Arkenea

JUNE 28, 2025

Cognitive fluency plays a subtle yet significant role in decision making, and if utilized properly by the software developers you hired, it can boost the conversions for your SaaS website. This is just one of the many examples of successful clients from our portfolio and a testimony to the quality of software we build.

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Lenny Rachitsky

JULY 1, 2025

He teaches a top-rated course on PM interviewing (use code “LENNYSLIST” to get $100 off), and on July 9th, he’ll be hosting a free 30-minute lightning lesson where he’ll show you how to use AI to practice for your analytical thinking interviews. When transitioning between key sections of the interview structure (e.g.

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PMLesson's Ace the PM Interview

MARCH 17, 2025

IBM is most widely known for its software and hardware products, but it also offers consulting services, data analytics, AI, and hybrid cloud solutions. Technical roles get a short coding challenge—typically a two-question, 30-minute assessment on HackerRank.  Behavioral Tell me about yourself. System design Design Netflix.

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PMLesson's Ace the PM Interview

FEBRUARY 24, 2025

Reviewed by Deeptaanshu Kumar, a VP of data engineering (ex-Capital One, Freddie Mac). You're evaluated on your general coding abilities and expertise in designing robust data pipelines and managing complex data architectures. Coding Questions: Expect 1–3 coding problems that are usually easy-to-medium.

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PMLesson's Ace the PM Interview

MAY 19, 2025

Technical Round: Can include asynchronous SQL tests or live coding challenges. These are the types of SQL questions to expect in each round: Interview Format Example Type 1: Online SQL Test (Asynchronous) Complete 10-15 SQL questions in 60 minutes on a coding platform. Track your answers and self-review or get peer feedback.

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Roman Pichler

JULY 20, 2016

If your goal is to acquire customers, for example, then ask yourself how many new customers should be acquired; or if your goal is to reduce technical debt, determine how much of the bad code should be removed or rewritten. Carry out this exercise together with the development team. 10 Regularly Review and Adjust the Roadmap.

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The Product Coalition

NOVEMBER 2, 2021

A Technical Exercise In this post, I’ll offer my idea of the sort of technical abilities expected from a product manager. Okay, those were way too many words to explain that knowledge is usually not a bad thing for a PM… Exercise 1: know your data structure Take the following data structure of a note-taking app.

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Sachin Rekhi

APRIL 5, 2020

One practice that both companies established was weekly executive-level metrics reviews. I've come to believe that establishing such a metrics review meeting is critical for developing an effective data-driven culture and I wanted to share some of the best practices around doing so. Why metrics reviews matter.

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The Product Guy

APRIL 9, 2019

In my company, we review a living document with our management chain on a quarterly basis to align business direction for the short-term (immediate one to two quarters) to the long-term (two to five years). No formal stakeholder review as this is meant to be the first version that will undergo many iterations and refinements.

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Intercom, Inc.

NOVEMBER 2, 2021

As a software engineer, no matter how senior you are, you always seek code reviews before deploying new code to production. . You should always be asking for peer review on a people management problem before you take action, whether that’s from your own manager or your HR team. Always ask for advice.

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Melissa Perri

JULY 23, 2024

Some of these are Fortune 10 software-enabled companies going through digital transformations. I review strategies and roadmaps. At the end of this review, I do a Product Leadership workshop with C-Suite and Product leaders, where I show them what good looks like, and they have a chance to reflect on where they are. Did it help?

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Roman Pichler

SEPTEMBER 11, 2023

This individual leads the product team, not by being the boss but by exercising emergent leadership. This aligns everyone and ensures that the various deliverables and outputs—for instance, the source code, the end-user documentation, the marketing collateral, and the training materials—fit together.

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ProductPlan

DECEMBER 15, 2020

You’re a product manager, and you need to run a collaborative roadmapping exercise with various teams across your company. What is a Collaborative Roadmapping Exercise? A collaborative roadmapping exercise is an ideation meeting. This environment can help you with every stage of the exercise: before, during, and after.

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Product Talk

OCTOBER 6, 2021

In Hope’s first scenario, she described a team who worked on medical record-keeping software. The team diligently worked at addressing this need and was disappointed to learn that it had little impact on their outcomes. As a way of visualizing our thinking , this is a fantastic exercise. Click the image to see a larger version.

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Intercom, Inc.

JULY 16, 2019

Almost every software company today has some kind of incident response process to help them navigate major service outages. For example, a relatively common type of incident might be a brief outage of Intercom due to a database failover. Resolution : The incident is resolved, and follow-up actions like an incident review occur.

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Roman Pichler

AUGUST 12, 2024

These include product strategy and roadmapping meetings , which usually take place bi-monthly or quarterly, and tactical product meetings, for example, sprint review meetings. For example, some might believe that due to their seniority, they should have the final say on important decisions.

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Product Talk

NOVEMBER 17, 2021

It’s no wonder we end up with software that doesn’t work for our customers. When a product manager, a designer, and a software engineer work together to decide what to build and they engage directly with customers themselves, we avoid this game of telephone. These visual exercises facilitate the work of discovery.

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The Product Guy

OCTOBER 1, 2018

As a product manager, it can be quite daunting to start a new software product from scratch. I encourage you to review Jeff Patton’s process for building the story map. and approach the exercise with a ”Yes, And.” Guest Post by: Tofi Buzali (Mentee, Session 6, The Product Mentor) [Paired with Mentor, Andy Wadhwa]. Exploration.

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Product Talk

FEBRUARY 24, 2016

Mueller and Oppenheimer speculated, however, that this result was not necessarily due to the medium itself, but due to the fact that students who typed their notes tended to capture verbatim notes. Because I used to code, I use // to start my own thoughts. customer interviews, co-creation exercises. – Tweet This.

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The Product Coalition

DECEMBER 20, 2021

Well, I’d never worked with testers or rather I’d never taught testers how to code. QA Automation Engineer is a product quality assurance specialist who creates tests with the help of software tools and verifies execution results. The main task of QA Automation specialists is to check someone else’s code with their own.

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The Product Coalition

FEBRUARY 15, 2021

Fallacy #1: ‘Agile’ Equals More Bang for the Buck If you ask founders and managers of startups why they want to become an agile organization, they typically name reasons such as: Becoming more efficient in software delivery, Delivering faster, Improving the predictability of software deliveries. The exercise works for everyone?—?sales,

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Product Innovation Educators

AUGUST 5, 2024

Case Study: Leveraging Constraints for Innovation Consider this real-world example of how embracing constraints can lead to significant innovations: A software company faced a major industry shift from text-based to graphical interfaces. Their primary competitor assigned 100 people to develop a next-generation product.

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Product Innovation Educators

JULY 17, 2023

It’s a combination of IT software and LEGO blocks. When you do a portfolio review and re-rank all the projects, you find out that a few of them that look shiny and bright at the beginning are not quite so shiny and bright over time. It only takes about a day to do that exercise and then a little longer to improve the process.

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UX Planet

JANUARY 7, 2024

DESIGN WORKBOOKS How to put design theory into practice in an efficient way My favorite UX design workbooks: develop your skills by solving exercises Learning design theory is a good step towards becoming a better designer, but it is also important to put the things you’ve learned into practice. I couldn’t have summarized it better!

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Intercom, Inc.

MAY 16, 2022

Product design workshops are an opportunity for a team to untangle a problem together by going through a series of group exercises designed to get to a specific outcome. A doc of draft product principles to send to the product team for feedback and review. Warm-up exercise. Exercises (30 min). What date will it be?

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Mind the Product

NOVEMBER 1, 2017

Eric is a senior developer at a medium-sized software company. Eric loves coding and is passionate about new products. A thorough persona workshop, including profile building and persona activating exercise, can take up to two days. Persona Activating Exercises. Our team is building a product for just one person.

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The Product Coalition

JUNE 26, 2023

Generative AI has the potential to create economic impact within sales, marketing, software engineering & IT, customer operations, and R&D functions across various verticals. Software Engineering: Generative AI drafts computer code based on natural language prompts, which reduces the time required for coding and debugging.

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Agile Velocity

AUGUST 18, 2021

For example, Agile HR departments can adopt the core Agile principle of reflecting regularly, challenging one of the more nerve-racking traditions… the annual performance review. . In this post, we explore an alternative to the typical annual performance review: peer round tables. . How to hold a peer round table review.

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The Product Coalition

SEPTEMBER 7, 2024

This enduring appeal is partly due to the nostalgia of Pokémon and the “catch ’em all” mentality (which deserves its own discussion), but also because of some clever mechanisms built into the game. This allowed me to incorporate significant amounts of exercise into my day without disrupting my schedule.

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Roman Pichler

MAY 8, 2018

The cross-functional development team makes the design and technology decisions; and the Scrum Master guides process and organisational change, as the following picture shows. That’s the job of the development team.

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The Product Coalition

JANUARY 17, 2022

For example, you can try to segment by key behaviors, demographics, industry, geographical region, revenue by customer, software package tier, and the list goes on. Color-coded user conversion rates in our previously defined segmentation matrix. Color-coded user churn rates in our previously defined segmentation matrix.

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The Product Coalition

NOVEMBER 26, 2019

The most illustrative example of this point relates to software testing. As far as there are a lot of repetitive and time-consuming actions during software testing, automation is in high demand. To start writing a script or code, manual testers had to get many coding tasks solved from the very beginning of their training.

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Userpilot

MARCH 4, 2021

Are you looking for customer feedback software for your SaaS business? What is Customer Feedback Software? Why is Having Customer Feedback Software Important? Customer feedback software is an essential tool in the arsenal of SaaS businesses for keeping track of user sentiment. What is customer feedback software?

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The Product Coalition

NOVEMBER 24, 2020

On the one side, they address typical Scrum events such as Sprint Planning, Sprint Review, and the Sprint Retrospective. Sprint Planning with dysfunctional teams will only result in a futile and painful exercise. Read more: Retrospective Exercises Repository.) and act appropriately in due course.

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Product Talk

OCTOBER 18, 2023

In his book Testing Business Ideas , David Bland shares an exercise called assumption mapping. Sketch and Figma and a wide variety of no-code tools are also good options here. This is the area where I’m hoping to see big gains quickly due to the rise of generative AI. How do you identify the riskiest assumptions?

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Intercom, Inc.

JANUARY 5, 2022

If I’m about to do business with your company and your software is going to access my customers’ data, it’s my responsibility to ensure you have the proper controls in place to protect it. If you sell software today, there’s a 99.9% Start early. How does that feel? Liam: The whole area is a new space.

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The Product Coalition

JULY 17, 2020

The team was working well together, until people had to be furloughed, others laid off, and face time became rare due to WFH rules. If you have witnessed such exercises, you might have seen employees joking about the meaning (or lack thereof) of those values phrases. But they’re not an exception. Think about it.

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