Mind the Product

AUGUST 16, 2019

Platform product managers need specific skill sets in order to be excellent at their jobs: Software Engineering: With platforms, your product is code. This can be done with meetups and conferences, and helps your developers to connect with each other and feel celebrated by you. Platform Product Managers Need Specific Skills.

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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. (Image courtesy of Digital Wave / Redweb).

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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. Conferences: Front Conference. It’s easy to think you already do continuous product discovery. Full Transcript.

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Intercom, Inc.

OCTOBER 13, 2020

Late last year, I spoke at the Predict Conference on how we built Resolution Bot, our intelligent support chatbot that can instantly resolve common questions. New software engineers quickly learn that a lot of complexity arises from error handling. We can’t assume the ML will always perfectly do what we want.

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Sachin Rekhi

FEBRUARY 23, 2020

Larry Page, a close friend of Elon's, said more people should have the kind of inter-disciplinary skills that Elon possessed: a broad engineering and scientific background, MBA training, knowledge of how to run things, organize stuff, and raise money. Even within engineering, Elon distinguished himself with a very broad set of skills.

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Lenny Rachitsky

JUNE 18, 2024

We used those billboards to sell our B2B SaaS product—in our case, authentication APIs—but also to communicate what Stytch is and establish our brand among the city’s high concentration of software engineers. And it worked!

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Mind the Product

NOVEMBER 22, 2019

For example, there are well-documented examples of facial recognition software failing more regularly for dark-skinned people, and this happens because the software is typically trained on the faces of its software engineers.

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PMLesson's Ace the PM Interview

FEBRUARY 20, 2019

As an undergraduate at UPenn, I was originally planning to move into software engineering on graduation. As an undergraduate, I participated in Model UN, where students create a mock UN Conference and debate societal issues like climate change. Listen to our podcast here, or read the transcription below!

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Product Talk

JANUARY 8, 2020

a product manager, a designer, and a software engineer with shared responsibility for a product). Speaking at conferences has led to some bizarre experiences like when I was at Industry doing a Q&A session with B.J. I run a 12-week coaching program for product trios (i.e. What I Won’t Be Doing in 2020.

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Product Talk

AUGUST 2, 2023

I recently spoke on this topic at the Product at Heart conference in Hamburg, Germany. I started talking to product managers, designers, software engineers, user researchers, all sorts of folks, and I just started to learn about what’s keeping them from putting the habits into practice. Full Transcript Good morning.

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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. Just learning in-depth for all of us. Thank you, Teresa.

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Mind the Product

FEBRUARY 12, 2020

While “mandatory fun” may not be how you want to spend your day, getting to know people outside the conference room and cubicle setting can strengthen relationships and make people more likely to trust you. The only way to build empathy is to connect with other teams on a personal level (Image: Shutterstock).

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svpg

APRIL 12, 2016

I was inspired recently by my friends that put on the Craft Conference in Budapest. It’s one thing to not intentionally discriminate against women, and it’s another to actively work to reverse the legacy of that discrimination.

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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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Mind the Product

NOVEMBER 13, 2019

In 2017 she joined Andela, a software engineering-as-a-service company, leading the product and design team in creating internal products to achieve business goals. Soak up knowledge and learnings at meetups , conferences and workshops. Support From Within. Listen to podcasts – it’s a great way to learn for free.

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Bain Public

OCTOBER 18, 2022

(Montreal, Canada) – Paul Ortchanian , President/CEO and Founder of Bain Public , will be a speaker at the AI DevWorld Conference this November! The conference will cover a wide range of topics, including chatbots, machine learning, open source AI libraries, AI for the enterprise, and deep AI / neural networks. Conference Information.

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Userpilot

JULY 16, 2024

On the other hand, a technical product manager brings in-depth technical knowledge to guide the development process , often working closely with engineering and design teams. Technical product manager responsibilities include: Conduct user and market research to understand user pain points.

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Amplitude

MAY 8, 2018

I started as a software engineer, then tried my hand as a management consultant, account manager, venture capitalist, and startup founder before I found the right fit in product management. That’s why you wake up in the morning. What role do you think data has in product management?

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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. Software engineers were managed outside of the team structure. Squad product managers and designers reported to department heads.

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The Product Coalition

MAY 24, 2018

She started her career as a software engineer. Started as a software engineer and then switched to Product Management, Chonnikan (Ni) Siripattananukulchai was a co-founder of the first Board Game café in Thailand providing more than 100 international board games. Lalitha Ramani is a Senior Product Director at WalmartLabs.

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Business of Software Conference

JANUARY 12, 2023

Gearset was founded by an amazing team of product folks, with a heavy bias towards software engineers. Scaling from those engineering roots to a well-balanced company of sales, marketing, customer success and product development has been an amazing journey. Learn how great SaaS & software companies are run.

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The Product Coalition

JUNE 30, 2021

Twenty people were sitting across a big oval table in an extremely chilly conference room. Our lead was standing with a black marker drawing big boxes on the huge whiteboard introducing the architecture to a group of software engineers from different levels. Confidence is good, cockiness is not.

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Bogdan Coman Says

DECEMBER 8, 2019

1) There are around 25 million direct productive software engineers in the world. (2) 2) As a rule of thumb, the development accounts for only one-third of the budget in software projects. Roughly half of the features in tech products are never used, or used very rarely. In simple words, the effort to build them is just waste.

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The Product Coalition

JANUARY 3, 2020

Creating a Product Discovery Track: A Practical Guide In the last decade we have evolved a lot in terms of agile development, Agility has become its own concept and we have lots of books and conferences for this subject. when software engineers get their hands dirty?

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PMLesson's Ace the PM Interview

FEBRUARY 20, 2019

As an undergraduate at UPenn, I was originally planning to move into software engineering on graduation. As an undergraduate, I participated in Model UN, where students create a mock UN Conference and debate societal issues like climate change. Listen to our podcast here, or read the transcription below!

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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. Title: Software Engineering Manager. Company: Medium.

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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. Title: Software Engineering Manager. Company: Medium.

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Intercom, Inc.

APRIL 22, 2019

It is very different than traditional software engineering. Kaitlyn : If that wasn’t enough, it sounds like you guys are also throwing together a conference in your backyard in Philadelphia called Empower 2019. It’s a distillation of things we learned as a company while we building our own AI technology.

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PMLesson's Ace the PM Interview

SEPTEMBER 24, 2019

Be sure to mention any volunteer work you’ve done, conferences you’ve attended, etc. Include your work history, and also explain why you’re passionate about the type of work you would be doing in the role you’re interviewing for. that demonstrate you’re desire to be involved in the space and to keep abreast of developments in the space.

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The Product HQ

JUNE 10, 2024

Instead, they act as their company’s face for media events, conferences, or other social happenings. They perform an intense amount of product and market research and incorporate many of the social responsibilities of VPs, such as attending press conferences. They focus more on managing product lines and bigger teams.

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PMLesson's Ace the PM Interview

MARCH 31, 2020

The best mentor for you might not be headlining conferences, but they should be: This is just the beginning. Look for a few key qualities. These will become clearer once you start interacting with potential mentors, but you should start looking now. More on choosing the right mentor later. Think outside the box.

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Business of Software Conference

APRIL 22, 2021

He’s a self-taught software engineer and technologist. The post Jason VandeBoom: Bootstrapping to a $100 Million Round appeared first on Business of Software. Who is Jason VandeBoom? Jason VandeBoom is the founder and CEO of ActiveCampaign, founded in 2003. Join Jason at BoS Conf Online.Spring.

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Modus Create

AUGUST 15, 2023

This announcement comes amid a year of momentum at Modus Create, including the acquisition of Romanian software engineering firm Clarisoft , its fifth acquisition within the last year, and the hiring of Chief Revenue Officer Ingo Piroth. 5000 Conference & Gala, slated for October 31 – November 2 in San Antonio, visit [link].

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The Product HQ

MAY 10, 2024

Whether it’s attending conferences or workshops, reading books or blogs, networking with other professionals, or taking courses, be proactive in building your skillset. Read up on relevant blogs, attend conferences, and participate in discussions online. Be sure to seek out new and innovative ways to improve your core skillset.

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Business of Software Conference

NOVEMBER 30, 2023

Shah tells the story of when he was a young software engineer working for a major company – many years before he co-founded HubSpot. Next Conference: BoS Europe, 25-26 March 2024, Cambridge UK But that’s not what happened at HubSpot. For a full version of this talk, including a video recording and transcript, click here.

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Userzoom

AUGUST 6, 2019

I graduated a few years ago with a Bachelor in Software Engineering from the University of Glasgow, and now, I am about to finish my Master’s degree in Human-Computer Interaction. We have a certain area in our building, in Berlin, as well as in Munich, and we talk at conferences or meetups if possible. Back to you.

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PMLesson's Ace the PM Interview

APRIL 19, 2020

You do not have to have a software engineering background, but you should at the minimum be a good partner to developers. Watch any recent keynote or conference talks either on the company website or through internet searches. Technical Skills While not always needed, technical skills are very much desired for most PM roles.

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