The Product Coalition

MAY 11, 2022

Product specialization : “very tailored to solve a specific technical or business need” that becomes complicated quickly. To not try to please everyone, Ben and Blair advise “staying the course, given your strategy is sound”. The customer vs. the user: the one buying your product isn’t the same one who pays for it.

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Userpilot

AUGUST 23, 2023

A product analyst needs to have the following skillsets: Technical skills: data analysis , data visualization, statistical analysis, and technical tools. But aspiring students are advised to study the following under a bachelor’s degree – business management, statistics, economics, or computer science.

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The Product HQ

JUNE 20, 2024

Amazon Product Manager Interview Questions Massive tech companies like Amazon have tons of products that require several product managers to work together. Bias for Action – Rewind any moment in your career where you find it hard to meet a deadline. You don’t have to necessarily use technical jargon to explain your answers.

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The Product HQ

JULY 1, 2024

For the most part, B2B product managers work in the software, IT, and tech industries. Therefore, it’s advisable to filter your industry when looking for an exact yearly salary figure. According to the data, the higher salaries are not in global brands but in tech companies.

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The Product Guy

APRIL 9, 2019

In my company, we review a living document with our management chain on a quarterly basis to align business direction for the short-term (immediate one to two quarters) to the long-term (two to five years). No formal stakeholder review as this is meant to be the first version that will undergo many iterations and refinements.

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bpma ProductHub

MARCH 20, 2017

Let’s review a couple of scenarios: Scenario one – company has an existing product portfolio. The sales team is providing feedback and advising that the product is missing features preventing them from penetrating market A, and if only they had those features, they could be very successful selling.

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The Product Coalition

OCTOBER 21, 2019

As a project manager at an IT company working with many non-technical startup founders, our clients, I often get to resolve a variety of interesting issues that relate to technology and communication. They had spent a lot of time choosing the technological stack and discussing technical solutions with outside consultants.

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The Product HQ

JUNE 10, 2024

A career in product management requires a wide range of PM skills from business and data analysis to technology expertise. Therefore, if a product manager wanted to make such a switch, she would be advised to first rise the ranks internally while simultaneously building influence (e.g. The answer depends on your background.

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Product Bookshelf

SEPTEMBER 14, 2020

OKRs were brought from Intel to Google by John Doerr where the method gained popularity within the high tech and startup communities. Environments which embrace Agile principles find an affinity with OKRs due to the way the methodology sets success criteria, emphasizes learning, and allows teams to establish solutions.

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Amplitude

JUNE 8, 2017

I had become pretty active as a mentor and advisor to various startups and really enjoyed it! Social Capital’s work consists of helping solve the world’s largest problems which it does by investing in technology in sectors such as healthcare and education, and companies both within and outside of the United States.

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The Product Coalition

JANUARY 5, 2021

For example, institute regular meetings with each stakeholder or have stakeholders name product ambassadors, who then act as “liaison officers” and train them accordingly. Sprint Reviews and user interviews are also well suited to improve collaboration and communication over time. How do you communicate with uncooperative stakeholders?

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Gainsight

AUGUST 5, 2022

Preparing and presenting executive reviews. The technology and platforms both Sales and CS use often have similar capabilities. There is also cross-functional coordination and alignment with other teams and departments to meet sales objectives or deliver on customer needs. You can better advise on valid customer pain points.

Reporting Tools 59

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Mixpanel

MAY 5, 2021

He was the Growth Advisor in Residence at Greylock Partners, Growth Lead at Pinterest, and first marketer at Grubhub. He advised companies like Tinder, Hipcamp, Reddit, Canva, and Pocket. We’ll cover why in the next section, after reviewing examples. Tech costs. Incompatibility.

Technical Review 144

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PMLesson's Ace the PM Interview

APRIL 19, 2020

After working in consulting, many management consultants desire to exit into and work at a tech company. If you've already decided you want to work closer to tech and are ready to start making the transition to PM, you're on the right page! Many companies have a bias towards PMs coming from a technical background.

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PMLesson's Ace the PM Interview

APRIL 19, 2020

After working in consulting, many management consultants desire to exit into and work at a tech company. If you've already decided you want to work closer to tech and are ready to start making the transition to PM, you're on the right page! Many companies have a bias towards PMs coming from a technical background.

Consulting 52

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Usersnap

JUNE 15, 2023

Identifying users’ needs, wants, and problems In today’s world, there’s no such thing as a perfect digital product, all thanks to evolving customer expectations and the emergence of new technologies. So, I’d advise you to With Usersnap, you can smartly manage feedback from both internal and external stakeholders in one place.

Feedback Software 52

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The Product Coalition

MAY 27, 2020

Start on the right foot By factoring in a localization process from the get-go and choosing the right translation software and vendor, translations can be automated and accelerated on a technical level. The most helpful vendors are those that advise on the right processes and best translation management tools for the task at hand.

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The Product Coalition

MARCH 11, 2020

Finally, the term Development Team seems to limit the role to technical people, for example, software engineers. Ignoring technical debt: The Development Team is not demanding adequate capacity to tackle technical debt and bugs during the Sprint. Read more on technical debt and Scrum.) Team leads?

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Userpilot

MARCH 3, 2022

Product managers with technical skills such as SQL or technical stack are in high demand, so highlight them in your resume. Show off your Product Manager (technical) skills. Here’s what Ritesh Thombre, Sr Product Manager(Data & Analytics) at ZS advises: Ritesh Thombre on presenting skillsets in your resume.

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eG Innovations

JULY 21, 2022

Recently, we hosted a great joint webinar with the team from AVD TechFest to present the results of a survey we conducted jointly to assess real-world Microsoft Azure Virtual Desktop (AVD) usage and industry and customer sentiments towards the AVD technologies. Where can I get technical details of real AVD deployments at scale?

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The Product Guy

AUGUST 30, 2017

We would regularly meet to discuss the features required, what the customers expected. As we were getting closer to the end of the year, my senior vice president called me in, to review our progress against our goals. I’m not a technical Product Manager. I had a strong roadmap, clear goals and a vision for the product.

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Userpilot

JANUARY 17, 2023

It involves adapting your product to your customer’s ever-changing expectations through in-app surveys and review gathering, making it timeless. If NPS scores are high, it means customers are realizing your value since they are willing to advise others to use your product. Send a personalized modal to ask for reviews.

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Ask Benny

FEBRUARY 2, 2018

Prepare an on-boarding list of meetings: what you want to learn from each person and how he can help you get smoothly into your role. As a product manager, you need to get fast into all aspects: vision, strategy, business, marketing, sales, product, user experience, technical, development process, etc. I would advise differently.

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PMLesson's Ace the PM Interview

MARCH 1, 2020

I studied mathematics at UCLA, worked 2 summers as a software engineering intern at a Series E AdTech startup, and advised Metta World Peace (Ron Artest) as the product manager for his social basketball app, Gradelo. Due to the number of applicants, making it past the resume screen may rely on a bit of luck.

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Bain Public

MAY 29, 2020

FUN FACT: It is actually thanks to the coaching service for innovative and technological SMBs (PMEit) administered by MAIN that we’ve been able to work with some of our incredible clients, Wastack , LiveScale , Blaise Transit and Enkidoo , and provide them with product management, consultancy and coaching support.

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Mind the Product

NOVEMBER 30, 2017

TalkTalk was fined £400,000 in 2016 for failing to have appropriate technical and organisational measures in place to secure its customers’ personal data, and for keeping their personal data for longer than necessary. For example if a customer is refused insurance by an automated system they can call and ask for a manual review.

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Department of Product

JUNE 27, 2022

Who does technical leadership? I’d say I was going to set up a local leadership meeting. I would explain to the group that I’d seen this meeting help teams work better together. I’d be involved the first month or two while we start the meeting, but eventually I would take a backseat and then would not attend the meeting.

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UX Studio: Product Management

JULY 14, 2021

As a design thinking consulting firm , we advise on product strategy, lead workshops, and offer customized training to equip your business with the best UX practices. Fantasy has expertise in the healthcare industry, hospitality and leisure, entertainment and media, finance, and technology, to name a few.

Consulting 87

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Modus Create

MAY 11, 2020

For people in tech, it’s just our daily environment, nothing too fancy, nothing too hard. So, how can the tech product community help the world to pivot, work as a cross-functional team and make this place better prepared for the times to come? This applies not only in tech, but also in politics and society. Is it hard?

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Gainsight

AUGUST 6, 2021

This step involves enabling the CS team so they can effectively onboard, teach, or advise customers about the new feature. CS teams can then leverage these materials as part of their regular communications and meeting cadence such as QBRs, monthly progress reviews, etc. monthly progress reviews, QBRs, etc.),

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The Product Coalition

FEBRUARY 2, 2018

Prepare an on-boarding list of meetings: what you want to learn from each person and how they can help you transition smoothly into your role. As a product manager, you need to become fast in all aspects: vision, strategy, business, marketing, sales, product, user experience, technical, development process, etc. Trust your team.

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Business of Software Conference

JULY 7, 2021

Alex A may have little patience to deal with awkward technical queries, and may be willing to make unrealistic promises to get deals to cross the line. Ask yourself what you are doing to encourage the sales team to reflect, review and adapt their performance on a daily or weekly basis. Four Levels of Sales Contribution.

Research Software 69

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Effective Roadmap Planning and Development Process for Enterprise Products

AUGUST 2, 2018

If your product has an yearly renewal process then atleast have a meeting with Buyer once in 6 months to evaluate if they are deriving the ROI. Competitive Analysis : Diligently carryout Competitive Analysis at regular intervals. I typically advise the below format. We should be dynamic to readjust roadmap to meet its goals.

User Testing 40

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Gainsight

NOVEMBER 23, 2020

GitLab is an open-source, code-collaboration platform for git repository management, code reviews, issue tracking, wikis, and continuous deployment tools, enabling users to create, review, and deploy codes. A critical component of the long term planning and the weekly meetings is representing what is NOT currently prioritized.

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Mind the Product

DECEMBER 8, 2017

Having experience with production methods equal to the quantities you expect to develop and sell will help to keep your product development focused on solutions that meet your goals and won’t trigger inappropriate manufacturing or tooling costs. Many companies forget that it is advisable to keep product specifications restrained.

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Product Bookshelf

JANUARY 31, 2017

The book starts with Sean agreeing to be the first product manager at Alpha Technology Ventures. This list is particularly useful for a product manager who came to the role from a technical team and may not have previously reviewed this type of information. Make sure to schedule at least two to three hours for the meeting.”

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Intercom, Inc.

MAY 19, 2022

Let’s start by looking at CSAT, which is the metric that measures how well a company meets its users’ expectations. Using technology in a different way to provide support, looking at it as a value add as opposed to a cost center means we can differentiate support. I think that has naturally driven up CSAT.

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