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Two Development Team Configurations I Lobby Against

Mironov Consulting

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  Knowing that someone else will clean up our work can drive bad behaviors.  In

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How to Prepare for an Engineering Manager Interview

PMLesson's Ace the PM Interview

Not only do you need to demonstrate your technical prowess and experience with designing complex systems, you also need to showcase your soft skills in people management. Managing Individuals How do you run 1:1s with your team? How do you handle poor performers? What questions do you ask candidates who want to join your team?

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Product Management Tips for Data Science Projects

Mironov Consulting

We’ve known forever that we (product managers) must include our developers and designers in the earliest stages of problem definition and solution ideation. Piping in real users’ voices and challenges motivates the whole team. Less appreciation of commercial software development pressures. We versus They.

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How to Ace Technical Program Manager Interview Questions at Facebook

PMLesson's Ace the PM Interview

This is especially true if you're looking to join the technical program management team. Those TPM candidates with a much deeper technical acumen will probably be better suited for the Infrastructure team. These are system design , program sense , and cross-functional partnerships. Read more about System Design for TPMs here.

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5 Machine Learning Lessons for Product Managers

Mind the Product

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. Anomaly detection is used to identify suspicious bank transactions or fake accounts. Lesson 1: Understand the Problem You’re Trying to Solve with ML.

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Product Model, Service Models, and Investor Valuations

Mironov Consulting

 But when I do product due diligence for SaaS-focused PE/VC firms, it's the very first thing I look at.  Let’s IMHO, software product companies are fundamentally different from software services/outsourcing/custom development companies.  Said   What BigCorp demands, BigCorp gets.  Hitting

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Mismatched Expectations: Product Information and Sales Teams

Mironov Consulting

 Sales teams inundate us with urgent-but-repetitive ‘does product X do thing Y?’ 1] “Product Needs to Help Sales Close Major Deals” Enterprise sales teams are paid, rewarded, promoted, and measured on closing individual (big) deals.  So   “ BNP Paribas is the largest bank in France.  We