PMLesson's Ace the PM Interview

JULY 23, 2020

Software engineering levels are the road map that gets you to your career destination. Even so, the main benefit for you is that software engineering levels create a clear ladder of progression, and understanding the responsibilities and expectations for each level will help you to climb that ladder. Learn about new programs.

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Product Management University

MARCH 23, 2023

If you’re a pre-sales solution consultant or sales engineer, falling into the trap of telling vs selling can happen before you even know it, even though your intentions are always on the mark to start the demo. Selling Demos The selling demo on the other hand, is an exercise in customer value themes and storytelling. Here’s an example.

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The Product Coalition

FEBRUARY 23, 2024

I am not in favor of assigning home exercises. For instance, I question whether a more straightforward decision tree could initially suffice, and how to define success metrics, and what the Definitions of Done (DoD) for data science and engineering teams should entail. Consistency between the strategy and execution phases is crucial.

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Intercom, Inc.

NOVEMBER 2, 2021

I’ve led teams of engineers for almost a decade but when I look back at my own management career I regularly thought I was a “good manager”, at times even a great one. As a software engineer, no matter how senior you are, you always seek code reviews before deploying new code to production. . Always ask for advice. Don’t blame, own.

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Lenny Rachitsky

JANUARY 30, 2024

These days, for more generic engineering roles, we set up a separate repository with an already forked, smaller project, which is better controlled in terms of candidate experience, code, tasks, and access. If you’re an engineer, you’ll be writing real code. For positions we didn’t hire for often (e.g.

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Product Talk

SEPTEMBER 1, 2021

Clockwise from the top left, Codi Funakoshi, Product Designer, Rafa Salazar, Lead Software Engineer, and Lisa Orr, Senior Product Manager. The “really close” category includes the product and engineering teams. In other words, Lisa needs buy-in from the product and engineering teams in order to get anything built. Engineering.

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Modus Create

APRIL 5, 2021

Little would my professor know that three years later I’d build and publish an iOS application on the App Store and would be interning as a Front End Engineer at Modus Create. The post Why I Became a Software Engineer at Modus Create appeared first on Modus Create. I just had no interest in writing linked lists by hand.

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280 Group

MARCH 2, 2021

The two groups your Product Managers are likely to work with most closely are your engineering/development and sales and marketing teams… Cue the role confusion. Engineering/Development teams. In working with your engineering teams, your company is likely to be moving toward (or already using) Agile development methodologies.

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The Product Coalition

AUGUST 4, 2023

All departments in the company, from engineering to marketing, should understand and be oriented towards optimizing this metric. Let’s consider another example: HealthTech — Virtual Exercise App Business Description: An app providing a range of virtual exercise classes, personal training sessions, and health tracking features.

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Product Management University

JUNE 9, 2021

Implementing an Outcome-Based Product Enhancement Process is a complete solution that includes 24 minutes of video instruction, 3 hands-on exercises and a step-by-step guide for implementation and rollout. The lack of consistency and predictability is equally frustrating to sales, services, marketing, engineering, and most of all, customers.”

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Product Talk

NOVEMBER 17, 2021

In the old way of working, a business stakeholder communicated a need to a product manager, the product manager wrote requirements , handed them off to a designer, who then created designs, and then the requirements and the designs were handed off to engineers to implement. These visual exercises facilitate the work of discovery.

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280 Group

JULY 17, 2020

You can do a market sizing exercise to estimate the business potential. You need a multifunctional team, including not only ML engineers and scientists, but also data engineers, software engineers, UX UI specialists, and/or hardware engineers. Decide if ML is Right for Your Product.

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280 Group

JULY 17, 2020

You can do a market sizing exercise to estimate the business potential. You need a multifunctional team, including not only ML engineers and scientists, but also data engineers, software engineers, UX UI specialists, and/or hardware engineers. Decide if ML is Right for Your Product.

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UX Planet

FEBRUARY 11, 2024

Some plaforms use recommendation engines and customized user interfaces as personalized touches. Recommendation Engines: This is one of the most common forms of personalization. These systems analyze a student’s performance and learning style to recommend appropriate learning materials, quizzes, and exercises.

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Mixpanel

FEBRUARY 16, 2024

One of the first things I did was organize a strategy offsite for several cross-functional leads on my broader team, which included members from customer success, design, engineering, and marketing. A customer success lead looked into the PM persona, a PM looked into a data engineer persona, and so forth.

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Mironov Consulting

FEBRUARY 28, 2024

”)  Building software is a complex intellectual team exercise, not simply reading specs or typing.  ” “The CRO and I agreed that Sales gets one unplanned 'magic bullet' each quarter  – that will take no more than one engineer-week.    Please pull me in on those.”

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Gainsight

DECEMBER 19, 2023

If you’re facing the need to revisit and revamp your customer experience, our discussion with Mai Elizer, Senior Solutions Engineer at Comeet , offered invaluable insights into constructing a predictable and efficient customer journey. They shift and change with your products, your markets and even your go-to-market strategy.

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The Product Coalition

MAY 19, 2022

Have your product strategy team lead an exercise to prioritize those opportunities based on the value both from the buyer/user perspective and revenue potential. Align the prioritized list to your roadmap with engineering to identify delivery timing based on capacity and in-flight work that may be impacted. Let’s tase some donuts.

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The Product Coalition

JULY 20, 2022

I recommend this game as an exercise to all PMs that have already received a feedback about being control freaks. Clear communication with stakeholders: Keep Talking and Nobody Explodes (pc/console) Were you ever given feedback about your lack of clarity when communicating with stakeholders or engineering?

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The Product Coalition

APRIL 3, 2023

Bing’s AI helped to create this illustration of me Before product, I was a designer or an engineer, so most of the work happened in a collaboration between me and my computer. .” — Laurie Helgoe When I first started working as a Product Manager, the number of meetings on my calendar jumped from a few to a few hundred.

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Mironov Consulting

JANUARY 24, 2024

Expanding on a recent post ( Revenue Goals are Not Company Strategies ), I’ve been seeing lots of maker teams (product, engineering, design) struggling to form product strategies without a company strategy to hang them on.    Did they have sufficient input?   We usually have the fewest employees of any C-level function. 

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Mixpanel

APRIL 18, 2024

We have a wide range of user types, from marketers to engineers to product managers and more. Writing up the press release for your theoretical new feature can be a helpful exercise here. This is largely because of the challenges that are inherent in B2B. B2B products often have to appeal to many different personas. How does it work?

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Product Innovation Educators

OCTOBER 30, 2023

How the customer uses the product drives the requirements we as product managers write for engineers to develop the product. The engineers can’t design to every possible use case. We have a clearly defined description for the engineering team that we supplement with white papers. Defining use cases has a few challenges.

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UX Planet

FEBRUARY 21, 2024

On top of that, there are tactical responsibilities of designing UI, handing over designs to Engineers, cleaning up Figma, maintaining Miro (for remote collaboration), and planning research rounds. Plus/Deltas Plus/Delta is a short reflection exercise to exchange feedback, typically between 2 people.

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Product Warrior

MARCH 14, 2023

One such area is sprint planning, which has become a budgeting exercise for allocating engineering efforts to features or tasks rather than a tool for setting sprint goals. Scrum has been touted as one of the most popular agile frameworks for software development, and its popularity continues to grow.

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Product Innovation Educators

JANUARY 16, 2023

He holds degrees in Mechanical Engineering and has served as design lead and senior project manager for many of the nation’s largest engineering and construction organizations. 25:39] What’s an exercise we could introduce at our next team meeting to help people have fun and be creative together?

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Product Talk

FEBRUARY 14, 2024

That exercise helped us sharpen our prioritization and give more nuance to the general idea that we should ‘improve the user experience.’” Texthelp has very few designers who are shared across teams, and they have also been short on software engineering leads. That puts a big weight on the shoulders of the product manager.

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Bain Public

FEBRUARY 20, 2023

As I have recently started myself as a product analyst, I was able to quickly associate the concepts that JJ Rorie presented to some of the exercises that I do daily with clients. Overall, the book is packed with templates and exercises that would be helpful in building any product manager’s toolkit and it was a short and concise read.

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Product Talk

AUGUST 18, 2021

They’ve also released countless new features, improved their recommendations engine, and enhanced the user interface. This exercise will help you generate assumptions across all five categories. A product trio —typically comprised of a product manager, a designer, and a software engineer—leads product discovery. Tweet This.

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The Product Guy

APRIL 9, 2019

The challenge to the product managers is to translate these into a more functional plan for our engineering team. Some fundamental principles I found helpful when starting this exercise, Keep it short and sweet so that you can quickly memorize the core message. Simple task, right? Lessons Learned.

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The Product Coalition

SEPTEMBER 6, 2023

As product designers, owners, engineers, and delivery teams, we can often use the term with reckless abandon, daily. Then when it comes to doing the ‘work’, we’re already coming from the same starting point and the ‘tick box’ exercise is no longer that, because we have a much more enriched understanding of the context.

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Lenny Rachitsky

FEBRUARY 20, 2024

Nat Friedman (former CEO of GitHub) and Daniel Gross (former Y Combinator partner) are investing $100 million in a startup called Magic that’s looking to replace engineers. Prominent engineers are worried. This means anyone on our team can write well, whether they’re a product manager, designer, or engineer.”

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The Product Coalition

FEBRUARY 1, 2021

A hypothetical time break up of an Engineering Manager For instance, if you are an Engineering Manager and you find yourself spending most of your time in execution, then it can be diagnostic of your inability to delegate or your report's ability to shoulder more responsibilities. This inspired us to build Mornin ?

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Mind the Product

APRIL 11, 2019

The designers and engineers act as the parents via their code and design. Whether it is from your CxOs, a variety of your customers, your fellow product managers, your engineering team, your designer – you must deal with many people with opinions on a regular basis.

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The Product Coalition

MARCH 10, 2021

c) Think like your user : An empathy exercise can help the whole team clarify their customers’ and users’ pain points. Even a short empathy exercise can help align the team on the user’s pain points and needs. Subscribe to my blog to receive a downloadable discovery and empathy exercise deck.

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Intercom, Inc.

JUNE 29, 2018

I experiment a lot with retrospectives, usually mixing different exercises that share the same goal but differ in structure. In the engineering world, one of the things that a lot of engineers would like to start doing is taking on tech debt or delivering something well scoped that they think is reasonable to ship.

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280 Group

FEBRUARY 9, 2022

Ideation exercises and prioritization techniques are helpful during this phase. Engineering, product management, and quality assurance collaborate to ensure the product is ready to ship. During the Conceive phase, a company generates a new idea and determines whether it’s viable. Phase 4: Qualify .

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