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Collect’s founder Alex Delivet on automating data collection

Intercom, Inc.

After running the first editions of the conference by himself, Alex sold B2B Rocks and, in 2019, he founded Collect , a platform that helps businesses collect and manage client documents, in the hopes that by putting this process on autopilot, teams can be more productive and focus their energy on bigger things. Alex: A lot.

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Successful Roadmaps Avoid One Thing: Drift

The Product Coalition

Product managers and their teams start with enthusiasm, hit the ground running, and create a solid roadmap. In our excitement, our roadmap drifted off course and left us stranded on an unfamiliar island. The same is true for your roadmap — it takes more than diligence. The issue wasn’t the beginning. Then we hit pause.

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Agile vs. Waterfall: Which Methodology is Right For Your Project?

PMLesson's Ace the PM Interview

A common question for product managers, project managers, technical program managers, and software developers alike is what methodology to use given a project. Which should you and your teams decide the utilize? Whichever methodology a team operates under will heavily influence how they work and communicate with one another.

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Algolia’s Sarah Dayan on what sets a staff plus engineer apart

Intercom, Inc.

Sarah Dayan is a staff engineer at Algolia , a “Search-as-a-Service” platform that helps developers build index and search capabilities into their own platforms through an API, and the host of two tech podcasts: Developer Experience and Entre Devs. How would she provide the right technical direction for the company?

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What is Program Sense in Technical Program Management?

PMLesson's Ace the PM Interview

If you're interested in the field of technical program management, then the answer is, without a doubt, yes. As the name of the position suggests, program sense is an integral part of a technical program manager's day-to-day. They are responsible for ensuring technical processes can be completed according to their deadlines.

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Become a Product Visionary with Alternative Futures Analysis

The Product Coalition

Of course, the lesson here is: innovate or die. This is a well known mantra among tech CEOs, especially Facebook’s Mark Zuckerberg. Alternative futures analysis is a structured analytic technique that helps teams predict how the future might unfold. What is Alternative Futures Analysis? Here are a few of my favorites.

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Starting A Growth Team: Ten Key Lessons Learned

The Product Coalition

It was about 12 months ago when I was challenged by our CEO to dismantle our squad and create a growth team. Not being too sure what a growth team was, we started anyway. We got access to work completed by Andrew Chen & Brian Balfour , took a few courses from the Reforge series and started developing our growth loops.