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14 Can’t Miss Conferences for Product Leaders

ProductPlan

For a unique fast track to learning and inspiration, however, conferences cannot be beat. We’ve written about the best conferences for product managers here —today let’s review the can’t miss conferences for product leaders (executives, C-Suite, and the like). 14 Can’t Miss Conferences for Product Leaders.

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Algolia’s Sarah Dayan on what sets a staff plus engineer apart

Intercom, Inc.

Sarah Dayan is a staff engineer at Algolia , a “Search-as-a-Service” platform that helps developers build index and search capabilities into their own platforms through an API, and the host of two tech podcasts: Developer Experience and Entre Devs. How would she provide the right technical direction for the company?

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How To Develop Into An Exponential Product Manager

The Product Coalition

Highly effective Product Managers develop themselves in 5 key areas. In some jobs, you can get by with just Competence, but in the unkempt, fuzzy, team-oriented domain of Product Management, you need both. Here are 2 actions you can take to develop your Craft Competence: Craft Competence ?? and others feel that.

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Power Up: Three Ways to Increase Your Product Leadership Power

Roman Pichler

It’s all too tempting to fall back onto less skilful habits and become impatient, tense and stressed, say something we regret afterwards, or pass on the pressure to the development team. Additionally, keep an eye on market developments, new trends and technologies, and the competition. But that’s not all.

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How Product Teams can Build Trust with Internal Teams

ProductPlan

A lack of trust from developers and engineers creates endless second-guessing, challenges and sometimes even a refusal to follow through on requests, which becomes a huge timesuck and morale destroyer. If the executive team doesn’t have faith in product management, ideas are likely to be ignored, plans overruled and cachet denied.

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The Overnight Product Manager

The Product Coalition

Unfortunately internal promotion isn’t always positive A quick disclaimer: I’m a huge advocate of career development and internal promotion. The current talent shortage makes this a critical component of any recruitment and retention strategy. What are the experienced chefs doing, and how does the kitchen work as a team?

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10 technical strategies to avoid when scaling your startup (and 5 to embrace)

Intercom, Inc.

From premature optimization to over-engineering solutions for your product, it’s easy to get caught up in making technology decisions that slow you down instead of speeding you up. So when it comes to building your technical strategy, you need to assess each component in relation to what success will look like for your business.