The Product Coalition

JUNE 11, 2023

Meanwhile, the product management hiring industry has apparently made a fetish out of its own formulaic interview questions which only prove that you’ve exhaustively studied the rote patterns they rely on. That is, unless the product job is decidedly non-technical. Structured interviews do about as well and they already are widespread.

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Roy Madden

JUNE 15, 2021

Case Study. Steve, a long-time tech executive (Disney, Nike), is an engineer with a passion for streamlining his workflow and feeding his mind. Back in the day Steve, a tech old-timer, stayed up to date via blogs. “The process has kept me in tune with what’s going on around me with technology.

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The Product Coalition

MARCH 8, 2024

They involve integrating digital technologies and processes into every aspect of your business, from operations to customer interactions. It’s not just about adopting the latest gadgets, but about using technology to drive meaningful change and achieve specific business goals. What is the importance of digital transformation?

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freshtrax

FEBRUARY 21, 2023

Although the number of tourists has plummeted in the past years due to the pandemic, the percentage of foreigners in Tokyo has been increasing since 2014 with internationalization rapidly progressing in the city. Nondo was born in Zambia, was a first-class architect in South Africa, and has studied service design in both Japan and the USA.

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PMLesson's Ace the PM Interview

DECEMBER 13, 2021

Employees routinely say that the best places to work are some of the big tech companies. To help figure out which internship program (and workplace more generally) is right for you, we created this list of the 8 best tech internships in 2022. Together, they contribute to the technical or business projects currently underway.

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Intercom, Inc.

NOVEMBER 4, 2020

The holidays are fast approaching, and for ecommerce businesses, that often results in significantly higher support volume for your team – which is set to further accelerate this holiday season due to the impact of COVID-19. For instance, studies have shown that shipping and delivery times influence 87% of shoppers’ purchase decisions.

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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. Naturally, I decided to study business in college. I started reading Atlas Shrugged, the magnum opus of Ayn Rand, during my two months studying abroad.

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PMLesson's Ace the PM Interview

OCTOBER 6, 2021

Being one of the largest tech companies on the planet, it should come as no surprise that landing a job at Facebook is not necessarily a walk in the park. This is especially true if you're looking to join the technical program management team. The questions are both challenging and Facebook-specific.

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Sachin Rekhi

AUGUST 4, 2021

Or PMs at larger established tech firms might see great PMs at work within their company, but they struggled to reverse engineer just how to recreate their success for themselves. This is due to the very process by which the roadmap is developed. Product + Engineering Programs : Technical Strategy , Scaling Product Delivery.

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Centercode

JUNE 15, 2020

In early June of 2020, tech giant IBM announced they will stop offering facial recognition software until further anti-bias testing has been conducted. But IBM has taken it a step further by looking at the ways their technology could lead to harmful — even life-threatening — oversights for lack of thorough testing.

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The Product Coalition

JANUARY 17, 2021

It would help if you had a Bachelor’s degree in Science, Technology, Engineering, Computer applications, Information Technology, or Computer Science. This is a very technical certification and requires a deep understanding of the subject. Reports suggest that 29% of companies lost revenue due to a security breach.

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NextBigWhat

AUGUST 4, 2020

We break it all down to 6 steps – Understand, Study, Engage, Reconstruct, Ship and Study. Question the need for it, discuss the possible impact, conduct research (wherever possible), go through contextual data, competitors, and talk to the stakeholders – Product, Tech, Ops, Support. Engage with tech, product, etc.,

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Ronke PM

APRIL 11, 2024

The success of products that combine utility and delight is partly due to the innovative and fearless cross-functional team that developed it. Before engineering teams start work, product leaders and their partners conduct discovery and research, seeking customer feedback to inform their decisions.

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The Product Guy

MAY 7, 2020

Relative to other standard roles defined in an organization such as Ops, Marketing, Tech etc., Often, this is due to resource constraints rather than a lack of understanding of a PM role. This includes Tech estimates (at least T-shirt sizing) and resources identified for the projects. Hard Skills Required for the Role.

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PMLesson's Ace the PM Interview

DECEMBER 27, 2021

Working at Google is known to be one of the most coveted roles in the tech industry. A team member at Google reviews all the applications submitted to their job postings and scans resume to see if there's a good fit. Study the job description closely - what skills is Google looking for in this role? Reasonable font size.

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The Product Coalition

DECEMBER 23, 2021

The study by the Design Management Institute analyzed the performance of design-led organizations that place influential design decisions at the top as compared to the Standard & Poor’s index over 10 years. With the worldwide revenue from the financial technology sector to double by 2024 , fierce competition evolves.

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The Product Coalition

NOVEMBER 29, 2022

In my personal journey I’ve shifted from engineer to leading teams to being a CEO. A study by Cornell University and Qatalog found that almost half of people surveyed said that context switching makes them less productive and causes fatigue. Review your time : review where your time went.

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Andrew Chen

FEBRUARY 6, 2024

99% of startups are not differentiated on their underlying technology, and there is very little engineering risk involved. (I’m I’m ignoring deep tech and foundational AI research companies, for the sake of this conversation). Hmm… If you find yourself at this moment, then you are already in a bad place.

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Product Talk

SEPTEMBER 12, 2018

Back in March, I shared a case study about one of the product teams I worked with at Snagajob (now Snag). This case study is about a team at CarMax that I just finished working with. Melissa Suzuno , my blog editor, conducted the interview with Victoria Lawson , Product Manager, Jake Mitchell , Designer, and Sri Arcot , Tech Lead.

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Intercom, Inc.

DECEMBER 28, 2022

We’ve made it to the end of 2022 – 12 months in which everything changed for the tech industry. After booming for the best part of two decades, a number of factors coincided to transform the SaaS landscape and tech more broadly. As we know, we’re in the middle of a tech industry slowdown. Well that was quite the year.

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The Product Coalition

SEPTEMBER 28, 2023

But, as the Harvard Business Review points out, this rush can be dangerous. If this company decides to implement a new feature based solely on quick feedback, without in-depth study, it might end up launching something that doesn’t meet its customers’ real needs. Passengers expect everything coming from it to be of the highest quality.

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The Product Coalition

NOVEMBER 19, 2020

He doesn’t have a technical background and currently works in a different domain. He’s become passionate about technology and wants to make a career switch. That being said, there is an additional element of complexity due to the fact that many companies don’t hire entry level product roles. This is not an uncommon situation.

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The Product Coalition

MARCH 18, 2022

Blockchain is a decentralized technology that works as a distributed ledger to power transactions. a database or search engine). Talking about scalability, it has a variety of significance in case of the blockchain technology. It is crucial to understand that the term “scalable” is a contrasting term in Blockchain technology.

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PMLesson's Ace the PM Interview

MAY 14, 2022

Solutions architect roles are rapidly becoming more important and popular in the technology ecosystem. As a solutions architect, you're the main technical resource for your company's sales team, and can provide a critical job function in a company's growth. You’ll go through many rounds, each 30 - 60 minutes long.

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Sachin Rekhi

JUNE 1, 2017

I knew nothing about technology companies, nothing about startups, nothing about the various role in the industry. What was amazing about this opportunity is that I got to see lots of technical roles in that short time. At the time I thought this would be the perfect mix of my passion for finance and software engineering.

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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. Working backward, the product team (engineering, product, and design) can decide how we might build the feature to ensure it’s a success based on the positioning. This is largely because of the challenges that are inherent in B2B.

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Userpilot

JULY 9, 2021

Product Mastery by Geoff Watts teaches you how to be a successful product owner within agile software development practices with the use of case studies. Inspired by Marty Cagan contains a little about everything in product management and is based on how the most successful tech companies in the world build products. out of 5 stars.

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UX Studio

SEPTEMBER 20, 2018

In this case study, we show how we enhanced the user experience and gave solutions to reduce the churn rate for Xeropan. In this case study we cover: The user onboarding redesign process, Problems and their solutions, and. They found the onboarding flow difficult to understand – mainly due to unclear copy. Scope and team.

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The Product Coalition

MARCH 18, 2021

Software providers have studied the evolution of this delivery model, and they have implemented many best practices. E.g., you need to look for experience in the industry you target and the technology stack. Your architect will need to study the industry benchmark, i.e Therefore, users save time and money.

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Iteratively Blog

MARCH 15, 2020

Data Eng Weekly (formerly Hadoop Weekly) brings you the week’s top news in the data engineering ecosystem. It keeps you informed on the latest data engineering-related open source and cloud news across batches (e.g. 1 The Data Engineering Podcast. A large part of the reason is due to the fact that not everything is measurable.

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Centercode

OCTOBER 23, 2020

Because the complexity of both today’s products and your customers’ technological environments make this incredibly difficult to achieve. And with automated feedback scoring, there’s a shorter link between lurking bugs and your engineering team. So why are we saying it? Providing an Amazing User Experience.

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PMLesson's Ace the PM Interview

OCTOBER 7, 2019

In this post, we'll review a case study submission from one of our Exponent members, Sholanki Sarkar. Freshness report powered by machine learning technology, enabled by the data gathered through the sensor-scanner. Question : Design a Smart Fridge. would all items entering the fridge need special barcodes or tags?),

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Amplitude

MARCH 4, 2021

The most common majors we see are business (23%), computer science/engineering (15%), social sciences (15%), other engineering (12%), and humanities (10%). The fact that humanities and social sciences are common majors busts the myth that you have to have a highly technical background to go into product management.

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Userpilot

APRIL 10, 2024

A customer might use a knowledge base to learn more about navigating a user interface, look into technical specifications, or get help with a specific feature. It can serve as a reference point, so customers can review the steps whenever necessary. Once the review is complete, set it out for publishing.

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Mixpanel

JULY 28, 2022

Making good use of engineering resources. Building product analytics in-house can take away valuable engineering resources and time. Engineers no longer need to spend time building an internal tool, as external software can take hours to implement, not months. An external product analytics tool removes many of these barriers.

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ProductPlan

NOVEMBER 10, 2020

Fluency in eCommerce tech. The overall user experience of an eCommerce website or app consists of many technological components. If something goes wrong, the product manager needs to be able to grasp the underlying technical problem—to know how to get it fixed quickly. 5 Skills for an Outstanding eCommerce Product Manager.

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Userpilot

JANUARY 9, 2024

Study behavior trends to highlight any UX designs users avoid. Review and analyze to identify improvement opportunities. For example, let's say your goal is to study a specific product's adoption. Use language familiar to the user instead of technical jargon. Put it all together in a shareable UX audit report.

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