PMLesson's Ace the PM Interview

APRIL 19, 2020

After working in consulting, many management consultants desire to exit into and work at a tech company. If you've already decided you want to work closer to tech and are ready to start making the transition to PM, you're on the right page! Ideally, you will have directly assisted a product manager on one of your projects.

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Ask Benny

FEBRUARY 2, 2018

How to enter into a new product management position in a new company. You just landed into a new product management position. Whether it’s a VP product or a product manager, whether it’s a small or big company, you are expected to get fast into the role, and many times you are expected to do it by yourself.

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PMLesson's Ace the PM Interview

MARCH 1, 2020

An inside look at product management at IBM and the interview process. Kevin Wei is an Offering Manager at IBM managing Watson Knowledge Catalog and DataStage. Hi I'm Kevin Wei, a product manager (aka an offering manager -- I can get into that in a bit) on IBM's data + AI team. What is an IBM offering manager?

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The Product Coalition

FEBRUARY 2, 2018

How to enter a new product management position in a new company. Congratulations, you just landed a new product management position. Whether it’s a VP product or a product manager or it’s a small or big company, you are expected to adjust quickly to the role. I would advise you differently. Trust your team.

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ProductPlan

MARCH 4, 2022

Product operations is a new discipline within product management, and the product operations analyst role is even newer. If you’re looking for a position as a product operations analyst, you’ll be getting in early to a new but fast-growing field. Unfortunately, we can’t advise you on specifics here.

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UX Studio: Product Management

JULY 14, 2021

Considering that none of the established innovation consulting companies are cheap, you want to make sure your return on the investment is positive. . We are aware that many companies choose their path and manage the challenges themselves. That’s one approach to problem-solving. This is how IDEO was born in Palo Alto, California. .

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Alchemer Mobile

APRIL 14, 2020

How deep does your understanding of the technology go as a PM? And how much do you try to be, like, a subject matter expert from a technological standpoint compared to your engineering team? How do you manage executive expectations, customer expectations, and technical resources? I’m a product manager at Stripe.

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Mind the Product

NOVEMBER 30, 2017

TalkTalk was fined £400,000 in 2016 for failing to have appropriate technical and organisational measures in place to secure its customers’ personal data, and for keeping their personal data for longer than necessary. For example if a customer is refused insurance by an automated system they can call and ask for a manual review.

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PMLesson's Ace the PM Interview

OCTOBER 21, 2019

We talk to Hemanth Kempanna, an Exponent alumnus, on his journey to breaking into product management and his experience building cloud-based products. This can be in terms of the companies you want to target, the roles you want to get into or the kind of industry, products, or technologies you want to work on. Interview preparation.

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Userpilot

SEPTEMBER 8, 2021

We generally advise against linear, top-down product tours. Great product tours have a positive effect on just about every important SaaS metric that you can possibly imagine. Imagine if I wanted you to use a task list feature on my project management tool, and I gave you the following instructions: Open the tool.

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PMLesson's Ace the PM Interview

APRIL 9, 2020

CIO’s top 10 , taken from Switchup.org, a review and ranking guide which examined thousands of alumni reviews to rank coding bootcamps based on price, location, job support and instructor quality. Hot off the presses, Career Karma’s review was published only days ago and focuses on coding bootcamps with an online option.

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Sachin Rekhi

JANUARY 27, 2013

The role of product management in technology firms is a critically important one that is often misunderstood. Product management boils down to owning the vision, design, and execution of your product. Or it could be ensuring open product, design, and technical decisions get resolved in an efficient manner.

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Userpilot

JULY 13, 2021

That’s why we often advise SaaS companies to segment users prior to their walkthrough, to make sure that customers only see features during their walkthrough that make sense for their individual use case. Our SaaS customers that use walkthroughs have managed to achieve: Higher activation rate. I hear you.

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Effective Roadmap Planning and Development Process for Enterprise Products

AUGUST 2, 2018

If the users don’t use the product actively then whom are we managing the product for, is the question we need to constantly ask. Competitive Analysis : Diligently carryout Competitive Analysis at regular intervals. Position your product in the magic quadrant and determine where your product lags. Product/Functional i.

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Intercom, Inc.

JANUARY 14, 2021

And so, in 2014, he founded Productboard , a product management system that incorporates customer feedback and insights to help product teams build better products. I started as a product manager and ended up as the VP of product. How to use technology to create something. And here we are, six years later. A CRM for Product.

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Pragmatic Marketing

SEPTEMBER 16, 2009

Barbara Nelson said in The Politics of Agile , “When product managers weren’t looking, the developers went agile.” ” Indeed, many Product Managers were taken by surprise at the speed of Agile’s adoption. Ultimately, we are responsible for the success of the product and, thus, the company. The Problem.

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Department of Product

MARCH 28, 2022

How to Keep on top of Trends that Matter to Product Managers Decide when to care about trends and when to sit back and watch what happens next Trends and the product lifecycle Imagine your product strategy stayed exactly the same for the next 10 years. What would happen? Because everything’s always changing. And not all trends matter.

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Userzoom

AUGUST 24, 2017

Executives, Marketers, Designers, and Product Managers all want to make an informed decision and manage risk intelligently. I know, I know – it’s not the technical definition, but this has served me well for 2 decades. How you can make your next research project more actionable and valuable.

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Mixpanel

MAY 5, 2021

Prior to this position, Neil was VP of Engineering, after working as a Software Engineer and leading Infrastructure Engineering. He was the Growth Advisor in Residence at Greylock Partners, Growth Lead at Pinterest, and first marketer at Grubhub. He advised companies like Tinder, Hipcamp, Reddit, Canva, and Pocket. Tech costs.

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The Product Coalition

JANUARY 5, 2021

TL; DR: 71 Product Owner Interview Questions to Avoid Imposters If you are looking to fill a position for a Product Owner in your organization, you may find the following 71 interview questions useful to identify the right candidate. Sprint Reviews and user interviews are also well suited to improve collaboration and communication over time.

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Usersnap

JUNE 15, 2023

Without a systematic approach to your product management process and clear roadmap, you’ll likely face several hurdles like lack of direction, unclear priorities, wasted resources, missed deadlines, difficulty in scaling, and more. To help you out, I’ve put together this extensive guide on the product management process.

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Product Bookshelf

SEPTEMBER 14, 2020

Radical Focus is about a management method called Objectives and Key Results (OKRs). The OKR method has its roots in HP’s Management by Objectives (MBO) which seeks to achieve alignment through a cascading set of objectives through the enterprise. Key Results are measurable progress towards an Objective.

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Business of Software Conference

JULY 7, 2021

This evidence-based approach to managing sales performance certainly helps us to make better decisions about how we develop our sales teams and how we best use the talents available to us. Alex A may have little patience to deal with awkward technical queries, and may be willing to make unrealistic promises to get deals to cross the line.

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Intercom, Inc.

MAY 19, 2022

Using technology in a different way to provide support, looking at it as a value add as opposed to a cost center means we can differentiate support. Of course, that’s important, but they are also not in a position to assess the medical prowess of a doctor. That’s why you need to do these internal reviews as well.

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The Product Guy

AUGUST 30, 2017

At the end of 2015 I was in the worst nightmare of any Product Manager. As we were getting closer to the end of the year, my senior vice president called me in, to review our progress against our goals. I’m not a technical Product Manager. We managed to decrease each dev-test-release cycle from being months to 2 weeks.

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Business of Software Conference

JUNE 29, 2020

Teresa Torres (Product Discovery Coach, Product Talk) – Managing Outputs vs Outcomes from Business of Software Conference. So today I want to talk about managing by our outputs versus outcomes. So, I’m going to start with, yesterday we learned from Whitney about OKRs – that is one way of trying to manage by outcomes.

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Userpilot

DECEMBER 6, 2021

Few customer success managers are also developers. A customer success platform designed for non-technical people will help your customer success teams be more efficient. #3 Inexperienced Product Managers: Chameleon is tricky to get to grips with, which is pretty ironic in an onboarding tool! Analytics – Amplitude.

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Product Bookshelf

FEBRUARY 7, 2017

42 rules to live by for product managers. Great insights and product principles for being a great product manager and making better products. 42 Rules of Product Management edited by Brian Lawley. Each encapsulates a key principle of effective product management. Being a great product manager. Product Strategy.

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Userpilot

JANUARY 5, 2022

By “activate,” I mean experiencing the value of the product in a first-hand, direct way, such as creating your first task on a task management tool. Onboarding software is also sometimes used by hiring managers to train new staff. Employee onboarding. Modals normally consist of a header, body text and an image or gif.

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Product Talk

AUGUST 10, 2016

We would jump from reviewing interview guides one week to discussing experiment results the next. But to the grandmasters, they were able to understand what moves led to this position and were able to cycle through next moves and their potential outcomes. The Mental Representations of Expert Product Managers. I believe there is.

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Business of Software Conference

NOVEMBER 26, 2018

Press reviews are kind of blah, sales cycles take too damn long, but you can almost always feel it when it is happening. They’re very trusting, the technically sophisticated, and they really just wanted to get time back in the day. She is very open minded about new products and keeps up to date with technology.

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Product Talk

APRIL 7, 2021

I am a former chief product officer and now coach and advise product leaders and teams. Teresa : I’m going to do a quick review of what we covered in Part 1 and Part 2. The idea is to have a product trio —a product manager, a designer, and a tech lead—working and owning product decisions together.

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