TechEmpower - Product Management

MARCH 4, 2024

In the sphere of software engineering , AI is pivotal for corporate IT by automating coding, optimizing algorithms, and enhancing security to boost efficiency and minimize downtime. By automating routine and complex tasks alike, AI allows engineers to focus on innovation and strategic tasks.

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Usersnap

JUNE 10, 2021

Surely all software companies are familiar with beta testing, but how well do you actually do it? 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. A feedback-driven example of beta testing.

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PMLesson's Ace the PM Interview

MAY 16, 2022

This article is part of our series on Security Engineering. If you're interviewing for engineering roles, don't miss our Complete Software Engineering Interview Course. This is not only because of the importance of the discipline but because the supply of qualified security engineers is too little.

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Product Talk

MAY 5, 2021

Or does your product manager write requirements, your designer designs, and your engineers code? A product trio is typically comprised of a product manager, a designer, and a software engineer. A product trio is typically comprised of a product manager, a designer, and a software engineer. What’s a product trio?

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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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Product Talk

AUGUST 18, 2021

At the end of the project, we might do some validation research to validate the design (through usability testing) or the final delivery (through A/B testing ). They’ve also released countless new features, improved their recommendations engine, and enhanced the user interface. The Need for Continuous Discovery. Tweet This.

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Mixpanel

JANUARY 3, 2022

Engineers are always looking for ways to differentiate themselves. As data-driven product development continues to balloon in popularity, so does the need for accurate and sophisticated implementation of analytics tracking in software products. One of those niches that’s become more valuable in recent years: product analytics.

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Product Talk

JUNE 16, 2021

In my book Continuous Discovery Habits , I wrote that a product trio is typically comprised of a product manager, a designer, and a software engineer. The most common form of cross-functional collaboration happens between product managers, designers, and engineers. Some with quite a bit of outrage. This concept is not new.

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Intercom, Inc.

APRIL 24, 2019

Preparing for interview questions in software engineering is almost a full-time job. If you are a graduate software engineer and getting ready for your first job interviews, here are the different areas you should focus on. General software engineering interview questions. Questions about your background.

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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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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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Lenny Rachitsky

FEBRUARY 22, 2024

She previously served as vice president of product data science and engineering, and as vice president of data and insights, at Netflix. The test involves a leader asking themselves: “Would I fight to keep this employee if they were considering leaving?

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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

MARCH 11, 2021

It involves testing requirements during the development process until the project is completed. This testing phase is critical that allows the software development company to move on to the next lifecycle stages. This allows software developers to process speedily while keeping the best quality standards.

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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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Split

MARCH 1, 2023

Feature Toggles, or feature flags as they’re often called, are a powerful tool for software engineers. With feature toggles, you can test the performance of new functionality straight in production–before exposing things to your customers– and that’s key! That’s a breath of fresh air. What about risk mitigation? And Exhale.

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Product Talk

NOVEMBER 22, 2023

Below the solution space are assumption tests. If we do the necessary work to test our decisions, we can quickly correct course when we find that we made the wrong decision. If we do the necessary work to test our decisions, we can quickly correct course when we find that we made the wrong decision.

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Split

APRIL 30, 2018

At Split, our first hire was a Quality Automation (QA) Engineer. In fact, most companies don’t hire a QA engineer until around 20 employees. I believe that a QA engineer should be one of the first 10 hires of a technology company. Devs do QA – We expect our engineers to do their own testing.

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Product Talk

NOVEMBER 17, 2021

In the old way of working, a business stakeholder communicated a need to a product manager, the product manager wrote requirements , handed them off to a designer, who then created designs, and then the requirements and the designs were handed off to engineers to implement. With each hand-off, we lost context and nuance. Tweet This.

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Product Talk

SEPTEMBER 1, 2021

Her continuous discovery journey hasn’t just been about interviewing customers or prototyping to test assumptions. Lisa and her team were able to convince their leadership to allow them to run a one-month beta launch with a limited set of customers to test out their new feature. Tweet This. Lisa Orr understands this all too well.

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Modus Create

AUGUST 24, 2021

Software engineers have been testing ever since they could write code. However, the ability to automate software tests commercially emerged only in the 1980s with the introduction of AutoTester. In this article, we will explain why you should write unit tests. . What is Unit Testing?

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Product Talk

FEBRUARY 14, 2024

Based on the information she provided, she tasked the participants with creating opportunity solution trees, drawing experience maps, enriching their trees with opportunities and solutions, and mapping assumptions to test. For example, in a field test with users, they saw that there was some confusion with icons in their product.

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Modus Create

NOVEMBER 20, 2023

Feature management , or flag management, is a new class of software development tools to help developers manage feature flags — basically, toggles that easily turn app features on and off without changing the code. Developers use flags for many use cases, such as testing and experimentation, and controlling feature releases.

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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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Split

JULY 7, 2023

But, here’s the thing: Nobody knows what its potential may be—including software engineers! Using AI—today—in software delivery offers various benefits and drawbacks. It can assist with code generation, testing, deployment, and monitoring, freeing human resources to focus on more complex and creative tasks.

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Userpilot

MARCH 27, 2023

Companies across the world can use The Room to hire top talent from Web Developers, Full Stack Software Engineers, through Data and Financial Analysts, to VAs. The other was whether we could build flows without engineering resources. I could actually build the flows myslelf, without anybody ’s help.”

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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. Over here, we might be testing one churn model over another to see which one is the most accurate, or what is the optimum price for a product for a specific type of customer.

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Modus Create

SEPTEMBER 11, 2023

Static Application Security Testing (SAST) helps identify and analyze potential security vulnerabilities in an application’s source code, binary code, or software architecture before the application is executed or deployed. Using GHEC enables enterprises to integrate these features more seamlessly into their workflows. “One

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The Product Coalition

MARCH 30, 2021

Do not bail on cybersecurity testing With the growing complexity of eCommerce apps , a notable increase in functionality, as well as their high level of personalization, it’s essential to have regular security monitoring, as it’s a must for enabling customer data confidentiality, integrity, and availability.

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PMLesson's Ace the PM Interview

JULY 22, 2020

To do so, they interact with software engineers and data scientists on a daily basis. This means communicating the user's pain points and clarifying requirements to software engineers. That's what software engineers do. This understanding will help the PM build a relationship with engineering.

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Split

DECEMBER 9, 2022

Does it sound as if releasing software is like working in a coal mine? No, software engineering is nowhere near as dangerous. However, the age-old method that miners once used to avoid risk now somehow applies to modern software development. Instead, they’re used to test features on just a tiny percentage of customers.

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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. To become a TPR you don’t need a degree in software engineering, but it will definitely help. The technical skills include a solid understanding of software development and system architecture.

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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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PMLesson's Ace the PM Interview

JULY 6, 2020

Whether it be software engineers, data scientists, IT specialists, it now seems standard for companies to have open positions that can't be filled. However, unlike General Assembly and Lambda School, App Academy only offers courses regarding software engineering.

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Mind the Product

APRIL 10, 2019

The Mythical Man-Month: Essays on Software Engineering , by Frederick P Brooks, Jr. She has worked on a diverse range of products – leading the product teams through discovery, prototyping, testing and delivery. The Mythical Man-Month: Essays on Software Engineering, by Frederick P Brooks, Jr.

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The Product Coalition

DECEMBER 23, 2021

Fintech software represents specific challenges due to diverse dynamic content, graphs, tables, and more. How to make sure that such software products are truly universal? Businesses can focus on UX/UI testing for accessibility. During testing UX, the team should make sure the path to entering biometrics is simple and quick.

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The Product Coalition

OCTOBER 19, 2020

Regardless of the stage the project is at, companies can hire remote engineering teams to create more agile workflows. Their list of services spans mobile apps and web development, Salesforce CMS solutions, digital marketing, IoT and AI, and testing and quality analysis.

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