PMLesson's Ace the PM Interview

OCTOBER 16, 2021

Superb technical skills on their own are not enough - most top tech firms prioritize culture fit when they are recruiting. So, how can candidates prepare for their culture fit interviews? You should ask yourself honestly if you'd fit in and be happy working for the company you are interviewing at. Fast is better than slow.

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Bain Public

SEPTEMBER 24, 2019

The role of a product manager could never fit into a box. So what exactly does a product manager do? The best product managers think strategically and make difficult trade-offs quickly. Helping an organization make the right decisions Great product managers know how to say ‘no’ to make the right decisions.

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Bain Public

APRIL 15, 2018

By forcing your CEO to articulate a vision statement you can shift from a tactical, execution role to a highly strategic, product delivery role. There’s a lot of research on how a clearly articulated company vision positively affects a product manager’s decision making. Talk constructively about where to go next.

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Mironov Consulting

OCTOBER 26, 2017

Head of Product: My CEO is a finance guy*, and is pushing the product team hard to prioritize all engineering work solely on ROI. A lot of product management is meeting customers and prospects where they are : finding language and benefits and arguments that resonate with an audience. See my product pies.)

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Bain Public

MAY 21, 2018

As we have become accustomed to having customer research and User Experience (UX) lead product vision, a new problem is stopping eager Product Managers from putting the process they were using, and applying them on AI problems. Deep learning forces Product Managers to focus more on the data to train the software.

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The Product Coalition

MARCH 15, 2020

If you are “doing prioritization”, that simply means you have too much you are trying to tackle, you are wasting time trimming down those ideas, and you are probably doing this in a series of internal discussions, i.e., you are not leveraging user testing to make evidence-based decisions to drive toward more innovative solutions.

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Bain Public

OCTOBER 19, 2019

By leaning on empathy, we can build an open-minded work culture that encourages collaboration, opinions, and feedback, allowing us to gain a variety of perspectives from the people on our teams and beyond. What walls are getting hit by customer success? What problems can we solve for the customer? How big is our technical debt?

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PMLesson's Ace the PM Interview

JANUARY 15, 2021

Let's take a closer look: Look at the Users First and foremost, take a look at the product users. Delineate all the varying user segments that may have different needs. Then, for the purposes of your answer, choose one particular user segment. One that we find very helpful is the broad, then deep framework.

Feedback Software 94

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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*.

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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.

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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

The Product Coalition

FEBRUARY 26, 2022

Why have Product Managers stopped speaking to customers? Very sadly, most product managers I meet today no longer talk directly to customers regularly. If you ask; “How many customers did you speak to this week?” Most product managers efforts today seem focused towards their own company , no longer the customer.

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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.

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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 111

Reporting Tools Education Research Software Construction 111

Alchemer Mobile

APRIL 14, 2020

How do you manage executive expectations, customer expectations, and technical resources? I run the Customer Success team at Apptentive, and I’m gonna be here today just as a moderator for this panel. So I think the fundamental role of product manager at any company is to bring products to product market fit.

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Mind the Product

OCTOBER 27, 2016

I believe the same synthesis of skill sets is occurring between marketers and product managers, but all too often, they’re treated organisationally as separate disciplines, broken up into siloed teams. To quote Adaptive Path co-founder Peter Merholz from this blog: “The experience is the product.”. Give them common objectives.

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PMLesson's Ace the PM Interview

AUGUST 19, 2020

A/B testing is one of the most important parts of user experience research that is conducted by most companies. For many product managers, it may be a crucial part of experimenting with product changes and deciding which to move forward on. What is A/B Testing? So what is A/B testing anyway?

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Bain Public

MARCH 30, 2020

As a product manager, one of the hardest things you have to do is say ‘no’ to ideas, suggestions, requests and urgent demands from customers and internal stakeholders. However, adding the word ‘no’ to your management vocabulary is essential in order to make those difficult product decisions. Be Transparent.

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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].

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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.

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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

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The Product Coalition

MARCH 21, 2019

Diffusion of Focus Product strategy is especially tricky because of the centrality of a product to any business. It it at the intersection of customer, tech, and business which means that everyone function in an organization is impacted by the product. Marketing has to talk about it. Customers have to buy it.

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