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've already decided you want to work closer to tech and are ready to start making the transition to PM, you're on the right page! Many companies have a bias towards PMs coming from a technical background.

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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've already decided you want to work closer to tech and are ready to start making the transition to PM, you're on the right page! Many companies have a bias towards PMs coming from a technical background.

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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. They determine the vision and build a roadmap that will lead their team on a path to achieving goals. In fact, 83.9% The Companies We’ve Worked With.

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ProductPlan

MARCH 4, 2022

Unfortunately, we can’t advise you on specifics here. Question 2: If our company didn’t have any product tech stack when you joined, what types of tools do you think we’d need first, and why? If the hiring manager knows this, you probably won’t get questions about building a tech stack.

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Gainsight

AUGUST 6, 2021

This step involves enabling the CS team so they can effectively onboard, teach, or advise customers about the new feature. Ensuring visibility into your product roadmap and building a communication channel will keep your CS teams informed on what’s coming and what they should expect. monthly progress reviews, QBRs, etc.),

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Modus Create

MAY 11, 2020

For people in tech, it’s just our daily environment, nothing too fancy, nothing too hard. So, how can the tech product community help the world to pivot, work as a cross-functional team and make this place better prepared for the times to come? This applies not only in tech, but also in politics and society. Is it hard?

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Gainsight

NOVEMBER 23, 2020

GitLab is an open-source, code-collaboration platform for git repository management, code reviews, issue tracking, wikis, and continuous deployment tools, enabling users to create, review, and deploy codes. Together, we’ve mapped out a three-year roadmap for the CS org. Here’s our Roadmap ( PDF link ). Systems enablement.

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Mironov Consulting

MAY 18, 2024

  Out of scope means they can advise, counsel, suggest, offer to help… but don’t own the decision/action.  Push internal recruiters hard, perhaps reviewing stacks of résumés together to clearly communicate what you’re looking for.    With lots of gray space between the two.

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Alchemer Mobile

APRIL 14, 2020

How deep does your understanding of the technology go as a PM? And how much do you try to be, like, a subject matter expert from a technological standpoint compared to your engineering team? How do you manage executive expectations, customer expectations, and technical resources? So that’s me. Christy : Awesome.

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Product Bookshelf

JANUARY 31, 2017

The book starts with Sean agreeing to be the first product manager at Alpha Technology Ventures. This list is particularly useful for a product manager who came to the role from a technical team and may not have previously reviewed this type of information.

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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. What I most often advise is to err on the side of fewer features for the benefit of getting the product out sooner to optimize for learning.

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Department of Product

MARCH 28, 2022

It is extremely difficult (and probably not advisable) to attempt to stay on top of all trends. For product people, we’re mostly interested in trends which impact the 3 core skill areas of product management: Technology Business Design So let’s tackle each of these separately. It’s impossible for one person to do.

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The Product Coalition

MAY 11, 2022

Product specialization : “very tailored to solve a specific technical or business need” that becomes complicated quickly. To not try to please everyone, Ben and Blair advise “staying the course, given your strategy is sound”. The customer vs. the user: the one buying your product isn’t the same one who pays for it. How are we doing?

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Mixpanel

MAY 5, 2021

He was the Growth Advisor in Residence at Greylock Partners, Growth Lead at Pinterest, and first marketer at Grubhub. He advised companies like Tinder, Hipcamp, Reddit, Canva, and Pocket. We’ll cover why in the next section, after reviewing examples. Tech costs. Incompatibility.

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The Product Coalition

OCTOBER 21, 2019

As a project manager at an IT company working with many non-technical startup founders, our clients, I often get to resolve a variety of interesting issues that relate to technology and communication. They had spent a lot of time choosing the technological stack and discussing technical solutions with outside consultants.

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The Product Coalition

JANUARY 5, 2021

Sprint Reviews and user interviews are also well suited to improve collaboration and communication over time. Early in the transition process, it is advisable to educate them with product-related workshops on agile principles. Proven examples are user story mapping or product roadmap planning workshops. (It

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Usersnap

JUNE 15, 2023

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. Or how will you be able to build a product roadmap that gets you executive buy-in? Questioning them.

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UX Studio: Product Management

MARCH 28, 2022

Is it technical details, customer insights or revenue and money? Bill Campbell was a legendary coach who worked with some of the biggest product leaders in the tech industry. He often visited the meetings run by these super powerful tech executives and spent time making sure they become better in running them. “To

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Department of Product

JUNE 27, 2022

Who does technical leadership? For example, the Product Manager has one version of a roadmap, and the Engineering Manager has another. Typically I’ve seen these be called Business Review meetings. A “monthly business review” meeting. He now advises startups on how to scale their product development organizations.

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The Product Guy

AUGUST 30, 2017

I had a strong roadmap, clear goals and a vision for the product. As we were getting closer to the end of the year, my senior vice president called me in, to review our progress against our goals. I’m not a technical Product Manager. At the end of 2015 I was in the worst nightmare of any Product Manager. Similar, right?

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Business of Software Conference

JUNE 29, 2020

A lot of product teams are asked to deliver a fixed roadmap with some dates on it. So, this visual for those for the product folks in the room to tell a board that I made it up and it’s a 12 month roadmap for Netflix that I totally made up. So what Dewey is advising us to do. These are the essentials of thinking.

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Business of Software Conference

NOVEMBER 26, 2018

Press reviews are kind of blah, sales cycles take too damn long, but you can almost always feel it when it is happening. It will even write your roadmap for you as we shall shortly see. They’re very trusting, the technically sophisticated, and they really just wanted to get time back in the day. The engine has 5 stages.

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Userpilot

APRIL 30, 2021

Rather than drain yourself by doing too many things at once, it’s strongly advisable to focus on one channel and find an agency that specializes in that. Classically, SEO is broken down into the following sub-areas: Technical SEO: includes ensuring pages are indexed, creating site maps, Knowledge Graph optimization and improving site speed.

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Product Bookshelf

FEBRUARY 7, 2017

One of the rules, written by Lawley, advises to work on problems you are passionate about. It’s critical for product managers to explicitly spell out their positioning and review it with the entire team. The positioning statement is what you say if someone with a minimal understanding of your industry asks what your product is.

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