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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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Algolia’s Sarah Dayan on what sets a staff plus engineer apart

Intercom, Inc.

Sarah Dayan is a staff engineer at Algolia , a “Search-as-a-Service” platform that helps developers build index and search capabilities into their own platforms through an API, and the host of two tech podcasts: Developer Experience and Entre Devs. Then, four years ago, in 2018, she got a job at Algolia as a software engineer.

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Product School Review: Everything you need to know before considering PM Bootcamps

PMLesson's Ace the PM Interview

Bootcamps are a very popular learning model in the tech industry for several reasons. One of the more well-known product management bootcamps is called Product School and I had the pleasure of attending their Product Management Certificate course in the spring of 2018. There are many paths to a career in Product Management.

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Agile Gone Wrong

The Product Coalition

Agile is an awesome approach when done right, but is your team making these common mistakes? I’d argue that making these mistakes will actually slow a team down in the long run. Cutting corners on quality may lead to short-term velocity, but it also builds a mountain of technical debt that will need to be addressed at some point.

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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. Secondly, as great product managers are also great capacity builders for their teams, you should start looking for opportunities that AI can present for your product.

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Scaling Impact: A Look at the Year Ahead (2022)

Product Talk

I teach teams that business outcomes are derived from your business model. My business model formula looked something like this: # of teams in my coaching program x price per team. Increasing the number of teams that I coach would increase both revenue and impact. I can only work with so many teams at once.

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Designing High-Performing Teams | Alison Coward, Bracket | BoS Europe 2018

Business of Software Conference

Making that talented team work together well, now that’s even harder. In this talk from BoS Europe 2018 Alison Coward gave some great advice on how you can design the way a team communicates and works together to ensure you get the most out of everyone on the team. Hiring a group of talented people is difficult.