a master’s degree also accept people who are in the process of completing their master’s program. Evaluate industry-standard technology and focus on implementing it into current products. Create new products by adopting new technology and processes. If you don’t, you need to start with one.

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Userpilot

JULY 29, 2019

If you’re wondering where’s SaaS? Fast-forward 6 years and I have worked on marketing strategy with several startups and small businesses, mostly SaaS businesses, and I have seen them make the same mistakes that had almost folded my business when I was a rookie 23 year-old. Hear me out first. You’ll see the dots connecting.

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Gainsight

JUNE 10, 2021

As the world began to open back up, we were excited to see our Pulse Everywhere conference evolve into a hybrid event. Jamf began with cross-functional alignment and stakeholder feedback across the company to get the process in motion. Since the COVID-19 pandemic, we understand the need for remote work and social distancing.

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Business of Software Conference

MARCH 27, 2019

Scott Berkun, author of The Dance Of The Possible, spoke at Business of Software Conference USA 2017 about how to unlock your creativity and pursue it in your workplace. Scott Berkun The Dance of the Possible BoS2017 from Business of Software Conference. We talk about building software – that comes from building.

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Business of Software Conference

NOVEMBER 26, 2018

One of the themes that emerged over the course of the conference was the importance of understanding the needs of customers and the metrics you can use to better understand and act on their real, rather than stated, needs. We’ve used NPS to gather evaluation data for the conference for a seven years. pic.twitter.com/cBzVvt2Rtx.

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Business of Software Conference

JUNE 20, 2019

In 2018, Balsamiq celebrated its 10th Birthday – an impressive achievement for any SaaS company. Founder Peldi has attended Business of Software every year since 2010, and has 5 BoS talks to his name. Like many BoS speakers, Peldi comes to the conference every year regardless of whether he’s on stage. It was bad.

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Andrew Chen

NOVEMBER 1, 2018

Earlier this year, I joined Andreessen Horowitz as a General Partner, where I focus on a broad spectrum of consumer startups: marketplaces, entertainment/media, and social platforms. Dozens of angel investments and advisory roles in SaaS, marketplaces, etc. One evolution is the number of books and conferences now dedicated to growth.

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Business of Software Conference

JUNE 29, 2020

what to build, what programs to roll out, how a process should work), our company’s solutions are only as good as we are. Teresa Torres (Product Discovery Coach, Product Talk) – Managing Outputs vs Outcomes from Business of Software Conference. But if we make all the output decisions (e.g.

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Business of Software Conference

FEBRUARY 10, 2020

Want us to let you know about new talk videos, speaker AMAs, Business of Software Conference and other event updates? Isa Watson (Founder/CEO, Squad by Envested) – Making Workplaces Work For Humans from Business of Software Conference. So, I run a software company based in New York City. Unsubscribe anytime.

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Pragmatic Marketing

AUGUST 17, 2014

One of the most frustrating things I’ve heard over my career is that “agile is something that software developers do.” It ignores all the success agile teams have had in software the past decade and in other industries including architecture, marketing, video production and even the auto industry.

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Gainsight

APRIL 29, 2019

But I think we need better systems and processes to get the right information and to make sure the good insights are getting translated in a way that’s actionable for Product people. Very early on, I really focused on being friends with the developers and was really good friends with the designers and tech team. What do we have to do?

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Gainsight

MAY 18, 2023

Alteryx provides the leading analytics automation platform. Samsara’s Customer Success organization is also pioneering digital technologies to orchestrate the customer journey. SAP Concur As the world’s leading brand in travel, expense, and invoice management, SAP Concur continues to lead the sector in digital strategy.

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Userzoom

AUGUST 6, 2019

In the following video and transcript of their talk at BetterUX London 2019 , Katja and Pietro discuss how they democratized UX and took a journey towards a corporate UX majority, by running two concurrent teams: Team Hive, which is focused on the development of design systems, and Team Swarm, focused on user research and insights.

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