PMLesson's Ace the PM Interview

MARCH 21, 2022

Want to know what your next steps are as an engineer as you make your way to CTO? To make things even more confusing, junior or first-time developers may not understand the terms used at different companies to describe software engineers. Junior engineers are typically freshly graduated or candidates with little previous experience.

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The Product Guy

JANUARY 31, 2017

Each Session of the program runs for 6 months with paired individuals… Conducting regular 1-on-1 mentor-mentee chats Sharing experiences with the larger Product community Participating in live-streamed product management lessons and Q&A. Jordan lives in Manhattan and in his spare time likes to play soccer. Better Products.

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Agile Velocity

DECEMBER 4, 2023

Recently, Dave Gipp partnered with Adam Mattis of Scaled Agile to discuss strategic planning. Titled, “Mastering the Art of Integration: Strategic Planning with SAFe ® for Agile Organizations”, the webinar explored the challenges many companies face when bridging the gap between strategy and execution. Now, how do you do that?

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Izenda

AUGUST 11, 2020

CTO (Chief Technology Officer). Business end-users (considered as either a collective group or as different user segments). Role-play time. Once you’ve identified the key stakeholders and made a plan for how to speak their business’ language, it’s time to translate that plan into action.

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Mind the Product

MAY 21, 2019

Or a new leader comes in believing agile teams should be self-determining. If teams can do that they have a chance at meeting their customers’ changing needs and generating a return on investment for the business. A CTO friend of mine likes to talk about the importance of an uptime budget for devops engineers.

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Lenny Rachitsky

MARCH 10, 2024

Brought to you by: • Sprig —Build a product people love • Eppo —Run reliable, impactful experiments • Vanta —Automate compliance. Much online content stems from well-meaning individuals sharing insights based on their own experiences, often learned in suboptimal environments. Simplify security.

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The Product Guy

OCTOBER 25, 2016

Each Session of the program runs for 6 months with paired individuals… Conducting regular 1-on-1 mentor-mentee chats Sharing experiences with the larger Product community Participating in live-streamed product management lessons and Q&A. Jordan lives in Manhattan and in his spare time likes to play soccer. Better Products.

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Crafty CTO

FEBRUARY 7, 2023

I decided on the same approach this time around – take the opportunity to learn something new, state of the art, and very different. The Cloudflare experience solving this issue was really good – a lot of capabilities, a well-crafted interface, for $0. New needs This time around, my requirements were a little broader.

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BrainMates

JULY 23, 2019

We spoke with Chief Technology Officer, Paul Cascun to talk about how in-house Product Management training changed the game. “Agile doesn’t tell you to do anything that isn’t already obvious to most people,” says Paul. Product Management for all processes of evolution.

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The Product Guy

JANUARY 5, 2017

Each Session of the program runs for 6 months with paired individuals… Conducting regular 1-on-1 mentor-mentee chats Sharing experiences with the larger Product community Participating in live-streamed product management lessons and Q&A. Jordan lives in Manhattan and in his spare time likes to play soccer. Better Products.

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The Product Coalition

JUNE 28, 2020

It will bounce back, but it will take time?—?first With the majority of our product & engineering teams furloughed and operating with a skeleton caretaker team only, here’s my top 10 learnings from recent experience of this crisis: A crisis calls for pragmatism and being truly agile. people love to take holidays.

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People-First Product Leadership

APRIL 24, 2024

Doing so provides enough time to for your brain to discern what to say next as the words come out of your mouth. Experiment the next time an unexpected question is placed your way, and let your brain do its thing. Keep repeating the experiment, and you’ll find it gets easier and easier over time.

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Johanna Rothman

AUGUST 11, 2022

Many agile teams and product leaders assume they can make many product decisions on their own. They do have some constraints, such as “this kind of customer” and “these kinds of problems.” A technical HiPPO, such as an architect or CTO, might overrule a design or architecture.

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The Product Guy

FEBRUARY 18, 2017

Each Session of the program runs for 6 months with paired individuals… Conducting regular 1-on-1 mentor-mentee chats Sharing experiences with the larger Product community Participating in live-streamed product management lessons and Q&A. Jordan lives in Manhattan and in his spare time likes to play soccer. Better Products.

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The Product Guy

APRIL 4, 2017

Each Session of the program runs for 6 months with paired individuals… Conducting regular 1-on-1 mentor-mentee chats Sharing experiences with the larger Product community Participating in live-streamed product management lessons and Q&A. Jordan lives in Manhattan and in his spare time likes to play soccer. Better Products.

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Sachin Rekhi

JULY 10, 2019

Jason Fried says so himself in the foreward: For one, we’re not into waterfall or agile or scrum. You also define an appetite, which is how much time you want to spend on this project based on how much you believe this project is worth in terms of customer and business impact. For two, we don’t line walls with Post-it notes.

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Atomic Spin PM

JUNE 18, 2019

There is a common misconception that documentation should be done away with entirely in Agile development. Agile Documentation Basics. Agile values “working software over comprehensive documentation.” Agile Documentation Ideas. With Agile, the level of documentation can vary. User stories.

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The Product Guy

MAY 15, 2017

Each Session of the program runs for 6 months with paired individuals… Conducting regular 1-on-1 mentor-mentee chats Sharing experiences with the larger Product community Participating in live-streamed product management lessons and Q&A. Jordan lives in Manhattan and in his spare time likes to play soccer. Better Products.

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Johanna Rothman

SEPTEMBER 28, 2018

If you’re thinking about an agile transformation, you already know about feature teams. In this image, that’s the VP/CIO/CTO. Note that the product management and customer support folks have no representation here. And, great agile teams often have HR support near the team, if not part of the team.

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The Product Guy

FEBRUARY 2, 2017

Each Session of the program runs for 6 months with paired individuals… Conducting regular 1-on-1 mentor-mentee chats Sharing experiences with the larger Product community Participating in live-streamed product management lessons and Q&A. Jordan lives in Manhattan and in his spare time likes to play soccer. Better Products.

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The Product Guy

JANUARY 27, 2017

Each Session of the program runs for 6 months with paired individuals… Conducting regular 1-on-1 mentor-mentee chats Sharing experiences with the larger Product community Participating in live-streamed product management lessons and Q&A. Jordan lives in Manhattan and in his spare time likes to play soccer. Better Products.

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Hutwork

MARCH 9, 2018

Agile Died While You Were Doing Your Standup. Mind the Product says it’s time to take the good things you learned from agile and adapt them to the ever-evolving product management needs of the future. 4 One Door at a Time. The key is to surface it at just the right time for better prioritization and design decisions.

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Gainsight

APRIL 17, 2019

Companies had to rethink product development to embrace Agile and DevOps. And leaders reimagined service and support in the era of customer success. But for CEOs, one of the most fundamental changes about the job is how much more real-time it’s become. None of these were in real time, so they always felt out-of-date.

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Gainsight

NOVEMBER 11, 2018

One question that surfaced a number of times: as a company that’s branded around Customer Success, what is Gainsight doing to preserve Aptrinsic’s high velocity and orientation towards Product? Sales, Marketing, and Customer Success have found viral traction in just a year in-market. We know Customer Success really, really well.

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ProductPlan

JANUARY 31, 2019

Agile, Kanban, and similar methodologies have helped shape the landscape of product management in the 21st century. Uber has a fleet of Product Operations Managers that are responsible for getting out of the office and talking with as many customers and users as possible. Actionable Experimentation.

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The Product Guy

MARCH 2, 2017

Each Session of the program runs for 6 months with paired individuals… Conducting regular 1-on-1 mentor-mentee chats Sharing experiences with the larger Product community Participating in live-streamed product management lessons and Q&A. Jordan lives in Manhattan and in his spare time likes to play soccer. Better Products.

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Atomic Spin PM

JANUARY 7, 2019

So how much should you budget for a custom software project? You should also have a holistic understanding of what the project is going to cost internally, including marketing, ongoing support, executive time, opportunity cost of internal resources, etc. Software is never done—there are always more features and functions you could add.

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ProductPlan

JANUARY 21, 2020

I heard requests from customers, domain experts, consultants, our development team, and internal stakeholders. So along with the CTO, I made a decision – we’d declare backlog bankruptcy. The lesson declaring backlog bankruptcy taught me was that if an idea has high enough value for customers, it will come back.

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The Product Coalition

MAY 2, 2019

When it concerns business processes, it requires great effort. Customers want guarantees regarding the quality, scope, schedule, and contract. Agile Though there are various approaches to software development, we realized that Agile methodologies ensure a high level of transparency.

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The Product Coalition

JUNE 9, 2020

The first value expressed in the Agile Manifesto is “Individuals and interactions over processes and tools.” I actually took a lot of time to hire my teammate to make sure I chose the right one. how to create tech products customers love,” by Marty Cagan. As a direct result, I became Head of Product. It certainly is for me.

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Mind the Product

FEBRUARY 1, 2019

getting a certification (be it scrum, agile, product, coaching … you name it). hitting a specific metric (revenue/users/conversion, etc). Research into Approach goals and Avoidance goals shows that if we frame our goals as a positive (Approach), we have a better chance of success and feeling positive about the experience.

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Product Innovation Educators

APRIL 2, 2018

From the discussion you’ll learn: Sources for product ideas, How to validate your plans for solving the customers’ problem, and. We were a very small team and we were all very green; it was our first time creating something from scratch. Steve’s experience brought us a lot of credibility in that area. [9:20]

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Product Warrior

SEPTEMBER 17, 2017

Was is a total waste of time? The event was going well, then I realised it was time for the design sprints talk - I thought "maybe a chance to catch up on the mountain of emails growing from being out of the office". I had misunderstood the concept and confused it with agile principles. I was excited to make it work.

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Roadmunk

SEPTEMBER 21, 2017

However, Marc argues that it’s actually market knowledge (or “user empathy”) that’s likely the determining factor for your startup. Almost no amount of experience, knowledge of theory or models, or charisma can outshine a PM’s ability to be relentlessly resourceful. How many times I refer this post to new PMs still surprises me.

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Product Warrior

SEPTEMBER 25, 2017

Was is a total waste of time? The event was going well, then I realised it was time for the design sprints talk?—?I I thought “maybe a chance to catch up on the mountain of emails growing from being out of the office”. I had misunderstood the concept and confused it with agile principles. I was excited to make it work.

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Bain Public

MAY 29, 2020

This means deciding what features to develop, when to improve them and how to get users involved. We’ll also discuss how to roll out the features and ensure your customers see the value in them. Are you a product manager? Startup founder? Whatever the case, let’s assume you’re the decision-maker behind your product. Blaise Transit.

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Crafty CTO

APRIL 12, 2020

Biggest – it represents an alternative to All Those Other Agile Methodologies That Everybody Uses. In the event that the Basecamp guys happen to read this, they might be shrieking and gibbering right now, because they do not, never ever, in any way or sense, describe Shape Up as an “agile methodology.”

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