PMLesson's Ace the PM Interview

MAY 22, 2021

Engineering manager interviews are some of the toughest in the tech industry. Not only do you need to demonstrate your technical prowess and experience with designing complex systems, you also need to showcase your soft skills in people management. You’ll go through many rounds, each 30 - 60 minutes long.

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ProductPlan

MARCH 18, 2022

For this reason, product teams need to develop a process for idea management. The two biggest challenges for idea management are efficiently and consistently recording and organizing ideas followed by actually making good use of them. Here are four good reasons to take idea management seriously. Ideas are fleeting.

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Mironov Consulting

SEPTEMBER 15, 2019

It also requires product managers to engage much more directly with data scientists about models, predictability, how products work in production, how/why users interact with our products, and how our end users measure success. (Hint: most users don’t understand or care about F1-scores ; they just want to get the right answer.).

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BrainMates

NOVEMBER 27, 2022

Case Study: How Pets.com Failed Product Development. Many of these are cases where products were developed with little or no understanding of the actual market demand for them. Many of these are cases where products were developed with little or no understanding of the actual market demand for them. By NICK COSTER.

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Mind the Product

AUGUST 19, 2019

What does it mean for us as product managers? What does it mean for us as product managers? Secondly, as great product managers are also great capacity builders for their teams, you should start looking for opportunities that AI can present for your product. Lesson 1: Understand the Problem You’re Trying to Solve with ML.

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Mironov Consulting

AUGUST 8, 2017

As a product manager, I think it’s my obligation to bring clarity and precision to discussions… so talking generically about customers or users can be exasperating. Being more specific also gives us an opportunity to connect our teams emotionally to our (ahem) users. We encourage our teams to focus effort where it matters most.

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The Product Coalition

MAY 18, 2016

I did what I should have, and was not bad at it, as numbers and analysis are not hard for me, but besides, I couldn’t say that I really enjoyed it. My supervisors in different teams (I was in a management trainee rotational program) gave me two big projects. Product manager is the title of a role in technology companies.

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Modus Create

APRIL 5, 2021

I’m currently a senior double majoring in Finance and Operations and Information Management (OPIM) in the McDonough School of Business at Georgetown University. Georgetown is generally considered a target school for investment banking, which means that most students have an interest in working on Wall Street, and Wall Street wants them.

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Usersnap

MARCH 19, 2019

As a product manager or a SaaS company owner, what is your main drive in building new products? Should the Voice of Customer influence product development? Why Voice of Customer Should be Included in Development Process. Let your customers make product development decisions for you! Do you consider customer feedback?

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Mixpanel

JANUARY 12, 2023

Copywriting, while often thought of as something creative and inspired, is a technical craft. If you know a thing or two about product development, you’ve heard of the “a-ha” moment. Product and growth managers often build onboarding flows that get users to this moment fast. It’s a product unto itself.

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The Product Coalition

MARCH 6, 2019

Working as a product manager can be a busy, unpredictable and octopus-like existence. Bringing team members together, organizing user research, product demos, road mapping and more. If you’re a mobile app product manager there’s a whole additional layer of complexity to add to that cake.

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Mind the Product

JANUARY 21, 2020

Joe coaches and mentors product teams, supporting them to make good decisions and good user-centred design choices. I’ll be told ‘we’re not shipping stuff when we should, UX is poor, we’re struggling to keep staff’. I might do a review of the product itself, to understand what’s happening. That’s fairly typical for me.”.

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UX Studio: Product Management

JULY 5, 2021

As an expert and an opinion leader in the UX field, we’ve reviewed the competency, portfolio, and former projects of New York design agencies to define the best user experience design agencies in New York , based on our judgment. . As a client, you invest your time, energy, and limited resources into your digital product development.

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The Product Coalition

FEBRUARY 22, 2021

Consider how often the prevailing management culture is to apply undue pressure and emphasis upon deadlines as if they are the sole objective of work. Moreover, we ought to expect uncertainty to be increasing due to the hyper growth of digital assets. Poor articulation gets misinterpreted as incompetence.

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The Product Coalition

JUNE 21, 2021

Many worked from home on tasks ranging from organising team activities via Slack, analysing data and collaborating on documents via Google Docs, to discussing strategies via Microsoft Teams and coaching clients via Zoom. Others celebrated birthdays and had weddings via Facebook and Zoom. which are places of public accommodation.” [2]:

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PMLesson's Ace the PM Interview

JULY 13, 2020

Product Managers are often called “Product CEOs” or “Mini GMs”, but they rarely have direct control over the inputs that lead to successful products. There’s no set skillset or formal certification for PMs like there is for Project Management (PMP). Technical expertise. Also unsurprisingly, education hasn’t kept up with growth.

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Userpilot

JUNE 20, 2023

As a product manager, how can you effectively validate ideas and build a successful product that delights users? TL;DR Product idea validation is a process during which product teams test and tweak the product concept to ensure it satisfies a real market need. You can also study customer reviews to find cracks you could exploit.

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Mind the Product

DECEMBER 12, 2017

Startups, small and mid-size companies are becoming more technologically sophisticated. Hardware, software and mobile technologies have become cheaper and easier to deploy, enabling small and mid-size companies to have access to similar if not better technologies than the big boys. But this competitive advantage is small.

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UX Studio: Product Management

JANUARY 11, 2022

This time, our UX experts reviewed dozens of Webdesign Wien companies to list the best Austria webdesign agencies to partner with in 2022. Our experts analyzed services, portfolios, expertise, strengths, and weaknesses of dozens of Webdesign Wien companies to create this curated list. This is our fantastic UX team.

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PMLesson's Ace the PM Interview

MARCH 2, 2022

While behavioral interviews are guaranteed for most tech positions, they're often overlooked in interview prep. This is because at surface level they may not seem as hard to answer as Google's technical interview questions. " At Google, you'll typically be working in cross-functional teams. Leadership.

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Userpilot

MARCH 7, 2024

I asked DALLE to ‘Give me an image of a tech CEO’. Then I tried regenerating the image to see on which try it would give me a tech CEO of a different gender (or colour). Check out this viral post by Andrew Gazdecki to learn more about what a ‘tech CEO’ is like US Census data from 2022 revealed that only 17% of tech CEOs are female.

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Mind the Product

JULY 24, 2019

Whether you’re working on a consumer app in Singapore, a SaaS product in San Francisco, or a challenger bank in London, we all struggle with the same challenges – and we can learn how to deal with them by coming together as a community. Brandon Chu on the challenges of managing platforms. Clarity and Focus are Very Important.

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Userpilot

MAY 13, 2021

It’s what helps teams build great product experiences. Product intelligence is integrated software that allows teams to use customer data to continuously make smart changes to products. Another example is project management software and other SaaS products. How cross-functional product and growth teams collaborate in real-time.

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ProductPlan

OCTOBER 23, 2018

There are lots of ways to define a product manager’s job , but here’s one viable way you could succinctly describe the product management role: identify flaws and design solutions for them. Other times we over-develop or under-develop a piece of functionality. But here’s another one.

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Intercom, Inc.

DECEMBER 9, 2022

In a recent episode, our Director of Machine Learning, Fergal Reid , shed some light on the latest breakthroughs in neural network technology. Our technology interfaces are gradually becoming more conversational, and we’re just starting to see the quality of natural language understanding get good enough to unlock them.

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The Product Coalition

JULY 24, 2020

Any inaccuracies or misinterpretations are due to me. Identifying and answering the most important questions Launching a socially responsible investing product was something the Nutmeg team wanted to do for a long time. It took a few years until the team felt the market for this product was mature enough. and trust me on this?—?it’s

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Mironov Consulting

JULY 27, 2023

Lately, I’ve been writing a lot about entirely predictable goal misalignments between the maker side (product, engineering, design) and the go-to-market side (sales, marketing, customer success) of tech firms, especially at B2B/enterprise software companies.  That   “ BNP Paribas is the largest bank in France.  We

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Alchemer Mobile

MARCH 18, 2021

Almost all apps experienced significant change in their DAU due to COVID-19. This is going to be a fantastic presentation for both product managers, mobile marketers alike. During the webinar, you can engage with Team Apptentive by chatting along, I hope you do that. Transcript. So bear with my enthusiasm.

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Reveal

AUGUST 24, 2022

Businesses of all industries and all sizes incorporate embedded analytics technologies and capabilities into their own software, SaaS platforms, Angular apps , or other apps because of the tremendous benefits that they get. Banking : Deliver great benefits to customers and employees alike. Reveal Embedded Analytics.

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Mind the Product

APRIL 16, 2020

Before moving to super app Gojek to lead its efforts on mass financial inclusion, Adam Darcy developed PayMe, a product that has helped to transform the way young people in Hong Kong think about HSBC. However, I quickly discovered that there’s too much brand risk for a trusted bank to take this type of lean startup approach.

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Mironov Consulting

DECEMBER 29, 2022

 But when I do product due diligence for SaaS-focused PE/VC firms, it's the very first thing I look at.  Let’s IMHO, software product companies are fundamentally different from software services/outsourcing/custom development companies.  Said   What BigCorp demands, BigCorp gets.  Hitting

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Mironov Consulting

APRIL 15, 2023

On either side, it’s easy to assume bad intent or have this get personal.  Almost  Almost every (non-engineer) CEO I talk with tells me that their development team needs to be much more productive – or is lazy – and their product managers are unresponsive or don’t understand the business.  I

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Business of Software Conference

OCTOBER 11, 2023

As usual, you really had to be there but here are the Sigmacorn notes… 9:00 Mark Littlewood: Opening remarks Welcome to BoS! How will we win?

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The Product Coalition

JULY 17, 2018

to find this year’s top app development agencies. After reading a bunch of content from other app development professionals, journalists, tech bloggers and the like, we realized that there are many good companies out there, and that everyone has a different favorite. It develops for Android and iOS, but also for the web.

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Reveal

AUGUST 31, 2022

Businesses of all industries and all sizes incorporate embedded analytics technologies and capabilities into their own software, SaaS platforms, Angular apps , or other apps because of the tremendous benefits that they get. Banking : Deliver great benefits to customers and employees alike. Reveal Embedded Analytics.

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Roadmunk

MAY 15, 2018

Overseeing a team of 11 product managers, Ben is a step removed from managing the actual product at Venmo. Instead, he’s managing the PMs responsible for different slivers of their product. Our CEO Latif Nanji sits down with Ben to discuss how he navigates the messiness of managing all these PMs.

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Mironov Consulting

JUNE 28, 2018

I’m often asked by B2C product managers how B2B companies are different, or about switching between the two. Here are some thoughts on company-wide structural differences and how we product managers get our work done. Long Sales Cycles, Weak Attribution, Few Data Points. What’s B2B? What’s Enterprise? Digging in: 1.

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