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Calm’s Will Larson on how to build a technical leadership career

Intercom, Inc.

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. You last chatted with us way back in 2018, when you shared your insights on engineering and infrastructure management.

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10 years of UX studio

UX Studio

The following lines are written with full bias due to nostalgia and my gratitude towards all the people who made UX studio a special community, a hub for our professional passion, and a source of inspiration. From there, we started thinking seriously about building our product, reviewing the pain points of our community.

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Combining DevOps and Agile Transformations to Achieve Business Outcomes

Agile Velocity

Reference: Harvard Business Review Analytic Services Survey, Sept 2018). In our experience leadership tends to “Want them all, equally. Science has proven that introducing change into any system will result in a period of chaos until a new status quo is achieved. Transformation Leadership – Where to Lean In.

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5 Product Management Hacks for Product Leaders

Mind the Product

As a product leader, you are the product manager for a leadership team, and the tricks you learned in product teams remain valuable, they just need a little tweak. A leadership team that has all these types of work visible on its roadmap and in its strategy is in a good place. Value Proposition. This was daunting at first.

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5 Machine Learning Lessons for Product Managers

Mind the Product

According to Crunchbase, in 2018 there were 5,000 startups relying on machine learning for their main and ancillary applications, products, and services. An ML system would probably catch more mistakes but would be far more expensive to build. Just one year later, there have been almost 9,000 of them.

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How to Develop, Articulate, and Sell Product Strategy

The Product Guy

However, this is a naïve analysis that overlooks lost market share due to poor strategic thinking, or the demoralizing effect on engineers having to repeatedly rewrite code because of poor product-market fit. What systems/metrics/processes do we need to measure and track winning? Where do we play? And where do we not play?

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The 4 most recent product design books every designer should read

Imaginary Cloud - Design

The issue with the second scenario is that general high-level practices can be found (with a more relevant context) in any good design framework or design system (for instance, Google and Apple design guidelines). I believe the focus on high-level practices is due to two reasons: The obsolescence issue already mentioned above.

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