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The Best Product/UX Interview Question
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The Best User Interview QuestionUser Interviews are awesome.They’re one of the first UX Research strategies I advocate for on many cases. They can help us understand what the problems are, why are they happening and even discover opportunities.There are many things we can ask the user, and each project has its peculiarities. However, from my personal experience, there’s one question which works on all kinds of contexts. I love it. It’s the best User Interview question I know, by far. Here I share my precious, without further ado.The Best User Interview Question is:Tell me about the last time you __.That’s it.It’s the first question I usually ask. I might do 1-hour interviews where everything originates just from this single question. And it always generates insights. No exception. I call it (...)

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I Think my Company Needs Some #ux
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I Think My Company Needs Some UXThere comes a time when a team, company or leader starts to consider whether User Experience (UX) might come in handy.Some people never heard about it.Some people saw someone do it at their previous company.Some people got their business going down like a comet on fire with a product where customers are spitting lava and nobody knows what to do.If any of these fit your case, I’m glad you’re here.Now, this is not a guide on how to become a UX Designer. Also, I’m not going to define UX or explain the details of each process.This is about HOW: How to start doing it inside a Company, by understanding when to do each process and the way to approach it.Getting Everyone On BoardIf you or anyone on the team don’t know yet what is the expected outcome from UX, we need to (...)

#user-experience #ux-design #consulting #product-management

How Tran Got Her Internship at the Explore #microsoft Internship Program After Attending Only One…
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How Tran Got Her Internship at the Explore Microsoft Internship Program After Attending Only One Semester of Computer ScienceBy Flora QuIf you want to gain some product management experience, along with a software development opportunity, at one of the largest Tech companies, I recently found the Explore Microsoft Internship program would be a good choice..To learn more, I interviewed Tran Le, a student at Grinnell college, who is an upcoming intern there. Three semesters ago, Tran was an Economics major. What made her decide to transfer, and how did she get her internship among the strong competition after such a short period of time?Why She Transfered from Economics to Computer ScienceTran grew up in the city of Huy in Vietnam, where traditionally girls study social sciences in college. (...)

#coding #software-development #product-management #internships

Hot Product Managers vs. Cool Product Managers
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About Product Management, stakeholders and other demonsPhoto by Devin Avery on UnsplashIn McLuhan’s most relevant book “Understanding Media: The Extensions of Man”, he proposes a way to categorise media according to various sensory effects associated with the media.This idea is not hard to extrapolate to other scenarios. Let’s think of #communication as a whole and a concrete example: the communication between Product Managers and their peers.How many times we’ve seen a Product Manager that communicates a feature request with all their details already preconceived, a manager that goes to their designers knowing and already mind-seeing what everything should look like?Many times.Now, how often we’ve seen the other face of the coin? Stakeholders with really poor descriptions of an idea, or with an (...)

#productivity #product-management #leadership #startup

How Does A Successful Product Manager Think & Act ?
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How Does A Successful Product Manager Think & Act ?Any Product as an idea comes into existence and grows over the period of time, it is the product manager who ensure it is evolving, growing in right direction and is sustainable over a longer period of time.Product Manager’s Mindset : How They Think & Work:Have you ever imagined what goes inside product manager’s mind, how s/he thinks while s/he is preparing to take up the challenge of building a product among all the uncertainties and chaos.So let me help you decode the product manager mindset based on my past experiences as a product leader.1. They Start With Why ?The first and foremost priority of a product manager is to understand the why of the product .Why this product even exist? Without getting the answer for this question s/he (...)

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AirPower Is Dead
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The Death of AirPower ExplainedAirPowerApple has now officially cancelled the AirPower wireless charging pad. It’s dead. The project is over. There is no replacement. It’s done! Also, it’s so bizarre just because it didn’t have to be a big deal at all — it’s just wireless charging, in theory. However, it became this big deal because of the way things played out, and because of what AirPower was supposed to be.So AirPower was originally announced way back with the iPhone 10, back two years ago in 2017 and it was supposed to be wireless charging that in white. You’ve probably seen pictures of it that would charge the iPhone the AirPods and your #apple Watch all at the same time. It was made by Apple other third-party stuff couldn’t do this, but it would have this sweet #ios integration where it (...)

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How to #product Manage Your Own Career with Stanford PM Instructor Daniel Elizade
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Daniel Elizade teaches Internet of Things product management at Stanford University, and works as an Internet-of-Things PM Coach full-time. Daniel and I discuss IoT product management and how to succeed in PM recruiting by imagining yourself as a product.Tell us about how you broke into product management. I was born and raised in Mexico City, went to school there, and graduated with a dual degree in Electronics and Computer Science. My first job was in Austin, Texas at a company called National Instruments, which is an industrial automation and instrumentation company. That was a fascinating job for me because it started me on a path of IoT that I work on today.One of my favorite roles in that company was serving as a solutions architect for the consulting team. My role was to go out (...)

#product-manager #interview #product-management #hackernoon-top-story

Finding my path: blurring the lines between PM and VC
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This post is a slight deviation from the skills-based posts on Product Management I typically write for #awip (Advancing Women in Product, a nonprofit I founded for empowering women PMs), and more on my career philosophy — which is that we can’t really put people in neat boxes anymore. No one is just a PM, or just an engineer…we are artists, entrepreneurs, activists…and in the same way that I am both a PM and a VC.Unconventional career beginningsCompared to the AWIP members I mentor into Product Management, my start at Product Management had been largely unplanned. I actually started my tech career in government at Washington, D.C. and had once-in-a-lifetime opportunity to attend healthcare strategy meetings at the White House, work on cool projects like healthdata.gov, and work alongside (...)

#career-paths #venture-capital #product-management #startup

AWIP Expands Local Network, Launches New South Bay Chapter in Silicon Valley
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Inaugural Chapter Kickoff with a Panel Discussion Headlined by Shay Mowlem, enterprise software industry veteranAdvancing women in B2B product management via skills-based training and executive mentorshipSAN FRANCISCO — September 12, 2018 — Advancing Women in Product (AWIP), the organization empowering high-potential female product and tech leaders through equality of opportunity, is announcing the launch of a new South Bay chapter, located in the heart of Silicon Valley, to build a community that provides career development and networking opportunities for product managers (PMs).“We are excited to expand the AWIP network to South Bay and bring our services to PMs and tech leaders within this community,” said Nancy Wang, CEO & Founder of AWIP. “With the gender ratio in enterprise-focused (...)

#press-release #product-management

Strategies to Help PMs get Executive Buy-in — Event by Advancing #women in Product (AWIP)
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Strategies to Help PMs get Executive Buy-in — Event by Advancing Women in Product (AWIP)Credits: #awip Team, Thuria Narayan (AWIP Program Lead for October), Hanh Bui (AWIP Program Lead for December and who co-wrote this article with me), Carol Wong (AWIP Partnerships Lead)As Product Managers and other tech professionals grow in their careers, executive buy-in becomes key to growing your career. Projects, deadlines, and especially budding new stealth product lines all require executives as an organization to help sponsor and later, foster the product’s growth.On Wednesday, October 17th, Advancing Women in Product (AWIP), brought together a panel of senior Product Managers at Plaid: Scott Zuccarino (Manager of Product Management, Thumbtack), and Meryam Bukhari (Product Manager, Yelp), Kate (...)

#executive-buy-in #product-management

PM Career Tips w/ Nitin Julka, Group PM @ LinkedIn
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AWIP fireside chat with Nitin Julka, co-hosted by WeWork SFOn Thursday, April 26th, Advancing Women in Product (AWIP) held a fireside chat with Nitin Julka, a Group PM at LinkedIn, leading LinkedIn’s Campaign Manager, where we discussed advice he had for aspiring PMs on the cusp of becoming PMs as well as concrete tips on how to climb the ladder to PM career success.For Aspiring PMsBe methodical — come up with a list of interested companiesMaking a list of companies (typically I separate companies by sector, funding stage, interest in the founders) with the criteria you want to satisfy is a great way to have a methodical way to proceed through interviews. This will help solve a lot of the early questions, such as, “What kind of startups do I like? Which industries?” And this will even come in (...)

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#cross-platform? We Don’t Say That Around Here Anymore
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“Cross-platform” is a loaded termTouchlab is a mobile innovation consultancy with #kotlin Multiplatform expertise.This is the 1st post in a 2 post series.Post 2: “The Future of Cross-Platform is Native” by Touchlab Director of Project Strategy, Justin Mancinelli.If you’re interested in learning more, we’re hosting a Kotlin Multiplatform webinar on Thursday, March 28th, 1–2 PM EST. You can register here.In the application development world, you hear the term cross-platform all the time. The idea of “write once, run anywhere” is like an unreachable promised land for management stakeholders, and an unrealistic and frustrating reality for developers.At Touchlab, we don’t use the term cross-platform. We prefer “multiplatform” — for a couple of important reasons.BaggageFirst, cross-platform has a lot of (...)

#mobile-app-development #entrepreneurship #product-management

The Disruptor of Credit Cards — #apple Credit Card.
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The Disruptor of Credit Cards — Apple Credit Card.With Apple launching their credit card, there is so much to look forward to. It is different from all the other products in the market in more ways than one. Let’s dive into why it’s disruptive and what to expect from possibly the MOST BEAUTIFUL card you may have seen by far.Before I jump into what this card is capable of, let’s take a moment to appreciate the beauty of this product:Jaw Drop*Source: ▻https://www.apple.com/apple-card/Today, I was reading Havard Business Review’s article on “What is Disruptive Innovation” and there it was argued that a disruptive innovation needs to have one of the two characteristics:Originate in Low-end Markets: “The disruptor often aims to provide low-end consumers with a *good enough product¹”Originate in (...)

#product-management #fintech #payments #apple-credit-card

#1 — From Ideation to Landing Page
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From Ideation to Landing Page, how we came up with AchievedHello everyone, ?,We started our journey 4 weeks ago, and thought it was time to share what has happened to us, and what we have learned, with you all.Before jumping in, you may want to read again our manifesto.TL;DRAchieved helps everyone in the organisation. From colleagues engagement to strategic decision making. We help everyone to focus on what matter most, align on their activities, get challenged and supported with the ideal level of social engagement.As tech enthusiasts, we’re aiming at designing a simple solution to handle individual #productivity and team alignment. We wanted this tool to be simple, delightful and interactive; but we also wanted it to be asynchronous so that people could be caught up in on their own (...)

#product-management #startup-lessons #startup #growth-mindset

Slides Are a Poor Form of #communication, Here’s Why
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Source: DilbertI was a management consultant early in my career so I feel qualified to make this somewhat controversial statement:Slides are a poor form of communication compared to written narratives for discussion and decision making.Based on my experience, slides are inferior to narratives in meetings where you need to make a decision with a small group of people. They’re also an inadequate tool for people who missed the meeting and need to get caught up.Slides are a great tool for telling a story or presenting a vision to a large group of people (it’s hard to make 50 people read a narrative on the spot).Before you throw a PowerPoint deck at me, please hear me out on why I think narratives are superior:1. Narratives encourage clarity of thinking instead of busyworkWriting full sentences (...)

#product-management #product #presentations #writing

6 #prioritization Techniques to Make You Stop Working on the Wrong Stuff
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6 Powerful Prioritization Techniques For Product ManagersKnowing how to prioritize ideas and features efficiently is one of the biggest challenges in modern product management.Even the most experienced product managers when planning their roadmaps may be worried about how to decide what to work on first. As an essential part of product strategy, prioritization is worth to be permanently studied and improved. In my recent post, I just shared some insights on how to manage product strategy, so now it’s time to elaborate on prioritization that helps to solve a lot of issues.Why is prioritization a challenge for product managers? Here’re some reasons:We often focus on smart features, instead of the features, which directly impact our goals.We often desperately dive into new features, instead of (...)

#project-management #priorities #product-management #startup

#technical Skills for Product Managers Decoded-An event by Advancing Women in Product (AWIP)
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Credits: Sift Science Team, Advancing Women in Product Team-Linh Tran, Nancy Wang, Aakrit PrasadWhether you are an engineer or a product manager (PM), you are part of a product team. As engineers are technical, PMs need to have certain “technical skills” to work effectively in building a great product. But what are these technical skills? On July 31st, Advancing Women in Product (AWIP) hosted a panel discussion on technical skills for PMs, sponsored by Sift Science. The panel featured Megan Mann (Product Manager at Sift Science), Akshay Kannan (Product Manager at Google), and Pranava Adduri (Founding Engineer at Rubrik) and the discussion was moderated by Neetika Bansal (Engineering Manager, Stripe). Here are some key insights from a few questions asked.Is technical experience necessary (...)

#leadership #technology #product-management #awip-partnership

Product 102 for Engineers: Decision Making and #strategy
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How to build the product you want to and not go out of businessProgramming notes: this post is n in a series of indeterminate length on Product topics mainly for #startup people, mainly leadership, mainly coming from non-GTM backgrounds. There’s a list at the end.Vision and DistractionSpirits professionals will tell you that takes significant up front capital and reserves in the bank to wait out the many years it takes [barrel aging!] before you have a good product.Note: A terrible product is easy to come by in a few months. That might work for some market for some of the time, but eventually those brands are low-margin loss-leaders in bigger portfolios or they have severely limited growth or they go under.So what do we do in the meantime? We make gin.On the way to making whiskey, some of (...)

#product-management #product-strategy #business

4 Tips for Augmenting Your Generic Product and Building Better Customer Experience
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Physique, Personality, Culture, Self-AwarenessI’m sure your product has all the parts and functionalities that your customers need. But what you want to sell is more than the generic product, you want to sell the “whole product”. The whole product is a generic product augmented by secondary, auxiliary services such as a nice package, polite salesperson, pleasant in-store experience, ease of use, fun on-boarding process and everything else that is required for the user to feel good about putting their money into your pocket. Offering the whole product provides the complete brand experience, tied to the emotions of the prospective buyer. Since buying is an emotional decision, you should invest some time in creating the whole product. These are the layers of a whole product which I like to (...)

#marketing #product-management #branding #business #brand-strategy

What is Patent Thinking?
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Patent Thinking is a new design methodology which combines Patent Design and Design Thinking. Using this new ideation methodology teams, startups, academia and enterprises can develop new ideas, products and processes by prototyping a lean patent application. The applied method could take the form of an individual work or a group activity.Patent thinking includes principles from technology, product management, product design, business and intellectual property.Patents are considered to be one of the most classic and well known forms of clearly depicting and protecting an innovative product/service or invention by a sole inventor or a group of inventors. #patents have clear rules and structure. They have high value due to the large effort, thought and resources inventors put in to get (...)

#design-thinking #patent-thinking #product-management #product-design

Event Recap: Deriving Product Insights from Data Analytics
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Credits: Advancing Women in Product Team, Aneesha Prakash, Product Manager at Replicon, Jo Dong, BD Manager at Stardust, and Kanika Kapoor, Product Manager at PayPalAs the critical link between business and engineering, product managers need to develop and implement suitable product analytics strategies that can be understood by professionals from a variety of different backgrounds. This task is not as straightforward as we think: are we optimizing for a strategy that is universal, or something that is more data-driven? And above all, how should the product analytics strategy align with company’s business model? Those are just some of the important questions to start with. During the February 26th discussion during #awip’s Deriving Product Insights from Data Analytics event last Tuesday (...)

#women-in-tech #data-analytics #product-management #women-in-product

Making Our Tiny Feature Free Led to 20,000 Users and 2,500 Leads Within 2 Months
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Part 1: The BuildThis project started out as a tiny feature intended for our DataOps BI Platform, Holistics.io. Our interns helped develop dbdiagram.io, to help our customers visualize their own database relationships as diagrams. This is meant as a quick and simple tool designed for data analysts and developers, to help them design database diagrams by just using their keyboard.Inspired from Product-led #growth approach and Free Tool — SKU Generator of Lucas, my friend from TradeGecko, we found an opportunity to contribute to the data community by releasing it as a free tool as well as a sustainable source of traffic for our company.Within the first 2 months, dbdiagram.io got 20,000+ users (it has reached 80K now) and generated 2,500+ leads to Holistics. Managing to launch a product alone (...)

#saas #freemium #product-management #startup

#vr Project Development — How Project Managers Should Prepare
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VR Project Development — How Project Managers Should PrepareBy 2019, most people have probably seen or tried virtual reality experiences, otherwise known as VR. You may have tried a very basic version of VR with Google Cardboard where you could look around and see a 360-degree picture around you. Or you might have even tried a full-fledged VR with the HTC Vive or an Oculus Rift where you were not only able to look around but also to move and explore the new and unfamiliar space.Some people think that VR is just a passing fad, while others praise it to be the next big thing in computing. Despite all that, VR is a new type of medium for interaction with computers, and it’s been steadily breaking into the consumer and enterprise markets for the last 8 years. For example, Ford has used VR to (...)

#product-management #virtual-reality #project-management #pm

3 Practical Ways to Become a Better #product Manager in 2019
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Every Product Manager inevitably comes to a point in their career where they wonder, “how do I take the next step? How to add more value to my organization and grow my career?”Maybe you’ve been a PM for a year or two, maybe you’ve been at it five or six years. Regardless, when you get to this point you’ll realize there is a chasm of missing information. There are 5,000 articles, courses, and blogs dedicated to becoming a Product Manager, but few deal with how to become a great Product Manager.Here are three practical ways you can become better at your job, starting tomorrow.Bring As Much Context As PossibleIt’s often too easy to get caught up in the “software is hard” mentality and suddenly find yourself months behind on an ill-scoped, ill-discovered, and ill-defined feature. In 2019 do less of (...)

#product-development #deep-work #boston #product-management

A stepwise approach to help you define a real MVP — Minimum Viable Product
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An 8-Step Approach to Help You Define a Real MVPFrom a problem to a well-defined MVP in 8 steps: understand the problem, your users, the market and your competitors; define your ‘complete product’ as a backlog of product features; assess your features, rank them and select the smaller set that can bring enough value to your early customers; so they are happy enough to stay engaged and promote your product.1. Frame the problemOne of the most important steps in the product development process — is the understanding and proper articulation of the problem. It is a good idea to use a model, a structure to help you formulate the problem with clarity.Start by describing the ideal situation versus the current one, and how certain users are impacted by this gapSupport your problem statement with (...)

#agile #technology #innovation #product-development #product-management