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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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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Bain Public

MARCH 21, 2020

Paul Ortchanian recognized this inconsistency, and it sparked the creation of what is now known as Bain Public: a company dedicated to helping local companies make smart product decisions through an organizing principle for allocation of resources: the roadmap. What Does it Mean to Adopt a Product Mindset? Transitionary Leadership.

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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. Connect with Else on Linkedin.

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The Product Coalition

JULY 22, 2021

that’s not me, I always talk to leadership about my plans and their buy-in is crucial to anything I do as a product manager. Leadership are the ones who can make or break your initiatives internally, they have power. And so we inform them, consult them, involve them. Present your initiatives during team meetings?—?this

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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

MAY 1, 2022

I realized that this is something that I do whenever I’m helping my consulting customers or the CPO Bootcamp participants to make strategic decisions. One of the ways to test your numbers is to ask yourself what would happen if you don’t meet them. things that we must meet or things that we believe to be true about the world.

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The Product Coalition

DECEMBER 11, 2023

That was the case with Infinify, my product leadership academy, when I decided to “give it a try” while I always have the option to go back to a CPO role in the industry. My specialty as a strategic consultant and product executive coach is this complex triangle where the product meets the strategy and the business.

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The Product Coalition

OCTOBER 26, 2021

The team resents me and senior leadership supports me. I’m having to manage upwards to get the support to take the team on the journey towards accelerated product strategizing but I am creating enemies. I got this message as part of a Facebook discussion on the role of the product leader. I am burning out.”

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bpma ProductHub

APRIL 30, 2017

With her background in product management and marketing, the lessons, stories and tips she has to convey will be very relevant to you. Here is a recap of some of her most useful lessons: PM Lesson #1: Successful communication is the bedrock of Product Management. Informed: Wake Up Wisdom for Women” in 2011.

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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.” It’s a plan.

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Gainsight

SEPTEMBER 8, 2021

Who else can interpret strategy from Product, Marketing, and elsewhere into the CS team’s role? When the Board meeting is next week, they need to have their story straight right now. Will they improve your CS practice at the pace you need to meet your NRR & valuation goals? CS leadership time spent on reporting.

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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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Bain Public

MAY 24, 2019

It can be helpful to write a to-do list of small actions that can help get the ball rolling such as: ‘determine product title’ or ‘call customer’. It is important to use daily and weekly meetings to maintain that momentum and to implement monthly and quarterly meetings to make sure the strategic direction is being followed.

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Bain Public

JUNE 28, 2019

Has the product achieved product-market fit in that segment? Does it align with the personas the product team defined? The CEO has to define the market and make sure the sales team isn’t casting their nets too wide into the grey zones. Bottom line: the CEO needs to make the unsound markets explicit.

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Mironov Consulting

MARCH 4, 2020

A pattern I’ve seen 4 or 5 times seems worth describing, since other folks may be experiencing it: a very early-stage B2B/enterprise company brings on a full sales team before finding product/market fit. She comes back from the meeting very enthusiastic, since the CHRO is bonused on recruiting speed and likes our one-line pitch.

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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. We also think about community and consultants and professional services as an ecosystem around our product. Andrey: We bet on consultants.

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The Product Coalition

DECEMBER 11, 2023

They called a meeting with all the relevant stakeholders as well as external advisors, and a few minutes into the meeting she realized that she doesn’t understand what they are talking about. They don’t always understand either I use this technique a lot in my strategic consulting services.

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Mironov Consulting

DECEMBER 29, 2022

 A B2B software product company goes to great lengths to reduce/eliminate implementation projects, custom work, connectors to a single client’s unique application or database, bespoke machine learning models, on-site deployment, separate hosting, content moderation…  every kind of human intervention or assistance.  Revenue

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bpma ProductHub

JANUARY 3, 2017

In fact, she was among the very first class of the highly regarded Product Management certification from the Association of International Product Marketing and Management (AIPMM). She summarized her frameworks through her first book, “Software Product Management Essentials”, first out in 2003.

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The Product Coalition

MARCH 19, 2023

But the first thing Twiggle’s founders asked me to do was to decide which product we are going to create with the amazing technology that they have built so far. This required a whole new level of thinking and a deep understanding of product-market fit. And they go far beyond the product itself.

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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. I ran a survey with industry insiders and at least 50% of all product managers who responded haven’t spoken to a customer recently. too many meetings.

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The Product Coalition

JULY 10, 2020

The day to day of a CEO and a Product Manager might not be identical…but they both involve meetings. Lots and lots of meetings. In smaller companies and startups, both need to have a clear and firm understanding of the product strategy. Experiences challenges for yourself is the best way to understand them.

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The Product Coalition

DECEMBER 11, 2023

They also said they’ll be happy to explain in a meeting why exactly. I left the meeting quite convinced that this is not the right direction for me. I decided to meet B., I went to meet B. willing to prove them wrong because of everything I knew from the meeting with A. showed me something very different from A.

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Product Innovation Educators

AUGUST 23, 2021

Product managers often spend time putting out other people’s fires rather than putting out products. We wonder if we’ve planned the right products. Our titles are a mess—what one company calls a product manager, another calls a program manager or a product marketing manager.

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Bain Public

APRIL 13, 2020

Beneath all the activities that lead to a product roadmap, OKRs being met, and the cultural alignment element with its emotions, egos, unique styles and different goals, there lies a product leadership truth from this increasing strategic role: The less prepared you are for meetings, the better you’ll ask questions, listen and influence.

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Mironov Consulting

JULY 28, 2022

The Product/Development side of the organization [product, engineering, design, first-line support, product marketing] deals with cumulative impact across all customers and prospects , including everyone who is still paying to use any version of any products.     Aggregate outcomes.  (e.g.

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PMLesson's Ace the PM Interview

NOVEMBER 10, 2021

BOLD Program Whereas engineering students have the STEP internship program, those studying business, marketing, or sales have the BOLD program. BOLD stands for Build Opportunities for Leadership & Development. APM Program The last internship program at Google is the Associate Product Marketing Manager (APM) program.

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Mind the Product

OCTOBER 31, 2019

Designers reached out to domain experts from other teams to drive requirements without consulting the product team. User research took place without collaboration with the product manager on the objectives of the research, client segments being interviewed, and so on. Hold a Product Management Information Session or Workshop.

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The Product Coalition

DECEMBER 11, 2023

But deep down inside, if you are 100% honest with yourself, or if you were an external consultant, you know that these holes are not going anywhere, and you will have to figure it out at some point to succeed. There could be product gaps, technology gaps (for example scale), regulation gaps, or even branding gaps. Anyone can do that.

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Userpilot

FEBRUARY 17, 2021

February Product Conferences. Big names like the Product Marketing Alliance, Product World, and Product Con are still going through with virtual versions of their flagship conferences. Product Marketing Rendezvous. Source: Product Marketing Alliance.

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Bain Public

MARCH 31, 2020

The number one company-killer is the lack of a market. Sure, you can go ahead and do whatever you want, but the market will always win. So why exactly do most products fail to meet business objectives? 4 Reasons Products Fail to Meet Business Objectives. No market need. Let’s take a look.

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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.

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Bain Public

JANUARY 21, 2020

They plan to offer smarter, better-informed decisions to everyone, starting with the financial, recruiting, executive decision-making and medical markets. We care about user problems and how products fit into their lives. "We We help ambitious organizations create new value by establishing company-wide product-related processes.

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Bain Public

FEBRUARY 26, 2020

Thanks to Livescale, live shopping allows brands to monetize their social influence, promote their products on video, and sell online with live streaming solutions where orders and payment systems go right to their e-commerce platform. Who is the face behind the innovative product management? Written by Loren O'Brien-Egesborg.

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ProductPlan

MARCH 5, 2021

For this entry-level product role, hiring managers are looking for candidates who understand what product management is. Background preferences for this role include product marketing experience or project management experience. You might not need hands-on product experience. Director of Product.

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