Bain Public

APRIL 15, 2018

What are the goals we are trying to meet — How the product will benefit the organization and/or users. Talk constructively about where to go next. Bain Public is a Product consultancy that helps companies make smart decisions, and ship top-notch products that captivate customers and achieve business objectives.

Vision 56

Vision User Testing Product Management Product Manager 56

Mind the Product

SEPTEMBER 20, 2018

Doesn’t that sound like a product manager to you? For the sales team, the product management skills of listening and understanding problems are important. Where product/market fit is good, the salesperson can empathise with their customer as they’ve probably heard the same problems multiple times.

User Testing 149

User Testing Customer Feedback Customer Experience Product Research 149

The Product Coalition

MARCH 15, 2020

Strategies are more designs than they are decisions, i.e., they are more constructed than they are chosen (they are not to be confused with making plans/roadmaps). Note: OKRs make no sense unless you have an empowered product team model, i.e., not feature teams where responsibility is dispersed across stakeholders.

Data Visualization 78

Data Visualization Analytic Tools Product Research Customer Experience 78

PMLesson's Ace the PM Interview

JANUARY 15, 2021

Uber/Lyft Product Manager Mock Interview: Design for Rush Hour Mock Product Manager Interview (LinkedIn PM): Design Product To Encourage Voting Interview Coaching at Exponent As you can expect, we know better than anyone how intimidating and stressful upcoming product design and product management interviews can be.

Feedback Software 94

Feedback Software Vision Software Engineering Data Visualization 94

Bain Public

SEPTEMBER 24, 2019

The CEO should provide guidance so the product manager can define the direction of the product. Product managers have to engage in conversation with the CEO and talk constructively about a direction and where to go next. A product manager has to break down a company’s vision statement into strategies.

User Testing 40

User Testing Product Management Product Manager User Friction 40

DISQO

FEBRUARY 15, 2017

Brian Lawley has been at the forefront of this effort for nearly two decades, through his renowned consulting and training firm, 280 Group. Together with the company’s Director of Products and Services, Pamela Schure, Lawley recently achieved a meaningful milestone on this journey. My second favorite construct is to throw up a mirror.

Strategy 40

Strategy Product Management Product Manager Product Research 40

DISQO

FEBRUARY 15, 2017

Brian Lawley has been at the forefront of this effort for nearly two decades, through his renowned consulting and training firm, 280 Group. Together with the company’s Director of Products and Services, Pamela Schure, Lawley recently achieved a meaningful milestone on this journey. My second favorite construct is to throw up a mirror.

Strategy 40

Strategy Product Management Product Manager Product Research 40

DISQO

FEBRUARY 15, 2017

Brian Lawley has been at the forefront of this effort for nearly two decades, through his renowned consulting and training firm, 280 Group. Together with the company’s Director of Products and Services, Pamela Schure, Lawley recently achieved a meaningful milestone on this journey. My second favorite construct is to throw up a mirror.

Strategy 40

Strategy Product Management Product Manager Customer Experience 40

Bain Public

MAY 21, 2018

It's a bottom-up process, you attempt to solve a problem with the team, get a signal early and use it to construct the bigger picture. By knowing your training dataset cold you set the vision and direction of the product. We help ambitious organizations create new value by establishing company-wide product-related processes.

Data Visualization 40

Data Visualization Artificial Inteligence Feedback Software Research Software 40

Bain Public

OCTOBER 19, 2019

That’s why successful product managers learn to do so in a way that is both strategic and constructive. We help ambitious organizations create new value by establishing company-wide product-related processes. Shutting people down only leads to friction and making the other person feel inadequate.

Roadmap 40

Roadmap Development Team Review User Testing Technical Review 40

ProductPlan

DECEMBER 4, 2019

We outlined the seven internal politics situations you’ll likely encounter at least once in your product management career and how you can handle them. Situation: You’ve painstakingly constructed a roadmap after consulting with various stakeholders, the development team, and your peers. An Executive Needs a Feature *Now*.

Development Team Review 73

Development Team Review Software Review Product Management Product Manager 73

Mironov Consulting

JANUARY 17, 2019

[Experiment: how many sales call have you joined where the prospect did 75% of the talking and we probed for good low-cost alternatives to our product? Many CEOs came from the customer side: construction execs heading up project management vendors; high-powered investors leading robo-advisor startups; musicians running streaming services.

User Testing 97

User Testing Customer Feedback Customer Experience CTO Coach 97

Mironov Consulting

OCTOBER 26, 2017

So CEOs should be pushing product managers for solid market evidence about problem definition and product/market fit, not just ROIs. So we engage constructively by reaching people where they are. In risk terms, that’s a 3x payoff for not building the wrong thing. What do we know and how do we know it?

Finance 95

Finance User Testing Analytic Tools Research Software 95

The Product Coalition

JANUARY 11, 2024

With over five hundred writers contributing from many cities around the globe, we collaborate to produce informative and useful materials, which include case studies, applied practices, methodologies and processes, how-to articles, retrospectives, constructive perspectives and opinions. Emphasis on constructive perspectives and opinions.

Reporting Tools 113

Reporting Tools Education Research Software Construction 113

The Product Coalition

JANUARY 12, 2024

With over five hundred writers contributing from many cities around the globe, we collaborate to produce informative and useful materials, which include case studies, applied practices, methodologies and processes, how-to articles, retrospectives, constructive perspectives and opinions. Emphasis on constructive perspectives and opinions.

Reporting Tools 99

Reporting Tools Education Research Software Construction 99

Bain Public

MARCH 30, 2020

To be a successful product manager you must get used to saying ‘no’, but that doesn’t mean it must be done confrontationally. You must learn to do so in a way that is strategic and constructive without completely shutting down the other person. Saying No Without Actually Saying the Word ‘No’. It is always good to provide options.

User Testing 52

User Testing Product Management Product Manager Data Visualization 52

The Product Coalition

FEBRUARY 26, 2022

From this education, the influence of elaborate management consulting style frameworks appeared, which frankly, stakeholders care very little about. It doesn’t come as a shock that the empowered product teams seem to be more prevalent in companies who have well and truely found product market fit and are growing quickly.

User Testing 172

User Testing Weak Development Team Customer Experience Customer Feedback 172

PMLesson's Ace the PM Interview

NOVEMBER 10, 2021

APM Program The last internship program at Google is the Associate Product Marketing Manager (APM) program. Here, students can help develop the Google brand narrative alongside actual Product Marketing Managers at the company. As an APMM at Google, students will join a diverse group of next-gen marketing whizzes.

Technical Review 52

Technical Review Feedback Software Customer Experience Engineering 52

Alchemer Mobile

APRIL 14, 2020

So I think the fundamental role of product manager at any company is to bring products to product market fit. The product market fit is when the market is sort of pulling the product out of you and you’re no longer trying to push it onto them. ” Right? Christy : Awesome. Ria : Sure.

Technical Review 246

Technical Review Technical Advisors Customer Experience User Testing 246

Mind the Product

OCTOBER 27, 2016

Now, if all your marketing resources are concentrated at the Acquisition stage, it’s either not reaching or is irrelevant to those people who’ve already moved on to later stages in the funnel. The Loyalty Loop articulates how today’s consumers form relationships with the brands they do business with. What do I mean by this?

Customer Experience 154

Customer Experience User Testing Customer Feedback Weak Development Team 154

Userpilot

MARCH 6, 2020

So I ended up working in Telco, on bt.com products for a few years! And it was clear right away that Product was the right path for me. I am now in the Product Team at Publicis Sapient and absolutely loving the Consultancy world. Here are some interesting Product case studies, scroll down [link].

Research Software 133

Research Software Analytic Tools Feedback Software Reporting Tools 133

Revulytics

OCTOBER 9, 2019

In his webinar, leading product development consultant Sam McAfee , author of Startup Patterns identifies problems product development organizations often face in measuring their efforts , and offers practical advice for tackling them. A lack of rigor in how we construct experiments creates many measurement problems.

Data Visualization 75

Data Visualization Analytic Tools Feedback Software User Testing 75

The Product Coalition

MARCH 21, 2019

When working with external “corporate strategy” consultants, I found the level of strategic work to be all over the place ranging from high level M&A recommendations to low level project management / implementation support, driven by the functional strategy of whoever was paying the consultant.

Strategy 60

Strategy Analytic Tools Technical Review Customer Experience 60

PMLesson's Ace the PM Interview

AUGUST 19, 2020

Construct three A/B tests to improve user frustration with the Google Maps blue dot GPS icon A detailed video answer can be found in our PM interview course, here. Using this formula, you can reliably create strong, successful hypotheses for your A/B tests. Why do some A/B tests fail to provide insights, outcomes, or value?

User Testing 52

User Testing Product Research Testing Customer Experience 52