The People of Product Management

OCTOBER 20, 2022

I have a soft spot for most software engineers. Some of my best experiences as a product manager have been those problem-solving sessions with a team of engineers. In this post, which is part two of the Relationship Series, I unpack the relationship between the product manager and the software engineer.

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The Product Coalition

AUGUST 21, 2019

This may be particularly amplified for those who find themselves in Product roles at companies that still operate in the more traditional ‘Business Analyst/Software Engineer’ paradigm, where ‘requirements’ are cold-bloodily handed from one business unit to another. You’ve guessed it; the Software Engineers.

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The Product Coalition

AUGUST 6, 2021

In today’s competitive business environment, technology is increasingly shaping the strategies that companies develop to try to outdo their competition. One of the main examples of this are the customized software applications that companies are rushing to develop to allow them to better connect with their users. Let’s dive right in.

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Modus Create

JUNE 3, 2022

We are excited to announce that Modus Create has acquired Tweag, a software engineering company providing high levels of software assurance to its clients in the fintech, biopharma, and autonomous vehicle space. The post Modus Create Acquires European Software Engineering Firm Tweag appeared first on Modus Create.

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Intercom, Inc.

AUGUST 18, 2022

When you reach senior level on an engineering track, you’re expected to be optimal in your hard skill set. You’re autonomous, your code is immaculate, and you have a deep understanding of building and shipping software. Then, four years ago, in 2018, she got a job at Algolia as a software engineer. Unblock bottlenecks?

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PMLesson's Ace the PM Interview

MAY 14, 2019

Here's a breakdown of how to consider a career in product management versus software engineering As a new grad, I was lucky enough to choose between product management and software engineering amongst other options. As an engineer, you’re responsible for building and shipping software.

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PMLesson's Ace the PM Interview

MAY 14, 2019

Here's a breakdown of how to consider a career in product management versus software engineering As a new grad, I was lucky enough to choose between product management and software engineering. As an engineer, you’re responsible for building and shipping software. The first is the strategy component.

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PMLesson's Ace the PM Interview

APRIL 22, 2019

So, are you a software engineer interested in becoming a product manager? Software engineering is one of the most common starting points when transitioning into a product management role. In fact, I transitioned into product halfway through an undergraduate software engineering internship.

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PMLesson's Ace the PM Interview

APRIL 22, 2019

So, are you a software engineer interested in becoming a product manager? Software engineering is one of the most common starting points when transitioning into a product management role. In fact, I transitioned into product halfway through an undergraduate software engineering internship.

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TechEmpower - Product Management

MARCH 4, 2024

The shift towards AI-driven ad technologies enables brands to set and achieve highly specific engagement KPIs, moving away from generic strategies to more personalized, data-driven approaches that resonate with their target audience. By automating routine and complex tasks alike, AI allows engineers to focus on innovation and strategic tasks.

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Modus Create

AUGUST 24, 2023

Greg Sterndale, formerly CEO of Promptworks ( acquired by Modus in 2022 ), will take the new role of VP, Strategy Practice Lead, for our Digital Strategy Practice. We assess crucial digital initiatives, such as the product portfolio, security, and cloud strategy. Product development is risky!

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Intercom, Inc.

MARCH 15, 2018

As a startup scales, the importance of infrastructure engineers simply can’t be overstated. They’re the ones making sure your app is secure, that uptime looks good, and that the rest of your engineering org has the right tools to build features your users need and want. The tenets of foundation engineering at Stripe.

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Split

JULY 22, 2019

That’s the first thing to notice if this coding strategy is new to you: feature flags separate deployment from release. Deployed code isn’t necessarily released, and released code can be shut off without a rollback or new deployment.

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The Product Coalition

JULY 6, 2023

Think of software engineers within a company starting to recommend the version control tool they enjoy using the most or customer success members vouching for a new CRM (customer relationship management) tool. With product-led growth, the end-user becomes the product’s adopter and number one advocate.

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The Product Coalition

JANUARY 27, 2024

That’s why these skills can prove to be useful when consulting with software engineers and other specialists in deciding which languages to use when energy efficiency is a priority. Together, let’s take bold steps towards a more sustainable future in software development.

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PMLesson's Ace the PM Interview

MAY 26, 2021

Are you thinking of becoming an engineering manager? That's why we wrote this article; to help candidates work through their process of writing an engineering manager's resume to impress all the hiring managers who see it. How Do Engineering Managers Define Their Role? They also represent engineering cross-functionally.

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Mixpanel

APRIL 12, 2024

If you froze the quality of foundation models today and we just had people playing around with building new agents, using more expansive and more costly prompt engineering strategies, that would still result in huge performance increases—potentially for cheaper. But there’s another route to advancement.

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Product Management Unpacked

MAY 27, 2021

After nine years working as a systems engineer, applications engineer, software engineer and finally, a lead data engineer, Debashish Sasmal was ready for his next strategic move. Much of this project was an open question: ‘How do you go beyond product strategy to business strategy?’ I was ready.”.

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Mind the Product

AUGUST 5, 2021

But your software engineers are questioning the business value, being non-committal on timelines, and their deliverables [.] You’ve done your part—you have your OKRs, roadmaps, specs and designs in good shape. You’ve made delivery commitments to stakeholders. Now you just need to build those shiny new features.

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The Accidental Product Manager

FEBRUARY 26, 2024

In order to do this, these product managers are going to have to hire thousands of software engineers and collaborate with the companies that make computer chips to develop semiconductors for their vehicles. They also plan to triple the number of cars that can generate revenue from software to 30 million in ten years.

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Userpilot

NOVEMBER 20, 2023

TL;DR Technical product managers work with engineering and development teams on the technical performance of software products. Tech PMs work actively with product teams on the product vision and strategy. Their technical expertise allows them to identify risks and develop effective mitigation strategies.

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The Product Coalition

JANUARY 20, 2024

Attendees will leave with tangible strategies to implement immediately in their organisations, as well as new connections that could turn into future customers or collaborators. Attendees can hear on topics such as product strategy and innovation.

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Intercom, Inc.

MARCH 16, 2022

“The secret to Intercom’s success in this realm is simple: years of consistent, careful, and multi-faceted cultural, organizational, and engineering work”. The secret to Intercom’s success in this realm is simple: years of consistent, careful, and multi-faceted cultural, organizational, systems and software engineering work.

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Amplitude

SEPTEMBER 11, 2018

Eric Wang, a recently hired software engineer on our product engineering team, shares what it’s like to onboard with Amplitude’s engineering department. I’m a software engineer on the product engineering team. Learn more about the Engineering team at Amplitude. What do you do at Amplitude?

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Product Management Unpacked

NOVEMBER 2, 2021

The team had approached Carnegie Mellon University and its MSPM program in the spring looking to recruit not a computer software engineer or robotics expert, but rather a product design-oriented business student. “At As a business engineer, just like a Product Manager, you’re trained to perform different key roles in an organization.”.

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The Product Coalition

MAY 16, 2018

Anonymous I’ve always enjoyed talking strategy. As a software engineer, I would typically find myself having the desire to be part of the strategic decision making and slight dissatisfaction when I am just handed tasks based on the outcome of business decisions. A story of passion, determination, and courage.

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The Product Coalition

MAY 18, 2022

Regardless of today’s software development aspect, increasing demand for new features in the products makes competitive advantage higher than ever. Thus, custom software development and engineers face the same challenges faced by the market demand. Little incremental changes are often inexpensive.

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Usersnap

JUNE 10, 2021

We talked to Colin Ulin, senior software engineer at Pocket Prep, about their low-effort high-outcome beta testing strategy and design-thinking development process. And this is also how we’ve built strong customer relationships.” – Colin Ulin, senior software engineer.

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The Product Guy

MAY 15, 2017

In a recent live stream from one of our mentors of The Product Mentor , Dustin Levy, lead a conversation around “Product Strategies for Non-Strategists”. He translates complex business problems into solutions that are easily consumed by engineering, marketing and sales. Signup to be a Mentor Today! View the live stream….

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Intercom, Inc.

APRIL 22, 2021

As it turns out, he’s also quite the writer – since the last time we spoke , he has published not one but two books on engineering. After writing An Elegant Puzzle about the challenges of engineering management in high-growth organizations, his focus shifted to a career path that’s much less understood – the technical leadership track.

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PMLesson's Ace the PM Interview

OCTOBER 30, 2019

We talk to Sid Panjwani , an Exponent alumni, on his journey through various internships, spanning Engineering, Growth, and Product Management. I was fortunate to get this - I met one of their software engineers at a hackathon, chatted with him for a few minutes before requesting a mock interview.

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The Product Coalition

DECEMBER 14, 2019

The learning process usually starts by writing the program and then finding all the software bugs and fixing them. This is a common approach that was originated by software engineers for tackling relatively easy and short-term challenges. In some sense, this can boost engineering creativity.

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Split

FEBRUARY 14, 2023

To Software Love and Solidarity Have you ever heard the term “HugOps” floating around in conversations among DevOps teams? Maybe you’ve seen #hugops posts on Twitter, where software engineers show solidarity for those experiencing outages. Building Trust Across Teams So many aspects of software jobs have become siloed.

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The Product Coalition

JULY 28, 2023

In software / platform based products great, but for data products it is used in a much lighter fashion, sometimes Trello is chosen, it’s up to the team. The lorry carrying the raw materials to make the car is the data ingestion process, which Data Engineering handle. Of course with every factory, there’s someone overseeing it all.

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PMLesson's Ace the PM Interview

MAY 24, 2022

Do you love developing new strategies to boost revenues, improve business results, and optimize company workflows? If so, you may be the ideal candidate for a career in business operations and strategy, or BizOps for short. Stay tuned for the new Exponent BizOps Interview course to be released soon!

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PMLesson's Ace the PM Interview

NOVEMBER 13, 2019

Technical interviews for software engineers are almost never plain sailing. However, the intensity and challenge presented in software engineer interviews can be a different beast entirely. When it comes to software engineer interviews, you might have a list longer than your arm of things that are making you anxious.

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