The Product Coalition

FEBRUARY 2, 2018

How to enter a new product management position in a new company. Congratulations, you just landed a new product management position. Whether it’s a VP product or a product manager or it’s a small or big company, you are expected to adjust quickly to the role. Learn about them.

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BrainStation Product Management

APRIL 8, 2019

The position of Product Manager has been one of the fastest-growing roles in tech in recent years, with a 30 percent growth in job openings year over year. The trouble is, candidates who possess the varied skill set needed for Product Management are elusive and highly sought-after. Do Some Soul-Searching.

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BrainStation Product Management

APRIL 8, 2019

The position of Product Manager has been one of the fastest-growing roles in tech in recent years, with a 30 percent growth in job openings year over year. The trouble is, candidates who possess the varied skill set needed for Product Management are elusive and highly sought-after. Speak to a Learning Advisor.

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PMLesson's Ace the PM Interview

MARCH 1, 2020

An inside look at product management at IBM and the interview process. Kevin Wei is an Offering Manager at IBM managing Watson Knowledge Catalog and DataStage. In this Path to PM blog post, Kevin shares his journey breaking into a product role as a new grad hire at IBM. What is an IBM offering manager?

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Mind the Product

FEBRUARY 24, 2017

I attended the conference to represent product.careers , a project I launched last year to raise awareness of Product Management as a career path, with a particular focus on undergraduates and graduates. I started the project in response to challenges I had recruiting entry-level product managers for Crowdcube.

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The Product Coalition

MAY 15, 2019

One signal I’ve been giving much thought too of late is the collision of two roles, Product Management and Product Ownership. A topic of hot debate in the agile and product circles but with very few answers. Credit: DataKitchen Since its inception, Scrum and the Product Owner role has become widely adopted.

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PMLesson's Ace the PM Interview

FEBRUARY 20, 2019

Sachin Rekhi is the founder and CEO of Notejoy , and a prolific blogger on product management. In this Path to PM post, Sachin and I discuss five practical paths to product management. How did you first break into product management? How do I take on that product work or ask for it in the first place?

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PMLesson's Ace the PM Interview

APRIL 19, 2020

Skills a Product Manager Need Analytical Skills In your current role as a consultant, you will have developed and honed your analytical skills. This is what you should frame your resume around as this is likely the closest experience you have to being a product manager. List of PM Behavioral Questions.

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PMLesson's Ace the PM Interview

APRIL 19, 2020

Skills a Product Manager Need Analytical Skills In your current role as a consultant, you will have developed and honed your analytical skills. This is what you should frame your resume around as this is likely the closest experience you have to being a product manager. List of PM Behavioral Questions.

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Userpilot

NOVEMBER 29, 2022

What is an ecosystem moat and how can product managers build one? These are the key questions that Austin Yang , the Lead Product Manager at Softr , discussed in his presentation at the Product Drive Summit this year. Agencies bring new customers and help with product implementation. Are you intrigued?

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Mind the Product

JANUARY 10, 2017

As a product manager it’s not uncommon to feel pulled in a million different directions as you work to meet the needs of your customers, developers and company stakeholders. Internal stakeholders need to know how the products you build work. This should not be confused with technical documentation.

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Sachin Rekhi

JANUARY 27, 2013

The role of product management in technology firms is a critically important one that is often misunderstood. Product management boils down to owning the vision, design, and execution of your product. Or it could be ensuring open product, design, and technical decisions get resolved in an efficient manner.

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PMLesson's Ace the PM Interview

OCTOBER 21, 2019

We talk to Hemanth Kempanna, an Exponent alumnus, on his journey to breaking into product management and his experience building cloud-based products. For product management and UI/UX related skills, I have personally found LinkedIn Learning and Udemy to be helpful. Hemanth is currently a PM at Motorola.

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PMLesson's Ace the PM Interview

APRIL 9, 2020

Course Report’s Top Schools of 2019-2020. Course Report has followed the coding bootcamp industry since 2013. With in person-and online courses in SWE, data science, and cybersecurity, you’ll have a lot of flexibility. Beginners are advised to take Hack Reactors pre-bootcamp prep courses before applying.

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Alchemer Mobile

APRIL 14, 2020

How do you manage executive expectations, customer expectations, and technical resources? How do you promote gender diversity in the product management field? I’m a product manager at Dropbox , and I have been a product manager now for about just under 10 years. Patricia : Hi everyone.

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The Product Coalition

MARCH 1, 2024

Decode A Job Posting from Spotify: Senior Product Manager — Playlist Platform Spotify is an innovative business that changes the surrounding reality: almost everyone you see on the street or in a café wearing headphones listens to music on Spotify. What technical knowledge does Spotify expect from a candidate?

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Userpilot

JULY 13, 2021

An interactive walkthrough is a step-by-step, interactive guide to your product that will ultimately lead your users to activation. Exactly what constitutes activation will vary for different use cases of your product. Of course, setting up a system this automated requires the right tools. Yours can be too if you click here !).

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Mind the Product

NOVEMBER 30, 2017

TalkTalk was fined £400,000 in 2016 for failing to have appropriate technical and organisational measures in place to secure its customers’ personal data, and for keeping their personal data for longer than necessary. Why Product Needs to Care. Why am I writing about this for the Mind the Product blog?

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Intercom, Inc.

AUGUST 15, 2018

Building trust can be tough when you’re a new hire in a leadership position. A couple of years later, I got into a real leadership position. Managers and leaders are different. I got my first real leadership opportunity about five years into my career when one of the teams I was on was struggling with the product roadmap.

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Business of Software Conference

JULY 7, 2021

Furthermore, sometimes the sale is made even though the sales performance was awful, the client wants the product and buys it in spite of the lousy sales experience. The problem here of course is that the lousy sales performance is then rewarded and reinforced and becomes part of the company sales canon. People Make it Harder.

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Product Bookshelf

SEPTEMBER 14, 2020

The story begins with the struggling founders meeting with their top advisor and board member who recommends OKRs. Throughout the story, the company is struggling to find the right customers and identify its market position. The scenarios and characters are realistic and familiar.

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UX Studio

JANUARY 24, 2024

But I also advise designers not to oversee the business side of the relationship. 00:04:00] Then much, much later, after dropping out from architecture school, I opted to take a more generic course in multimedia and communication technologies, and it was there when I was introduced to the disciplines of ergonomics and usability.

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Sequent Learning

OCTOBER 25, 2018

As we discussed in the blog post Yes, Product Managers are Superheroes , product management is a combination of both art and science. I have been in product management for about 15 years. While we don’t necessarily think of ourselves as sales people, the truth is Product Managers sell every day.

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Product Talk

AUGUST 10, 2016

But to the grandmasters, they were able to understand what moves led to this position and were able to cycle through next moves and their potential outcomes. This raises the question, is there a superior way of organizing information about product discovery that allows us to move quickly and more effectively? I believe there is.

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Business of Software Conference

NOVEMBER 26, 2018

This will change the way that a lot of people think about product market fit, BS metrics, understanding the needs of the people that really matter. They’re very trusting, the technically sophisticated, and they really just wanted to get time back in the day. Let’s think about Dropbox. We were actually close.

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Product Talk

APRIL 7, 2021

I am a former chief product officer and now coach and advise product leaders and teams. The idea is to have a product trio —a product manager, a designer, and a tech lead—working and owning product decisions together. And of course, we can answer that question with prototyping and experimenting.

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