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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Gainsight

AUGUST 5, 2022

Imagine you are a Customer Success Manager (CSM), and you wonder what the future holds for you. You learned about other roles where your experience in CS can be a springboard for those positions. Preparing and presenting executive reviews. Helping manage renewals and driving advocacy. Building and using Health scores.

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Userpilot

SEPTEMBER 8, 2021

We generally advise against linear, top-down product tours. Instead, you should opt for an interactive walkthrough type of product tour. Product tours generally include a welcome screen , a survey to segment users, a checklist , and experience flows for each of the key activation points. What are product tours?

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Userpilot

JULY 13, 2021

Building a walkthrough using a dedicated tool is much easier than coding it from scratch. The best walkthrough software on the market is Userpilot. An interactive walkthrough is a step-by-step, interactive guide to your product that will ultimately lead your users to activation. Look at this humble tooltip: Source: Educba.

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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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ProductPlan

MARCH 4, 2022

Product operations is a new discipline within product management, and the product operations analyst role is even newer. Businesses are still learning how to build a product operations function in their companies. Even among large enterprises with more than 10,000, fewer than half—45%—have implemented product ops.

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UX Studio: Product Management

JULY 14, 2021

Considering that none of the established innovation consulting companies are cheap, you want to make sure your return on the investment is positive. . As a product design consulting firm , we often get questions from our clients who look for reliable design, development, or marketing partners.

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Intercom, Inc.

JANUARY 14, 2021

With a background in computer science and an MBA, he soon realized that understanding the markets and customers is as important as building the products. And so, in 2014, he founded Productboard , a product management system that incorporates customer feedback and insights to help product teams build better products.

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Pragmatic Marketing

SEPTEMBER 16, 2009

Barbara Nelson said in The Politics of Agile , “When product managers weren’t looking, the developers went agile.” ” Indeed, many Product Managers were taken by surprise at the speed of Agile’s adoption. Ultimately, we are responsible for the success of the product and, thus, the company.

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Department of Product

MARCH 28, 2022

How to Keep on top of Trends that Matter to Product Managers Decide when to care about trends and when to sit back and watch what happens next Trends and the product lifecycle Imagine your product strategy stayed exactly the same for the next 10 years. What would happen? Because everything’s always changing.

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Mixpanel

MAY 5, 2021

Neil Rahilly VP of Product and Design, Mixpanel Neil Rahilly is the VP of Product and Design at Mixpanel. Prior to this position, Neil was VP of Engineering, after working as a Software Engineer and leading Infrastructure Engineering. He advised companies like Tinder, Hipcamp, Reddit, Canva, and Pocket. Tech costs.

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Usersnap

JUNE 15, 2023

Building a powerful SaaS product takes way more than just an idea. Without a systematic approach to your product management process and clear roadmap, you’ll likely face several hurdles like lack of direction, unclear priorities, wasted resources, missed deadlines, difficulty in scaling, and more.

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The Product Coalition

JANUARY 5, 2021

TL; DR: 71 Product Owner Interview Questions to Avoid Imposters If you are looking to fill a position for a Product Owner in your organization, you may find the following 71 interview questions useful to identify the right candidate. Proven examples are user story mapping or product roadmap planning workshops. (It

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Userpilot

JANUARY 5, 2022

With so many options on the market, it can be difficult for SaaS executives to find the best onboarding software for their product. What you need is a rigorous analysis of the top players out there, based on an understanding of the features that quality onboarding software needs to provide to be competitive.

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Business of Software Conference

JULY 7, 2021

In this guest post Paul Kenny (founder of Ocean Learning and long time BoS participant and speaker) argues that software and SaaS “proven sales playbooks” are BS. Alex A may have little patience to deal with awkward technical queries, and may be willing to make unrealistic promises to get deals to cross the line.

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Userpilot

DECEMBER 6, 2021

If your customer engagement levels are not where they need to be, maybe it’s time to look at the customer success software you’re using again? When choosing customer success software, consider: (i) ease of adoption, (ii) is it no-code?, (iii) For product analytics, choose Heap, MixPanel, or Amplitude.

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The Product Guy

AUGUST 30, 2017

At the end of 2015 I was in the worst nightmare of any Product Manager. I had a strong roadmap, clear goals and a vision for the product. The team had been working for almost a year and had a huge amount of code under their belts. But just because it was a lot of code doesn’t mean it worked. We’d made great code.

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Product Bookshelf

FEBRUARY 7, 2017

42 rules to live by for product managers. Great insights and product principles for being a great product manager and making better products. 42 Rules of Product Management edited by Brian Lawley. This book is packed with great advice, product patterns, and anti-patterns.

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Business of Software Conference

NOVEMBER 26, 2018

Rahul Vohra (Founder/CEO, Superhuman) – The Product-Market Fit Engine from Business of Software Conference. Want us to let you know about new talk videos, speaker AMAs, Business of Software Conference and other event updates? He says, Product-Market Fit… You can always feel it when it isn’t happening.

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Business of Software Conference

JUNE 29, 2020

Teresa Torres (Product Discovery Coach, Product Talk) – Managing Outputs vs Outcomes from Business of Software Conference. So today I want to talk about managing by our outputs versus outcomes. So what Dewey is advising us to do. Video, Slides, Transcript, Sketchnote below. Transcript.

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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. Teresa : I’m going to do a quick review of what we covered in Part 1 and Part 2. The idea is to have a product trio —a product manager, a designer, and a tech lead—working and owning product decisions together.

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