PMLesson's Ace the PM Interview

MAY 14, 2022

This article is part of our series on Solutions Architect interviews. If you're interviewing for solutions architect roles, don't miss our Complete System Design Interview Course. Solutions architect roles are rapidly becoming more important and popular in the technology ecosystem.

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Userpilot

JANUARY 16, 2024

From analyzing market trends to churning user needs and technical feasibility into golden product ideas, there are many benefits of ChatGPT for product managers. A potent tool, ChatGPT has proven to be a strategic addition to the product management toolkit, churning out ideas in even the most unlikely scenarios.

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The Product Coalition

FEBRUARY 12, 2024

I enjoyed in-person meetings, especially in-person product review meetings. Early in the pandemic, this led me to resent virtual meetings, especially virtual product review meetings. This particular product review meeting was a breaking point. I struggled to figure out how to run the product review meeting effectively.

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Mironov Consulting

JUNE 25, 2023

Many of my discussions with product leaders (CPOs, VPs and others who manage teams of product folks) are about the substance of product management: portfolios, competing stakeholders, pricing & packaging, tarot cards as a revenue forecasting model.  Last Product fit will probably be catastrophic.  This

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The Product Coalition

JANUARY 27, 2022

At the beginning of any software development project, managers think of which methodology is between waterfall and agile. It’s essential to follow clearly defined processes or software development life cycle (SDLC) to ensure software development quality. Waterfall and agile: A smart method or bad solution?

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The Product Coalition

JUNE 21, 2021

A practical look at how and why software designers can ensure digital services can be used by everyone. People who need medicine use apps and websites to order perscriptions and have them delivered to their homes. Thanks to the coronavirus pandemic, making software accessible is arguably a common struggle around the globe.

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Modus Create

MAY 28, 2024

In our 2023 research, 39% of enterprises cited AI as a top initiative in the coming year, more than any other initiative. Larry Fitzpatrick, Executive Vice President and CTO of OneMain Financial, the leading nonprime lender in the United States, provides insight into how the world’s top executives plan to leverage AI technology.

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Userpilot

MAY 30, 2024

PMs prioritize product development and functionality, while PMMs focus on market adoption and product desirability. Project management software, visual collaboration tools, roadmap software, shared Slack channels, and customer feedback and analytics tools can facilitate collaboration between PMs and PMMs.

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Userpilot

OCTOBER 20, 2023

Getting user feedback is a crucial step of the market research process. You can collect feedback for analysis through in-app surveys, online reviews, social media mentions, and customer interviews. Tracking sentiment can also help you with feedback analysis and interpreting responses to in-app surveys. Source: G2.

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The Product Coalition

MARCH 6, 2019

Bringing team members together, organizing user research, product demos, road mapping and more. If you’re a mobile app product manager there’s a whole additional layer of complexity to add to that cake. Your software needs to be updated frequently and to the satisfaction levels of the app store gatekeepers.

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Userpilot

APRIL 23, 2021

Looking for user persona examples to inspire your research, or (product) marketing strategy? But it’s an absolutely critical step for any SaaS strategy. Benefits of user personas B2B SaaS User Persona Examples B2B SaaS Examples with Multiple User Personas – Userpilot, ActiveCampaign, Kontentino 1.

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Mind the Product

MARCH 12, 2020

It defines, communicates, supports, and improves important operations which can be standardized, such as communication, planning processes, team gatherings, and training. How it’s become a critical function for scaling effective product teams. Developing and maintaining a continuing education program for product managers.

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Intercom, Inc.

AUGUST 18, 2022

You’re autonomous, your code is immaculate, and you have a deep understanding of building and shipping software. Despite not having a formal education in engineering, Sarah landed a job as a developer in the French consultant Grand Manitou. Then, four years ago, in 2018, she got a job at Algolia as a software engineer.

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The Product Coalition

DECEMBER 8, 2019

Highly effective Product Managers develop themselves in 5 key areas. In some jobs, you can get by with just Competence, but in the unkempt, fuzzy, team-oriented domain of Product Management, you need both. Here are 2 actions you can take to develop your Craft Competence: Craft Competence ?? and others feel that.

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PMLesson's Ace the PM Interview

DECEMBER 13, 2021

Employees routinely say that the best places to work are some of the big tech companies. To help figure out which internship program (and workplace more generally) is right for you, we created this list of the 8 best tech internships in 2022. This is not necessarily a bad thing by any means. Let's take a closer look: 1.)

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The Product Coalition

JULY 10, 2019

Due to this increased communication overhead, we needed to re-think how we could improve communication, product workflows and handover documentation across our ever expanding teams. AKA Scope of Work (SoW), Product Spec, Product Requirements Document (PRD) or in Intercom’s case ‘ The Intermission ’. Side note: ??

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Usersnap

DECEMBER 19, 2023

Marty Cagan, in his book “Inspired: How To Create Products Customers Love” , mentions the use of customer surveys as a tool for understanding customer needs and preferences. Star Rating Ubiquitous in e-commerce and review sites, the star rating system is a visually engaging way to capture user opinions.

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The Product Coalition

JUNE 18, 2019

It doesn’t matter if you’re managing a closed system desktop application or a SaaS web application , if people can’t use your system effectively, it will fail. Managing a system that’s grown organically and has become bloated leads to a whole host of problems. what does it mean for the underlying tech?

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Mironov Consulting

SEPTEMBER 15, 2019

Data science has traditionally been an analysis-only endeavor: using historical statistics, user interaction trends, or AI machine learning to predict the impact of deterministically coded software changes. Provide Much Deeper Context than Traditional Software Projects, Especially Use Cases and Business Goals. We versus They.

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Modus Create

JANUARY 12, 2021

The speed at which the economic landscape shifts has been increasing since the industrial revolution and the emergence of consumer technology. From the point of view of technology, manufacturing, and/or the ability to deliver a service, what is possible? I’ll review four methodologies: waterfall, Lean, design, and Agile.

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ProductPlan

DECEMBER 3, 2020

They develop a strategic direction and drive the development of their companies’ products. A few examples: Conducting research. Developing a strategy. Product managers take the knowledge they gain from their research and apply those learnings to crafting a high-level strategic plan. Coordinating development.

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Mironov Consulting

AUGUST 8, 2017

I spend a lot of time sifting through documents, positioning and stories – trying to figure out who we’re talking about. And it’s exhausting prefacing every conversation by (re)defining terms: “for this user story, the customer is the sys admin who configures our CAD software, not the architect sketching out buildings. Wasted energy.

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Userpilot

MAY 13, 2021

It’s what helps teams build great product experiences. How to implement a successful product intelligence solution. Product intelligence is integrated software that allows teams to use customer data to continuously make smart changes to products. Another example is project management software and other SaaS products.

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Nulab

AUGUST 25, 2021

Whether you’re an Olympic runner, an app developer, or a wealthy big-city bachelor, getting to know what’s going on in the world around you is a smart thing to do. A competitive landscape analysis is a structured way to research your competitors. from marketing and sales to product development and community building.

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Lenny Rachitsky

FEBRUARY 13, 2024

It can drive enormous sustained growth (quickly) and often takes very little product work, yet is rarely prioritized or even discussed within product teams. For a decade, she’s worked closely with tech companies to drive behavior change. Why are so few product teams testing their pricing? It’s technically complex.

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BrainStation Product Management

OCTOBER 1, 2019

As the name suggests, a Product Manager (PM) is responsible for overseeing product development from conception to completion. In terms of digital product management, PMs are the glue that holds together the user experience, the technical requirements, and the business requirements of a product. Documentation. Communication.

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Sachin Rekhi

JUNE 25, 2017

Good Product Manager, Bad Product Manager - Ben Horowitz Let’s talk about Product Management - Josh Elman How to Hire a Product Manager - Ken Norton Be a Great Product Leader - Adam Nash PM at Microsoft - Steve Sinofsky What Distinguishes the Top 1% Product Managers from the top 10%?

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BrainStation Product Management

JULY 20, 2018

As the name suggests, a Product Manager (PM) is responsible for overseeing product development from conception to completion, and beyond. In terms of digital product management, PMs are the glue that holds together the user experience, the technical requirements, and the business requirements of a product. Documentation.

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BrainMates

JULY 31, 2023

Organisations that do consider innovation tend to focus on new technological gambles that are dubbed to be ‘innovative’ but fail to deliver a commercial return. When faced with challenges, we conceive new solutions to try to solve our problems. These new solutions can change the way we live our lives. What Exactly Is Innovation?

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Mind the Product

APRIL 27, 2017

There’s a lot of variation in how companies document product requirements. Some are moving away from detailed, written product requirements documents (PRDs), while others are using shorter write-ups, user stories, or jobs-to-be-done formats. Eric Ries, in his post “What is customer development? Focus on Core Problems.

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The Product Guy

FEBRUARY 27, 2018

So, I’ll start with this: a little while ago, I was having a difficult video call with my tech lead. We had just hired a new VP of Product who was radically (and rapidly) changing our product development process, and our engineers – based remotely, in Argentina – were struggling to keep up. “To I furrow my brow incredulously.

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bpma ProductHub

OCTOBER 16, 2016

Currently at Pragmatic Marketing, Paul helps companies build product teams by teaching their managers and marketers how to become market-driven. Most companies and product teams have to find the right balance between investing in the new and supporting existing products. On Innovation vs. Execution in Product Management.

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ProductPlan

DECEMBER 2, 2020

They develop a strategic direction and drive the development of their companies’ products. A few examples: Conducting research. Developing a strategy. Product managers take the knowledge they gain from their research and apply those learnings to crafting a high-level strategic plan. Coordinating development.

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Under 10 Consulting

MAY 15, 2020

The roadmap is one of the most common tools requested of product teams by executives, development and operations, sales and marketing teams, and key customers. . ?. A roadmap is a vision document showing where the product might be headed over the next few months or years. ." — Johnson's Roadmapping Conundrum. ?.

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Gainsight

JULY 16, 2019

The daily life of a product manager is busy—you don’t have time to waste on software that doesn’t fit your needs. It might seem like a time sink at first, but thoroughly researching solutions will save you time in the long run. Gainsight PX is a complete Product Experience Platform.

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Product Talk

SEPTEMBER 20, 2023

The opportunity solution tree helps visualize all the work that goes into continuous discovery. And while opportunity solution trees have become increasingly common among product teams, there’s still plenty of room for customization, both in the way you set up your trees and the tools you use to build them.

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UX Studio

MARCH 11, 2024

With over 17 years of experience as a designer, he primarily assists others in their career growth by providing thoughtful, concise tips and tricks, whether related to tools or any form of communication. You have surface level: you’re completely dir ected, you are given a solution and you design the solution.

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