PMLesson's Ace the PM Interview

MAY 14, 2022

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The Product Coalition

MAY 1, 2023

The team stressed. Then in strolls the design team, telling us to step back. Another blocker in my path preventing me from moving the product team into action. However, I’ve learned that cutting corners early in product strategy development leads to significant hurdles later on. Think of it like a room’s air conditioning.

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Product Innovation Educators

MAY 31, 2021

How to align your organization and product management team with the voice of your customer. Joining us is Mark Baldino, UX product design expert and co-founder of Fuzzy Math, which designs software products for companies. Pull cross-functional teams into the research and synthesis of concepts. [10:15]

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ProductPlan

OCTOBER 6, 2022

These days I look forward to starting research and discovery with nothing but a hypothesis. Throughout my experience, I’ve used many frameworks and tools to support the research and discovery process. Start with your company and product mission and vision. Understand your customer outside of why they use your product.

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UX Studio: Product Management

JUNE 22, 2021

They get most of the recognition, but they also have to be involved in everything, which is super tiring and often leads to stress, burnout, and bad health. They don’t have to make every decision and double-check everything done by their teams. The most important tool empowering leaders can use is context.

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The Product Coalition

DECEMBER 27, 2023

They effortlessly traverse different platforms and ecosystems, opening up a world of opportunities for creators and collectors alike. You can choose to paint on the digital canvas with a variety of tools, from digital brushes to 3D modeling software. Next, let’s talk development hours. But here’s the flip side.

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The Product Guy

OCTOBER 9, 2018

First, I did not know how to frame, develop and present product strategy in a systematic way, and second, as a startup, my company has not historically had a good track record of strategy being developed outside of senior management (read: founder). What systems/metrics/processes do we need to measure and track winning?

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Ronke PM

MARCH 26, 2024

These leaders understand that bringing effective products, solutions, and services to market requires consensus building and engaging cross-functional teams in the journey. After all, the partner teams build products, not the product manager alone. We just execute differently, and sometimes we have a bad day or week.

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Userpilot

AUGUST 21, 2023

Product management encompasses the entire SaaS lifecycle from ideation to launch and everything that follows. Product managers often work in cross-functional teams and bridge the gap between multiple departments. What qualities do you look for in a strong product team? What is the best way to work with cross-functional teams?

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Department of Product

OCTOBER 23, 2022

Product Principles – Examples for Product Managers Make decision making easier with inspiration from top product companies Product principles are used by product teams to help guide decision making. Yes, we’re B2B but are we targeting small businesses or enterprise? What colour should our homepage CTA buttons be?

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The Product Coalition

JULY 2, 2020

The Product Manage works on defining the problem, and the designers help to build the solution. That’s the magic of product development! Designers typically tend to care less about numbers and data compared to engineers. Understand Their Individual Strengths and Weaknesses Design encompasses more than one thing.

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Ronke PM

AUGUST 16, 2023

Table of Contents Technical Support Customer Success/Relationship Managers Marketing Sales Team Data Scientist Finance UX Researcher UX Designer Content Designers and Conversational Designers Engineering Legal Security (IT) PMO (Product Management Office) (Bonus!) Finance One of my favorite teams to partner up with is finance.

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The Product Guy

MAY 7, 2020

Hence it is critical that one is aware of the best practises of the role and develops his own philosophy which results into maximum positive leverage for the organization. As I strive towards becoming a product leader, I wanted to understand the best practises in product management and in the process develop my own product philosophy. .

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Userpilot

APRIL 29, 2021

In a sustainable way, without falling into the ‘build trap’ – churning out new features based on feature requests, diluting the product vision, and wasting your company’s resources. This can make your product and team slower, make your UX more complicated, and overall – add little value for your customers.

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UserVoice

JULY 28, 2017

Here’s 3 steps you can take to start tackling your to-do list: Step 1: Get Organized With the Right Tool(s). But if you’re looking to mix up your day-to-day task tools, here are some suggestions. Task Management Tools for Product Managers. What it does well: It’s an extremely basic, simple solution.

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Userpilot

MARCH 18, 2021

A successful customer retention strategy requires constant iteration and innovation to keep up with an ever-changing SaaS market environment. Marketing and sales are the engines of your growth. Their job is to sell prospects on the vision of your company. vs. A Product Onboarding Tool for Startups. Eden Bidani.

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Product Innovation Educators

MAY 31, 2021

How to align your organization and product management team with the voice of your customer. Joining us is Mark Baldino, UX product design expert and co-founder of Fuzzy Math, which designs software products for companies. Pull cross-functional teams into the research and synthesis of concepts. [10:15]

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Userpilot

JULY 9, 2021

Continuous Discovery Habits by Teresa Torres teaches you how to set up a continuous discovery system within your organization with actionable exercises. Product Mastery by Geoff Watts teaches you how to be a successful product owner within agile software development practices with the use of case studies. Plot summary.

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Intercom, Inc.

JANUARY 12, 2022

And so, many business leaders find themselves not quite sure how to start, how to leverage it, or what to do when all the dashboards and tools seem to be pointing at different solutions. I started in the policy world as an economics researcher at a think tank. However, we’ve had a great team. Benn: For sure.

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The Product Coalition

FEBRUARY 8, 2018

The 10 Thorniest Problems In Product (And The Solutions That Successful Companies Are Using To Tackle Them) As research for my upcoming fourth book, I’ve been interviewing dozens of product leaders and creators. How do product teams that are spread across geographies, time-zones and functional areas of work find alignment?

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The Product Coalition

SEPTEMBER 2, 2022

The leadership team finally agreed on the vision. Clarity around the product vision, market opportunity, value to the user, how to win in the market, metrics, objectives, assumptions, dependencies, constraints, and how the product delivers results for the organization. A yes with a weak how or a no receives a zero.

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Userpilot

SEPTEMBER 12, 2022

The focus of product management is overseeing product development at all stages of its lifecycle. A product manager's role is to coordinate the work of various teams across the organization with the shared goal of developing products. SMART goals are Specific, Measurable, Achievable, Relevant, and Time-bound.

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Mixpanel

JANUARY 12, 2023

We’ve run dozens of customer interviews, analyzed our competitors, tracked our customer lifecycle, and aligned with the company vision: now we’re finally ready to write copy. From customer research to monitoring and iteration, good copywriting is rooted in data. Start with customer research. Keyword research.

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Sachin Rekhi

JUNE 25, 2017

I then break down the resources into the way I think about what a product manager does, which is drive the vision, strategy, design, and execution of their product. One of the key responsibilities of a product manager is to define, articulate, and evangelize the vision for their product.

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PMLesson's Ace the PM Interview

JULY 1, 2020

When I interview a product manager to work in my team, I want to know that they understand the whole of the product cycle - how to make it happen, from concept to rollout and beyond, and most importantly what will make it successful. Product vision statement 5. How many households would use an app for family outings? Features 6.

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Userpilot

JUNE 9, 2021

A Product Manager builds the product by identifying customer needs and creating specifications for developers. They also ensure it fulfills the business’s wider objectives, do the initial research, user interviews, and collect user feedback and data. How to get your first Product Marketing job. TL;DR – Post Summary.

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Mind the Product

JANUARY 22, 2018

Here, replatforming is about replacing the computing platform on which a number of other products or systems are built. It’s the foundation that, for instance, powers a website and allows developers to add pages and features. This gives each platform a unique twist and makes each replatforming project unlike any other.

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The Product Coalition

SEPTEMBER 29, 2020

As a Product Manager, you’re a team player who guides product development along its chartered course, but you have to do that without being the literal captain of the ship. Influence without authority is the skill of driving product development and ‘telling people what to do’ without formally being authorized to do so.

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Innovatemap

SEPTEMBER 9, 2020

Business-to-business (B2B) software products, particularly those that have been around a long time, face a unique challenge when it comes to user experience. When you have successful, profitable software with a strong user base, kicking the can on the decision is much easier than making a potentially expensive and disruptive change.

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Mind the Product

AUGUST 19, 2019

Secondly, as great product managers are also great capacity builders for their teams, you should start looking for opportunities that AI can present for your product. But with machine learning the solution itself is so exciting and novel that it’s tempting to forget to ask yourself why you need it in the first place.

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Sachin Rekhi

FEBRUARY 1, 2016

One of the challenges we've long acknowledged in the tech industry is how difficult the transition can be from a software engineer to an engineering manager due to the vast distinction in the skill set to be great at the new role. Shift your individual focus from design and execution to vision and strategy.

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Gainsight

SEPTEMBER 8, 2021

Organizations create Customer Success teams to increase Net Revenue Retention, and we’ve recently published research showing that NRR drives valuation. But, then, organizations find that the baseline impact of simply having a CS team eventually plateaus–your NRR stagnates. What about systems administration?

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UX Studio

MARCH 11, 2024

With over 17 years of experience as a designer, he primarily assists others in their career growth by providing thoughtful, concise tips and tricks, whether related to tools or any form of communication. You have surface level: you’re completely dir ected, you are given a solution and you design the solution.

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Mind the Product

FEBRUARY 20, 2020

Ultimately, your resume should itself signal that you have the skills required to be a successful product manager on any team. As a hiring manager, I want to hire great storytellers, s o the team can work towards a unified vision. . I could use this same sentence for a product, scrum master, or engineering manager role.

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Bain Public

MAY 29, 2020

The right mentoring and coaching support facilitates a startup’s transformation and enables roadmap planning and execution, without straying from the ultimate vision and goal. MAIN: Developing Entrepreneurship in Quebec. of startups assess their chances of survival as weak. The foundation of any successful team is their leader.

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Mind the Product

OCTOBER 8, 2018

His product journey started with the discovery that his wife (and, by extension, many women in rural India) couldn’t afford commercially available sanitary products, and was having to resort to dangerously unhygienic homemade solutions. Understand Your Competitors Through Market Research. Develop Customer Empathy With MVPs.

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Hutwork

MARCH 9, 2018

And as a product manager finding out how others made a strategy work, whether it was implementing a road-map software or avoiding other’s pitfalls can make or break your product’s success. You may be an entrepreneur creating SaaS platforms or a product manager for an enterprise. The data backs it up. 4 One Door at a Time.

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