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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. If you’re a senior engineer and want to further your career, what skills should you develop? Solving the puzzle.

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What we Learned at #mtpcon London 2018

Mind the Product

Following a day of focused workshops and leadership discussions, we came together at London’s Barbican Centre to talk product. Here’s what we heard: Martin Eriksson at #mtpcon London 2018. Kim Goodwin at #mtpcon London 2018. Roan Lavery at #mtpcon London 2018. We are all Imposters. Build products people love.

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How to Develop, Articulate, and Sell Product Strategy

The Product Guy

First, I did not know how to frame, develop and present product strategy in a systematic way, and second, as a startup, my company has not historically had a good track record of strategy being developed outside of senior management (read: founder). Two major obstacles stood in my way.

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Reddit’s Nick Caldwell on engineering leadership

Intercom, Inc.

At Reddit, he led a team of 35 – none of whom knew how to manage other engineers. He had to quickly determine which team members displayed a potential for leadership and teach them the fundamentals of management so they could make new hires and scale – without ruining the culture. Short on time?

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Working Remotely as a Product Manager: It’s about trust.

Product Management Unpacked

According to a Gartner report “How to Cultivate Effective ‘Remote Work’ Programs Refreshed 14 May 2019, Published 16 January 2018,” three of the four key challenges are: Mutual lack of trust undermines good remote work intentions. Showing support for your team members, even when they make mistakes.

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How do you Build a Winning Product Team?

Mind the Product

It’s not rocket science that awesome products come from awesome teams, so what’s the key to creating and managing a team that’s designed for maximum impact? Here, taking advice from a number of product pros, we look at a selection of ways to build product teams and empower them to achieve success.

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From Product Management to Product Leadership

The Product Coalition

may choose to operate in silos, Product Management is the department that brings all of the teams together to ensure everyone’s voice is heard, vision is seen, and needs are met. for the good or bad. Originally published at fromchemistrytoclouds.com on May 31, 2018. Where many of the departments in the organization?—?whether