PMLesson's Ace the PM Interview

APRIL 19, 2020

Otherwise, highlight how you have helped those who are adjacent to PMs: product designers, tech sales, business operations, or product marketing. If you have advised any of these people with tasks like product growth, pricing strategy, or market sizing, be sure to note that on your resume! List of PM Behavioral Questions.

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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. I advise every product managers to focus on the customer outcome rather than the technical implementation. Specifically, a lot of “how” has been removed as those were more engineering and solutions focused details.

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PMLesson's Ace the PM Interview

FEBRUARY 20, 2019

How did you first break into product management? As an undergraduate at UPenn, I was originally planning to move into software engineering on graduation. Many top employers are looking for computer science or engineering graduates to fill PM positions, and this is an excellent route into the role. What’s your take?

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Mind the Product

DECEMBER 8, 2017

After years of seeing companies head down the wrong path, we’ve come up with a short list of considerations for product engineers and managers to take into account when designing, or hiring a development team to create, a connected hardware product. Many companies forget that it is advisable to keep product specifications restrained.

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BrainStation Product Management

APRIL 8, 2019

Here are some tips on how to hire the Product Manager (PM) who will be the perfect fit for your team. Product Management is fundamentally a white space role, so the skills you need will depend on what skills you already have and what your company does,” advised Jackie Bavaro, Head of Product Management at Asana.

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BrainStation Product Management

APRIL 8, 2019

Here are some tips on how to hire the Product Manager (PM) who will be the perfect fit for your team. Speak to a Learning Advisor. Perhaps you need someone with an uncanny design eye, or razor-sharp technical skills, or deep experience in analytics? Learn product management skills to boost your career – from home!

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BrainStation Product Management

FEBRUARY 28, 2019

Speak to a Learning Advisor. Self-styled ‘visionary’ Product Managers are dangerous – which is why I advise against hiring PM candidates who fire off (Steve Jobs) quotes during job interviews. Technical Skills for Product Management. Attend live classes and interact with Instructors and peers from anywhere in the world.

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BrainStation Product Management

FEBRUARY 28, 2019

Self-styled ‘visionary’ Product Managers are dangerous – which is why I advise against hiring PM candidates who fire off (Steve Jobs) quotes during job interviews. Technical Skills for Product Management. A question that comes up often among would-be Product Managers is: “how technical do I have to be?”.

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The Product Coalition

MARCH 11, 2020

Challenge definition A challenge could be responding to customer feedback, introducing a proposition, or overcoming a technical problem. This is likely to involve both design and technical details. The technical details will also need to be documented in a form that best works for your team. How does product discovery work?

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Product Innovation Educators

FEBRUARY 25, 2019

Learn how to go from “gear head” to “group head.” It is this sphere that many people find more difficult to master, especially those of us from technical backgrounds. My guest is Paresh Shah, who is pursuing his passion of helping engineers transform into innovators, intrapreneurs, and inspiring leaders.

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Userpilot

JULY 9, 2021

Continuous Discovery Habits by Teresa Torres teaches you how to set up a continuous discovery system within your organization with actionable exercises. Product-Led Onboarding by Ramli John and Wes Bush is a new book about how to implement user onboarding for the ultimate customer retention. Plot summary.

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Alchemer Mobile

APRIL 14, 2020

Here are some of the questions they’ll discuss: What’s the relationship between design, development, engineering, and product and your company? How deep does your understanding of the technology go as a PM? How do you manage executive expectations, customer expectations, and technical resources?

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Intercom, Inc.

JANUARY 5, 2023

He’s a keynote speaker, adviser, and co-author of several books on the subject, including the provocatively titled The Best Service is No Service , Your Customer Rules , and his latest The Frictionless Organization: Deliver Great Customer Experiences with Less Effort. That’s just not what they’re designed to do.

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Gainsight

OCTOBER 1, 2021

Then, they decide how to implement those strategies into existence, including determining who will be accountable for accomplishing those strategies. Others were consultative, or they advised about technical needs. They are willing to solve customer problems by “reverse engineering” the issues and getting at the solution.

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Intercom, Inc.

JANUARY 14, 2021

It was all about figuring out how to build things, right? How to use technology to create something. I need to learn how to build a business and learn how to get others excited to join me, not just tinker with the technology. That was the “how do I do that?” That was the business part.

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Bain Public

MAY 29, 2020

Product management is a job that encompasses elements of business strategy, engineering, marketing and market research. Due to the constant evolution of the product manager’s role, in the startup world, often people become product managers by default, and they don’t quite understand how to take on this responsibility. Startup founder?

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Mixpanel

MAY 26, 2020

Here’s what you’ll learn: How to become more comfortable with analyzing data How to be sure that what you’re doing is actually moving the needle Common pitfalls when analyzing product data and how to avoid them. Mixpanel: How have you seen product analytics evolve over the course of your career?

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Mind the Product

MAY 29, 2018

Brant previously authored The Entrepreneur’s Guide to Customer Development, the first purpose-written book to discuss Lean Startup and Customer Development concepts and he is the Co-Founder of Moves the Needle, which has advised the innovation practices of such leading companies as GE, Intuit, Capital One, ING and Cisco.

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Gainsight

AUGUST 31, 2020

Amy started as a hardware engineer. She is an electrical engineer by education, and her first job was at G.E. “More about empowering people than it was about knowing how to do their work.” Amy advised leaders to have a skill of prudent vision regarding resources , both monetary and human capital.

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Product Bookshelf

JANUARY 31, 2017

To make matters worse, the engineering team was having difficulty prioritizing because each sales person had a different request from their respective clients. He is initially overwhelmed but quickly falls back on his product and customer knowledge along with building relationships with his new peers in Engineering and Project Management.

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Sachin Rekhi

JANUARY 27, 2013

What I most often advise is to err on the side of fewer features for the benefit of getting the product out sooner to optimize for learning. This could be filling in the gaps on your team when needed, including design work, copy reviews, or even simple engineering tasks.

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Mixpanel

MAY 26, 2020

Here’s what you’ll learn: How to become more comfortable with analyzing data How to be sure that what you’re doing is actually moving the needle Common pitfalls when analyzing product data and how to avoid them. Mixpanel: How have you seen product analytics evolve over the course of your career?

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Mind the Product

JANUARY 10, 2017

Although you don’t have to be the initiator to organise a retrospective, you should certainly make a move to organise one if this has not yet been adopted by your engineering team. At Zalora we let every development team decide for themselves how often they want to hold a retrospective and who should be a part of it. Release Notes.

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The Product Coalition

MARCH 1, 2024

What technical knowledge does Spotify expect from a candidate? The following block answers: Collaborate with designers, engineers, researchers and data scientists to identify problems, opportunities and solutions that will support the needs of our users and impact our goals / metrics. Know what our users want?

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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? It’s impossible for one person to do. And not all trends matter.

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Andrew Chen

OCTOBER 31, 2016

Together, Shawn Clowes (Atlassian), Elena Verna (SurveyMonkey), Nick Soman (Gusto), Andrew Chen and Brian Balfour (Reforge, previously at Hubspot) have interviewed or screened over 1,000 individual candidates for growth roles – both for their current and previous companies, plus startups where they’ve invested/advised.

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The Product Coalition

MAY 11, 2022

To make up for it, Ben and Blair look at these differences, educate you on how Product Management in enterprise software works as well as guide you on how to succeed within it. Product specialization : “very tailored to solve a specific technical or business need” that becomes complicated quickly.

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UX Studio: Product Management

MARCH 28, 2022

How do they make decisions? Is it technical details, customer insights or revenue and money? It’s super important that any team member can suggest topics to discuss, so in a product meeting many things come up from engineering topics to design and marketing. The way they do the meeting will tell you everything.

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The Product Coalition

OCTOBER 21, 2019

We’ll show how to cope with a project that has no clear scope, tight deadlines and a limited budget. As a project manager at an IT company working with many non-technical startup founders, our clients, I often get to resolve a variety of interesting issues that relate to technology and communication.

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Department of Product

JUNE 27, 2022

How to Structure your Product Org to Optimise for Growth If your company’s success depends on growing effectively, you need to get these things right When a company grows quickly, it undergoes stress. Each function (Engineering, Product, and Design) has their own reporting structure and organization. Who does technical leadership?

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Mixpanel

MAY 5, 2021

Prior to this position, Neil was VP of Engineering, after working as a Software Engineer and leading Infrastructure Engineering. He was the Growth Advisor in Residence at Greylock Partners, Growth Lead at Pinterest, and first marketer at Grubhub. He advised companies like Tinder, Hipcamp, Reddit, Canva, and Pocket.

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The Product Coalition

MARCH 11, 2020

Finally, the term Development Team seems to limit the role to technical people, for example, software engineers. Ignoring technical debt: The Development Team is not demanding adequate capacity to tackle technical debt and bugs during the Sprint. Read more on technical debt and Scrum.) Team leads?

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Intercom, Inc.

AUGUST 19, 2021

And so, on this very special episode of Intercom on Product, Paul Adams, our SVP of Product, and I look at the past 10 years of Intercom’s journey and reflect about speed – how to increase it, how to recognize what gets in the way and how to get rid of all the necessary fillers. What are you talking to me for?”

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Business of Software Conference

NOVEMBER 26, 2018

. “How would you feel if you could no longer use this product?” He then explained how to use this information to understand his users better and how to build things that make the right ones happy. Rahul Vohra (Founder/CEO, Superhuman) – The Product-Market Fit Engine from Business of Software Conference.

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Usersnap

JUNE 15, 2023

Collaborate with design and engineering teams. So, I’d advise you to With Usersnap, you can smartly manage feedback from both internal and external stakeholders in one place. They can act as consultants or advisors to help project managers or engineers hit their KPIs. Identify bugs and technical issues.

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Atlassian

FEBRUARY 23, 2022

Whether you’re communicating via email, voicemail, chat, or conference call, Rose Eliff, Senior Technical Writer at Custom Business Solutions , reminds us employ the four 4 Cs: Clear – Avoid ambiguity. Be kind and supportive of your team,” Seddon advises. This is how to say “yes” at work without spreading yourself too thin.

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Amplitude

APRIL 25, 2019

Miles Monaghan, Senior Sales Engineer Senior Sales Engineer at Amplitude , suggests that you “make instrumentation a part of the product development lifecycle.” Miles, one of our Senior Sales Engineers here at Amplitude, at his desk in our San Francisco HQ. Involve your engineering team in the early stages of instrumentation.

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