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Run Less Software

Intercom, Inc.

The same is true in software. We are all in a battle, multiple battles in fact, with a lot at stake: whether it’s the fate of the company we work for or for the product that we build. In this battle, I’ve found a secret weapon hidden within one of our core engineering strategies, an idea called Run Less Software. Money is cheap.

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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. " Code creators own quality.*  It’s turtles all the way down.  So

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Facebook Product Managers Launch A New Way To Pay

The Accidental Product Manager

The product managers at Facebook have real problem on their hands. This means that they have to sit around and review their product development definition as they try to identify new products that can appeal to their over 2 billion users. The Idea Behind Libra. Right now, 1.7

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How to get into product management with ‘the wrong’ background.

The Product Coalition

Strategies for switching into a product management role when you don’t fit the cookie cutter qualifications. Getting into product when you’ve already started your career Product management requires, above anything else, good judgment. It shouldn’t be a prerequisite for product management jobs either.

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Why I Became a Software Engineer at Modus Create

Modus Create

Georgetown is generally considered a target school for investment banking, which means that most students have an interest in working on Wall Street, and Wall Street wants them. Apparently, working 100 hours a week creating discounted cash flows, formatting slide decks, and turning comments from your managing director pays extremely well.

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Product Management Tips for Data Science Projects

Mironov Consulting

Data science has traditionally been an analysis-only endeavor: using historical statistics, user interaction trends, or AI machine learning to predict the impact of deterministically coded software changes. So here are a few tips for product managers who may be pulling data science – and data scientists – into our product processes.

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2022 in review: Highlights from this year’s best conversations

Intercom, Inc.

In this wrap-up of the year’s best bits, you’ll hear from: Paul Adams , Chief Product Officer at Intercom. Nadine Mansour , Senior Product Manager at Intercom. Here, she asks Intercom product manager Nadine Mansour. The question for me is: Do I need to do anything differently if I’m a female product manager?