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 want to learn more about the consulting role vs the product role, read this article on the topic. Ideally, you will have directly assisted a product manager on one of your projects.

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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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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. Trust your team.

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Alchemer Mobile

APRIL 14, 2020

Here are some of the questions they’ll discuss: What’s the relationship between design, development, engineering, and product and your company? How deep does your understanding of the technology go as a PM? How do you manage executive expectations, customer expectations, and technical resources?

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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. This can be in terms of the companies you want to target, the roles you want to get into or the kind of industry, products, or technologies you want to work on.

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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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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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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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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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PMLesson's Ace the PM Interview

APRIL 9, 2020

CIO’s top 10 , taken from Switchup.org, a review and ranking guide which examined thousands of alumni reviews to rank coding bootcamps based on price, location, job support and instructor quality. Hot off the presses, Career Karma’s review was published only days ago and focuses on coding bootcamps with an online option.

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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.

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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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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. Your non-technical product managers and product marketing managers will certainly thank you!

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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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Userzoom

AUGUST 24, 2017

Executives, Marketers, Designers, and Product Managers all want to make an informed decision and manage risk intelligently. I know, I know – it’s not the technical definition, but this has served me well for 2 decades. How you can make your next research project more actionable and valuable.

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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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Product Bookshelf

SEPTEMBER 14, 2020

OKRs were brought from Intel to Google by John Doerr where the method gained popularity within the high tech and startup communities. Environments which embrace Agile principles find an affinity with OKRs due to the way the methodology sets success criteria, emphasizes learning, and allows teams to establish solutions.

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The Product Guy

AUGUST 30, 2017

Guest Post by: Liel Aharon (Mentee, Session 4, The Product Mentor) [Paired with Mentor, Felix Sargent]. 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. A production release was a distant vision. Better Products.

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Business of Software Conference

JULY 7, 2021

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. Ask yourself what you are doing to encourage the sales team to reflect, review and adapt their performance on a daily or weekly basis.

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Userpilot

DECEMBER 6, 2021

Few customer success managers are also developers. A customer success platform designed for non-technical people will help your customer success teams be more efficient. #3 Inexperienced Product Managers: Chameleon is tricky to get to grips with, which is pretty ironic in an onboarding tool! Basic analytics are a must.

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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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Userpilot

JANUARY 5, 2022

It’s also advisable to ensure they contain a CTA and a X button, so that the user has the choice to either engage with the value the modal is offering, or go back to what they were doing previously. After connecting Userpilot to your product with a JS snippet, you can build a tooltip in 10-15 minutes of work.

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Product Talk

AUGUST 10, 2016

We would jump from reviewing interview guides one week to discussing experiment results the next. 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. The Mental Representations of Expert Product Managers.

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Business of Software Conference

NOVEMBER 26, 2018

He says, Product-Market Fit… You can always feel it when it isn’t happening. Press reviews are kind of blah, sales cycles take too damn long, but you can almost always feel it when it is happening. They’re very trusting, the technically sophisticated, and they really just wanted to get time back in the day.

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Business of Software Conference

JUNE 29, 2020

So what Dewey is advising us to do. Now I get that like there might be different technical architect implementations for fast forwarding commercials, but there’s one feature that’s going to solve this need. These are the essentials of thinking. I’m not going to lie, I had to google protracted. That’s a solution.

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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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