PMLesson's Ace the PM Interview

JULY 1, 2020

Learn a framework for quickly pitching a new product idea, and enhance your career! At this point inexperienced product managers are ready to walk out, but I give them a framework in order to structure the discussion. The framework I suggest to candidates is this: 1. Pain points 2. Market sizing 4.

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Userpilot

NOVEMBER 24, 2022

How should product managers handle customer requests to improve customer satisfaction and drive value for users and the business? Customer requests are queries about your product. Some of them are solved quickly by customer support while others involve the development of new functionality. Book the demo !

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Userpilot

MARCH 29, 2023

How can it help product and marketing teams make data-driven decisions and improve the user experience at different stages of the customer journey? Utilizing digital analytics enables them to make data-driven product decisions , and identify user friction and pain points. What’s digital analytics?

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Userpilot

MAY 1, 2024

TL;DR Digital product experience encompasses all customer touchpoints and interactions with a digital product across its lifecycle. It’s also not the same as user experience. Product experience management helps to: Enhance the entire customer journey and deliver personalized experiences.

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The Product Coalition

MARCH 24, 2021

Innovators have to build first reference customers in the mainstream market to prove having a promising business model and a compelling offering. Starting with a niche market ensures focusing on a very specific customer problem and probably little to no competition. As we do not have yet data available from live customers?—?or

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Intercom, Inc.

JANUARY 14, 2021

With a background in computer science and an MBA, he soon realized that understanding the markets and customers is as important as building the products. And so, in 2014, he founded Productboard , a product management system that incorporates customer feedback and insights to help product teams build better products. A CRM for Product.

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Userpilot

JULY 9, 2023

Use surveys , interviews, and focus groups to gather qualitative data about their needs, pain points , and preferences. Next, generate and prioritize ideas for improving the usability and user experience you’ve identified in the research. A/B tests allow you to identify the best versions of your UI and in-app content.

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Userpilot

NOVEMBER 23, 2023

Extensive market research is essential to assess the competitive landscape, identify opportunities, and shape the product vision. Product management involves analyzing user experience , so a product manager needs to be able to use a range of techniques to do it effectively. Product manager skills: user path analysis.

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Userpilot

SEPTEMBER 23, 2022

What is the product-market fit framework? How is product market fit different from product-customer fit? A company achieves the product-market fit when the product satisfies the needs of enough customers who are willing to pay for it, and it is easy to scale. Product-market fit vs product-customer fit. Let’s jump in!

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Ronke PM

OCTOBER 5, 2023

Table of Contents What is customer-centricity? Essential customer experiences to consider. Final thoughts Those products that have changed us and made our lives easier, or even enhanced humanity, have that impact and reach because the people who built those products emphasize customer-centricity above all else.

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Userpilot

NOVEMBER 23, 2023

They lack vision and lead nowhere. The outcome-based roadmap focuses on delivering value to customers instead of obsessing about building specific features. As companies scale, they often cannot satisfy customer needs equally well. Strategic value is about aligning features with the company’s vision and long-term goals.

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The Product Coalition

AUGUST 28, 2023

The Software Development Life Cycle provides a practical framework you can apply to your product and improve your processes. It helps us meet customers’ demands, needs, and expectations. These are planning, analysis, design, development, testing, implementation, and maintenance. It covers planning, estimating, and scheduling.

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Userpilot

AUGUST 29, 2023

A project manager is focused on the completion of a specific project, whereas product managers focus primarily on the long-term vision and evolving a product to deliver value over time. Here’s why it’s important: Defines a product vision and aligns strategy with organization goals. Champions a customer-centric approach.

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Userpilot

MAY 22, 2023

Searching for a customer experience (CX) strategy to set you apart from the competition? A CX strategy should encompass every interaction and engagement layer between your customers and your SaaS product. You should use it to meet and exceed customer expectations to increase customer satisfaction and retention and boost revenue growth.

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Userpilot

SEPTEMBER 29, 2023

designing screens, writing code, running tests), product management is a broader concept that encompasses strategy , vision, and product-market fit. Product managers generate these by looking at key metrics and trends in the market or gathering user feedback from existing products. Step four is building a minimum viable product.

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Userpilot

AUGUST 13, 2023

Examples of different prioritization frameworks. A product prioritization framework helps you maximize customer value and deliver the best ROI by encouraging methodical examination of data before making decisions. Customer requests aren’t enough to make product decisions. And what to do after prioritizing features.

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Product Talk

SEPTEMBER 7, 2022

They already had an established product and regular rituals that helped them consider their users. Through a combination of leadership buy-in, reading, and coaching, they committed to mapping opportunities and testing assumptions before jumping to solutions and found new ways to truly put their users first.

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Userpilot

JULY 20, 2022

It also outlines its stages, looks at the House of Quality, and how to make sure the Voice of your Customers is heard. Quality Function Deployment (QDF) is a framework that helps teams translate customer requirements into technical requirements, and design the product and processes needed for its development. Are you ready?

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Userpilot

NOVEMBER 5, 2022

The build trap is a situation when the team focuses on shipping features that don’t drive value for the customer and for the business. Teams fall into the build trap when there’s no alignment between the product vision and the work of the development team. And no customer value means no business value. Let’s get right into it.

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Userpilot

APRIL 6, 2023

To avoid falling into the trap, set clear and realistic objectives that are aligned with the product vision. User stories make you focus on solving specific user problems rather than the actual features. Pick the right prioritization framework and make data-driven prioritization decisions to manage the roadmap.

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Userpilot

DECEMBER 6, 2022

The signs of the feature factory mindset are prioritization of outputs over outcomes, excessive focus on KPIs , and not validating customer requests. Feature factories often build parity products that don’t bring any unique value to the users. To avoid falling into this trap, feature development should be driven by product vision.

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Sachin Rekhi

FEBRUARY 16, 2020

Much of the literature that defines the role as the intersection of business, technology, and user experience isn't particularly helpful for practitioners who are left wondering what skills they need to learn versus the fine people they work closely with in actual business, technology, and user experience roles.

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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. Goal setting framework.

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Userpilot

JUNE 13, 2022

Creating a customer success onboarding playbook is necessary if you want new customers to: Use your product as intended and find value. Adopt features with little to no friction. Unfortunately, successful customer onboarding differs from company to company, so there’s no one-size-fits-all solution.

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The Product Coalition

FEBRUARY 3, 2022

This article is inspired by the book The Lean Product Playbook: How to Innovate with Minimum Viable Products and Rapid Customer Feedback by Dan Olsen and aims to describe two essential concepts described in the book, namely the Product-Market Fit Pyramid and the Lean Product Process that aims to help us achieve that fit. it’s a hypothesis.

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Agile Velocity

MAY 3, 2024

Agile has been shown to shorten time-to-market, increase quality, instill predictability, improve customer satisfaction, and create an overall happier working culture. Business agility encompasses aspects such as product innovation, customer-centricity, cross-functional collaboration, and adaptive strategy execution.

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Usersnap

FEBRUARY 5, 2024

The first step is to understand your users’ needs and pain points. Conduct thorough market research and user interviews to gain insights into what your audience truly desires. Brainstorm potential features that align with user needs and your product vision. Next comes prototyping and testing.

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The Product HQ

APRIL 20, 2024

This stage requires a high level of empathy from product leaders to identify the challenges that their users face as well as possible, lucrative solutions that work despite the complexities of their customer segment and market. With those prototypes, they then proceed to build the product using the strategy and plan as a guide.

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Userpilot

MAY 21, 2023

New functionality plays a big role in retaining existing customers and attracting new ones. New feature ideas come from customer requests, tracking user behavior and their pain points , customer feedback , and your competitors. Before developing a new feature, make sure it’s in line with your product vision.

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The Product Coalition

MARCH 11, 2021

Gousto’s approach to solving customer problems to create massive business value has radically changed in the last two years. We’ve expanded our principles to reflect Brian Balfour’s better-defined “New Age Growth”, and adopted Product Thinking to unlock huge A/B tested conversion, retention and AOV uplifts.

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Userpilot

SEPTEMBER 12, 2022

The Product Owner is a Scrum role and they act as the representative of the customer on the team, while the responsibilities of the product manager are much wider. The Objectives and Key Results (OKR) framework helps organizations select goals (Objectives), milestones measuring progress (Key Results), and specific tasks (Initiatives).

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Userpilot

NOVEMBER 8, 2022

Confirming you have product-market fit before launching your product ensures you have customers who are happy to pay for your product, use it, and share the word about it. It defines how the brand will keep up with changing times to attract new customers and drive customer retention.

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The Product Coalition

MARCH 5, 2018

Over the years of building Machine Learning products, I’ve come up with a framework that usually works for me. Here they are at a glance: Identify the problem There are no alternatives to good old fashioned user research Get the right data set Machine learning needs data? Here is a summary of what good user research should accomplish.

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Userpilot

OCTOBER 21, 2022

What product management best practices can help you build valuable and delightful products for your customers? Ensure alignment between the product vision and product strategy on one hand, and the business objectives on the other. Collecting user feedback in-app is the most direct way to gain insights into customers’ needs.

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Userpilot

JULY 8, 2022

Feature-Driven Development (FDD) is an Agile development framework. It revolves around developing functionality that meets the needs of the customer. Features” in FDD are like user stories in other Agile frameworks. The model describes the product vision, its context, and target users. Planning by feature.

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Mind the Product

JUNE 20, 2019

Even with very short cycles between discovery and delivery, it can take up to several months from identifying a user problem to the release of a potential solution to real users. She says that you can only create significant value for the business by solving the big problems for the users. Understanding User Needs is key.

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Userpilot

JANUARY 6, 2023

That’s because you only build what customers need. Developing only the features that are in line with product vision also increases velocity. It is a well-known instrument used in Agile delivery frameworks like Scrum. Velocity is expressed in story points completed during each delivery cycle and calculated at its end.

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