PMLesson's Ace the PM Interview

SEPTEMBER 25, 2018

What are some of the most common PM interview questions? How do great product managers break into the industry for the first time? What are the best answers to the "what is your favorite product" PM question? Introducing: PMLesson's Blog. Submit blog requests to submissions@pmlesson.com.

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Product Talk

NOVEMBER 8, 2023

I’ve designed my business to allow plenty of time for reading books, articles, interviews, etc. I also created the Continuous Discovery Habits Community as a place where product people could gather (virtually), share their successes and frustrations, and hold each other accountable for putting the ideas from the book into practice.

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Product Talk

FEBRUARY 28, 2024

That’s certainly the case for Kelsey Terry , who’s sharing her story in today’s Product in Practice. In her former role as Director of Product at Going (formerly known as Scott’s Cheap Flights), Kelsey was tasked with running a pilot product trio. This would be a much shorter blog post if that were the case!

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Userpilot

JUNE 13, 2022

Are you looking for the best SaaS blogs and influencers to follow in 2022? We curated a list of the best SaaS blogs and influencers to help you learn more about SaaS and increase your revenue. We covered the best blogs on SaaS growth, product marketing , UX analytics, venture capital, and sales. What is a SaaS blog?

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Product Talk

NOVEMBER 17, 2021

One of the primary benefits of working in a product trio is we reduce the hand-offs between functional roles. 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. Products aren’t built by trios.

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Gainsight

NOVEMBER 20, 2019

To truly excel in product management, you need to have a respect for design, an understanding of countless processes, a passion for problem-solving, excellent communication skills—the list goes on and on. Books for Product Managers. Blogs for Product Managers. Slack Groups for Product Managers.

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The Product Coalition

MAY 23, 2022

What do you do as a Product Manager? Photo by Paul Hanaoka on Unsplash Product Managers often deal with situations where they have to figure out what is causing an issue and figure out the possible steps to deal with the problem. In this blog, I will consider a hypothetical scenario?—? Rising Uber Cancellations?—?What

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The Product Coalition

FEBRUARY 2, 2023

As product managers, it’s our job to develop solutions that solve real problems for our customers and create value for the business. One effective approach is to use a hypothesis-driven product validation framework to ensure that your efforts are focused on the most important questions at the right time.

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Product Management University

JUNE 18, 2020

The B2B Product Manager Magazine June 2020. Minimum viable products, your next job interview, analyzing markets, quantifying the value of your portfolio, creating stickier products and more. Blog: High-Octane Product Management. Product Management Playbook. In This Issue.

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The Product Coalition

APRIL 8, 2024

Product management is an attractive career path, and getting into the field is harder than ever. Why is product management an attractive career? For starters, product Managers generally have attractive salaries. Built In lists the average Product Manager salary at $128,820.

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Product Talk

NOVEMBER 16, 2022

Product Talk’s North Star metric is to increase the number of product trios who adopt a continuous cadence to their discovery work. Teresa shared this goal at the beginning of 2022 when describing her plans to scale the impact of Product Talk. Meet product coach and consultant @ellenjuhlin. How did you end up in product?

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Product Talk

APRIL 8, 2020

Welcome to the latest installment of Product in Practice! For this post, we spoke with a product team from Simply Business about some of the major lessons they’ve learned since adopting continuous discovery habits like interviewing their customers, questioning their assumptions , and using the opportunity solution tree to guide their work.

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Mixpanel

APRIL 18, 2024

Believe it or not, rolling out a new product can be a lot trickier for B2B companies. Further, most B2B tools are productivity-boosting tools, which means when you do launch a new feature, you don’t always want to try to drive adoption with what could be noisy in-product messaging or tours. And there are several reasons why.

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Lenny Rachitsky

JANUARY 30, 2024

Each week I tackle reader questions about building product, driving growth, and accelerating your career. Subscribe now P.S. Don’t miss Lennybot ✨ (an AI chatbot trained on my newsletter posts, podcast interviews, and more) and my new swag store (makes great gifts!). Why do work trials?

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Mind the Product

OCTOBER 12, 2018

Stop me if you’ve heard this one before: What’s your favourite product, and why? Or how about: You have to launch a new product for X. I hate these questions. I hate them as an interviewer, because they don’t tell me anything about what it’s like to work with you, how you’re going to help me, or why I might want to hire you.

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Userpilot

MARCH 25, 2024

TL;DR User sentiment is the feeling a person has about your brand, product, or service quality. Tracking customer sentiments provides insights that help you make product improvements, enhance the customer experience , and boost customer satisfaction. Use in-app modals to invite users to interviews.

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Userpilot

OCTOBER 29, 2023

If you’re after the answer to the question, we’ve got you covered! We also look at: how to calculate willingness to pay factors that influence it how product managers can boost it Let’s get right to it! WTP helps SaaS companies choose optimum prices for their products to maximize profit.

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The Product Coalition

AUGUST 25, 2020

One of the most common questions aspiring Product Managers have before they take the leap is “ do I need to know how to code ?” One of the biggest myths surrounding the product industry is that, because it’s a role within the tech industry, that you need to have deep technical knowledge and coding abilities.

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The Product Coalition

JUNE 24, 2020

TL; DR: The Agile Movers & Shakers Interview w/ Ryan Ripley Today’s guest is Ryan Ripley. The Agile Movers & Shakers Interview with Ryan Ripley Today’s guest is Ryan Ripley. I think that context is everything with questions like this. What has been your greatest success so far, and how did you manage to realize it?

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Userpilot

JANUARY 16, 2024

From analyzing market trends to churning user needs and technical feasibility into golden product ideas, there are many benefits of ChatGPT for product managers. A potent tool, ChatGPT has proven to be a strategic addition to the product management toolkit, churning out ideas in even the most unlikely scenarios.

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Product Talk

SEPTEMBER 9, 2020

I first met Petra Wille, a fellow product coach, at Mind the Product and was immediately impressed with her work. While I tend to focus on helping teams, Petra’s work centers around helping product leaders—the people who manage product managers. That sounds like a great question to start with.

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Userpilot

FEBRUARY 4, 2023

What’s the product design testing process? Why is it important in product management ? These are just a couple of questions we answer in this blog. TL;DR Product design testing is the final stage of the design process. TL;DR Product design testing is the final stage of the design process.

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Userpilot

MARCH 8, 2022

Women are still underrepresented in the Product Profession – with only 33.3% of US Product Managers being female in 2021, according to a metastudy of 30 million profiles conducted by Zippia : Source: [link]. Melissa Perri – Speaker, consultant, and teacher in Product Management. CEO of Product Labs.

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The Product Coalition

MARCH 7, 2023

For a few years now, I’ve been using a question in interviews with product managers where I ask the candidate to select one of the four types of product manager. The product manager types I say are the empath, the visionary, the builder, and the data driven.

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Userpilot

JUNE 3, 2022

Trying to find the best product marketing resources for 2022? As the market gets more competitive, SaaS companies are increasingly relying on product-led marketing strategies to gain traction. Therefore, as a product marketer, you need to continually update your skills to remain relevant in a constantly changing industry.

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The Product Coalition

MAY 13, 2020

For such an integral part of product, it’s amazing that nobody seems to know what Product Ops is! As a skill on LinkedIn, Product Operations has grown 80% in the last year. So why is no one really talking about it the way they talk about things like Product-Led Growth ? What Does ‘Product Ops’ Mean?

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Userpilot

JUNE 20, 2023

Why is product idea validation important? 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.

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The Product Coalition

SEPTEMBER 4, 2020

How to Develop Product Roadmap? Writing Good PRD & Managing Product Backlog [Back to?—? Product Management 101 ] Great products are not accidental. A good product strategy helps the team stay focused, guide the product development and manage the business during the development process.

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The Product Coalition

DECEMBER 22, 2021

Add value to your team whilst getting to grips with software concepts If you’re coming to product management from a non-engineering background, there’ll be times during the first few months where you’ll feel lost. Instead, ask the question. Rather than helping your team, it can actually feel like you’re slowing them down.

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Lenny Rachitsky

FEBRUARY 11, 2024

Brought to you by: • Sidebar —Accelerate your career by surrounding yourself with extraordinary peers • Whimsical —The iterative product workspace • WorkOS —The modern API for auth and user identity — Jake Knapp and John Zeratsky are the authors of best-selling books Sprint and Make Time.

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Userpilot

MAY 30, 2023

Every successful product marketer has at some point wondered how to create a persona. Good user personas are critical to any successful product marketing campaign. They help you decide what product or service to prioritize, streamline your advertising and marketing, and better connect leads with their goals and pain points.

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The Product Coalition

OCTOBER 23, 2019

There are so many great product leaders doing tons of great work that’s available for free ( will list them later in the article ), it’s amazing how much good content is available out there. So for the hiring managers that are willing to look at CVs of fresh grads, they don’t get enough CVs to reach their eyes. Product Craft ?—?They

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Usersnap

JULY 22, 2021

In this post I’m going to show you how we handle product feedback and implement new product features. Gathering product and user information using product feedback tools. Managing a newly launched product and thinking about the vision and roadmap of your product isn’t that easy. Ask for that problem.

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Mixpanel

JANUARY 12, 2023

We’ve run dozens of customer interviews, analyzed our competitors, tracked our customer lifecycle, and aligned with the company vision: now we’re finally ready to write copy. It’s a product unto itself. And just like a product process, you need data to create something great. Start with customer research.

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Userpilot

APRIL 6, 2023

Developing and releasing sophisticated products with all the bells and whistles imaginable might seem like a great idea. Overengineered products are difficult to use, filled with bugs, and instead of improving your users’ lives, they make them unnecessarily complicated. But worry not! Book the demo! What is overengineering?

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Lenny Rachitsky

FEBRUARY 13, 2024

Each week I tackle reader questions about building product, driving growth, and accelerating your career. Q: How do I figure out how to price my product? It can drive enormous sustained growth (quickly) and often takes very little product work, yet is rarely prioritized or even discussed within product teams.

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UX Studio: Product Management

APRIL 27, 2021

Contrary to evaluative research, which is about evaluating our design and our product by using usability testing methods, the goal of generative research is to generate information about our users and explore the problem space related to our product. This method plays an essential role in the product design process.

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