Product Talk

NOVEMBER 17, 2021

It’s no wonder we end up with software that doesn’t work for our customers. When a product manager, a designer, and a software engineer work together to decide what to build and they engage directly with customers themselves, we avoid this game of telephone. Align around specific solutions by story mapping the possibilities.

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PMLesson's Ace the PM Interview

MARCH 1, 2020

In this Path to PM blog post, Kevin shares his journey breaking into a product role as a new grad hire at IBM. I studied mathematics at UCLA, worked 2 summers as a software engineering intern at a Series E AdTech startup, and advised Metta World Peace (Ron Artest) as the product manager for his social basketball app, Gradelo.

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Userpilot

JULY 8, 2021

Product management guides the development of a product at the intersection of technology, UX, and business. A good product manager course should teach you many skills including technical skills, project management skills, and communication skills. Project management skills with respect to software development practices (e.g.

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Mind the Product

APRIL 24, 2018

Setapp provides Mac users with a way to use and discover new apps, and developers with a new way to reach customers and generate extra revenue. We liken Setapp to Netflix for Mac software: the user pays a monthly subscription and receives access to a suite of curated Mac apps. It’s a new style of distribution for Mac apps.

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The Product Coalition

DECEMBER 17, 2019

We’ve just made it through a decade that completely revolutionized the way we think about tech. Top companies have completely changed the face of tech, transforming our lives. In the 2010s, the lines between keyboard-centric computers and touchscreen tablets/app-based devices started to blur. Breakup, as captured by my fitbit.

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Userpilot

MARCH 3, 2022

This includes market research (potential employers), understanding product strengths (your value to the customer), iterative development (subsequent drafts), or refining the UI (formatting). Product managers with technical skills such as SQL or technical stack are in high demand, so highlight them in your resume. Yes, you do!

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Userpilot

JULY 9, 2023

Start improving user experience and usability with user research. Next, generate and prioritize ideas for improving the usability and user experience you’ve identified in the research. A/B tests allow you to identify the best versions of your UI and in-app content. Which techniques can you use for your customer research ?

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The Product Coalition

MAY 17, 2021

Join more than 210 peers from May 27–29, 2021 , for the Virtual Agile Camp Berlin 2021, a live virtual Barcamp using open space technology principles and practices. Page 9: During the event, the Scrum Team and stakeholders review what was accomplished in the Sprint and what has changed in their environment. Making Your Scrum Work #3 ??

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The Product Coalition

MAY 26, 2018

And companies across the globe have spent a lot of time and effort over the last few months interpreting privacy policies and legal documents, assessing product, processes and marketing strategies, and reviewing vendor relationships to make their products and businesses complaint to the new regulation. What is the purpose of storing the data?

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The Product Coalition

OCTOBER 15, 2019

To me, strategies are just solutions to problems. And any solution can be labeled as a “strategy” once its scope includes understanding of competitors and the tactics to beat them. So if you are a PM aspiring to think more “strategically,” try this simple exercise of asking “why” to everything you do. Curious to learn more?

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PMLesson's Ace the PM Interview

MAY 19, 2020

Even though the role is very versatile and one of the least standardized roles in tech companies, there are core sets of skills you can develop to be in a good position to become a strong Product Marketing Manager. Try writing its launch blog post! What would you want the reader's takeaway to be? How would you market them?

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Nulab

SEPTEMBER 22, 2021

Research part 1: Qualitative research for competitive positioning. Any good positioning strategy begins with plenty of research. Let’s look at how to conduct market research in a little more detail. If you’re researching multiple markets, verticals, or sub-markets, you’ll need to repeat this task for each one.

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The Product Coalition

JULY 24, 2020

Up until this point in the blog series, the focus has been all about establishing the framework. Any inaccuracies or misinterpretations are due to me. Those should be standardized formats as well for easier creation and analysis during exercises later on. Even the way that interview notes are taken should be standardized.

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ProductPlan

JUNE 5, 2020

Now, we’ve evaluated top picks based on course content, reviews, communities/groups around the certifications, and industry recognition. The course covers basics like assessing target opportunities, building software products, and how to launch a great product. But how do you know which ones are worth your time and money?

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Bain Public

MARCH 20, 2021

There are many peer-reviewed studies compiled by the Product Development and Management Association (PDMA) that illustrates about half of all product development projects fail; this failure rate is especially much higher in smaller and startup companies. Create the User Interface Design (UI) on top of reviewed and green-lit wireframes.

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Amplitude

OCTOBER 4, 2017

But then online came along and with it, a new software distribution model emerged (SaaS). But the products being developed, the websites and applications, were essentially marketing tools – glorified digital brochures. Today, however, websites and apps are the product. And this isn’t just in tech.

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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. For starters, your first interview at Google will be a phone screen with a recruiter. Leadership.

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PMLesson's Ace the PM Interview

MAY 4, 2020

Enterprise Product Manager (IBM) I'm Kevin Wei, a product manager at IBM working on data integration tools. As you may expect at IBM, we don't use Gmail; to handle emails, employees use software we developed ourselves called IBM Verse. As for internal messaging, we use the wildly popular Slack app. Here's a snapshot of my day.

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Intercom, Inc.

OCTOBER 5, 2022

Over the years, she worked in jobs such as Engineering Director at Etsy and VP of Engineering at Kickstarter, growing emerging tech leaders, demystifying public speaking , and championing engineering management. And since then, I have been trying to support managers and leaders, usually in the tech industry, as they support their teams.

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Roadmunk

APRIL 17, 2018

So my team is responsible for our design system and our audience-facing experience across all of our edit networks. And as far as other tools, not voice-related in this space, there were a few Slack bots here and there. I think we’re still trying to figure out if this is the right platform for news. Sanette: ?

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ProductPlan

DECEMBER 15, 2020

You’re a product manager, and you need to run a collaborative roadmapping exercise with various teams across your company. What is a Collaborative Roadmapping Exercise? A collaborative roadmapping exercise is an ideation meeting. This environment can help you with every stage of the exercise: before, during, and after.

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Gainsight

FEBRUARY 2, 2024

Technology companies are producing more complex software, which can often overwhelm customers during the onboarding process. As a result, it’s common for these customers to quickly abandon new platforms. These are just the tools, however. They’re not just creating great users of their software.

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ProductPlan

DECEMBER 15, 2020

You’re a product manager, and you need to run a collaborative roadmapping exercise with various teams across your company. What is a Collaborative Roadmapping Exercise? A collaborative roadmapping exercise is an ideation meeting. This environment can help you with every stage of the exercise: before, during, and after.

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Roadmunk

AUGUST 10, 2017

The rise of the SaaS model in the product space has been swift, to say the least. So as product managers, knowing how to manage only traditional, on-premises software no longer cuts it. SaaS product managers) to find out how their role differs from an “old-school” software PM—and more importantly, what it really takes to be a SaaS PM.

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The Product Coalition

NOVEMBER 24, 2020

On the one side, they address typical Scrum events such as Sprint Planning, Sprint Review, and the Sprint Retrospective. A good Scrum Team pays attention to preserving an application’s technical health to ensure the Scrum Team is ready to pursue an opportunity in the market. Read more: Retrospective Exercises Repository.)

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UX Studio

FEBRUARY 15, 2024

The Challenges faced, specifically about the detailed insights and learnings from the 50 user interviews conducted, discussing how this data helped shape the core design and functionalities across the app in a user-centric manner. Should we do research? What type of research should we do? I also support our sales team.

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Usersnap

JUNE 15, 2023

Building a powerful SaaS product takes way more than just an idea. For instance, in large companies like Google and Facebook, product managers collaborate with dedicated researchers, analysts, and marketers who assist them in different stages of the product lifecycle. Conduct market and competitive research.

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Intercom, Inc.

NOVEMBER 23, 2022

Behind closed doors, negotiations are dragged on for months while founders and executives figure out ways to eliminate friction and create a synergy that can drive the most value of their shared cultures, processes, and systems. In the world of tech and business, a lot of us go, “That company’s successful.

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Product Talk

AUGUST 10, 2016

So I’m going to scratch the surface in this blog post. I hope to have the book ready by early 2017 and I’ll be blogging bits and pieces along the way. We would jump from reviewing interview guides one week to discussing experiment results the next. It’s working so well that I feel compelled to write a book about it.

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ProductPlan

MAY 30, 2019

They explore why other solutions aren’t cutting it, and how they’re solving things for the customer with their not-yet-built product. Looking at Apple’s slick and popular product line, it’s obvious they were listening when Steve Jobs said “you have to start with the customer experience and work backwards towards the technology.”.

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The Product Coalition

MARCH 2, 2020

In both situations, the incentive structure of an organization most likely still fosters a predictable behavior that contradicts the organization’s goals at a system level. The following list of Scrum stakeholder anti-patterns addresses Scrum events, system-related issues as well as issues of individual players.

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Mixpanel

AUGUST 3, 2023

What tools can enhance a marketing strategy at scale? Marketing analytics is a practice of collecting and measuring marketing data—and using tools that can offer a clear picture of the path from casual website visitors to valuable paying customers. How can you build a strategy around customer value? Or maybe all of the above?)

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Mixpanel

AUGUST 3, 2023

What tools can enhance a marketing strategy at scale? Marketing analytics is a practice of collecting and measuring marketing data—and using tools that can offer a clear picture of the path from casual website visitors to valuable paying customers. How can you build a strategy around customer value? Or maybe all of the above?)

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Department of Product

JUNE 27, 2022

Who does technical leadership? You can use this exercise for defining lines between roles. Typically I’ve seen these be called Business Review meetings. When I was at Gremlin, we copied Amazon’s approach, and had these meetings: A “weekly business review” meeting, with local leadership. Who does project management?

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ProductPlan

APRIL 23, 2019

To provide a consistent communications platform for every employee, most companies hold some form of staff meeting on a semi-regular basis. It’s the perfect platform for raising the profile of the product management organization, and asserting its importance. Try it Free. Enterprise. Integrations. Try it Free. Enterprise. Integrations.

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Mixpanel

AUGUST 3, 2023

What tools can enhance a marketing strategy at scale? Marketing analytics is a practice of collecting and measuring marketing data—and using tools that can offer a clear picture of the path from casual website visitors to valuable paying customers. How can you build a strategy around customer value? Or maybe all of the above?)

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Roadmunk

MAY 15, 2018

I think I was the seventh or eighth developer that joined Braintree, and did a bunch of different things from purely technical roles, to product roles, to hybrid roles. One that’s around our internal tools for our customer support team. While I was technical, I was doing a lot of what I now consider product work today.

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