PMLesson's Ace the PM Interview

MARCH 1, 2020

I studied mathematics at UCLA, worked 2 summers as a software engineering intern at a Series E AdTech startup, and advised Metta World Peace (Ron Artest) as the product manager for his social basketball app, Gradelo. Due to the number of applicants, making it past the resume screen may rely on a bit of luck.

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Bain Public

MAY 29, 2020

FUN FACT: It is actually thanks to the coaching service for innovative and technological SMBs (PMEit) administered by MAIN that we’ve been able to work with some of our incredible clients, Wastack , LiveScale , Blaise Transit and Enkidoo , and provide them with product management, consultancy and coaching support.

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Intercom, Inc.

JANUARY 14, 2021

With a background in computer science and an MBA, he soon realized that understanding the markets and customers is as important as building the products. 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.

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PMLesson's Ace the PM Interview

APRIL 9, 2020

CIO’s top 10 , taken from Switchup.org, a review and ranking guide which examined thousands of alumni reviews to rank coding bootcamps based on price, location, job support and instructor quality. Hot off the presses, Career Karma’s review was published only days ago and focuses on coding bootcamps with an online option.

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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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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? Christy: All right.

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Mironov Consulting

MAY 18, 2024

  Out of scope means they can advise, counsel, suggest, offer to help… but don’t own the decision/action.  Push internal recruiters hard, perhaps reviewing stacks of résumés together to clearly communicate what you’re looking for.    With lots of gray space between the two.

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Effective Roadmap Planning and Development Process for Enterprise Products

AUGUST 2, 2018

Market Research : Adopt Primary and Secondary research techniques to gather intelligence on the market. Do not discount your sales, marketing, Support and other folks within your Org who engage with the market at different levels. Competitive Analysis : Diligently carryout Competitive Analysis at regular intervals.

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Mixpanel

MAY 26, 2020

For today’s post, we spoke with Rohit Gossain , who has held multiple product management and data science roles over the last decade with technology companies such as Shutterfly, OpenTable, Adobe, and Expedia Group. . Rohit Gossain: I started off my career in 2010 as a technical analyst working with a product manager.

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Product Bookshelf

JANUARY 31, 2017

Your company will rely on you to be the most knowledgeable about your product so never take your eye off the market and establish an objective framework to guide your decisions. To make matters worse, the engineering team was having difficulty prioritizing because each sales person had a different request from their respective clients.

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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. She could adapt to different types of products and various kinds of phases, and it put her on a path to get additional responsibility over time , Not soon after, Amy became senior vice president of Digital Engineering Products.

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Sachin Rekhi

JANUARY 27, 2013

The role of product management in technology firms is a critically important one that is often misunderstood. Owning the vision for a product involves clearly formulating and then evangelizing the audience you are targeting, the distinct problem you are solving, and your unique solution by which you will win the market.

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Mixpanel

MAY 26, 2020

For today’s post, we spoke with Rohit Gossain , who has held multiple product management and data science roles over the last decade with technology companies such as Shutterfly, OpenTable, Adobe, and Expedia Group. . Rohit Gossain: I started off my career in 2010 as a technical analyst working with a product manager.

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Department of Product

MARCH 28, 2022

Which means at some point, every product must reassess its position in the market – and the strategic decisions that underpin it – to decide whether to evolve and adapt to new emerging market trends, or to ignore them. It is extremely difficult (and probably not advisable) to attempt to stay on top of all trends.

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The Product Coalition

MAY 11, 2022

As argued in the intro of the book, even though enterprise software makes up a big share of the total software market, most Product Management books still focus on consumer products only as well as ignore that enterprise software products are built and distributed very differently. Product Management is about solving customer problems.”

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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

OCTOBER 21, 2019

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. They had spent a lot of time choosing the technological stack and discussing technical solutions with outside consultants.

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All About Product Management

MAY 13, 2008

All this resulted in Product Managers being more reactive to situation as opposed to being proactive in delivering new products to market and improving on developing the feature set of their current product portfolio. No longer did the Testers have a fully documented technical and functional spec to work with.

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Business of Software Conference

NOVEMBER 26, 2018

This will change the way that a lot of people think about product market fit, BS metrics, understanding the needs of the people that really matter. Jared Spool’s excoriation of the use of NPS by marketing departments had struck a chord earlier in the week. So I’m going to talk about Product-Market Fit. Transcript.

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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. However, in my experience, given proper support by the Scrum Master, even lawyers and marketers can get comfortable with the designation “developer” when utilizing Scrum for their purposes. Team leads?

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Usersnap

JUNE 15, 2023

For instance, in large companies like Google and Facebook, product managers collaborate with dedicated researchers, analysts, and marketers who assist them in different stages of the product lifecycle. Conduct market and competitive research. Conduct market and competitive research. Collaborate with design and engineering teams.

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eG Innovations

JULY 21, 2022

Recently, we hosted a great joint webinar with the team from AVD TechFest to present the results of a survey we conducted jointly to assess real-world Microsoft Azure Virtual Desktop (AVD) usage and industry and customer sentiments towards the AVD technologies. Where can I get technical details of real AVD deployments at scale?

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UX Studio: Product Management

MARCH 28, 2022

Is it technical details, customer insights or revenue and money? Bill Campbell was a legendary coach who worked with some of the biggest product leaders in the tech industry. He often visited the meetings run by these super powerful tech executives and spent time making sure they become better in running them. “To

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The Product Guy

AUGUST 30, 2017

The relationship between QA and Engineering was bordering on food fights, and we’d only achieved half of our requirements. As we were getting closer to the end of the year, my senior vice president called me in, to review our progress against our goals. I’m not a technical Product Manager. In fact, our tests regularly failed.

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The Product Coalition

MARCH 21, 2018

A mentor advised me to think about three broad categories?—?the Understand the technical architecture for the product : Get an engineer to sit down with you and explain how the product works under the hood and which major technologies and frameworks have been used. Team / people Meet everyone ?—?team,

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Userpilot

AUGUST 18, 2020

Well, maybe it’s due a revival – this time as an unofficial mantra for the SaaS sector. The engineering and coding skills you have available. On the one hand, it requires technical resources to deploy; and on the other, all the events you want to track have to be defined and set up. Source: cultofmac.com.

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Userpilot

APRIL 30, 2021

If you’re looking to scale up your SaaS business , you may have considered hiring a marketing agency. Rather than hiring a bunch of marketing people in-house and figuring out a process from scratch, it can sometimes be more cost-efficient to hire an agency, plug your business model into their existing systems, and press play.

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Userpilot

AUGUST 18, 2020

Well, maybe it’s due a revival – this time as an unofficial mantra for the SaaS sector. The engineering and coding skills you have available. On the one hand, it requires technical resources to deploy; and on the other, all the events you want to track have to be defined and set up. Source: cultofmac.com.

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Userpilot

JANUARY 5, 2022

With so many options on the market, it can be difficult for SaaS executives to find the best onboarding software for their product. Most of the onboarding tools on the market require a minimal amount of code to use. But it will cost a lot of time and money, and distract your developers from engineering your product.

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eG Innovations

AUGUST 11, 2022

What some third-party tools offer beyond the native Citrix monitoring options – eG Enterprise, ControlUp and Goliath Technologies’ Monitor IT were discussed. George (Spiers) has reviewed Citrix Analytics and compared it with monitoring tools, such as eG Enterprise in an earlier blog: [link]. Best practices for Citrix Logon Simulation.

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Business of Software Conference

JUNE 29, 2020

If you’re on a marketing team you’re probably talking to your manager about what marketing campaigns you’re running, and if you’re in H.R. So what Dewey is advising us to do. But this is how most teams communicate not just product teams. you’re talking about employee engagement programs.

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Product Bookshelf

FEBRUARY 7, 2017

One of the rules, written by Lawley, advises to work on problems you are passionate about. It’s critical for product managers to explicitly spell out their positioning and review it with the entire team. The engineering team says the requirements were not complete and kept changing. ” The requirements death spiral.

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Product Talk

AUGUST 10, 2016

We would jump from reviewing interview guides one week to discussing experiment results the next. Bernie is a Professor of Engineering and the Academic Director at the d.school at Stanford University. We ignore the advice of Chip and Dan Heath where they advise us to avoid “whether or not” decisions (i.e. – Tweet This.

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Product Talk

APRIL 7, 2021

I am a former chief product officer and now coach and advise product leaders and teams. She is my blog editor and also helps out with a variety of content marketing activities for Product Talk. Teresa : I’m going to do a quick review of what we covered in Part 1 and Part 2. Is it technically feasible?”

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