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Solution Consultants, Be The Person You’d Love To Buy From

Product Management University

For all of you pre-sales solution consultants and sales engineers looking for new ways to differentiate your demos, step away from your products for a quick minute. How Solution Consultants Become the Key to Differentiation If you’re a pre-sales solution consultant, there are two parts to the differentiation equation.

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How to Hire an Engineering Consultant

The Product Coalition

One of the main examples of this are the customized software applications that companies are rushing to develop to allow them to better connect with their users. To create such solutions, companies need software engineering professionals who can provide the expertise required. Let’s dive right in. by the year 2024.

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Digital Sustainability: A Growing Frontier in Software Development

The Product Coalition

Software development with sustainability in mind is a rising trend in digital spaces. While software is intangible and doesn’t directly consume energy or produce emissions, its environmental implications lie in its development and usage. As software builders, we are uniquely positioned to influence this environmental trajectory.

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Making the transition from consultant to product engineer

Intercom, Inc.

But making the transition from consultant engineer to a product engineer was a revelation – I realized that working as an engineer in client services and working as a product engineer are essentially two completely different jobs, bridged only by the common use of technology. Being a Consultant Engineer. The Fast-Cheap-Good triangle.

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The Advantages of Free and Open-Source Software Vs. Open-Core Software

Instaclustr commissioned Forrester Consulting to conduct a custom study to assess application development decision-makers’ understanding of the benefits of using open-core software vs. free and open source software (FOSS). Check out the findings!

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A case study – how to end cooperation with a software house or contractor

Mind the Product

The company I was working with outsourced a software house and external consultants. Read more » The post A case study – how to end cooperation with a software house or contractor appeared first on Mind the Product. But what to do, if not? I have had this case twice now. Yet, after [.]

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Car Product Managers Look To Software To Boost Their Revenue

The Accidental Product Manager

The goal is to sell more cars, perhaps software is the key Image Credit: rakyan ‘boyan’ tantular Product managers know that if we want to sell more of their product, we need to find ways to make the product more appealing to our customers. The product managers at Jeep believe that software is the core of their product.

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An Adult Conversation About Estimates

Speaker: Beekey Cheung, Software Consultant, Professor Beekums, LLC

Estimates are a contentious topic in software development. As senior software leaders, how can we determine whether estimates are helpful or harmful to our teams? This is a critical topic for senior software leaders to get right. They have value in many cases but increasingly are fraught with peril.

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5 Key Considerations for Top-Notch Product Dashboards

Speaker: Miles Robinson, Agile and Management Consultant, Motivational Speaker

Join Miles Robinson, Agile and Management Consultant, as he covers five key considerations for you to keep in mind when you’re updating your software or app to offer the latest in embedded dashboards. And wait a second, is it even feasible for your team to take this on right now?