PMLesson's Ace the PM Interview

APRIL 26, 2022

Interested in getting help acing your data science or machine learning interview? Check out our complete Data Science Interview Prep Course.    Curious about following a data science career path? And as companies collect even more information, working with and understanding data is becoming a bigger priority.

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Userpilot

JUNE 20, 2023

We look at the process of idea validation and a range of tools and techniques you can leverage to aid the process. TL;DR Product idea validation is a process during which product teams test and tweak the product concept to ensure it satisfies a real market need. Are there enough users who are ready to pay for a solution to the problem?

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Usersnap

MARCH 19, 2019

Should the Voice of Customer influence product development? In Frost & Sullivan’s survey research on R&D/innovation and product development priorities, 84% of the respondents declare that they employ the voice of customers (VoC) in their product development cycle. Do you consider customer feedback?

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Amplitude

DECEMBER 17, 2020

As a product leader, you know how important iteration is to helping teams adapt to user needs and build great products. But iterating without clear, accessible data can lead to problems throughout the launch cycle, from poor audience fit to missed timelines because it took too long to validate an earlier change.

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Mironov Consulting

DECEMBER 5, 2023

We’re in the Silly Season: companies of all sizes are doing annual planning — intending to lock down 12 months of iron-clad commitments, non-negotiable delivery dates, major organizational changes, and accurate predictions of revenue.    (And the 9000 things we won’t do.)  ” What To Do?

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Gainsight

MARCH 19, 2020

Let’s start by acknowledging that Customer Success teams always have the coolest people in the company. They develop a deep understanding of the customer’s problems and how the company can offer a better overall solution. So why are Success leaders often second-class citizens on the executive team?

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Gainsight

MARCH 9, 2020

Let’s start by acknowledging that Customer Success teams always have the coolest people in the company. They develop a deep understanding of the customer’s problems and how the company can offer a better overall solution. So why are Success leaders often second-class citizens on the executive team?

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ProductPlan

MARCH 11, 2022

Finding a new team member creates anxiety for many managers and for a good reason. The right hire unlocks new capabilities, allowing the team to achieve even more. The wrong choice, however, can drag down the highest functioning of teams. The perfect product operations candidate might not even know to search for this job title.

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Modus Create

MAY 31, 2021

This article focuses on the practical challenges we faced while testing APIs and their best possible solutions. As per the latest State of API report, there is a massive spike in the companies taking up API operations. Let us get into the top QA challenges of API testing and their solutions. . Test Coverage.

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Reveal

JULY 28, 2022

Reveal Embedded Analytics. Embedded analytics is everywhere around us – in our cars, in our homes, in our security systems, in the digital advertising that we see while surfing the web, and even in the healthcare services we are being treated with. And that is because data nowadays is everything.

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PMLesson's Ace the PM Interview

MARCH 1, 2020

Hi I'm Kevin Wei, a product manager (aka an offering manager -- I can get into that in a bit) on IBM's data + AI team. I studied mathematics at UCLA, worked 2 summers as a software engineering intern at a Series E AdTech startup, and advised Metta World Peace (Ron Artest) as the product manager for his social basketball app, Gradelo.

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Intercom, Inc.

JULY 29, 2021

And so, Mark Rudden and his team had to figure it all out by themselves. Fortunately, Mark had quite a bit of experience working and scaling teams in demanding, hypergrowth environments. Rather, everything is an iterative process of building the service, rolling it out to users and keep improving it as you get new data and feedback.

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The Product Coalition

JANUARY 28, 2019

It is more accessible than ever before, and we’re constantly awash in data, metrics, news, reports, etc. There probably isn’t a better example of data overload than in finance. The sheer volume of data available is astounding. They were also roughly 20% confident in their predictions.

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DISQO

JUNE 30, 2017

Input from executives is only less common than input from product owners, engineering teams, and the product managers themselves. The challenge for product leaders is that ideas from the C-Suite often lack customer validation and therefore put teams at risk of investing resources in ideas that won’t be successful.

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Innovatemap

MARCH 22, 2023

How We Know As a service provider in the tech industry, we have a unique purview. After 25 years in tech, it’s never been so obvious to me how tied technology is to the macro-economic climate. If Q4 made us question market projections and the state of the economy, Q1 validated those concerns with data. The numbers don’t lie.

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DISQO

JUNE 30, 2017

Input from executives is only less common than input from product owners, engineering teams, and the product managers themselves. The challenge for product leaders is that ideas from the C-Suite often lack customer validation and therefore put teams at risk of investing resources in ideas that won’t be successful.

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DISQO

JUNE 30, 2017

Input from executives is only less common than input from product owners, engineering teams, and the product managers themselves. The challenge for product leaders is that ideas from the C-Suite often lack customer validation and therefore put teams at risk of investing resources in ideas that won’t be successful.

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Mind the Product

MAY 9, 2019

In March last year, my colleague and Mind the Product’s Director of Training, Rosemary King, wrote about how the company departments working alongside a product team could better work together to meet their common goals and to improve working practices. Take Stock Regularly. “If The concept is so simple, but so effective.

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Userpilot

DECEMBER 6, 2022

It is also one of the busiest, most complex departments, often handling many tools, managing multiple campaigns and events, and coordinating with internal and external stakeholders. The centralization promoted by these tools ensures brand assets and marketing materials are easier to find. What is marketing resource management (MRM)?

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Reveal

AUGUST 17, 2022

Reveal Embedded Analytics. Among all embedded analytics products on the market, Tableau is certainly one of the most popular BI tools for analyzing, visualizing, and working with data. Tableau has been helping businesses to transform raw data into valuable insights for more than 16 years.

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Andrew Chen

NOVEMBER 15, 2021

These frameworks are targeted at teams building new products, first and foremost. Everywhere you looked, there were reminders of the global scale of Uber’s business as well as the international heritage of the team driving it. How to get them started, how to scale them, and what it’s like to compete.

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Reveal

JULY 20, 2022

Reveal Embedded Analytics. Looking for an alternative to Sisense embedded analytics platform? There are more than 100 alternatives to Sisense, all with their own unique features, strengths, and weaknesses. It also efficiently utilizes the CPU (central processing unit) to provide speed when working with large data sets.

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Revulytics

OCTOBER 30, 2019

Revulytics sponsors a series of Product Management Today webinars featuring innovative ideas from top software product management thought leaders. In these blog posts, we ask the presenters to share their insights - we encourage you to watch the full on-demand webinars for even more details. So where do we start?

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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. They earn more than developers, astronauts, and even attorneys, but less than surgeons. The Director of Product is accountable for multiple product lines and manages product management teams.

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Mironov Consulting

DECEMBER 29, 2022

Almost every week, I have a conversation with executives at B2B software companies who don’t see a bright-line distinction between software license revenue and customization/implementation revenue.  Or What do I mean by software product vs software services ?  A billable).  Building

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Mironov Consulting

SEPTEMBER 23, 2023

I’ve written a lot about the huge organizational and technical gulf between services companies and product companies.  (See Services companies (aka custom development, agencies, outsourcing/nearshoring, contract engineering, consultancies, any work-for-hire) primarily market/sell the time and expertise of their people.  Work

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eG Innovations

OCTOBER 20, 2022

I will not dwell too much on why you should monitor Azure Active Directory, but here are the top three reasons why we think everyone should be monitoring this service: Security – actively monitoring sign-in logs enables you to detect malicious attacks such as brute force penetration attacks as they happen.

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Userpilot

JANUARY 15, 2021

Without product analytics, how do you know how to move the needle with your product growth? If you’re only beginning your adventure with product analytics, looking at all the usage data may seem overwhelming at first glance: Source: Heap. Here are the need-to-know takeaways: What is Product Analytics?

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Alchemer Mobile

MARCH 18, 2021

Apptentive’s annual Mobile App Engagement Report serves as a baseline to help app publishers across categories understand their app’s engagement strengths and areas for improvement. And today I am super excited to share some of the key insights from our 2021 Mobile App Engagement Benchmark Report. I am Christy Culp.

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Mironov Consulting

SEPTEMBER 14, 2020

Over the last three decades, across 10 full-time jobs and 150 consulting clients, I’ve headed up product teams 18 times (mostly as interim VP ) and helped another dozen companies choose their Head of Product. They don’t value experience running product management teams , instead overweighting narrow technical or market segment familiarity.

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Mixpanel

AUGUST 11, 2020

From understanding the analytics landscape to mapping capabilities with KPIs and integrating new tools with your current stack, we know that choosing a product analytics solution can be overwhelming—not to mention, time-consuming. How is Mixpanel different from marketing analytics tools like Google Analytics?

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The Product Coalition

DECEMBER 27, 2023

Building effective teams with people from different disciplines can be challenging due to various circumstances. Teams with multiple functions are instrumental towards staying competitive and succeed. Conversely, to rely solely on a single-function team for brainstorming is a recipe for failure.

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Mironov Consulting

MAY 18, 2024

Let’s imagine a Director of Product responsible for a portfolio, with 5 product manager direct reports matched to 5 stable maker teams.    Some are top-down command-and-control, others are freewheeling or consensus-driven or chaotically leaderless or run by a CEO who had a bad childhood. 

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Mironov Consulting

JULY 27, 2023

Lately, I’ve been writing a lot about entirely predictable goal misalignments between the maker side (product, engineering, design) and the go-to-market side (sales, marketing, customer success) of tech firms, especially at B2B/enterprise software companies.  That  There’s something more systematic here.

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Intercom, Inc.

JANUARY 20, 2022

After all, almost any product or service can be replicated by a competitor. We surveyed and interviewed key people in our teams to understand how they worked and how they saw Intercom’s internal operations. When people detect a bottleneck in the system, the operational cadence of the company starts slowing down. Paul: Yeah.

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Mironov Consulting

MAY 24, 2022

Everywhere I go, I see massive amounts of product waste : development work delivered on time/on budget that doesn’t drive sales or customer satisfaction or business improvement.  Yet  We shout past each other using secret keywords (“agile”) and assuming bad intent.  Project teams that ship v1.0

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The Product Coalition

FEBRUARY 26, 2022

I’ve asked friends who do the job at social events and got the same answer, and frequently asked members of my own teams, who struggled to find the time to do it. To compensate, I’ve seen UX researchers & designers pick up the mantle a lot more, and the design teams have really leaned into this space.

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