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. Design After the requirements are established, the developers are responsible for designing technical solutions to the product requirements.

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The Product Coalition

JULY 1, 2021

An API platform is table stakes to build your public APIs on, especially if an API is a key part of your strategy, yet too often, API infrastructure is hand-coded, leading to short- and long-term trouble. What this amounts to is often a more technically skewed assessment of whether to use an API platform to underpin your API.

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ProductPlan

MARCH 14, 2023

trillion healthcare industry , or even those already working there, it’s key to understand what makes product management in healthcare a little different from consumer tech or small business solutions. And while nailing pricing strategy helps every type of product, it’s critical in healthcare for a few reasons.

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Userpilot

JANUARY 23, 2024

Product positioning strategies are not only a marketing tactic but a survival strategy. In this article, we’ll go over product positioning definitions and their types, then go over our process for creating a product positioning strategy that gets positive user feedback. Why are product positioning strategies important?

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UX Planet

JANUARY 18, 2024

UX research emerges as a pivotal factor in crafting user-centered designs and strategies. The importance of UX research for enterprise customers and B2B companies cannot be overstated, particularly for mature SaaS providers and startups. Analyze documented requests and complaints to gain direct user feedback.

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The Product Coalition

MARCH 25, 2022

The overall technological progress enhances a lot of business areas, and financial technologies are certainly part of that dynamic. Taking into account the expanding usage of technologies in the financial industry, there is no wonder people started wondering how to make a fintech app. What is fintech?

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The Product Coalition

OCTOBER 27, 2020

The registration link and documentation links are prominent and easy to navigate. API Documentation The API endpoint documentation is broken up in an understandable way. Sample code is provided in multiple languages/technologies: json, curl, java. Language is one of being product-led?—?“register, like “Get” or “Delete”?—?are

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The Product Coalition

MARCH 8, 2023

ETL can be expensive and time-consuming, as it requires a lot of manual effort and technical expertise to extract, transform, and load data from one system to another. Additionally, sending data via email can result in data loss or corruption due to issues such as file size limitations and email filtering.

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The Product Coalition

OCTOBER 28, 2019

What No One Tells You About Being a Product Manager at an Early Stage Startup Over a year ago, I asked around, searched for books or articles, went to several talks but found very little advice on being a product manager at an early-stage startup. We didn’t have any documentation, processes, or guidelines to refer to.

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The Product Coalition

FEBRUARY 5, 2021

Then she decided to acquire technical skills in web development to get closer to the product development process. After attending a web development boot camp and working as a web developer at a small startup, she got the opportunity to become a product manager.

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Product Management Lessons from the Trenches

JULY 10, 2018

Two years ago this week, I started work as the first VP of Product Management at NTENT - a company with huge, rapidly growing market, world-famous CTO, seasoned executives and engineering team, and core technology that only a handful of companies in the world possess. all the ingredients of a great startup experience!

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The Product Coalition

DECEMBER 25, 2023

Everyone pokes fun at the user interface (UI), but it’s useful for document and content management, and it’s very easy to learn, especially for non technical users. I interviewed up to ten internal super users who would each review one hundred and twenty SharePoint documents a day. However, there was one big problem.

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Mind the Product

AUGUST 23, 2019

Each of these three elements serves an important purpose, but by looking at strategy from only a product-centric view, you are unlikely to be able to make an impact on the larger business. Technical, regulatory, and patents. Letter of Intent – With a non-binding legal document, all three themes are tested.

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The Product Coalition

AUGUST 23, 2023

Fairphone has already launched several models and continues to drive its purposeful mission, creating waves in the tech industry and among conscious consumers with over 400,000 phones sold in a hyper-competitive market. It’s a strategic document communicating the ‘why’ behind your product.

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Sachin Rekhi

JUNE 25, 2017

I then break down the resources into the way I think about what a product manager does, which is drive the vision, strategy, design, and execution of their product. Below is a collection of my favorite vision statements from a variety of successful technology companies over the years.

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Modus Create

JANUARY 12, 2021

The speed at which the economic landscape shifts has been increasing since the industrial revolution and the emergence of consumer technology. From the point of view of technology, manufacturing, and/or the ability to deliver a service, what is possible? I’ll review four methodologies: waterfall, Lean, design, and Agile.

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Nulab

SEPTEMBER 22, 2021

Whether you’re an established company with a new product or a brand-new startup, knowing where you fit in the market is vital. Any good positioning strategy begins with plenty of research. Your positioning strategy is about finding your space in the market and focusing your efforts on making that space yours. Let’s get started!

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UX Studio: Product Management

OCTOBER 9, 2021

Their team was previously fully in-person, and their customers range from younger to older, from digitally mature to less tech-savvy people, who were difficult to reach with remote research methods. Due to their international scope, they have some experience researching online, but before the pandemic, they too were predominantly in-person.

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The Product Coalition

DECEMBER 27, 2017

Are you using technologies and apps that create efficiencies? Don’t slack off; tax preparation is an important part of your company’s financial strategy. Read more about the value of mid-year budget reviews. He has worked in the public, private, and non-profit sectors, and his experience extends to small companies and startups.

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Mind the Product

JANUARY 30, 2019

His presentation, Product Thinking for Marketplace Startups , does an amazing job of documenting the differences between pipes and platforms, the three fundamental forces of marketplaces, and the specific challenges of catering to customers concerned with the well-being of their fur babies.

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Mind the Product

OCTOBER 1, 2019

I even wrote about it in my Mind the Product blog post, Lean Strategies for Maturing Products. The biggest reason people stick with the timeline roadmap is due to other stakeholders, like their boss or customers. Your roadmap is meant to be a human-readable document that communicates your product strategy.

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The Product Guy

NOVEMBER 1, 2019

There are three main aspects of driving alignment that I’ve seen vary a lot across companies and teams: how you document decisions, direction vs autonomy, and communication styles. Documenting Decisions. I thought: “A strategy document? But really, I just had never written a formal strategy document before.

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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. Roadmaps for sales and marketing tout new functionality and minimize the time spent on technical debt and scalability. That’s why already agreed-upon strategies are the ideal jumping-off point for your roadmap.

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The Product Coalition

JULY 29, 2019

A tool that has been helpful as I think about this with my team is a specific product process (diagram above) with various documents depending on the stage of the product. These documents are The 1-pager product brief : typically built at the outset?—?defines at the point of writing this document?—?the

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Userpilot

JANUARY 11, 2024

FinTech onboarding is the process of welcoming and acclimating new users to your financial technology (FinTech) product or service. For example, financial institutions like Mercury, which offers banking services to startups, need to know which company they will be serving. Flagging missing documentation before submission.

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Usersnap

JUNE 27, 2023

But for startups, the challenge of finding 100 willing beta users can feel like an insurmountable obstacle. Even without a polished final product, there are potent strategies that can ignite excitement and gather a passionate community around your project. Begin by selecting experienced and tech-savvy beta testers.

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bpma ProductHub

OCTOBER 16, 2016

Unless you work at a startup where you don’t have any existing products yet, there is probably a vocal group of stakeholders, such as customers and sales, that’s interested in fixing real or perceived issues with your existing products. The answer depends on knowing the company’s strategy.

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The Product Coalition

JUNE 13, 2019

But first, let’s review what tailoring your resume implies. This means tailoring your documents to reflect the industry, company and position that you are applying for. It is obvious to say that a small daring startup will not be expecting your application to resemble that of an IBM. What is this for again?

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Product Talk

MARCH 2, 2016

We have seen a rise in product discovery philosophies—the increase in popularity of customer development , design thinking , The Lean Startup , and so forth. The product manager interviews key stakeholders to understand what they need, documenting what they find. Product discovery, on the other hand, has been much slower to mature.

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The Product Coalition

OCTOBER 15, 2019

Image credit: ProductPlan Roadmapping sits in the Product Strategy phase of a Product Management It’s very different to a Product Backlog. Document these goals in a roadmap tool like Aha , ProductBoard , Product Plan , or Trello Now that you have everyone’s ideas, goals, and a backlog full of great initiatives, it’s time to prioritise.

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Mixpanel

MARCH 15, 2021

Businesses typically have dozens of tools in their tech stack, and most of these tools require some form of tracking, often for the same data. For many—especially burgeoning startups—this can be a nonstarter. Codeless tools require less upfront attention but can compromise a long-term data strategy.

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Userpilot

OCTOBER 20, 2023

You can collect feedback for analysis through in-app surveys, online reviews, social media mentions, and customer interviews. This could include analyzing sentiment for online reviews manually, using social media monitoring tools, or a combination of the two. How to collect customer feedback and opinions for sentiment analysis?

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Userpilot

JULY 26, 2021

Product growth is a go-to-market strategy that uses the product to drive user acquisition, activation , conversion, and retention. Being product-led means using product-led marketing like pain point SEO, product-focused sales enablement documents, and case studies showing customer success with your product. What is product growth?

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ProductPlan

JANUARY 6, 2023

There’s even content on how to land your first product job , what to do when your buyers aren’t your users , and implementing continuous discovery at startups. And if you prefer to watch versus read, there are excellent videos on topics including collaborative decision-making and showing your work to attain stakeholder buy-in.

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Bain Public

MARCH 20, 2021

There are many peer-reviewed studies compiled by the Product Development and Management Association (PDMA) that illustrates about half of all product development projects fail; this failure rate is especially much higher in smaller and startup companies. Strategy without tactics is the slowest route to victory. At what price?

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Amplitude

DECEMBER 10, 2019

All the capabilities you expect from a Product Designer are relevant: customer research, designing flows and interactions, visual design, understanding of technology. But then you look at your backlog each week and it’s all random tickets that somehow made their way in there: features, tech debt, bugs, something called “design polish.”

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ProductPlan

OCTOBER 29, 2019

We’re just a startup, who’s going to want to hack us? Code Spaces had to shutter their doors after they had massive amounts of data wiped out due to a hack, and more often than not , small businesses go under after major cyber attacks. Full, thorough code reviews rarely occur anymore. Security is someone else’s problem.

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