PMLesson's Ace the PM Interview

JANUARY 18, 2022

Many tech professionals follow a product manager career path because it blends responsibilities and exciting job duties. This may include reviewing quantitative metrics, conducting customer surveys, and more. Many organizations, instead, refer to these individuals as Group Product Managers or Principal Product Managers.

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Mironov Consulting

JUNE 27, 2019

That maps to titles like Director of Product Management, Group Product Manager, VP of Products, or Chief Product Officer. There may also be some designers or a few developers reporting into such roles, but I’m focused away from CTO and VP Engineering roles where the majority of staff are developers. .

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Modus Create

FEBRUARY 24, 2020

Under supportive leadership, designers can be enabled to ask the right questions, explore divergent paths, and validate assumptions through controlled experimentation. Work with your design leadership to ask what steps it would take to right-size the design team’s staffing to meet your goals. user group events.

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Mironov Consulting

DECEMBER 31, 2017

These discussions often get very technical or theoretical: treating roadmapping as a purely intellectual exercise, where our secret ambition is for the world to admire our brilliant algorithms and decision criteria. Each functional group has its own product priorities, so each wants a different roadmap.

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Userpilot

MARCH 7, 2024

I asked DALLE to ‘Give me an image of a tech CEO’. It gave me two photos of a smartly-dressed young, white man in a corporate office setting. Then I tried regenerating the image to see on which try it would give me a tech CEO of a different gender (or colour). of leadership roles. of leadership roles.

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The Product Guy

APRIL 4, 2017

Paul is an experienced product management professional with over 15 years of experience in technology management and 10 years in product management. Prior to Medidata, Paul led product management and was head of technology at Centage Corporation, a budgeting and financial forecasting software company in Natick, MA.

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The Product Guy

MAY 15, 2017

Paul is an experienced product management professional with over 15 years of experience in technology management and 10 years in product management. Prior to Medidata, Paul led product management and was head of technology at Centage Corporation, a budgeting and financial forecasting software company in Natick, MA.

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DISQO

DECEMBER 22, 2018

Bombacino spent 15+ years in various digital and direct marketing leadership roles at companies of all sizes including Andersen, United Airlines, Omnicom Media Group, and Restaurant.com. Bombacino was told that, due to various complications, AJ was going to need a feeding tube for the rest of his life.

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DISQO

DECEMBER 22, 2018

Bombacino spent 15+ years in various digital and direct marketing leadership roles at companies of all sizes including Andersen, United Airlines, Omnicom Media Group, and Restaurant.com. Bombacino was told that, due to various complications, AJ was going to need a feeding tube for the rest of his life.

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DISQO

DECEMBER 22, 2018

Bombacino spent 15+ years in various digital and direct marketing leadership roles at companies of all sizes including Andersen, United Airlines, Omnicom Media Group, and Restaurant.com. Bombacino was told that, due to various complications, AJ was going to need a feeding tube for the rest of his life.

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Hutwork

MARCH 9, 2018

Just like you use the latest technology to inform products of today, you need to change the way you build products to optimize for the future. You might not agree with all of Rosenberg’s points on leadership. 18 Customer Inspired; Technology Enabled. The Silicon Valley Product Group published this intriguing article.

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Mironov Consulting

JANUARY 17, 2019

Bare metal startups don’t have a product management team, just as they don’t have a sales/marketing organization or support group or a business analytics squad. A not-yet-generating-repeatable-revenue company of 6 people might have one architect/CTO, one designer, three other developers, and a CEO. Legal keeps us out of jail.

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The Product Guy

MARCH 2, 2017

Paul is an experienced product management professional with over 15 years of experience in technology management and 10 years in product management. Prior to Medidata, Paul led product management and was head of technology at Centage Corporation, a budgeting and financial forecasting software company in Natick, MA.

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Mironov Consulting

APRIL 15, 2023

In my experience, there’s usually a fundamental misalignment between two broad groups at software companies – especially B2B/enterprise companies — that I’ve been thinking/writing for a while.  One Deep dives into obscure technical requirements isn’t the fastest path to a signature.

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svpg

SEPTEMBER 30, 2016

When I first decided to start The Silicon Valley Product Group, I had just left eBay and had some very strong opinions about what makes great product teams, and great product cultures, and while there were more than a few important thinkers and leaders on these topics, one area that I felt was under-represented was the role of product management.

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Intercom, Inc.

JULY 9, 2020

In many ways it offers him a unique perspective which he shares with us here – from his early days exploring search as a means to supporting his gaming tournament websites to spearheading the growth of an increasingly important tech discipline. And I used to play with friends online in groups.

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Product Bookshelf

SEPTEMBER 14, 2020

OKRs were brought from Intel to Google by John Doerr where the method gained popularity within the high tech and startup communities. Environments which embrace Agile principles find an affinity with OKRs due to the way the methodology sets success criteria, emphasizes learning, and allows teams to establish solutions.

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Atlassian

JANUARY 27, 2022

Large companies’ needs are becoming more complex due to emerging regulations around privacy and security. In a recent study we conducted in partnership with Forrester Research, 83% of tech leaders said open, interdepartmental collaboration is critical to their organization’s success. We recently added Percept.ai A fond farewell.

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Product Talk

MAY 10, 2023

An admin might create a user on the web console and then that user logs in on the mobile app and then they send a message through to other members of their group. ” I already knew you, Teresa, through other social groups so I was like, “Oh, right, that’s cool.” Teresa: Who are your typical customers?

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Business of Software Conference

JANUARY 30, 2020

Listen now on Apple Podcasts, Spotify, Anchor.fm, and more – don’t forget to leave a review on Apple Podcasts recommending us to the world! Below you’ll find great talks from April Dunford (Author, Obviously Awesome), Bob Moesta (Founder, The Re-Wired Group), Laura Roeder (Founder, MeetEdgar), and many many more.

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Crafty CTO

APRIL 12, 2020

One anecdote I heard recently: an agile expert convinced a company to pay him $2K per head to train every single employee in their technology organization in Scrum. The tech organization had over 50 people, but only a third of those were actually developers. Total cost, well over $100K. Not all agile is bad agile. It’s bounded.

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Business of Software Conference

MARCH 24, 2021

And then you just lose track of who’s doing what and what’s due when and you don’t know where the feedback is. And it’s technically incredibly complicated. But we’re now going to have two concurrent groups of teams working on two concurrent products. And you know, it works for the first three days.

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Business of Software Conference

JUNE 20, 2019

So the first one is: “Ready for another group therapy session?”. They were not review quarterlies. Now he’s the CTO. So do you still give yourself particularly if you’re a technical guy. So this was the title of the talk. We didn’t really know what to call this talk so we gave it this name. So I’m doing that.

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