Mironov Consulting

MAY 2, 2019

When we talk broadly and generically about product management, we assume that all products/services are similar enough that we can apply the same tools, techniques, financial planning models, design approaches, goals and metrics. Or jet engines. To meet customer expectations for consumer-like software usability.

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Intercom, Inc.

APRIL 22, 2021

For those who don’t know him, Will has over 10 years of experience in the likes of Yahoo, Digg, Uber, and Stripe, and he’s currently the CTO of Calm , the mindfulness app that helps millions of people to lower their stress levels and sleep better. If you’re a senior engineer and want to further your career, what skills should you develop?

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Intercom, Inc.

JULY 19, 2018

As up and coming engineers in Silicon Valley, Jean Hsu and Edmond Lau long sought more influence and impact in their respective positions – but they couldn’t shake the feeling of being stuck. Many engineers feel like they must make a jump into management to lead. Jean: Especially with engineering teams.

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Userpilot

JULY 9, 2021

Continuous Discovery Habits by Teresa Torres teaches you how to set up a continuous discovery system within your organization with actionable exercises. Product Mastery by Geoff Watts teaches you how to be a successful product owner within agile software development practices with the use of case studies. Plot summary.

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The Product HQ

MAY 10, 2024

Since product development is such a lucrative field, this is a crucial role for the company. This includes the project management of all of the activities done in product conceptualization, design, development, and marketing. To do so, startup product managers will need to conduct market research to maximize product-market fit.

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Product Talk

JUNE 5, 2024

Product trios are cross-functional product teams who are responsible for both deciding what to build and then building it. How can you get your engineer to participate in your product trio? How can product trios work with user researchers? What about the other people on the team who aren’t part of the product trio?

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Sachin Rekhi

FEBRUARY 1, 2016

One of the challenges we've long acknowledged in the tech industry is how difficult the transition can be from a software engineer to an engineering manager due to the vast distinction in the skill set to be great at the new role. Doing this right means a lot more than simply supporting your team. a product leader.

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Mind the Product

MAY 14, 2018

Like actors, product managers are seen as the lead role, when in reality there is an entire team pulling together. As product managers we could be talking to the legal team about our customers’ personal information one moment, and to engineers about whether we should use Native or React Native to build our app the next.

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Mind the Product

MARCH 7, 2017

Or “ How to Manage Software Development in Teams who Think Nothing Like you “ Product management has two diversity problems. Cultural homogeneity in product teams is dead, welcome cultural diversity. The Ukrainian engineer has lived in Japan since he was six, an experience which has made him bi-cultural.

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Product Management University

DECEMBER 2, 2022

Understanding how user personas, department personas, and buyer personas impact each other will help you develop a better product and a better marketing strategy for your products. And finally, we’ll look and B2B buyer personas and the role they play in product development. What is a User Persona? Types of User Personas.

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PMLesson's Ace the PM Interview

MARCH 1, 2020

Hi I'm Kevin Wei, a product manager (aka an offering manager -- I can get into that in a bit) on IBM's data + AI team. I studied mathematics at UCLA, worked 2 summers as a software engineering intern at a Series E AdTech startup, and advised Metta World Peace (Ron Artest) as the product manager for his social basketball app, Gradelo.

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The Product Coalition

SEPTEMBER 29, 2020

As a Product Manager, you’re a team player who guides product development along its chartered course, but you have to do that without being the literal captain of the ship. Influence without authority is the skill of driving product development and ‘telling people what to do’ without formally being authorized to do so.

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PMLesson's Ace the PM Interview

MARCH 2, 2022

Google Product Manager Interview Guide Google Engineering Manager Interview Guide Google Software Engineering Interview Guide Google APM Interview Guide Google Technical Program Manager Interview Guide Google Product Marketing Manager Interview Guide Does Google Ask Behavioral Interview Questions? Leadership.

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Intercom, Inc.

JANUARY 27, 2022

While the movement has helped spark awareness over the stubborn gender gap in the tech industry, helping to drive more diverse hiring initiatives across all businesses and encouraging women to succeed in STEM fields, women still hold an astonishingly low percentage of tech roles according to recent data – 16% in engineering, 27% in computing.

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Intercom, Inc.

DECEMBER 21, 2021

In this episode of Inside Intercom, our Director of Brand Marketing Sarah Tran had the honour of sitting down with Amanda for a chat about how governments can leverage technology to build better services and empower its citizens. Later’s Farhan Virji on adapting B2C support strategies for B2B teams.

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PMLesson's Ace the PM Interview

DECEMBER 13, 2021

The STEP (Student Training in Engineering Program) is for those engineering and tech-related roles. The BOLD (Build Opportunities for Leadership & Development) is meant for those business and marketing-related roles. This is not necessarily a bad thing by any means. Many internship roles last between 12-16 weeks.

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PMLesson's Ace the PM Interview

MAY 15, 2022

Specifically, UX designers sit at the intersection of product design, market research, interaction design, product strategy, human computer interaction, visual design, and more! UX design was first developed by Don Norman , who was actually working at Apple at the time. In most cases, this is in the form of user research.

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PMLesson's Ace the PM Interview

DECEMBER 17, 2021

Google engineers and product managers practice a combination of product sense, analytics, and cross-functional communication to ship products that impact millions of users at scale. Team : If applying to a specific team (generally this isn't the case with Google roles) it helps to have someone from the team refer you.

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Mind the Product

FEBRUARY 15, 2018

Much has been written about the process of creating product roadmaps, not least the six great articles written by my own team. I believe the actions of a product leader all too often are the root cause of a “bad” roadmap. I would define a good roadmap as one that the team understands and feels ownership over.

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Intercom, Inc.

OCTOBER 13, 2020

At Intercom, we have taken advantage of these technologies relatively early. So, modern machine learning opens up vast possibilities – but how do you harness this technology to make an actual customer-facing product? A complex system that works is invariably found to have evolved from a simple system that worked”.

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Andrew Chen

NOVEMBER 15, 2021

These frameworks are targeted at teams building new products, first and foremost. Everywhere you looked, there were reminders of the global scale of Uber’s business as well as the international heritage of the team driving it. The app sat on a vast worldwide network of smaller networks, each one representing cities and countries.

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Intercom, Inc.

JANUARY 12, 2021

From premature optimization to over-engineering solutions for your product, it’s easy to get caught up in making technology decisions that slow you down instead of speeding you up. Adopting the “best tools”. Don’t use the best tools for the job. Sounds counterintuitive, right?

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PMLesson's Ace the PM Interview

MAY 4, 2022

Team : If applying to a specific team it helps to have someone from the team refer you. A simple text message or email can do wonders for helping leverage your weak ties to get connected. Watch our guide on answering this question Software Engineering Design a URL Shortener. Read our example problem.

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The Product Coalition

JUNE 30, 2021

You are about to deliver an important feature and to get over the last mile, you need additional team members. Your boss asked you to coordinate with the Engineering Manager of the other team, a team which has its own priorities. Imagine this scenario.

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Mind the Product

FEBRUARY 12, 2020

A healthy relationship between product management and engineering is critical to building successful products. It’s also essential to creating a team where great people want to work. Except, we live in the real world where life is messy, responsibilities overlap, specifications change, and the way teams interact can introduce friction.

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Userpilot

JANUARY 27, 2021

How important is the ease of use for the success of your SaaS company? Pawel Banhegyi asked 98 SaaS businesses a bunch of questions that revealed why you should make the ease of use and good, intuitive UX an absolute priority! What about software solutions they have to review based only on a single web page?

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Usersnap

JANUARY 12, 2022

In short, the CPO oversees all aspects of a product’s vision, design, and development. However, their (and all product team members’) superpowers and role in SaaS growth is invaluable! Activities of a Product Team Tactical activities Strategic activities Operational activities. Characteristics (Superpowers!)

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PMLesson's Ace the PM Interview

MAY 6, 2022

Security engineering interviews are some of the toughest in the tech industry. As a security engineer, your job is all about reducing risk for technical products by thwarting malicious behavior. Security Engineer Interview Stages In general, the security engineer interview has the following interview stages at most companies: 1.

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The Product Coalition

OCTOBER 6, 2020

By leading the creation and development of groundbreaking qualitative analysis products, Jared is dedicated to helping companies like Netflix, Sony, and Disney understand how their content impacts audiences everywhere. That’s Jared and his teams focus on identifying the core emotions that people use when they express how they feel online.

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Userpilot

JUNE 10, 2022

Software bugs can be really costly, but surely there’s a way to make them cheaper? Maybe poor reviews will make it more difficult to attract new customers. Maybe poor reviews will make it more difficult to attract new customers. Some estimates say that poor-quality software cost businesses $2.08 trillion in 2020.

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The Product Coalition

JANUARY 21, 2020

In this article I will discuss the unique nature of AI-based products and its influence on the development process and the usability. These characteristics have an influence on the product users but also formed new relationships between product managers, data engineers and data scientists. What is so unique about AI products?

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Mixpanel

MAY 5, 2021

Teams are praised whenever they release a new feature (or product) to their customers. Imagine the internal ‘pat on the backs’ and recognition that occurred when Gmail fully launched dark mode for the mobile app, Figma released multi-account to switch between personal and work design spaces, or Apple announced their M1 chip.

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Mixpanel

AUGUST 3, 2023

How can you align foundational goals between teams? How can you align audience engagement goals between teams? How can you align audience goals between teams? Retain your users How can you develop a customer marketing strategy? How can you align retention goals between teams? Or maybe all of the above?)

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Business of Software Conference

MAY 21, 2020

Alex Yang // VP of Engineering, Simprints. In this informative BoS Talk, Alex Yang and Elpie Bannister take us through the Simprints’ method of finding, hiring, nurturing, and developing top talent and explain a few of the processes they had to go through to hone this skill. Everyone knows that hiring engineers is really hard.

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Mixpanel

AUGUST 3, 2023

How can you align foundational goals between teams? How can you align audience engagement goals between teams? How can you align audience goals between teams? Retain your users How can you develop a customer marketing strategy? How can you align retention goals between teams? Or maybe all of the above?)

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The Product Coalition

DECEMBER 10, 2018

When the only tool you have is a hammer, every problem tends to look like a nail. But so many other areas of product development are prone to this same problem. Many times it’s not even a bad way of doing things. So how can we get out of some of our bad habits? But we (and our organizations) can do better.

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Mixpanel

AUGUST 3, 2023

How can you align foundational goals between teams? How can you align audience engagement goals between teams? How can you align audience goals between teams? Retain your users How can you develop a customer marketing strategy? How can you align retention goals between teams? Or maybe all of the above?)

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