PMLesson's Ace the PM Interview

JANUARY 9, 2019

In this Path to PM post, we discuss the importance of connecting with a product's users and the tough aspects of product management. Tell us about how you broke into product management. At that startup, I was arguably the CTO and head of product. I had frankly never heard of the role of product management at that time.

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The Product Coalition

AUGUST 14, 2018

These more senior engineers often find themselves in a challenging role, splitting their time between individual contributor responsibilities as well as management duties. The context switching between coding and project+team management can be demanding, and finding individuals who can traverse these two plains is difficult.

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The Accidental Product Manager

JULY 31, 2018

The industry’s chosen themes for 2018: Open Product in the Age of the Connected Consumer. Integration of New Technology into Digital Strategy. Parag Vaish, Head of Digital Product Management, Tesla. Bryan Mahoney, Chief Technology Officer, Glossier. Delivering Seamless, Personalized Experiences.

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Revulytics

DECEMBER 16, 2019

2019 was a great year to be in product management. Glassdoor named Product Manager the fifth best job out of 50 in America, with more job openings than data engineers and DevOps engineers. Glassdoor named Product Manager the fifth best job out of 50 in America, with more job openings than data engineers and DevOps engineers.

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Mind the Product

MAY 29, 2018

Originally trained as a scientist, he’s had job titles ranging from scientist, to engineer, to product manager, to designer, and even professor. He has recently served as the Head of Product & Experience at Workbar, Chief Design Strategist at Fresh Tilled Soil, and Innovation Architect at Constant Contact. Conference Tickets.

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Intercom, Inc.

JULY 21, 2022

Along the way, we’ve interviewed trailblazers, business leaders, makers and doers to share their experience and insights on all things startup strategy, product management, design, marketing, customer experience, and much, much more. In 2018, we’re going to focus on the more typical demand gen functions. That just blows my mind.

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BrainMates

JULY 3, 2018

According to The Product Management Body of Knowledge, Product Management is: “A discipline that provides managerial focus to products that in turn will generate measurable business benefits.”. Product Managers are often described as “the CEO of the product”. Wondering about moving into a new career in Product Management? ).

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Business of Software Conference

JUNE 27, 2019

Mikey Trafton, CTO, Alamo Drafthouse Cinemas. In his 3rd talk at Business of Software, Mikey picked up from where he left off at the end of his previous talk ‘ How To Recruit A Badass Team ‘ You’ve hired a great team, but you need to learn how to manage them. So how do we do this how do we manage this badass team?

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Business of Software Conference

DECEMBER 17, 2020

Poppy is a co-founder and CEO of Darktrace, a world-leading AI company for cyber defence, named Europe’s ‘Fastest Growing Super Scale-up’ by Tech Tour in 2018. Poppy was awarded an OBE (Officer of the Order of the British Empire) in 2019 in recognition of her services to cyber security. Poppy Gustafsson // Darktrace. Sketchnote.

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The Product Coalition

AUGUST 8, 2018

Michael will be joining us and 500+ product management, UX design and engagement executives at this years Open Mobile Summit (November 27–28 SF) to discuss ways in which to interact with and engage the connected consumers across all devices. It’s a fairly typical organization with product managers and designers and user researchers.

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Amplitude

DECEMBER 17, 2019

With this re-architecture, we managed to improve P95 latency by 3x across the board, reduced our server costs by 10% and also paved the way for a dynamic, auto-scaling querying infrastructure. Timeline: We started brainstorming ideas and doing research in the second half of 2018. Amplitude Customer Success Manager.

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Business of Software Conference

SEPTEMBER 17, 2018

Business of Software Conference USA 2018 is under 2 weeks away. As always, the #BoS2018 schedule is designed to help Software Founders, CEOs, and Product Managers lead with confidence and grow a better business. Having worked across the IT, Real Estate, and Healthcare industries, Mikey is now the CTO of Alamo Drafthouse Cinemas.

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Business of Software Conference

MAY 15, 2019

I went on to do management consultancy at ZS associates. Looked to new models for private jet aviation, managed a band, went and worked in film because I love film so much and found it intensely dull working for a blue chip company. The likes of MySpace and other technologies weren’t really there yet.

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NextBigWhat

OCTOBER 4, 2018

Rajnish Kumar, the CTO & Cofounder of Ixigo, spoke at the ProductGeeks Conference 2018 on Ixigo’s key learnings in its journey and much more. In this part of his talk, Rajnish talks about ‘core actions’ and ‘virtuous loops’ – a simple framework of sorts to understand user journey and gauge both the product and business […].

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NextBigWhat

OCTOBER 4, 2018

Rajnish Kumar, the CTO & Cofounder of Ixigo, spoke at the ProductGeeks Conference 2018 on Ixigo’s key learnings in its journey and much more.

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Business of Software Conference

MARCH 8, 2021

He is a serial entrepreneur, prolific writer, organizer, and participant in product management, agile, UX, and innovation events around the world. He leads the Boston Product Management Association and is a head judge at the annual Harvard Business School New Venture Competition. Can I submit a question in advance?

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Amplitude

AUGUST 14, 2019

It’s the central place for our teams to interpret behaviors, manage audiences, and measure impact so we’re able to move faster. Emmanuel Frenehard, CTO at iflix. Introducing behavioral targeting with Amplitude Engage. Amplitude Engage makes it easy to deliver relevant, targeted campaigns to our entire user base.

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BrainMates

APRIL 30, 2018

In April 2018, Brainmates hosted a Product Talks Sydney Meetup based on the “hypotheticals” format popularised by Geoffrey Robertson. A bright and brave cross functional team of panellists were on hand to tackle an imagined (but realistic) Product Management scenario. The panellists were: Mark Cohen, CTO at Domain.

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Business of Software Conference

JULY 2, 2019

So we did a workshop with the sales guys and the account managers to try work out what this approval flow should look like based on the requirements from their customers. So the Quad has Product, ExD (that’s our design team) the Tech team and we have the Agile delivery coach (in other organizations this might be the delivery manager).

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Userpilot

MARCH 7, 2024

Also – a study by Paychex from December 2018 found that 33% of women in technology have considered changing careers because of male colleagues. But I got hired as a coordinator for resource management, which meant that I had to coordinate very highly technical architects for projects. Sima Banijamali – Sr.

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Lenny Rachitsky

SEPTEMBER 3, 2024

If you’re not a subscriber, here’s what you missed this month: Why PMs are best positioned to thrive in an AI world On asking for help (even when you really don’t want to) Part 2: Time management techniques that actually work Subscribe to get access to these posts, and every post.

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Basel Fakhoury

MAY 17, 2018

First of all, companies were hacking together solutions for this using tools such as Google Forms/SurveyMonkey for screener surveys, Calendly/YouCanBookMe for scheduling, Amazon Gift Cards/Visa Gift Cards for payment and managing all the emails themselves. Defining success Just like with our user interviews, we needed a metric for success.

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Mixpanel

MARCH 7, 2021

Another report by ProductPlan independently confirms women account for just 37% of product manager roles. I became more interested in UX and product, and over the years, transitioned to becoming a data & AI product manager. ” Shelly Shmurack Data & AI Product Manager, Aspectiva, a Walmart Global Tech company.

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Mixpanel

JUNE 17, 2020

As CTO at Primephonic , the Amsterdam-based music streaming service sometimes called “the Spotify of classical music,” Henrique Boregio has channeled this approach into his company’s product roadmap, focusing his team and resources on building differentiated features for the niche market segment. We officially launched in September 2018.

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Mixpanel

JUNE 17, 2020

As CTO at Primephonic , the Amsterdam-based music streaming service sometimes called “the Spotify of classical music,” Henrique Boregio has channeled this approach into his company’s product roadmap, focusing his team and resources on building differentiated features for the niche market segment. We officially launched in September 2018.

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Business of Software Conference

MARCH 11, 2020

So you have field, inside, BDRs (business development representatives), ADRs (account development reps), CSMs (customer service Managers), etc all these acronyms that we all know. Is that just that sort… how do you sort of manage that – the kind of cultural thing – and what sort of how would you do things differently next time?

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Intercom, Inc.

AUGUST 15, 2018

At Reddit, he led a team of 35 – none of whom knew how to manage other engineers. He had to quickly determine which team members displayed a potential for leadership and teach them the fundamentals of management so they could make new hires and scale – without ruining the culture. Before that, I was a general manager at Microsoft.

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Intercom, Inc.

JULY 9, 2020

It’s the idea that a product is instead of being sold tops-down, say you will sell to a CTO or a CFO or whoever on the C-suite, it is bottoms-up as in a developer would bring in an Atlassian product like Jira, and would use that. The customer or user acquisition strategy is product-led and follows this concept of land and expand.

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Business of Software Conference

NOVEMBER 19, 2019

Tim Barker has established three startups and has seen the ups and downs of the startup journey, from his first business being acquired by Salesforce – where he spent five years in the formative age of cloud computing – to his current company DataSift being acquired by Meltwater in 2018. Tim Barker: Hi everyone.

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BrainMates

MARCH 6, 2018

In March 2018, Rich Mironov visited Australia and presented to the Product Talks Sydney Meetup Group on building and scaling Product teams. This blog is a transcript of part of that meetup, focusing on how to hire the first Product Manager at a startup. Rich Mironov presenting on why we need Product Management. My point of view.

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The Product Coalition

SEPTEMBER 21, 2019

by Sergey Kizyan, CTO, Intetics Oh, how the mighty have fallen. That exceeds the total number for all of 2018. One of the main reasons so many retail companies are in a death spiral is because they’ve been slow to adopt new technologies. Target recently modernized its entire supply chain management system.

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Business of Software Conference

JANUARY 30, 2020

To make a Roadmap useful, you need an allocation model and a selling strategy that helps you: understand; manage the expectations of; deliver value to people across the organization who prioritize very different things. Rich explains some approaches to help you understand and manage a roadmap’s stakeholders. 3 // Leadership.

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Crafty CTO

MARCH 8, 2023

Although I first joined Mastodon in November 2018, I only recently became an active user, when in November I bailed out of the Musk-hole. (I’m Some commercial platforms, like Blogspot/Blogger, have managed to have that kind of longevity. I like paying for the services I use. Twitter is free to use and look how that’s gone.

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