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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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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Userpilot

JULY 9, 2021

Continuous Discovery Habits by Teresa Torres teaches you how to set up a continuous discovery system within your organization with actionable exercises. Challenges of transitioning from a non-technical background. She works with executives worldwide, advising them on product strategy and leadership. out of 5 stars. Where to buy?

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Mind the Product

DECEMBER 8, 2017

By defining these early in the development process, a product designer can advise you on how to hit your targets, as well as point out things to avoid. Many companies forget that it is advisable to keep product specifications restrained. The Lily Drone: Famous for an ambitious design that was too costly to produce.

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Intercom, Inc.

JANUARY 14, 2021

And so, in 2014, he founded Productboard , a product management system that incorporates customer feedback and insights to help product teams build better products. “The customers and their needs are completely missing from the systems we use. But the customers and their needs are completely missing from the systems that we use.

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Gainsight

AUGUST 31, 2020

It is a stationary bike system built with a large screen at the front, enabling users to live stream or follow on-demand workouts at home. working on radar systems. Amy advised leaders to have a skill of prudent vision regarding resources , both monetary and human capital. Some of you may have heard of the Peloton Cycle.

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Modus Create

MAY 11, 2020

One technique we use here at Modus and we advise for is the featureless roadmap – it helps teams to concentrate on objectives and outcomes rather than create granular pieces of deliverables that don’t fit together. Every failure is an opportunity to learn and every crisis is a system failure. Second, Ego Sanitization.

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Usersnap

FEBRUARY 19, 2019

Due to this disruption, traditional ways of innovation are insufficient. Access to testing specialists has become limited due to these restrictions. You can specify a system for bug reporting. Technical configurations on application and test environment must be done. Crowdtesting is not advisable in these situations.

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Mixpanel

MAY 26, 2020

Rohit Gossain: I started off my career in 2010 as a technical analyst working with a product manager. If you’re a PM, I’d advise that you have discussions with various teams (marketing, data, operations, finance, etc.) Mixpanel: How have you seen product analytics evolve over the course of your career? I never trust my gut.

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Userpilot

JULY 13, 2021

That’s why we often advise SaaS companies to segment users prior to their walkthrough, to make sure that customers only see features during their walkthrough that make sense for their individual use case. Many SaaS products have complex internal systems which are not immediately intuitive to use for new employees. Employee onboarding.

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Mixpanel

MAY 26, 2020

Rohit Gossain: I started off my career in 2010 as a technical analyst working with a product manager. If you’re a PM, I’d advise that you have discussions with various teams (marketing, data, operations, finance, etc.) Mixpanel: How have you seen product analytics evolve over the course of your career? I never trust my gut.

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Alchemer Mobile

APRIL 14, 2020

How do you manage executive expectations, customer expectations, and technical resources? I’ve been kind of actively running away from management roles, and mostly that’s just a factor of the things that I really wanna learn or I just really wanna learn how to be a really, like, kick-ass technical PM. So that’s me.

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Department of Product

MARCH 28, 2022

It is extremely difficult (and probably not advisable) to attempt to stay on top of all trends. It’s impossible for one person to do. And not all trends matter. For product people, we’re mostly interested in trends which impact the 3 core skill areas of product management: Technology Business Design So let’s tackle each of these separately.

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The Product Coalition

JANUARY 5, 2021

Sprint Reviews and user interviews are also well suited to improve collaboration and communication over time. Early in the transition process, it is advisable to educate them with product-related workshops on agile principles. A new feature is overdue and has been drastically underestimated due to unexpected technical debt.

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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. But, it is very difficult to actually execute upon unshipping.

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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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Business of Software Conference

JULY 7, 2021

Our CRM system can prompt the team to make the optimum number of calls, to follow up efficiently and to be better at predicting call or demo outcomes. The range of blueprints alone suggests that we should all be cautious about buying into one system or another. One proven sales playbook, system or process simply cannot fit all models.

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The Product Coalition

MARCH 30, 2019

Payment Processors : For the sake of simplicity, think of payment processors as technical arm of acquiring bank. Technically, the authorization leg is also called BASE 1 and clearing/settlement leg is called BASE 2. Payment gateways help collect customer and card information to be relayed from merchant website to the acquiring bank.

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eG Innovations

JULY 21, 2022

The audience also shared some of their own technical experiences of real-world AVD usage. Where can I get technical details of real AVD deployments at scale? At Zeetim we advise repurposing of laptops to a Thin Client OS. Where can you get good quality (preferably with technical substance) on AVD?

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Userpilot

AUGUST 18, 2020

Well, maybe it’s due a revival – this time as an unofficial mantra for the SaaS sector. Providing more and more value over time, along a clearly-defined customer lifecycle journey – like this: The system you build to gain a greater efficiency in pushing your users down the user journey is called a flywheel.

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Intercom, Inc.

MAY 19, 2022

That’s why you need to do these internal reviews as well. It’s very similar to code review in engineering, the editing process in writing, or coaching in sales. Macrina Sheridan: We’re currently re-evaluating some of the tools and systems we have in place at Aircall.

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Userpilot

AUGUST 18, 2020

Well, maybe it’s due a revival – this time as an unofficial mantra for the SaaS sector. Providing more and more value over time, along a clearly-defined customer lifecycle journey – like this: The system you build to gain a greater efficiency in pushing your users down the user journey is called a flywheel.

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The Product Coalition

MARCH 21, 2018

A mentor advised me to think about three broad categories?—?the Understand the technical architecture for the product : Get an engineer to sit down with you and explain how the product works under the hood and which major technologies and frameworks have been used. Read recent work / decks : Review all the recent work from the team?—?product

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eG Innovations

JULY 2, 2021

There are three ways in which scripts can be used in eG Enterprise: To add new monitoring capabilities into the system (e.g., To remote control a system, a user session, or application from the web-based console itself (e.g., to take a screenshot of a session, to reboot a system, log off a user, etc.).

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The Product Guy

AUGUST 30, 2017

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. The relationship between QA and Engineering was bordering on food fights, and we’d only achieved half of our requirements. A production release was a distant vision.

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Userpilot

DECEMBER 6, 2021

A customer success platform designed for non-technical people will help your customer success teams be more efficient. #3 However, a lot of reviews cite the speed of the platform to load as a bit of a problem. It’s not up to the standard of a dedicated CRM system though. Few customer success managers are also developers.

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Userpilot

JANUARY 5, 2022

It’s also advisable to ensure they contain a CTA and a X button, so that the user has the choice to either engage with the value the modal is offering, or go back to what they were doing previously. A modal is a large, rectangular UI pattern that’s often used to interrupt what the user is doing and grab their attention. Product tour.

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Userpilot

APRIL 30, 2021

Rather than hiring a bunch of marketing people in-house and figuring out a process from scratch, it can sometimes be more cost-efficient to hire an agency, plug your business model into their existing systems, and press play. This is especially true if none of your founding team members have any deep marketing strategy expertise.

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eG Innovations

AUGUST 11, 2022

George (Spiers) has reviewed Citrix Analytics and compared it with monitoring tools, such as eG Enterprise in an earlier blog: [link]. Can I use System Center Operation Manager (SCOM) for Citrix monitoring? In general, we would not advise opening support tickets via a dumb email to a system such as Jira or ServiceNow.

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Imaginary Cloud - Design

JANUARY 30, 2020

This may be due to this new paradigm coming from, and still being restricted to, the realm of data scientists. One of them is the user's resistance due to the fear of the black box (AI tools that make crucial decisions in an opaque way without explaining the rationale followed). However, this is an insufficient solution.

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