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? Think about the complexity involved in developing and releasing a piece of software.

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Intercom, Inc.

AUGUST 18, 2022

Sarah Dayan is a staff engineer at Algolia , a “Search-as-a-Service” platform that helps developers build index and search capabilities into their own platforms through an API, and the host of two tech podcasts: Developer Experience and Entre Devs. How would she provide the right technical direction for the company?

Engineering 204

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The Product Coalition

MARCH 15, 2021

I wrote a variation of this for the various product teams at Whispir recently and then as fate would have it, a CEO I know reached out to me on LinkedIn asking the same thing?—?so with very little effort but a huge amount of diligence and thought, and you can do it in 15 minutes if you have access to all the research already.

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The Product Coalition

OCTOBER 19, 2020

This is a well known mantra among tech CEOs, especially Facebook’s Mark Zuckerberg. Alternative futures analysis is a structured analytic technique that helps teams predict how the future might unfold. With this knowledge in hand, teams can more effectively identify and exploit opportunities and adopt risk strategies.

Technical Review 159

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Product Innovation Educators

NOVEMBER 14, 2022

Lessons from launching a #2 Product of the Year on Product Hunt – for product managers. Today we are talking about getting attention for your product launch. Joining us is a co-founder who got his product to #1 Product of the Day, #1 Product of the Week, and a finalist for Product of the Year on Product Hunt.

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ProductPlan

JULY 1, 2020

Unless your product management stack includes a crystal ball, all those goals and resolutions we made way back in January likely didn’t take global pandemics, fluctuating economies, and social unrest into account. Let’s begin this process by reflecting and reviewing. Regular roadmap reviews. Were KPIs met?

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The Product Coalition

NOVEMBER 9, 2020

It was about 12 months ago when I was challenged by our CEO to dismantle our squad and create a growth team. Not being too sure what a growth team was, we started anyway. We got access to work completed by Andrew Chen & Brian Balfour , took a few courses from the Reforge series and started developing our growth loops.

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Intercom, Inc.

FEBRUARY 26, 2018

As well as being a critical philosophy behind how we build software, it also represents how I feel about the software industry and technology in general. Basic technology execution is becoming easier too. are making it easier and faster for software developers to develop complex software applications atop this infrastructure.

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The Product Guy

JUNE 25, 2018

This article highlights a few ways to increase clarity and provide better role definition between a manager and a direct report as it pertains to daily situations involving escalations, blockers, and air cover. Given the split responsibility between manager and direct report, alignment and effective communication in these situations is key.

Product Management 120

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ProductPlan

FEBRUARY 1, 2021

Product leaders don’t often get many chances for hiring product team members. Additions to the product team must ramp up quickly. There’s no perfect resume recipe or qualifying exam for product types. So, how can a product leader make sure they’re onboarding new hires with a good chance of success?

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UserVoice

JUNE 18, 2018

One of the most challenging things about being a good Product Manager is the fact that we are often charged with the responsibility of making things happen without having any direct authority to “make” them happen. Conclusion.

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The Product Coalition

MAY 18, 2016

My supervisors in different teams (I was in a management trainee rotational program) gave me two big projects. One project was about pre-IPO funding for which I had to do a lot of financial modeling, due diligence, and third party negotiation. Excited about this finding, I started to apply for product manager jobs.

Technical Review 60

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Mixpanel

NOVEMBER 8, 2022

If your startup is vying for an investment when there are fewer dollars to go around, it makes coming up with a compelling product idea and showcasing demand for it with data even more important. VCs look for signals that you have the right product, in the right market, at the right time, with the right team at the helm.

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ProductPlan

FEBRUARY 1, 2021

Product leaders don’t often get many chances for hiring product team members. Additions to the product team must ramp up quickly. There’s no perfect resume recipe or qualifying exam for product types. So, how can a product leader make sure they’re onboarding new hires with a good chance of success?

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Mind the Product

JUNE 14, 2019

We all treat our products with care, respect, and diligence. We agonise over decisions and strategic direction, we think deeply about product direction, we care about the experience our customers get and the impact we have on our businesses. It’s our job to make good decisions. Find a Mentor.

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Usersnap

MARCH 19, 2019

As a product manager or a SaaS company owner, what is your main drive in building new products? Should the Voice of Customer influence product development? Why Voice of Customer Should be Included in Development Process. Let your customers make product development decisions for you!

User Testing 76

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Mind the Product

SEPTEMBER 7, 2018

Product managers are problem finders and problem solvers. In her talk from #mtpcon San Francisco, Mariah Hay , VP of Product at Pluralsight, challenges us to think about our ethical responsibility as product managers. It is crucial for us to understand ethics in the context of product.

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PMLesson's Ace the PM Interview

JULY 12, 2022

After creating your product manager resume , it’s well worth writing your product manager cover letter if your prospective employer wants one. The proper format for a product manager cover letter The last thing you want is your cover letter to look just like any other.

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ProductPlan

MARCH 17, 2020

Do you find yourself continually diverted from your product’s itinerary to delve into your boss’s new favorite subject? Are you having to explain why your product’s not using blockchain or the Internet of Things or artificial intelligence? Executives are furthest from the customers and the product itself.

Technical Review 69

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Bain Public

APRIL 25, 2022

We had some insightful discussions and they confided in me the challenges the local startups and ecosystem were experiencing regarding their roadmap development. "I I bet you're the only guys in town who values product management as much as I do." - Paul Ortchanian. Soko was a great technology and had a number of applications.

Technical Review 52

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Gainsight

NOVEMBER 11, 2018

The question behind the question is: “The Aptrinsic product, team, and message resonates with me. In fact, we chose Aptrinsic because their product, team, and message is something we want to amplify, not change. As we completed our due diligence on Aptrinsic, we were blown away by the quality of their team and product.

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Product Innovation Educators

JULY 4, 2022

How product managers can get customer insights from a community to create a competitive advantage. Summary of some concepts discussed for product managers. [3:15] 8:00] Tell us more about how you’re developing your core capabilities, especially AI visual recognition. The leading brand cost about $150.

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Ronke PM

FEBRUARY 26, 2023

Hire from diverse communities so your teams and organization can represent your customer segments. Make sure you are giving back to the product community by helping to shape the next generation of product leaders. Great product leaders reveal themselves through the people and products they build.

Leadership 52

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UX Studio: Product Management

JULY 5, 2021

As an expert and an opinion leader in the UX field, we’ve reviewed the competency, portfolio, and former projects of New York design agencies to define the best user experience design agencies in New York , based on our judgment. . As a client, you invest your time, energy, and limited resources into your digital product development.

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The Product Coalition

MARCH 6, 2019

Working as a product manager can be a busy, unpredictable and octopus-like existence. Bringing team members together, organizing user research, product demos, road mapping and more. If you’re a mobile app product manager there’s a whole additional layer of complexity to add to that cake.

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Roy Madden

SEPTEMBER 29, 2017

With more than 1,000 organizations relying on Feedly Teams for connecting to the content they need to accelerate research, marketing, and sales, we are growing our customer success team to continue to deliver a 7-star onboarding and support experience. We take care of our team. WHY FEEDLY? Massive opportunity. INTERESTED?

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Product Talk

MARCH 2, 2016

I love that Marty Cagan and Jeff Patton have long been advocates of dual-track development. Their efforts have helped to shape the ongoing conversation about the evolution of product discovery. If you aren’t familiar with dual-track development, it’s the separation of product discovery from product delivery.

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ProductPlan

NOVEMBER 11, 2019

Some will delight and engage the executive team by taking a high-level approach and focusing on goals and strategy. Others dive into the specifics and make engineering teams happy since they’re so detailed. Roadmaps for sales and marketing tout new functionality and minimize the time spent on technical debt and scalability.

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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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Mironov Consulting

FEBRUARY 9, 2023

” GTM leaders typically ascribe this situation to lack of attention, poor work ethic, or weak understanding of customers on the part of product management – i.e. personal failures best addressed by replacing or upgrading product staff.  Or They often propose grading product managers on answering tickets.  This

Technical Review 93

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Gainsight

AUGUST 31, 2020

It is a genuinely worthy lesson about willingness to learn, the ability to adapt successfully, the power of motivating team leadership, the benefits of making data-driven decisions from product usage insights, and the results produced from commitment. None of her employment at that time was about product management.

Data Visualization 52

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Department of Product

MARCH 28, 2022

How to Keep on top of Trends that Matter to Product Managers Decide when to care about trends and when to sit back and watch what happens next Trends and the product lifecycle Imagine your product strategy stayed exactly the same for the next 10 years. What would happen? Others will fail.

Technical Review 52

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Bryce York

NOVEMBER 27, 2016

” Without clear growth goals, your team can’t stay in sync or work at their best. The biggest cost of an out of sync team – wasted effort. Imagine you ask someone on your team to build an email campaign to promote a new feature. Generally, a growth team of 5 operates well with 2-3 growth goals.

Research Software 52

Research Software Analytic Tools Reporting Tools User Testing 52

PMLesson's Ace the PM Interview

DECEMBER 4, 2020

If you're interested in the field of technical program management, then the answer is, without a doubt, yes. As the name of the position suggests, program sense is an integral part of a technical program manager's day-to-day. Therefore, they need to have a thorough understanding of the product.

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ProductPlan

JUNE 1, 2023

All those new features might look good on a product comparison matrix and give salespeople a new angle when pitching reluctant prospects, but none of it matters if those features aren’t solving real customer problems. Where are product teams getting their feature ideas? Why do product teams become feature factories?

User Testing 93

User Testing User Friction Development Team Review Reporting Tools 93

Mironov Consulting

DECEMBER 29, 2022

 But when I do product due diligence for SaaS-focused PE/VC firms, it's the very first thing I look at.  Let’s IMHO, software product companies are fundamentally different from software services/outsourcing/custom development companies.  Said   What BigCorp demands, BigCorp gets.  Hitting

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The Product Coalition

DECEMBER 8, 2020

Getting new products and new ventures off the ground in massive companies requires overcoming enormous hurdles. There is a substantial amount of knowledge available on overcoming the technical hurdles?—?desirability, These corporate forces are arguably the biggest hurdles a new product venture faces. All of this takes time.

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