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In Pursuit of the Checkered Flag: The Challenge of Developing a Driverless Race Car System

Product Management Unpacked

CMU Master of Science in Product Management program student Erick Valencia landed a PM experience of a lifetime as part of a student team developing a driverless race car system to race in the Indy Autonomous Challenge. His was one of six sub-teams all designing portions of the autonomous driving system. “I

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Digital Sustainability: A Growing Frontier in Software Development

The Product Coalition

Software development with sustainability in mind is a rising trend in digital spaces. I would like to thank Tremis Skeete, Executive Editor of Product Coalition, for his valuable contributions to this article's research, development, and writing. Let’s explore how and why this matters.

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Evolving our data model beyond front-end events

Mixpanel

Events are a restrictive, inflexible way of modeling data.” Let’s walk through our three major releases that are pushing this data model evolution forward and the customer use cases that underscore each development. What’s lesser known is that Mixpanel’s event-based data model can capture and analyze virtually any business activity.

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Book Review – Exponential – Azeem Azhar

Business of Software Conference

Book Review – Exponential – Azeem Azhar. Technology is developing at an exponential rate. Automation is a distraction from the real issues facing workers in the exponential age: from pernicious systems of algorithmic management, to a relative decline in workers’ wages. Humans evolved for a linear world. The result?

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Building an Efficient Release Management Process

Split

All too often, releases turn into stressful events, fraught with last-minute surprises that disrupt business processes. Understanding precisely how to improve release management is key for more efficient software development. This spans planning, development, testing, approval, deployment, release, and post-implementation support.

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How to Make Product Management for Enterprise Systems Work

Mind the Product

I love building enterprise systems, because you get to work with your customers/users every day and literally see their lives change as you release new features. In my case, at Zalando , these are systems for fashion buying, supply chain management, inventory management and procure-to-pay processes (e.g.

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Pulse Everywhere: The Biggest Event Pivot of My Career

Gainsight

My career in events started back in 2008 as a sales associate supporting sponsorship fulfillment. I fell in love with the nitty-gritty details of my job so I ventured out of sponsorship fulfillment and dove right into event management. Pivot…Pivot…Pivaat! February 28 – a day I remember well.

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