PMLesson's Ace the PM Interview

JULY 1, 2020

When I interview a product manager to work in my team, I want to know that they understand the whole of the product cycle - how to make it happen, from concept to rollout and beyond, and most importantly what will make it successful. Pain points 2. Product vision statement 5. No clear definition of the pain points.

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Userpilot

JUNE 20, 2023

TL;DR Product idea validation is a process during which product teams test and tweak the product concept to ensure it satisfies a real market need. Apart from testing the demand for the product, idea validation helps teams assess if they have the necessary expertise and resources to build the product.

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Userpilot

JANUARY 22, 2024

For your product marketing strategy, however, you’ll need to align your sales and marketing teams, create a value-based pricing strategy , collect and apply customer feedback , and map out the customer journey. This means collecting feedback data to measure customer satisfaction. To learn more, book a demo today!

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Agile Velocity

MAY 3, 2024

Agile has been shown to shorten time-to-market, increase quality, instill predictability, improve customer satisfaction, and create an overall happier working culture. Business agility encompasses aspects such as product innovation, customer-centricity, cross-functional collaboration, and adaptive strategy execution.

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Userpilot

FEBRUARY 10, 2023

Actually, there are multiple types of personas for different teams, levels of research, and use cases—which you need to understand if you want to connect with customers. So let’s cover each of them and see what you can do to improve your team’s effectiveness. What is a persona?

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Mind the Product

OCTOBER 8, 2018

However, his belief in his product vision drove him to solve a real problem experienced by thousands of women. Padman’s work has been literally life-changing, but it’s worth noting that his mindset and product development steps were as well-honed and effective as anything you’d see from the likes of Netflix, Amazon, or Google.

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Mixpanel

JANUARY 12, 2023

We’ve run dozens of customer interviews, analyzed our competitors, tracked our customer lifecycle, and aligned with the company vision: now we’re finally ready to write copy. It’s absolutely rooted in the empirical data that gives an objective understanding of your customers’ paint points and desires.

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Userpilot

MAY 21, 2023

In our guide, we discuss; The importance of features releases The stages of a successful release Best practices for each of these stages We also mention how Userpilot can help your product team orchestrate your feature releases. New functionality plays a big role in retaining existing customers and attracting new ones.

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Userpilot

AUGUST 21, 2023

Product managers often work in cross-functional teams and bridge the gap between multiple departments. Product managers need to put themselves in the shoes of company executives, other team members, and of course end users so a strong affinity for empathy will go a long way. What is product vision? Communication skills.

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Userpilot

MARCH 27, 2023

We finish with an overview of product analytics tools that your team can benefit from. TL;DR Product analytics is the process of collecting and analyzing usage data to get an objective and unbiased picture of user behavior in-app. Segment analysis focuses on common qualities shared by similar users. Let’s get right to it.

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Product Innovation Educators

OCTOBER 24, 2022

A digital customer experience coupled with rapid physical product creation – insights for product managers. Both my co-founder Brian and I experienced pain points when we were buying engagement rings. We’re creating a user experience for engagement rings similar to Warby Parker, the home-try-on eyeglass company. [7:12]

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Userpilot

NOVEMBER 21, 2023

TL;DR Product managers often don’t get the due recognition for their work and their role is often marginalized by frustrated leadership or other teams. Without vision and looking ‘ahead’ it’s easy to get bogged down in ‘urgent’ low-impact tasks. Average ships per person in the team. How to upskill as a product manager.

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The Product Coalition

FEBRUARY 3, 2022

This article is inspired by the book The Lean Product Playbook: How to Innovate with Minimum Viable Products and Rapid Customer Feedback by Dan Olsen and aims to describe two essential concepts described in the book, namely the Product-Market Fit Pyramid and the Lean Product Process that aims to help us achieve that fit. it’s a hypothesis.

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Gainsight

SEPTEMBER 8, 2021

Organizations create Customer Success teams to increase Net Revenue Retention, and we’ve recently published research showing that NRR drives valuation. But, then, organizations find that the baseline impact of simply having a CS team eventually plateaus–your NRR stagnates. You may also look outside the CS team.

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Userpilot

SEPTEMBER 12, 2022

The focus of product management is overseeing product development at all stages of its lifecycle. A product manager's role is to coordinate the work of various teams across the organization with the shared goal of developing products. SMART goals are Specific, Measurable, Achievable, Relevant, and Time-bound.

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The Product Coalition

JANUARY 3, 2020

So, it was natural that we should want to develop a talent growth plan for our people. Each month we send out an NPS survey to assess whether the company is being a great place to work, but a few months ago I also sent Google’s manager feedback survey to my team of 10 product managers. It was clear the team needed a talent growth plan.

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Userpilot

MARCH 18, 2021

A successful customer retention strategy requires constant iteration and innovation to keep up with an ever-changing SaaS market environment. It’s also not like customer retention is the business of only one department. We have also asked experts from each department about their Customer Retention Strategy – so let’s dive in!

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Mind the Product

MAY 14, 2018

It was only after director and screenwriter James Gunn sent out this tweet that I realised the same can be said of product management: It’s worth reading his whole thread but essentially his point is that, while people don’t die if you act badly, to act well you need years of training, practice, experience, and honing your skill set.

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The Product Coalition

OCTOBER 15, 2019

Are you willing to shape it and head straight to the development process? Test the waters first and get your idea validated. It helps to test the concept and build a base for an MVP. It is designed after initial users leave their feedback about the product. Do you have a product concept in mind? Where do you start?

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The Product Coalition

JUNE 21, 2021

Many worked from home on tasks ranging from organising team activities via Slack, analysing data and collaborating on documents via Google Docs, to discussing strategies via Microsoft Teams and coaching clients via Zoom. customers with disabilities. Motor: Weakness in how one can control their muscles, bones and joints.

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Mind the Product

AUGUST 19, 2019

Secondly, as great product managers are also great capacity builders for their teams, you should start looking for opportunities that AI can present for your product. If I need to buy food for a week, there is a section “With this product customers usually buy…”. Lesson 1: Understand the Problem You’re Trying to Solve with ML.

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Userpilot

JUNE 9, 2021

A Product Manager builds the product by identifying customer needs and creating specifications for developers. They also ensure it fulfills the business’s wider objectives, do the initial research, user interviews, and collect user feedback and data. How to get your first Product Management job. TL;DR – Post Summary.

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Userpilot

MARCH 13, 2024

TL;DR Feature ideation is a process through which product teams brainstorm ideas for new features to introduce to their product. It helps you meet user needs, enhance user experience , improve product value, and gain a competitive advantage. Why do you need feature ideation in your product development process?

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Radical Product

NOVEMBER 30, 2018

Consequently, you can apply product tools (Vision, Strategy, Roadmap, Execution and Measurement) to any product you’re building, to create change more effectively. Trying to simply improve on metrics, whether or not they align with your vision and strategy, leads to a product disease we call “hypermetricemia”. The biggest symptom?

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Userpilot

APRIL 30, 2024

From this article, you will find out how to develop a strong growth marketing strategy and learn growth marketing tactics for different customer journey stages. TL;DR A marketing growth strategy is a comprehensive business growth approach focusing not only on customer acquisition but also on long-term engagement and retention.

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The Product Coalition

JULY 30, 2018

Create vision. When I first came into my current role in developing a new application for university students and faculty, I knew I had to get a much deeper understanding of all our users. Only after all of this was I able to really understand the pain points these users had. the users of the product.

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Userpilot

OCTOBER 29, 2020

Working on website copy and feature landing pages, FAQs, sales and Customer Success enablement assets, feature launches, communicating product updates… This range of responsibilities is what makes defining the role a bit complicated. Even though Natalia works as a part of the Marketing Team, she is very close to the Product Team.

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Userpilot

NOVEMBER 24, 2022

How should product managers handle customer requests to improve customer satisfaction and drive value for users and the business? Customer requests are queries about your product. Some of them are solved quickly by customer support while others involve the development of new functionality. Book the demo !

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ProductPlan

JUNE 1, 2023

But are you solving for actual customer problems? The danger, however, lies in mistaking new functionality for actually adding meaningful value to the customer experience. Where are product teams getting their feature ideas? These all point to internal deficiencies in planning rather than problematic execution.

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Userpilot

DECEMBER 6, 2022

‘Feature factory’ is not exactly a positive term, especially if you’re aspiring to be a product-led SaaS product management team. John Cutler first used the term to describe such companies because their software development processes resemble factory assembly lines. What is a feature factory?

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Userpilot

DECEMBER 5, 2023

TL;DR The aim of the product design process is to create products that solve genuine customer problems, are functional, and offer a positive user experience. A strong product design ensures alignment with user needs and enhances user satisfaction and retention. Gradually develop more complex prototypes.

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Mind the Product

FEBRUARY 12, 2020

It’s also essential to creating a team where great people want to work. In a perfect product development world, communications are seamless, specifications are clear, and product and engineering teams work together without friction. These are team goals that get shared across the company.

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Product Solving

AUGUST 26, 2020

Hiten Shah said it nicely on Twitter recently: Hiten Shah @hnshah Friction is the keyword in product development. 5:39 PM ∙ Jul 26, 2020 108 Likes 11 Retweets Building products is, indeed, all about friction. Then the cycle starts over again as you interview customers who are using your products in their day-to-day work.

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Product Talk

JANUARY 31, 2024

Because discovery involves changing the way you work on an individual, team, and even company level, it’s all too easy to make mistakes and missteps. If you’ve already begun to develop continuous discovery habits, maybe one of these stories will remind you of something you’ve experienced somewhere in your journey.

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The Product Coalition

JANUARY 26, 2024

The real world has limited resources, unrealistic deadlines, and new teams that have not been able to do research at all. Future-Backwards Exercise: Bring relevant stakeholders together to imagine the best and worst possible futures that could happen given the company’s current vision, strategy, and market conditions.

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People-First Product Leadership

JULY 17, 2023

In this week’s newsletter, I’m focusing on articles which will help you navigate through the product management fog and learn practices that help setup product teams for success. To ensure your team’s success, think beyond your own team. which bring more value and benefit the organization - not just your team.

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The Product Coalition

OCTOBER 12, 2020

During this period, we went through different phases, which gave us several lessons that helped us identify our final vision to build an open-source data integration engine. Exploring 2 directions at a time, max We’re 5 people on our team, including 4 with an engineering background. This article lists these lessons.

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