PMLesson's Ace the PM Interview

APRIL 19, 2020

After working in consulting, many management consultants desire to exit into and work at a tech company. If you want to learn more about the consulting role vs the product role, read this article on the topic. Ideally, you will have directly assisted a product manager on one of your projects.

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The Product Coalition

JULY 16, 2023

In my first official product role, which I got to after managing large dev teams and a business-related role, I managed alone a product with a development team of ~40 people. One of the first things I did, for example, was to work with the salespeople on how to sell the product.

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The Product Guy

OCTOBER 9, 2018

I became a product manager because I wanted to take a more strategic role at my company. First, I did not know how to frame, develop and present product strategy in a systematic way, and second, as a startup, my company has not historically had a good track record of strategy being developed outside of senior management (read: founder).

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Bain Public

JUNE 4, 2020

As business advisors and executive coaches, we've worked with dozens of CEOs to help them build and grow their product leadership team as they scale their company. Getting external support, such as product management consulting, can help establish the product leadership team responsible for nurturing and guiding the product team.

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The Product Coalition

DECEMBER 10, 2023

However, provoking productive disagreements is a key leadership skill you want to master. Here is how fostering healthy debates is essential for effective leadership and better outcomes. If you see the connection between that skill and product leadership you are 100% right. Think it through and consult with others.

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Userpilot

APRIL 30, 2024

Marty Cagan is a well-known figure in the product management and technology industry. He is perhaps most recognized for his influential work as a consultant, writer, and speaker on product management, particularly within the realm of software and technology companies.

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Userpilot

AUGUST 30, 2023

Get ready to dive into insightful discussions, practical strategies, and real-world examples that will empower you to create and manage products that meet user needs and leave them truly satisfied. Product management and leadership speakers. Product marketing speaker. Let’s quickly go over what to expect.

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The Product Coalition

MARCH 2, 2022

When a company is first starting out, one of its main goals is to find the right product-market fit. The person in this new role has to formalize those processes and ensure that the right information, in the right quantity, comes in to drive product development. and actively engaging their customers to find that fit.

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The Product Coalition

APRIL 10, 2022

Having the courage to speak up is one of the things that we are talking about in the leadership workshop that opens the CPO Bootcamp , for example. Throughout our career as product people, working well with others was probably one of the most effective skills we all had to master. They both participate in all of our sessions.

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Bain Public

JUNE 11, 2019

(Montreal, Canada) - Paul Ortchanian, Founder, CEO, Head of Product, Data and Strategy of Bain Public , will be giving an expert talk webinar at the Institute of Product Leadership, a niche management school with 4 campuses in India. The challenges of product development are not about products.

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The Product Coalition

DECEMBER 6, 2023

I recently realized that for founders, I might need to refrain from using the word ‘product’ since they then think about the deliverable while my coaching tackles much more than that. So my recent pitch went something like “I help founders connect the product to the business and the go-to-market.”

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The Product Coalition

FEBRUARY 27, 2022

Only among my consulting customers , two companies recently hired a new VP of Product. I decided to write this article to help you, product leaders, with your new position. and in product leadership positions there is so much of it! just as you would do with anything else related to product leadership.

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The Product Coalition

APRIL 18, 2021

On the on-site interview day, one of the interviewers asked me the following question: if you had all of Google’s resources and no other constraints, which product would you develop? My answer was: I would develop a voice interface for the computer (it was before the smartphone era). I was really afraid of this question.

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Userpilot

MAY 1, 2024

Try Userpilot and Take Your Product Management to the Next Level Get a Demo 14 Day Trial No Credit Card Required Who is Lenny Rachitsky? Lenny is a newsletter writer, podcast host, angel investor, and product consultant. If you haven’t already, ensure you speak with 5 to 10 potential customers this week.

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Business of Software Conference

FEBRUARY 9, 2021

Rich Mironov // Mironov Consulting. If you don’t have a Head of Product you may suffer from: narrow focus on engineer/development productivity; underpowered product management teams; customer benefits misaligned with actual features; and lack of a realistic product strategy.

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Sachin Rekhi

APRIL 12, 2020

In Silicon Valley, we've become well-versed in the importance of finding product/market fit as the most important early pursuit for any new product or startup. Beyond product/market fit, it turns out business strategy really does matter. This is often described as developing an economic moat for your business.

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Intercom, Inc.

JANUARY 16, 2020

Miro has made the move from product to platform. Like numerous users, I first became aware of Miro via a consultant and this channel has been really important to their growth story. His paintings have different shapes with very bright colors and we found that our boards developed in kind of the same style. Andrey: Exactly.

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Userpilot

JULY 9, 2021

Product Mastery by Geoff Watts teaches you how to be a successful product owner within agile software development practices with the use of case studies. Inspired by Marty Cagan contains a little about everything in product management and is based on how the most successful tech companies in the world build products.

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Mind the Product

JUNE 13, 2018

Previously, Ivy has held executive positions spanning from head of product design and development to CMO and presidencies with several companies, including Calvin Klein, Swatch, Coach, Mattel, Art.com, Bausch & Lomb, and Gap. Joe Leech, Product Strategy Consultant. Leadership Forum. More speakers to come!

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Userpilot

MARCH 8, 2022

Melissa Perri – Speaker, consultant, and teacher in Product Management. CEO of Product Labs. Melissa Perri is one of the most recognizable names in Product Management. She’s currently a consultant, speaker, and teacher in product management. Author of “The Build Trap”. Hana Mohan , CEO of Magic Bell.

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Bain Public

MARCH 30, 2020

A Day in the Life of a Product Management Consultant Bringing Product Management to the Next Level at Livescale The Top 6 Roles to Describe a Product Manager When Executives Tell You What to Build, They Approve the Development of Unnecessary Features Working Together, Product vs Sales: How to Collaboratively Reach your B2B Product-Market Fit.

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ProductPlan

MARCH 22, 2023

What is a company if not a vehicle for delivering products that meet customer needs? Whether that product is a software application, a physical doo-dad of some kind, or a service like consulting or transportation, or warehousing, every company provides some value to customers in exchange for compensation.

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Gainsight

SEPTEMBER 8, 2021

Who else can interpret strategy from Product, Marketing, and elsewhere into the CS team’s role? These other teams sometimes have the skills to be true thought partners and business consultants, taking that pressure off of CS leadership. Any great consultant needs to know the right questions to ask, though.

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Mind the Product

FEBRUARY 20, 2019

Mind the Product returns to San Francisco and the famous Davies Symphony Hall on July 15-16. 2019 promises to continue our run of amazing conferences, with a pre-conference Leadership Forum, even more workshops, more networking events around the conference, and more fun than ever before. Teresa Torres, Product Discovery Coach.

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Bain Public

JUNE 28, 2019

Product Managers don’t know if that feature is really a need or just a very specific isolated item that only a particular subset of customers would want. Has the product achieved product-market fit in that segment? Does it align with the personas the product team defined? Developing a Successful Product-Market Fit.

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The Product Coalition

MARCH 13, 2022

Because over time, the Structured Data group (that I was Head of Product at) developed smarter, AI-based systems, that were meant to replace the back-office work or make it more efficient and create a better product catalog at the same time using things only machines can do. that you actually get to consider the product?—?the

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Mironov Consulting

APRIL 8, 2020

Hiring and developing people in product roles (e.g. product managers, product marketers, product owners) is difficult. The jobs are complex, requiring a broad skill set spanning domain and market knowledge, communication, leadership, technical, product and business abilities.

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Bain Public

MAY 24, 2019

It is no secret that a product manager needs momentum in areas such as product development, product sales and customer adoption in order to succeed. Without support from stakeholders to access the resources you need, your product could fail. There can be no momentum without proper and solid leadership.

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The Product Guy

DECEMBER 6, 2018

When I started working as a product manager, I understood that identifying and defining the problem is a crucial first step before even thinking about solving it. After every discussion with customers, sales, service, leadership and my colleagues, I was left with a laundry list of problems that needed my attention. About Rashid Manzar.

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Bain Public

MARCH 20, 2021

He held leadership roles at Bay Area startups and high growth organizations like WatchMojo -- helping establish product functions, as well as large strategic consulting companies such as Edelman where he organized product-led initiatives across national/regional offices. About Bain Public.

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Bain Public

JANUARY 4, 2020

(Montreal, Canada) – Paul Ortchanian, Founder, CEO, Head of Product of Bain Public, is honoured to be leading an expert workshop in collaboration with AIESEC, the world's largest youth-run organization that provides young people with leadership development. They hoped to change the world, one person and one internship at a time.

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Mixpanel

MARCH 30, 2020

And Kasey Cuppoletti, the Head of Product at DonorDrive, is responsible for making sure all those pieces fit together. It works with Duke, Google, Stanford, and many other prestigious organizations to develop its courses in business, data science, AI, and many other fields of study. Rebecca Cooper.

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Mixpanel

NOVEMBER 8, 2021

Start by talking to business stakeholders, like your leadership, customer success, marketing and more. This is particularly important when you’re product-led. As a VP of Product at Roam Digital, a full service consultancy, I’ve had the opportunity to work on a wide range of B2B and B2C products.

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Bain Public

MARCH 21, 2020

Demand for Product Management thought leadership is still growing. Here’s a list of our product-centric articles that got syndicated across publishers judged to be the best representative of Product Management thinking. Originally published on ProductCoalition.com What Goes Into a Good Product Roadmap?

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The Product Coalition

MARCH 19, 2023

Watching closely how my younger daughter’s creative process evolves, I noticed a few different skills that she develops over time. But understanding these levels and knowing what to expect can help you identify where you are at and which skills you need to develop to operate effectively at the next level. Are you up for the challenge?

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The Product Coalition

JULY 10, 2020

That means that they’ve worked closely with different cross functional teams, and have at least a broad understand of each stage of product development. That goes for both CEOs and Product Managers. He began in 2004, leading the development team on Google Toolbar and Google Chrome. of the browser market.

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PMLesson's Ace the PM Interview

JUNE 4, 2020

They also clue your interviewer into how you think, and if you demonstrate something called "Leadership Principles," something we’ll explain in more detail later in this article. The STAR Method Photo by Christina @ wocintechchat.com / Unsplash Under the 'Bias for Action' leadership principle, Bezos claims that "speed matters in business."

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