Product Management Unpacked

MAY 19, 2021

Along with business, leadership, and technical coursework, MSPM students participate in courses offered by our top-ranked Human-Computer Interaction Institute. Our students and alumni frequently share that they’re applying these skills during their internships, projects, and full-time PM roles.

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The Product Coalition

APRIL 20, 2023

If you ask any PM (product manager) in the tech industry — no matter what company or product, chances are that they’ll agree that imposter syndrome is real. Many of these tasks don’t affect the process of product development directly, so of course it feels like we’re doing nothing. Let’s beat imposter syndrome together. Fu (pen name).

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The Product Coalition

JULY 28, 2023

An awesome day to celebrate all the awesome product people out there, taking one for the team; daily, weekly, monthly, even hourly and of course, by the minute. Whilst you and the team are ultra-focused, there’s noise from many directions, and the pressures on you, especially you as the PM. This is where your delivery friend comes in.

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The Product Cafe

APRIL 14, 2024

Whether you're a novice navigating the early stages of your career or a seasoned senior PM, the journey of upskilling remains crucial. While there's a plethora of resources catering to aspiring PMs, the lack of advanced courses for senior PMs is a gap Moe Ali's Product Faculty aims to fill.

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Product Management Unpacked

SEPTEMBER 17, 2021

Of course,ownership of the processfor developing and improving products and services comes with its own set of rewards, as well as challenges. Ownership of the strategy. Of product development and improvement. Of capturing customer feedback. Of aligning their teams. And of the process for achieving product success.

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The Product Coalition

FEBRUARY 25, 2023

Aatir Abdul Rauf Read a copy of Aatir Abdul Rauf’s LinkedIn post below to find out more: Product strategy is one of the most misunderstood product manager (PM) topics. Melissa Perri’s Product Strategy Episode: [link] Melissa shares tips to recognize what a winning strategy looks like and gives practical tips on how to course-correct.

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The Product Coalition

MARCH 28, 2022

Speaking of perhaps the number one reason why PMs ship products without adequate customer backed thinking: HIPPO (Highest Paid Person’s Opinion) This is a hard one for me to dismiss immediately. Of course?—?the Kicking things off with my favorite PM meme of all time (courtesy Dan Olsen) I can spill so much ink on this one.

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Intercom, Inc.

JUNE 3, 2019

And what makes this even harder is that, because PMs own so few clear deliverables (such as code or designs), it can be tricky to pinpoint what exact impact a PM had on a team. “Having a solid framework for framing the discussion is a big step forward” Of course, there’s still heaps of ambiguity and subjectivity.

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Product Talk

MARCH 13, 2024

Each team has a clear mission and will have distinct product outcomes (I’m only on week three of the Defining Outcomes course, so this part is a work in progress!).” “Creating four product teams comprising front-end, back-end, iOS, and Android developers made all of the above possible,” says Sam.

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The Product Coalition

JUNE 24, 2022

As a Product Manager, at any given time you will be carrying on simultaneous conversations with developers, designers, your product team, data analysts, QA engineers, marketing, sales, possibly your executive team, client success, and of course, your users. Your job, your imperative as a PM, is telling people “no”.

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The Product Coalition

NOVEMBER 23, 2021

Entry level” APM roles popped up all over LinkedIn, all asking for at least 2–4 years of PM experience. In large organizations they can be rotated through several different teams, to give them exposure to as much of the PM world as possible. But for many PM roles, what’s more important are the skills needed to get the job done.

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Product Talk

APRIL 17, 2024

We have some engineering teams that are so high-performing that they put a lot of pressure on PMs saying, ‘What’s next? ’ Then nothing is lined up because the PM says, ‘I’m now in the problem space and I have nothing prepared for you. She does some course correction here and there. What’s the vision?

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The Product Coalition

APRIL 14, 2023

I recently asked a PM what was driving people to trial his product, which is aimed at team leads to help them track performance on their teams. My PM friend’s company is nearing the end of their runway, even though they feel confident that people have a problem and that their product is a good solution. There are jobs at stake.

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Userpilot

JANUARY 14, 2024

In particular, we look at: What the product manager’s role involves Their main responsibilities Common product management positions Tips on how to advance your PM career Let’s dive in. However, experience is much more important to succeed as a PM. To see how Userpilot can help you advance your PM career, book the demo!

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Userpilot

SEPTEMBER 29, 2023

Main steps of the growth process: Collect and analyze data Draw a hypothesis based on the data Design a growth experiment using insights from your hypothesis Analyze your results and improve The best growth team structure should focus on the following key roles: Growth PM : Responsible for defining the overall growth strategy and experiment roadmap.

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Lenny Rachitsky

MARCH 12, 2024

Subscribe now P.S. Don’t miss Lennybot (an AI chatbot trained on my newsletter posts, podcast interviews, and more), my PM recruiting service (we help you hire Sr. PMs and VPs), and my swag store (great gifts for your favorite PM, or yourself!). Q: What’s in your podcast stack? AI + product management?

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Sachin Rekhi

AUGUST 4, 2021

For years now loyal readers have been asking me to package up my learnings on product management into a cohesive course on the subject. So in 2020, I took a survey of all the available product management courses out there. There were plenty of courses introducing product management to those new to the role.

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The Product Coalition

AUGUST 26, 2021

I will get off my soapbox before this becomes a rant about how disrespectful it is to everyone trying to make it as a PM legitimately - not for lack of material, trust me -but because this is not actually what this post is about. After a couple of months I befriended our newly hired 2nd PM and learned more about the role. Here’s how.

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The Product Coalition

NOVEMBER 2, 2021

But is a surprisingly small amount of materials about the technical aspect of PM work. This is actually not surprising; throughout many discussions I’ve had with Senior and Junior PMs, technical skills are the one field that seems to be in disagreement. So if you can’t get a decent answer, it should really raise a red flag.

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Intercom, Inc.

OCTOBER 6, 2020

Over the course of this year, I’ve experimented with applying principles from the world of cognitive behavioral therapy (CBT) to get a better handle on things. This structure challenges the “I’m not a good PM” narrative. It’s been challenging, but it has also helped a great deal.

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Alchemer Mobile

AUGUST 6, 2020

This post is a launchpad for the best mobile PM-focused content, broken down by topic for easy reading. Of course, Apptentive isn’t the only place helping mobile PMs. Here are a few compilations of our favorite courses, blogs, and resources to help expand your skill set. PM-focused subreddits. Getting Started.

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PMLesson's Ace the PM Interview

MAY 16, 2022

And PM interview questions cover a wide variety of topics. If you'd like to learn more about the structure of PM design interviews and how to ace them, check out our full course. As a product designer or PM, your entire role will be centered around understanding user behavior and friction points.

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Lenny Rachitsky

FEBRUARY 27, 2024

Subscribe now P.S. Don’t miss Lennybot (an AI chatbot trained on my newsletter posts, podcast interviews, and more), my PM recruiting service (helping you hire Sr. PMs and VPs), my swag store (great gifts for your favorite PM, or yourself!), and The Best of Lenny’s Newsletter book (all proceeds going to charity).

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Alchemer Mobile

APRIL 14, 2020

How deep does your understanding of the technology go as a PM? Can you provide any interesting insights on being a female PM? And what’s kind of interesting about me is kind of different than a lot of my PM counterparts. So I’ve been a dev, I’ve been a QE, I’ve been an analyst, a PM, all of that.

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Product Talk

JUNE 7, 2023

Bianca first learned about continuous discovery in a product management course at her previous company. While the course didn’t go into the specifics, it introduced the concept of opportunity solution trees. Up until she enrolled in the course, she’d mostly been learning and trying to apply concepts on her own. “It

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BrainMates

FEBRUARY 5, 2024

With no university degree course or global certification standards, most practitioners step into being a PM from areas like Engineering & Agile Operations. To bring these adaptive mindsets to life, I’ll highlight some of the ‘hats’ your PM may need to wear to get the job done. Features might fail.

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Melissa Perri

JANUARY 4, 2020

2019: "Duh, of course I want my people talking to customers. We need PRDs" 2019: "I want a PM who is good at strategy, and can help us realize our business goals. With Scrum came the POs, and with the new POs, came the interest for real Product Management. -- 2013: "My ppl are not allowed to talk to customers. It is too risky.

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The Product Coalition

OCTOBER 23, 2019

That’s what it took me to crack a PM role after graduating from Carnegie Mellon University. Product Manager is a relatively tough role to crack right out school primarily because of the following two reasons: (Almost) Every Hiring manager/ Job description asks for a PM with PM work experience. So what does one do?

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The Product Coalition

JANUARY 26, 2021

We began to ask the question: How could a PM action that knowledge into an inspiring, directional and motivating Product Vision? perhaps a PM or founder?—?seeking The PM will lead the workshop, with the assistance of another facilitator such as a Designer who will take notes and assist in the group activities. Future State ??

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The Product Coalition

DECEMBER 29, 2020

This is when companies started applying consumer PM principles to software PM. Of course, the end of the decade brought…2020. Remote PM had been a topic of conversation swirling around the industry for some time, and Stay at Home orders really cranked that up a notch. There was no-one in the middle to ‘ translate ’.

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The Product Coalition

JULY 7, 2023

PLG Starter Pack: A Guide for My Non-PM Friends Did you ever think I only write for Product managers like me? my non-pm friend too. I can tell you most PM principles are applicable in real life and the Product led growth is just one of those principles. NOOO, I write for You!, You don’t believe me?

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Mixpanel

MAY 19, 2022

Anything that occurs during the course of using an app that might be interesting for us to analyze can be tracked as an event. And each of these kinds of events can be “meaningful” based on how they represent our users’ behaviors and expectations as they navigate the app experience. Notifications and messages received are great examples.

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Product Management Unpacked

NOVEMBER 2, 2021

CMU Master of Science in Product Management program student Erick Valencia landed a PM experience of a lifetime as part of a student team developing a driverless race car system to race in the Indy Autonomous Challenge. But I also helped create a more comprehensive design of the PM Tracker Tool that was being used across the whole team.”.

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ProductPlan

JUNE 5, 2020

Here’s even more good news: There are many product management certifications and courses available today. Now, we’ve evaluated top picks based on course content, reviews, communities/groups around the certifications, and industry recognition. But how do you know which ones are worth your time and money? in the product process.

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NextBigWhat

DECEMBER 1, 2019

By listening to users perceptively, you can shape your product as a PM or even as a founder in the most meaningful way possible – building a symbiotic relationship between product and user. Ashish Sinha is the founder of NextBigWhat and an instructor at NextBigWhat Academy’s Product Management Course. Meetup Agenda.

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