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. It is important to note that most PM job postings ask for prior PM experience.

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Johanna Rothman

MARCH 14, 2024

That’s because potential employers think these jobs are staff positions. Your previous managers and potential managers don’t see the value of someone in your position. Worse, many staff jobs are commodity positions. But I’ve consulted for a long time. Or, one Scrum Master from another.

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Lenny Rachitsky

MARCH 31, 2024

Brought to you by: • Sprig —Build a product people love • Dovetail —Bring your customer into every decision • Coda —Meet the evolution of docs — Matt Abrahams is a renowned communication expert, with decades of teaching, coaching, and consulting experience.

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The Product Coalition

OCTOBER 2, 2018

Currently Product & Program Manager at Google, she will reflect on a Product Excellence Framework that can achieve this. In the past, she worked for Cornerstone OnDemand as Technical Integration Consultant and later Acting Chief Technical Solutions Architect. Sara Zare is concerned with aligning goals across teams.

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Mind the Product

JANUARY 24, 2017

Therein lies the opportunity for a product management consultant. Consulting on a part-time and freelance basis may be a viable option for you, depending on where you are in your career. Even if you’re only thinking about it as a temporary move, it’s important to think about the goals you may have as a consultant.

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Mind the Product

APRIL 27, 2017

Figure 1: FRAMEWORK OF METHODS TO CAPTURE AND DEFINE PRODUCT FEATURES. Personally, I get positive results from detailed written requirements. Figure 2: FRAMEWORK OF VARIOUS METHODS WITH DESCRIPTIONS OF EACH OPTION. The post Product Requirements: Using a Written or Visual Framework appeared first on MindTheProduct.

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Johanna Rothman

MARCH 18, 2024

That part discusses why managers see agile coaches and Scrum Masters as staff positions, not line jobs. That's the first step to turning your experience into a line position. I don't see how you can say you're using a framework or method without reading the defining documents, but maybe that's me.

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The Product Coalition

JANUARY 27, 2024

As software builders, we are uniquely positioned to influence this environmental trajectory. That’s why these skills can prove to be useful when consulting with software engineers and other specialists in deciding which languages to use when energy efficiency is a priority.

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Userpilot

JUNE 20, 2023

Author: Krystal Higgins is an accomplished UX designer and consultant. Author: Teresa Torres is an internationally acclaimed consultant and speaker. Introduces a comprehensive six-stage process, Orchestrated Onboarding framework, for successful onboarding. Where to buy: You can order it on Amazon. #2 on Goodreads. on Goodreads.

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Product Innovation Educators

JANUARY 3, 2022

How product managers can use the Modified Agile for Hardware Development Framework. They think they have the answer for applying Agile principles to hardware projects, and they call it the Modified Agile for Hardware Development (MAHD) Framework. 15:01] How does your MAHD ( Modified Agile for Hardware Development) Framework work?

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Userpilot

FEBRUARY 29, 2024

We’ll explore the factors that influence users at each stage of task completion and how the visual representation of these tasks positively impacts your users’ experience overall. The following framework describes the psychological principle at play.

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The Review by First Round

JANUARY 13, 2022

For the past 7 years, she’s helped hundreds of companies build their positioning and brands from the ground up, both as our Marketing Expert in Residence here at First Round and in her own consulting work. Today’s episode is with Arielle Jackson. Read This First. Today’s episode is with Arielle Jackson. Read This First.

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Sachin Rekhi

APRIL 12, 2020

The most successful businesses realize this and work hard to continually protect their strategic position. Hamilton published this work in 2016 after a career of working with over 200 clients as a strategy consultant, including Netflix, Spotify, and Adobe. Counter-positioning. Switching costs.

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Userpilot

AUGUST 30, 2023

She also founded SaaS consulting firm, Sonderhouse , through which she teams up with other experts to provide sound education and coaching for SaaS startups. In this talk, Leah will show you: How to leverage PLG to navigate challenging markets and position yourself for success. Positioning. Connect with Else on Linkedin.

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bpma ProductHub

APRIL 3, 2017

Ellen is an Agile Product Coach and President of EBG Consulting focused on achieving product agility through the convergence of product management, agile/lean principles, and organizational learning. A business partner might be more focused on the market, revenue, or competitive position. Let’s put the framework into place.

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Intercom, Inc.

JANUARY 14, 2021

I got my master’s in computer science back in Prague, then I ventured into the world of consulting and spent several years at Accenture. I’m an engineer and I think like an engineer, so I’m looking for frameworks and patterns. I was into math and physics, and that led me to computer science.

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The Product Coalition

NOVEMBER 30, 2022

Let’s explore and discover how we can take the Jobs To Be Done framework to the next level and beyond. How do we build and position a product that is nearly irresistible for the people we want to serve? And going beyond features , we might be missing out on what feelings, positive or negative, are really driving the decision.

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Userpilot

MARCH 8, 2022

Melissa Perri – Speaker, consultant, and teacher in Product Management. She’s currently a consultant, speaker, and teacher in product management. An iterative product framework for identifying and pursuing the right opportunities to create value. CEO of Product Labs. Author of “The Build Trap”.

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bpma ProductHub

APRIL 30, 2017

It’s the expectation of a positive outcome”. But how do you develop the confidence required to lead a team of stakeholders to a positive outcome? She summarized her frameworks through her first book, “Software Product Management Essentials”, first out in 2003. These words couldn’t be more relevant to product management.

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Business of Software Conference

FEBRUARY 11, 2022

Elizabeth O’Neill, Founder, Elizabeth O’Neill Consulting. Elizabeth is an expert in helping founders and their teams get aligned and positioned for growth. As a People & Culture consultant and Executive Coach for early stage startups, she’s on a mission to make the startup experience feel more human.

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ProductPlan

JULY 16, 2021

By leading with context versus control, you position yourself to empower your staff to complete their tasks and reach their objectives. It puts the onus on them to consult with colleagues to see where they might need some extra help. Moreover, they can review the overall situation and identify the areas that require an active owner.

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Intercom, Inc.

NOVEMBER 30, 2021

A recent Forrester Consulting study commissioned by Intercom, Drive Conversational Experiences For A Future-Ready Customer Support Strategy , revealed that 54% of teams can’t personalize support with their tech stack and 50% waste time jumping between tools. Let’s dive in. Download The Ultimate Modern Support Tech Stack guide.

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Johanna Rothman

JANUARY 14, 2020

You might not have seen the framework from Radical Candor. Effects of Positional Power. Mostly because of their positional power and the reward system.). At times, I have used my positional power. I will have to figure out how to write about this, especially for managers invested in positional power.

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Mind the Product

AUGUST 20, 2019

This is, of course, a subjective observation which comes from interacting with many organisations as a product consultant. Progress is a feeling that your time and effort is actually moving you towards positive goals. This may be the largest area of impact for product manager in an organisation.

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Intercom, Inc.

OCTOBER 22, 2019

Sales managers looking to stand out among their peers would do well to focus on four things: prioritizing work that will move the needle, making sure the right people are on their team, thinking about initiatives that will improve the business (not just themselves and their reps), and developing a solid decision-making framework. The lesson?

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Userpilot

DECEMBER 18, 2022

While this may sound dystopian to some, Vazgen Babayan , Group Product Manager at Adobe, is optimistic AI will bring about positive changes and more disruptive innovations. Book a free consultation to see how Userpilot could help you achieve a similar result! Implementing AI features into core product offerings.

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Intercom, Inc.

NOVEMBER 11, 2021

For Samuel Hulick , a UX consultant and one of the biggest authorities out there on user onboarding, that means thinking less about the product itself and more about how to get users the results they’re after. Value Paths: a framework for sustainable growth. I’d love to hear about the framework the title is named after.

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Modus Create

MAY 26, 2021

One example is the British Columbia Policy Framework for GitHub Document Naming Repos . This format consisted of sections to define the project name, project purpose, and the framework or language. It was decided by the team that including the framework or programming language wasn’t that useful, as many repositories mixed languages.

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Product Innovation Educators

FEBRUARY 20, 2023

He is a well-known product management trainer, consultant, and speaker. The Product-Market Fit Pyramid is the key framework, and it has five layers that build on each other. I use an importance vs. satisfaction framework to define how well-served or underserved each need is. Dan Olsen is a returning guest to the podcast.

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Piyanka Jain

AUGUST 6, 2019

The first metric of project success is obviously that the project gets completed; the second is that the insights produced are actionable so that they cause a positive movement in one or more key metrics for the company. The framework takes care of both the parties and helps increase project completion as well as the success rate.

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Alchemer Mobile

MAY 7, 2020

Customers are then able to access the Apptentive product suite to send ratings prompts, survey customers for product information, use Message Center for customer service, send notes to drive positive outcomes, and push customers to upgrade to the latest version of their app. Airship is actually the parent company for our #1 tool, Apptimize.

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Product Management University

MARCH 14, 2017

Future development projects will be disproportionately spent redesigning features from prior releases instead of building new ones, causing serious injury to your competitive position. The Protective Pad: Pre-Sales Consultant / Solution Engineer. The Protective Pad: Client Services Consultant. The Body Part: Product Demos.

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Melissa Perri

SEPTEMBER 14, 2017

After a few years of consulting, I started to feel the itch to work on a product again. We were relieved to find that our video and written content, the meat of the course, garnered very positive responses across the board. Eating your own dog food is worth the challenge. Product Institute gave me and my team a chance to do just that.

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NextBigWhat

AUGUST 2, 2019

The course has been extremely useful in understanding some of the core product management frameworks and how to apply these frameworks in real life. Test product positioning and messaging. Services company leaders: You are productizing your service and need to build the right framework in place. 200+ topics.

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Mixpanel

NOVEMBER 8, 2021

Giving customers access to the product as early as possible puts you (as a product manager) in a unique position to help every other team understand how customers get value out of the product. 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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The Product Guy

OCTOBER 9, 2018

Vikas was able to provide me with a framework for developing product strategy, which ultimately revolves around answering the fundamental question of “how do we win?” This framework covers five major questions: What do we aspire to be? consulting engineer, helping customers implement Chef’s products. Where do we play?

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Bain Public

JUNE 4, 2020

Getting external support, such as product management consulting, can help establish the product leadership team responsible for nurturing and guiding the product team. What Is Product Management Consulting? Consultants aren’t just listening to the problems within the company , but within the product, the team and their dynamics.

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