PMLesson's Ace the PM Interview

DECEMBER 14, 2020

A common question for product managers, project managers, technical program managers, and software developers alike is what methodology to use given a project. Which should you and your teams decide the utilize? Whichever methodology a team operates under will heavily influence how they work and communicate with one another.

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ProductPlan

NOVEMBER 19, 2021

Who will we want to include in our cross-functional product team? How should we arrange the strategy, brainstorming, and planning meetings for this team? What mechanism will we use to review and weigh priorities on what to build? The steps include the following: Building your cross-functional team. Market surveys.

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ProductPlan

MARCH 14, 2023

Regardless of their scale and scope, they’re all products with production schedules, marketing plans, sales teams, logistics specialists, and—in most cases—product managers. Healthcare in most markets has a highly unusual dynamic. For those contemplating moving into the $4.3 For those contemplating moving into the $4.3

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The Product Coalition

FEBRUARY 24, 2021

Today’s rapidly evolving tech landscape favors short feedback loops and requires roadmap flexibility to pivot and solve customers’ most pressing problems as they arise. As a result, the best product managers thrive on their ability to move quickly, minimizing time to market for feature releases.

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UserVoice

JUNE 18, 2018

No product leader should be surprised how much their new job features coffee meetings and impromptu chats. There will be plenty of leaders at your level (sales, support, success, marketing, etc.) How do you build solid, open relationships with these key peers, and what can happen if you let this important step slide?

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The Product Coalition

MARCH 29, 2018

I try to help product and sales teams succeed under the mantra “Easy to Sell, Easy to Renew.” I’ve struggled to find many examples detailing how to bond product and sales teams ( Antonia Bozhkova offers a good perspective ). Your teams will realign and strengthen their partnership as they see the product through each other’s eyes.

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Product Innovation Educators

JULY 4, 2022

A group of passionate users in our social media and forum communities drives our roadmap and and helps us understand the problems we need to solve. 8:00] Tell us more about how you’re developing your core capabilities, especially AI visual recognition. Summary of some concepts discussed for product managers. [3:15]

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ProductPlan

JULY 10, 2020

As the Director of User Experience, our team was tightly partnered with our product management counterparts to ensure we had baked-in practices and habits that enabled all of our development teams to deliver an exceptional product experience effortlessly. The Product Team’s Role in Customer Experience Strategy.

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ProductPlan

JULY 1, 2020

Let’s begin this process by reflecting and reviewing. Did your roadmap change? It doesn’t take a virus to derail a roadmap. It doesn’t take a virus to derail a roadmap. User behaviors changed a lot since January, so many of the key metrics companies and product teams care about have also been impacted.

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Intercom, Inc.

FEBRUARY 26, 2018

I’m referring to the full spectrum of business execution, from product management to design to engineering to marketing to sales to support and all the other functions needed to scale a business. are making it easier and faster for software developers to develop complex software applications atop this infrastructure.

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ProductPlan

MARCH 17, 2020

Does your management team appear to occasionally have the attention span of a fruit fly in a farmers market? When SOS sets in, it creates a cascade of chaos, unleashing all sorts of problems for the product team. They don’t always have the same drive and commitment to the current strategy as the product team.

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Bain Public

OCTOBER 19, 2019

Here are the 3 roles Product Managers must perform to achieve roadmap leadership: The Diplomat It’s not our role to dictate through authority where the product should go. We have to encourage them to talk about their product ideas, making sure all voices are heard, not just the loudest: Where does marketing expect us to go?

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The Product Coalition

JUNE 24, 2021

In this article, we want to tell you about what happened behind the scenes, including the deck we presented to the Benchmark team. Leading up to the Partnership Meeting After the first call on March 10, we had several video calls over the next month. This is what happened again with the Benchmark team.

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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. Soft skills” aren’t always part of their repertoire, not to mention loads of “ developer-speak.”. Dropping the news that something is late on the day it was due is doing you no favors.

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Intercom, Inc.

JUNE 3, 2021

That’s the advice of the Sequoia team in their last memo, “ COVID Accelerated the Future, Now Seize It ,” and for the last couple of months, that’s certainly been on the top of our minds here at Intercom. And so, now’s the time to start thinking about accelerating our business strategies and grabbing the opportunities it brings.

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The Product Coalition

MARCH 6, 2019

Bringing team members together, organizing user research, product demos, road mapping and more. They also said they wished they had a clearer product roadmap strategy. What needs are you planning to meet through the app? At the minimum, your mobile product will bring design teams, IT, marketing and operations together?—?these

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Business of Software Conference

NOVEMBER 26, 2018

This will change the way that a lot of people think about product market fit, BS metrics, understanding the needs of the people that really matter. Jared Spool’s excoriation of the use of NPS by marketing departments had struck a chord earlier in the week. So I’m going to talk about Product-Market Fit. How are you?

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Intercom, Inc.

JULY 23, 2020

As the CEO of Flow , a flexible project management app for teams, Daniel is working to create a productivity tool that defies conventional metrics, meaning that it simply allows you to get your most important work done without monopolizing the time you spend in the software itself. There are more companies competing in every market.

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Intercom, Inc.

DECEMBER 9, 2022

And this is why we decided to bring you a special episode about these latest developments in the world of AI, what they mean, and whether it’s time to apply it in real-life scenarios such as customer support. I see a lot of folks like content marketers saying things like, “This is going to change my job forever.”

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Product Talk

FEBRUARY 10, 2021

Meet your co-presenters, product discovery coaches Teresa Torres and Hope Gurion. Teresa: For those of you that are Product Talk readers, Melissa writes our Product in Practice series where we’re sharing stories about teams doing great discovery work, so you may have seen her name there. Let’s go ahead and dive in.

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DISQO

NOVEMBER 1, 2016

The ‘Lean’ movement has taken the corporate world by storm, but there are still countless barriers for product teams that seek to adopt its experiment-driven ethos and make decisions informed by customer data. Today, our clients include forward-thinking product teams from AT&T, Capital One, PwC, Aetna, and many others.

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DISQO

NOVEMBER 1, 2016

The ‘Lean’ movement has taken the corporate world by storm, but there are still countless barriers for product teams that seek to adopt its experiment-driven ethos and make decisions informed by customer data. Today, our clients include forward-thinking product teams from AT&T, Capital One, PwC, Aetna, and many others.

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DISQO

NOVEMBER 1, 2016

The ‘Lean’ movement has taken the corporate world by storm, but there are still countless barriers for product teams that seek to adopt its experiment-driven ethos and make decisions informed by customer data. Today, our clients include forward-thinking product teams from AT&T, Capital One, PwC, Aetna, and many others.

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Intercom, Inc.

MARCH 29, 2022

Des Traynor laid out the six unique beliefs that guide our vision, mission, and roadmap here at Intercom. You’ll hear from the product managers that led the ideation, planning, and development of these products, and get their unique insights into the ways each of them can uplevel your customers’ experience with your company.

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Business of Software Conference

APRIL 7, 2020

Most marketing talk, or business strategy meetings, emphasizes the importance of ‘customer first’. However only 48% of marketers believe that their organizations can get to that point. And then finally when you look at just marketers themselves they can’t even recognize who their customers are.

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