PMLesson's Ace the PM Interview

MAY 14, 2022

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The Product Guy

OCTOBER 9, 2018

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). What systems/metrics/processes do we need to measure and track winning?

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The Product Coalition

JUNE 21, 2021

A practical look at how and why software designers can ensure digital services can be used by everyone. People who need medicine use apps and websites to order perscriptions and have them delivered to their homes. Thanks to the coronavirus pandemic, making software accessible is arguably a common struggle around the globe.

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UX Planet

JANUARY 16, 2024

The last thing you need is to stumble into the abyss of bad branding, a place where countless others have lost their way. SELECT Branding Process by Shakuro Mistake #1: Neglecting market research Market research is the North Star of branding. They believe so strongly in their vision that they assume it’s universally appealing.

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Userpilot

JULY 9, 2021

Continuous Discovery Habits by Teresa Torres teaches you how to set up a continuous discovery system within your organization with actionable exercises. 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. Plot summary.

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The Product Coalition

OCTOBER 20, 2020

It’s understandable that most of us don’t make time for personal development. Who wants to spend time after a hard day of work learning and developing when they could be kicking back with a beer and watching The Crown? A few months ago, I introduced a concept I have developed called the PM, or Product, Quadrants.

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Gainsight

SEPTEMBER 8, 2021

Organizations create Customer Success teams to increase Net Revenue Retention, and we’ve recently published research showing that NRR drives valuation. But, then, organizations find that the baseline impact of simply having a CS team eventually plateaus–your NRR stagnates. What about systems administration?

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Bain Public

MAY 29, 2020

The right mentoring and coaching support facilitates a startup’s transformation and enables roadmap planning and execution, without straying from the ultimate vision and goal. MAIN: Developing Entrepreneurship in Quebec. of startups assess their chances of survival as weak. The foundation of any successful team is their leader.

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Product Talk

SEPTEMBER 9, 2020

While I tend to focus on helping teams, Petra’s work centers around helping product leaders—the people who manage product managers. She has a big focus on people development, helping product managers and product leaders get better at their craft. I was a technical consultant back then, traveling to a lot of clients all over Europe.

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Mind the Product

AUGUST 19, 2019

Secondly, as great product managers are also great capacity builders for their teams, you should start looking for opportunities that AI can present for your product. But with machine learning the solution itself is so exciting and novel that it’s tempting to forget to ask yourself why you need it in the first place.

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Intercom, Inc.

AUGUST 18, 2022

You’re autonomous, your code is immaculate, and you have a deep understanding of building and shipping software. Despite not having a formal education in engineering, Sarah landed a job as a developer in the French consultant Grand Manitou. Then, four years ago, in 2018, she got a job at Algolia as a software engineer.

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Mind the Product

APRIL 28, 2017

The Vision as a Tool. At a minimum, a good vision needs to identify three things: the problem you are trying to solve, who you are trying to solve it for and what outcomes you want to meet (evidenced by a solid, meaningful KPI). The outcomes should be clear in the vision you have, as we saw above. Bullet dodged!

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Userpilot

NOVEMBER 21, 2023

If so, you should definitely watch the talk that Jason Knight , a product consultant and advisor, gave at this year’s Product Drive hosted by Userpilot. TL;DR Product managers often don’t get the due recognition for their work and their role is often marginalized by frustrated leadership or other teams. What’s the solution?

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Intercom, Inc.

OCTOBER 10, 2019

We do it by closing distances that our technologies have just opened. We will work with you over months iteratively to develop that idea. That includes design systems, pattern libraries and guidelines, but it goes beyond that. ” Jonathon: You mentioned earlier that good UX humanizes technology. Show up with an idea.

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Mind the Product

JULY 10, 2017

Let’s establish this right upfront: nothing beats a well-managed full-time in-house team of local developers. Are there enough skilled developers at your location? And done right, I believe that outsourcing means you can come very close to your team next door in terms of productivity and innovation.

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Intercom, Inc.

DECEMBER 21, 2021

In this episode of Inside Intercom, our Director of Brand Marketing Sarah Tran had the honour of sitting down with Amanda for a chat about how governments can leverage technology to build better services and empower its citizens. Later’s Farhan Virji on adapting B2C support strategies for B2B teams.

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The Product Coalition

JULY 30, 2020

Because you have to focus on optimization and fine-tuning, rather than establishing the platform. Our big assumption was that chronically ill patients need a discovery platform for functional medicine doctors and easily book appointments. The demand side incentives were mostly driven by health needs of the patients.

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Under 10 Consulting

MAY 15, 2020

The roadmap is one of the most common tools requested of product teams by executives, development and operations, sales and marketing teams, and key customers. . ?. A roadmap is a vision document showing where the product might be headed over the next few months or years. ." — Johnson's Roadmapping Conundrum. ?.

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Amplitude

NOVEMBER 12, 2018

Holly Hester-Reilly has a fascinating, experiment-driven meets systems-thinking perspective on product management. Prior to jumping into product roles at Shutterstock and Media Math, Holly studied chemical engineering, and practiced research science for several years. Holly: I think the best product managers are like scientists.

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PMLesson's Ace the PM Interview

FEBRUARY 18, 2019

Core Competencies All product managers must be good at communication, analysis, prioritization, breaking down complexity, vision, and managing a roadmap. They also need sufficient technical knowledge for the product they are building and, generally, should be at least familiar with Lean methodology and Agile development.

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PMLesson's Ace the PM Interview

FEBRUARY 18, 2019

Core Competencies All product managers must be good at communication, analysis, prioritization, breaking down complexity, vision, and managing a roadmap. They also need sufficient technical knowledge for the product they are building and, generally, should be at least familiar with Lean methodology and Agile development.

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Business of Software Conference

MAY 15, 2019

Technology launched before the market was ready, a funded company run into the grown, struggling to reach the heights of an American counterpart. Tom Adeyoola (Founder, Metail) – Why Your ‘Brilliant’ Technology Fails To Have Impact from Business of Software Conference. Tom Adeyoola, Founder/CEO, Metail.

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PMLesson's Ace the PM Interview

FEBRUARY 11, 2019

Transformation Labs is an advisory and consulting firm that helps enterprise and technology companies accelerate their path to product success. I started my career as a software developer, working on database applications. I also ran my own consulting business for a few years. I graduated university in the 1980s.

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PMLesson's Ace the PM Interview

FEBRUARY 7, 2022

Community managers, sales teams, marketing managers, and more could provide much insight into a product's users. That means you have to download the app or sign up for the product! Without this first-hand knowledge and understanding of your product, you won't be able to develop or improve your product as much as possible.

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ProductPlan

DECEMBER 4, 2019

Situation: You’ve painstakingly constructed a roadmap after consulting with various stakeholders, the development team, and your peers. Solution: Understand their motivation. Maybe there’s a workaround or interim solution that can placate whoever’s demanding it. Solution: Provide early warning. What changed?

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BrainMates

DECEMBER 12, 2019

The gap between rich and poor is widening, and this is causing an increasing disenchantment with the model which has been so successful. As a social entrepreneur with Full Time Lives and in my Product Management consulting work for Brainmates. Our world is in the midst of some seismic changes. Measuring more than profit.

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ProductPlan

OCTOBER 24, 2019

They develop their roadmap as a list of features, rather than using the roadmap to communicate the value they expect the product to deliver. For example: You will often be too optimistic about what your team can build in the time you have. A customer-centric attitude is a habit every PM is well advised to develop.

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The Product Coalition

JANUARY 26, 2024

Twenty five mini-research ideas for finding something meaningful to work on. In the perfect world, product managers have all the time, resources, and skills to do impeccable, in-depth market and user research. The real world has limited resources, unrealistic deadlines, and new teams that have not been able to do research at all.

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Userpilot

JANUARY 14, 2024

TL;DR A product manager leads the product management team and is responsible for overseeing all stages of the product development process. Typically, product managers are responsible for market and user research, product discovery , feature prioritization , and roadmapping. They earn around $201k/year. What is a product manager?

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BrainMates

APRIL 30, 2018

A bright and brave cross functional team of panellists were on hand to tackle an imagined (but realistic) Product Management scenario. Clive Lam, Consultant Product Manager at Brainmates. So Marie, you’re the chief product officer and you’ve been at the offsite with the exec team recently, where all of this was discussed.

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Mind the Product

FEBRUARY 12, 2020

It’s also essential to creating a team where great people want to work. In a perfect product development world, communications are seamless, specifications are clear, and product and engineering teams work together without friction. These are team goals that get shared across the company. Share Leadership and Credit.

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Usersnap

JANUARY 12, 2022

In short, the CPO oversees all aspects of a product’s vision, design, and development. However, their (and all product team members’) superpowers and role in SaaS growth is invaluable! Activities of a Product Team Tactical activities Strategic activities Operational activities. Data-driven thinking.

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Business of Software Conference

OCTOBER 11, 2023

As usual, you really had to be there but here are the Sigmacorn notes… 9:00 Mark Littlewood: Opening remarks Welcome to BoS! How will we win?

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PMLesson's Ace the PM Interview

FEBRUARY 11, 2019

Transformation Labs is an advisory and consulting firm that helps enterprise and technology companies accelerate their path to product success. I started my career as a software developer, working on database applications. I also ran my own consulting business for a few years. I graduated university in the 1980s.

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Product Innovation Educators

JUNE 12, 2023

Tools for planning and executing product projects Today we are talking about the skills product managers need to grow their careers. Before joining Google, Neha worked as a Management Consultant at Essex Product Consulting, where she helped organizations build products. How do you set the vision, strategy, and roadmap?

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Intercom, Inc.

OCTOBER 29, 2020

Think about what you could be doing to bring more diversity into your teams and be more inclusive as a company, and go actively out of your way in order to achieve set goals. I usually do them with Paul or people from the product teams – it’s much more fun to be on a podcast with your boss. Be open-minded.

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Mind the Product

JANUARY 21, 2019

As product managers our job description is pretty simple: to make all of our software development projects succeed. In fact, I would go so far as to say any failures or successes of the team are failures or successes of product management. This needs to happen at every level. Chiefly: What makes a release successful?

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