PMLesson's Ace the PM Interview

DECEMBER 14, 2020

A common question for product managers, project managers, technical program managers, and software developers alike is what methodology to use given a project. Which should you and your teams decide the utilize? Whichever methodology a team operates under will heavily influence how they work and communicate with one another.

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The Product Coalition

AUGUST 8, 2022

Because scribes display more diligence and industry than printers.” Too many potential investors, Gutenberg’s plan to build on technology more than a thousand years old lacked imagination. Maybe the snake oil of its time, either way, he failed due to timing. However, it was delayed due to a flood?—?leaving Fust prevailed.

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Intercom, Inc.

AUGUST 18, 2022

Sarah Dayan is a staff engineer at Algolia , a “Search-as-a-Service” platform that helps developers build index and search capabilities into their own platforms through an API, and the host of two tech podcasts: Developer Experience and Entre Devs. How would she provide the right technical direction for the company?

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The Product Coalition

MARCH 15, 2021

I wrote a variation of this for the various product teams at Whispir recently and then as fate would have it, a CEO I know reached out to me on LinkedIn asking the same thing?—?so with very little effort but a huge amount of diligence and thought, and you can do it in 15 minutes if you have access to all the research already.

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Product Innovation Educators

NOVEMBER 14, 2022

3:12] What insight or problem led you to create Tango? When we met, we kept talking about team performance. The emotions associated with teams creating documentation, which is a conduit to sharing knowledge, were very negative. I reflected on my Uber experience, where I was on a launch operations team.

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Usersnap

MARCH 19, 2019

Do you consider customer feedback? Should the Voice of Customer influence product development? In Frost & Sullivan’s survey research on R&D/innovation and product development priorities, 84% of the respondents declare that they employ the voice of customers (VoC) in their product development cycle.

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The Product Coalition

FEBRUARY 24, 2021

Today’s rapidly evolving tech landscape favors short feedback loops and requires roadmap flexibility to pivot and solve customers’ most pressing problems as they arise. instead, carefully chosen tools and processes help PMs and their teams gain efficiency.

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PMLesson's Ace the PM Interview

DECEMBER 4, 2020

If you're interested in the field of technical program management, then the answer is, without a doubt, yes. As the name of the position suggests, program sense is an integral part of a technical program manager's day-to-day. They are responsible for ensuring technical processes can be completed according to their deadlines.

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Mixpanel

NOVEMBER 8, 2022

VCs look for signals that you have the right product, in the right market, at the right time, with the right team at the helm. Stay away from flashy “vanity metrics” and focus on gathering deeper insights with value metrics. “The most important thing is seeing user activity grow within a product organically.”

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Fearless Product

JANUARY 5, 2020

SHOULD THE SALES TEAM SELL FEATURES BEFORE THEY EXIST? Are you a B2B product leader wondering how you can help the sales team achieve their targets while not backing your product team into corner? Share what was most useful to you by leaving a review. SHOULD THE SALES TEAM SELL FEATURES BEFORE THEY EXIST?

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Fearless Product

JANUARY 5, 2020

SHOULD THE SALES TEAM SELL FEATURES BEFORE THEY EXIST? Are you a B2B product leader wondering how you can help the sales team achieve their targets while not backing your product team into corner? Share what was most useful to you by leaving a review. SHOULD THE SALES TEAM SELL FEATURES BEFORE THEY EXIST?

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Fearless Product

JANUARY 5, 2020

SHOULD THE SALES TEAM SELL FEATURES BEFORE THEY EXIST? Are you a B2B product leader wondering how you can help the sales team achieve their targets while not backing your product team into corner? Share what was most useful to you by leaving a review. SHOULD THE SALES TEAM SELL FEATURES BEFORE THEY EXIST?

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The Product Coalition

OCTOBER 19, 2020

This is a well known mantra among tech CEOs, especially Facebook’s Mark Zuckerberg. Alternative futures analysis is a structured analytic technique that helps teams predict how the future might unfold. With this knowledge in hand, teams can more effectively identify and exploit opportunities and adopt risk strategies.

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ProductPlan

JULY 10, 2020

As the Director of User Experience, our team was tightly partnered with our product management counterparts to ensure we had baked-in practices and habits that enabled all of our development teams to deliver an exceptional product experience effortlessly. And our success was evident in the feedback. Pat on back.

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Department of Product

MARCH 28, 2022

The types of trends that matter to product teams So if we agree that staying on top of trends matters, the question then is, what types of trends should we bother staying on top of? In each of these scenarios, some companies will quickly adapt to new trends and reconfigure their product offering to stay relevant. Others will fail.

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The Product Coalition

NOVEMBER 9, 2020

It was about 12 months ago when I was challenged by our CEO to dismantle our squad and create a growth team. Not being too sure what a growth team was, we started anyway. We got access to work completed by Andrew Chen & Brian Balfour , took a few courses from the Reforge series and started developing our growth loops.

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Modus Create

JUNE 18, 2021

While this can lead to amazing outcomes for customers, it also increases their exposure to cybersecurity threats. Here’s what a comprehensive security assessment looks like: Step 1 – Due Diligence. SDLC (Software Development Life Cycle) of the organization . A source code review helps find and fix such errors.

Software Review 52

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Product Innovation Educators

JULY 4, 2022

How product managers can get customer insights from a community to create a competitive advantage. I wanted to learn how this company creates competitive products, differentiating on cost while offering comparative capabilities that equates to much higher value for customers. The leading brand cost about $150.

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ProductPlan

FEBRUARY 1, 2021

Product leaders don’t often get many chances for hiring product team members. Additions to the product team must ramp up quickly. Stage 1: Reviewing the applications. When hiring product team members I’m also looking for adjectives and verbs that convey patience, curiosity, and a humble style. Are they team players?

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ProductPlan

JULY 1, 2020

Let’s begin this process by reflecting and reviewing. Still, it’s possible that corporate priorities shifted, resources were cut or reallocated, or customers demanded urgent updates that put previously scheduled items on hold. Were customer relationships impacted? Regular roadmap reviews. Assess What has Changed So Far.

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The Product Cafe

DECEMBER 12, 2023

Have you ever wondered why, despite listening intently to your customers and diligently building the features they ask for, your product still struggles to gain traction? The Product Death Cycle emerges when we build features based on customer feedback but still see low usage. Are You Trapped in the Product Death Cycle?

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ProductPlan

FEBRUARY 1, 2021

Product leaders don’t often get many chances for hiring product team members. Additions to the product team must ramp up quickly. Stage 1: Reviewing the applications. When hiring product team members I’m also looking for adjectives and verbs that convey patience, curiosity, and a humble style. Are they team players?

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eG Innovations

JULY 19, 2022

Grafana is developed by Grafana Labs with a free version of Grafana available on GitHub under a GNU AGPLv3 license. As there is very limited log analysis functionality, most users have another tool to cover that need. Demonstrating due diligence with respect to security with Nagios can also be challenging. Why Use It?

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Roy Madden

SEPTEMBER 29, 2017

At Feedly, we care passionately about the success of our customers. With more than 1,000 organizations relying on Feedly Teams for connecting to the content they need to accelerate research, marketing, and sales, we are growing our customer success team to continue to deliver a 7-star onboarding and support experience.

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Mind the Product

JUNE 14, 2019

We all treat our products with care, respect, and diligence. We agonise over decisions and strategic direction, we think deeply about product direction, we care about the experience our customers get and the impact we have on our businesses. It’s like a chance bit of customer feedback that we end up devoting a two-year roadmap to.

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Gainsight

MARCH 19, 2020

And that’s driven thousands of customer success professionals who were used to seeing their clients and teams every day to learn the ins and outs of “virtual” CS. Thanks to many, including Marco Innocenti and the team at Zoom, as well as Jay Nathan. But here we are. We hosted a webinar with Slack on this topic. Turn On Video.

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The Product Coalition

JUNE 17, 2019

“The digital transformation of any enterprise is a herculean task requiring a willingness to embrace cultural change, the ability to immerse the entire organization in the customer journey, and a total commitment to digitize to the core”?—? Bank customers’ requests are rapidly changing. We identify opportunities. We execute.

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The Product Coalition

MARCH 6, 2019

Bringing team members together, organizing user research, product demos, road mapping and more. Your audience has extremely high expectations and you’ve got more than a million other apps competing for your users’ time and attention. As many as 69% reported being responsible for organizing customer interviews?—?an

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UserVoice

JUNE 18, 2018

And this requires that we understand, even to a facile level, the different goals and motivations that other people and teams in the organization might have. Some of these are going to be obvious, based on the actual stated goals of the team or in some structured form like a compensation plan for Sales teams.

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Iteratively Blog

MARCH 15, 2020

You can expect to catch insights on topics like scaling processing pipelines, deploying databases, maintaining your data lake, and establishing proper governance practices. ? It’s recorded bi-weekly where they feature in-depth analysis and a top-notch interview that highlights the people applying these technologies in real-life scenarios. ?

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UX Studio: Product Management

JULY 5, 2021

As an expert and an opinion leader in the UX field, we’ve reviewed the competency, portfolio, and former projects of New York design agencies to define the best user experience design agencies in New York , based on our judgment. . As a client, you invest your time, energy, and limited resources into your digital product development.

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The Product Coalition

JUNE 24, 2021

In this article, we want to tell you about what happened behind the scenes, including the deck we presented to the Benchmark team. We hope this will give you some insights about the fundraising process, even though our case might be atypical. This is what happened again with the Benchmark team.

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Mixpanel

DECEMBER 3, 2020

Customer experience. Every interaction, every message, every touchpoint matters to customers. If your product and marketing teams are the “brains” designing your experience, your technology stack is undoubtedly the “brawn” making it possible. . User segmentation . Target lookalike customers with specific offers?

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Bain Public

APRIL 25, 2022

We had some insightful discussions and they confided in me the challenges the local startups and ecosystem were experiencing regarding their roadmap development. "I Soko was a great technology and had a number of applications. We got lucky; they saw our potential and did our diligence.

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ProductPlan

MARCH 17, 2020

Does your management team appear to occasionally have the attention span of a fruit fly in a farmers market? When SOS sets in, it creates a cascade of chaos, unleashing all sorts of problems for the product team. Executives are furthest from the customers and the product itself. Establish, define, and enforce feedback channels.

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Ronke PM

FEBRUARY 26, 2023

Being a product leader is a humbling opportunity and a privilege as you build consequential products that will impact your customers' lives. It is an honor to come to work and shape your customers' lives, direct reports, multi-disciplinary partners, and leaders. Use your leadership voice to bring out change. Always say thank you.

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The Product Coalition

MAY 18, 2016

My supervisors in different teams (I was in a management trainee rotational program) gave me two big projects. One project was about pre-IPO funding for which I had to do a lot of financial modeling, due diligence, and third party negotiation. Product manager is the title of a role in technology companies.

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