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Two Development Team Configurations I Lobby Against

Mironov Consulting

Product management doesn’t run Engineering; Engineering runs Engineering. And at least in public, Engineering and Product leadership need to be shoulder-to-shoulder , actively supporting each other at every turn. But there are some engineering team configurations that I see as problematic.  So

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Things to Know for Every Entry-Level Ethical Hacking Professionals

The Product Coalition

It would help if you had a Bachelor’s degree in Science, Technology, Engineering, Computer applications, Information Technology, or Computer Science. This is a very technical certification and requires a deep understanding of the subject. Reports suggest that 29% of companies lost revenue due to a security breach.

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Product in Practice: Adopting the Discovery Habits is An Iterative Process

Product Talk

An engineer could call out an assumption they didn’t believe was true or a designer could question whether the choices they were making (e.g. Next, their tech lead created some lo-fi mockups in FigJam. Summing up this second round, Kelsey says, “Because we were novices to the process, I think we over-engineered what we needed to do.”

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Startups need dual theories on distribution and product/market fit. One is not enough

Andrew Chen

99% of startups are not differentiated on their underlying technology, and there is very little engineering risk involved. (I’m I’m ignoring deep tech and foundational AI research companies, for the sake of this conversation). Who wants to buy ads against the same audiences as major credit card or airlines?

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Product in Practice: Finding the Best Way to Communicate with Different Stakeholders

Product Talk

First, there are the businesses, like CLEAR, that work directly with Human API, then the partners those businesses work with, like airlines, and ultimately the consumers themselves. Clockwise from the top left, Codi Funakoshi, Product Designer, Rafa Salazar, Lead Software Engineer, and Lisa Orr, Senior Product Manager. Engineering.

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Let’s Abandon Customers and Users

Mironov Consulting

Especially in B2C or B2B2C markets where our tech is part of a long value chain: perhaps our software helps some employee collect data to tune a service that improves delivery of some consumer product… Creating real-world value is a multi-step process involving many players. Bonus points for clarity. A Personal Sore Point. <soapbox>

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Going from College to Product Manager

The Product Guy

We provided consulting, insurance brokerage, information technology and business process outsourcing services. At Hewitt, I was a Business Analyst on the TWA (Trans World Airlines) and Nalco Team. This was due to incorrect contribution amounts, the system not finding an account, or invalid employer data.