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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ProductPlan

MARCH 4, 2022

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. If the hiring manager knows this, you probably won’t get questions about building a tech stack. Be ready with those ideas.

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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. As a product manager, you need to get fast into all aspects: vision, strategy, business, marketing, sales, product, user experience, technical, development process, etc. I would advise differently.

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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. . 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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PMLesson's Ace the PM Interview

MARCH 1, 2020

I studied mathematics at UCLA, worked 2 summers as a software engineering intern at a Series E AdTech startup, and advised Metta World Peace (Ron Artest) as the product manager for his social basketball app, Gradelo. The AOM position is one of the most popular and sought after roles; many people with competitive backgrounds apply each year.

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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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Intercom, Inc.

JANUARY 5, 2023

He’s a keynote speaker, adviser, and co-author of several books on the subject, including the provocatively titled The Best Service is No Service , Your Customer Rules , and his latest The Frictionless Organization: Deliver Great Customer Experiences with Less Effort. All that information was transferred down to the person who called back.

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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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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. But if you want a shortcut that's less technically demanding, read on… Why is product tour software important for SaaS? Get a demo today!

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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. I am very happy to share what I have done and am still doing to get the best out of the first weeks in order to enter the position in the best efficient way. I would advise you differently.

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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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Effective Roadmap Planning and Development Process for Enterprise Products

AUGUST 2, 2018

Competitive Analysis : Diligently carryout Competitive Analysis at regular intervals. Position your product in the magic quadrant and determine where your product lags. I typically advise the below format. Internal Feedback : Sales, Marketing, Support, Engineering and other stake holders. Theme Goals (KPI) H1 H2 Sales Revenue 1.

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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. Your non-technical product managers and product marketing managers will certainly thank you! Get a demo today!

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PMLesson's Ace the PM Interview

OCTOBER 21, 2019

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. While some encourage you to fake it till you make it, I would advise against it during the interview process. Will Cloud technologies still be relevant after 5-10 years?

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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.    UNFILLED PRODUCT POSITIONS There are thousands of talented product folks between gigs, looking for their next adventure.    With lots of gray space between the two. Share job links widely. 

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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. What I most often advise is to err on the side of fewer features for the benefit of getting the product out sooner to optimize for learning.

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Pragmatic Marketing

SEPTEMBER 16, 2009

As product managers, we bear the responsibility for bridging the two worlds – technical and business, and need to influence both. Change must happen on two levels across the organization: Technical – Roles and responsibilities must be understood, accepted, and adopted. As a result, specializations in roles developed.

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Intercom, Inc.

JANUARY 14, 2021

How to use technology to create something. But the consulting experience was interesting because I realized that technology is just one part of it – to have a big impact and to build something that’s going to touch many people or solve something important, I need to understand the world and the business side.

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Userzoom

AUGUST 24, 2017

I know, I know – it’s not the technical definition, but this has served me well for 2 decades. If your research finding is simply confirming the pre-conceived notions then the research could be deemed less valuable unless you position it correctly. Insights : “Tell me something I don’t know.” A user researchers job is never easy.

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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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Userpilot

MAY 1, 2021

collect VoC data outside the app with customer interviews, online surveys, social media listening, product reviews, customer website behavior. They are the most time-consuming VoC data collection technic so before you begin, define which customers you should be interviewing and why. Both negative and positive.

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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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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. Environments which embrace Agile principles find an affinity with OKRs due to the way the methodology sets success criteria, emphasizes learning, and allows teams to establish solutions.

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Usersnap

JUNE 15, 2023

Identifying users’ needs, wants, and problems In today’s world, there’s no such thing as a perfect digital product, all thanks to evolving customer expectations and the emergence of new technologies. Identifying and implementing customer needs and problems will help you: Position your company as customer-centric.

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Business of Software Conference

JULY 7, 2021

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. Ask yourself what you are doing to encourage the sales team to reflect, review and adapt their performance on a daily or weekly basis.

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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 Coalition

MARCH 30, 2019

Payment Processors : For the sake of simplicity, think of payment processors as technical arm of acquiring bank. Technically, the authorization leg is also called BASE 1 and clearing/settlement leg is called BASE 2. The network calculates the net positions, pays the acquirer bank and debits the card-issuer bank.

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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 Businesses with complex, diverse tech stacks: It may not be easy to implement, but Mixpanel is certainly easy to integrate once you’ve got it working! Few customer success managers are also developers.

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The Product Guy

AUGUST 30, 2017

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. Before that she held multiple positions in Fin-Tech companies in Israel as Associate Product Manager, Project Manager and QA Engineer. Similar, right?

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Userpilot

JANUARY 5, 2022

It’s also advisable to ensure they contain a CTA and a X button, so that the user has the choice to either engage with the value the modal is offering, or go back to what they were doing previously. You don’t want to find yourself in a position of having to rely on sending your customers emails.

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Product Bookshelf

FEBRUARY 7, 2017

One of the rules, written by Lawley, advises to work on problems you are passionate about. The positioning statement is what you say if someone with a minimal understanding of your industry asks what your product is. There’s some great advice on product positioning from Fritz Mueller from i365. Product Strategy.

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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. To the novices the chessboard looked as if the board was set up at random.

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Userpilot

APRIL 30, 2021

Rather than drain yourself by doing too many things at once, it’s strongly advisable to focus on one channel and find an agency that specializes in that. Classically, SEO is broken down into the following sub-areas: Technical SEO: includes ensuring pages are indexed, creating site maps, Knowledge Graph optimization and improving site speed.

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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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Business of Software Conference

JUNE 29, 2020

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. These are the essentials of thinking. I’m not going to lie, I had to google protracted. That’s a solution.

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Imaginary Cloud - Design

JANUARY 30, 2020

This may be due to this new paradigm coming from, and still being restricted to, the realm of data scientists. One of them is the user's resistance due to the fear of the black box (AI tools that make crucial decisions in an opaque way without explaining the rationale followed). Humans shouldn't act like machines. "

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