PMLesson's Ace the PM Interview

DECEMBER 3, 2020

Distinguishing between bad vs. good vs. great answers is key , and seems like an underserved area Write down a framework for how you tackle these problems. I also explained how I would integrate with the airlines, so passengers could get an invite to begin their adventure the moment they landed. The team was psyched.

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Mironov Consulting

APRIL 15, 2023

On either side, it’s easy to assume bad intent or have this get personal.  Almost  (Hint: replacing everyone on those teams doesn’t seem to fix the problem.)  When prospects say they need something, sales teams mostly take them at their word.

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The Product Coalition

JULY 2, 2022

for good and bad. One example that made me realize that I live in a startup nation was when one of the coaches attending the workshop shared that they were working with the IT department of one of the largest airlines to transform it into a great product organization. A group of experts still doesn’t make a great team.

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Pragmatic Marketing

MARCH 6, 2019

Product marketing and marketing operation teams often use consumer-oriented approaches that don’t necessarily apply to clients who need a high level of customization and personalization. And this makes sales teams understandably anxious to meet the needs of clients—which often leads down the winding road to customization.

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Pragmatic Marketing

MARCH 6, 2019

Product marketing and marketing operation teams often use consumer-oriented approaches that don’t necessarily apply to clients who need a high level of customization and personalization. And this makes sales teams understandably anxious to meet the needs of clients—which often leads down the winding road to customization.

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Reporting Tools Airlines Weak Development Team User Testing 70

Atlassian

JANUARY 13, 2022

Subscribe to Work Life Get stories about tech and teams in your inbox Subscribe. The estimated costs in damage of this downtime included $60 million in long-distance charges; 200,000 lost airline reservations; and 75 million missed phone calls. Development teams usually create a list of guidelines known as coding conventions.

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Mironov Consulting

JUNE 28, 2018

Long Sales Cycles, Weak Attribution, Few Data Points. From social team: “4500 likes and retweets of our latest post!” ” “Our Silver package is the best fit for mid-sized manufacturers using these two CAD/CAM systems…”) Sales teams love when we point them toward the right customers. Digging in: 1.

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DISQO

AUGUST 13, 2019

Thor began by sharing the results of a test run on Alpha’s platform , where nearly 300 respondents were asked to provide feedback on the worst customer experiences they’ve endured, including the type of companies most often guilty of providing poor customer experiences. Allow teams to freely test and learn. asked Koley.

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Product Innovation Educators

NOVEMBER 23, 2020

He talked with over 140 global business leaders, includes leaders at Google, Microsoft, Coca-Cola, Feeding America, United Way, Verizon, Southwest Airlines, and many more. Microsoft Teams had to figure out how to scale and service their product when its application was far greater than they had anticipated.

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Intercom, Inc.

JANUARY 12, 2022

However, we’ve had a great team. If our conclusion is based on data that is manually entered by a sales team, it may just be that that’s the part of the process where the sales team is sloppier about entering that data in Salesforce, and therefore, that conclusion isn’t a reflection of reality.

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Pragmatic Marketing

MAY 23, 2017

The old adage that good marketing can’t sell a bad product is true. As product professionals, we internalize this lesson and combat its occurrence by taking an outside-in approach when it comes to product development. And that bad marketing or branding could sabotage the success of your products?

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DISQO

AUGUST 13, 2019

Thor began by sharing the results of a test run on Alpha’s platform , where nearly 300 respondents were asked to provide feedback on the worst customer experiences they’ve endured, including the type of companies most often guilty of providing poor customer experiences. Allow teams to freely test and learn. asked Koley.

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DISQO

AUGUST 13, 2019

Thor began by sharing the results of a test run on Alpha’s platform , where nearly 300 respondents were asked to provide feedback on the worst customer experiences they’ve endured, including the type of companies most often guilty of providing poor customer experiences. Allow teams to freely test and learn. asked Koley.

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The Product Coalition

JUNE 17, 2019

For many years CSSSR has been developing IT systems for the biggest online banks, witnessing their success firsthand. This experience has led to several key insights: You Don’t Need a Large IT Department “We operate in small teams. To begin with, the development of new functionality requires considerable resources, including people.

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Product Innovation Educators

AUGUST 19, 2016

Each week I scour articles, wading through the dogs, and bringing you the best insights to help product managers, developers, and innovators be heroes. good-products-bad-businesses/. Building your product team – interview with Steven Sinofsky, former MS Windows President. increase the number of right products developed.

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Business of Software Conference

OCTOBER 11, 2023

As usual, you really had to be there but here are the Sigmacorn notes… 9:00 Mark Littlewood: Opening remarks Welcome to BoS! How will we win?

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Mironov Consulting

AUGUST 8, 2017

I see much broader wins: Our technical teams often make the “I am the user” mistake: we unconsciously assume that the people at the other end of our software are just like us. Being more specific also gives us an opportunity to connect our teams emotionally to our (ahem) users. Bonus points for clarity. Sound Byte. Clarity is free.

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The Product Coalition

DECEMBER 12, 2019

It also gives visibility to the team and internal stakeholders nurturing our view with theirs. As a consequence, you grow an infinite backlog of to do’s, your team gets demotivated and your stakeholders start asking why it’s taking you so long. It’s important to notice that prioritization has to be approached as a team activity.

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Intercom, Inc.

NOVEMBER 17, 2021

Liam: And so, to avoid these kinds of mistakes from the get-go, should people go about developing a messaging strategy? I’ll give an example from airlines. I’ve worked with lots of airlines, and in their own communications, they refer to airports by three-letter codes. What would that involve? ’ No.

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Userpilot

FEBRUARY 27, 2023

TL;DR Collecting customer feedback is an important task for any product team. It helps you understand your users’ needs, the weaknesses of your product, and collect real-time usage insights to inform future feature and product decisions. 4) Ability to analyze the results – both quantitative and qualitative. – Raeann F.

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Intercom, Inc.

NOVEMBER 25, 2021

He’s also a keynote speaker and CX expert with over 20 years of experience in the field, having led teams in social media, marketing, and customer experience at companies such as Humana, McDonald’s, and Discover. I’ve worked with sales teams and their goals go up every single year. The Southwest Airline #RescueTheDress.

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BrainMates

MARCH 6, 2018

In March 2018, Rich Mironov visited Australia and presented to the Product Talks Sydney Meetup Group on building and scaling Product teams. So the dumbest one: I show a development team on your left, including a product person. This blog is a transcript of part of that meetup, focusing on how to structure Product Management.

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UX Studio

JULY 4, 2018

Same goes for airline in-cabin training. Educational and training environments: with VR, educators provide learners with a virtual environment where they can develop skills without the real-world consequences of failing. This can pose a challenge for both the participant and the research team.

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Userpilot

JANUARY 19, 2021

You should be basing your customer engagement on that activity to gain insights and develop strategies to increase that engagement. Word of mouth in customer development calls. Investing efforts in the customer success team to make sure we have a base of highly engaged customers. What do we measure at Userpilot?

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Product Talk

MARCH 3, 2021

In this second conversation in the series, we discussed two core principles of continuous discovery : encouraging teams to discover opportunities through continuous touch points and prioritizing in the opportunity space rather than in the solution space. I want to help more and more teams take advantage of these practices.

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Userpilot

FEBRUARY 27, 2023

Uncover weak spots of your product and bottlenecks that disturb the customer journey. There are several reasons why you may need one: Collecting customer feedback should be a standard procedure for any product team. Here are its pros: Easy to create flows, even for non-technical team members. Lacks in-depth style customizations.

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Userpilot

FEBRUARY 21, 2023

Collecting customer feedback should be a standard procedure for any product team. It helps keep teams aligned with the shared feature-planning guide. As soon as it has been integrated, Pendo is easy to use and manage without the need for developers. Cons of Pendo? – Parita P.

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Intercom, Inc.

JUNE 6, 2019

For instance, many teams build apps on Intercom so users can leverage their workflows and services within our live chat Messenger and messages. So I wanted to hear why that strategy makes sense for MadKudu and his advice for other teams thinking about building apps for their product. Short on time? Here are a few quick takeaways.

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Userpilot

FEBRUARY 23, 2023

Uncover weak spots of your product and bottlenecks that disturb the customer journey. There are several reasons why you may need one: Collecting customer feedback should be a standard procedure for any product team. Personalize the surveys as you wish (you will need help from a developer or may require CSS skills).

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Userpilot

MARCH 15, 2023

Appcues is a no-code user onboarding platform that helps non-technical teams track and analyze product usage. Rather than reinventing the wheel, your developers should prioritize their efforts around enhancing your software – making it faster or more visually appealing – and regularly shipping updates that delight your customers.

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Userpilot

FEBRUARY 21, 2023

Applying product-led growth practices also reduces your customer support and success costs – as your agents don’t need to reply to the same repetitive questions over and over again, and can replace them with reactive tooltips themselves without any help from the developers. Building a product tour in Appcues is relatively easy.

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UX Studio: Product Management

FEBRUARY 26, 2019

It will introduce the top UX agencies here and shamelessly put our team on the list as well. Most famous for their innovative work and the love of prototypes, Ideo provides diverse teams with designers, engineers, and researchers to a project. The team also holds trainings and workshops. The Top UX Agencies. Digital Telepathy.

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The Product Coalition

OCTOBER 23, 2019

The ever-evolving preferences paired with the flexibility customers want at their fingertips pushes travel service companies to be inventive in their attempts to develop a fully-functioning app. The cool side of PWA is that you need to develop and maintain only one platform: your website. UX/UI development Hard to Build?—?Easy

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Intercom, Inc.

OCTOBER 24, 2019

Here are five quick takeaways: When evaluating clients, the biggest thing Bailey and her team look for is whether the organization is willing to give up control. And she worked her way up to be one of the United Airline’s first female pilots. And I got to work with the international growth team for Facebook. Short on time?

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Usersnap

MAY 21, 2019

This helps to improve product development and also gives us the opportunity to engage with customers. They are also Your Strongest Sales Team. Happy customers are more effective than your sales teams in selling your product. But it only takes one single bad experience to totally destroy that trust.

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