PMLesson's Ace the PM Interview

APRIL 19, 2020

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! Technical Skills While not always needed, technical skills are very much desired for most PM roles. Many companies have a bias towards PMs coming from a technical background.

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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

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.

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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. It’s a business tax software company called Xero.

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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. ” Amy also believes that with each job, she moved closer to software and began thinking about product management. working on radar systems. “I liked synthesizing concepts.

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Mixpanel

MAY 26, 2020

Rohit Gossain: I started off my career in 2010 as a technical analyst working with a product manager. At the time, product analytics software didn’t really exist—we were very much relying on Google Analytics. If you’re a PM, I’d advise that you have discussions with various teams (marketing, data, operations, finance, etc.)

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Mixpanel

MAY 26, 2020

Rohit Gossain: I started off my career in 2010 as a technical analyst working with a product manager. At the time, product analytics software didn’t really exist—we were very much relying on Google Analytics. If you’re a PM, I’d advise that you have discussions with various teams (marketing, data, operations, finance, etc.)

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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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Intercom, Inc.

JANUARY 14, 2021

Rati: I’m thinking that that mix of understanding the technology and the software side of things, and the business with product, this range of experience, I’m imagining, really informed your decision to found Productboard. I’m an engineer and I think like an engineer, so I’m looking for frameworks and patterns.

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The Product Coalition

MAY 11, 2022

Finally, “ Building for Business: Product Management in Enterprise Software ” is a truly B2B-focused Product Management book, written by Blair Reeves (Salesforce) and Benjamin Gaines (Adobe) for “all the ones who aren’t part of the Silicon Valley startup bread”. But why is working in enterprise software now different?

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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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Userpilot

AUGUST 18, 2020

The choice of user retention tools and software available to SaaS businesses is completely overwhelming. This blog will explain the types of user retention tools & software so that you can take control. Well, maybe it’s due a revival – this time as an unofficial mantra for the SaaS sector. Source: cultofmac.com.

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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? It is extremely difficult (and probably not advisable) to attempt to stay on top of all trends. It’s impossible for one person to do. And not all trends matter.

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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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All About Product Management

MAY 13, 2008

How Scrum was Implemented The philosophy of agile was presented, by the IS Director and Head of Web Solutions Group - Kelly Waters (author of the blog 'all about agile software development' ), over a 3 month period to various committees, steering groups and forums in order to get the by-in from Managing and Publishing Directors.

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The Product Coalition

OCTOBER 21, 2019

Here I aim to show how experience, respect for discipline, and an insistence on following good project management practices can go a long way to help to develop successful software projects in spite of many challenges. To be clear, we will not discuss how to start a software development project or which steps you should take to kick it off.

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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? This is the story of how we’ve built a Product-Market Fit Engine. Upcoming Events.

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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. What you need is a rigorous analysis of the top players out there, based on an understanding of the features that quality onboarding software needs to provide to be competitive. Secondary onboarding.

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Usersnap

JUNE 15, 2023

Collaborate with design and engineering teams. ChatGPT’s widespread adoption made Google issue a ‘Code Red,’ which later resulted in the release of Bard , Google’s very own AI chatbot. So, I’d advise you to With Usersnap, you can smartly manage feedback from both internal and external stakeholders in one place.

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Intercom, Inc.

MAY 19, 2022

To give more context to these figures we’ve sent a survey out to hundreds of support professionals in the software and internet industry, consumer services industry, financial industries, and many more with company sizes ranging from 10 employees to 10,000+. That’s why you need to do these internal reviews as well.

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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. Whatever problem you have, there’s a bit of software that does it for you or your users. Software is incredibly competitive and developers cope with that by zeroing in on very tight niches. Source: cultofmac.com. It makes sense.

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The Product Guy

AUGUST 30, 2017

The team had been working for almost a year and had a huge amount of code under their belts. But just because it was a lot of code doesn’t mean it worked. The relationship between QA and Engineering was bordering on food fights, and we’d only achieved half of our requirements. We’d made great code. How did I get here?

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Business of Software Conference

JUNE 29, 2020

Teresa Torres (Product Discovery Coach, Product Talk) – Managing Outputs vs Outcomes from Business of Software Conference. So what Dewey is advising us to do. Engineers we solve problems. Here’s what happens: we’ve dictated outputs for so long our engineers no longer think their opinion matters.

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eG Innovations

JULY 2, 2021

What is [eG’s] Standard SLA for technical help required for customer? In general, we would not advise opening support tickets via a dumb email to a system such as Jira or ServiceNow. Integration with any software distribution tool is possible. link] gives some information. SapphireIMS. ManageEngine’s ServiceDesk.

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Userpilot

APRIL 30, 2021

Rather than drain yourself by doing too many things at once, it’s strongly advisable to focus on one channel and find an agency that specializes in that. SEO stands for “Search Engine Optimization.” As a bonus, if you want to build a mobile version of your product, they can help you code that app as well. Source: hostpapa.

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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.

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eG Innovations

AUGUST 11, 2022

George (Spiers) has reviewed Citrix Analytics and compared it with monitoring tools, such as eG Enterprise in an earlier blog: [link]. In general, we would not advise opening support tickets via a dumb email to a system such as Jira or ServiceNow. After a degree in Computer Science and hands-on roles as an application engineer.

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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. Teresa : I’m going to do a quick review of what we covered in Part 1 and Part 2. How do we get teams to not just focus on shipping code, but to look at the impact of that code and the outcomes that are being driven?

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