PMLesson's Ace the PM Interview

MARCH 9, 2022

As a capable, experienced UX designer or UX researcher, you spend your time thinking about how a product affects the user experience. But how easy is it to transition from being a UX designer or UX researcher to product management (PM)? Start Learning Can You Transition from UX to Product Management?

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Userzoom

JUNE 9, 2020

I’m in the unusual position of seeing directly (and indirectly) how hundreds of businesses’ digital departments across different industries have reacted to COVID-19, through my role as a UX research partner at UserZoom. Use your analytics, product teams, front-line customer teams, and explore all this data.

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Userpilot

APRIL 6, 2023

Developing and releasing sophisticated products with all the bells and whistles imaginable might seem like a great idea. Developers tend to overcomplicate code when they don’t have enough experience or want to show off their skills. Poor prioritization and external pressure are also common causes. Book the demo!

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Roman Pichler

JUNE 7, 2021

Be Clear on When to Involve the Stakeholders and Development Teams. Complex and high-impact decisions, however, are best made together with the stakeholders and development teams. Additionally, include the development team members in product backlog decisions , and always choose sprint goals together.

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Userpilot

JUNE 20, 2023

TL;DR Product idea validation is a process during which product teams test and tweak the product concept to ensure it satisfies a real market need. Apart from testing the demand for the product, idea validation helps teams assess if they have the necessary expertise and resources to build the product. Let’s get straight into it!

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Department of Product

NOVEMBER 16, 2023

If you’ve not heard of Celonis before, it’s a SaaS company that focuses on one thing product teams tend to either love or hate: process map diagramming. Essential reads for product teams New from the Department of Product this week: ? Enjoy the rest of your week! That’s the first big difference to note.

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Alchemer Mobile

OCTOBER 22, 2019

On the other hand, nobody knows your idea better than you, and the best way to share it for future professional design and development is to visualize it. Having a prototype is not only a good way of presenting your idea, but it can also help you determine app development costs in the future. Intuitive and consistent UX.

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Intercom, Inc.

NOVEMBER 3, 2022

Scaling a support team is challenging enough as it is. Maybe you’ve just extended support hours and it’s becoming harder to plan shifts for different time zones; maybe you’re spending hours figuring out schedules for the week ahead; maybe the inflow prediction was a bit off and now your team is under or overstaffed.

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UX Studio: Product Management

JULY 5, 2021

UX studio is an established design agency helping companies worldwide design impactful digital experiences. As an expert and an opinion leader in the UX field, we’ve reviewed the competency, portfolio, and former projects of New York design agencies to define the best user experience design agencies in New York , based on our judgment. .

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The Product Coalition

OCTOBER 15, 2019

from Engineering to UX to Marketing to Project Management, Sales, Business Analysts, Entrepreneurs, Customer Service, and sometimes Marketing. And this is not a bad thing?—?being from customers and sales staff to teams of marketing, finance and engineering. The “Accidental” Product Manager?—?what

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Userpilot

JANUARY 21, 2021

In this post – we will make it clear how Product Owner vs. Product Manager’s roles differ, what skills each need to have to excel in their roles, why you need both in your product team and when is a good time to hire for those roles! Product Manager’s roles is the stage in the product development process where each is involved.

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The Product Coalition

FEBRUARY 28, 2019

In this Professional Spotlight interview, Zoe discusses her journey at Splitwise, the future of the finance app category , and the current growth challenges that mobile apps face. What are some key features that differentiate Splitwise from other finance/billing apps? What do you use to help yourself and your team stay on track?

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The Product Coalition

JUNE 21, 2021

Many worked from home on tasks ranging from organising team activities via Slack, analysing data and collaborating on documents via Google Docs, to discussing strategies via Microsoft Teams and coaching clients via Zoom. Motor: Weakness in how one can control their muscles, bones and joints. More on that later.

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Amplitude

MAY 25, 2017

Product Analytics is one of the most high leverage roles in a company that’s investing in software development. However, most companies simply don’t have enough data literacy on their team to interpret the data available to them. They help create hypotheses and find insights for the team to build a better product and grow the business.

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The Product Coalition

MARCH 15, 2023

Ideally, with a great onboarding flow, when someone asks one of your customers what their favorite part of managing their finances is, they hold up their phone and say “the app I use.” Some ways to do that include: Using validations to prevent users from entering bad data. Don’t let your users make a mistake if you can help it.

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Intercom, Inc.

DECEMBER 19, 2018

Intercom, the product, continued to develop at a fast pace with hundreds of new features big and small – from an entirely reimagined Messenger to a thriving Intercom App Store to next generation chatbots, Custom Bots and Answer Bot. Lessons learned from scaling a team. “It’s high time we UX people stop moaning.

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The Product Coalition

MAY 22, 2019

They serve bad goals just as well as they do good goals. This is a major problem because bad OKRs can amplify the issues the org is troubled with rather than fix them. companies and teams get excited about OKRs and put every conceivable thing they may wish to work on into them. Having too many goals robs teams of focus.

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The Product Coalition

FEBRUARY 8, 2018

Combined with what we learned from writing Product Leadership the patterns are becoming increasingly obvious: Product teams around the world are all encountering the same handful of problems. Request: Obviously every company or product team will have context-specific factors that make their situation a little different. Thank you!

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The Product Coalition

DECEMBER 27, 2023

Building effective teams with people from different disciplines can be challenging due to various circumstances. Teams with multiple functions are instrumental towards staying competitive and succeed. Conversely, to rely solely on a single-function team for brainstorming is a recipe for failure.

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Mironov Consulting

JANUARY 17, 2021

Half of the calls I get from CEOs include requests for Product Management to boost productivity in Engineering (aka Development aka Makers). This reflects confusion about what product managers do (and how we really add value), and often poor role definition where product managers are also project/program managers or engineering leads.

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Userpilot

JANUARY 14, 2024

TL;DR A product manager leads the product management team and is responsible for overseeing all stages of the product development process. They earn more than developers, astronauts, and even attorneys, but less than surgeons. The Director of Product is accountable for multiple product lines and manages product management teams.

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Mironov Consulting

MARCH 4, 2020

A pattern I’ve seen 4 or 5 times seems worth describing, since other folks may be experiencing it: a very early-stage B2B/enterprise company brings on a full sales team before finding product/market fit. First, let’s recapping the basics of why we hire enterprise sales teams and what they do. Here’s my gross simplification.

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Mironov Consulting

JULY 27, 2023

 Sales teams inundate us with urgent-but-repetitive ‘does product X do thing Y?’ 1] “Product Needs to Help Sales Close Major Deals” Enterprise sales teams are paid, rewarded, promoted, and measured on closing individual (big) deals.  So  There’s something more systematic here.

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UX Studio

MAY 29, 2018

But team building retreats can do exactly that. Every six months, our whole UX team travels to a remote location in Hungary’s countryside for two days to have fun and decide together about our big goals. These team building retreats play an important part in UX studio’s culture. Bold proposal, right?

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The Product Coalition

FEBRUARY 26, 2022

I’ve asked friends who do the job at social events and got the same answer, and frequently asked members of my own teams, who struggled to find the time to do it. To compensate, I’ve seen UX researchers & designers pick up the mantle a lot more, and the design teams have really leaned into this space.

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Mironov Consulting

MAY 24, 2022

Everywhere I go, I see massive amounts of product waste : development work delivered on time/on budget that doesn’t drive sales or customer satisfaction or business improvement.  Yet  We shout past each other using secret keywords (“agile”) and assuming bad intent.  Project teams that ship v1.0

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BrainMates

APRIL 30, 2018

A bright and brave cross functional team of panellists were on hand to tackle an imagined (but realistic) Product Management scenario. There’s some really good support for this idea within the executive team, and they think this product is going to help the Telco bring a lot of new clients in as new customers. You can see it.

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Userpilot

DECEMBER 6, 2022

Asana – a project management tool that helps you cut tasks into smaller sizes, assign them to relevant teams and individuals, and track progress. Notion – a digital asset management tool to help centralize brand assets and provide clear SOPs to guide your marketing teams and professionals. Effective project management.

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The Product Coalition

OCTOBER 6, 2020

By leading the creation and development of groundbreaking qualitative analysis products, Jared is dedicated to helping companies like Netflix, Sony, and Disney understand how their content impacts audiences everywhere. That’s Jared and his teams focus on identifying the core emotions that people use when they express how they feel online.

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UX Studio: Product Management

MARCH 31, 2019

The fact that so many UX design agencies have set up shop in San Francisco makes it seem easy to hire one. This article will guide you on how to spot the best user experience team to hire. Some UX agencies in San Francisco have real industry legends running them and can present hilariously prestigious clients.

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Product Talk

SEPTEMBER 11, 2019

A few weeks later, she offered me a job on her team. If my product needed a better value proposition, I worked with customers to invent it and finance to determine how much new value we could capture. When I was at HERE Maps, working with various teams to implement things, they didn’t just “do it.” My teams move markets.

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Amplitude

AUGUST 30, 2017

At the Product Analytics Summit in Seattle this past March, we chatted with some of our customers about how they use Amplitude as part of their product development toolbox. It helps you stay in tune with user needs and helps you make product development decisions that cater to those needs. Get product designers on board with testing.

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ProductPlan

MARCH 10, 2023

So much of what can go wrong with a feature release is related to poor execution of the broader feature launch process. Product teams find a never-ending opportunity to improve on what came before. However, the exception occurs at the end of the lifecycle when the team sunsets the product.

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Reveal

JULY 28, 2022

Challenges: Legacy infrastructure Technical resources needed for implementation Constantly changing analytics needs Existence of internal analytics tools Building user adoption & getting users to overcome their fear of data Bad data visualization and dashboard design practices The build vs buy dilemma Justifying the cost.

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The Product Coalition

NOVEMBER 7, 2019

The company decided to pivot, and focus on developing what they initially thought of as a more convenient tool for internal business communication. When setting up a new team, the person responsible for the technical implementation?—?the Working with a Software Vendor Outsourcing to a vendor means hiring a team for a specific task.

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Mironov Consulting

SEPTEMBER 23, 2023

Services companies (aka custom development, agencies, outsourcing/nearshoring, contract engineering, consultancies, any work-for-hire) primarily market/sell the time and expertise of their people.  Work ”)  No one cares how big the team is, how long it took to build, or how smart our engineers and designers are.

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Mironov Consulting

JUNE 28, 2018

It’s a more precise, if less emotional, version of a May talk for Lean Product/UX SV meetup. Long Sales Cycles, Weak Attribution, Few Data Points. From social team: “4500 likes and retweets of our latest post!” What’s B2B? What’s Enterprise? Digging in: 1. What to do? Buyers Are (Mostly) Not Users.

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