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Calm’s Will Larson on how to build a technical leadership career

Intercom, Inc.

After writing An Elegant Puzzle about the challenges of engineering management in high-growth organizations, his focus shifted to a career path that’s much less understood – the technical leadership track. Or does this whole tech career thing support the writing? And Digg is an iconic brand, really amazing products in its time.

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Challenges of Product Management and How to Overcome Them

Alchemer Mobile

If you can’t explain what makes your favorite apps great from a technical, marketing, and product perspective, chances are you have some learning to do. Due to its murkiness, there are a few common myths that plague product management across industries and company size. My technical skills aren’t advanced enough (15%).

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Embracing Conflict is Product Management

Ronke PM

Product leaders must influence and engage all stakeholders, from sales and technical support to client success, design, research, marketing, and engineering. It is crucial to persuade these individuals to embody the product's concept through their coding, testing, branding, research, and design.

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Where does Production fit within the Design Cycle

UX Planet

Wikipedia defines Production Artists as: “…a technical and creative position in a creative profession. The degree of technical knowledge required for some production art work may be comparable to higher skilled engineering, especially with computers.”

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Product Lifecycle, Understanding and Alienating Users

UX Planet

The topic for this article came about recently, since one of the applications I worked on 13 years ago (technically speaking, I started working on it 13 years ago, and that particular engagement continued for 2 years), is still actively being used in a facility that I go to almost on a daily basis.

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A Psycho-analytical Approach to Creating High-Converting Websites

The Product Coalition

The AIDA acronym represents the four progressive stages in this model for A ttention, I nterest, D esire, and A ction that occur from the very first moment a consumer is aware of a product or brand to the actual moment the purchase is made. Unfortunately this is a limitation due to the unavailability of the conversion data.

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Tips for Growing a Product Management Team

Roman Pichler

In order to grow your product management team, start by reviewing your product portfolio. For example, an internal product like a platform is likely to require in-depth technical skills—unlike an end-user facing offering, which is likely to require a thorough understanding of the market and business model, for example.