PMLesson's Ace the PM Interview

APRIL 19, 2020

If you have advised any of these people with tasks like product growth, pricing strategy, or market sizing, be sure to note that on your resume! Technical Skills While not always needed, technical skills are very much desired for most PM roles. Many companies have a bias towards PMs coming from a technical background.

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Userpilot

JULY 9, 2021

The Mom Test by Rob Fitzpatrick is the ultimate guide to talking to customers as a product manager and includes sample scripts and questions you can directly use in your customer interviews. Overview of Eureka framework for user onboarding. Challenges of transitioning from a non-technical background. Key learnings. 5 out of 5.

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PMLesson's Ace the PM Interview

MARCH 26, 2020

Consultant Consultants are in the business of advising people in a specific field. There exist many non-technical PMs. However, those with a technical background will find it easier to get their foot in the PM door than those with a non-technical background. implement an internal system to save time and effort).

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Intercom, Inc.

JANUARY 14, 2021

Steve Blank, the father of Lean Startup, was my professor at Berkley and he got me into, “You need to get out of the building and test and iterate.” I’m an engineer and I think like an engineer, so I’m looking for frameworks and patterns. .” That was the moment, and we started building it. Making the move.

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Modus Create

MAY 11, 2020

We’ll start with some prerequisites, and then jump into execution and implementation of frameworks. Then, let those people fail a bit through low cost pilots geared for testing minimally, and praise the learnings. In the next part we are going to discuss something that we all love: frameworks. The Novel Context.

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Mind the Product

JULY 10, 2017

Whether you search Google, filter Upwork or gather recommendations, the framework for vetting dev shops is more or less the same: Create a list of potential partners. Do a small, paid test project with all of them. After the test project your choice should come very naturally. Contact them and ask for a meeting. Who was on time?

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BrainStation Product Management

APRIL 8, 2019

Speak to a Learning Advisor. Product Management is fundamentally a white space role, so the skills you need will depend on what skills you already have and what your company does,” advised Jackie Bavaro, Head of Product Management at Asana. “PMs The Personality Test. Do Some Soul-Searching.

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The Product Coalition

MAY 15, 2019

The agile manifesto turned eighteen this year, the Scrum framework is even older?—?have have they stood the test of time? Later whilst being an adviser at Stanford university Neil H. a framework which promotes rapid feedback cycles and adaptation, they created what we know today as Scrum. are they one role, two roles?

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BrainStation Product Management

APRIL 8, 2019

“Product Management is fundamentally a white space role, so the skills you need will depend on what skills you already have and what your company does,” advised Jackie Bavaro, Head of Product Management at Asana. Perhaps you need someone with an uncanny design eye, or razor-sharp technical skills, or deep experience in analytics?

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Alchemer Mobile

APRIL 14, 2020

How do you manage executive expectations, customer expectations, and technical resources? I’ve been kind of actively running away from management roles, and mostly that’s just a factor of the things that I really wanna learn or I just really wanna learn how to be a really, like, kick-ass technical PM. So that’s me.

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Department of Product

MARCH 28, 2022

It is extremely difficult (and probably not advisable) to attempt to stay on top of all trends. For every React, there’s a javascript library or framework that never quite catches on – or dies a sudden death after being dethroned by a new kid on the block. It’s impossible for one person to do. And not all trends matter.

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Usersnap

JUNE 15, 2023

A product management process is a strategic framework that guides product managers and their teams through the product lifecycle – from ideation to launch and beyond. Conduct user testing and gather feedback. So, I’d advise you to With Usersnap, you can smartly manage feedback from both internal and external stakeholders in one place.

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The Product Coalition

MARCH 21, 2018

A mentor advised me to think about three broad categories?—?the Understand the technical architecture for the product : Get an engineer to sit down with you and explain how the product works under the hood and which major technologies and frameworks have been used. This is a very rich topic?—?might might do a whole post on this.

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Business of Software Conference

JUNE 29, 2020

If you just pick what category your product fits in – is the cash cow or – we have these really simple frameworks you just apply the rules, you’ll solve the problem. So what Dewey is advising us to do. The first thing I look for is are they testing their assumptions. These are the essentials of thinking.

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Department of Product

JUNE 27, 2022

Who does technical leadership? He now advises startups on how to scale their product development organizations. A deep dive into the tools, frameworks and processes used by product managers from top companies. One example of structural work that aids in onboarding is role definition. Who does project management?

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Product Talk

AUGUST 10, 2016

It’s easy for teams to work along both dimensions of product discovery—working to understand their customer’s context and iteratively testing their ideas—but that doesn’t mean they know how to connect the two sets of activities. We ignore the advice of Chip and Dan Heath where they advise us to avoid “whether or not” decisions (i.e.

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Roadmunk

DECEMBER 7, 2017

Did you talk to other product managers, other founders, advisors? We bring in people to usability test. Ellen: I have a framework that I use for myself, where what I’m looking at as a product manager changes depending on what the business goal is. How did you approach that problem? Ellen: Paul and I do that together.

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