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Guides How to Manage Product Managers: Herding The Cat Herders Managing a team of product managers is challenging–it’s like herding a bunch of cat herders. There is an art to managing PMs and the secret lies in getting the following right.
path to pm Product Innovation with Rick Robinson, VP Product AARP Innovation Labs In this Path to PM post, Rick and I discuss breaking into product management and how Rick ended up working in an innovation lab at AARP.
Guides Consumer vs. Enterprise Product Management: The Complete Guide Although product managers at consumer and enterprise companies have a title in common, the jobs themselves can vary drastically. So, how is product management in enterprise different from consumer tech?
Guides Should You Be a Product Manager or a Software Engineer? Here's a breakdown of how to consider a career in product management versus software engineering.
path to pm How To 10X Product Growth—SC Moatti, Founder of Products That Count In this Path to PM post, SC and I discuss strategies for common PM interview questions, including how you would 10x growth at a company.
Guides How To Transition from Software Engineer to Product Manager So, are you a software engineer interested in becoming a product manager? Here's a definitive guide for your approaches and a step-by-step playbook for how to take the leap.
Videos PM Interview Videos: iPhone Favorite Product In this live mock product management interview, Stephen asks Muhammad why his favorite product is the iPhone, and what he would do to improve it.
How to Evaluate Associate Product Manager Programs Associate Product Manager (APM) programs are well known in Silicon Valley as rotational, mentorship-focused programs designed to accelerate the careers of young aspiring product managers. Typically, they feature perks like rotations on various
path to pm Preparing for the Associate Product Manager interview—Hamsa Pillai, Google APM In this Path to PM blog post, Hamsa and Stephen discuss how to prepare and ace the undergraduate associate product management interview.
Guides How To Answer Product Management Interview Questions—Sachin Rekhi In this post, Sachin Rekhi, founder and CEO of collaborative notes app Notejoy, gives a masterclass on answering the most commonly encountered interview questions posed in product management interviews. At the end of our interview, we chat about some fun product questions!
path to pm How To Break Into Product Management—Sachin Rekhi Sachin Rekhi is the founder and CEO of Notejoy, and a prolific blogger on product management. In this Path to PM post, Sachin and I discuss five practical ways to break into product management.
Guides The Four Skills of Product Management PM roles vary a lot. But, what are the main skills every product manager must know? Beyond a few core competencies, most PM roles require a highly variable combination of four major skill-sets.
path to pm Product Leaders: Influence, Service & Patience—Saeed Khan, Transformation Labs In this Path to PM post, Saeed shares his advice if he were applying for product management careers all over again, and why great product leadership is about influence, service, and patience.
Guides How To Land a Product Management Job Straight Out of College Breaking into product management straight out of college is challenging. Here’s my guide on how to best position yourself for a product management job in college.
path to pm The "Why" of Interviewing—Suzanne Abate, PM Consultant and Instructor Suzanne Abate is the co-founder of The Development Factory and online PM community, 100 Product Managers. In this Path to PM blog post, Suzanne and I discuss the "why" of PM interviewing, and how to break into product management.
Guides A Checklist For The Perfect Product Management Resume After reviewing thousands of resumes at PMLesson, we've compiled a definitive checklist for what the best of them have in common. Run through this brief checklist to be sure you're putting your best foot forward.
Guides How to Improve your Product Sense The key elements of product sense are empathy, domain knowledge, and creativity. Shreyas Doshi, product lead at Stripe, and I discuss how to improve the elusive "product sense," a relevant skill to all product managers.
path to pm 10-30-50 Product Management—Shreyas Doshi, Product Lead at Stripe Shreyas Doshi is a product lead at Stripe. In this Path to PM post, we discuss switching product management careers and Shreyas's 10-30-50 product management framework to becoming a successful product lead.
path to pm Disney's PM Director on Lean Startup and the Media Industry Sanaz Alexander is a product manager at the Disney ABC Television Group Software Solutions team based in Burbank, CA. In this Path to PM blog post, Sanaz and I discuss applying lean startup principles to media products.
path to pm All About The Users—Todd Olson, CEO of Pendo Todd Olson is the CEO and co-founder of Pendo. In this Path to PM post, we discuss the importance of connecting with a product's users and the tough aspects of product management.
Guides Great PM Interview Answers Include Tradeoffs. Here's How. Effective discussion of tradeoffs can make or break your PM interview. Here are some helpful tips on how to bring up tradeoffs in your upcoming interviews to impress your interviewer.
Guides Associate Product Manager Sample Resume Here's a copy of my resume when I was accepted to the Google Associate Product Management (APM) program. This resume should be used as a sample resume when creating your own resume.
path to pm Product Managing Your Career—Stanford PM Instructor Daniel Elizalde Daniel Elizade teaches Internet of Things product management at Stanford University, and works as an Internet-of-Things PM Coach full-time. In this Path to PM blog post, Daniel and I discuss IoT product management and how to succeed in PM recruiting by imagining yourself as a product.
