PMLesson's Ace the PM Interview

MAY 14, 2021

That is why we wrote this article to give you an overview of the transition from software engineer to engineering manager. A sample engineering career trajectory from Kiwi.com Eventually, engineering managers can work their way up the ladder all the way to the CTO position. Sit down with a coach from Google, Amazon, or even Facebook!

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The Product Guy

MAY 15, 2017

In a recent live stream from one of our mentors of The Product Mentor , Dustin Levy, lead a conversation around “Product Strategies for Non-Strategists”. We are always looking for more product mentors from all around the world. Signup to be a Mentor Today! About The Product Mentor. Signup to be a Mentor Today!

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The Product Coalition

JUNE 9, 2020

There’s also a ton of very useful articles published every day on Medium. Find a mentor Developing your management skills requires a lot of self-discipline, but also support and advice from people you trust. You can find here a really good article on the topic.

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Mind the Product

MAY 21, 2019

A CTO friend of mine likes to talk about the importance of an uptime budget for devops engineers. If they go over budget, controls are activated to stabilize things and coach them to be more effective. When I was in design school I read an article with Donald Schon that has stuck with me ever since.

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Product Innovation Educators

MAY 20, 2016

Each week I scour articles, wading through the dogs, and bringing you the best insights to help product managers, developers, and innovators be heroes. . As an example, under Steve Jobs, Apple spent a fraction on R&D compared to its peer group yet consistently released new products. Read the article at [link].

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The Product Guy

MARCH 2, 2017

In a recent live stream from one of our mentors of The Product Mentor , Nis Frome, lead a conversation around “Rapid Prototyping”. We are always looking for more product mentors from all around the world. Signup to be a Mentor Today! About The Product Mentor. Signup to be a Mentor Today! Meet the mentors….

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Bain Public

MAY 26, 2022

This article provides advice for product managers on how to overcome this tension with the PLT and how to improve that relationship for the greater good of the product roadmap and its success. Much like any successful head coach in professional sports, the product manager ultimately is the leader of a team.

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Intercom, Inc.

JANUARY 5, 2022

We’ve gathered a list of articles, videos, and podcasts you can check out: Score Your Company’s SOC 2 Readiness. Evernote’s CTO on Your Biggest Security Worries From 3 to 300 Employees. So, early advice, it was just surrounding myself with mentors, advisors, folks who have been there that we could learn from, and being open to that.

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UX Planet

MARCH 2, 2024

In a Nielsen Norman article titled ‘Design Systems 101,’ Therese Fessenden defines a design system as a set of standards to manage design at scale. Upon reflection, in this article, I will be sharing our success story and the recipe for our achievement. This was praise and a comment that I heard from our Digital Business CTO.

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Revulytics

DECEMBER 16, 2019

Notable Speakers from recent Mind the Product conferences: Teresa Torres , Product Discovery Coach. Review Article: The Intersection Between Digital Transformation and a Barbershop Quartet by Dave Cliffe. Dharmesh Shah, CTO and Co-founder of HubSpot. Review Article: The Top 7 SaaStr Annual Presentations by Tim McCormick.

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eG Innovations

FEBRUARY 9, 2023

There are many articles available covering the benefits (and sometimes the cons), see: “It started with COVID, frankly. There are other obvious benefits a local MSP may offer such as: local support with no time zone challenges, cost-savings, low latency and services such as on-site training.

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Product Talk

MARCH 1, 2023

In my experience coaching teams, it seems like either the team picks their outcome (with little to no input from leadership) or leadership picks the outcome (with little to no input from the team). Other common responses included the product manager, the sales team, the CTO (again, one of the options), and Directors of Product or Engineering.

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Product Talk

MAY 10, 2023

To learn more about how real product leaders are approaching this challenge, I recently sat down with fellow Product Talk instructor Ellen Juhlin (who’s also a product coach, consultant, and Senior Director of Product Management at Orion Labs ). Who was deciding on that output? Please let us know at support@producttalk.org.

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Intercom, Inc.

JULY 9, 2020

Kevin Indig leads SEO & Content Marketing as VP at G2 and mentors startups in Marketing at GermanAccelerator. I’m also mentoring startups in terms of marketing SEO go-to market at the German Accelerator, which is the official startup program in the Silicon Valley of Germany. Kevin: Absolutely. And the pleasure is all mine.

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StubHub

MARCH 1, 2019

Marilyn McDonald , Head of Product, Design, TPM & Interim Co-CTO (San Francisco, CA): A “balanced” workplace boils down to two important topics: people and inclusion. A recent New York Times article highlighted research that showed balance eroded significantly when personal computers became commonplace. to list a few.

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Andrew Chen

JANUARY 9, 2020

More from the article here. My good friend @drewjgray joined as CTO of the autonomous startup @voyage with @olivercameron. Let’s talk about my fav topic, @limebike has folks like my good friend @uber_ed_baker as an advisor, and is slowly collecting ex-Uber alumni (and Lyft! Hope you enjoy! Thanks, Andrew. Here’s the link.

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svpg

SEPTEMBER 30, 2016

Article: Behind Every Great Product. There are three main reasons for this: First, even though I personally spend a good deal of my time writing and coaching and teaching about product management, there’s little question that there remains considerable confusion about this role. I want to instead introduce you to real people.

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Andrew Chen

JANUARY 9, 2020

More from the article here. My good friend @drewjgray joined as CTO of the autonomous startup @voyage with @olivercameron. Let’s talk about my fav topic, @limebike has folks like my good friend @uber_ed_baker as an advisor, and is slowly collecting ex-Uber alumni (and Lyft! Hope you enjoy! Thanks, Andrew. Here’s the link.

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Business of Software Conference

APRIL 9, 2021

So the way I’ve been kind of trying to coach some teams and just think it through is if we if you were used to managing a person face to face, and now all of a sudden you’re behind a screen, right? Mark Littlewood. I think this is such a massive shift that we have to treat it very differently.

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Business of Software Conference

JULY 2, 2019

So the Quad has Product, ExD (that’s our design team) the Tech team and we have the Agile delivery coach (in other organizations this might be the delivery manager). Then you have tech and then from tech we move to Agile delivery coach who facilitates this team to make great decisions and between them they delight customers.

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