Mar 7Product Manager Take Home Assignment ExamplesSome product management interview homework assignments I’ve come across — I have been asked quite a few times for examples for product manager take home assignment / homework assignment questions, so I decided to put together a list of some that I have given candidates or been given as a candidate. Some of these have been slightly anonymized. RevenueCat: benchmarking RevenueCat is…Product Management4 min readProduct Management4 min read
Feb 5Why You Should Send a Weekly Summary EmailA deceptively simple productivity and management tool — Since I joined RevenueCat a year and a half ago, I have without fail sent a weekly email summary to my manager and my team, and I am asking all product managers in my team to do the same. It’s not something I invented, and it’s deceptively simple. …Management6 min readManagement6 min read
Jan 1My Product Leadership Reflections on 2022Some things I learned last year — It’s been a while since I wrote a year-in-review post — five years, after my first full year as a product manager at Yammer. 2022 was not my first full year as Head of Product, but it was momentous for me in my role at RevenueCat. …Product Management6 min readProduct Management6 min read
Dec 7, 2022I Interviewed ChatGPT for a PM role, and it almost got the jobHow to detect the AI’s confident but shallow answers — I’ve interviewed a lot of product manager candidates, and one of the regular interview formats (which is pretty standard in a PM interview loop) is the product sense interview. …Product Management14 min readProduct Management14 min read
Aug 26, 2022Managing Work in Progress as a Product ManagerSpeed up by increasing focus — Product managers are continuously inundated with requests and ideas from all sides. Even when being very careful with prioritization, it can happen that the team ends up with too many projects being worked on in parallel — a large amount of work in progress. High work in progress (WIP) is…Product Management9 min readProduct Management9 min read
Jul 21, 2022Remote and Asynchronous Product ManagementHow to thrive as a PM when working from anywhere — I am currently Head of Product at RevenueCat. Our team of roughly 60 people is globally distributed, fully remote and async-first. This is my first fully remote position, and in this article, I want to share a few lessons I have learned to be effective in this context. Before diving…Product Management9 min readProduct Management9 min read
Jun 29, 2022Reducing Bias as a Product ManagerThinking, Fast and Slow — Human brains are pretty amazing. We take in millions of pieces of information every second, process them, make connections with what we already know, and make decisions based on that. …Product Management10 min readProduct Management10 min read
May 29, 2022Why product managers should not be data drivenDon’t get hit by Goodhart’s Law — Before the advent of SaaS and ubiquitous internet access, software companies had very little information about how end users actually used their products. …Product Management8 min readProduct Management8 min read
Apr 30, 2022Interviewing Product Managers for Product SenseEvaluating “hard” product skills — I’ve been involved in interview panels for a lot of PMs, and have set up hiring processes for product managers in two different startups. …Product Management9 min readProduct Management9 min read
Mar 13, 2022Take-home assignments for product management candidatesThe pros and cons of requiring written homework — I’ve recently gone through the process of designing a product management interview process for RevenueCat. …Product Management8 min readProduct Management8 min read
