PMLesson's Ace the PM Interview

MARCH 3, 2022

The product management career path can be incredibly fulfilling as you build and work on products used by millions of users around the world. The success of a product, or even an entire company, rests on the product team. Building impactful products is exciting! Are you cut out for product management?

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Department of Product

OCTOBER 23, 2022

Product Principles – Examples for Product Managers Make decision making easier with inspiration from top product companies Product principles are used by product teams to help guide decision making. Principles can help guide both strategic decisions and tactical decisions.

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ProductPlan

AUGUST 10, 2023

When plotting out our product’s trajectory, there’s a constant tension between two competing mindsets. Where charismatic leaders rally the troops around an ambitious vision with a massive potential payoff. Meanwhile, the slow, steady drumbeat of cautious experimentation and incremental enhancements always makes the product better.

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Userpilot

JANUARY 22, 2024

A product marketing framework is like a compass that guides you through the complex, fast-paced world of SaaS. From initial launch to ongoing product management , this framework acts as a map towards sustainable growth. This, in turn, provides you with a roadmap, serving as a guide for the team.

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The Product Coalition

FEBRUARY 1, 2022

Failing slowly is of course worse than pulling the plug early on a badly performing product. Failure is just the inevitable ingredient to create successful businesses and products. And yet, clearly articulated actions for what happens when the measure of success is not met anymore are rarely part of product planning.

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Mind the Product

OCTOBER 8, 2018

We can and should learn product management lessons from a diverse range of environments. It’s absolutely worth looking to the likes of Google’s Sundar Pichai, but it’s also worth looking to less celebrated entrepreneurs, outside of the multinational mega-corporations, to learn about lean front-line product management.

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Userpilot

JULY 27, 2023

Chief Technical Officer : Responsible for outlining the company’s technological vision, implementing technology strategies, and ensuring that the technological resources are aligned with the company’s business needs. Engineering Manager: In charge of planning, designing, and overseeing projects. Average salary: $196,172/yr.

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ProductPlan

FEBRUARY 22, 2023

As a product manager, one of the toughest challenges I and my fellow PMs face is prioritizing the right features amongst an ever-increasing influx of data from customer feedback, product analytics, and the never-ending list of stakeholder requests. A successful product never sacrifices the user experience.

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Userpilot

JUNE 9, 2021

Are you thinking about a career in product, but you’re not sure whether you should pursue Product Marketing or Product Management? To explain the difference in the simplest of terms: Product Managers build product features and Product Marketers promote them to their audience and users.

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ProductPlan

AUGUST 10, 2023

When plotting out our product’s trajectory, there’s a constant tension between two competing mindsets. Where charismatic leaders rally the troops around an ambitious vision with a massive potential payoff. Meanwhile, the slow, steady drumbeat of cautious experimentation and incremental enhancements always makes the product better.

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Sachin Rekhi

FEBRUARY 1, 2016

Equally challenging but less talked about is how much this same challenge exists when transitioning from a product manager to a manager of product managers, ie. a product leader. Shift your individual focus from design and execution to vision and strategy. Create a strong system of accountability.

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Mind the Product

NOVEMBER 27, 2017

Observations of a B2C startup product manager working in enterprise. A startup, finding its feet and learning how to stand, should by certain logic be less wise, less capable and less developed than its older, wiser counterparts. Here are two of my most notable product take-aways and one piece of advice for survival.

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PMLesson's Ace the PM Interview

JULY 13, 2020

Product Managers are often called “Product CEOs” or “Mini GMs”, but they rarely have direct control over the inputs that lead to successful products. PMs come in all shapes and sizes, but ultimately they’re responsible for managing the product through its lifecycle. To ship a great product.

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Product Management University

OCTOBER 19, 2023

The best product launches are like the cream cheese frosting on a decadent chocolate cake! enabled product or feature set and everyone’s totally energized over the upcoming announcement and marketing launch activities. The new product is going to boost your differentiation in the competitive space. All good, right?

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The Product Coalition

FEBRUARY 18, 2019

Influence is probably one of the most valuable currencies as a product manager. You also have to gain the confidence of your product team, since they are relying heavily on you for the success of the overall product. And as a product manager, you are expected to get there. But you can get there.

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ProductPlan

OCTOBER 6, 2022

Start with your company and product mission and vision. ProductPlan is the product management platform that operationalizes product strategy and execution best practices and drives innovation, trust, and accountability. I’ve embraced this in many areas of my life and work life, including Launch Management.

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ProductPlan

OCTOBER 25, 2022

The weary musician jotting down notes and chords that came to them in a dream or the product manager dreaming of new product ideas. Product teams long for similar moments of inspiration, but the motivational poster vision of breakthrough ideas misses the raw materials and effort that lead up to these moments.

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Userpilot

JANUARY 14, 2024

Are you thinking of a career in product management and wondering what the product manager career path looks like? In particular, we look at: What the product manager’s role involves Their main responsibilities Common product management positions Tips on how to advance your PM career Let’s dive in.

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Userpilot

OCTOBER 29, 2020

You may want to jump to a relevant section: Who’s a Product Marketing Manager? Product Marketing Manager’s Role and Responsibilities (depending on the company). What’s the difference between a Product Manager, Product Marketing Manager, and a Marketing Manager?

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Mind the Product

DECEMBER 14, 2016

My product is store stock management. I product-manage multiple apps which allow store workers at retail giant Tesco to manage stock and provide an excellent customer service. Tesco store apps include all the stock control routines: deliveries, reductions, counts, waste, training, product search and so on.

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Department of Product

MAY 22, 2020

Product managers and product leaders should have an inherent sense of what’s valuable to customers. Product managers and product leaders should have an inherent sense of what’s valuable to customers. And the product team responsible got some pretty brutal reviews in the process.

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PMLesson's Ace the PM Interview

JANUARY 12, 2022

These kinds of questions evaluate your ability to think and work through technical dependencies, product context, execution strategy, and impact on a team. Cross-functional Partnership : As we mentioned, technical program managers sit at a crossroads between many different teams and departments. Let's take a look!

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BrainMates

APRIL 30, 2018

In April 2018, Brainmates hosted a Product Talks Sydney Meetup based on the “hypotheticals” format popularised by Geoffrey Robertson. A bright and brave cross functional team of panellists were on hand to tackle an imagined (but realistic) Product Management scenario. Marie Kellett, former CPO eftpos.

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PMLesson's Ace the PM Interview

FEBRUARY 11, 2019

In this Path to PM post, Saeed shares his advice if he were applying for product management careers all over again, and why great product leadership is about influence, service, and patience. How did you break into product management? I started my career as a software developer, working on database applications.

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The Product HQ

FEBRUARY 1, 2023

(Needs Images) Interested in learning the difference between product development and product management? Product development and product management may seem to be similar concepts, but in reality, they’re quite different. What is Product Development? What is Product Management?

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Product Innovation Educators

JUNE 12, 2023

Tools for planning and executing product projects Today we are talking about the skills product managers need to grow their careers. Before joining Google, Neha worked as a Management Consultant at Essex Product Consulting, where she helped organizations build products. To help us, Neha Bansal is with us.

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The Product Coalition

JUNE 9, 2021

Photo by Denise Jans on Unsplash There is a misconception that building a roadmap will define a product’s future. Your vision of the future should bring clarity to your roadmap. That approach works fine until your sales team gets on the phone to tell a customer about the Next Big Thing. So why build a roadmap at all?

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The Product Coalition

MAY 3, 2021

That’s where creating a product launch plan comes in. A product launch plan is a strategy that outlines your specific goals for a new release and how to promote it in your market. It helps you align with different team departments, better understand your customers , and find ways to step up your SaaS product.

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Userpilot

DECEMBER 8, 2022

Why is product failure such a common feature of the SaaS landscape? We’re also looking at what product managers do to increase the survival chances of their products. We talk about product failure when the product doesn’t meet its objectives or goals. Product failure is often attributed to poor UI/UX.

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ProductPlan

MARCH 5, 2021

For a product professional guiding the work of a team, strategic alignment should be the holy grail. Including making sure that everyone involved has a shared understanding of the big goals for the product. Second, all teams agree on a definition of success. Product managers are a naturally optimistic bunch.

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The Product Coalition

DECEMBER 27, 2023

Building effective teams with people from different disciplines can be challenging due to various circumstances. In the product management discipline, cross-functional collaboration is more than a buzzword — it’s a critical strategy. Teams with multiple functions are instrumental towards staying competitive and succeed.

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PMLesson's Ace the PM Interview

FEBRUARY 11, 2019

In this Path to PM post, Saeed shares his advice if he were applying for product management careers all over again, and why great product leadership is about influence, service, and patience. How did you break into product management? I started my career as a software developer, working on database applications.

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ProductPlan

NOVEMBER 15, 2022

Regardless of whether you’re building products for software, hardware, or services, product managers of every stripe are considered the driver of a product’s strategic development and the single source of truth for questions, requests, and feedback related to their products.

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ProductPlan

MARCH 5, 2021

For a product professional guiding the work of a team, strategic alignment should be the holy grail. Including making sure that everyone involved has a shared understanding of the big goals for the product. Second, all teams agree on a definition of success. Product managers are a naturally optimistic bunch.

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Userpilot

JUNE 8, 2022

Do you implement product management analytics from the onset of a product launch to understand user behavior and timely improve the product based on the findings? Ready to dive into product management analytics? Multiple teams need to gauge product analytics data. Let’s get started!

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ProductPlan

FEBRUARY 11, 2020

Despite general happiness with their jobs , many product managers are still looking to improve some things, and there are some key things they want to change this year. That was one of the takeaways from our Product Managers in 2020 Report with answers from more than 2,500 product management professionals.

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Department of Product

AUGUST 22, 2022

Here’s some of the areas we felt could be the most impactful as part of your product health check, spanning data, devices, value proposition, business and strategy. Sure, you can dig deeper later on, but these are fundamental metrics that are important to understand when you’re assessing the overall health of your product.

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