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Reddit’s Nick Caldwell on engineering leadership

Intercom, Inc.

On day one as Reddit’s new VP of Engineering, Nick Caldwell faced a dilemma. He had just spent 13 years at Microsoft, most recently as the head of 300 engineers. At Reddit, he led a team of 35 – none of whom knew how to manage other engineers. Here are five quick takeaways: Management and leadership aren’t one and the same.

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437: Product road mapping for executives to align customer needs and business strategy – with Maziar Adl

Product Innovation Educators

How product mangers can improve collaboration in cross-functional teams Today we are talking with Maziar Adl, the co-founder and CTO of Gocious, an organization that creates product roadmap management software. 6:52] Did you find a gap in the roadmapping tools that were available before you started Gocious?

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Wartime Product Leadership lessons

The Product Coalition

So what does this mean for Product teams, and specifically product leadership? With the majority of our product & engineering teams furloughed and operating with a skeleton caretaker team only, here’s my top 10 learnings from recent experience of this crisis: A crisis calls for pragmatism and being truly agile. Have a co-captain.

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Product Managers: Learn How To Manage Your Product Leadership Team

Bain Public

Roadmapping has become a political problem. Over the last decade, there has been advancements in the product world where the CEO is no longer the only one who calls the shots; now, there is a Product Leadership Team (PLT) who is supposed to work collaboratively with the product manager on defining the next set of features of a product.

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Technical Review: A Trusted Look Under the Hood

TechEmpower - Product Management

The explanation from software leadership is often unsatisfying or unclear. But at a minimum, any good review should include: Straightforward Analysis : A straightforward report that grades aspects of your technology, processes, and team. It’s written for a business leader, not an engineer. Does the code follow best practices?

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Billion dollar failures, and billion dollar success | Tom Conrad (Quibi, Pandora, Pets.com, Snap, Zero)

Lenny Rachitsky

Brought to you by Coda —Meet the evolution of docs | Jira Product Discovery —Atlassian’s new prioritization and roadmapping tool built for product teams | HelpBar by Chameleon —the free in-app universal search solution built for SaaS — Tom Conrad is the CEO of Zero and on the board of Sonos.

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3 qualities behind successful product teams

The Product Cafe

Not going to lie, PMs do work alone on many occasions, from figuring out the roadmap to dealing with customers. But a product team’s success can only happen with all hands on deck, meaning teamwork from the PM to the engineers to the marketers and so on. Their roadmap is fuelled by 3 sources: a. Source: [link] 2.