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From Engineering To Product Management: The Two-Step Career Move

bpma ProductHub

The transition from engineering to product management is one of the most difficult. Of all roles that touch the product, engineers are the furthest removed from the market and the customers. It can be done successfully however, as many engineers have already proven. If you’re an engineer, you’re a problem-solver by default.

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Making Meta | Andrew ‘Boz’ Bosworth (CTO)

Lenny Rachitsky

Boz joined Facebook in 2006 as their approximately 10th engineer, and in his 18-year tenure he built the original News Feed, Messenger, and Groups, as well as many early anti-abuse and infrastructure systems. At various times he has been the engineering director overseeing Events, Places, Photos, Videos, Timeline, Privacy, and more.

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Invisible Engines

Product Bookshelf

Invisible Engines: How Software Platforms Drive Innovation and Transform Industries by David S. “Invisible engines” are software platforms, software which makes services available to other software through Application Programming Interfaces. Evans, Andrei Hagiu, and Richard Schmalensee.

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Here’s how to develop the most successful user stories

bpma ProductHub

There are many ways to deliver your requirements to your engineers but none is more effective than user stories. Remember, the precision and quality of your requirements must be properly researched, assimilated and presented to engineering in an actionable way to guarantee success. LinkedIn | Company Website | Company Twitter.

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How Merging Purpose With Profit Redefines Product Roadmaps And Product Success

The Product Coalition

Founded in 2006 with a unique social mission: for every pair of shoes sold, they would donate a pair to a child in need, an initiative they called “One for One.” It is essential for each member of the product team — design, engineering, marketing, product, and everyone in between — to feel empowered to ask this question and expect an answer.

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Run Less Software

Intercom, Inc.

by Rich Archbold, Senior Director of Engineering at Intercom. In this battle, I’ve found a secret weapon hidden within one of our core engineering strategies, an idea called Run Less Software. When I say “execute”, I don’t simply mean the engineering challenges of building something. The same is true in software.

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Where Does Product Management Fit?

Product Management Unpacked

Product management under engineering is also a disaster. I believe that an effective product management organization defines ‘WHAT’ the product is or will do and engineering /development defines ‘HOW’ it will do it. Together they decide when, based on resources, strategy, etc. It’s basically powerless. Bad for the company.