Mind the Product

APRIL 10, 2019

Joff’s team at Atlassian creates the products that many of us use to manage our own product and development processes; he’s got a unique viewpoint on the state of product management. The Mythical Man-Month: Essays on Software Engineering , by Frederick P Brooks, Jr. and at conferences across the US and Europe.

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Mind the Product

NOVEMBER 13, 2019

. “You must be intentional about your personal and career development” Oluwatobi Otokiti, a Product Manager at Andela in Nigeria, has been working in product management for five years. However, just seven years ago, she had no idea what product management was. So how did she get to where she is today?

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Business of Software Conference

JUNE 18, 2020

This critique of ‘Spotify’s Failed Squad Model’ is interesting for two reasons: It’s a great way of adapting a planned conference talk into something else that may have impact. Squad product managers and designers reported to department heads. Software engineers were managed outside of the team structure.

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Mind the Product

FEBRUARY 24, 2017

Last October I took part in Digital Wave , a conference in Bournemouth that brings together over 1,000 young people between the ages of 14 and 19 to learn about the opportunities offered by a career in the technology sector. I started the project in response to challenges I had recruiting entry-level product managers for Crowdcube.

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The Product Coalition

MAY 24, 2018

This post was originally published on Product Management Festival ’s website. We have compiled a list of experienced product management professionals with a track record for success?—?and With backgrounds in engineering, marketing and business, some of them are also founders of their own companies. and they are all women.

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PMLesson's Ace the PM Interview

FEBRUARY 20, 2019

Sachin Rekhi is the founder and CEO of Notejoy , and a prolific blogger on product management. In this Path to PM post, Sachin and I discuss five practical paths to product management. How did you first break into product management? First off, product management is very communication and leadership oriented.

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Intercom, Inc.

AUGUST 18, 2022

You’re autonomous, your code is immaculate, and you have a deep understanding of building and shipping software. Despite not having a formal education in engineering, Sarah landed a job as a developer in the French consultant Grand Manitou. Then, four years ago, in 2018, she got a job at Algolia as a software engineer.

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PMLesson's Ace the PM Interview

SEPTEMBER 24, 2019

In this post, we interview Stephen on how to ace your product management behavioral interview questions. Previously, he was a product manager at Google. Be sure to mention any volunteer work you’ve done, conferences you’ve attended, etc. What if I don’t have the “right” work experience for product management ?

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Amplitude

MAY 8, 2018

We talked to him about the role of data in building product and his path into product management. Like many product managers, I found my way into product management through a love of tech, wanting to do something that matters for the world, and testing different ways to achieve that impact. Feedback from generous mentors.

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Intercom, Inc.

JANUARY 12, 2021

Although they may seem like strong opinions, many of these tips echo the main tenets of software engineering: work with you’ve got, design solutions as needed, don’t repeat yourself, and keep it simple, stupid! Day one of your startup is probably not the time to be learning Kubernetes. The top ten technical strategies to avoid.

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PMLesson's Ace the PM Interview

SEPTEMBER 24, 2019

In this post, we interview Stephen on how to ace your product management behavioral interview questions. Previously, he was a product manager at Google. Be sure to mention any volunteer work you’ve done, conferences you’ve attended, etc. What if I don’t have the “right” work experience for product management ?

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Andrew Chen

NOVEMBER 15, 2021

I saw it first-hand at Uber, which scaled to billions in revenue, and also within startups at Andreessen Horowitz, which has funded companies from Github, Coinbase, and Figma to Clubhouse and Airbnb. People are connected for commerce, communication, collaboration, and more. Colorful flags from every country hung from the ceiling.

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Product Talk

JULY 12, 2017

They’ve read the industry books, they attend the popular product conferences , and they follow all the leading blogs. Last May, I spoke at the Front conference in Salt Lake City. 2017 Product Conferences. Product Managers Don’t Own the Problem (And Designers Don’t Own the Solution). Conferences: Front Conference.

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Business of Software Conference

OCTOBER 3, 2019

Each year at the Business of Software Conference, attendees hear insights from some of the smartest people in software, all willing to share their expertise with the community. These videos from a new conference came out on a forum and they were amazing. It eventually became a goal to speak at Business of Software.

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Business of Software Conference

OCTOBER 3, 2019

Each year at the Business of Software Conference, attendees hear insights from some of the smartest people in software, all willing to share their expertise with the community. These videos from a new conference came out on a forum and they were amazing. It eventually became a goal to speak at Business of Software.

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Product Talk

SEPTEMBER 6, 2023

In addition to delivering a keynote at the Product at Heart conference (in case you missed it, you can find the video and transcript of that presentation here ), conference co-organizer Petra Wille also invited me to participate in a fireside chat at the Leadership Forum event. I have a lot of empathy for both sides of this problem.

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PMLesson's Ace the PM Interview

OCTOBER 13, 2021

How to Answer Behavioral Interview Questions Abstract by Oleg Shcherba First, Study Your Target Company's Core Values What you will see in common across all the FAANG companies (and most startups) is that they have formally expressed a set of core values that they expect employees to embody. If you use slides, what would the content include?

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Business of Software Conference

JUNE 20, 2019

Tendayi Viki works with entrepreneurs in startups and large corporates who are looking to innovate. Tendayi Viki (Founder, Benneli Jacobs) – Clever Ideas Are Not Enough For Innovation from Business of Software Conference. You’ve all heard about the Lean Startup movement right. Tendayi Viki, Author.

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Business of Software Conference

MARCH 11, 2020

Currently, he’s co-founder and CEO of Drift, a startup that’s making it easier for businesses to talk to their customers. Originally software engineer, long time ago no one on my team believes that anymore that I ever coded and then have started five companies and Drift is the fifth. ML : Describe David Cancel.

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Intercom, Inc.

APRIL 22, 2019

Rick started Guru in 2013, after successfully founding Boomi (a cloud integration and data management company) and selling it to Dell. Rick : Guru was born out of a pain I personally lived at my last startup, Boomi, which I started back in 2000. Kaitlyn : As you mentioned, this is your second startup journey. How did we focus?

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Business of Software Conference

MAY 21, 2020

Everyone knows that hiring engineers is really hard. The best candidates they have their pick of where to work and it’s really hard for small startup to compete. So, against this calibre of competition how does a small startup managed to remain competitive? They have no problem competing on compensation.

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Intercom, Inc.

OCTOBER 31, 2019

When a company is moving from the startup to the scale-up phase, there is the potential for productivity practices to be lost along the wayside. I don’t believe any of that, in large part because I have to develop software for this stuff. It would dramatically reduce the amount of software engineering activity we need to do.

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