Split

MARCH 20, 2024

A streamlined release management process is imperative for mitigating deployment risks and accelerating software delivery. Understanding precisely how to improve release management is key for more efficient software development. Effective release management is pivotal for agile software development.

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Mironov Consulting

OCTOBER 19, 2022

And at least in public, Engineering and Product leadership need to be shoulder-to-shoulder , actively supporting each other at every turn. " Code creators own quality.*  In the enterprise software space, every of our customers and execs will always have another dozen unmet needs, amplified by our enterprise sales teams.  It’s

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Product Innovation Educators

FEBRUARY 12, 2024

This discussion is with two speakers who did a joint session, Dr. Wayne Fisher and Dr. David Matheson, whose session is titled “Improving decision quality during stage gate reviews.” He cofounded SmartOrg, which provides software and services to support decision-making and managing uncertainty. But that’s not all.

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Johanna Rothman

NOVEMBER 16, 2020

One of my reviewers for the Modern Management Made Easy books asked a fascinating question: I've never seen this many women in management or in senior leadership positions. Up until the mid-80s, many of the software engineering jobs were for special-purpose machines or applications. The idea of a code review or a design review?

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Agile Velocity

AUGUST 15, 2022

In a previous post in our Scrum Assessment Series , we shared some ideas to help catalyze engaging sprint reviews. Here, we take a deeper dive into the topic of awesome Sprint Reviews. The Sprint Review, just like the Retrospective , is an important feedback loop in a Scrum team’s toolbox. Why is the Review so important?

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ProductPlan

NOVEMBER 17, 2021

At times, product professionals fail to realize the similarities and differences between thought leadership vs people leadership. Professionals may decide to pursue a leadership position to lead a team and guide them towards primary objectives and milestones. The Start of Thought Leadership. Product management is complex.

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Mind the Product

APRIL 7, 2020

Now a trainer, Discovery and Leadership consultant, he’s spoken at Mind the Product Engage (Hamburg and Manchester), the Business of Software, Turing Festival, a number of ProductTanks (London, Zurich, Manchester, Birmingham, Bristol, Oxford, and Brighton… so far!) Email sponsor@mindtheproduct.com for more information.

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Product Talk

MARCH 13, 2024

They received a lot of pushback from the engineers initially because it created complexities around code reviews, tech debt management, release processes, etc. Sam created a diagram to help demonstrate the benefits of organizing teams by value stream as opposed to code base. Click the image to see a larger version.

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Modus Create

MAY 3, 2023

UX practices and people are investments; you must do your due diligence like any investment. Part of that due diligence is truly understanding what UX designers and researchers do daily. User testing is not testing code to see if it works as intended; it tests a design with actual users (no more than five per test).

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Intercom, Inc.

AUGUST 18, 2022

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. She diligently rose through the ranks, finally growing into the individual contributor role of a staff engineer. I was all alone.

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Intercom, Inc.

OCTOBER 5, 2022

Lara Hogan is an author, public speaker, and coach on management and leadership. And even these very, very experienced leadership rooms are mind blown by the idea that maybe offering their advice or perspective is not the most helpful thing for somebody. Leadership hats. And the book was born. ” Lara: Absolutely.

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PMLesson's Ace the PM Interview

MARCH 21, 2022

Trying to better understand the software engineer career path? Software engineers have the option to stick to software development at higher and higher levels. Different software engineers work on different kinds of technical projects. This, too, can influence the potential career trajectory of a software engineer.

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Modus Create

JUNE 23, 2021

There are two ways to talk about transformational leadership. . We can dive deep into the academic theory created by Bruce Avolio and Bernard Bass in 1991 and understand how it fits into the broader Full Range Leadership Model. . But first, let’s define transformational leadership. . What is Transformational Leadership?

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Roman Pichler

NOVEMBER 2, 2021

A development team does a good job if the following three conditions are fulfilled: First, the group reliably meets the agreed sprint goals and delivers product increments that offer a great user experience and exhibit the desired software quality. Third, the team observes sustainable pace. But this would be wrong.

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The Product Coalition

NOVEMBER 29, 2022

switching from analytical work or coding to running a meeting). Here is my toolbox for managing context switching that’s worked for me in roles like engineering, product management, sales, team leadership, being a CEO and, just as importantly, being a parent. Review your time : review where your time went.

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Userpilot

MAY 30, 2024

Leadership support , shared ownership of outcomes, cross-functional training, and celebrating collaboration can encourage PM-PMM alignment. Project management software, visual collaboration tools, roadmap software, shared Slack channels, and customer feedback and analytics tools can facilitate collaboration between PMs and PMMs.

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Gainsight

DECEMBER 6, 2022

The goal of Executive Business Reviews (EBRs) is to demonstrate your unique value to the customer and convey a sense of how important the customer is to you. T imely , which also means that having a business review every month is not necessarily a good thing. Let’s start with the basics. What’s a Good EBR Cadence? .

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Business of Software Conference

JULY 29, 2019

At every Business of Software Conference we record the talks so that you, the great people of the internet, can join in the feast of learning that our attendees get to gorge themselves upon. We’ve grouped them into 6 categories, for you to browse easily: Leadership. 1 – Leadership. Product & UX. Building Teams.

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Intercom, Inc.

DECEMBER 20, 2022

An area we paid a lot of attention to was our own internal rate of productivity and efficiency, and we kicked off a project to evaluate everything, every process, every step, every part of how software goes from idea through to live production. We learned a lot. Paul, what did we exactly do? And how could people learn from it?

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Business of Software Conference

DECEMBER 17, 2020

Following on from their talk at Business of Software Conference USA Online 2020 , Alex Osterwalder (Founder) and Tendayi Viki (Partner) joined BoS online for an interactive Q&A where they discussed how to evaluate your existing business model and how to find opportunities for innovation within it. Get Weekly Advice From Software Experts.

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Alchemer Mobile

NOVEMBER 23, 2021

Her passion is derived from igniting vision, commitment, innovation, and trust in leadership, development, and marketing teams. ?WATCH We cannot be successful without somebody coding or building a product. I’m not saying you need to code, but it’s really important from a product perspective that you understand technology.

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Business of Software Conference

MARCH 29, 2023

As a new generation of leader and one of the few women of colour managing engineers and designers, she made a diligent study of innovative leadership methods. Whitney also enjoys actively investing in tiny house communities, building software systems that power short-term vacation rentals.

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Gainsight

OCTOBER 16, 2018

Nowadays, I don’t hear many stories about servant leadership in the media. I could go on about the very different narratives of leadership that are told nowadays—carrying themes like narcissism, greed, materialism, workaholism, sociopathy, mental illness, and others—but those have been well documented elsewhere.

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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. I had a strong tech background, so I wanted to dive into the business and design side of product management and hone my leadership skills. And it’s CMU.”.

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The Product Coalition

MAY 5, 2018

It has been a while since the term Product Leadership has gained widespread adoption in blogs, articles and even books. It represents the intersection between Product Management and Leadership; which, in my point of view, have a lot to do with each other. Leadership is essentially about dealing with people and their way of being. . #2

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The Product Coalition

SEPTEMBER 28, 2023

But, as the Harvard Business Review points out, this rush can be dangerous. For instance, consider a software company established in the market with a leading product in its category. It might be a new feature in software that has flaws or a service that promises a lot and delivers little. The consequence?

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Mironov Consulting

JUNE 30, 2017

I’ve noticed a frequent executive-level misalignment of expectations across a range of software/tech companies, particularly in B2B/Enterprise companies and where Sales/Marketing is geographically far away from Engineering/Product Management. Let’s call it the software development deli counter problem.

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Lenny Rachitsky

FEBRUARY 22, 2024

Netflix does not have a structured performance review system; instead it relies on ongoing conversations and the annual 360 feedback process. Operating a company with informal performance reviews and limited planning processes requires competent, driven, and trustworthy individuals.

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The Product Coalition

SEPTEMBER 8, 2022

I thought we were in good shape, given that this was the next release of an existing software product. In the software or digital world, it’s about managing code, the product, through the steps of its lifecycle from ideation to sunset. A path that shortens time to results, accelerates growth and reduces waste due to rework.

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Userpilot

NOVEMBER 23, 2023

That’s what Dave Martin , a product leadership coach, has talked about in his talk at this year’s Product Drive Summit hosted by Userpilot. Leadership and investors often challenge them because they can’t see anything tangible that they’re paying for. How is the outcome-based roadmap different from regular roadmaps?

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Mind the Product

MAY 13, 2020

We’re not designers (except when we are) or engineers (unless we can code) or anything actually, y’know, useful. We’d love any feedback you have for us, so please go ahead and share your thoughts – rate and review The Product Experience on your podcast app so that we can make it even better!

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Mind the Product

JUNE 7, 2019

Everyone speaks a different language, works at a different pace, aims for different goals, and leadership is in the middle trying to understand how best to help. The concept of Agile came out of frustration at the way software was delivered. The goal is creating more software, faster. More code does not equal more value.

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The Product Coalition

DECEMBER 29, 2021

Credits to Egor Koshman With no further due, here are the books that influenced my thinking (with one favorite quote and a short summary each) : Good Strategy/Bad Strategy (By Richard Rumelt) “The kernel of a strategy contains three elements: a diagnosis, a guiding policy, and coherent action.” do yourself a favor and read it.

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Product Talk

SEPTEMBER 1, 2021

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. Clockwise from the top left, Codi Funakoshi, Product Designer, Rafa Salazar, Lead Software Engineer, and Lisa Orr, Senior Product Manager. Tweet This.

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The Product Coalition

FEBRUARY 5, 2021

It doesn’t seem to matter how many times the industry tries to reassure newcomers that you don’t need to be a full stack software engineer to be a good Product Manager. Even in the software development world, the technical skills needed by each team is quite different. Q: Do Product Managers need to code?

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The Review by First Round

JANUARY 12, 2023

He wrote the first line of code at Greenhouse in May 2012, and he’s still there — over a decade later. Why he read two books on every other executive’s area of the business when he joined the leadership team. You can email us questions directly at review@firstround.com or follow us on Twitter @firstround and @brettberson.

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