Mironov Consulting

MAY 16, 2020

A topic that’s come up several times recently in my product leader coaching sessions: how much to delegate to the (individual contributor) product managers on our teams – including different ways of building product skills and balancing personal empowerment against good results.

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Modus Create

SEPTEMBER 30, 2020

Automated tests can help to speed up delivery, reduce errors, and save testing engineers time to run comprehensive and complex tests. However, before automating all test cases, it is necessary to make a rigorous assessment of what can be automated, when, how, and what cost and effort is required to achieve the goal.

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Split

DECEMBER 9, 2022

Without the right approach and tools, software developers are left crossing their fingers, hoping their rollouts won’t end with a crash. Does it sound as if releasing software is like working in a coal mine? No, software engineering is nowhere near as dangerous. The technique is called a canary release.

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Iteratively Blog

DECEMBER 17, 2020

But how do you fix the garbage that is bad data management and quality? Especially if you don’t have control over the implementation of tracking code (as is the case with many data teams). Now, let’s look at why data teams struggle with this validation, and how they can overcome the challenges of it. Well, it’s tricky.

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The Product Coalition

JUNE 14, 2020

If the product leader on the client side is non-responsive, lingering with decision-making, doesn’t provide direction and priorities, doesn’t do requirements, this causes inefficiencies in the work of the engineering team. But we absolutely dislike inefficiencies and hate keeping the development team ‘hungry’.

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Split

OCTOBER 21, 2016

As software engineers at cloud companies we have it a bit easier. However, there are some lessons we can draw from the Samsung example to help us improve software delivery. #1 1 Use Controlled Rollouts to test features and quickly remediate issues. Take advantage of the safety measures available to software developers.

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Iteratively Blog

DECEMBER 13, 2020

At the end of the day, your data analytics needs to be tested like any other code. To avoid this fate, companies and their engineers can leverage a number of proactive and reactive data validation techniques. While these methods are better than nothing, they don’t solve the core problems causing the bad data in the first place.

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Mironov Consulting

SEPTEMBER 15, 2019

We’ve known forever that we (product managers) must include our developers and designers in the earliest stages of problem definition and solution ideation. Piping in real users’ voices and challenges motivates the whole team. Less appreciation of commercial software development pressures. We versus They.

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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. Since the team is small, you will have to manage the technical aspects of product development.

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Mind the Product

JUNE 28, 2019

The Engineering Process. Let’s look at the engineering process. Shipbuilding in 1628 was not unlike the way many agile software development teams operate. Shortly before the official launch party, one nervous engineer decided it might be worth doing a few integration and acceptance tests on the ship.

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The Product Coalition

JUNE 24, 2022

As a Product Manager, at any given time you will be carrying on simultaneous conversations with developers, designers, your product team, data analysts, QA engineers, marketing, sales, possibly your executive team, client success, and of course, your users. You don’t like talking with your users Another biggie.

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UX Planet

FEBRUARY 21, 2024

As a Product Designer working in a high-performing software team, I am tasked and responsible for championing user value, ensuring that the end user's needs are met when using the product. It was a valuable growth for me to be deeply involved in assessing business values and technical feasibility with my team.

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Usersnap

JULY 3, 2023

If you’re new to the bug tracking system, issue management or web development in general, you might wonder what a bug report is. For example, I’ve shown you 6 easy bug reporting tricks , answered the 4 W’s of bug reporting and gave you some insights on bad bug reports. And trust me, it’s not going to be boring.

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Intercom, Inc.

AUGUST 15, 2019

If an organization’s founders aren’t designers and don’t come from a background where well-designed products played a key role in their lives, it can often be the last discipline to be brought onboard the team. Test your assumptions, always. On a bad day, a lot more of it got thrown away. Focus on outcomes over output.

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The Product Coalition

JANUARY 5, 2019

It’s always there, and it follows you around like a bad penny. It’s the stuff that your engineering team has since learned could have been done a lot better. Nobody’s ever received a call from a big enterprise customer asking if your team is planning on moving towards more of a microservices architecture anytime soon.

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nulab

AUGUST 6, 2021

Software development is a similar story. You might be working on one app or website, but as new features come in and customer requirements change, dev teams often find themselves working on a shifting product. This is where software architecture diagrams can be a big help. What is an architecture diagram?

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PMLesson's Ace the PM Interview

MARCH 3, 2022

The success of a product, or even an entire company, rests on the product team. Even if you're not 100% committed to the products you're building, your team needs you to be on board. Designers, engineers, and marketing teams all rely on cooperation to get the job done. PMs lead the way on what to build and why.

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Tyner Blain

MAY 24, 2017

Taking agile, a process otherwise optimized for small, cross-functional, collaborative teams and making it work at scale is fascinating. Think of a couple dozen teams (a couple hundred people) working to deliver across a couple hundred systems, for a multi-billion dollar organization. Seeing things in practice.

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The Product Guy

APRIL 9, 2019

The challenge to the product managers is to translate these into a more functional plan for our engineering team. We perceive strategy from the management as the gospel – Usually the opposite, a good leadership team usually expects the individual contributors to provide iterative feedback. Simple task, right? First Attempt.

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Atlassian

JANUARY 13, 2022

Subscribe to Work Life Get stories about tech and teams in your inbox Subscribe. They wanted to speed up long-distance calls, leading them to release a complex software upgrade. Development teams usually create a list of guidelines known as coding conventions. That’s why improving your code quality is necessary.

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Userpilot

JULY 9, 2021

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. She coaches teams on how to collect meaningful customer input and use it to make product decisions on a daily basis. How to build an onboarding team. Plot summary.

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The Product Coalition

JUNE 17, 2019

For many years CSSSR has been developing IT systems for the biggest online banks, witnessing their success firsthand. This experience has led to several key insights: You Don’t Need a Large IT Department “We operate in small teams. To begin with, the development of new functionality requires considerable resources, including people.

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PMLesson's Ace the PM Interview

APRIL 26, 2022

Data science will only continue to expand as well as more teams begin to use data to make decisions, not just engineering. There will likely be data science professionals working on most marketing and cross-functional teams in the very near future. This type of job may work on a team or lead a team of others.

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Userpilot

JULY 11, 2022

It doesn’t matter how great your product is, if your customer support is bad, your customers will leave! In this article, we’ll be sharing 10 golden rules of customer service that will help your support team develop quality support and exceed customer expectations. 10 golden rules of excellent customer service.

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Amplitude

MAY 25, 2017

Product Analytics is one of the most high leverage roles in a company that’s investing in software development. However, most companies simply don’t have enough data literacy on their team to interpret the data available to them. Expertise in setting up high leverage tools for their team. How would you investigate why?

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Modus Create

JANUARY 12, 2021

So let’s dive into some old and new methodologies that companies use to implement, develop and balance the three pillars. Each methodology has strengths and weaknesses, and since implementations can vary widely, it’s useful to understand how and when to apply elements of each.

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The Product Coalition

OCTOBER 15, 2019

Are you willing to shape it and head straight to the development process? Test the waters first and get your idea validated. It helps to test the concept and build a base for an MVP. You’ll get a better understanding of what MVP is in software development and how to build it right.

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Izenda

JUNE 2, 2020

A visual, interactive road map of your current tech stack and the new suggestion helps the entire team understand your company’s technologies. If someone on the team proposes changes, ask tough questions. Or they can send your software product team into a tailspin with deployment delays, integration issues and other headaches.

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The Product Coalition

APRIL 2, 2019

The company implements Sprints as two or three-week development periods used as a planning unit. Sprints are often incorrectly treated as milestones of a typical waterfall development lifecycle. This usually manifests as a Sprint of planning, then several Sprints of development and finally a Sprint for testing and releasing.

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UX Studio

APRIL 6, 2023

This includes UX redesign, UX consulting , UX audit, product discovery, and UX training for teams. Parachute focuses on custom website development that includes UX design, conversion optimization, e-commerce website design and development, and branding. If you’re in need of a website design agency, we’re happy to help.

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UX Studio

APRIL 6, 2023

This includes UX redesign, UX consulting , UX audit, product discovery, and UX training for teams. Parachute focuses on custom website development that includes UX design, conversion optimization, e-commerce website design and development, and branding. If you’re in need of a website design agency, we’re happy to help.

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StubHub

NOVEMBER 5, 2018

Uncover challenges as we deliver the first apps using fully automated CI/CD and testing Walk ? Ramp up more teams after sequencing the apps that will be modernized from an existing services architecture ? Full team activation on modernization across all bounded contexts ? Developers ?

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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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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

MARCH 9, 2022

You are constantly considering potential and real problems, testing out solutions and evaluating those solutions for effectiveness. In a nutshell, yes, you can transition from being a UX designer to product management if you are prepared, have the right mindset and are willing to develop the right skills for the job.

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Hutwork

MARCH 9, 2018

The Power of the Elastic Product Team—Airbnb’s First PM on How to Build Your Own. Learn how Airbnb created an elastic product team that helped them get to where they are today. While he talks mainly to entrepreneurs about slow, steady progress and growth for their companies, you can apply his tips and advice to product development. #5

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The Product Coalition

APRIL 14, 2019

And while there are instances where project management is critical, applying project thinking (or project management) to the entire lifecycle of product development is incredibly problematic. SAFe adds layers of process to product development that don’t need to be there. While its intentions may be good?—?and Layers of Process.

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