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Product Managers and Technical Skills: What’s the Deal?

The Product Coalition

We’re well overdue a conversation about Product Managers and technical skills. And yet…we all seem to stay hung up on technical skills. Here we’re going into asking the age-old question: do Product Managers need technical skills? Why does learning new tech skills feel like such an insurmountable challenge?

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TDD + data driven with Jest

StubHub

During my years as developer, I have faced several troubles in production due to bugs. To avoid this, I started to learn about TDD. When we do TDD, our starting point are some scenarios/specifications which are written as tests. Bugs are everywhere and a lot of people have spent hours and hours trying to fix them.

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20 Product Manager Blogs Worth Following in 2022

Userpilot

Do you follow any product manager blogs? In our article, we introduce 20 of our favorite product manager blogs that every product pro should follow, regardless of their experience. Product manager blogs offer practical advice and help you expand your product management knowledge. Our favorite product management blogs.

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Technology Gets Old One Day at a Time: Broken Blog Feeds and What You Missed

Johanna Rothman

Technology gets old. Here's a story about how technology changes one day at a time and everything is okay—until it's not. When I started to blog in 2003, I used Blogger. ” I had to hire someone to move my Blogger blog and HTML site from old technology to new technology. Why “too late?”

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A Sprint Review without Stakeholders?

The Product Coalition

TL; DR: A Sprint Review without Stakeholders There are plenty of failure possibilities with Scrum. A Sprint Review without stakeholders may create an unhealthy bubble for the Scrum Team due to the disconnect, thus resulting in lower effectiveness. despite the rigid flow from Sprint Review to Retrospective to Sprint Planning.

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Calm’s Will Larson on how to build a technical leadership career

Intercom, Inc.

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. Or does this whole tech career thing support the writing? Architect, Tech Lead, Solver, and Right Hand. I don’t know.

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Tech For Seniors Creates New Opportunities For Product Managers

The Accidental Product Manager

Tech assistance for seniors is a booming business Image Credit: Province of British Columbia How do you feel about using your computer? Tech Creates New Product Opportunities Product managers realize that some tech savvy is required for the activities of daily living. The idea of providing a tech concierge is new.