The Product Coalition

MARCH 16, 2021

Directors create the overall vision through which a film eventually becomes realized or noticed. OK, we are nearing the end of this blog. Likewise, product managers often start their career as software engineers or designers or data analysts or operations managers, etc, and later transition to Product roles.

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PMLesson's Ace the PM Interview

MARCH 4, 2019

In this Path to PM blog post, Hamsa and Stephen discuss how to ace the undergraduate associate product management interview. In the past, I’ve had the chance to work on developing products as a software engineering intern and as a business development intern at a startup. Tell us about your current PM career.

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The Product Coalition

JUNE 1, 2020

Data Analysts, Senior Product Managers, Product Data Managers , Group Product Managers, Data Analysts, Software Engineers, UX Designers…the list goes on. When it comes to influencing team members, and getting them aligned on one product vision, data is key. This article was also published on The Product Management Blog.

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Mind the Product

APRIL 9, 2018

While most product management articles and blogs talk about product management for consumer-facing or enterprise SaaS products, I’ve found that many of the methods and insights discussed in these can also be applied to developing enterprise software to be used by your company’s internal users. This is where the problems usually start.

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PMLesson's Ace the PM Interview

APRIL 4, 2022

Connecting with the right software engineering recruiter to help you land your next job is invaluable. It's common practice for companies to use recruiters (either contractors or in-house) to help them keep up with industry trends and find qualified software developers. You just need to know where and what to look for!

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Amplitude

SEPTEMBER 11, 2018

Eric Wang, a recently hired software engineer on our product engineering team, shares what it’s like to onboard with Amplitude’s engineering department. I’m a software engineer on the product engineering team. Read the Amplitude Engineering blog. What do you do at Amplitude?

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PMLesson's Ace the PM Interview

MARCH 4, 2019

In this Path to PM blog post, Hamsa and Stephen discuss how to ace the undergraduate associate product management interview. In the past, I’ve had the chance to work on developing products as a software engineering intern and as a business development intern at a startup. Tell us about your current PM career.

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Usersnap

FEBRUARY 23, 2022

Part of this requires having a solid product vision. Keeping this product vision in the back of your mind while iterating on product strategy keeps you closer to being on the right track. Specifying to the software engineering and design team what needs to be done in order to release the next iteration on time.

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PMLesson's Ace the PM Interview

MARCH 2, 2022

Google Product Manager Interview Guide Google Engineering Manager Interview Guide Google Software Engineering Interview Guide Google APM Interview Guide Google Technical Program Manager Interview Guide Google Product Marketing Manager Interview Guide Does Google Ask Behavioral Interview Questions?

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Userpilot

JULY 9, 2021

Challenges of transitioning from software engineer to product manager. How product strategy uses a company’s vision to feed the bottom line. The book includes case studies on how to make decisions without complete information, empower project stakeholders and negotiate while pursuing your vision. 5 out of 5. Where to buy?

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The Product Coalition

MAY 9, 2020

You might also have heard that it comes under the umbrella of Product Lifecycle Management (PLM) and is sometimes referred to in software engineering as version control. This gives the product team a skewed vision of the customer journey. This article was also published on The Product Management Blog.

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PMLesson's Ace the PM Interview

MAY 26, 2021

." - former Head of Engineering at Stripe ".I I like to think about [engineering management] in the buckets of people, execution management, cross-functional work , and technical competency. Definitely, other skills exist—things like product vision, or product strategy, or engineering strategy, or communication, or managing up.

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The Product Coalition

AUGUST 4, 2019

Gayle has worked as a Software Engineer for Google, Microsoft, and Apple and has extensive interviewing experience on both sides of the table. And you need to learn how to effectively communicate this understanding to your team, so they are inspired to share your vision and stay on track. You need to gather data.

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PMLesson's Ace the PM Interview

SEPTEMBER 24, 2019

For the past few years, I've been building Exponent, which is a company dedicated to help people break into tech career fields including Product Management and Software Engineering, and I have grown this company to now partner with top-tier MBA schools like Stanford and Yale. Lastly, do your homework. They don’t listen!

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Bain Public

JUNE 4, 2020

Description: "If you are looking for guidance on how to develop a product vision, set objectives, set priorities, get buy-in, and in general how to develop a product-led practice and culture in your organization, this is definitely the right place. Product Culture Location: Boston, Massachusetts. TWG Location: Toronto, Canada.

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The Product Guy

SEPTEMBER 27, 2016

A hands on product leader, Jonathan relishes close collaboration with design and engineering teams. When digging into a new challenge, he starts by establishing a long range product vision, then ruthlessly prioritizes opportunities and features to find the sweet spot between customer needs and business strategy.

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PMLesson's Ace the PM Interview

OCTOBER 3, 2018

I’ve previously done work in marketing, UX design, software engineering, and consulting. Many people actually might hinder your growth, because they don’t know how to ask meaningful questions and give you misleading feedback because your answers didn’t match their skewed and inaccurate vision of what makes a “good answer.”

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The Product Guy

OCTOBER 25, 2016

A hands on product leader, Jonathan relishes close collaboration with design and engineering teams. When digging into a new challenge, he starts by establishing a long range product vision, then ruthlessly prioritizes opportunities and features to find the sweet spot between customer needs and business strategy.

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PMLesson's Ace the PM Interview

SEPTEMBER 24, 2019

For the past few years, I've been building Exponent, which is a company dedicated to help people break into tech career fields including Product Management and Software Engineering, and I have grown this company to now partner with top-tier MBA schools like Stanford and Yale. Lastly, do your homework. They don’t listen!

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The Product Guy

JANUARY 5, 2017

A hands on product leader, Jonathan relishes close collaboration with design and engineering teams. When digging into a new challenge, he starts by establishing a long range product vision, then ruthlessly prioritizes opportunities and features to find the sweet spot between customer needs and business strategy.

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The Product Guy

FEBRUARY 18, 2017

A hands on product leader, Jonathan relishes close collaboration with design and engineering teams. When digging into a new challenge, he starts by establishing a long range product vision, then ruthlessly prioritizes opportunities and features to find the sweet spot between customer needs and business strategy.

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The Product Guy

APRIL 4, 2017

A hands on product leader, Jonathan relishes close collaboration with design and engineering teams. When digging into a new challenge, he starts by establishing a long range product vision, then ruthlessly prioritizes opportunities and features to find the sweet spot between customer needs and business strategy.

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Business of Software Conference

OCTOBER 3, 2019

At the time, my blog was becoming popular and I was invited to speak at Redgate to their offices. Neil [Davidson, founder of Business of Software Conference] told me I should do a lightning talk and if it went well then I could return the following year. Title: Software Engineering Manager. Company: Medium.

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Business of Software Conference

OCTOBER 3, 2019

At the time, my blog was becoming popular and I was invited to speak at Redgate to their offices. Neil [Davidson, founder of Business of Software Conference] told me I should do a lightning talk and if it went well then I could return the following year. Title: Software Engineering Manager. Company: Medium.

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The Product Guy

MAY 15, 2017

A hands on product leader, Jonathan relishes close collaboration with design and engineering teams. When digging into a new challenge, he starts by establishing a long range product vision, then ruthlessly prioritizes opportunities and features to find the sweet spot between customer needs and business strategy.

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The Product Guy

FEBRUARY 2, 2017

A hands on product leader, Jonathan relishes close collaboration with design and engineering teams. When digging into a new challenge, he starts by establishing a long range product vision, then ruthlessly prioritizes opportunities and features to find the sweet spot between customer needs and business strategy.

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The Product Guy

JANUARY 31, 2017

A hands on product leader, Jonathan relishes close collaboration with design and engineering teams. When digging into a new challenge, he starts by establishing a long range product vision, then ruthlessly prioritizes opportunities and features to find the sweet spot between customer needs and business strategy.

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The Product Guy

JANUARY 27, 2017

A hands on product leader, Jonathan relishes close collaboration with design and engineering teams. When digging into a new challenge, he starts by establishing a long range product vision, then ruthlessly prioritizes opportunities and features to find the sweet spot between customer needs and business strategy.

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The Product Guy

MARCH 2, 2017

A hands on product leader, Jonathan relishes close collaboration with design and engineering teams. When digging into a new challenge, he starts by establishing a long range product vision, then ruthlessly prioritizes opportunities and features to find the sweet spot between customer needs and business strategy.

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Business of Software Conference

FEBRUARY 27, 2020

Whitney O’Banner (Software Engineering Manager, Medium) – Bottoms Up With OKRs from Business of Software Conference. It helps us align our shared vision for the team. Mark Littlewood: A blog post. Video, Slides, Sketch Notes, and Transcript below. Sketch Note. Transcript. Thank you how’s my audio?

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Usersnap

JANUARY 12, 2022

In short, the CPO oversees all aspects of a product’s vision, design, and development. of a Chief Product Officer Obsession with the customer’s problem Business savvy Design focus Data-driven thinking Insatiable curiosity Technical fluency Vision How to Become a CPO? Developing product vision.

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Sachin Rekhi

DECEMBER 26, 2019

What I came to realize is that this blog had it's humble beginning in 2009, meaning I've now been writing for over a decade! But I occasionally dabbled in other passion areas of mine, including career optimization, life hacks, and software engineering. million times ! Product Management Career Ladders at 8 Top Technology Firms.

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Intercom, Inc.

OCTOBER 31, 2019

. “Take the work out of work, that’s my motto in life” Prior to that, I was the CIO of another large Fortune 500 company called KLA-Tencor, and the rest of my life has been in software engineering: building tools to help people get things done without having to do all the work. Balancing human-computer interaction.

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StubHub

AUGUST 8, 2019

The group of 20 is a diverse mix of college, grad school and PhD students who hail from a variety of disciplines: computer science, data science, business, software engineering, design, informatics, applied mathematics and economics. They soak up as much experience and wisdom as they can get throughout their three months at StubHub.

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The Product Coalition

JUNE 20, 2019

So people add two and two, and they induce that every single worker must have deep understanding of matters like coding, automating and other complex software engineering topics. I have seen that, in the past, you have worked as x position (think software engineer or program manager). This is very far from the truth.

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The Product Coalition

OCTOBER 23, 2019

which is basically the subset of skills that a Senior/Lead Software Engineer would have that are highly relevant to a PM role. A focus on soliciting feedback and gaining “buy-in” from the engineering team on the product vision, roadmap, and specific implementations. you should read their tech blogs.

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The Product Coalition

APRIL 2, 2019

But towards the end of 2 years, I felt like I needed to do more than just code so I decided to pursue a Masters in Software Engineering National University of Singapore. The mobile team was functioning very much as a product organization where they had a roadmap and delivered features which lined up with the vision of the company.

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