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The Product Interview?—?A Technical Exercise

The Product Coalition

A Technical Exercise In this post, I’ll offer my idea of the sort of technical abilities expected from a product manager. This can be highly useful for hiring managers, as well as for PMs planning their roadmap. There’s been so much written, including by myself, about product management interviews.

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Product Breaking Point To Breakthrough: How To Drive Successful Product Reviews

The Product Coalition

I enjoyed in-person meetings, especially in-person product review meetings. Early in the pandemic, this led me to resent virtual meetings, especially virtual product review meetings. This particular product review meeting was a breaking point. I struggled to figure out how to run the product review meeting effectively.

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Ask the Community: How Do You Shift From Functional Teams to Value-Driven Teams?

Product Talk

Sam Lightowler’s Advice: Use a Diagram to Demonstrate Value Meet Sam Lightowler, Senior Manager of OTT Operations at Canadian Broadcasting Corporation. Sam Lightowler , Senior Manager of OTT Operations at Canadian Broadcasting Corporation (CBC) stepped in to share her experience. and CBC Gem. and CBC Gem.

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Root Cause Analysis in Product Management: A Step-By-Step Guide

Userpilot

How do you conduct root cause analysis in product management? We also explain why it’s important for product managers and share useful tips. Once a hypothesis is proven right, generate solution ideas and prioritize them in terms of impact and technical feasibility. What is root cause analysis in product management?

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New Course: Mastering Product Management

Sachin Rekhi

For years now loyal readers have been asking me to package up my learnings on product management into a cohesive course on the subject. So in 2020, I took a survey of all the available product management courses out there. There were plenty of courses introducing product management to those new to the role.

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Understanding Product Management

The Product Guy

As I strive towards becoming a product leader, I wanted to understand the best practises in product management and in the process develop my own product philosophy. . This article explores multiple aspects of product management. Relative to other standard roles defined in an organization such as Ops, Marketing, Tech etc.,

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Applying Proto-Strategy to Product Management

The Product Guy

The notion of a strategy in product management seems like something that only high-level stakeholders at the executive level should care about. After all, many product managers tend to treat a strategy as something that’s scared and driven top-down from the executive management level. Journey Into the World of Strategy.