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! Many companies have a bias towards PMs coming from a technical background.

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UX Studio: Product Management

JULY 14, 2021

As a product design consulting firm , we often get questions from our clients who look for reliable design, development, or marketing partners. As a design thinking consulting firm , we advise on product strategy, lead workshops, and offer customized training to equip your business with the best UX practices.

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ProductPlan

MARCH 4, 2022

Question 1: Can you give me an example of a test you’d run, or data you might find, that could lead to an idea for improving our product? Unfortunately, we can’t advise you on specifics here. If the hiring manager knows this, you probably won’t get questions about building a tech stack.

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Userpilot

SEPTEMBER 8, 2021

We generally advise against linear, top-down product tours. The best product tour software on the market is Userpilot. Product marketers often find that a good product tour ensures that more new users activate. A/B test your product tour. Instead, you should opt for an interactive walkthrough type of product tour.

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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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Usersnap

FEBRUARY 19, 2019

It’s nice to have your customers testing the application. It is a cost-effective and real-world multi-platform testing approach. Crowdtesting is simply user testing through broader groups of people. You can have a variety of devices for testing. Industries are being disrupted by digital technologies today.

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Effective Roadmap Planning and Development Process for Enterprise Products

AUGUST 2, 2018

Market Research : Adopt Primary and Secondary research techniques to gather intelligence on the market. Do not discount your sales, marketing, Support and other folks within your Org who engage with the market at different levels. Competitive Analysis : Diligently carryout Competitive Analysis at regular intervals.

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Mixpanel

MAY 26, 2020

For today’s post, we spoke with Rohit Gossain , who has held multiple product management and data science roles over the last decade with technology companies such as Shutterfly, OpenTable, Adobe, and Expedia Group. . Rohit Gossain: I started off my career in 2010 as a technical analyst working with a product manager.

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Mind the Product

DECEMBER 8, 2017

By defining these early in the development process, a product designer can advise you on how to hit your targets, as well as point out things to avoid. Many companies forget that it is advisable to keep product specifications restrained. The countries you plan to sell your product into will also drive development costs.

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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. How to use technology to create something. I need to learn how to build a business and learn how to get others excited to join me, not just tinker with the technology.

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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? So that’s me. Christy : Awesome.

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Mixpanel

MAY 26, 2020

For today’s post, we spoke with Rohit Gossain , who has held multiple product management and data science roles over the last decade with technology companies such as Shutterfly, OpenTable, Adobe, and Expedia Group. . Rohit Gossain: I started off my career in 2010 as a technical analyst working with a product manager.

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Userpilot

JULY 13, 2021

The best walkthrough software on the market is Userpilot. 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. Other good options include Appcues and Userguiding.

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Mironov Consulting

MAY 18, 2024

  Out of scope means they can advise, counsel, suggest, offer to help… but don’t own the decision/action.  Push internal recruiters hard, perhaps reviewing stacks of résumés together to clearly communicate what you’re looking for.    With lots of gray space between the two.

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Department of Product

MARCH 28, 2022

Which means at some point, every product must reassess its position in the market – and the strategic decisions that underpin it – to decide whether to evolve and adapt to new emerging market trends, or to ignore them. It is extremely difficult (and probably not advisable) to attempt to stay on top of all trends.

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The Product Coalition

MAY 11, 2022

As argued in the intro of the book, even though enterprise software makes up a big share of the total software market, most Product Management books still focus on consumer products only as well as ignore that enterprise software products are built and distributed very differently. Product Management is about solving customer problems.”

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The Product Coalition

OCTOBER 21, 2019

As a project manager at an IT company working with many non-technical startup founders, our clients, I often get to resolve a variety of interesting issues that relate to technology and communication. They had spent a lot of time choosing the technological stack and discussing technical solutions with outside consultants.

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All About Product Management

MAY 13, 2008

All this resulted in Product Managers being more reactive to situation as opposed to being proactive in delivering new products to market and improving on developing the feature set of their current product portfolio. Many issues where down to a change in test working practices.

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Mixpanel

MAY 5, 2021

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. We’ll cover why in the next section, after reviewing examples. Tech costs. Incompatibility.

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Usersnap

JUNE 15, 2023

For instance, in large companies like Google and Facebook, product managers collaborate with dedicated researchers, analysts, and marketers who assist them in different stages of the product lifecycle. Conduct market and competitive research. Conduct market and competitive research. Conduct user testing and gather feedback.

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The Product Coalition

MARCH 11, 2020

Finally, the term Development Team seems to limit the role to technical people, for example, software engineers. However, in my experience, given proper support by the Scrum Master, even lawyers and marketers can get comfortable with the designation “developer” when utilizing Scrum for their purposes. Team leads?

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UX Studio: Product Management

MARCH 28, 2022

Is it technical details, customer insights or revenue and money? Bill Campbell was a legendary coach who worked with some of the biggest product leaders in the tech industry. He often visited the meetings run by these super powerful tech executives and spent time making sure they become better in running them. “To

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Userpilot

DECEMBER 6, 2021

A customer success platform designed for non-technical people will help your customer success teams be more efficient. #3 The best results for your customers come when all the tools in your marketing stack work together. Performance marketers, CRM experts, and anyone else for whom real-time data is vital.

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Userpilot

AUGUST 18, 2020

Well, maybe it’s due a revival – this time as an unofficial mantra for the SaaS sector. On the one hand, it requires technical resources to deploy; and on the other, all the events you want to track have to be defined and set up. 4 A/B Testing. It can send you alerts when your users start using another, similar technology.

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The Product Guy

AUGUST 30, 2017

In fact, our tests regularly failed. 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. We were testing our code. 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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Userpilot

AUGUST 18, 2020

Well, maybe it’s due a revival – this time as an unofficial mantra for the SaaS sector. On the one hand, it requires technical resources to deploy; and on the other, all the events you want to track have to be defined and set up. 4 A/B Testing. It can send you alerts when your users start using another, similar technology.

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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. Team / people Meet everyone ?—?team,

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eG Innovations

AUGUST 11, 2022

What some third-party tools offer beyond the native Citrix monitoring options – eG Enterprise, ControlUp and Goliath Technologies’ Monitor IT were discussed. George (Spiers) has reviewed Citrix Analytics and compared it with monitoring tools, such as eG Enterprise in an earlier blog: [link]. to test the entire service delivery chain.

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Userpilot

JANUARY 5, 2022

With so many options on the market, it can be difficult for SaaS executives to find the best onboarding software for their product. Most of the onboarding tools on the market require a minimal amount of code to use. But with so many onboarding software options on the market, how do you choose the best one? In-app communication.

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Business of Software Conference

JUNE 29, 2020

If you’re on a marketing team you’re probably talking to your manager about what marketing campaigns you’re running, and if you’re in H.R. So what Dewey is advising us to do. But this is how most teams communicate not just product teams. you’re talking about employee engagement programs.

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Product Talk

AUGUST 10, 2016

We would jump from reviewing interview guides one week to discussing experiment results the next. 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.

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Product Talk

APRIL 7, 2021

In this third and final conversation in the series, we discussed two core principles of continuous discovery : why it’s essential to set up compare and contrast decisions and surface and test assumptions. I am a former chief product officer and now coach and advise product leaders and teams. Teresa Torres : Hi, everyone.

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