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

JANUARY 21, 2020

A few years ago, I was the acting product manager at a startup, developing an enterprise software product. Building the product was hard: it was taking longer to develop than everyone expected (of course). I heard requests from customers, domain experts, consultants, our development team, and internal stakeholders.

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ProductPlan

JUNE 1, 2023

Added functionality, new capabilities, a more robust feature set…these are the talking points product marketers salivate over and executives search for on product roadmaps. Where are product teams getting their feature ideas? Why do product teams become feature factories? But are you solving for actual customer problems?

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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. This is what happened again with the Benchmark team. With our easy-to-use UI , we want to empower data consumers , such as data analysts and scientists, to start replicating data in a no-code way.

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Intercom, Inc.

DECEMBER 2, 2021

From the process of disambiguation and the worst outage we ever had to our obsession with speed and how legal and engineering teams can work better together, Engineer Chats will give you a peek behind the engineering process at Intercom. The legal team isn’t there to slow R&D down. That is an ambiguous problem.

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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. billion in 2015. How will you stand out from the pack?

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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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Split

MARCH 20, 2024

A streamlined release management process is imperative for mitigating deployment risks and accelerating software delivery. By optimizing release management flows, teams can facilitate on-demand deployments that enhance business agility without compromising stability. What is the Release Management Process Flow?

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ProductPlan

AUGUST 12, 2024

As a proven solution for more than a decade, ProductPlan has helped 1000s of companies build more than 700,000 roadmaps and plan more 8,000,000 initiatives. Book a Consultation Enterprise Growth Platform Capabilities Unlimited Roadmaps Easily collaborate, share, and transfer between users. A straightforward solution. Proven results.

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ProductPlan

NOVEMBER 19, 2021

And at least one dedicated software application to help you take your products from concept to launch. 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? The steps include the following: Building your cross-functional team.

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Modus Create

JUNE 18, 2021

More data and more code in more places increase your threat surface, creating opportunities for malicious actors online. . Here’s what a comprehensive security assessment looks like: Step 1 – Due Diligence. Source code of existing applications. SDLC (Software Development Life Cycle) of the organization .

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Gainsight

MARCH 19, 2020

And that’s driven thousands of customer success professionals who were used to seeing their clients and teams every day to learn the ins and outs of “virtual” CS. Thanks to many, including Marco Innocenti and the team at Zoom, as well as Jay Nathan. We hosted a webinar with Slack on this topic. Watch the recording here! Turn On Video.

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The Product Coalition

MARCH 6, 2019

Bringing team members together, organizing user research, product demos, road mapping and more. Your software needs to be updated frequently and to the satisfaction levels of the app store gatekeepers. They also said they wished they had a clearer product roadmap strategy. All this information will inform your future roadmap.

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Gainsight

SEPTEMBER 6, 2022

This is especially evident in the Software-as-a-Service industry, where layoffs, hiring freezes and a slowdown in sales are creating never-before-seen headwinds. It’s about aligning everyone from product development to marketing to sales teams around the outcomes customers seek, not the technology or services you’re selling.

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ProductPlan

AUGUST 12, 2024

As a trusted solution for over a decade, ProductPlan has empowered thousands of companies to build more than 700,000 roadmaps and plan over 8,000,000 initiatives. Unlimited Roadmaps Easily collaborate, share, and transfer between users. Customizable Views Create views and filters of roadmaps for specific audiences.

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Business of Software Conference

NOVEMBER 26, 2018

Rahul Vohra (Founder/CEO, Superhuman) – The Product-Market Fit Engine from Business of Software Conference. Want us to let you know about new talk videos, speaker AMAs, Business of Software Conference and other event updates? Yeah, and I forced our team to build a trebuchet – in retrospect, that was a very bad idea.

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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 Claude, Daniel and I began to ideate on ways that we could collaborate by leveraging Daniel’s software. We got lucky; they saw our potential and did our diligence.

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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

And so one of the first ones that I came up with and I did like my due diligence and research about this and of course from my own experience and thinking about some of the companies that we work with. So ultimately again you’re trying to create teams that are designed for growth, designed for understanding the customer.

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Gainsight

AUGUST 31, 2020

ServiceChannel worked diligently at operationalizing the survey itself. The team also made sure that it was short in length and easy to understand. . The team also made sure that it was short in length and easy to understand. . We also built out the team. This allowed us to intensify our customer retention efforts.

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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. We didn’t give it this supervised learning where you code in a definition of sadness or happiness. It would be great.”

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The Product Coalition

OCTOBER 19, 2020

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. As you assemble your team, take special care to select a diverse group of subject matter experts.

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Product Talk

FEBRUARY 10, 2021

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. It’s allowing each team to really find what’s going to work best for them. Let’s go ahead and dive in.

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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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ProductPlan

MARCH 14, 2023

They range from gargantuan MRI machines to cotton swabs to the patient portal software for scheduling appointments. 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. For those contemplating moving into the $4.3

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Department of Product

MARCH 28, 2022

Or how about telling the execs at Microsoft Office that their model of selling physical boxes of Office software is a one way ticket to death by Google Workspace? The types of trends that matter to product teams So if we agree that staying on top of trends matters, the question then is, what types of trends should we bother staying on top of?

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Andrew Chen

SEPTEMBER 4, 2018

I think we’re now gonna move to a thing where all of these different kind of software experiences all are incredibly sharable. And I think the similar kind of analysis you can do for B2B companies is for products that have different sized teams using it. Andrew: Because the competition will… Sonal: …Do the same thing?

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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. We’ve been focused mostly on looking at how we can grow our team and what might new teams do and what might new people do.

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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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