"At RTI while working on content-based recommender system on our ecommerce site, we received request from one of our distributor clients to make the system not only suggest products based on their purchasing history but also exclusively push higher priced items, regardless of their actual needs or demand patterns, it was challenging situation because it contradicted the primary purpose of our system, which was value based, patient centric product recommendations.
To understand in this situation i"
Vihari K. - "At RTI while working on content-based recommender system on our ecommerce site, we received request from one of our distributor clients to make the system not only suggest products based on their purchasing history but also exclusively push higher priced items, regardless of their actual needs or demand patterns, it was challenging situation because it contradicted the primary purpose of our system, which was value based, patient centric product recommendations.
To understand in this situation i"See full answer
"Situation:
While working at CVS Health, our inventory management system for OTCHS products was facing challenges. We had increasing stock outs, and our existing data was insufficient to fully understand and address the issue since it has been only a year this product line was initiated.
Action:
Although we do have a forecasting model to predict demand and other algorithms to trigger out of stock flags to warehouses to fill them, lack of data points on seasonality, supplier delays, compliance"
Vihari K. - "Situation:
While working at CVS Health, our inventory management system for OTCHS products was facing challenges. We had increasing stock outs, and our existing data was insufficient to fully understand and address the issue since it has been only a year this product line was initiated.
Action:
Although we do have a forecasting model to predict demand and other algorithms to trigger out of stock flags to warehouses to fill them, lack of data points on seasonality, supplier delays, compliance"See full answer
"I use a data driven approach by ensuring there is a deep-dive on all alternatives. My approach to tradeoffs is around how to achieve the customer experience needed. I ensure there is an immediate path to green for a solution and a follow-up solution addressing the problem rightly."
Syed I. - "I use a data driven approach by ensuring there is a deep-dive on all alternatives. My approach to tradeoffs is around how to achieve the customer experience needed. I ensure there is an immediate path to green for a solution and a follow-up solution addressing the problem rightly."See full answer
"A good answer is describing an experience where you either proposed something that was selected after discussion or an alternate approach was taken, or you disagreed with a decision and argued for something else, either successfully or not. A good answer would be you had cogent arguments, the decision went another way for some reason, and you then fully backed the decision (agree to disagree is another way of stating it). You did not take it personally and you fully committed to the deci"
Mrinalini R. - "A good answer is describing an experience where you either proposed something that was selected after discussion or an alternate approach was taken, or you disagreed with a decision and argued for something else, either successfully or not. A good answer would be you had cogent arguments, the decision went another way for some reason, and you then fully backed the decision (agree to disagree is another way of stating it). You did not take it personally and you fully committed to the deci"See full answer
"I like chatgpt for the following users
Getting industry references are easy and time saving
Getting recommendations is very easy
Responses are accurate
I use chatgpt to get feedback on content and identify gaps in my documentation or thought process
I use chatgpt as a search engine and to get conscise situation based information.
Chatgpt offers varierty of other tools in the explore version where similar users can create different content
PRD template
Chatgpt users
1."
Shraddha D. - "I like chatgpt for the following users
Getting industry references are easy and time saving
Getting recommendations is very easy
Responses are accurate
I use chatgpt to get feedback on content and identify gaps in my documentation or thought process
I use chatgpt as a search engine and to get conscise situation based information.
Chatgpt offers varierty of other tools in the explore version where similar users can create different content
PRD template
Chatgpt users
1."See full answer
"Context - I joined a large public-facing service as a PM midway through its development.
Situation - Due to the SOPs of the company the team already had a metrics framework. That included your standard DAUs, Retention and Acquisition Metrics
Concern -
As SOP metrics were publicly accepted, the team did not internalise what success actually means to the product they are developing, as the actual value was not being encapsulated in the framework
This was evident in the show and tells as the"
Umang S. - "Context - I joined a large public-facing service as a PM midway through its development.
Situation - Due to the SOPs of the company the team already had a metrics framework. That included your standard DAUs, Retention and Acquisition Metrics
Concern -
As SOP metrics were publicly accepted, the team did not internalise what success actually means to the product they are developing, as the actual value was not being encapsulated in the framework
This was evident in the show and tells as the"See full answer
"Described a scenario where I joined an established project as an EM
Typical medium sized team - 6 devs, 2 testers, PO, PM (part time) Scrum master (very hands off)
The product was well established and already being used by circa 30000 single country based users for the companies own products (personal banking capabilities)
We were due to go live with a BIG change about 2 months after I joined - this change meant a user could manage multiple personal banking accounts from the 1 interface. We w"
Hans - "Described a scenario where I joined an established project as an EM
Typical medium sized team - 6 devs, 2 testers, PO, PM (part time) Scrum master (very hands off)
The product was well established and already being used by circa 30000 single country based users for the companies own products (personal banking capabilities)
We were due to go live with a BIG change about 2 months after I joined - this change meant a user could manage multiple personal banking accounts from the 1 interface. We w"See full answer
"Clarifying questions
Scope: Just Reels in Facebook, or Instagram too? Mobile and desktop?
Goal: Any specific goal we know of or up to me to decide?
Framework/Overview
Strategy
Metric options with pros/cons
North Star Metric (NSM)
Risks & countermetrics
Strategy / The Why: we want to give people …
Meta: the power to build community + Bring people closer together
Reels: new form of self-expression / entertainment with short form video and pro editing tools
Ads in Re"
Mike Z. - "Clarifying questions
Scope: Just Reels in Facebook, or Instagram too? Mobile and desktop?
Goal: Any specific goal we know of or up to me to decide?
Framework/Overview
Strategy
Metric options with pros/cons
North Star Metric (NSM)
Risks & countermetrics
Strategy / The Why: we want to give people …
Meta: the power to build community + Bring people closer together
Reels: new form of self-expression / entertainment with short form video and pro editing tools
Ads in Re"See full answer
"Situation: While in the middle of a migration project, which required rewrite of services of my product into a cloud infra., we needed to configure our rules management services onto cloud as per legacy platform. The data extract of all the rules from legacy platform in a csv file needed heavy formatting to be usable for configuration of the new service. My entire engineering capacity was allocated on other prioritized ongoing feature migration and I had no bandwidth left in the ongoing spri"
Geetesh T. - "Situation: While in the middle of a migration project, which required rewrite of services of my product into a cloud infra., we needed to configure our rules management services onto cloud as per legacy platform. The data extract of all the rules from legacy platform in a csv file needed heavy formatting to be usable for configuration of the new service. My entire engineering capacity was allocated on other prioritized ongoing feature migration and I had no bandwidth left in the ongoing spri"See full answer
"Situation : During my time in my previous company, I was leading a program which involved a cross-functional team. The project was to migrate all the legacy servers to Azure and had a tight deadline of 4 months. Each team had distinct goals and responsibilites to be delivered
Task : My task was to collaborate with the multi regional team and ensure a smooth delivery within the defined budget and schedule.
Action : I believe communication is the key to handle a cross-functional team"
Oriole O. - "Situation : During my time in my previous company, I was leading a program which involved a cross-functional team. The project was to migrate all the legacy servers to Azure and had a tight deadline of 4 months. Each team had distinct goals and responsibilites to be delivered
Task : My task was to collaborate with the multi regional team and ensure a smooth delivery within the defined budget and schedule.
Action : I believe communication is the key to handle a cross-functional team"See full answer
"Notes from the Video.
1-1s are two way feedback. Important tool to discuss things that are not possible in group setting
feedback to employee by manager
feedback to manager by employee
Feedback to employee can vary by the type of performer the employee is
(a) high performer
(b) meets expectations
(c) under performing
Dos and Don't
Avoid project discussion as they can be obtained else where. Focus on feedback to employee. Unless there is a critical project item to be d"
Adib M. - "Notes from the Video.
1-1s are two way feedback. Important tool to discuss things that are not possible in group setting
feedback to employee by manager
feedback to manager by employee
Feedback to employee can vary by the type of performer the employee is
(a) high performer
(b) meets expectations
(c) under performing
Dos and Don't
Avoid project discussion as they can be obtained else where. Focus on feedback to employee. Unless there is a critical project item to be d"See full answer
"I once had to change a decision i had previously made when I got stakeholder feedback that seemed to contradict what was already designed or already even built - such as the way a page was architected or the designs or colors used on a page. I had a justification for all decisions made, but sometimes the stakeholder feedback brings a perspective, such as a part of the user experience, that I had not thought of before. So I then went back to the original design or product and made an adjustment o"
Sarah K. - "I once had to change a decision i had previously made when I got stakeholder feedback that seemed to contradict what was already designed or already even built - such as the way a page was architected or the designs or colors used on a page. I had a justification for all decisions made, but sometimes the stakeholder feedback brings a perspective, such as a part of the user experience, that I had not thought of before. So I then went back to the original design or product and made an adjustment o"See full answer
"In my organization, I was given a initiative to improve the time spent by users on web application so that we can improve the quality of engagement on the website.
Overview of a business model:
We are a research organization that delivers where users (B2B clients) consume research content in form of research reports. Clients has specifically subscription for a year and if clients engage continuously and they spend more time on research they will retain.
Success metrics:
Improve time spe"
Harshit J. - "In my organization, I was given a initiative to improve the time spent by users on web application so that we can improve the quality of engagement on the website.
Overview of a business model:
We are a research organization that delivers where users (B2B clients) consume research content in form of research reports. Clients has specifically subscription for a year and if clients engage continuously and they spend more time on research they will retain.
Success metrics:
Improve time spe"See full answer
"As a PM i received a feedback from my program manager on my style of verbal communication. It is about me speaking faster when i wanted to get away with a topic that i wasn't confident (may be not backed up with data, or still in process of getting detailed insight of a problem etc.). Whereas when I'm confident I tend to speak slowly or more assertively that made people to follow easily.
I welcomed that feedback so from then on when I'm not confident in a topic I became more assertive to let pe"
Rajesh V. - "As a PM i received a feedback from my program manager on my style of verbal communication. It is about me speaking faster when i wanted to get away with a topic that i wasn't confident (may be not backed up with data, or still in process of getting detailed insight of a problem etc.). Whereas when I'm confident I tend to speak slowly or more assertively that made people to follow easily.
I welcomed that feedback so from then on when I'm not confident in a topic I became more assertive to let pe"See full answer