PMLesson's Ace the PM Interview

JULY 1, 2020

Learn a framework for quickly pitching a new product idea, and enhance your career! At this point inexperienced product managers are ready to walk out, but I give them a framework in order to structure the discussion. The framework I suggest to candidates is this: 1. Pain points 2. Market sizing 4.

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Lenny Rachitsky

APRIL 9, 2024

Instead, I believe that AI will have the most profound impact on the high-level (and historically most valued) skills of product management: developing a strategy, crafting a vision, identifying new opportunities, and setting goals. It’s actually already happening in engineering (check out Devin and Magic ). People stuff!

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Userpilot

AUGUST 29, 2023

A project manager is focused on the completion of a specific project, whereas product managers focus primarily on the long-term vision and evolving a product to deliver value over time. Here’s why it’s important: Defines a product vision and aligns strategy with organization goals. Champions a customer-centric approach.

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Userpilot

NOVEMBER 23, 2023

Extensive market research is essential to assess the competitive landscape, identify opportunities, and shape the product vision. Product management involves analyzing user experience , so a product manager needs to be able to use a range of techniques to do it effectively. Product manager skills: user path analysis.

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Ronke PM

OCTOBER 5, 2023

Table of Contents What is customer-centricity? Essential customer experiences to consider. Final thoughts Those products that have changed us and made our lives easier, or even enhanced humanity, have that impact and reach because the people who built those products emphasize customer-centricity above all else.

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The Product Guy

FEBRUARY 13, 2020

Firstly, Jeff as a new umbrella brand for all the new services will be providing to our customers; Secondly, a new business line called Beauty Jeff was opening the very first venue in Argentina. For product leaders, that means taking a step back to build a team that can be customer-centric and deliver ongoing innovation to the market.

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Userpilot

APRIL 6, 2023

TL;DR An over-engineered product is more complex than it should be and it solves problems that don’t exist. Low feature adoption is one of the symptoms of over-engineering. That’s because users either don’t need them or don’t know how to use them. There are some tell-tale signs that your product may be over-engineered.

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The Product HQ

MAY 10, 2024

More and more products are using more complex forms of technology to provide value to their customers. As professionals who work in such a technology-driven field, technical product managers need to understand the technical intricacies of the product vision they are managing. You must then study the ins and outs of those industries.

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The Product Coalition

AUGUST 2, 2020

After 10 years, this internal tool supported thousands of daily internal users across countless teams, but nobody could explain exactly what the tool was providing. The system provided different functionality for different customers and the total scope was far greater than the internal team’s staffing capacity. What is the problem?

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Userpilot

JULY 20, 2022

It also outlines its stages, looks at the House of Quality, and how to make sure the Voice of your Customers is heard. Quality Function Deployment (QDF) is a framework that helps teams translate customer requirements into technical requirements, and design the product and processes needed for its development. Are you ready?

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Userpilot

SEPTEMBER 29, 2023

designing screens, writing code, running tests), product management is a broader concept that encompasses strategy , vision, and product-market fit. You need a range of disciplines to bring a new product to life: Product development team: Your software engineers play an important role. designing screens, writing code, running tests).

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Product Innovation Educators

JANUARY 10, 2022

She cofounded the Radical Product Thinking movement of leaders creating vision-driven change, along with authoring the book Radical Product Thinking: The New Mindset for Innovating Smarter. Two colleagues and I built a framework that translated our intuition into steps for building world-changing products systematically.

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Intercom, Inc.

JULY 13, 2021

For instance, the Design Career Index shows that 71% of design orgs don’t have a career progression framework. In a recent survey, our team let us know design career paths and advancement were pain points. Align with job levels for product management , engineering, and related roles.

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Product Talk

SEPTEMBER 7, 2022

He applied the continuous discovery habits with a cross-functional product team comprising a product manager (Sören), product designers Emilio Martins and Gabriel Hourigan , user researcher Mara Zocco , and the engineers who were all involved in the discovery activities as well. Users don’t usually express their needs directly.

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Userpilot

AUGUST 30, 2023

It’s 2023, and customers have options. This includes product managers , marketing managers , customer success managers , and anyone else who wants to learn how to attract more users, improve the user experience, and increase product adoption. But how do you do that? Product management and leadership speakers.

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The Product Coalition

MARCH 5, 2018

Over the years of building Machine Learning products, I’ve come up with a framework that usually works for me. Here they are at a glance: Identify the problem There are no alternatives to good old fashioned user research Get the right data set Machine learning needs data? Here is a summary of what good user research should accomplish.

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Usersnap

APRIL 29, 2023

From staying on top of market trends, user needs, customer feedback , and industry insights to managing their resources, and planning what’s ahead for their product. How is ChatGPT different from a search engine? The difference between ChatGPT and a search engine is based on how they function and the data they provide.

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Userpilot

SEPTEMBER 12, 2022

The Product Owner is a Scrum role and they act as the representative of the customer on the team, while the responsibilities of the product manager are much wider. The Objectives and Key Results (OKR) framework helps organizations select goals (Objectives), milestones measuring progress (Key Results), and specific tasks (Initiatives).

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Mind the Product

JUNE 20, 2019

Even with very short cycles between discovery and delivery, it can take up to several months from identifying a user problem to the release of a potential solution to real users. She says that you can only create significant value for the business by solving the big problems for the users. Understanding User Needs is key.

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PMLesson's Ace the PM Interview

OCTOBER 7, 2019

Recommended Structure Exponent's Product Design Framework Here is a framework that we recommend you use for Product Design questions. I want to start by segmenting different target customers and their pain points, then analyze the pain points to design the product features. Does that sound good?

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Userpilot

MARCH 8, 2022

The book described the common tendency for organizations to focus on features instead of delivering true value for the users, and discussed: How not to turn into a feature factory. How product strategy uses a company's vision to fuel profitability. Susan Stavitzski – Customer-Driven Product Person and Product Leader.

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Radical Product

JUNE 25, 2020

The CEO and a couple of his loyalists bullied an executive at the meeting, berating him publicly that his engineers weren’t working hard enough. The Radical Product Thinking framework for culture My goal in this article is to give you a framework to transform the amorphous concept of culture into something systematic and actionable.

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ProductPlan

SEPTEMBER 30, 2021

Product professionals talk to customers and stakeholders to understand what’s important to them. They unpack their pain points to get to the root cause. We conduct customer research and stakeholder alignment so we can figure out what matters. The Downsides of Prioritization Frameworks. Meaningful.

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Userpilot

AUGUST 21, 2023

How do you communicate opportunities to the engineering team? Here are the product management skills and experience questions you should ask: How do you perform customer research? What is product vision? How have you overcome product failures/challenges or poor user feedback? Explain your prioritization framework.

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Userpilot

JULY 17, 2023

The responsibilities of product teams include facilitating product discovery , launches and releases , customer onboarding , feature adoption, and account expansion. In larger organizations, they may work side by side with QA engineers, product marketers , data analysts , or product ops managers. Product Team Roles.

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The Product Guy

MAY 3, 2018

To create value for customers requires a series of conversations with customers, sales, marketing and their marketing goals, clients, engineers, and designers. The value that your product brings to your users comes from taking the vision of the user your team has assembled. Establishing value.

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Userpilot

AUGUST 10, 2022

A Minimum Marketable Product (MMP) is a more developed version of the MVP and it is ready to be sold to customers. A Minimum Lovable Product (MLP) delivers value to the customers just like the MMP and helps establish long-term relationships with the customers. The MMP targets the actual customers.

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The Product Coalition

FEBRUARY 22, 2021

TL; DR: Product Discovery Anti-Patterns Scrum has proven to be an effective product delivery framework for all sorts of products. And this is precisely the point: The Product Owner miraculously identifies what is the best way to proceed as a Scrum Team by managing the Product Backlog. What product discovery part, you may think now.

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PMLesson's Ace the PM Interview

FEBRUARY 7, 2022

Talk to Users & Customers ?? Your First 30, 60, 90 Days as a PM Checklist Common Mistakes Made in Early Days as a PM Talk to Users & Customers: Understand Their Pain Points Abstract by Oleg Shcherba Your first order of business as a new product manager should be talking to customers!

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The Product Guy

MAY 7, 2020

Also, in various organizations which have grown in product maturity, customer base etc., This role also focuses on increasing the retention rate for existing customers. There are many frameworks available on building products and the approach varies individual to individual. Hard Skills Required for the Role.

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Bain Public

NOVEMBER 16, 2021

As a product manager, you must have the ability to create a business-viable product vision. Not only that, but this vision needs to drive and influence others to execute and deliver the components needed to build out that vision and make it a reality. market validation, customer listening, A/B testing, prototype, alpha release).

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Bain Public

JANUARY 11, 2022

As a product manager, it’s normal to get all kinds of new feature requests from stakeholders (these requests are usually related to pain points). Do you validate the pain point and place it in a parking lot for triage? It might be time to make your CEO provide a clear vision.

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Bain Public

SEPTEMBER 24, 2019

They use unconventional ways to spread the vision and have the ability to keep cool under pressure with tight deadlines. But to get to this point, product managers must use a combination of skills from other specialties such as engineering, design, marketing, sales, business development, and so on. The market always wins.

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ProductPlan

JUNE 21, 2021

As the VP of Product at ProductPlan, there’s nothing that I enjoy more than talking to customers. I enjoy identifying a significant problem that sounds impossible to solve and then bringing it to my engineering and design peers. Too many frameworks, too little direction. That’s where IMPACT comes in. What is IMPACT?

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Userpilot

JULY 26, 2021

Product growth is a go-to-market strategy that uses the product to drive user acquisition, activation , conversion, and retention. Being product-led means using product-led marketing like pain point SEO, product-focused sales enablement documents, and case studies showing customer success with your product.

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PMLesson's Ace the PM Interview

APRIL 25, 2022

Over my career, I've done my best to shape my engineering skills to be able to one day work directly in autonomous vehicle technology. What values are important in a brand and how are they communicated to the customer? How does working in VR affect mobility and what pain points may arise? Desktop or mobile?

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ProductPlan

NOVEMBER 11, 2019

Others dive into the specifics and make engineering teams happy since they’re so detailed. But while each roadmap for a specific audience serves a particular purpose, there are times when we need everyone to gather together and agree on a singular vision for the product. Balance big customer demands. Be open to ideas.

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