Product Sense
Product Sense

Author: Peter Knudson

Publisher:

Published: 2021-07-12

Total Pages: 346

ISBN-13: 9781737547914

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Attempting to land a new job in product management is daunting. For starters, there have been no comprehensive blueprints for success. The interview process is grueling. Few candidates receive offers. Product Sense is the only comprehensive, yet accessible, resource available to help navigate a complex process and succeed an a hyper-competitive market. What will you learn from this book? The required PM common traits - ones that all PMs need to embody to get a job (regardless of industry, company, or product). The single, most crucial PM problem -What it is, why it is key to the role, and how to tackle it in four steps. Master our brand new "Compass Framework" - We designed our own proprietary interview framework from the ground up, which you can use to navigate product sense, execution, and leadership PM interview questions. How to get a job - A step-by-step hand-holding on what to do to land the most desired roles. Including take-home assignments, recruiter & hiring manager screens, and crafting your unique narrative - your PM Superpower. What's also inside? A detailed breakdown of the hiring criteria for PMs at FAANG and other tech companies Super-detailed example answers to tough PM interview case questions. An inside look at PM. Dozens of first-hand stories, interviews, real life examples, and no-fluff advice A robust glossary of PM terms used throughout the industry for easy reference This book will benefit those who are considering becoming PMs, those who are attempting to switch into product management from another role, or folks who are already PMs but want to be most prepared when applying for a new job. Here's what readers say about Product Sense: "Product Sense helped me understand if PM is the right career path for me. Easy to read, clear, concise, and jam-packed full of insight and examples that illustrate all the concepts, this is the perfect starting point for anyone new to the field, and goes well beyond that for those looking to advance their career." "Peter is one of the best strategic and tactical product minds I've ever worked with. For that reason, I'm not at all surprised that what he and Braxton have written here is a definitive guide to Product Management in today's ultra-competitive market." "After reading Cracking the PM Interview, I was still lost as to how to structure my answers to case questions. While I understand that there is no "right way" to answer these interview questions, I appreciated that Product Sense gave me firm and clear guidance, walking me through the basics of PM thinking and how to adopt it in my interview answers. It was reassuring to see that the best mock interviews have all of the elements of Product Sense's Compass Framework. If CTPMI is the first step to prepare for landing a PM Role, then Product Sense is definitely the second step."

Sense and Respond
Sense and Respond

Author: Jeff Gothelf

Publisher: Harvard Business Review Press

Published: 2017-02-07

Total Pages: 283

ISBN-13: 1633691896

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The End of Assembly Line Management We’re in the midst of a revolution. Quantum leaps in technology are enabling organizations to observe and measure people’s behavior in real time, communicate internally at extraordinary speed, and innovate continuously. These new, software-driven technologies are transforming the way companies interact with their customers, employees, and other stakeholders. This is no mere tech issue. The transformation requires a complete rethinking of the way we organize and manage work. And, as software becomes ever more integrated into every product and service, making this big shift is quickly becoming the key operational challenge for businesses of all kinds. We need a management model that doesn’t merely account for, but actually embraces, continuous change. Yet the truth is, most organizations continue to rely on outmoded, industrial-era operational models. They structure their teams, manage their people, and evolve their organizational cultures the way they always have. Now, organizations are emerging, and thriving, based on their capacity to sense and respond instantly to customer and employee behaviors. In Sense and Respond, Jeff Gothelf and Josh Seiden, leading tech experts and founders of the global Lean UX movement, vividly show how these companies operate, highlighting the new mindset and skills needed to lead and manage them—and to continuously innovate within them. In illuminating and instructive business examples, you’ll see organizations with distinctively new operating principles: shifting from managing outputs to what the authors call “outcome-focused management”; forming self-guided teams that can read and react to a fast-changing environment; creating a learning-all-the-time culture that can understand and respond to new customer behaviors and the data they generate; and finally, developing in everyone at the company the new universal skills of customer listening, assessment, and response. This engaging and practical book provides the crucial new operational and management model to help you and your organization win in a world of continuous change.

Decode and Conquer
Decode and Conquer

Author: Lewis C. Lin

Publisher:

Published: 2013-11-28

Total Pages: 206

ISBN-13: 9780615930411

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Land that Dream Product Manager Job...TODAYSeeking a product management position?Get Decode and Conquer, the world's first book on preparing you for the product management (PM) interview. Author and professional interview coach, Lewis C. Lin provides you with an industry insider's perspective on how to conquer the most difficult PM interview questions. Decode and Conquer reveals: Frameworks for tackling product design and metrics questions, including the CIRCLES Method(tm), AARM Method(tm), and DIGS Method(tm) Biggest mistakes PM candidates make at the interview and how to avoid them Insider tips on just what interviewers are looking for and how to answer so they can't say NO to hiring you Sample answers for the most important PM interview questions Questions and answers covered in the book include: Design a new iPad app for Google Spreadsheet. Brainstorm as many algorithms as possible for recommending Twitter followers. You're the CEO of the Yellow Cab taxi service. How do you respond to Uber? You're part of the Google Search web spam team. How would you detect duplicate websites? The billboard industry is under monetized. How can Google create a new product or offering to address this? Get the Book that's Recommended by Executives from Google, Amazon, Microsoft, Oracle & VMWare...TODAY

Continuous Discovery Habits
Continuous Discovery Habits

Author: Teresa Torres

Publisher: Product Talk LLC

Published: 2021-05-19

Total Pages: 201

ISBN-13: 1736633317

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"If you haven't had the good fortune to be coached by a strong leader or product coach, this book can help fill that gap and set you on the path to success." - Marty Cagan How do you know that you are making a product or service that your customers want? How do you ensure that you are improving it over time? How do you guarantee that your team is creating value for your customers in a way that creates value for your business? In this book, you'll learn a structured and sustainable approach to continuous discovery that will help you answer each of these questions, giving you the confidence to act while also preparing you to be wrong. You'll learn to balance action with doubt so that you can get started without being blindsided by what you don't get right. If you want to discover products that customers love-that also deliver business results-this book is for you.

EMPOWERED
EMPOWERED

Author: Marty Cagan

Publisher: John Wiley & Sons

Published: 2020-12-03

Total Pages: 435

ISBN-13: 1119691257

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"Great teams are comprised of ordinary people that are empowered and inspired. They are empowered to solve hard problems in ways their customers love yet work for their business. They are inspired with ideas and techniques for quickly evaluating those ideas to discover solutions that work: they are valuable, usable, feasible and viable. This book is about the idea and reality of "achieving extraordinary results from ordinary people". Empowered is the companion to Inspired. It addresses the other half of the problem of building tech products?how to get the absolute best work from your product teams. However, the book's message applies much more broadly than just to product teams. Inspired was aimed at product managers. Empowered is aimed at all levels of technology-powered organizations: founders and CEO's, leaders of product, technology and design, and the countless product managers, product designers and engineers that comprise the teams. This book will not just inspire companies to empower their employees but will teach them how. This book will help readers achieve the benefits of truly empowered teams"--

Materials and Innovative Product Development
Materials and Innovative Product Development

Author: Gernot H. Gessinger

Publisher: Butterworth-Heinemann

Published: 2009-06-29

Total Pages: 295

ISBN-13: 0080878202

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Innovation in product design starts with materials. Developing successful commercial products demands a sound understanding of the materials that go into those products—their uses, their costs, their lifetime performance. However, the valuable knowledge of materials engineers is often not fully leveraged in the creative phase of the product design cycle. Gessinger seeks to bridge this gap that exists in many companies.Written from the bottom-up perspective of the engineer or scientist on a product design team, Materials and Innovative Product Design introduces business, economics and strategic product development to the materials specialist and demystifies materials selection for other members of the design team and manufacturing management. Using case studies from innovative organizations, such as ABB, and successful start-ups, such as NDC, Day4Energy, and Metoxit, Gessinger illustrates how the integration of different engineering and business disciplines can power innovation in the design process. By addressing the real world needs of innovators, this book allows the reader to unlock the potential of the new material types that have been changing the face of product design and deploy an integrated business approach to materials selection and the design process. - Allows engineers to develop a fuller understanding of economics and business objectives in order to contribute more effectively to innovative product design - Introduces the business opportunities and practical challenges of deploying new material types to design and manufacturing management - Illustrates how to harness the power of R&D within the design cycle through case studies of innovative and successful organizations that have brought new materials technologies to known markets and known materials to new markets

Brand Sense
Brand Sense

Author: Martin Lindstrom

Publisher: Simon and Schuster

Published: 2010-02-02

Total Pages: 194

ISBN-13: 1439172013

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The definitive book on sensory branding, shows how companies appeal to consumers’ five senses to sell products. Did you know that the gratifying smell that accompanies the purchase of a new automobile actually comes from a factory-installed aerosol can containing “new car” aroma? Or that Kellogg’s trademarked “crunch” is generated in sound laboratories? Or that the distinctive click of a just-opened jar of Nescafé freeze-dried coffee, as well as the aroma of the crystals, has been developed in factories over the past decades? Or that many adolescents recognize a pair of Abercrombie & Fitch jeans not by their look or cut but by their fragrance? In perhaps the most creative and authoritative book on how our senses affect our everyday purchasing decisions, global branding guru Martin Lindstrom reveals how the world’s most successful companies and products integrate touch, taste, smell, sight, and sound with startling and sometimes even shocking results. In conjunction with renowned research institution Millward Brown, Lindstrom’s innovative worldwide study unveils how all of us are slaves to our senses—and how, after reading this book, we’ll never be able to see, hear, or touch anything from our running shoes to our own car doors the same way again. An expert on consumer shopping behavior, Lindstrom has helped transform the face of global marketing with more than twenty years of hands-on experience. Firmly grounded in science, and disclosing the secrets of all our favorite brands, Brand Sense shows how we consumers are unwittingly seduced by touch, smell, sound, and more.

Customer Sense
Customer Sense

Author: Aradhna Krishna

Publisher: Springer

Published: 2013-05-06

Total Pages: 200

ISBN-13: 1137346051

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An insightful look at how touch, taste, smell, sound, and appearance effect how customers relate to products on a sensory level, and how small sensory changes can make a huge impact. Customer Sense describes how managers can use this knowledge to improve packaging, branding, and advertising to captivate the consumer's senses.