PMLesson's Ace the PM Interview

OCTOBER 7, 2020

This is a guest post from Alexis and Adrienne's Product Managers at Work. When I interviewed for Google several years ago, the Product Strategy portion of the interview asked questions similar to: “What business would you build on top of self-driving cars?” I know people who are really good at strategic thinking.

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Userpilot

JULY 9, 2021

What are the best product management books to add to your 2021 reading list? We’ve put together a list for you with a few staples from every product manager’s bookshelf and some new releases too. New in – Best New Product Management Books in 2021. out of 5 stars. 54 global ratings. Where to buy?

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BrainMates

JULY 31, 2023

Innovation Is Just Good Product Management By ADRIENNE TAN Innovation has become a buzzword in countless organisations. CEOs want it, strategists write about it, marketers talk about it, and product managers strive to deliver it. This approach is a costly exercise and can be likened to ‘gambling’.

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The Product Coalition

FEBRUARY 5, 2021

This is a free sample story from my book The Making of Product Managers. Then she decided to acquire technical skills in web development to get closer to the product development process. When Negar joined the startup, there were only five employees and no product managers. Unfortunately, there were none.

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Sachin Rekhi

AUGUST 7, 2019

Positioning, while classically considered part of the marketing world, is absolutely essential for every product manager to understand. Positioning ultimately dictates the frame of reference that your customers leverage when evaluating your product. This can include direct competitors as well as substitutes and alternatives.

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The Product Coalition

MAY 19, 2022

So, that aside and without trying to fit the subject for a long book into a short article, I will share a framework to help you anchor as you transition toward a product-centric organization. A framework to ensure your strategic plan and long-term growth plan are product-driven.

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The Product Coalition

FEBRUARY 12, 2024

I want to help you if you are new to product leadership -or- if you work for a product leader who doesn’t always communicate expectations, leaving you wondering what went wrong. The product leader and product manager showdown As a product manager, I aimed to get through the product review meeting quickly with no questions asked.

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The Product Coalition

DECEMBER 31, 2023

It’s a mature startup, with a number of products in the market, a leader in some categories and building up nicely in others. As is almost always the case, what seems to be execution gaps turn out to be product strategy gaps, and so we started with creating a clear product strategy.

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The Product Guy

MAY 3, 2018

The process of taking a product or a feature from idea to execution is a taxing proposition for any team to undertake. User needs are what effectively drive your products value so it’s in understanding those needs that a team can create a product that is meeting those needs. Communication starts with listening.

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Department of Product

OCTOBER 23, 2022

Product Principles – Examples for Product Managers Make decision making easier with inspiration from top product companies Product principles are used by product teams to help guide decision making. A deep dive into the tools, frameworks and processes used by product managers from top companies.

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ProductPlan

DECEMBER 11, 2019

There are so many changes happening in product management as I write this, and the evolution only seems to be accelerating. With your support, we dove into the most result-driven strategies, popular frameworks, and groundbreaking leaders who changed the product management landscape.

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Product Management Lessons from the Trenches

JULY 24, 2018

Focusing on what matters most and why is a critical key to success for any business/product and this intense focus is ever more important in a startup with limited resources and where time to market is a matter of life and death for the company. Why is defining and communicating your product/ business model formula necessary?

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ProductPlan

SEPTEMBER 20, 2022

This is why developing your product sense remains so important. This might lead some product professionals to bypass their own spidey senses in favor of simply facilitating prioritization exercises. Moreover, they may want to execute a product strategy created by the committee. What is product sense?

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Roadmunk

SEPTEMBER 21, 2017

Throughout my career as both a product manager and startup founder, there’s been one severely underrated skill I credit for much of my success—and that’s reading. I’m constantly consuming articles on product management, product culture, startups and entrepreneurship to bolster my career as a product person and leader.

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Sequent Learning

NOVEMBER 12, 2018

Here at Sequent Learning, we regularly speak with Product Management executives around the world about their latest challenges. Faced with increased competition and aggressive profit goals, Product Management leaders can’t afford missed milestones, and certain concerns keep cropping up: How can I improve team’s performance?

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Mind the Product

OCTOBER 7, 2019

Experience Mapping is a strategic exercise of identifying, capturing, and communicating the interactions of multiple brand touchpoints over space and time. It is a strategic exercise for getting omnichannel alignment. What is the framework for building an experience map? The experience mapping process. Types of Experience Maps.

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The Product Coalition

JUNE 17, 2019

Product Management Competencies I’ve always found the discipline of Product Management to be lacking in formal definition, beyond mere hyperbole and rhetoric. When I was a Product Manager learning the craft, this left something to be desired as I wanted to ensure I was focusing on the right skills.

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PMLesson's Ace the PM Interview

JULY 3, 2020

Product management is an ever increasingly popular role. Whether you're an aspiring or a current product manager, you certainly have wondered how your role will look 5 to 10 years down the line. APM programs provide college new grads and early-career professionals the chance to break into product management.

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Userpilot

OCTOBER 26, 2022

When do you need it and how does it help product managers build better products? Impact mapping is a collaborative strategic planning technique used by product managers, product owners , and senior technical leadership, who work mostly in Agile software delivery. What’s impact mapping? Book the demo !

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The Product Coalition

OCTOBER 15, 2019

A great roadmap helps PM’s achieve the following: 1, It ensures the product team understand what they are working towards, by aligning the product to the company’s short term and long term goals. Image credit: ProductPlan Roadmapping sits in the Product Strategy phase of a Product Management It’s very different to a Product Backlog.

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The Product Coalition

AUGUST 4, 2021

Product Discovery is an exercise in working out whether there are customers that want the product (or feature) you’re working on and that you can deliver a solution to them. Product Discovery comes in different shapes and sizes, depending on the situation.

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ProductPlan

NOVEMBER 4, 2019

Hiring product managers is one of the most challenging and important tasks for product team leaders. The diversity of backgrounds in product manager applicants increases the level of difficulty in making a good hire. The combination of both of those elements makes an effective product manager a hard role to fill.

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ProductPlan

SEPTEMBER 10, 2021

The OKR methodology can be a powerful motivator for high performance and product excellence within teams and companies. Implementing a goal-setting framework that sets the bar high sounds like a no-brainer, right? The objectives and key results framework establish direction and creates an opportunity for growth.

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The Product Coalition

JUNE 11, 2022

This mapping exercise, along with empathy, will help calm their fears. Use the framework highlighted in this post as a guide. Make implementation part of your product and the best first impression possible. However, there will still be things to address that are unique to each company. You need to establish a one-team mindset.

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Roman Pichler

SEPTEMBER 11, 2023

To effectively staff the product team, I recommend including the people shown in Figure 1. [1] 1] Figure 1: The Product Team Members Let’s look at the product team members in Figure 1 in more detail starting with the person in charge of the product. To help you with this, I’ve created the framework shown in Figure 2.

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Surya Suravarapu

FEBRUARY 27, 2020

Anxiety-in-choice It’s that experience when we don’t know whether a given product works for us or not -- to get the Job Done. As part of the product strategy, plan for trials, refunds, and discounts. This kind of tooling has to be part of your product management and go-to-market strategy. Quoting Peter M.

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Intercom, Inc.

DECEMBER 19, 2018

Eoghan McCabe, CEO , and Matt Hodges, VP of Commercial Product Strategy. In the face of this technology, businesses have three options – ignore it, see adoption as a box-ticking exercise or embrace it and think long-term. Cindy Chang, Senior Product Designer and Ulaize Hernandez Troyas, Product Manager.

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Amplitude

MAY 7, 2018

As a result, many modern product teams have decided to abandon personas altogether and adopt practices like user scenarios, user stories, or the “Jobs to be Done” framework instead. But what exactly defines a user as a product manager or power user? How personas impact product strategy. Here’s why.

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ProductPlan

JUNE 7, 2022

At ProductPlan, we are revolutionizing how a company delivers products to market by elevating product organizations to the heart of strategy and execution. It is a very meta experience to build the ProductPlan platform as a go-to central hub for everything product management-related. It’s a win-win situation!

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ProductPlan

MAY 16, 2023

Five questions to answer For this exercise, we go all the way back to square one. The product team began by conducting a few internal and customer interviews to gather feedback on the 2022 roadmap. The product team began by conducting a few internal and customer interviews to gather feedback on the 2022 roadmap.

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ProductPlan

MARCH 2, 2020

In our fifth annual Product Management report , communication ranked the most important skill absolutely essential to the role of product management. When we cross-referenced by industry, product management communication skills still reigned supreme. . Software product manager). Big Impact : .

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Roman Pichler

JUNE 6, 2023

Here are four examples: Joe, the sales rep, has promised a feature to an important customer without first talking to you—the person in charge of the product. Cindy who helps you manage the product started to come late to meetings. The following sections explain how you can apply the framework.

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Bain Public

MAY 24, 2019

At Bain Public, we have learned a lot in the many hours and conversations spent mentoring, advising and consulting in product management. Getting it wrong comes in two forms: building the wrong product and building the product wrong. Product managers must be crystal clear about these 4 elements.

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ProductPlan

APRIL 29, 2020

Product management turns chaos into order. We face down indecision, molding it into a concrete strategy. This quote has taken on a life of its own, but this truth certainly applies to product management. Product management sits at the nexus of many information streams. We sideline shiny objects.

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Roman Pichler

MAY 5, 2020

A platform owner who manages a platform as a collection of shared software assets. The SAFe product owner who owns the product details. A portfolio owner who manages a group of (related) products. SAFe Product Owner. The agile scaling framework SAFe uses its own product owner role, the SAFe product owner.

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Tyner Blain

DECEMBER 10, 2014

There are several perspectives on good enough which are important – but don’t help product managers enough. The body of work seems to be focused on aspects of goodness which don’t help product managers to make the prioritization decisions which inform their roadmaps. ” Three Perspectives.

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Mind the Product

AUGUST 20, 2018

Post-launch, the product manager will be responsible for managing the product lifecycle through its growth, maturity and decline phases. From a lifecycle management perspective, the product manager should monitor the following aspects of that exchange: Alignment of sales forecast and business case.

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