PMLesson's Ace the PM Interview

MARCH 26, 2020

A typical day as a PM may entail discussing design decisions, weighing pros and cons of various features to build with engineering, or meeting with users to better understand their needs. Consultant Consultants are in the business of advising people in a specific field. There exist many non-technical PMs.

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The Product Coalition

FEBRUARY 2, 2018

If you are lucky, there is someone in the company that has thought about your on-boarding, but many times, especially if this is a small startup, there isn’t. I have just landed into such a situation, starting as a VP product in a small startup. Your first meetings should be a ‘get to know’. I would advise you differently.

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UX Studio: Product Management

JULY 14, 2021

We hope this article will help you better understand what the leading companies in design thinking do and how to choose the most suitable design strategy firm to partner with. . 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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Mind the Product

JULY 10, 2017

For example, a local startup team I consult for are developing their web app in-house while outsourcing their mobile development team of 12 to Poland. Contact them and ask for a meeting. I would recommend this model if you have no technical or product management background. That’s fairly straightforward.

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Product Bookshelf

JANUARY 31, 2017

different skills are needed in startups than in mature companies). This list is particularly useful for a product manager who came to the role from a technical team and may not have previously reviewed this type of information. Your preliminary product strategy will reside on presentation slide.

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Mind the Product

DECEMBER 8, 2017

Having experience with production methods equal to the quantities you expect to develop and sell will help to keep your product development focused on solutions that meet your goals and won’t trigger inappropriate manufacturing or tooling costs. Many companies forget that it is advisable to keep product specifications restrained.

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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. Under the GDPR this fine could have risen to £35 million. A DPIA can be used in a variety of situations.

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Intercom, Inc.

AUGUST 15, 2018

And in meetings and conversations where those opportunities are being discussed, a sponsor makes sure your name pops up, and they’re maybe pushing those opportunities your way. When I was at Microsoft, I made a conscious effort to spend some percentage of my week meeting people who weren’t within my organization.

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The Product Coalition

MAY 11, 2022

Finally, “ Building for Business: Product Management in Enterprise Software ” is a truly B2B-focused Product Management book, written by Blair Reeves (Salesforce) and Benjamin Gaines (Adobe) for “all the ones who aren’t part of the Silicon Valley startup bread”. strategy?—? Product Management is about solving customer problems.”

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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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Intercom, Inc.

AUGUST 19, 2021

But alas, as startups scale, as more people join and those people turn into teams, which then turn into teams of teams and into orgs, you’re adding a lot of complexity to the mix. If you’re short on time, here are a few quick takeaways: As a startup grows, things like more teams, processes, and cross-collaboration are unavoidable.

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Intercom, Inc.

JULY 12, 2018

As VP of Corporate Strategy at Twitter, Elad Gil was a key player as company headcount skyrocketed from 90 to 1,500 employees. He’s also co-founded Color Genomics and invested in and been an adviser to companies like Airbnb, Coinbase, Instacart, Square, Stripe and more. In some cases, these people had different viewpoint from me.

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Product Bookshelf

SEPTEMBER 14, 2020

OKRs were brought from Intel to Google by John Doerr where the method gained popularity within the high tech and startup communities. The first part of Radical Focus is a story about a startup which sells tea. The story follows the two founders, Hanna and Jack, as they start using OKRs after meeting with their largest investor.

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Usersnap

JUNE 15, 2023

Nevertheless, some core roles and responsibilities of a product manager are: Develop product strategy and vision. Product teams faced increased pressure from upper management to incorporate artificial intelligence solutions into their product to meet rising customer demands and maintain a competitive edge.

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Department of Product

JUNE 27, 2022

Who does technical leadership? I’d say I was going to set up a local leadership meeting. I would explain to the group that I’d seen this meeting help teams work better together. I’d be involved the first month or two while we start the meeting, but eventually I would take a backseat and then would not attend the meeting.

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Business of Software Conference

JUNE 29, 2020

You can quickly go from strategy to execution and you know exactly what should be done next. So what Dewey is advising us to do. Now I get that like there might be different technical architect implementations for fast forwarding commercials, but there’s one feature that’s going to solve this need.

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Aptrinsic

JANUARY 2, 2018

Jeetu advises that product managers embrace the following 10 lessons as a rubric for leading their companies to success. #1. Scarcity brings about creative thinking, so Jeetu advises keeping teams extremely small in this phase. Because it’s such an important job with lots of responsibility, product managers can’t afford to mess up.

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Roadmunk

DECEMBER 7, 2017

Most recently, Ellen left Lola to launch her own startup that will make it possible to build a complete scalable app in an afternoon. While her startup is still in very early stages, Ellen is completely in founder mode. While her startup is still in very early stages, Ellen is completely in founder mode.

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