Product Talk

DECEMBER 12, 2018

Are you inviting your engineers to participate in discovery with you? Does your organization prefer that your engineers only write code? Marty Cagan , in Inspired , argues, “If you’re just using your engineers to code, you’re only getting about half their value.” And, sadly, many engineers make this mistake themselves.

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PMLesson's Ace the PM Interview

APRIL 22, 2019

So, are you a software engineer interested in becoming a product manager? Software engineering is one of the most common starting points when transitioning into a product management role. In fact, I transitioned into product halfway through an undergraduate software engineering internship.

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PMLesson's Ace the PM Interview

MAY 16, 2022

This article is part of our series on Security Engineering. If you're interviewing for engineering roles, don't miss our Complete Software Engineering Interview Course. This is not only because of the importance of the discipline but because the supply of qualified security engineers is too little.

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Product Talk

JUNE 16, 2021

In my book Continuous Discovery Habits , I wrote that a product trio is typically comprised of a product manager, a designer, and a software engineer. The most common form of cross-functional collaboration happens between product managers, designers, and engineers. Some with quite a bit of outrage. This concept is not new.

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The Product Coalition

FEBRUARY 11, 2023

Scope grows like grass, so what can engineers or product managers do to communicate the duration of initiatives when there are many unknowns? A software engineer, trying to persuade a product manager to invest time in reducing technical debt, will lay out in great detail future operational gain by spending less time on maintenance.

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The Basics of Product Management

JUNE 9, 2020

Every software developer or an engineer should think like a Product Manager. It is important for engineers to speak up and voice their product opinions. This article is not a guide for how anybody can become a Product Manager (that article is here ). Engineering a Product Mindset. Develop User Empathy.

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The Product Coalition

JANUARY 27, 2024

Software development with sustainability in mind is a rising trend in digital spaces. I would like to thank Tremis Skeete, Executive Editor of Product Coalition, for his valuable contributions to this article's research, development, and writing. Let’s explore how and why this matters.

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Michael J. Fordham

MAY 14, 2019

This is an awesome article and exactly spot on! You sir are a software engineer and what’s more you have a skill that a lot of the “proper” engineers would envy; great communication skills!

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Product Talk

AUGUST 18, 2021

This article will cover the ins and outs of product discovery. They’ve also released countless new features, improved their recommendations engine, and enhanced the user interface. A product trio —typically comprised of a product manager, a designer, and a software engineer—leads product discovery. What is it? Tweet This.

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PMLesson's Ace the PM Interview

MAY 26, 2021

Are you thinking of becoming an engineering manager? That's why we wrote this article; to help candidates work through their process of writing an engineering manager's resume to impress all the hiring managers who see it. How Do Engineering Managers Define Their Role? They also represent engineering cross-functionally.

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Split

MARCH 1, 2023

Feature Toggles, or feature flags as they’re often called, are a powerful tool for software engineers. Feature toggles have become increasingly popular among software developers. In this article let’s cover the basics of feature toggles. If used properly, they can be an invaluable asset to the development process.

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PMLesson's Ace the PM Interview

JUNE 28, 2021

Many engineering managers first transition into their roles as former individual contributors. This is especially true for new EMs, who often previously worked as software engineers or developers before being promoted. But that is why we wrote this article!

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Intercom, Inc.

MARCH 16, 2022

“The secret to Intercom’s success in this realm is simple: years of consistent, careful, and multi-faceted cultural, organizational, and engineering work”. The secret to Intercom’s success in this realm is simple: years of consistent, careful, and multi-faceted cultural, organizational, systems and software engineering work.

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The Product Coalition

MAY 16, 2018

As a software engineer, I would typically find myself having the desire to be part of the strategic decision making and slight dissatisfaction when I am just handed tasks based on the outcome of business decisions. A story of passion, determination, and courage. May you have the courage and determination to pursue your passion”?—?Anonymous

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The Product Coalition

MAY 18, 2022

Read the article to know what it is? Regardless of today’s software development aspect, increasing demand for new features in the products makes competitive advantage higher than ever. Thus, custom software development and engineers face the same challenges faced by the market demand.

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Usersnap

JUNE 10, 2021

Surely all software companies are familiar with beta testing, but how well do you actually do it? If you’re not all that confident with answering this question, hey, that’s cool too, because you’ve found the right article to get some practical ideas! We are keen on doing it right the first time.

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The Product Coalition

JANUARY 20, 2024

I would like to thank Tremis Skeete, Executive Editor of Product Coalition for his valuable contributions in the research, development and writing of this article. Held in conjunction with DeveloperWeek, which annually attracts 8,000 software engineers and IT managers, this event is a prime gathering spot for technology professionals.C

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Product Talk

FEBRUARY 14, 2024

Texthelp has very few designers who are shared across teams, and they have also been short on software engineering leads. If you are not reading this article in your feed reader, then the site is guilty of copyright infringement. That puts a big weight on the shoulders of the product manager.

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The Product Coalition

JULY 28, 2023

This article covers how we make them and what they are. In the previous article I gave examples of some of the data products you interact with everyday. In software / platform based products great, but for data products it is used in a much lighter fashion, sometimes Trello is chosen, it’s up to the team. Thanks for reading!

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PMLesson's Ace the PM Interview

JULY 12, 2022

Whether you're going after a full time engineering role or are looking for your first internship , becoming a developer comes with hurdles! Read More: Software Engineer Interview Cheat Sheet: Tips, Tricks and Advice If you're currently on the job hunt and feeling discouraged, don't be! Never stop learning.

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The Product Coalition

JULY 8, 2020

In this article, I’m sharing insights from other seekers of a reliable outsource developer as well as my own experience. Let’s consider the top ten countries to outsource software development and the peculiarities of working for them. According to HackerRank , Poland has the third-best software engineers in the world.

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The Basics of Product Management

JULY 10, 2020

For the purposes of this article, even the ability to write a simple SQL script is a valid form of coding. Related Articles – Should PMs Know How To Code. How software engineers can develop a product mindset? Thank you again for providing your opinion on the above poll. What are the top product management skills?

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Product Talk

SEPTEMBER 1, 2021

Clockwise from the top left, Codi Funakoshi, Product Designer, Rafa Salazar, Lead Software Engineer, and Lisa Orr, Senior Product Manager. The “really close” category includes the product and engineering teams. In other words, Lisa needs buy-in from the product and engineering teams in order to get anything built.

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PMLesson's Ace the PM Interview

DECEMBER 27, 2021

In this article, we'll talk about why resumes matter, what Google looks for in your resume, some concrete tips to improve your resume, and several example resumes of candidates who have gotten the job at Google. Crafting your Resume There are plenty of great articles out there on writing an effective resume. View comments on resume.

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Product Talk

NOVEMBER 17, 2021

In the old way of working, a business stakeholder communicated a need to a product manager, the product manager wrote requirements , handed them off to a designer, who then created designs, and then the requirements and the designs were handed off to engineers to implement. With each hand-off, we lost context and nuance. Tweet This.

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AB Tasty

JULY 28, 2021

At AB Tasty, we’re a bunch of product designers, software engineers and marketers (aka Magic Makers), working to […]. This article was originally posted on AB Tasty as Introducing 1,000 Experiments Club: A New Podcast Series From AB Tasty.

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Split

FEBRUARY 14, 2023

To Software Love and Solidarity Have you ever heard the term “HugOps” floating around in conversations among DevOps teams? Maybe you’ve seen #hugops posts on Twitter, where software engineers show solidarity for those experiencing outages. Building Trust Across Teams So many aspects of software jobs have become siloed.

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Intercom, Inc.

APRIL 22, 2021

As it turns out, he’s also quite the writer – since the last time we spoke , he has published not one but two books on engineering. 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.

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Split

JULY 7, 2023

But, here’s the thing: Nobody knows what its potential may be—including software engineers! Using AI—today—in software delivery offers various benefits and drawbacks. You can read more about it in a previous article titled, Testing AI Models Using Split. And, yet, one thing is sure.

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PMLesson's Ace the PM Interview

JULY 22, 2020

To do so, they interact with software engineers and data scientists on a daily basis. In this article, we will explore how technical a good product manager should be. This means communicating the user's pain points and clarifying requirements to software engineers. That's what software engineers do.

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PMLesson's Ace the PM Interview

JUNE 26, 2020

There’s nothing to be nervous about once you’re confident in your skills and knowledgeable about the normal software engineering interview questions. This article will start by talking a little about the procedure of most software engineering interviews. Po was previously a high school history teacher.

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The Product Coalition

JULY 29, 2022

I had recently made the switch from software engineering to product and was committed to spelling out requirements in a user-centric way that engineers could understand. Special thanks to Tremis Skeete, Executive Editor at Product Coalition for the valuable input which contributed to the editing of this article.

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Product Talk

NOVEMBER 8, 2023

I’ve designed my business to allow plenty of time for reading books, articles, interviews, etc. Teresa: Product managers, designers, software engineers, user researchers… feel free to add your favorite title. If you are not reading this article in your feed reader, then the site is guilty of copyright infringement.

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The Product Coalition

JULY 24, 2021

In my first article in this series, I posited that the only problem Agile has is that it’s too concise. I have been in countless conversations where people argue incessantly about the definition of agile, PO vs PM, how the customers in their industry just don’t get it, and what actually constitutes good software engineering practices.

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Product Talk

NOVEMBER 22, 2023

As a result, some have come to believe that product managers own defining the problem and that designers and software engineers own defining the solution. If you are not reading this article in your feed reader, then the site is guilty of copyright infringement. This sounds nice in theory, but it quickly falls apart in practice.

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All About Product Management

JANUARY 29, 2008

During his career he has performed most of the roles that are key to any technology company: product management, software development, product marketing, user interface design, usability engineering, technical writing, software testing, engineering management, and general management. I was a software engineer at HP Labs.

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Split

MARCH 10, 2023

Believe it or not, this is also true of software architecture. Engineers love to crank out code. Why Care About Software Architecture? The Agile Manifesto starts with, and is fairly well summarized with the following sentence: We are uncovering better ways of developing software by doing it and helping others do it.

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