PMLesson's Ace the PM Interview

DECEMBER 14, 2020

There is plenty to choose from, whether it be Agile, Waterfall, Scrum, or Kanban. By and large, however, the two most popular for today's organizations are the Waterfall and Agile methodologies. Let's get started with Agile vs. Waterfall. Without and further delay, let's look at two of the most common: Waterfall and Agile.

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UX Planet

FEBRUARY 21, 2024

As a Product Designer working in a high-performing software team, I am tasked and responsible for championing user value, ensuring that the end user's needs are met when using the product. For example, a user recruitment would typically take 3 days, same goes for my interview script writing.

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Modus Create

MARCH 8, 2022

” or “which features will be released to our customers and when?” What is Agile Release Planning? In Agile, a release is a group of software features that can be developed and deployed to the users in a given period. The truth is, most Agile teams would be better served if they created a release plan. .

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Roman Pichler

MARCH 11, 2020

Additionally, increase your ability to constructively deal with disagreements and learn to resolve conflicts so that nobody is left feeling frustrated or hurt. The latter includes carrying out product discovery and strategy work , updating the product roadmap , and prioritising the product backlog. Agile Process Constraints.

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Roman Pichler

MARCH 11, 2020

Additionally, increase your ability to constructively deal with disagreements and learn to resolve conflicts so that nobody is left feeling frustrated or hurt. The latter includes carrying out product discovery and strategy work , updating the product roadmap , and prioritising the product backlog. Agile Process Constraints.

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The Product Guy

NOVEMBER 9, 2017

A research conducted by Alpha UX found that 25% of Product Manager surveyed wished for a clearer product roadmap and strategy. While salary increase is a complex subject with variables outside of our control, I believe that having a clear product roadmap and strategy is every Product Manager’s responsibility. Research article.

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Roman Pichler

MAY 11, 2021

But the value a product creates is ultimately determined by its users: No product will be successful in the long run if it does not solve a specific user problem, create a tangible benefit, or help the users achieve a specific goal. But the situation is different for product owners in the agile scaling framework SAFe.

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The Product Coalition

JULY 29, 2022

Writing user stories is a good practice, but for articulating business outcomes, they are not enough. Once upon a time, I thought writing a good set of agile user stories with specific Given/When/Then acceptance criteria was the most important part of a product person’s job. I sent him the links to the 37 user stories required.

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ProductPlan

JUNE 8, 2021

By helping our audience—from sales and marketing to engineering and QA—connect with the customer problem, we will drive better outcomes. The processes with IMPACT that help ensure we’re working on interesting problems include: Product discovery—Helps you better understand the customer problem and interestingly tell that story.

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ProductPlan

JUNE 11, 2019

An outcome-based roadmap sounds like a good idea. Instead of a long list of context-free features and enhancements the roadmap is constructed to accomplish specific goals critical to the success of the business. The Problem With Outcome-Based Roadmaps. In reality, they end up with outcomes that fall short of expectations.

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The Product HQ

MAY 10, 2024

Work on New Product Development Projects A lead product manager needs to have a solid foundation in product management and the product development process, which means that they must know well about product roadmap development and product strategy definition. Networking and mentorship can provide valuable insights and support along the way.

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Product Innovation Educators

AUGUST 22, 2022

Insights on product strategy and customer research for product managers. The CEO joining us is Matt Young, CEO of UserVoice, the first product feedback and research tool for software companies. In product management, we talk about adding value to a customer, and that’s not precise enough for everyone.

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Modus Create

JANUARY 12, 2021

Never before has the customer been empowered with so many choices and information about those choices. Customers are savvy, informed, and ready to jump ship if a better product or service comes along. The three defining questions for any modern business are: How can we deliver more value to the customer?

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Mind the Product

NOVEMBER 29, 2017

The only constructive byproduct is a learning experience worth communicating to save other products from succumbing to the same mistakes. Moreover, regardless of the delivery methodology (waterfall, agile, pseudo-agile, SAFe etc.) The final output becomes soulless with no competitive edge. Adapting: Let’s see who’s Using it.

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Userpilot

DECEMBER 11, 2019

Feedback collection (Typeform, Feedier). User testing (UserTesting, Userfeel). Feedback management (Canny, Airfocus, ProdPad). Roadmapping (Productplan, Casual, Roadmunk). You can customize your onboarding flows, analyze user behavior, and use in-app messaging to drive engagement.

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Roman Pichler

JULY 11, 2016

But let the ScrumMaster or coach tackle people, process, and organisational issues; let the development team figure out what needs to be done to implement the user stories and other product backlog items. Provide constructive feedback and share your concerns. Assume that the team members want to do their best.

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Product Innovation Educators

JULY 1, 2016

Each week I scour articles, wading through the dogs, and bringing you the best insights to help product managers, developers, and innovators be heroes. . The 4 key customer experience competencies B2B product managers should master. (1) Get the Product Mastery Roadmap and…. build products customers want and love.

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Roman Pichler

FEBRUARY 14, 2023

It achieves this by using sprints to create product increments, collecting feedback from users and stakeholders, and adapting the product with the insights gained. [1] Otherwise, you might ask the wrong people for feedback on the increments and hence draw the wrong conclusions. But don’t stop there.

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Tyner Blain

JULY 3, 2020

A well-constructed epic achieves two objectives. Together with them, we create the epic roadmap to align and allocate the organization’s capacity to the pursuit of our strategy. An effective user story describes the user’s goal, when & why they have the goal, and how they judge their success at achieving their goal.

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The Product Coalition

MARCH 15, 2020

represent speed and agility. Product strategy, discovery, and delivery: These are the three general dimensions for which product managers are responsible to optimize in a customer-centric organization. Product strategy exists outside the well defined guideposts of dual-track agile (a product discovery and delivery methodology).

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ProductPlan

JULY 13, 2020

Driving true alignment around product strategy requires much more than hosting a quarterly company-wide product roadmap presentation. The product team’s relationship with the rest of the organization is built on a carefully constructed foundation of trust. We need to be the glue that holds this together.”. Build a Foundation of Trust.

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Lenny Rachitsky

APRIL 30, 2024

With fewer than 50 employees, the company has a user base that’s grown to more than (an estimated) 50 million. Fill out this short survey if you use Perplexity regularly, and they’ll reach out to conduct a user interview. We look for strong ICs with clear quantitative impacts on users rather than within their company.

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ProductPlan

APRIL 27, 2022

The term comes from real estate, where it conveys the image of a literal green-field site for development, undisturbed by previous construction. Other grocery retailers have released similar apps to customers, but it will be the first time this company builds one. A well-defined user or buyer persona. Feedback from key personas.

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Amplitude

SEPTEMBER 5, 2017

A product is no different from a well-constructed story. Agile development. Part of this management is owning the product roadmap. To be successful, adopt a flexible roadmap. A rigid one with inflexible timelines and updates makes it difficult to adjust to market conditions or users needs as they come up.

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BrainMates

MAY 28, 2019

Understanding that product management is not a one person job, SnapComms CEO Chris Leonard and 11 employees, who hailed from customer service, engineering, marketing and sales, attended the Brainmates’ Essentials of Product Management course to start the company product management journey together.

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Izenda

JUNE 17, 2019

The new world order of communications has fundamentally changed the way organizations and users interact. User-testing. It is hard to determine which products will be “user-friendly” until you get to that point in development. Even products with strong internal support can get to the user-testing stage and fail miserably.

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Intercom, Inc.

OCTOBER 10, 2019

As the publisher and founder of Rosenfeld Media , he works with authors and speakers to try to make sense of the user experience and how it can make the world a better place. There was also something called the User Experience Network, which didn’t quite ever succeed, but I see people still trying to do it today.

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Usersnap

JANUARY 8, 2024

From aviation’s decade-spanning aircraft design challenges to construction projects exceeding budgets and deadlines—the common thread is the struggle with unforeseen variables in the real-world. Learn how to use Usersnap for getting product feedback Jump into the example section immediately ? Testing & Feedback 5.

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Johanna Rothman

AUGUST 19, 2019

I started this series asking where “Agile” was headed. (I I didn't like what I saw at the Agile 2019 conference.) This part is about what “Agile” or “agile” means. I understand that people want what they perceive as the value “Agile” will bring them. Why a Manifesto?

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Usersnap

JANUARY 18, 2024

Why do the most successful product managers always seem to pay attention to the power of a well-constructed NPS survey ? These leaders understand that a streamlined NPS tool distills vast customer sentiment into actionable data, guiding strategic decisions. It enables precise, actionable insights for enhancing business performance.

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UX Planet

FEBRUARY 2, 2024

In simple terms, prototyping helps validate the feasibility of the product or concept by matching it with user expectations and needs. Handing over the prototype of the product or application to its actual users truly reveals how they want to use the product. What happens within the process of prototyping? What is a Prototype?

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Haines-Group

DECEMBER 11, 2023

Product Management establishes the vision for exactly what we should make, Engineering/Development designs and builds it, and Marketing figures out how to get customers to buy it. Afterall, they each live in different departments with different leaders, and each also has its own perspective about customers that also impacts alignment.

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Sequent Learning

AUGUST 26, 2019

Get your dose of insights, in just 15 quick minutes by tuning into the Masters of Product Management podcast. We must constantly be on top of changing market dynamics and evolving customer needs while still trying to manage the day-to-day process of developing and supporting products. We rarely have the luxury of a slow-moving market.

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Alchemer Mobile

APRIL 14, 2020

How do you manage executive expectations, customer expectations, and technical resources? Can you provide any interesting insights on being a female PM? I run the Customer Success team at Apptentive, and I’m gonna be here today just as a moderator for this panel. How do you give yourself the space to make those big bets?

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The Product Coalition

FEBRUARY 26, 2022

Why have Product Managers stopped speaking to customers? Very sadly, most product managers I meet today no longer talk directly to customers regularly. If you ask; “How many customers did you speak to this week?” My view is that this evolution is bad for product management careers and the customers who benefit from what we do.

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Usersnap

NOVEMBER 4, 2021

Both roles are big players within an agile team (or scrum team) of a business. The product manager’s role is about the business’s vision for the product, primarily on the market and customer feedback. need a customer feedback workflow in place? Understanding the needs of the customer is important to the role.

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ProductPlan

JULY 1, 2021

Smaller, younger firms are by nature more agile, and it’s easier to get change buy-in. Executives frequently don’t have much insight into the day-to-day operations of various teams. That includes employees across the company, as well as strategic partners and even customers. I use the Insights method.

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